单选题阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 American public education has changed numbers of American parents and teachers are in recent years. One change is that increasing starting independent public schools {{U}}(51) {{/U}} charter schools (特许学校). In 1991, there were no charter schools in the United States. Today, more than 2,300 charter schools {{U}}(52) {{/U}} in 34 states and the District of Columbia. 575,000 students {{U}}(53) {{/U}} these schools. The students are from 5 years of age through 18 or older. A charter school is {{U}}(54) {{/U}} by groups of parents, teachers and community (社区) members. It is similar in some ways {{U}}(55) {{/U}} a traditional public school. It receives tax money to operate just as other public schools do. The {{U}}(56) {{/U}} it receives depends on the number of students. The charter school must prove to local or state governments that its students are learning. These governments{{U}} (57) {{/U}} the school with the agreement, or charter that permits it to operate. Unlike a traditional public school, {{U}}(58) {{/U}}, the charter school does not have to obey most laws governing public schools. Local, state or federal governments cannot tell it what {{U}}(59) {{/U}}. Each school can choose its own goals and decide the ways it wants to {{U}}(60) {{/U}} those goals. Class sizes usually are, smaller than in many traditional public schools. Many students and parents say {{U}}(61) {{/U}} in charter schools can be more creative. However, state education agencies, local education-governing committees and unions often {{U}}(62) {{/U}} charter schools. They say these schools may receive money badly {{U}}(63) {{/U}} by traditional public schools. Experts say some charter schools are doing well while others are struggling. Congress provided 200 million dollars for {{U}}(64) {{/U}} charter schools in the 2002 federal budget (预算). But, often the schools say they lack enough money for their {{U}}(65) {{/U}}. Many also lack needed space.

单选题Mary has {{U}}made up her mind {{/U}}not to go to the meeting

单选题Knitting My mother knew how to knit (编织), but she never taught me. She assumed, as did many women of her generation, that knitting was no longer a skill worth passing down from mother to daughter. A combination of feminism (女权主义) and consumerism (消费主义) made many women feel that such homely accomplishments were now out of date. My Grandmother still knitted, though, and every Christmas she made a pair of socks for my brother and me, of red wool (毛线). They were the ones we wore under our ice skates (冰鞋), when it was really important to have warm feet. Knitting is a nervous habit that happens to be productive. It helped me quit smoking by giving my hands something else to do. It is wonderful for depression because no matter what else happens, you are creating something beautiful. Time spent in front of the television or just sitting is no longer time wasted. I love breathing life into the patterns. It's true magic, finding a neglected, dog-eared (翻旧了的) old book with the perfect snowflake design, buying the same Germantown wool my grandmother used, in the exact blue to match my daughter's eyes, taking it on the train with me every day for two months, working enthusiastically to get it done by Christmas, staying up late after the stockings are filled to sew in the sleeves and weave in the ends. Knitting has taught me patience. I know that if I just keep going, even if it takes months, there will be a reward. When I make a mistake, I know that anger will not fix it, and that I just have to go back and start over again. People often ask if I would do it for money, and the answer is always a definite no. In the first place, you could not pay me enough for the hours I put into a sweater. But more important, this is an activity I keep separate from such considerations. I knit to cover my children and other people I love in warmth and color. I knit to give them something earthly that money could never buy. Knitting gives my life an alternative rhythm to the daily deadline. By day I can write about Northern Ireland or the New York City Police Department and get paid for it, but on the train home, surrounded by people with laptops, I stage my little rebellion. I take out my old knitting bag and join the centuries of women who have knitted for love.

单选题It took me two hours to figure out how to do it.A. guessB. sum upC. understandD. summarize

单选题The nursery is bright and cheerful .

