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Last April,15-year-old Rei Iwasaki stopped her piano and flute lessons
and began to study every day of the week. Her parents paid to send her to a
"cram school(灌输式教学模式的学校)."She wanted very much to pass her
exams.
In February she did pass an all-day, five-subject examination and
entered the high school she hoped to enter.
Thirteen-year-old Akio Yoshiwara wasn"t so lucky. Unable to take the
pressure of the exams, he hanged himself in February. He left a suicide note
which said, "I did my best in this dear life, but it"s no good."
Suicides are now a common part of life among students in Japan. The
cause is the incredible pressure of the "examination hell."
Even a number of teachers are committing suicide each year. When
some students broke windows in a school near Tokyo, the principal blamed
himself and wrote the following note: "The incidents were due to the lack
of appropriate measures by the principal and I apologize. I am very tired.
The Japanese educational system is much different from the American
system. It is perhaps the most regimented(严密组织的) school system in
any of the industrialized nations.
Boys and girls wear uniforms and go to school six days a week --- 240
days a year compared to 180 in the U.S. Ninety- five percent graduate from
high school compared to seventy-five percent in the U.S.
Students don"t ask questions in class but only listen respectfully to the
teachers. And every few years students are tested to see which school they
will enter next. There is stiff competition for the "best" schools.
The result is a well-informed, disciplined student, ideal for factory
and company work and excellent at learning specialized skills. But there is
little fun in education, little creativity and the incredible pressure of
"examination hell."
1. It"s because ______ that many Japanese students committed suicide.
A. they didn"t do their best in their lives.
B. they were sent to a "cram school".
C. of the most regimented school.
D. they were unable to take the pressure of the exams.
2. Why did the principal kill himself? Because__________
A. He thought it was his fault that some students broke the windows.
B. He was very tired.
C. He couldn"t stand the pressure of the "examination hell".
D. He blamed himself and wrote a note.
3. Which of the following ideas agrees with the title of the passage.
A. The Japanese students love to study under pressure.
B. The Japanese students do well under pressure.
C. The exams give the Japanese students much pressure.
D. The exams make the Japanese students commit suicide each year.
4. Which of the following is Wrong?
A. The American educational system is much different from the Japanese system.
B. To enter a high school, a student must pass an all-day, five-subject examination.
C. The Japanese graduates from high school are much less than the American graduates.
D. In Japanese education, there is little creativity as well as little fun.
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in the developing world. Women"s education may be an unusual field for economists (经济学家), but
increasing women"s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And
economics, with its focus on encouragement, provides all explanation for why so many girls fail to receive
an education.
Parents in low-income countries don"t invest willingly in their daughters because they do not expect
them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else"s
family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and usually have to stay at home
to do housework while their brothers are sent to school.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an
entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on
developing all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her
daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be
educated and healthy.
Few will argue that educating women has great social benefits. But it has huge economic advantages
as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages
rise by 10 to 20 percent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the
standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a
significant influence on health practices, including family planning.
