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单选题The word "boosts" (Line 3, Para. 5) means.
单选题Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
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Home-schooling is on the rise in recent
years all over America. So there is certainly an ideological (意识形态的)edge to many
home-schoolers. But do not be misled. First, this is a bottom-up movement with
parents of whatever political stripe making individual decisions to withdraw
their children rather than following orders from higher up. Second, the movement
has a utilitarian (功利主义的) edge. Home-schoolers simply believe
that they can offer their children better education at home. One-to-one tuition,
goes the argument, enables children to go at their own pace, rather than at a
pace set for the convenience of teaching unions. And children can be taught
"proper" subjects based on the Judeo-Christian tradition of learning, rather
than politically correct flimflam (胡说). This sounds backward-looking, but
home-schoolers claim that technology is on their side. The internet is making it
ever easier to teach people at home, ever more teaching materials are available,
and virtual communities now exist that allow home-schoolers to interchange
information. The other factor working in home-schooling's favor
is its own success. Many parents have been nervous about home-schooled children
being isolated. With almost every town in America now boasting its own
home-schooling network, that worry declines. Home-schooled children can play
baseball with other home-schooled children; they can go on school trips; and so
on. What about academic standards? The home-schooling network
buzzes with good news: a family with three home-schooled children at Harvard; a
home-schooler with a bestselling novel; first, second and third place in the
2000 National Spelling Bee; a first university for home-schooled children.
Systematic evidence is more difficult to find. There are
certainly signs that home-schoolers are thriving. One recent survey by the HSLDA
showed that three-quarters of home-educated adults aged 18-24 have taken
college-level courses compared with 46% of the general population. But this is
hardly conclusive. Home-schoolers do not have to report bad results. Moreover,
home-schoolers may simply come from the more educated part of the
population. Yet these arguments point to change in the way the
debate is unfolding. It is no longer about whether home-schooled children are
losing out, but whether they are doing unfairly well. "Maybe we should
subcontract all of public education to home-schoolers," Bill Bennett, Mr.
Reagan's education secretary, once made fun of it. That looks unlikely. But
America's home-schoolers represent an attack on public education that teachers
everywhere should pay attention to.
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单选题 Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation
you have just heard.
单选题Which of the following is true of contemporary correctional institutions?
单选题Mr. Grey has two sons ______ are famous writers. [A] they both [B] both of whom [C] both of them [D] both they
单选题A.Childrenunder16.B.Menbetween20and33yearsold.C.Women.D.Oldpeoplewithseriousdiseases.
单选题The author mentions the example of tackling deficiencies in iron and iodine to show the importance of ______.
单选题Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题Whatever you think of Edward Snowden and his revelations about the National Security Agency"s alleged monitoring of the Internet, one thing is beyond debate: His disclosures have ignited a global conversation about privacy in the online age. And a new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation suggests that he spurred the tech industry to take newly aggressive measures to defend their users against inappropriate government intrusions.
A company which satisfied all the EFF assessment would get a six-star rating. The EFF"s analysis of its data notes the turnaround and credits Snowden for nudging the industry in the right direction:
This year, we saw major improvements in industry standards for informing users about government data requests, publishing transparency reports. For the first time in our four years of reports, every company we reviewed earned credit. This is a significant improvement over our original report in 2011, when none received any stars.
These changes in policy were likely a reaction to the releases of the last year, which repeatedly pointed to a close relationship between tech companies and the National Security Agency. Tech companies have had to work to regain the trust of users concerned that the US government was accessing data they stored in the cloud. This seems to be one of the legacies of the Snowden disclosures: the new transparency has prompted significant policy reforms by major tech companies.
There"s still plenty to concern in the report. This particular study covers only protection from governmental spying; you can applaud Google and Facebook for their high scores here while still having questions about what they"re doing with your data for purposes such as targeting advertising.
Still, when Snowden blew his whistle, numerous tech executives expressed outrage over what he revealed and said they"d put new measures in place to safeguard their customers. It"s good to get this confirmation from the realistic privacy advocates at the EFF that so many of them lived up to their word—and I"m already curious what next year"s report will look like.
单选题Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题Where is Ybor City located?
单选题A) cried C) saidB) asked D) shouted
单选题The major problem discussed in the passage is ______.
单选题A) advocacies C) endorses B) opposes D) sustains