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where barely literate (受过教育的) high school athletes get their transcripts (成绩单) by
taking courses occasionally and sometimes by taking no courses at all. The athletes then go
on to famous sports universities, where they exhaust their playing years before landing back
on the streets without job opportunity or college degrees.
The prep school scheme was meant to avoid academic qualification rules for college athletes
made years ago by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The N.C.A.A., which was
slow to recognize the seriousness of the problem, has finally adopted policies to root it out. But
those policies will not do the job unless everyone is involved, including prep schools and college
athletics departments that still recruit (招收) students who do not meet academic standard.
The prep school scheme sends a dangerous message to poor neighborhoods, where young
people too often ignore their studies, believing that they will magically become millionaires once
the world sees their athletic talents. Even worse, it encourages students to drop out of traditional
schools before graduation-at which point their grade-point averages would be written in stone-to
sign up with fake schools that can help them rewrite their academic records.
The N.C.A.A. has begun to check nontraditional schools for their academic programs and has
actually closed some. The organization has also stepped up to look into athletes" transcripts and
will pay special attention to athletes who attended several schools, showed sudden jumps in
grade-point average, transferred to another school late in the senior year or took an unbelievable
number of courses in one term.
These measures are encouraging as far as they go. But the N.C.A.A. will need to go much
deeper into the problem if it hopes to break this scheme. For starters, it needs to make clear
not just what courses high school athletes need to take to become qualified for college sports,
but when they should take them. Until that happens, those who recruit young athletes will always
be tempted(受诱惑的)to make fake academic record at the last possible moment for them.
B. They can easily be admitted to a university by cheating.
C. After they graduate from university, they will usually find promising jobs.
D. They seldom have good academic performance at high school.
a lot of courses in one term.
B. Transcripts of high school students can be very important reference for students to go to college.
C. Most High school athletes can probably be awarded a bachelor"s (学士) or master"s degree
after they graduate from universities.
D. Transcripts of high school students are so important that they are recorded on metal
from__________________.
B. many prep schools that carry out poor academic programs for high school athletes
C. many college athletics departments that still recruit academically unqualified students
D. school athletes, poor management of prep schools and irresponsibility of related college
departments
the measures EXCEPT____________________.
B. shutting down some unqualified prep school
C. listing compulsory courses and the number of course needed to be taken in high school
D. checking some problematic transcripts
B. The writer thinks more practical measures are needed to break it.
C. The writer remains neutral (中立的) on this issue.
D. The writer believes poor children will have little chance to go to college if prep school
scheme is broken.
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试题【阅读理解。 Recently educators have been questioning "prep school" (=preparatory s】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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to use hydrogen to drive the engine, in much the same way as many cars use gas. The second
method is to use the reaction of hydrogen with oxygen in a battery, making the car a kind of
electric one.
The dream of producing hydrogen in the car while driving along by electrolyzing (电解)water
is a long way off, so we are still at the period of batteries and filling the tank with hydrogen gas.
This is the difficulty for potential car users and producers. There are only sixteen hydrogen filling
stations in Los Angeles and none in 99% of other cities worldwide.
Indeed, some of the big name automobile producers have pulled out of the race to put the first
practical hydrogen car on the streets. Ford and GM have announced that they are pulling out in
America and so has Renault in France.
However, the Japanese companies are pressing on. In fact, Honda introduced its first hydrogen
fuel cell car in 1999. They are now producing second generation hydrogen car known as the
FCX Clarity. Guess where they are available for sale? In only one city because of its filling stations.
Honda thinks that they could go into full-scale production of the FCX Clarity by 2020 if the
world is prepared for them by then.
Then there are hydrogen-powered buses in several European cities including Amsterdam,
Barcelona, Hamburg, London, Luxembourg and Madrid. Lotus, the makers of London taxis,
have announced that they propose to manufacture hydrogen-powered taxis in time for the London
Olympics.
So, the hydrogen vehicle is out there and the numbers will be growing fairly soon. The buses
go back to their bus station, where an electrolyzing machine changes water into fuel for them to
fill up on and the same will be the case for many of London"s taxis.
Unfortunately, getting fuel is not the only difficulty for the average motorist, a number of these
vehicles cost about $300,000 each.
B. are likely to sell well in the future.
C. are mainly used in the United States
D. won"t be used in the London Olympics
B. Hydrogen buses
C. The FCX Clarity
D. Filling stations
B. In Hamburg
C. In London
D. In Los Angeles
B. hydrogen vehicles fueled by water will be very expensive
C. Honda will mass-produce the FCX Clarity by 2012
D. Honda produced its first hydrogen car in 1989
children were given regular carrots and, on other lunch days, they were given the same vegetables which
were renamed X-ray Vision Carrots.
The study suggests kids like vegetables with cool names better and the influence of these names might
continue to exist. Children continued to eat about 50 percent more carrots even on the days when they
were no longer called cool names.
The research, which was funded (资助) by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was put up at the
yearly meeting of the School Nutrition Association in Washington DC.
"Cool names can make for cool foods," says Brian Wansink of Cornell University. "Whether it is "
power peas" or "dinosaur broccoli trees," giving the food a fun name gets kids to think that it will be more
fun to eat. And it seems to keep working-even on the next day," Wansink said.
