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A．sophisticated
B．competitive
C．considerate
D．superficial
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Continuing education gives these adults the opportunity to increase their knowledge about their own field or to learn about a new field. It also gives them a chance to improve their old skills or to learn new ones. Scientists, mechanics (技师) and barbers (理发师) can take classes to improve their work skills. . If they know more or learn more, they can get a better job or earn more money.
Continuing education classes give more adults the chance to learn new skills. There is usually a large variety of classes to choose from: typing, foreign cooking, photography, auto repair, furniture repair, or swimming. There are only some of the classes available.
Some adults take classes for fun or because the class will be useful for them. Other adults take continuing education classes to improve their own lives because they want to feel better about themselves.
Almost any community college or public school system has a continuing education program. There are classes in schools, community buildings or churches. Most classes are in the evenings, so working people can attend. The classes are usually small, and they are inexpensive.
The new idea about education in the U. S. is that______ .
A．everyone should get a college degree
B．it's no use for adults to go to college
C．a high school diploma is the end of education
D．adults should go on learning after graduating from school
s the Abstract of a research article？____________
A.A number of studies have demonstrated that there can be important cross-cultural differences in the speech-act performance between two different speech communities, especially in relation to the level of directness of their request realization.Such distinct cross-cultural differences have been found to exist between the Greek and the English interactional styles as well as between the Greek and the English verbal telephone behavior.
B.A total of 200 opening requests were randomly collected from the telephone service encounters produced by callers at the call center of a UK airline: 100 opening requests produced in Greek by GNSs and 100 opening requests produced in English by ENSs.Semi-structured interviews were also carried out in relation to the telephone operators who received the calls.These interviews were conducted in order to gain some qualitative insights into how the callers’ requests and telephone behavior. were perceived by the hearers (operators).Using the analytical framework of face-saving theory, each of the opening requests of the telephone observation data was coded and classified.The results were statistically tested in order to establish whether the differences found were statically significant.
C.This article examines whether there are marked cross-cultural differences in the level of directness of request realization between Greek and British speakers when ringing an airline’s call center.Using the analytical framework of face-saving theory, 200 opening requests were analyzed and statistically tested.Qualitative insights were gained from semi-structured interviews.Significant differences were found in the degree of requestive directness employed by Greek and British speakers in telephone business encounters, with the Greek employing a higher degree of directness.Further research is needed to establish whether such differences exist in socially different contexts and in different role relationships.
D.The present empirical study found significant differences in the degree of requestive directness employed by GNSs and ENSs when ringing an airline’s call center.The GNSs were found to employ a higher degree of directness as far as their opening telephone requests were concerned and this finding can be seen as being consistent with the ethos of directness, spontaneity and positive politeness orientation found to characterize the Greek language and culture.It additionally suggests that there is a need for the Greek callers to formulate their requests in the most explicit and shortest way possible in the business context examined particularly because directness seems to be motivated not only by spontaneity but also by their need for efficiency, urgency and pragmatic clarity.As the requests elicited from this data were exclusively elicited from an airline’s call center, they are context-specific.Further research is therefore needed in order to establish whether such significant differences are present in socially different contexts as well as in different role relationships.
Parents are concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure.
Parents are also concerned about the commercials (商业广告) that their children see on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have any commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers.
Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is Sesame Street, which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet (字母) and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live.
Even though most parents and educators give Sesame Street and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television every day turns children into bored and passive (被动的) consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it
