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单选题Facing mounting pressure to raise students" scores on standardized tests, schools are provoking kids to work harder by offering them clear-cut incentives. With the help of businesses, schools are also giving away cars, iPods, coveted (梦寐以求的) seats to basketball games, and—in a growing number of cases—cold, hard cash. The appeal of such programs is obvious, but the consequences of tying grades to goods are still uncertain. It"s been a common tradition in middle-class families to reward top grades with cash as a way to teach that success in school leads to success in life. But for many disadvantaged minority children, the long-term benefits of getting an education are not so clear, according to experts. No one knows for sure how well cash and other big-ticket rewards work in education in the long run. But there are plenty of critics who say that "bribing" kids could have negative effects. It"s worth experimenting with cash incentives but that tying them to perfect attendance or success on a test is not a worthwhile goal, says Virginia Shiller, a clinical psychologist. "I"d rather see rewards based on effort and responsibility -- things that will lead to success in life," she says. Even if rewards don"t lead to individual achievement on a test, they could have a meaningful effect in the school. Charles McVean, a businessman and philanthropist (慈善家), started a tutoring program which pays higher-achieving students 10 an hour to tutor struggling classmates and divides them into teams. During the course of the year, students bond and compete. The team posting the highest scores wins the top cash prize of 100. McVean calls the combination of peer tutoring, competition, and cash incentives a recipe for "nothing less than magic." For its part, the Seminole County Public Schools system in Florida plans to continue its report card incentive program through the rest of the school year. The local McDonald"s restaurants help the cash-strapped district by paying the 1,600 cost of printing the report card. "There are many ways we try to spur students to do well, and sometimes it"s through the stomach, and sometimes it"s the probability of students winning a car. One size doesn"t fit all." says Regina Klaers, the district spokeswoman.

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单选题The author permits her children to use the screen for at most half an hour a day.

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单选题A) demanded C) told B) proposed D) asked

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单选题According to the passage, the aim of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search has always been ______.

单选题An important factor of leadership is attraction. This does not mean attractiveness if the ordinary sense, for that is a born quality (64) our control. The leader has, nevertheless, to be a magnet; a central figure towards whom people are (65) . Magnetism in that sense depends, first of all, (66) being seen. There is a type of authority which can be (67) from behind dosed doors, but that is not leadership. (68) there is movement and action, the true leader is in the forefront and may seem, indeed, to be everywhere at once. He has to become a legend; the (69) for anecdotes (轶事), whether true or (70) ; a character. One of the simplest devices is to be absent (71) the occasion when the leader might be (72) to be there, enough in itself to start a rumor about the vital business (73) has detained (留住) him. To (74) up for this, he can appear when least expected, giving rise to another story about the interest he can display (75) things which other folks might (76) as trivial. With this gift for (77) curiosity the leader always combines a reluctance (勉强) to talk about himself. His interest is (78) in other people; he questions them and encourages them to talk and then remembers all (79) is relevant. He never leaves a party (80) he has mentally filed a minimum dossier (档案) on (81) present, ensuring that he knows (82) to say when he meets them again. He is not artificially extrovert but he would usually rather listen (83) talk. Others realize gradually that his importance needs no proof.

单选题In 1980s, West German labor unions _________ a 35-hour week in order to create more jobs.

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单选题Stress- and pressure-filled days have become an almost normal part of contemporary life, due to the ever-growing demands of careers, home maintenance, parenting responsibilities, and community involvement. Because of this, there is a general consensus that just doing all that daily needs to be done is an emotionally intense and complex process. In fact, a wit once commented, "Living these days is like a grammar lesson: The past is perfect; the present is tense. " Technology makes it more difficult to separate ourselves from work. In times past, it was possible to have a stressful workplace, go home, and relax. Since less work was mental and more was physical, it was relatively easy to remove oneself - physically and mentally - from it. The sophisticated communication technology available today was not yet developed. In contrast to the "good old days," it is no longer possible for busy men and women to go home or go on vacation and truly " get away from it all. " It becomes difficult to relax when you are carrying a beeper that may go off any minute. The result is higher levels of stress in men and women because technology enables others to "find them anywhere. " It is ironic that much technology is designed to make work easier and faster; presumably, this will make life easier for those who must operate the technology, but such is not the case. Witness the prophetic words of the great philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806 -1873): "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. " How true this is despite the promise of "miraculous" new machinery ranging from a "new and more efficient" vacuum cleaner to the most sophisticated computer. The solution to living well lies not in new and better technology, but in the selective disuse of it so that life can be enjoyed in a more emotionally fulfilling way.

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单选题What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore. It's easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day. Also nowadays, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as a part of a family unit and don't want to bother cooking for one. Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn't require any dressing up, it offers a "fun" break in the daily routine, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car--sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out--or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it's finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manners.

单选题Human beings differ mostly from all other animals in that they have the ability to ______ tools.