单选题
Are
we "Math People" or "English People"? The earliest hint of
verbal dexterity is enough to earn a language ability label while the slightest
struggle with a mathematical concept might as well come with a forehead stamped
"{{U}}mathematically inept{{/U}}." "The common wisdom in the United
States is that mathematical ability is somehow innate, and there are people who,
no matter how hard they try, will not be able to achieve in mathematics," said
A1 Cuoco, director of the Center for Mathematics Education at Educational
Department Center Inc, a nonprofit in Newton, who has taught math since the late
1960s. Struggling in math is socially acceptable, while having
trouble reading is reason for worry. Why the stigma around numbers?
Cuoco said the belief that you've got a math gene is "an American
phenomenon." In the United States, he said, "kids from a very young age are put
into two categories: those who get {{U}}it{{/U}} and those who don't. In other
countries, the {{U}}perspective{{/U}} is that if you work hard and apply yourself,
anyone can achieve mathematics at an advanced high school level."
Abby Coyle, 15, of Newton, a sophomore at Dana Hall School, an all-girls
campus in Wellesley, has long noticed educators putting math and English at
opposite poles. "It seems there is always a distinct
classification between math and science and English and social studies," said
Coyle. Part of making your way through elementary school, she said, is figuring
out if you're better at math or English. "Once you fit into one, you don't
concentrate on the other side," said Coyle, who said it has taken effort to see
herself as good at both. The cultural divide around math is not
just about sorting students into math-focused and English-focused, but to make
assumptions based on gender. Are boys better at math? Do girls soar in English?
These may be common presumptions, but research
suggests.
单选题As the debate of women's rights continued, the women's movement began to {{U}}gain ground{{/U}}, but soon it received a major setback.
单选题
In 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed
that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases.
Influenza is sometimes called "flu" or a "bad cold". He took samples from the
throats of patients in his hospital and was able to find the virus of this
influenza. There are three main types of the influenza virus.
The most important of these are type A and B, each of them having several
subgroups. With the instruments at the hospital, the doctor recognized that the
outbreak was due to a virus in group A, but he did not know the subgroup. Then
he reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. WHO
published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong
Kong, where about 15-20 percent of the population had become ill.
As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples,
doctors began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself with
very high speed, the virus had grown more than a million times within two days.
Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs against
all the known subgroups of virus type A. None of them have any protection. This,
then, was something new, a new influenza virus, against which the people of the
world had no help whatever. Having found the virus they were
working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially
selected animals, which get influenza much as human beings do. In a short time
the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments proved that the new
virus was easy to catch, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the
general public, call it simply Asian flu. The first discovery of
the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other
countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China,
probably in February 1957. By the middle March it had spread all over China. The
virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China is not a member of
the WHO and therefore does not report outbreaks of disease to it. Not until two
months later, when travelers carded the virus into Hong Kong, from where it
spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world.
By this time it was well on its way around the
world.
单选题We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order
less
we hear from you by Friday.
单选题The people for the experiment were chosen completely ______.
单选题She was ______ between two very fat women and felt extremely uneasy.
单选题Double Eagle II, the first trans-Atlantic balloon, was greeted by {{U}}avid{{/U}} crowds in France.
单选题People had been conscious of the problem before, but the new book made them aware of its______.
单选题However, unfulfilled ______ of technology application have created a gap between earth observation services and the application markets not integrated into the economic mainstream.
单选题Are you interested in seeing the beautiful fall foliage of New England but tired of traffic jams and overbooked hotels? Then this year forget the crowds in New England and see the beautiful colors of autumn in the Catskills. These rugged mountains in New York State, just 90 miles northwest of New York City, are famous for the legendary tales of Rip Van Winkle, and more recently for the summer hotels mat sprang up in the region during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Families trying to escape the heat of New York City found the Catskills to be the perfect place to stay for a month or so each summer. By the late 1950s there were over 500 resorts and hotels offering nighttime entertainment as well as all kinds of outdoor activities. Famous comedies like Jackie Gleason, Joan Rivers, and Sid Caesar all got their start touring the hotel clubs here. Since the introduction of air-conditioning and cheaper air travel, however, families have stopped coming to the Catskills in such large numbers, chasing instead more distant locations at different times of the year. Many of the Catskills hotels closed in the 1970s, but some remain and have expanded and changed their facilities to meet the needs of today's visitors. Currently, there are many activities available to the traveler besides witnessing the changing colors of the leaves. There is an all-organic sheep farm where visitors can see how a traditional sheep farm operates. There are also hundreds of miles of scenic drives in the area. Route 42, for instance, is an excellent site for spotting bald eagles. For more information on vacations in the Catskills, call the office of Public Information.
单选题Business in this area has been ______ because prices are too high.