| Topic | The significance of female 1. ____ in developing countries |
| Viewpoint | Educating girls 2. __ __ a family more than any other investment. |
| 3. __ __ in different families | ◆ Girls are of less 4. _ _ than boys. ◆ Girls and boys should have 5. __ __ chances. ◆ 6. ___ _ should be for all children. |
| practice in low -income countries | ◆ Parents are 7.__ to invest in daughters. ◆ Girls are 8. __ __ to stay at home to do" housework. |
| Significance | Educating girls 9. __ __ to .social benefits, economic advantages and health practices, including family planning. |
| 10. ____ | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. |
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| Salvation Army Angel Program Angel Tree collects gifts for children and families in need. Participate by selecting an angel from any Angel Tree at all Cyprus Credit Union location or any Utah Macy"s Department store. Shop for your angel, then return your new, unwrapped gift to the same Angel Tree. Gifts must be returned before December 14. For more information, call (801) 988-5678 in the Salt Lake area,(801) 374 -2588 in the Provo area. Utah Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities Holiday Gift Box Program The program serves primarily low-income adults with intellectual disabilities who don"t qualify for other programs because of age limits, said Joyce Whalen, the association"s board president. To donate, visit the association at 1326 S.2100 East from 9am to about 5:30 pm to choose an ornament(装饰物) that provides information about an individual who will benefit from the program. Shop for new items and return them by December 14. Donations of generic items, such as towels, socks and hygiene products also accepted, as are monetary donations. For more information, call 801-440-1674. Utah Foster Care Foundation"s Giving Tree Program The program seeks new gifts and cash donations to fulfill the holiday wishes of more than 1,000 children in state-licensed foster homes." Many of the children in care have been removed from their biological homes because of neglect or abuse," said Nikki Mackay, the foundation"s director. " Christmas can be a difficult time for them." To learn how to support the program, call 877-505-5437. Utah State Hospital Forgotten Patient Program The program provides Christmas gifts for hundreds of patients with mental illness. In the history of the program--which may go back as far as 60 years, organizer Shawna Peterson said, "we"ve never had a forgotten patient." And she doesn"t want this year to change that. To support the program, contact Peterson at 801-344-6088. | |
| 1.After you buy an angel, you should ________. | |
| A..post it to where you bought B. open its package to examine it C. send it to families in need for yourself D. bring it back in its original form | |
| 2.If you want to help adults with intellectual disabilities, you should call_____. | |
| A. 801-440-1674 B.801-988-5678 C. 877-505-5437 D. 801-344-6088 | |
| 3.The underlined phrases "biological homes" in the third program refers to ______. | |
| A..homes where they are just brought up B.homes where their natural parents live C.homes where they learn biology D.homes where are related to bacteria | |
| 4.From the last program, we can infer that ______. | |
| A..the patients often forgot to come to the hospital B.the patients are often forgotten to be looked after C.the patients are being taken good care of D.the patients had a poor memory in the hospital | |
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| Recently, scientists have developed a wireless brainmachine interface that help restore communication to people who can no longer speak by reading brainwaves using electrodes (电极) stuck on their heads. Unfortunately, these have proved very slow, at roughly one word typed per minute, making normal conversations and social interactions virtually impossible. Scientist Frank Guenther and his colleagues reveal a brainmachine interface that uses electrodes implanted directly into the brain for research into real time speech. "It should soon be possible for extremely paralysed individuals who are incapable of speaking to produce speech through a laptop computer, " said Guenther. The scientists worked with a 26-year- old male volunteer who experience near-total paralysis due to a stroke he suffered when he was 16. They implanted an electrode that had two wires into a part of the brain that help plan and execute movements related to speech. The electrode recorded brain signals when the volunteer attempted to talk and the wires spread them across the scalp(头皮)to help drive a speech synthesizer (合成器). The delay between brain activity and sound output was just 50 milliseconds on average, roughly the same with regular speech. "He was quite excited, particularly on the first few days we used the system, as he got used to its properties, " Guenther recalled." I am sure the work proceeds slowly from his perspective, as it does from ours. Nonetheless, he was very excited about getting real-time audio feedback of his intended speech and happy to work very hard with us throughout the experiments." "The current system uses data from just two wires. Within a year it will be possible to implant a system with 16 times as many." Guenther said." This will allow us to tap into neurons(神经元),which in the end means better control over a synthesizer and thus better speech." | |
| 1.In the study of Guenther, electrodes are _______. | |
| A..fixed on the heads B. put into the heads C. tied to the heads D. separated from the heads | |