1). Which of the following statements is not based on the passage？
A. Parents are worried about the influence from television on their children.
B. Television has much influence on children.
C. Both parents and their children like watching educational television.
D. Some critics think that television is no good for children.
2). In what ways do children suffer from television？
A. They become the victims of social violence.
B. They spend hours watching television instead of doing school work.
C. The programs make the children lose interest in the world.
D. The programs make the children spend too much of their parents’ money.
3). Parents would not like their children to see commercials because ______
A. they think that their children are not old enough to handle advertising
B. commercials teach children alphabet and numbers
C. commercials help to sell products
D. they don’t like commercials
4). Educational television is widely appreciated because _____
A. it does have the same commercials as others
B. it offers programs for both children and their parents
C. many parents like the programs it offers for their children
D. children can learn some school subjects before they go to school
5). Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage？
A. Watching Too Much Television Is Harmful to Young Minds.
B. Television Is More Harmful than Educational.
C. Television’s Influence on Children.
D. More Education Television.
Creative Destruction of Higher Education
A．Higher education is one of the great successes of the welfare country．What was once the privilege of a few has become a middle-class entitlement， thanks mainly to government support．Some 3．5 million Americans and 5 million Europeans will graduate this summer．In the modem world universities are developing rapidly: China has added nearly 30 million places in 20 years．Yet the business has changed little since Aristotle taught at the Athenian Lyceum （雅典学园）: young students still gather at a specific time and place to listen to the wisdom of scholars．
B．At present， a revolution has begun， thanks to three forces: rising costs， changing demand and new technology．The result will be the complete change of the university．While the prices of cars， computers and much else have greatly fallen， tmiversities have been able to charge ever more for the same service because they are protected by public funding and the high value employers place on degrees．For two decades the cost of going to college in America has risen by 1．6 percentage points more than inflation every year．
C．For most students， the university remains a great deal．The total lifetime income from obtaining a college degree， in net-present-value （净现值） terms， can increase as much as $ 590，000．But an increasing number of students have gone deep into debt， especially the 47% in America and 28% in Britain who do not complete their course．As for them， the degree by no means values for that sum of money．And the government becomes more and more unwilling to fund the university．In America government funding per student fell by 27% between 2007 and 2012， while average tuition fees， adjusted for inflation， rose by 20%．In Britain， tuition fees close to zero two decades ago can reach $15，000 a year．
D．The second factor resulting in change is the labor market．In the standard model of higher education， people go to university in their 20s．A degree is an entry ticket to the professional classes．But automation is beginning to have the same effect on white-collar jobs as it has on blue- collar ones．According to a study from Oxford University，47% of occupations are at risk of being automated in the next few decades．As innovation wipes out some jobs and changes others， people will need to top up their human capital all through their lives．
E．By themselves， these two forces would be pushing change．A third——technology——ensures it．The internet， which has turned businesses from newspapers through music to book sale upside down， will turn over higher education．Now the MOOC， or "Massive Open Online Course"， is offering students the chance to listen to star lecturers and get a degree for a fraction of the cost of attending
a university．MOOCs started in 2008 ; however， they have so far failed to live up to their promise．Largely because there is no formal system of accreditation （认证）， drop-out rates have been high．But this is changing as private investors and existing universities are drawn in．One provider，Coursera， claims over 8 million registered users．Though its courses are free， it received its first $1 million in incomes last year after introducing the option to pay a fee of between $ 30 and $100 to have course results certified．Another， Udacity， has teamed up with AT&T and Georgia Tech to offer an online master"s degree in computing， at less than a third of the cost of the traditional version．Harvard Business School will soon offer an online "pre-MBA" for $1，500．Starbucks has offered to help pay for its staff to take online degrees with Arizona State University．
F．MOOCs will destroy different universities in different ways．Not all will suffer．Oxford and Harvard could benefit．People of great ambition will always want to go to the best universities to meet each other， and the digital economy tends to favor a few large institutions in charge of its operation．The big names will be able to sell their Moocs around the world．But ordinary universities may suffer the fate of many newspapers．Were the market for higher education to perform. in future as that for newspapers has done over the past decade or two， universities" incomes would fall by more than haft， employment in the industry would drop by nearly 30% and more than 700 institutions would shut their doors．The rest would need to adjust themselves to survive．
G．Like all revolutions， the one taking place in higher education will have victims．Many towns and cities rely on universities．In some ways MOOCs will further make the difference both among students and among teachers．The talented students will be much more comfortable than the weaker outside the structured university environment．Superstar lecturers will earn a fortune， to the anger of their less charming colleagues．
H．Politicians will come under pressure to halt this revolution．They should remember that state spending should benefit society as a whole， not protect professors from competition．The change of universities will benefit many more people than it hurts．Students in the rich world will have access to higher education at lower cost and greater convenience．The flexible nature of MOOCs appeals to older people who need training．EdX， another provider， says that the average age of its online students in America is 31．In the modern world online courses also offer a way for countries like Brazil to go ahead Western ones and supply higher education"much more cheaply．And education has now become a global market: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered Battushig Myanganbayar， a remarkably talented Mongolian teenager， through an online electronics course．
I．Rather than maintaining the old model， governments should make the new one work better．They can do so by supporting common standards for accreditation．In Brazil， for instance， students completing courses take a governmentrun exam．In most Western countries it would likewise make sense to have a single， independent organization that certifies exams．Changing an ancient institution will not be easy．But it does promise better education for many more people．Rarely have need and opportunity so neatly come together．
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In order to keep error to a minimum，we are advised to_________．
A.separate our emotions from what we see
B.improve our memory of what we see
C.get a better look at what we are interested in
D.concentrate on what makes US relaxed
The general incidence of colds continues to decline into maturity. Elderly people who are in good health have as few as one or two colds annually. One exception is found among people in their twenties, especially women, who show a rise in cold infections, because people in this age group are most likely to have young children. Adults who delay having children until their thirties and forties experience the same sudden increase in cold infections.
