单选题{{I}}Questions 28 to 30 are based on the passage you have just heard.{{/I}}

单选题 Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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单选题They did it all ______ friendship. [A] by the name of [B] of the name of [C] under the name of [D] in the name of

单选题 On Wednesday morning, eBay told its users to change their passwords. The online auction house and retailer announced in a press release that it had been hacked. Hackers gained unauthorised access to a database that included eBay customers' names, home addresses, dates of birth and encrypted (加密的) passwords, eBay said that financial information like credit card numbers were stored separately and were not compromised. Encouragingly, the company said it has seen no fraudulent activity as a result of the hack. The cyberattack took place between late February and early March of this year, but eBay only detected it two weeks ago. The company plans to email customers about the security breach (洞) and tell them to change their passwords on eBay and any other website where the same password is used. The compromised passwords were encrypted, so it's unclear if the hackers are able to read them and use them elsewhere online. The cyberattack also swept up details like names and addresses, which could potentially be used to commit fraud outside of eBay. When asked how many people were affected by the attack, eBay referred the Huffington Post to a webpage that simply states the company is asking all 145 million of its active buyers to change their passwords. It's generally good password hygiene not to use the same password on different websites. But for eBay customers who have doubled up, the company is recommending you change your password on both eBay and all other sites where that same password was used. Cyberattacks can have a chilling effect on online customers, who must trust retailers with sensitive financial information to do business. Discount retailer Target has struggled to recover from a data breach discovered during last year's holiday shopping season, in which the credit card and debit card records of millions of customers were stolen. Since December, profits for the retail chain have fallen and its CEO has resigned. eBay also said that it does not want to speculate on who committed the attack while it's working with law enforcement.

单选题{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} It is perhaps the hardest reform of all. Pension systems or energy shortages can be fixed by cutting entitlements or spending more. But no amount of money can in itself make a million qualified teachers materialize in less than a generation. That is the aim of the "Alliance for Educational Quality" launched by Felipe Calderon, Mexico's president, this month. To signal its importance, he gathered together much of his cabinet for the signing ceremony on May 15th with Elba Esther Gordillo, head of the national teachers' union. The need for good teachers is glaring. Mexico was placed dead last among members of the Organization tot Economic Co-operation and Development, a club of mainly developed countries, in reading, science and mathematics in December by the Programme for International Student Assessment. Look beyond simple place rankings and the picture gets worse. On the reading part of the test, less than 1% of Mexican 15-year olds scored as "capable of sophisticated, critical thinking" (compared with 22% in South Korea, the top scorer). Over half of Mexican 15-year olds were classed as incapable of doing basic arithmetic(算术) on the moths portion of the test. The main problem lies not with salaries for teaching, which are competitive with other jobs in Mexico, but with the quality of teachers. The government has been trying to solve the problem since 1992, when it introduced annual bonuses linked to teachers' participation in training courses and their scores on tests. This system is far from perfect. The new agreement between Mr. Calderon and Ms Gordillo has two alms. First, there is a promise to improve the fabric(建筑) of the 27,000 schools—around one in eight--that are in poor repair. Second, it seeks to break the hold of the union over teachers' careers. Under the agreement, teachers would be hired and promoted according to how they fare in a set of tests devised and marked by a new independent body. The reaction of educational experts to the deal has been muted. Many find it hard to believe that the union will concede its power over hiring and firing in a meaningful way. Yet Josefina Vasquez Mota, the minister of education, is one of Mr. Calderon's more able political operators, If she can make the agreement stick in practice, the quality of Mexican schooling should gradually improve.

单选题Passage One Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题The city's hall looks magnificent at night when ______.

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单选题 Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

单选题A detailed and thorough research project undertaken by the Open University recently reported that their evidence appears to show that competition between nearby schools does not significantly improve academic standards. Indeed, their report inclines to the opposite outcome: the exam results may actually decline where competition is fiercest. When the further education sector was "privatized" a few years ago, competition between colleges became truly fierce, at least in urban areas where potential students could choose between several of them. Colleges appointed highly paid marketing directors and gave them large budgets; some even "bribed" interested students with promises of hundreds of pounds if they completed certain courses satisfactorily. Fully competitive markets being a philosophical foundation of Britain"s recent governments, it was no surprise to hear claims that many educational developments of the 1990s would move us towards a free market in secondary education--giving youngsters and their parents a free choice of where to study. However, the secondary sector did not become particularly competitive while, admittedly, the consumers have been given more information, which is one aspect of a truly free market. It is very rare that two nearby schools with at least some empty places are similar enough to be comparable yet different enough to be rankable; only where that occurs can there be true competition. The Open University research was probably not flawed--but its conclusions are. This is because the team did not really compare areas having true competition (as just defined) with areas that do not. But, let us all breathe a sigh of relief. Secondary schools had started of late to move in the marketing direction—considering allocating scarce resources of staff and money to persuading the pupils that their schools are the best in the area. No schools could afford to do that properly, so it is a relief to realize this research tells us we don"t have to. Competition? We haven"t got time for it! Let"s spend our small budget in teaching and learning, not in competing and marketing.

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单选题In the buy-sell structure, the exporter usually ________.

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单选题The word "steep" (line 1 Para. 4) is closest in meaning to ______.