单选题The landscape of the Giant"s Causeway, lurking below the gaunt sea wall where the land ends, must have struck wonder into the hearts of the ancient Irish, who subsequently felt inspired and created legends about its builder: the giant Finn McCool. The Causeway Coast has an unparalleled display of geological formations representing volcanic activity during the Early Tertiary Period some 50-60 million years ago. Its Tertiary lavas of the Antrim Plateau, covering some 3,800 sq km, represent the largest remaining lava plateau in Europe. The Causeway is a mass of basalt columns packed tightly together. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Altogether there are 40,000 of these stone columns, mostly hexagonal, but some are quadrangular, pentagonal, heptagonal and octagonal. The tallest ate about 40 feet high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 90 feet thick in places. A fine circular walk will take you down to the Giant"s Causeway, past amphitheatres of stone columns and formations with fanciful names like the Honeycomb, the Wishing Well, and the Giant"s Granny, past a wooden staircase to Benbane Head, and back along the cliff-top. Further down the coast, the stunning Carrick-a-rede rope bridge spans a gaping chasm between the coast and a small island used by fishermen. The eighty-foot drop can be crossed via the swinging bridge—and is not for the faint-hearted! The Giant"s Causeway and Causeway Coast site was inscribed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. The site is of outstanding universal value and meets the criteria set in the World Heritage Convention. Namely, it is an outstanding example representing major stages of the earth"s history including the record of life: significant on-going geological processes in landform developments, and significant geomorphic and physiographic features; moreover, it also contains superlative natural phenomena and areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. Moyle District Council"s Causeway Visitor Centre is open daily all year round and located on the cliff top 1 km from the site. The Centre is the ideal starting point for walks along the coastal and cliff-top paths, providing all excellent range of visitor services. A 12-minute audio-visual presentation, with commentary available in 5 European languages, enables visitors to further explore the origins of the Giant"s Causeway through local folklore and scientific theory, and highlights the many other attractions of the Causeway Coast and Glens of Antrim area.

单选题The president of the corporation suggested that the phenomena should be ______ and analyzed into their smallest parts of elements.

单选题Yesterday I met Jerry on Wangfujing Street and found his bike was the same brand that of mine.

单选题It would be wise if you had not breathed a single word of the matter. A. would be wiser B. would have been wiser C. would have been wise enough D. can be wiser

单选题As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his intensely vigorous and exuberant style.

单选题He is ______ about his chances of winning a gold medal in the Olympics next year. A. optimistic B. optional C. outstanding D. obvious

单选题Professor Johnson's retirement ______ from next January. A. carries into effect B. takes effect C. has effect D. puts into effect

单选题When it comes to Chinese, Jane already knew some of the characters, but John had to start from ______.

单选题As a conductor, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his intensely vigorous {{U}}and exuberant{{/U}} style.

单选题The newly elected president of the country has made up his mind to ______ the established policy of developing agriculture.

