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education.One of those who contacted me to disagree with the idea was 17 year old Anirudh Mandagere.
He got 10 As at GCSE and is currently studying English,French,Math and History at a private school in
Manchester.Here is his response:
For me,the idea that all private schools should be banned is not only ridiculous and unrealistic,but goes
against the idea of liberty. We must have the freedom to choose between statefunded and privately
educated schools. If parents pay taxes, surely they should be able to choose whether they send their
children to a statefunded or a privatelyfunded school.
The economic impacts of abolishing private education are vast.Banning private schools would obviously
contribute to a great transfer to state schools. Many state schools are already overburdened；do they
really need more pupils?Abolishing private education would lead to higher taxes for taxpayers since more
money would be needed to educate the 7% who were previously private educated. In the times of
economic crisis,should the taxpayer need to fork out more money to pay for their education?There would
also be a great rise in unemployment of the staff who works at private schools.
It is noted that,in general,private schools have better grades at GCSE and A level than state schools.
Yet, why do people view this as a bad thing ? The higher private school grades eventually force the
government to endlessly improve state education so that the middle classes do not totally abandon state
education for private education.This competition creates reform and progress within state schools and
eventually promote them!If the private schools did not exist,where would be the impetus for state school
improvement?
Government should not simply ban a system which produces results.It should learn from it and use the
private education model as a basis for the state education model.Abolishing a successful system will not
help anybody,learning from a successful system will.
B．pay taxes for the promotion of private schools
C．choose the way their children receive education
D．advocate the competition between state schools and private ones
B．not cause the state schools to be overburdened
C．force the government to boost state education
D．lead to many people losing their jobs
B．prevention
C．participation
D．assessment
B．conduct better than all state ones
C．are better received by the public
D．are more competitive on the whole
B．Without the existence of private schools,state ones wouldn"t get improved much.
C．Private education is a good system to make students successful in life.
D．Private schools are supposed to be sponsored more than state ones.
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means the same to employees as a modest pay__2__,researchers say.
Praise and encouragement also__3__employees more likely to work hard and stay in their jobs,saving
on the cost of finding__4__.
A third of 1,000 workers__5__said they did not get thanked at all when they did well,and a(n)__6__
third said they were not thanked enough.
In both__7__,the employees said they felt__8__,meaning they were less likely to be__9__to their jobs
and were more likely to look for employment elsewhere.
According to the survey,praising employees has the same__10__as a 1 percent pay rise,and works out
much__11__for bosses.
Three out of four employees said that regular__12__by their bosses was important to them,__13__
only a quarter said they were actually given as much praise__14__they felt they needed . Those doing
manual (体力的) jobs were less likely to be given any __15__for doing well.
Scottish employees felt __16__ undervalued, eight out of ten saying they would like more praise.
However,workers in the northeast are less__17__by being buttered up by the boss,as only 69 percent
said they felt the__18__to be told "well done" regularly.
The research found that words of praise did more than__19__a pleasant place to work-they could
__20__increase profits.
( )2．A.rise
( )3．A.forces
( )4．A.possibilities
( )5．A.surveyed
( )6．A.adequate
( )7．A.surveys
( )8．A.privileged
( )9．A.caught
( )10．A.motivation
( )11．A.less convenient
( )12．A.inspection
( )13．A.but
( )14．A.that
( )15．A.solution
( )16．A.least
( )17．A.charged
( )18．A.chance
( )19．A.create
( )20．A.alone
B．ride
B．catches
B．replacements
B．reported
B．total
B．cases
B．favored
B．attached
B．advantage
B．more likely
B．acknowledgement
B．otherwise
B．when
B．situation
B．the less
B．impressed
B．need
B．demand
B．still
C．surprise
C．makes
C．responsibilities
C．employed
C．special
C．parts
C．undervalued
C．involved
C．development
C．cheaper
C．commitment
C．thus
C．while
C．recognition
C．the more
C．delayed
C．potential
C．require
C．even
D．incident
D．contributes
D．disadvantages
D．inspired
D．further
D．points
D．evaluated
D．devoted
D．feeling
D．more expensive
D．outlines
D．so
D．as
D．communication
D．most
D．exploded
D．function
D．restore
D．yet
million Michigan residents older than 16:They read below a sixthgrade level,which makes
it difficult to find jobs and to improve their lives.Among them,Amiya is one.
