阅读理解 BEIJING-Seven prestigious universities in China announced Sunday that t
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same independent exam -besides the national one -to test students hoping to gain entrance to them in
2011.
The seven are Peking University, Beihang University, Beijing Normal University, Nankai University,
Fudan University, Xiamen University and Hong Kong University.
Students who want to gain entrance to any of the seven universities will only have to sit one
independent exam, according to the joint announcement.
"This will help lighten tile students" load, otherwise they must take several exams for different
universities,"said the announcement.
Passing the exam could result in more than one interview chance, giving the students more
opportunities to choose their favorite universities.
China" s college entrance exam system is undergoing reform as universities aim to select students
based on independent criteria rather than just using the results of the national exam.
In 2003, Peking
University and another 21 universities were allowed to pilot (试用) the reform byusing their own criteria to independently select five percent of their students.
Now nearly 80 universities across the country have the right to select talented students based on their
own exams.
Education experts regard universities selecting students according to independent examinations as
conducive (有助的) to better understanding where the students" talents lie.
Although this may be the case, it has also created problems as students may sit many different exams
as they often apply for a number of universities.
To relieve students from such pressures, the national education outline (2010-2020) released in July
this year encourages high-level universities to group together to use the same exams.
1. If students want to be admitted to the seven prestigious universities, they can______.
A. only pass the interview.
B. only take the national exam.
C. only take the independent exam.
D. either take the national exam or the take the independent exam.
2. What"s the purpose of students sitting one independent exam to gain entrance to the seven universities?
A. It can reduce students"load to take several exams.
B. The universities will have the same standard to test students.
C. There will be less trouble marking students" test papers.
D. It can avoid fierce competition among these universities.
3. If students pass the independent exam,they will ______.
A. take the national exam.
B. have one or more interview chances.
C. be admitted to one of the universities.
D. he trained to be adapted to universities life and studies.
4. What is the advantage of universities selecting students according to independent examinations?
A. Students needn"t take the national exam.
B. Students"education cost can be lowered.
C. Students abilities and talents can be better found.
D. It can encourage middle schools to recommend more qualified students.
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the mental health of the young,as part of efforts to mark World Mental Health Day which fell on Friday.
More than 15 percent of Chinese youths have been found with mental problems,and about 30 million
young people under 17 are suffering from depression,the Shanghaibased Wenhui Daily reported.The
World Health Organization estimates that before 2020,the rate of children with mental problems will
increase to 50 percent,and mental problems will become a major factor behind deaths and illness in the
young worldwide.
Deng Xiaohong,the spokesperson for the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau,said rapid social changes
are one of the reasons behind the rising number of youngsters with psychological problems.If these
mental diseases are not addressed on time,occurrence of crimes,drugtaking and other dangerous
behavior are expected to rise.Experts said mental diseases could be caused by many factors,such as the
inability to handle interpersonal relations well,unstable emotions and pressures from an overload of
studies.A number of experts have also said the onechild policy is another reason leading to poor mental
health in the young.Children are said to be too "spoiled" and "selfish" in a onechild family.
It"s reported that schools in many cities are rolling out measures to help students maintain their mental
wellb eing.Yin Jingmiao,a teacher of the Beijing No.105 Middle School,told China Daily that the school
invites psychologists to provide counseling to students three times a month."Students can be arranged to
have 40minute counseling sessions," Yin said.The school also gives lectures on mental health to senior
grade students before they take the national college entrance exams to help ease any anxiety arising from
the tests.
1. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. Efforts to Mark World Mental Health Day
B. Seriousness of Youngsters"Mental Health Problems
C. How to Maintain Mental Wellbeing
D. Public Awareness on Youngsters"Mental Diseases Expected
2. The writer intends to tell us in the second paragraph that________.
A. mental health problems of the young are becoming a popular problem
B. only young people are suffering from mental health problems
C. mental problems will become as serious as deaths and illness
D. the rate of children with mental problems will increase to 50 percent
3. Which could be the consequence if the problem is left untreated?
A. Inability to handle interpersonal relations.
B. Unstable emotions.
C. Drugtaking and other dangerous behavior.
D. Rapid social changes.
still warming and not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming.
The analysis was conducted at the request of The Associated Press to investigate the legitimacy of
talk of a cooling trend that has been spreading on the Internet, fueled by some news reports, a new book
and temperatures that have been cooler in a few recent years.
In short, it is not true, according to the statisticians who contributed to the analysis.
The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures over
time.US government data show the decade that ends in December will be the warmest in 130 years of
record-keeping, and 2005 was the hottest year recorded.
The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than
previous years. It has been a while since the superhot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate
trend or just weather"s normal ups and downs?
In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look
for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature
declines over time.
"If you look at the data and sort of cherry-pick a microtrend within a bigger trend, that technique is
particularly suspect," said John Grego, a professor of statistics at the University of South Carolina.
Yet the idea that things are cooling has been repeated in opinion columns, a BBC news story posted
on the Drudge Report and in a new book by the authors of the best-seller Freakonomics. Last week, a
poll by the Pew Research Center found that only 57 percent of Americans now believe there is strong
scientific evidence for global warming, down from 77 percent in 2006.
1. The first paragraph serves as a (n) _______.
A. explanation
B. introduction
C. comment
D. background
2. According to the passage ,the hottest year in 130 years of record-keeping is _____ .
A. 1998
B. 2005
C. 2006
D. 2010
3. How many factors lead to the idea that the earth is cooling?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D .5
4. We can learn from the passage that _____.
A. five independent statisticians were given temperature data to look for trends
B. more and more Americans now believe there is strong scientific evidence for global warming
C. The analysis of global temperatures was required by the independent statisticians
D. The earth is not becoming cooler as some people are claiming on the internet
rate increases and other measures to head_off inflation.
