Directions:This is an incomplete sentence and four choices marked A, B, C andA. Choose the best one of them to complete the sentence.From my ____, technology has made students less creative than they were in the past.B. mindC. opinionD. perspectiveE. view

9. Why was their wedding day special and unforgettable?A. Jason designed special leg braces and a walker to help Emily stand up.B. Emily walked down the aisle and danced with the help of special equipment.C. Jason designed a special wedding dress to help Emily dance.D. Emily danced with her dad and Jason in her wheelchair.

Work in pairs and discuss the following questions.1 What advice would you give to those who want to be closer to their parents?2 What traditional values do your parents hold? How have they influenced you with their words and deeds?

U. S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers，calling education the civil rights cause of our time. Duncan told about 100 prospective（未来的）teachers at the University of Virginia that veterans，retirees and professionals seeking a second career must pay attention to the call to teach. He said the need is especially acute for black men in the nation’s classrooms. The Virginia address is the first of several Duncan will make in October to press for bright candidates to enter teaching. He’ll host a virtual town meeting with teachers from around the nation oil Oct. 20，then deliver a major address on teacher preparation two days later in New York City. Duncan stressed the importance of teaching as the U. S. competes with an increasingly educated global work force，saying strong education is needed to reduce dropout rates among African-American，Latino and low-income students. “I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation，”Duncan said. “If you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality and social injustice，the classroom is the place to start. ” Duncan noted that the next four years alone could see one-third of the nation’s teachers and administrators leave. The departure of veteran educators will create huge demand for new teachers--200，000 annually in good economic times，he said. Duncan stressed that the demand for teachers is greatest amon9“high-poverty，high-needs” and rural schools, as well as in subjects such as math and science. “It is especially troubling，”he added，“that less than 2 percent of our nation’s teachers are African-American males. ” Duncan said the way to bring more young black men into the teaching profession is to make sure that they continue their studies and don’t drop out at the high rates they do IIOW. “0ur African male dropout rate is too high. If you’re dropping out of high school you can’t be a teacher,” he said. Duncan said the nation cannot rely alone oil schools of education to produce the next generation of teachers. He called for expanding alternatives such as Teach for America which recruits recent college graduates to teach in schools in poor communities for at least two years.1.[单选题]According to the passage，only few African-American males __________A.respect teachersB.understand teachersC.are determined to be teachersD.are qualified to be teachers2.[单选题]The dropout rates among African-American and Latino students must be reduced so that __________.A.the country can get rid of povertyB.the country can be more competitiveC.racial bias can be eliminated in the countryD.social injustice can be avoided3.[单选题]In order to meet the demand for teachers. Duncan suggests that __________.A.recent college graduates can be teacher candidatesB.experienced teachers should be in longer serviceC.schools of education should enroll more studentsD.more schools of education should be established4.[单选题]Duncan made the Virginia address so as to highlight __________.A.the nation’s need for excellent teachersB.the nation’s need for black people in classroomsC.the need of those who seek a second careerD.the need of those who are prepared to be teachers5.[单选题]New teachers will be in great need in the next four years most probably because __________.A.the economy is expected to flourishB.the number of students is increasingC.many senior teachers will retireD.education will be highly valued

Read the statements.Write T (true)or F (false).-|||-□1 November 11th is China`s largest online shopping festival.-|||-□2 Hu Xuanling likes to post photos online of what she has bought on November-|||-11th.-|||-□3 OnNovember 11th,everyone shops alone.-|||-□4"Double 11"is not the only shopping festival in China.