单选题During the height of the anti-schooling movement in the middle 1960s, a new educational concept swept the land. Traditionally organized schools in both cities and suburbs seemed grossly inadequate to meet the needs of students. The "thunder on the left" mounted. Moderates who suggested adjustments and alternatives were shouted down. In the midst of a heady revolutionary atmosphere, new voices called for the destruction for schooling in its present form. The heroes of the new revolution were many. Jonathan Kozol"s account of life in an urban school system titled Death at an Early Age seared the conscience of the country. Herbert Kohl"s poignant account of Thirty-six Children electrified educators and laypersons alike with a grim and guilt-inducing portrait of the slow and painful destruction of schoolchildren. Similarly, Ivan Illich issued pronouncements that shook the very foundations of public education. Society, Illich declared, must be deschooled. Schools as we know them need to be eliminated. As institutions originally designed to educate, schools have failed and have become instead institutions of oppression. As a result, freedom is circumscribed rather than promoted. On the basis of these ideas, some educators began to propose a new form, Free Schools. With A. S. Neill"s famous Summerhill school as a model, and Neill himself as a combination guru and patron saint, the new format began to spread like wildfire. Abandoned storefronts in central cities became mini-meccas for the new approach. The hills of rural countrysides sprouted tittle Summerhills. At one point, a cynic commented that if any more Free Schools were established in Vermont, they would soon have more pupils than cows. Even somewhat reserved suburban systems, which had traditionally seemed more like corporations than schools, set up small but nevertheless genuine Free Schools. Of course, such school systems did have to recruit a noticeably different faculty: those who would be at ease in overalls, surrounded by potter"s wheels, and physically capable of canoe trips. However, there was no dearth of applicants. Many of the factories of teacher education retooled and began recruiting and training a new breed of teacher in the spirit of the Peace Corps and the New Frontier. Young, idealistic college graduates largely from well-to-do backgrounds were attracted to the cause. And a cause it was. Rhetoric and ideology abounded. The tough, ubiquitous, and almost unsolvable problems of education were miraculously solved. Throw out structure, lesson plans, schedules, textbooks, assignments, and, most of all, tests. Replace them with freedom. Teaching was seen as a process at the exclusive control and behest of the pupils. In this view, the adult never suggests and never, never coerces . Rather, the teacher waits, in some cases as long as two years, Neill noted, for pupil initiative. Then learning is organized by the pupils around their needs and desires. So much for history. Where are we now? Is the Free School movement doomed? Some think so, including major rhetoricians like Kozol, who now travels the country with speeches filled with despair and pessimism. Others might say the movement itself was bound to fail, since it was a revolution without substance. In other words, the Free Schools know what was wrong but not what to do about it. The requisite educational theory was simply nonexistent. Thus, proclaiming the benefits of freedom was not the same as the educator"s task. To say was easy, to do was not. Extolling the virtues of a Che Guevara, the folk hero of the Cuban revolution, does grab one"s attention, but then what? On the other hand, is the movement really dead? Free Schools are clearly in retreat, but could they simply be suffering a temporary setback? After all, the history of all revolutionary movements indicates that progress is never linear. Even the mighty French Revolution was followed by the Thermadorian reaction. Are we merely experiencing a temporary pause or short-term setback? The ideas are still in place and potentially just as compelling in the i980s as they were in the 1960s. Humans still yearn for freedom. The vision of pupils leading self-directing lives cannot help but remain attractively humanistic. Perhaps next time, the new leadership for Free Schools will have learned something from the failures of the recent past-namely, that effective education is something of a paradox, a balance between support and challenge. If Free School men and women are willing to forgo some of the excesses of rhetoric and genuinely grapple with the educator"s basic paradox, we may yet witness a rebirth. Then Free Schools may once again move to center stage as a controversial challenge to traditionally organized schooling.

单选题The medicine is on sale everywhere. You can get it at ______ chemist's. A. each B. some C. certain D. any

单选题With his blows knitted, the doctor contemplated the difficult operation he had to perform.

单选题What seems confusing and fragmented at first might well become ______ a third time. A. clean and measurable B. notable and systematic C. pure and wholesome D. clear and organic

单选题The amendments to this Contract come into effect only after they are signed by the parties hereto and approved by the original approving authorities.

单选题The mother said she would ______ her son washing the dishes if he could finish his assignment before supper. A. let down B. let alone C. let off D. let out

单选题We have been told that under no circumstances {{U}}we can use{{/U}} the telephone in the office for personal affairs.

单选题Economics also provides some answers. For a start, fishing subsidies should be abolished in an industry characterised by overcapacity and inefficiency. Then governments need to look at ways of giving those who exploit the resources of the sea an interest in their conservation.

单选题People living in big modem cities are scarcely aware of the fact that there are still many people who are living in poor and filthy environments. A. poverty-stricken B. sloppy C. sordid D. solid

单选题As technological advances put more and more time between early school life and the young person's final access to specialized work, the stage of______becomes an even more markedand conscious period. A. adolescence B. adjacency C. advantage D. adventure