Is this the young engineer ________ you want to have ________ the computer for me?
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A．who, repaired |
B．that, repairing |
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C．who, to repair |
D．that, repair |
He stood last but one among the twenty interviewees, _________, he failed the interview.
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A．in other words |
B．in this way |
C．in general |
D．in detail |
Most of the problems ______, he has a tight schedule every day.
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A．remaining unsettled |
B．remained unsettled |
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C．remaining unsettling |
D．remained unsettling |
V. 书面表达
假设你是你们班的英语课代表，在第一次去语音室上课时，老师让你向你们班同学宣布如下注意事项：
课前5分钟到达语音室，以便准备设备；
对号入座，不得随意更换座位；
按老师指令操作，不要乱动仪器；
（你对同学们的要求）。
注意：1、词数：120左右；2、可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：permission允许；instruction指示
IV: 任务型读写
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。注意：每空格1个单词。
Do American children still learn handwriting in school? In this age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out.
Steve Graham, a literacy professor at Vanderbilt University, says he has been hearing about the death of handwriting for the past fifteen years. However, a recent survey shows that it is still being taught by about 90% of teachers in grades one to three. 90% of teachers also say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. Professor Graham says that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. “And then when you look at how it’s taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten, fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for 60 to 70 minutes a day -- which really for handwriting is pretty much death.”
Many adults remember learning by copying letters over and over again. Today’s thinking is that short periods of practice are better. Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself but be used as a way to get students to express ideas. After all, that is why we write.
Handwriting involves two skills. One is legibility (清楚), which means forming the letters so they can be read. The other is fluency -- writing without having to think about it. The professor says fluency continues to develop up until high school.
But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report about one-fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important anymore because of computers and voice recognition programs. But Professor Graham says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. Even with high school teachers, we find that less than 50% of assignments are done via word processing or with word processing. And, in fact, if we added in taking notes and doing tests in class, most of the writing done in school is done by hand.
American children traditionally first learn to print, then to write in cursive (草体的), which connects the letters. But actually more than 75% of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.
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Title |
Write or Wrong: The Death of Handwriting? |
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Theme |
Handwriting lessons are on the way out. |
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Present (56)_______ of handwriting lessons |
It’s required to teach by about (57)_____ of teachers in grades one to three; Three out of every four teachers aren’t prepared to teach handwriting; (58) _______ are provided from 10-15 minutes a day to 60-70 minutes a day respectively. |
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Common (59)________ on teaching handwriting |
Short periods of practice are better; It should not be taught by itself (60)_______ be used as a way to get students to express ideas |
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Two skills (61)______ in handwriting |
Legibility; (62)_____. |
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(63)____ of poor handwriting |
Computers and voice recognition programs are (64)________; The fact that most of the writing done in school is done by hand is ignored; More than 75% of students (65)____ printing their essay on tests to writing in cursive. |
The home service industry in Beijing is expected to become more attractive both as a job and as an industry.
Sources at the Beijing People’s Political Consultative Conference said resistance to home service work is melting away from minds of the city’s laid-off workers. The Conference suggested the establishment of municipal (市政的) centers which supervise (监督) property management, household mending and installation, and house keeping services. Modern city life is creating a need for industrialization home services. This will create job opportunities for laid-off workers, said vice director of the Social Judicial Committee of the Conference.
Beijing residents have long desired a home service industry. The demand is expected to drive new economic growth. There are few high quality home help services in Beijing and customers are always complaining.
In the past, few laid-off workers in Beijing desired to work as home helpers, jobs largely taken by young women from the countryside. At the same time, some city residents have not felt safe trusting rural girls with modern household machines or with their small children. Many people would pay more for reliable house keepers who are more familiar with city life, but they have had no way of getting one, even though the city is home to thousands of laid-off workers.
By the end of June this year, there were 30,600 jobless workers in the city. Most of them are women in their 40’s, who are not blessed with particular skills and who have had their work ethics (准则) shaped by the planned economy. Many of them were at a loss when they first realized they had lost their jobs and a way of life they had got used to for decades. They never imagined being laid off by state owned enterprises; they never considered other kinds of employment. For them, the private sector (部门) meant taking risks; house-keeping implied lower social status. Gao Yunfang, 44, is a pioneer who is breaking the ice. She sells the Beijing Morning Post in the morning, and works at two households in the afternoon. She earns 1,000 yuan per month. So she no longer worries about her daughter’s tuition at a university in Shanghai.
1. What is talked about in the passage?
A. Home service. B. Modern city life. C. Laid-off workers. D. Social status.
2. What does the word “ laid-off” in the passage mean?
A. Heavily-burdened. B. Old C. Inexperienced. D. Jobless.
3. Why didn’t the laid-off workers like to do home services in the past?
A. Low salary. B. Lower social status.
C. Dirty working condition. D. Too much extra work.
4. Why were many laid-off workers at a loss?
A. Because they didn’t get used to the new way of life.
B. Because they are too old to find a new job.
C. Because they dislike being laid off.
D. Because they think they lost their social status.
