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About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not go to classes in school buildings. Instead, they receive their school education by working at home on computers. The Center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public “cyberschools,” and that is about twice as many as two years ago.
The money for students to go to a cyberschool comes from the governments of the states where they live. Some educators say cyberschools receive money that should support traditional public schools. They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well.
Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed. These people say cyberschools help students who were unhappy or unsuccessful in traditional schools. They say learning at home by computer ends long bus rides for children who live far from school.
Whatever the judgment of cyberschools, they are getting more and more popular. For example, a new cybershool called Common-wealth Connections Academy will take in students this fall. It will serve children in the state of Pennsylvania from ages five through thirteen.
Children get free equipment for their online education. This includes a computer, a printer, books and technical(技术的) services. Parents and students talk with teachers by telephone or by sending emails through their computer when necessary.
Students at cyberschools usually do not know one another. But 56 such students who finished studies at Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School recently met for the first time. They were guests honor at their graduation.
小题1:What do we know from the text about students of a cyberschool? | A．They have to take long bus rides to school. | | B．They study at home rather than in classrooms. | | C．They receive money from traditional public schools. | | D．They do well in traditional school program. |
小题2:What is a problem with cyberschools? | A．Their equipment costs a lot of money. | | B．They get little support from the state government. | | C．It is hard to know students’ progress in learning. | | D．The students find it hard to make friends. |
小题3:Cyberschools are getting popular because ________. | A．they are less expensive for students | | B．their students can work at their own speed | | C．their graduates are more successful in society | | D．they serve students in a wider age range(范围) |
小题4:We can infer that the author of the text is ________. | A．unprejudiced(无偏见的) in his description(描述) of cyberschools | | B．excited about the future of cyberschools | | C．doubtful about the quality of cyberschools | | D．disappointed at the development of cyberschools |
小题5: According to the text, which of the following statements is true?
A. About 67% of the students in the USA go to cyberschools nowadays.
B. Cyberschools will take the place of traditional schools in the future.
C. Cyberschools are the most popular form of education now in the USA.
D. Not everybody likes cyberschools. |
答案
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:D |
解析
小题1:B由文章About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings. Instead, they receive their elementary(初等)and high school education by working at home on computers.可知B。
小题1:C由They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well.和Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed.可知选C。
小题1:B细节题。Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed.可知选B。
小题1:A诊断题，作者分析即分析了好处也分析了不好的，所以应该是不带偏见的。
小题1:D细节题。根据Whatever the judgment of cyberschools, they are getting more and more popular.可知并非所有的人都喜欢网络学校。选择D。 |
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I am an e-mail user. When I first started to use the e-mail system I used to read all my e-mail. I didn’t have much mail. I was very excited about receiving any e-mail. I gave my friends my e-mail address. Soon I had more mail than I wanted. Some of the mail was junk mail. I was worried. I didn’t want my mail to control me.
I’ve tried some methods to help me get control of my mail. First, I check my mail at the same time every day. Also I try to allow myself only 15-20 minutes every day to process my e-mail. This doesn’t always work, but I try. Sometimes I save the messages. Sometimes I just read them, maybe answer a few, and then delete them.
Sometimes I’m not at all interested in a message, so I don’t even open it. I delete it right away. This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.
These methods are very simple. I have some friends who are very clever with computers. From time to time, they teach me new tricks for managing my e-mail. I’ve also learned to transfer some messages to a disk so they don’t fill up my mail files. Then I can read them later and maybe use them in my work. I’m still amazed at what e-mail can do for me! I’m still worried, however, about having too much to read.
小题1:Which is the best title for this passage?| A．How I Go through my E-mail | B．How I Manage my E-mail | | C．How I Transfer my E-mail | D．How I Use my E-mail System |
小题2:What does the writer suggest by “This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.”| A．That he deals with the mail delivered by the post service almost in the same way. | | B．That he receives more postal mail than e-mail. | C．That he likes e-mail mu ch better than the mail delivered by the post service. | D．That he likes going through the mail delivered by the post servic e. |
小题3:Which of the following is true according to the passage?| A．Sometimes the writer checks his mail in the morning and sometimes in the evening. | | B．The writer teaches his friends how to manage their e-mail. | | C．The writer always spends less than 15 minutes processing his e-mail. | | D．After giving his friends his e-mail address the writer had more e-mail than he wanted. |
小题4:In the first paragraph, the underlined phrase “junk mail” probably means .小题5:In the last paragraph, the underlined word “transfer” probably means . |
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend. But some women show great interest in colorful beads（珠子）from Uganda made of recycled paper. The beads are sold by a nonprofit organization called BeadforLife.