| 2.The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 4 refers to _______. | |
| A..movements B. wires C. brain signals D. Scientists | |
| 3. What might be the best title for the passage? | |
| A. Wireless Device Are Used to Read Words in the Brain. B. New Equipment Helps you read others" mind. C. Virtual tongue can make you speak fluently. D. It is no secret what you are thinking in mind. | |
| Scientists say they now have proof to support the old-fashioned advice that it"s best to sleep on a problem. They say sleep strengthens the memory and helps the brain organize the masses of information we receive each day. The lead researcher Bob Stickgold at the Harvard Medical School said, "Sleep helps us draw rules from our experiences. It"s like knowing the difference between dogs and cats even if it"s hard to explain." The US research team studied how well students remembered connections between words and symbols, reports New Scientist. They compared how the students performed if they had had a sleep between seeing the words and having the test, and if they had not slept. They found that people were better able to remember lists of related words after a night’s sleep than after the same time spent awake during the day. They also found it easier to remember themes that the words had in common. But they forgot around one in four more themes if they had been awake. Prof. John Groeger, of Survey University"s Sleep Research Centre, said, "People have been trying for years to find out what the purpose of sleep is, as we know that only certain parts of it have a restorative （促使康复的）value." "We form and store huge numbers of experiences in the head every day, and sleep seems to be the way the brain deals with them all." | |
| 1. The phrase "to sleep on a problem" in Paragraph 1 most likely means "________". | |
| A. to pay full attention to a problem B. to wait until the next day for a decision C. to sleep to forget a problem D. to have difficulty in sleeping | |
| 2. In the study by the US research team, students were asked to ________. | |
| A. put together words of similar meanings B. remember words and their meanings C. show their knowledge of words D. make up lists of related words | |
| 3. Which of the following may be easier to remember? | |
| A. Themes learned right before the test. B. Rules from personal experiences. C. Words learned before a good sleep. D. Ideas stored together in the brain. | |
| 4. What may be the importance of the research? | |
| A. It shows that sleep may help us manage information. B. It helps find out the common themes of words. C. It tells us that more sleep can improve health. D. It proves the value of old-fashioned advice. | |
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| Polyester (聚酯 ) is now being used for bottles. ICI, the chemicals and plastics company, believes that it is now beginning to break the control of glass on the bottle business and thus take advantage of this huge market. All the plastics manufacturers have been experiencing hard times as their traditional products have been doing badly worldwide for the last few years. Between 1982 and 1984 the Plastics Division of ICI had lost a hundred and twenty million dollars, and they felt that the most hopeful new market was in packaging, bottles and cans. Since 1982 it has opened three new factories producing "Melinar", the raw material from which high quality polyester bottles are made. The polyester bottle was born in the 1970s, when soft drinks companies like Coca Cola started selling their drinks in giant two-liter containers. Because of the build-up of the pressure of gas in these large containers, glass was unsuitable. Nor was PVC, the plastic which had been used for bottles since the 1960s, suitable for drinks with gas in them. A new plastic had to be made. Glass is still cheaper for the smaller bottles, and will continue to be so unless oil and plastic become much cheaper, but plastic does well for the larger sizes. Polyester bottles are virtually unbreakable. The manufacturers claim they are also lighter, less noisy when being handled, and can be reused. Shopkeepers and other business people are unlikely to object to a change from glass to polyester, since these bottles mean few breakages, which are costly and time-consuming. The public, though, have been more difficult to persuade. ICI"s commercial department is developing different bottles with interesting shapes, to try and make them visually more attractive to the public. The next step could be to develop a plastic which could replace tins for food. The problem here is the high temperatures necessary for cooking the food in the container. 1. Plastics of various kinds have been used for making bottles__________. A. since 1982 B. since the 1970s but only for large bottles C. since the 1960s but not for liquids with gas in them D. since companies like Coca Cola first tried them 2. Why is ICI"s Plastics Division interested in polyester for bottles? A. The other things they make are not selling well. B. Glass manufacturers cannot make enough new bottles. C. They have factories which could be adapted to make it. D. The price of oil keeps changing. 3. Manufacturers think polyester bottles are better than glass bottles because they ______. A. are cheaper B. are more suited to small sizes C. are more exciting to look at D. do not break easily 4. Plastic containers for holding food in the same way as cans______. A. have been used for many years B. are an idea that interests the plastics companies C. are possible, but only for hot food D. are the first things being made in the new factories |