单选题{{B}}Passage Three{{/B}}
An Underwater Hotel
水下旅馆 In a bay near
Almeria in Southern Spain will be built the world's first underwater residence
for tourists. The hotel will be 40 feet down in the Mediterranean. As all
the world opened to tour operators, there was still a frontier behind which lay
three quarters of the globe's surface, the sea; in whose cool depths light
fades; no winds blow; there are no stars. There even the most bored travelers
could recapture their sense of romance, terror or beauty. For a submerged hotel
is such a beautiful idea. The hotel will cost? 170,000 and will
be able to accommodate up to ten people a night. Up until now only
scientists and professional divers have lived under the sea, but soon, for the
first time, the public will be able to go down into the darkness. They will have
to swim down in diving suits, but at 40 feet there would be no problem about
decompression. Design of the hotel was crucial. Most of the
underwater structures used before had been in the shape of a diving bell
or submarine. Professional divers could cope with such things but ordinary
people would run the risk of violent claustrophobiA.Then an Austrian architect
had the idea of making three interconnecting circular structures, 18 feet in
diameter, and looking much like flying saucers. They would be cast in concrete
and launched from the shore. Towed into position they would then be sunk. A
foundation of cast concrete would already be in place on the sea beD.Pylons
would attach the structures to this. Once in position the structures would be
pumped dry. The pylons, made to withstand an uplift pressure of 350 tons, would
then take the strain. Cables linking the underwater structures
to the hotel on shore would connect it with electricity, fresh water,
television, and an air pump, and also dispose of sewage. Entry would be from
underneath, up a ladder; because of the pressure inside there would be no need
of airlocks or doors. The first structure would include a
changing room and a shower area, where the divers would get out of their
gear. There would also be a kitchen and a lavatory. The second structure would
contain a dining room/lecture theater, and sleeping accommodation for eight
people. The third structure would contain two suites. A steward would come down
with the ten customers, to cook and look after them. Television monitors would
relay all that went on to the shore so that discussions on the sea bed could be
transmitted to all the world. Around the hotel there are plans
to build a strange secret garden, over 100 yards square, of plastic
shapes, curves, circles, hollows. This would have a dual function. First, to
attract fish who would see it as a shelter and hiding place; secondly, to allow
guests looking out of the reinforced windows to see a teeming underwater life.
So far at the site a diving tower 33 feet deep has been
installed for diving instruction. An aquarium has been built, and
zoologists from Vienna University are in regular attendance to supervise its
stocking. There are storage cupboards full of the plastic shapes for the
underwater garden and there is a model of the hotel. All that is needed now is
permission from the Spanish Government to start building.
单选题{{B}}Passage Two{{/B}}
Hillary Rodham Clinton
希拉里·罗德姆·克林顿 During the 1992
presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture
of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the
right balance is...For me, that balance is family, work, and service. "
Hillary Diane Rodham, Dorothy and Hugh Rodham's first child,
was born on October 26, 1947.Two brothers, Hugh and Tony, soon
followeD.Hillary's childhood in Park Ridge, Illinois, was happy and
disciplined.She loved sports and her church, and was a member of the National
Honor Society, and a student leader. Her parents encouraged her to study hard
and to pursue any career that interested her. As an
undergraduate at Wellesley College, Hillary mixed academic excellence with
school government. Speaking at graduation, she said, "The challenge now is to
practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
" In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on
the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and Social Action, interned with
children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, and met Bill Clinton. The President
often recalls how they met in the library when she strode up to him and said,
"If you're going to keep staring at me, I might as well introduce myself. " The
two were soon inseparable—partners in moot court, political campaigns, and
matters of the heart. After graduation, Hillary advised the
Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge and joined the impeachment inquiry staff
advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. After
completing those responsibilities, she"followed her heart to Arkansas," where
Bill had begun his political career. They married in 1975. She
joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the Rose
Law Firm in 1976. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of
the Legal Services Corporation, and Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas.
Their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980. Hillary served as
Arkansas's First Lady for 12 years, balancing family, law, and public service.
She chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and served on the boards of the
Arkansas Children's Hospital, Legal Services, and the Children's Defense
FunD. As the nation's First Lady, Hillary continued to balance
public service with private life. Her active role began in 1993 when the
President asked her to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She
continued to be a leading advocate for expanding health insurance coverage,
ensuring children are properly immunized, and raising public awareness of health
issues. She wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over," which
focused on her experiences as First Lady and her observations of women,
children, and families she has met around the worlD.Her 1996 book It Takes a
Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us As First Lady,
her public involvement with many activities sometimes led to controversy.
Undeterred by critics, Hillary won many admirers for her staunch support for
women around the world and her commitment to children's issues.
She was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000.
She is the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate and the first
woman elected statewide in New York.
单选题"If I {{U}}worked not{{/U}} with my husband, {{U}}I would have never met{{/U}} him." Writes Jodster.
单选题As a developing country, China is making a continual development.
单选题He felt cheap about rushing to get in line before the old lady carrying heavy parcels.
单选题The pictures of the Loch Ness Monster show a remarkable resemblance to a plesiosaur, a large water reptile of the Mesozoic era
presuming
extinct for more than 70 million years.
单选题"You realize that you were driving at 100mph, don't you? No, officer, I may not have been. This car can't do more than 80. "
单选题There was______of complete silence.
单选题Doctor Adams explained that not all bacteria harmful. A.were B.are C.was D.is