单选题Some people attempt to reduce life, mind and spirit to the quantitative ______ of physics, chemistry and mathematics.

单选题______ is that I promised to make friends with the dishonest girl.

单选题Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot, the ______ movie could not hold our attention.

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单选题When she went out, she would disguise herself ______ nobody______ recognize her.

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单选题Steven ______ the wallet. A. admitted stealing B. admitted to steal C. admitted steal D. admitted to have stolen

单选题I was asked the other day whether high and low pressure systems were ______ the central pressure. A. maintained to B. determined by C. generated within D. preserved to

单选题The best way to learn is to teach. This is the message emerging from experiments in several schools in which teenage pupils who have problems at school themselves are tutoring younger children-with remarkable results for both sides. According to American research, pupil tutoring wins"hands down" over computerized instruction and American teachers say that no other recent innovation has proved so consistently successful. Now the idea is spreading in Britain. Throughout this term, a group of 14-year-olds at Trinity Comprehensive in Leamington Spa have been spending an hour a week helping children at a nearby primary school with their reading. The younger children read aloud to their tutors (who are supervised by university students of education) and then play word games with them. All the 14-year-olds have some of their own lessons in a special unit for children who have difficulties at school. Though their intelligence is around average, most of them have fallen behind in reading, writing and maths and in some cases. This has led to truancy or bad behaviour in class. Jean Bond, who is running the special unit, while on sabbatical from Warwick University's education department, says that the main benefit of tutoring is that it improves the adolescents' selfesteem. "The younger children come rushing up every time and welcome them. It makes the tutors feel important whereas, in normal school lessons, they often feel inadequate. Everyone benefits. The older children need practice in reading but, if they had to do it in their own classes, they would say it was kids'stuff and be worried about losing face. The younger children get individual attention from very patient people. The tutors are struggling at school themselves, so when the younger ones canrt learn, they know exactly why. " The tutors agree. "When I was little, I used to skive and say that I couldn't do things when I really could. "says Mark Greger. "The boy I've been teaching does the same. He says he can't read a page of his book so I tell him that if he does do it, we can play a game. That works. " The young children speak warmly of their new teachers. " He doesn't shout like our teachers, " says eight-year-old Jenny of her tutor, Cliff McFarlane who, among his own teachers, has a reputation for being a handful. Yet Cliff sees himself as a tough teacher. "If they get a word wrong, " he says, "I keep them at it until they get it right. " Jean Bond, who describes pupil tutoring as an"educational conjuring trick", has run two previous experiments. In one, six persistent truants, aged 15 upwards, tutored 12 slow-learning infants in reading and maths. None of the six played truant from any of the tutoring sessions. "The degree of concentration they showed while working with their pupils was remarkable for pupils who had previously shown little ability to concentrate on anything related to schoolwork for any period of time, " says Bond. The tutors became" reliable, conscientious caring individuals". Their own reading, previously mechanical and monotonous, became far more expressive as a result of reading stories aloud to infants. Their view of education, which they had previously dismissed as" crap " and" a waste of time", was transformed. They became firmly resolved to teach their own children to read before starting school because, as one of them put it, "If they go for a job and they can't write, they're not going to employ you, are they?"The tutors also became more sympathetic to their own teachers'difficulties, because they were frustrated themselves when the infants " mucked about". In the seven weeks of the experiment, concludes Bond, "These pupils received more recognition, reward and feelings of worth than they had previously experienced in many years of formal schooling. " And the infants, according to their own teachers, showed measurable gains in reading skills by the end of the scheme.

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}} Directions: There are two passages in this section with 10 questions. For each question, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Questions 51-55 are based on the following passage. During the long vacation I was accepted as a trainee bus conductor. I found the job fiercely demanding even on a short route with a total of about two dozen passengers. I pulled the wrong tickets, forgot the change and wrote up my log at the end of each trip in a way that drew hollow laughter from the inspectors. The inspectors were likely to swoop at any time. A conductor with twenty years' service could be dismissed if an inspector caught him accepting money without pulling a ticket. If a hurrying passenger pressed the fare into your hand as he leapt out of the back door, it was wise to tear a ticket and throw it out after him. There might be a plain-clothes inspector following in an unmarked car. I lasted about three weeks all told. The routes through town were more than the mind could stand even in the off-peaked hours. All the buses from our depot and every other depot would be crawling nose to tail through the town while the entire working population of Sydney fought to get aboard. It was hot that summer: 100~ Fahrenheit every day. Inside the bus it was 30° hotter still. It was so jammed inside that my feet weren't touching the floor. I couldn't blink the sweat out of my eyes. There was no hope of collecting any fares. At each stop it was all I could do to reach the bell-push that signaled the driver to close the automatic doors and get going. I had no way of telling whether anybody had managed to get on or off. My one object was to get that bus up Pitt Street. In these circumstances I was scarcely to blame. I didn't even know where we were, but I guessed we were at the top just before Market Street. I pressed the bell, the doors puffed closed, and the bus surged forward. There were shouts and yells from down the back, but I thought they were the angry cries of passengers who had not got on. Too late did I realize that they were emanating from within the bus. The back set of automatic doors had closed around an old lady's neck as she was getting on. Her head was inside the bus. The rest of her, carrying a shopping bag was outside. I knew none of this at the time. When I at last cottoned on to the fact that something untoward was happening and signaled the driver to stop, he crashed to a halt and opened the automatic doors, whereupon the woman dropped to the road. She was very nice about it. Perhaps the experience had temporarily dislocated her mind. Anyway she apologized to me for causing so much trouble. Unfortunately, the car behind turned out to be full of inspectors. Since it would have made headlines if a university student had been thrown off the buses for half-executing a woman of advanced years, I was given the opportunity to leave quietly. Once again this failed to coincide with my own plans in the sense that I had already resigned. In fact, I had made my decision at about the same time as the old lady hit the ground.

单选题Researchers say pizza-eaters are less ______ certain cancers according to a study showing that those who ate at least one pizza a week were 59% less likely to contract cancer of the oesophagus, and they ______ tomato sauce.

单选题Mariko believed everything she read on the Web， so she was ______ by the hoax the TV Station played on April Fool’s Day．

单选题Why did the Guinean youths go on a demonstration?

单选题Sam: Did you see that fascinating film on THTV-4 last night? Mary: That stupid love story? Sam: Yes. Didn't you like it? Mary: No. ______ They're all rubbish.

单选题I ought to ______ them about the news, but I forgot to do so.

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单选题I suggested that Helen ______ him if she does need to get out of her present mess.

单选题A: Excuse me, but could you tell me the way to the subway station?B: I'm sorry. ______A: Thank you anyway.A. I don't know when the train will leave.B. I'm afraid you've got lost.C. Take the subway at the nearest station.D. I'm also a stranger around her