Stock, in business and finance, is a share of ownership in a corporation. Shares in a corporation can be bought and sold, usually on a public stock exchange. Consequently, the owner of shares can realize a profit or capital gain if the stock is sold at a price above what the owner originally paid for it. Some companies enable stockholders to share in the profits of the company. These payments of corporate profits to stockholders are called dividends. In addition to having a claim on company profits, stockholders are entitled to share in the sale of the company if it is dissolved. They may also vote in person or by proxy on a variety of corporate matters, including the most important matter of who should run the corporation. When the company issues new stock, stockholders have priority to buy a certain number of shares before they are offered for public sale. Stockholders also receive periodic reports, usually quarterly, that provide information regarding the corporation’’s business performance. Stocks generally are negotiable, which means stockholders have the right to assign or transfer their shares to another individual. A stockholder is considered a business owner and has the protection of limited liability under United States laws. Limited liability means that a stockholder is not personally liable for the debts of the corporation. The most a stockholder can lose if the company fails is the amount of his or her investment -- what he or she originally paid for the stock. This arrangement differs from that of other forms of business organization, which are known as sole proprietorships and partnerships. These business owners are personally liable for the debts of their businesses. Corporations have good reasons to issue stocks. They issue stock in order to finance their business activities. This method of raising funds is only available to business firms organized as corporations; it is not available to sole proprietorships and partnerships. The corporation can use the proceeds of a stock offering in a variety of ways. Depending on the type of company, this might involve increasing research and development operations, purchasing new equipment, opening new facilities or improving old ones, or hiring new employees. An alternative to stock financing is debt financing or the sale of bonds, an interest-bearing loan. This alternative is also available to sole proprietorships and partnerships. With the issuance of a bond a company typically promises to make periodic interest payments to the lender or bondholder as well as pay back the amount of the bond when the term of the bond comes to an end. Thus bonds are evidence of loans while stocks are evidence of ownership. Stocks and bonds are collectively known as securities. When a corporation first makes stock available for public purchase, it works with an investment banking firm to arrange an initial public offering (IPO). The investment bank acquires the first issue of stocks from the corporation at a negotiated price, and then makes the shares available for sale to its clients and other investors. A corporation can only have one IPO -- the first time it makes stock available to the public. After its IPO, a company is said to be public. Public corporations that need additional financing for further business development may choose to issue more stock at a later time. This is called a subsequent, or follow-on, offering. Some corporations may choose not to go public. In this case it is said to be a privately held corporation. A corporation may elect to remain private because it docs not want to share its profits, or it may not want to give up control to shareholders. Most of the information reported in the daily news media about the buying and selling of stock refers to transactions involving previously issued stock. The daily buying and selling of stock rarely involves IPOs. Almost all stock transactions are "second-hand transactions." The corporation that initially issued the stock is not directly involved. A corporation’’s capitalized value refers to the market value of the stock that it has issued and that remains outstanding -- that is, available for sale or purchase. A corporation’’ s capitalized value may be greater or less than its book value. Book value is the value of the corporation’’ s assets as reflected in its accounting statements -- that is, on its books. Capitalized value may also be greater or less than the corporation’’s replacement value, the amount that it would take to replace all of the corporation’’s assets. Corporations will sometimes split their stock. This means the corporation replaces outstanding shares with new shares on some multiple basis, such as a two-for-one or three for-one split. When a corporation splits its stock, it does not obtain any new funding. Splits usually occur when the market price of shares is deemed too high by corporate management. With a split the price of shares falls, making purchase by smaller investors more affordable. Keeping a stock relatively affordable for smaller investors makes it easier for a corporation to raise money with a follow-on stock offering. Why People Buy Stock Economic gain represents the primary motive for the purchase of stock. The gain or return from stock consists of two parts: dividends, the periodic payments made from profits, and appreciation, the capital gain realized from selling a stock for more than its purchase price. An investor really has only two choices in acquiring the financial assets of a corporation -- buying stocks or bonds. As a financial claim against a company, bonds take precedence over all types of stock. Thus, they are a safer investment than stocks, especially in times of deflation (a period when the prices of goods and services are generally falling). Stocks, however, are usually the better investment during periods of inflation (a period when the prices of goods and services are generally rising) because they represent ownership of assets that will probably rise in value as fast as or faster than prices in general. Bemuse the dollar value of bonds is fixed, they cannot serve as a hedge or protection against inflation as do common stocks.Buying stocks is a better investing way compared with bonds when the purchasing power of money increases. A．YB．NC．NG