China has declared that it is recovering from the global economic crisis.
Ma Jiantang, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said Thursday the country"s economy grew
by 10.7 percent in the last three months of 2009.
Ma says China has managed to quickly hold back what he described as "the sliding of the national
economy". He says China has become the first country, on the whole, to achieve economic recovery
and stabilization.
According to previous estimates, Ma says China"s gross domestic product for 2009 rose 8.7 percent, to nearly five trillion dollars.
This goes beyond the official growth rate target of eight percent. The government has long considered
eight percent growth essential to create enough jobs for the country"s more than one billion people.
At the same time, Ma says some problems and contradictions are natural.
Ma says the Chinese government will give more priority to restructuring economic and improving
peoples" livelihood.
To reduce the effects of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 , China loosened lending practices, cut interest rates and began massive spending programs. But the government wants to make sure those measures do not contribute to inflation, which can be politically sensitive in a country where hundreds of millions of people remain poor.
Beijing resident Ms Wang says she is worried. She says she thinks prices are rising really fast. She points to the price of cabbage, which has increased more than 10 times in the past year.
The head of the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission, this week said the government will step up monitoring of banks and rein in lending to prevent speculative bubbles(投机泡沫) in real estate(房地产) and other assets.
The World Bank on Thursday released a report that predicts China"s economy will grow by nine percent this year. This contrasts with forecasts of 2.5 percent growth rate for the United States and one percent growth for European economies in , because of weaknesses remaining from the global financial crisis.
1. What does the underlined phrase in the first paragraph mean?
A. Prevent.
B. Begin.
C. Continue.
D. Reduce.
2. How many measures did China take to reduce the sliding of the national economy?
A. 2.
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5.
3. The global economy in will ________.
A. increase more quickly than in 2009
B. recover immediately if proper measures are taken
C. remain weak as a result of the global financial crisis
D. remain the same standard as that in 2009
4. The passage is mainly about ________.
A. jobs created for more than one billion people
B. lending practices loosened in China in the new year
C. rapid growth of Chinese economy in last months of 2009
D. fast growth in economy leading to inflation
proposal to employ dogs as clas
sroom assistants.At the annual conference of the Professional Association of Teachers in Southport, northwest of
England, one person suggested properly trained dogs be able to keep order in primary schools. They
can round up lost children and protect those who experience unfortuna
te "accidents". Wendy Dyble, a Shetland
Islands woman who teaches children up to age seven, made it clear to her fellow friends that she was not "barking mad". They obviously believed her, supporting her idea by 16 votes to 13, with a
total of 63 abstentions (弃权).
She said big dogs could help round up children, keep them in line, lick up the milk they spill on the
floor and provide the extra eyes that a teacher needs to keep order."A big dog would also be helpful in
breaking up fights and looking for lost property, like gym shoes or dolls, " Dyble said at the conference.
"The dog will also be useful in sniffing out smells that children do not own up to, " she added. "It would
be nice for the teacher not to have to go round sniffing each child to find the culprit (犯错的人)."
The idea was greeted by the Dog Defense League but less so by bigger teaching unions. A
spokesman for Education Secretary David Blunkett, who is blind, said his guide dog was always
popular with pupils when he visited schools. The Professional Association of Teachers, with around
35,000 members, is the smallest teaching union in Britain. It has an honour for occasional strange ideas.
Earlier this week, its annual conference here suggested stopping exams because they lead to stress and
introducing selection at the age of 12 based on physical coordination and manual skill in the use of hand.
B. can improve the relation between children and animals
C. is beyond ordinary people"s minds
D. can make some teachers lose jobs
B. frightened everyone at the conference
C. interested everyone at the conference
D. caused some trouble to trained dogs
B. sang high praise for Dyble" s idea
C. would employ dogs as teachers
D. benefited much from dogs
B. shows there are too many exams in British schools
C. provides further facts about the teaching union
D. shows the writer"s anger to the union
in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with
soap.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at socalled critical
moments.These include after using the toilet,after cleaning a baby and before touching food.
Global Hand Washing Day is the idea of the PublicPrivate Partnership for Hand Washing with Soap.
The goal,they say,is to create a culture of hand washing with soap.The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing diseasecausing germs (病菌)．They say the correct way to wash hands is to wet
your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap.Rub it into all areas,including under the fingernails.Then,rinse well under running water.Finally,dry your hands with a clean cloth.
The Partnership says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing.Soap
also helps to break up the dirt that holds most of the germs.And it usually leaves a pleasant smell,which
increases the likelihood that people will wash again.
It also says washing with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any
medicine.It could help reduce cases of diarrhea (痢疾),which is the second leading cause of child deaths,
killing more than one and a half million children a year,by almost half.
B. Hand Washing Gets a Day of Its Own
C. It Is Soap That Matters
D. Partnership for Hand Washing Takes Action
B. help the developing countries
C. promote the importance of soap in hand washing
D. make a culture of hand washing in the third world
B. soap h
elps to get rid of more germs off handsC. soap attracts people to do more hand washing
D. soap gets people into the habit of washing hands
B. causes the greatest number of child deaths
C. can be prevented by washing hands with soap
D. makes soap stand out in hand washing
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