单选题Telling Tales about People One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about people"s lives. These stories fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography. An autobiography is the story of a person"s life written by himself or herself. Often it begins with the person"s earliest recollections and ends in the present. Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the way they present themselves. However, they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. Other writers, such as James Joyce, have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their lives. These are not autobiographies, hut they are very close to it. Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives. They describe them in detail and discuss their importance. Recently, though, the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeable with autobiography. A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world. Biographies are factual accounts of someone else"s life. In many senses, these may be the hardest of the three types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is to present a balanced picture of a person, not one that is overly positive or too critical A fair well-presented biography may take years to research and write.

单选题The manager allocates duties to the clerks.

单选题The city center was wiped out by the bomb.

单选题The Constitution"s vague nature has given it the flexibility to be adapted when circumstances change.

单选题Medicine depends on other fields for basic information, particularly some of their specialized branches.

单选题The project was completed on time because the cooperation between the two companies.A. cooperationB. connectionC. combinationD. agreement

单选题{{B}}第三篇{{/B}} {{B}}Early or Later Day Care{{/B}} The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion. Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parentsfound in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone--far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents, care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carded out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue. But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.

单选题We are sure that he will get over his illness.

单选题Such essentially different stimulus cold,drugs,and grief can provoke identical chemical reactions in the body.

单选题 {{B}}The Pentagon(五角大楼){{/B}} The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defence in US, is one of the world's largest office buildings. It is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York. There are very few people throughout the United States who do not have some knowledge of the Pentagon. Many have followed news stories emanating from the defence establishment housed in this building. However, relatively few people have had the opportunity to visit. The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees, both military and civilian, contribute to the planning and execution of the defence of the country. These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and its suburbs over approx imately 30 miles of access highways, including express bus lanes and one of the newest subway systems in the country. They ride past 200 acres of lawn to park approximately 8,770 cars in 16 parking lots; climb 131 stairways or ride 19 escalators to reach offices that occupy 3,705 square feet. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200 clocks, drink from 691 water fountains, utilize 284 rest rooms, consume 4,500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or served by a restaurant staff of 230 persons and distributed in 1 dining room, 2 cafeterias, 6 snack bars, and an outdoor snack bar. The restaurant service is a privately run civilian operation under contract to the Pentagon. Stripped of its occupants, furniture and various decorations, the building alone in an extraordinary structure. Built during the early years of World War Ⅱ, it is still thought of as one of the most efficient office buildings in the world. Despite 17.5 miles of corridors it takes only seven minutes to walk between any two points in the building.

单选题 {{B}}Young people and their parents{{/B}} It is natural for young people to be critical of their, parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crisis; that they talk too much about certain problems—and that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships. I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young. Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents. This gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. Sometimes you are resistant, and proud because you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they did approve, it looks as if you are betraying your own age group. But in that case, you are assuming that you are underdog: you can't win but at least you can keep your honor. This is a passive way of looking at things. It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under your parents' control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible for yourself. If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can charm others, especially your parents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.

单选题There was something peculiar in the way he smiles.

单选题The game requires us to find out two simple but effective ways to solve this problem. ______

单选题Dreams Everyone can dream. Indeed, everyone does dream. Those who 1 that they never dream at all actually dream 2 as frequently as the rest of us, 3 they may not remember anything about it. Even those of us who are perfectly 4 of dreaming night 5 night very seldom remember those dreams in 6 detail but merely retain an untidy mixture of seemingly unrelated impressions. Dreams are not simply visual—we dream with all our 7 , so that we appear to experience sound, touch, smell, and taste. One of the world"s oldest 8 written documents is the Egyptian Book of Dreams. This volume is about five thousand years old, so you can 9 that dreams were believed to have a special significance even then. Many ancient civilizations believed that you 10 never ask a sleeping person as, during sleep, the soul had left the body and might not be able to return 11 time if the sleeper were suddenly 12 . From ancient times to the present 13 , people have been 14 attempts to interpret dreams and to explain their significance. There are many books available on the subject of dream interpretation, although unfortunately there are almost as many meanings for a particular dream 15 there are books.

单选题This species has nearly died out because its habitat is being destroyed.