Similar results have been found with adults. A restaurant study showed that when the Seafood Filet was changed to Succulent Italian Seafood Filet, sales increased by 28 percent and the taste rating (评级)
increased by 12 percent. "The same food, but different expectations, and different experience," said
Wansink, the author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.
The study was done in pre-schools (幼儿园), but the researchers believe the same tricks can work
with children .
"I"ve been using this with my kids at home," said a researcher Collin Payne. "Whatever inspires their
imagination seems to inspire their appetite (胃口)."
answer within 8 words.)
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It appears that anything that can fire children"s imagination can increase their appetite.
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people feeling unhappier. So, putting a brave face on your sadness could be harmful. The research also
found that women suffered more than men when pretending to be happy.
Dr. Brent Scott, who led the study, said employers should take note because forcing workers to smile when dealing with the public can result in bad outcomes. He said, "Smiling for the sake of smiling can lead
to emotional tiredness, and that"s bad for the organization." He also said the research showed
customer-service workers who had "fake smiles" throughout the day fell into a bad mood and didn"t want
to work, so their productivity dropped.
The study is one of the first of its kind to examine emotional expressions over a period of time and
compare the different effects on men and women.
Dr. Scott"s team examined the effects of "surface acting", or fake smiling, compared to "deep acting",
or making people smile by thinking of pleasant memories. Dr. Scott said, "Women were harmed more
by surface acting, meaning their moods worsened even more than men"s. However, they were helped
more by deep acting, which means their moods improved more by thinking of pleasant memories. "
According to Dr. Scott, women tend to suffer more when pretending to be happy because they are
expected to be more emotionally expressive than men. Therefore, forcing a smile while feeling down is
more likely to go against their normal behavior and cause more harmful feelings.
Although deep acting can improve moods a little in the short term, Dr. Scott says, it"s not a long-term
solution to feeling unhappy. "There have been some suggestions that if you do this over a long period you
start to feel unreal. You"re trying to develop positive emotions, but at the end of the day you may not feel
like yourself any more."
B. is meaningful as there haven"t been many similar ones
C. examined more women than men for a long time
D. aimed to make the employees more productive
B. they should be more emotionally expressive
C. they are often treated in a terrible way
D. they like thinking of pleasant memories
B. cannot improve our moods in any case
C. harms our feelings in the long run
D. pleases people by feeling like another person
B. Women shouldn"t be forced to smile.
C. An important suggestion for workers.
D. Why people don"t want to work
really well. Practice is essential in speaking English well.
Reading is one of the things that will help you to speak English better. Read whenever you can and
whatever you like! Read papers and visit Internet sites that you like in English every day. Gradually, you
will see that the number of known words is increasing and you are able to speak with more skills. Then you will have made the foundations (基础) and a good basis of English. It is not advisable to stop and get
stuck there.
Going to England or an English-speaking country is a good choice, but many people cannot afford it. If you cannot go, reading and speaking with your friends will also help you to practice your English.
However, I think that it is very good to visit some English-speaking country to see and test your
knowledge in everyday life. You will feel the everyday usage of the language in its natural environment.
There your level of English is going to improve even faster. Your ability to speak English is better. Nothing can match the excitement and happiness when a native speaker tells you that your English is very good!
Finally, in order to speak English well, you must be persistent (坚持的) and do it every day. It is like
playing the piano. Pianists play it every day and so should you. Practice, practice! Read, write and improve your language skills and you are on your way when you will be able to speak it with more and more
confidence! Let it be fun and entertaining!
B. Having a good basis of English.
C. Going to an English-speaking country.
D. A native speaker"s praise.
B. Keeping on reading when you have time.
C. Stopping when you have a good basis of English.
D. Looking up every unknown word when reading.
B. going abroad
C. reading
D. writing
B. Both are fun and entertaining.
C. Both need great confidence.
D. Both need good teachers.
B. How to speak English well
C. Speaking English
D. Practice, practice!
their original pronunciation. "Coolie" and "kowtow" were taken from the Chinese language, "kamikaze
from the Japanese, "shampoo" from India, "blitz" from German, "amigo" and "Los Angeles" from Spanish
and so on.
Many students have studied English for years, some as many as eight. However, some students still
have difficulty in speaking fluent English. Some know many words but are unable to discern them when
native speakers use them. In our Oral English classes we will focus on speaking and listening to native
English speakers. For this reason, because we are trying to train your ears to hear English and your
mouths to speak intelligible (易理解的) English, we will have a rule that ONLY ENGLISH will be
spoken in our English classes. Anyone speaking Chinese in class will be required to pay a fine in order to
encourage the speaking and understanding of English. If teachers enter a classroom and discover that
anyone is speaking Chinese, they will require everyone in the room to pay the fine. It is everyone"s job to
enforce the English-Only rule. It is for your benefit. It is because we want to accustom (使习惯于) your
ears to hearing English.
Other subjects may be learned solely from books but the only way to learn a foreign language is to
SPEAK IT! Students are often nervous about speaking in class at first but we hope to make the classes
fun, so you will forget your nervousness and learn to speak out. Enjoy your classes.
B. how interesting and various English is
C. different words in different languages
D. the immigrants" contributions to America
B. notice
C. hear
D. speak
B. learn it from books
C. play games with it
D. speak it often
B. German students
C. Chinese students
D. Indian students
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