Which of the following is true regarding Audrey Hepburn's life during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands?A. Her family was bankrupted.B. Her mom managed to get her enough food.C. She lived in a basement full of rats.D. She failed to escape from the guards.

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.

It's important for the child to understand the difference _______ these two alternatives.

Healthy Habits, Healthy Body 　　Feel tired lately? Has a doctor said he can't find anything wrong with you? Perhaps he sent you to a hospital, but all the advanced equipment there shows that there is nothing wrong with you. 　　Then, consider this: you might be in a state of sub-health(亚健康). Sub-health, also called the third state or gray state, is explained as a borderline state between health and disease. 　　According to the investigation by the National Health Organization, over 45 percent of sub-healthy people are middle-aged or elderly. The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam-week. 　　Symptoms(征兆)include a lack of energy, depression(压抑), slow reactions, insomnia (失眠), agitation(激动不安、焦虑), and poor memory. Other symptoms include shortness of breath, sweating and aching in the waist and legs. 　　The key to preventing and recovering from sub-health, according to some medical experts, is to form good living habits, alternate work and rest, exercise regularly, and take part in open air activities. 　　As for meals, people are advised to eat less salt and sugar. They should also eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish because they are rich in nutritional elements vitamins and trace elements(微量元素)—that are important to the body. 　　　Nutrition(营养)experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract(消化道). They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding sub-health. 　　Choose the best answer according to the passage: 1．According to this passage, which of the following is right? A．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should stay home and keep silent. B．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should go to see a doctor and buy some medicine. C．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should have yourself examined in foreign countries. D．When you are in a state of sub-health, you should find out the reasons and relax yourself. 2．Middle-aged people may be easy to get sub-health because ________. A．they have used up their energy B．they have lost their living hopes C．they have more pressure in life and work D．they begin to get older 3．The key to preventing you from falling into a state of sub-health is that you should ________. A．work hard B．sleep more C．form good living habits D．take more medicine 4．The bold-faced word "alternate" in Paragraph 6 is closest in meaning to ________. A．arrange by turns B．cause to take place C．keep up D．take up

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.

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?

1 Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct preposition or adverb in parentheses. 1 We often take language ( for / as ) granted but there are still many mysteries about it to solve . 2 As no country can develop by staying isolated ( from / up ) the world, foreign language education is an essential part of national development .3 English words borrowed from Chinese can shed light ( on / in ) the history of communication between China and English - speaking countries. 4 Chinese characters can be a window ( through / with ) which you can get a glimpse of Chinese culture. 5 Learning another language means that you can see the world ( at / from ) a new perspective.

单选题根据下面资料，回答题 The Secret to Raising Smart Kids A) I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation--and how people persevere after setbacks--as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s. Animal experiments by psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania had shown that after repeated failures, most animals conclude that a situation is hopeless and beyond their control. After such an experience an animal often remains passive even when it can effect change--a state they called learned helplessness. B) People can learn to be helpless, too. Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty,whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed. C) In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame. When I told a group of school children who displayed helpless behavior that a lack of effort led to their mistakes in math, they learned to keep trying when the problems got tough. Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems. These experiments indicated that a focus on effort can help resolve helplessness and generate success. D) Later, I developed a broader theory of what separates the two general classes of learners--helpless versus mastery-oriented. I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different "theories" of intelligence.The helpless ones believe intelligence is a fixed characteristic: you have only a certain amount, and that's that. I call this a"fixed mind-set (思维模式). " Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change. They avoid challenges because challenges make mistakes more likely. The mastery-oriented children, on the other hand, think intelligence is not fixed and can be developed through education and hard work. Such children believe challenges are energizing rather than intimidating (令人生畏); they offer opportunities to learn. Students with such a growth mind-set were destined (注定) for greater academic success and were quite likely to outperform their counterparts. E) We validated these expectations in a study in which two other psychologists and I monitored 373students for two years during the transition to junior high school, when the work gets more difficult and the grading more strict, to determine how their mind-sets might affect their math grades. At the beginning of seventh grade, we assessed the students' mind-sets by asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as "Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't really change. " We then assessed their beliefs about other aspects of learning and looked to see what happened to their grades. F) As predicted, the students with a growth mind-set felt that learning was a more important goal than getting good grades. In addition, they held hard work in high regard. They understood that even geniuses have to work hard. Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy. The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mind-set said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests. G) Such different outlooks had a dramatic impact on performance. At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set. But as the work became more difficult, the students with a growth mind-set showed greater persistence. As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester--and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them. H) A fixed mind-set can also hinder communication and progress in the workplace and discourage or ignore constructive criticism and advice. Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set. I) How do we transmit a growth mind-set to our children? One way is by telling stories about achievements that result from hard work. For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set. J) In addition, parents and teachers can help children by providing explicit instruction regarding the mind as a learning machine. I designed an eight-session workshop for 91 students whose math grades were declining in their first year of junior high.Forty-eight of the students received instruction in study skills only, whereas the others attended a combination of study skills sessions and classes in which they learned about the growth mind-set and how to apply it to schoolwork. In the growth mind-set classes, students read and discussed an article entitled "You Can Grow Your Brain. " They were taught that the brain is like a muscle that gets stronger with use and that learning prompts the brain to grow new connections. From such instruction, many students began to see themselves as agents of their own brain development. Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mind-set workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group. K) Research is converging (汇聚) on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift. The author's experiment shows that students with a fixed mind-set believe having to work hard is an indication of low ability.

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