BeadforLife began as a chance meeting between three American women on a trip to Uganda and a local jewelry maker. Millie Grace Akena was rolling paper beads near her home. She made paper beads as a hobby. But there was no real market in her country. 
Torkin Wakefield says she and her daughters Devin and Ginny brought some of the beads back home. Immediately people started admiring the beads. The three Americans started BeadforLife in 2004. Nearly 700 women have taken part.
The group says its beaders earn an average of more than 2,000 dollars a year in the program. This is five times what they earned before. The beads are sold across Uganda and in Boulder, Colorado. They are also sold online and at jewelry shows called bead parties. “Because they have meaning, because these are gifts that help people, when folks in America and beyond buy our beads, they feel a sense of generosity. They feel a direct connection, like they can really take part in getting rid of poverty.” Torkin said.
The jewelry costs between five and thirty dollars. BeadforLife reported sales in its last budget year of more that 3.5 million dollars. It says for every ten-dollar necklace sold, the beader gets two dollars and forty-three cents in money or materials. It says more than 90% of earnings are reinvested in community development projects in Uganda. Torkin Wakefield estimates that BeadforLi fe has helped more than 8,000 people this way.
So what about Millie Grace Akena, the jewelry maker? Mrs Wakefield says she has gone on to organize a small group of women who work with her, and they sell their beads to a religious group.
小题1:According to the passage, BeadforLife is an organization that ______.| A．provides poor people worldwide with free education | | B．mainly encourages people to learn to earn a living on their own | | C．has attracted many businessmen to invest in beading | | D．supports community development projects in Uganda |
小题2:When Torkin Wakefield brought the beads to America, ______.| A．she didn’t know people would like them | | B．she wanted to make a fortune out of them | | C．people showed great interest in them at once | | D．she was thinking of how to find investors |
小题3:According to Paragraph 4, the beads are popular because ______.| A．people think buying them is a good way to help the poor | | B．they are of good quality and can be kept for a long time | | C．they symbolize the most important thing in people’s life | | D．they look even more beautiful than diamonds |
小题4:Which of the following can best summarize the main idea of the passage?A．Mrs Wakefield makes a great contribution to developing count ries. | | B．BeadforLife makes beads out of recycled paper. | | C．BeadforLife uses paper beads to improve people’s lives. | | D．Mrs Wakefield’s career takes off thanks to paper beads. |
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How often do you change your hairstyle or ask for new dresses? You may be 16 to follow trends（潮流）in Western countries, but young people in the United States don’t care as much about 17 as you do.
A recent survey among high school 18 in China, Japan, South Korea and the US found that 19 teenagers care more about their appearance than young people in the US.
This survey was held in 156 high schools in the four countries. More than 7,000 teenagers were 20 about their views on life and the world. South Koreans, at 83 per cent, cared most about their looks. They were 21 by the Chinese and Japanese, while US students showed the least interest in fashion at only 33 per cent.
“The different results show 22 of cultural background,” said Sun Yunxiao from the China Youth and Children Research Centre. He explained that in the US there are many different 23 of beauty, so teens are more 24 to be confident about their appearance.
US teenagers’ high self-confidence is displayed in the 25 . About 85 per cent are happy with themselves. The percentage of self-confident Chinese students stands at only 30 per cent.
What’s 26 , US students showed more individuality, with 88 per cent 27 that “people should follow their own interests rather than 28 of others”. This is much 29 than South Korea’s 69 per cent, China’s 49 and Japan’s 48.
Japanese students, at 52 per cent, are most dissatisfied with modern society. Chinese and Koreans follow at second and 30 most dissatisfied.
“ 31 to the survey, Chinese students are happy and disciplined. They have a strong wish to make a difference. 32 Chinese students need to be more independent and learn how to relax,” said Sun.
The students have different 33 backgrounds. But home and places where friends gather are the favorite places all teens seek happiness.
Exams and worries about life after graduation cause much 34 among most of the teens 35 for the survey.