The study also found that economics plays an important role. As income increases, the frequency at which colds are reported in the family decreases. Families with the lowest income suffer about a third more colds than families at the upper end. Lower income generally forces people to live in more cramped quarters than those typically occupied by wealthier people, and crowding increases the opportunities for the cold virus to travel from person to person. Low income may also adversely influence diet. The degree to which poor nutrition affects susceptibility to colds is not yet clearly established, but an inadequate diet is suspected of lowering resistance generally.
The paragraph before this passage most probably deals with ______ .
A．minor diseases other than colds
B．the recommended treatment of colds
C．a factor that affects susceptibility to colds
D．methods of preventing colds among elderly people
What is the meaning of "We became instant friends. " in Paragraph 4？
A．We became friends right away.
B．We never talked to each other after then.
C．We did not keep our friendship for a long time.
D．We often helped each other after making friends.
根据以下内容回答题:Happiness can be described as a positive mood and a pleasant state of m
根据以下内容回答题:
Happiness can be described as a positive mood and a pleasant state of mind． According to recent polls sixty to seventy percent of Americans consider themselves to be moderately happy and one in twenty persons feels very unhappy．Psychologists have been study-ing the factors that contribute to happiness．It is not predictable nor is a person in an apparently ideal situation necessarily happy．The ideal situation may have little to do with his actual feel-ings． A good education and income are usually considered necessary for happiness．Though both may contribute，they are only chief factors if the person is seriously under-educated or actually suffering from lack of physical needs． The rich are not likely to be happier than the middle-income group or even those with very low incomes．People with college educations are somewhat happier than those who did not gra-duate from high school，and it is believed that this is mainly because they have more opportuni-ty to control their lives．Yet people with a high income and a college education may be less happy than those with the same income and no college education． Poor health does not rule out happiness except for the severely debilitated or those in pain．Learning to cope with a health problem can contribute to happiness．Those with a good sex lifeare happier in general，but those who have a loving affectionate relationship are happier than those who rely on sex alone．Love has a higher correlation with happiness than any other factor． It should be noted that people quickly get used to what they have，and they are happiest when they feel they are increasing their level no matter where it stands at a given time． Children whose parents were happily married have happier childhoods but are not nece—ssarily happier adults． The best formula for happiness is to be able to develop the ability to tolerate frustration，to have a personal involvement and commitment，and to develop self-confidence and self-esteem．
According to the article，happiness is greatly dependent upon（） ．
A.happy childhood
B.great wealth
C.a feeling that conditions are improving over what they were
D.a college degree
Early or Later Day Care
The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.
Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, (he father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone -- far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread today if parents, care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neutral or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.
But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.
Which of the following statements would Bowlby support？
A．Statistical studies should be carried out to assess the positive effect of day care for children at the age of three or older.
B．Early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children.
C．The first three years of one's life is extremely important to the later development of personality.
D．Children under three get used to the life at nursery schools more readily than children over three.
It is a curious paradox that we think of the physical sciences as "hard", the social sciences as "soft", and the biological sciences as somewhere in between. This is interpreted to mean that our knowledge of physical systems is more certain than our knowledge of biological systems, and these in turn are more certain than our knowledge of social systems. In terms of bur capacity to sample the relevant universes, however, and the probability that our images of these universes are at least approximately correct, one suspects that a reverse order is more reasonable. We are able to sample earth's social systems with some degree of confidence that we have a reasonable sample of the total universe being investigated. Our knowledge of social systems, therefore, while it is in many ways extremely inaccurate, is not likely to be seriously overturned by new discoveries. Even the folk knowledge in social systems on which ordinary life is based in earning, spending, organizing, marrying, taking part in political activities, fighting and so on, is not very 'dissimilar from the more sophisticated images of the social system derived from the social sciences, even though it is built upon the very imperfect samples of personal experience.
In contrast, our image of the astronomical universe, of even of earth's geological history, can easily be subject to revolutionary changes as new data comes in and new theories are worked out. If we define the "security" of our image of various parts of the total system as the probability of their suffering significant changes, then we would reverse the order of hardness and see the social sciences as the most secure, the physical sciences as the least secure, and again the biological sciences as somewhere in between. Our image of the astronomical universe is the least secure of all simply because we observe such a fantastically small sample of it and its record-keeping is trivial as compared with the rich records of the social systems, or even the limited records of biological systems. Records of the astronomical universe, despite the fact that we see distant things as they were long ago, are limited in the extreme.
Even in regard to such a close neighbor as the moon, which we have actually visited, theories about its origin and history are extremely different, contradictory, and hard to choose among. Our knowledge of physical evolution is incomplete and highly insecure.
The word "paradox"(Para. 1) means "（）".
A.implication
B.contradiction
C.interpretation
D.confusion