Bathtub Battleships from Ivorydale American mothers have long believed that when it comes to washing out the mouths of naughty children, nothing beats Ivory Soap (a registered trademark of the Proctor Gamble Company). This is because its reputation for being safe, mild, and pure is as solid and spotless as the marble of the Lincoln Memorial. It doesn't even taste all that bad. And should you drop it into a tubful of cloudy, child-colored water, not to worry — it floats. Ivory Soap is an American institution, about as widely recognized as the Washington Monument and far more well respected than Congress. It had already attained this noble status when Theodore Roosevelt was still a rough-riding cowboy in North Dakota. Introduced in 1879 as an inexpensive white soap intended to rival the quality of imported soaps, it was mass marketed by means of one of the first nationwide advertising campaigns. People were told that Ivory was "so pure that it floats," and the notion took hold. As a result, at least half a dozen generations of Americans have gotten themselves clean with Ivory.institution: habit,custom etc. So many hands, faces, and baby bottoms have been washed with Ivory that their numbers beat the imagination. Not even Proctor Gamble knows how many billions of bars of Ivory have been sold. The company keeps a precise count, however, of the billions of dollars it earns. Annual sales of Ivory Soap, Ivory Snow, Crest toothpaste, Folger's coffee, and the hundreds of other products now marketed under the Proctor Gamble umbrella exceed thirty billion dollars.institution: habit,custom etc. The company has grown a bit since it was founded in 1837 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by a pair of immigrants named William Proctor and James Gamble, each of whom pledged 3 596.47 to the enterprise. For decades Proctor Gamble manufactured candles and soap in relatively modest quantities. It took more than twenty years for sales to top one million dollars, which they did shortly before the Civil War. The company's big break came with the introduction of its floating soap and the realization that an elaborate advertising campaign could turn a simple, though high-quality, product into a phenomenon. The soap's brand name was lifted from "out of ivory palaces", a phrase found in the Bible. So successful was this new product and the marketing effort that placed it in the hands of nearly every American that the company soon built an enormous new factory in a place called Ivorydale. Proctor Gamble never forgot the advertising lessons it learned with Ivory. For instance, it was among the first manufacturers to use radio to reach consumers nationwide. In 1933 Proctor Gamble's Oxydol soap powder sponsored a radio serial called Ma Perkins, and daytime dramas were forever after known as "soap operas." Over the years the company added dozens of new product lines such as Prell shampoo, Duncan Hines cake mixes, and the ever-present Tide, "new and improved" many a time. To this day, however, Ivory Soap remains a Proctor Gamble backbone product. Ivory remains a favorite among consumers, too, and no wonder. With a bar of Ivory Soap in your hand, you are holding a chunk of American history. If you like, you can even wash your hands and face with it and be assured that it is "ninety-nine and forty-four-one-hundredths percent pure." And it floats. The latter quality of Ivory Soap is especially attractive to children. Generations of little boys armed with toothpicks, miniature flags, or leftover parts from model ships -- there are always a few -- have converted bars of Ivory Soap into bathtub battleships. A note of warning for any small boys who may be reading this: Mothers tend to frown on the practice.

"Daddy, let's take a walk."2 It's an April day in Virginia. He nods, puts his hands on the arms of his wheelchair, whispers something that makes little sense. I try to help him up, but he is too heavy and limp.3 "Come for a walk, and then- I've brought you a surprise."4 The white curtains surge in the breeze.5 Shivering, he complains it's chilly. "It's cold, I'm tired. Can't we go home now?"6 Suddenly we're far away in a time long past1/81. Why does the daughter find it difficult to help her father stand up?A. Because he is tired.B. Because he is heavy and weak.C. Because he is reluctant to stand up.

Everyone hopes to have a healthy lifestyle.But do you-|||-know what a healthy lifestyle is like?Here are some ways to-|||-have a healthy life.-|||-Get active-|||-This is the most important way of a healthy lifestyle.-|||-Walking,running,playing basketball and other sport will-|||-help you keep healthy.-|||-Keep clean-|||-Keep the places around you clean.Unclean and untidy-|||-places can not only make you angry but also make you ill.-|||-Eat healthily-|||-Our health depends on(取决于)our food, so-|||-everyone should remember to eat healthy food. The healthier-|||-food you eat,the healthier you will be.-|||-Live green-|||-This is the easiest way to have a healthy lifestyle. Plant-|||-trees around your house. Try your best to use less water.-|||-Stop using things if they are bad for the environment.-|||-36. How many ways does the passage tell people to have a-|||-healthy lifestyle?-|||-A.Two. B.Three. C.Four. D.Five.-|||-37.How will unclean places make people feel?-|||-A.Sad. B.Angry and ill.-|||-C. Happy and healthy. D.Excited.-|||-38.What does the underlined word "environment"mean in-|||-Chinese?-|||-A.空气 B.环境 C.矿藏 D.垃圾-|||-39.From the passage,which of the following is the way to-|||-live green?-|||-A.Getting lots of exercise.-|||-B. Keeping clean and tidy.-|||-C. Planting trees.-|||-D.Eating more fruit and vegetables.-|||-40.Which of the following is true according to the passage?-|||-A.Get active is the only way to keep healthy.-|||-B.You don`t need to keep your home clean.-|||-C.You should try your best to use less water.-|||-D.Our health depends on our clothes.

A generation after Americans lost the habit of knowing who their space heroes really are, the Columbia astronauts were remembered Tuesday as awe-struck (肃然起敬的)youngsters who longed to “reach the stars”, and as fun-loving but dedicated adults who never lost their sense of adventure. President Bush and first lady Laura Bush attended a 45-minute memorial ceremony at the Johnson Space Center. What is the main topic of the passage? A Tragedy of seven Columbia astronauts. B Address of the president Bush. C Description of the memorial ceremony. D Spirit of those space heroes.