| A. effort B. provide C. for D. a E. that F. which G. religious H. attend I. made K. go L. through |
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| When an ant dies, other ants move the dead insect out. Sometimes, the dead ant get moved away very soon-within an hour of dying. This behavior is interesting to scientists, who wonder how ants know for sure-and so soon-that another ant is dead. One scientist recently came up with a way to explain this ant behavior. Dong-Hwan Choe is a biologist. Choe found that Argentine ants have a chemical on the outside of their bodies that signals to other ants, "I"m dead-take me away." But there"s a twist to Choe"s discovery. Choe says that the living ants-not just the dead ones-have this death chemical. In other words, while an ant crawls around, perhaps in a picnic or home, it"s telling other ants that it"s dead. What keeps ants from dragging away the living ants? Choe found that Argentine ants have two additional chemicals on their bodies, and these tell nearby ants something like, "Wait-I"m not dead yet." So Choe"s research turned up two sets of chemical signals in ants: one says, "I"m dead," and the other set says, "I"m not dead yet." Other scientists have tried to figure out how ants know when another ant is dead. If an ant is knocked unconscious, for example, other ants leave it alone until it wakes up. That means ants know that unmoving ants can still be alive. Choe suspects that when an Argentine ant dies, the chemical that says "Wait-I"m not dead yet" quickly goes away. Once that chemical is gone, only the one that says "I"m dead" is left. "It"s because the dead ant no longer smells like a living ant that it gets carried to the graveyard, not because its body releases (释放) new unique chemicals after death," said Choe. When other ants detect the"dead" chemical without the "not dead yet" chemical, they drag away the body. Understanding this behavior may help scientists figure out how to stop Argentine ants from invading new places and causing problems. Choe would like to find a way to use the newly discovered chemicals to spread ant killer to Argentine ant nests. The ants" removal behavior is important to the overall health of the nest. "Being able to quickly remove dead individuals and other possible sources of disease is extremely important to all animals living in societies, including us," says Choe. "Think about all the effort and money that we invest daily in waste management." |
| 1. The underlined word "twist" in Paragraph 3 means _____. |
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| A. an unexpected change B. a clear mistake C. an important key D. a shocking conclusion |
| 2. Ants judge whether another one is dead or not depending on _____. |
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| A. the sense of taste B. the sense of smell C. the sense of touch D. the sense of sight |
| 3. The result of the research can be used to _____. |
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| A. kill troublesome pests B. solve the problem of endangered species C. prevent further expansion of the ants" territory D. keep the balance of nature |
| 4. Why is it important to remove dead individuals? |
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| A. Because it is easier to manage the living. B. Because it can save money to deal with the waste. C. Because it can provide more space for the living. D. Because it can keep the living from suffering disease. |
| 5. What might be the best title of the text? |
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| A. Dead or living? It is easy to judge B. Pulling away the dead ants is a difficult task. C. Ant nests have great undertaking capacity. D. Leaving it alone or taking it away? Ants feel puzzled. |
| 阅读下面短文，然后用英语简洁回答文后所给的问题（注意每题每小题要求的词数）。 |
| About 40 percent of the top students in college entrance examinations have chosen overseas universities for their postgraduate studies, according to a survey. Most of them have stayed overseas after finishing their intended courses, showed a survey that tracked 130 top performers in college entrance exams from 1977 to 1998. The survey, released on the China Alumni Association website, found it worrying that many of the top students would not _____ despite the country"s rapid development in the past few decades. The government should find better ways to hold back talented students, said Cai Yanhou, a professor with Central South University in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province. UNESCO figures show Chinese students consist of 14 percent of international students, the highest in the world. Their favorite destinations for higher studies are the US, Britain and Japan. Some experts said handsome scholarships, better job prospects and more opportunities to pursue further studies are the main attractions of foreign universities. But Cai, who also led the survey team, said "top in exams" does not necessarily mean "top in career" because the study found none of the top students at college entrance exams had become a top Chinese expert or academic. Some of them are just more adaptable to exam-oriented education (应试教育) than their peers, experts said. The media fill pages and time slots(逢) with their "success" stories to gain wider readership and viewership. High schools promote their former students proudly to attract new ones, and universities want to show their superior status by recruiting (吸收) them, they said. Wang hoped future reforms would do away with the score-oriented method so that students can be judged from all aspects. |
| 1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? The top students "success" stories are widely announced by the media to attract the readers" and the viewers" interest. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. If you are one of the top students in college entrance examinations, will you choose to study abroad? Why or why not? (Please answer within 30 words) _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese. _____________________________________________________________________________________ |
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| The unquestioned role of a student is to learn as much as possible through whatever means it takes to acquire knowledge. Teachers and professors are human beings and are therefore not perfect. No one knows the correct answer to every question even when you limit the questions to a certain field of study. Having certain skepticism (质疑) about what they are being taught can help students to make the teachers even better by correcting mistakes and misinformation. Students certainly have a huge role in their own abilities to learn. Teachers should act more as guides along the way rather than try to force each student to learn. The best teachers in the world cannot teach an unmotivated student. If the teacher, for whatever reason, cannot motivate the student, then the student must somehow find a way to motivate himself or herself. One method of doing this is by becoming an active rather than a passive student. The more the student involves himself or herself in the act of studying, the better he or she can learn. One of the best ways to become more active is simply to ask the teacher or professor questions. Students who passively sit in a classroom and take everything that the teacher says for granted are not fully using their mental capacities to learn. Better education comes from teachers who are able to get their students to think about a subject rather than merely absorb a certain amount of information. Having a healthy skepticism can improve a student"s ability to both think and absorb knowledge in a learning situation. Teachers are human beings and no one is one hundred percent right all of the time, even in a classroom situation. Perhaps a teacher would simply unconsciously say the wrong word or pass on some misinformation that the teacher truly believed was correct. A student"s question could prevent an entire classroom from becoming confused or misinformed. There is of course a fine balance between a student having a healthy skepticism, and just being a downright skeptic. But with the proper attitude toward learning and a little skepticism, both the students and teachers can improve upon the learning process and maximize learning efficiency. |
| 1. Which of the following is the author"s main argument? |
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| A. Passive learning results from passive teaching in class. B. A student"s ability plays a huge role in the learning process. C. A healthy skepticism fully depends on students" motivation and ability. D. A healthy skepticism and proper attitude contribute to effective learning. |
| 2. Being passive learners, the students _____. |
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| A. use little of their mental ability while studying B. seldom involve themselves completely in learning C. can hardly tell the right from the wrong in class D. simply ask their teachers questions without thinking |
| 3. According to the passage, a good teacher should _____. |
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| A. help the unmotivated students patiently B. instruct students in the learning process C. make no mistakes in the teaching process D. answer all the questions raised by students |
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| Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life. In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all-one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degree; they refuse to do what they think “low” work; and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor; we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns. In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work suited to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of one"s work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society. |
| 1. The writer of the passage thinks that _____. |
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| A. education can settle most of the world"s problems B. free education for all probably leads to a perfect world C. free education won"t help to solve problems D. all the social problems can"t be solved by education |
| 2. The writer wants to prove that _____. |
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| A. our society needs all kinds of jobs B. our society needs free education for all C. a farmer is more important than a professor D. work with hands is the most important |
| 3. The purpose of education is _____. |
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| A. to choose officials for the country B. to prepare children mainly for their future work C. to let everyone receive education fit for him D. to build a perfect world |