Amiya Olden remembers well the day she graduated from Denby High School.She
handed her diploma to her mother,who read it to her."Then when someone asked me to
read it,I could remember the things she read,and I knew what I had to say," recalled
Amiya Olden."When we would go out to restaurants with my aunts,and that"s when I
really would get upset,I would see words on the menu but I couldn"t read!"
But don"t feel sorry for her.She changed her life by reaching a point where she"d read
enough.Two summers ago,she took charge of her life when she walked into ProLiteracy
Detroit to improve her reading.Nineteen months ago,she was reading at a secondgrade
level；now at a fifthgrade level.
Olden now splits her days between her classes at ProLiteracy and the library,where
she checks out books and reads them.She says she hopes her improved reading skills
will help her find a good job.
And she has advice for others,who have trouble reading.
"Don"t give up on it," she said."Even though it can be challenging and you might get
frustrated sometimes,practice does help.If you really want to be able to go somewhere,
go out to a restaurant and you have to read signs and things like that,you want to know
what you want to eat and where you want to go...If you want to succeed in life and grow,
you have to read.More importantly,you have to feel confident that you can."
A．she could encourage her daughter to improve her reading
B．her daughter could remember the content of the diploma
C．they both could remember the particular moment
D．she could show off before her daughter
B．improve her reading level
C．find a good job in the training center
D．be a poster child for the reading crisis
B．the job market pays too much attention to reading
C．most students can"t graduate from high school
D．the reading crisis affects only poor people
B．A good job has been offered to her.
C．She is an adviser for those with reading difficulty.
D．Most of her time is divided between her classes and the library now.
B．discouraged
C．confident
D．learned
showing that almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.By
contrast,only one in eight university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20
years ago,research from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows.
It also found that grownup sons are twice as likely as their sisters to still be living with
their parents in their late 20s.
With nearly a quarter of men approaching 30 still living at home,the findings are bound
to lead to the claim of a "generation of mummy"s boys"．
Rising housing prices,increasing student debts and the effects of depression on the job
market have forced a wave of young people to move back into the family home at an age
when they would normally________.
Young professionals in their late 20s or early 30s have been called the "boomerang
generation" because of the trend toward returning to the family home.
Recent research has suggested that young people in Britain are twice likely to choose to
live with their parents in their late 20s than their counterparts elsewhere in Europe.
But_experts_warned_that_the_phenomenon_may_have_more_to_do_with_young_
people_facing_dark_future_than_simply_a_desire_to_save_money.
While the percentage of those of university or college age moving out from the family
home has continued to rise in the last 20 years,among those in their mid and late 20s the
trend has reversed.
Overall 1.7 million people aged from 22 to 29 now share a roof with their parents,including
more than 760,000 in their late 20s,the ONS figures suggest.
1．What is the main idea of the passage?(Please answer within 15 words.)
________________________________________________________________________
2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
The survey showed that the number of young men living in the family home probably doubles
that of young women in their late 20s.
________________________________________________________________________
3．Fill in the blank in the fourth paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the
sentence.(Please answer within 5 words.)
________________________________________________________________________
4．List three factors that have driven young people back home again based on the
passage.(Please answer within 5 words each.)
①________________________________________________________________________
②________________________________________________________________________
③________________________________________________________________________
5．Translate the underlined sentence in the seventh paragraph into Chinese.
________________________________________________________________________
As computers become all the morepopular in China, Chinese people areincreasingly
relying on computer keyboardsto input Chinese characters. But if they usethe computer
too much, they may end up
forgetting the exact strokes(笔画) of each Chinese characterwhen writing on paper. Experts
suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.
Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing,students start using a computer
as early as primary school.And computer dependence is more wide-spread among
university students. Almost all their assignments and essaysare typed on a computer.
All the students interviewed say they usually use acomputer.
It"s faster and easier to correct if using a computer. Andthat"s why computers are
being applied more and more oftento modern education. But when people are taking
stock incomputers increasingly, problems appear. "
When I"m writing with a pen, 1 find I often can"tremember how to write a character,
though I feel I"mfamiliar with it. "
"I"m not in the mood to write when faced with a penand paper. "
Many students don"t feel this is something to worryabout. Now that it"s more convenient
and efficient to writeon a computer, why bother to handwrite? Many educators think
differently. Shi Liwei, theheadmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said"Chinese
characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的 )value.But those character styped
with computer keyboards only maintain their practical value. All the artisticbeauty of the
characters is lost. And handwriting containsthe writer"s emotion. Through one"s handwriting,
peoplecan get to know one"s thinking and personality. Beautifulwriting will give people a better
first impression of them. "
To encourage students to handwrite more, manyprimary schools in Beijing have made
writing classescompulsory(必修的 ) and in univery,ities,some professors areasking students
to turn in their homework and essayswritten by hand.
B. To Type or To Handwrite
C. Writing By Computer Will Replace Writing By Hand
D. Practical and Aesthetic Value of Chinese Characters
B.they can correct the mistakes they make quickly andconveniently
C. they find it not easy to remember how to write tcharacter
D. computers have become a trend and fashion in China.
B. getting dependent on
C. becoming crazy about
D. getting curious about
B. writing by hand will give way to typing by computer one day
C. more and more students will pay attention tohandwriting
D. the typing article better expresses one"s emotion and quality
say 100 million more could go hungry this year because of the food and financial crises.
To deal with the situation, the UN World Food Program has started a project to help small farmers.
These farmers are mainly women.Many cannot produce enough food even to feed and support their own
families.
The new effort is called Purchase for Progress, or P4P.It aims to connect local farmers with
dependable markets.That way, they could get a chance to sell their surplus (剩余) at competitive prices.
P4P will be tested in as many as 21 countries during the next five years.
The biggest contributor to the project is Bill Gates, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Another donor (捐款者) is the Howard Buffett Foundation, led by a son of the American investor
Warren Buffett.The government of Belgium is also supporting the project in a former colony (殖民地),
now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Together these donors have provided more than 76 million dollars for projects in Africa and Central
America.
Purchase for Progress will work with United Nations agencies, governments and nongovernmental
organizations to help increase crop production.The World Bank Group and other partners are to help
train farmers in better crop management and marketing skills.
The World Food Program says it expects to buy 40,000 tons of food in the first year using methods
carried out by the project.That will be enough to feed 250,000 people.
P4P is expected to develop food cooperatives and longterm agreements for buying corn, wheat and other
food crops.About 350,000 farmers could be assisted.
Officials say the project will change the way the World Food Program buys food in developing
countries.Executive Director Josette Sheeran says this is the first time her agency will buy a large amount
of food from small farmers.The agency has traditionally bought most of its food from developing
countries, but through larger trading organizations.
1. From the passage, we know that________.
A. in all 900 million people worldwide lack food
B. a project has been started to help women farmers
C. there are only two donors to help the project
D. some farmers still cannot support their families
2. According to the passage, ________will work hard to deal with the situation.
A. the United Nations
B. the combined efforts
C. some governments
D. some nongovernmental organizations
3. Which of the following will NOT be done to help small farmers?
A. To donate money.
B. To reform the way of food purchase.
C. To provide them with food.
D. To buy a large amount of food from them.
4. What"s the best title for this passage?
A. Project to Help Small Farmers
B. Contribution to Small Farmers
C. Food Problems
D. P4P Is Being Carried Out
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