| 小题1: | | A．absorbed | B．willing | C．careless | D．unhappy |
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| 小题2: | | A．hairstyle | B．dresses | C．fashion | D．culture |
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| 小题3: | | A．teachers | B．students | C．citizens | D．colleagues |
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| 小题4: | | A．Asian | B．American | C．African | D．Western |
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| 小题5: | | A．answered | B．requested | C．persuaded | D．questioned |
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| 小题6: | | A．followed | B．decreased | C．reduced | D．compared |
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| 小题7: | | A．relations | B．attitudes | C．customs | D．differences |
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| 小题8: | | A．awareness | B．standards | C．duties | D．expenses |
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| 小题9: | | A．admirable | B．confused | C．likely | D．unbelievable |
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| 小题10: | | A．survey | B．setting | C．reference | D．paper |
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| 小题11: | | A．worse | B．better | C．less | D．more |
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| 小题12: | | A．disagreeing | B．observing | C．agreeing | D．puzzling |
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| 小题14: | | A．lower | B．larger | C．smaller | D．higher |
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| 小题15: | | A．first | B．third | C．fourth | D．last |
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| 小题16: | | A．Leading | B．Devoting | C．Appealing | D．According |
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| 小题18: | | A．political | B．cultural | C．economical | D．material |
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| 小题19: | | A．expectation | B．hesitation | C．concern | D．conservation |
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| 小题20: | | A．interviewed | B．advised | C．overlooked | D．invested |
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A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression as young adults .
The researchers used a national long-term survey of adolescent（青少年的）health to investigate （调查）the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand adolescents who were not depressed when the survey began in 2000.
As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games an d listened to the radio. Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.
 Seven years later, in 2007, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.
The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games or radio, etc. But the study did find that every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression. Young men were more likely than young women to develop depression given the same amount of media use.
The study didn"t explore if watching TV causes depression. But one possibility is that it was taking time away from activities that could help prevent depression.
Last December, the journal Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. Sociologists from the University of Maryland found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching telev ision than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially ac tive, to read, to attend religious services and to vote.
小题1:The best title for this passage should be___________ _.| A．Teens, Television and Depression | B．Men Develop Depression Ea sier than Women | | C．Media Use is Harmful to Adolescents | | D．Take Great Care of Teenager"s Depression |
小题2:The result of the research seems to prove______________.| A．teenagers are more likely to develop depression than adults | | B．other media uses do no harm to adolescents | | C．TV probably causes teenagers to grow up with depression | | D．those who watch no TV will not develop depression |
小题3:We can learn from the survey that of all the media use| A．computer games are teenagers" favourite | | B．most teenagers prefer to listen to the radio | | C．teenagers enjoy watching TV very much | | D．newspaper is not included in the survey |
小题4:We can conclude that a teenager should _____| A．play more video games instead of watching TV | | B．be active in taking part in outdoor activities | | C．be more active in watching educational TV programmes | | D．attend religious services and care for politics |
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If women are mercilessly exploited year after year, they have only themselves to blame．Because they tremble at the thought of being seen in public in clothes that are out of fashion, they are always taken advantage of by the designers and the big stores．Clothes which have been worn only a few times have to be put aside because of the change of fashion．When you come to think of it, only a woman is capable of standing in front of a wardrobe packed full of clothes and announcing sadly that the has nothing to wear．
Changing fashions are nothing more than the intentional creation of waste．Many women spend vast sums of money each year to replace clothes that have hardly been worn．Women who can not afford to throw away clothing in this way, waste hours of their time altering（改变） the dresses they have．Skirls are lengthened or shortened; neck-lines are lowered or raised, and so on．
No one can claim that the fashion industry contribulea anything really important to society．
Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and durability．They are only interested in outward appearance and they take advantage of the fact that women will put up with any amount of discomfort, as long as they look right．There can hardly be a man who hasn"t at some time in his life smiled at the sight of a woman shaking in a thin dress on a winter day, or delicately picking her way through deep snow in high —heeled shoes．
When comparing men and women in the matter of fashion, the conclusions to be drawn are obvious．Do the constantly changing fashions of women"s clothes, one wonder, reflect basic qualities of inconstancy and instability? Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers．Do their unchanging styles of dress reflect basic qualities of stability and reliability? That is for you to decide．
小题1:Designers and big stores always make money _____．| A．by constantly changing the fashions in women"s clothing | B．by mercilessly exploiting wom en workers in the clothing industry | | C．because they are able to predict new fashions for the coming season | | D．because they attach great importance to quality of women’s clothing |
小题2:To the writer, the fact that woman alter their old fashioned dresses is seen as .| A．a waste of money | B．an expression of taste | | C．a waste of time | D．an expression of creativity |
小题3:According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?| A．The fashion industry makes an important contribution to society | | B．The constant changes in women’s clothing reflect their strength of characters | | C．Fashion designs should not be encouraged since they are only welcomed by women | | D．New fashions in clothing are created for the commercial exploitation of women |
小题4:By saying “the conclusions to be drawn are obvious”, the writer means that .| A．women are better able to put up with discomfort | | B．men are more reasonable in the matter of fashion | | C．men are also exploited greatly by fashion designers | | D．women’s inconstancy in their choice of clothing is often laughed at |
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