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A．She was born in a city.
B．She doesn't think the noise and traffic in the city matter much.
C．She drives to work every day.
D．She enjoys a natural way of life.
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Maria Callas was one of the best-known opera singers in the world, who became famous internationally for her beautiful voice and intense【71】______ during the 1950s, and the recordings of her singing the well-known operas remain very popular today.
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In 1941, when she was 17, Maria Callas was paid to sing in a major opera for the first time. She sang the【73】______ role in several operas in Athens during the next three years. In 1943, Callas was invited to perform. in Italy, which was the real beginning of her profession as an opera singer. She performed major parts in several of the most【74】______operas. In 1949, she married an Italian【75】______, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, who was twenty years older and became her adviser and manager.
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B．Soccer-related business has become the focus of Nike.
C．Nike is bigger than Adidas in soccer-related business.
D．Competition between Nike and Adidas is getting more and more intense.
Gail Pasterczyk, the principal of Indian Pines Elementary in Palm Beach County, Fla. , has added two or three new teaching positions each of the past three years. She's adding two more teachers next year as well as replacing those she'll lose to maternity leave, transfers, and retirement. She doesn't know where the new teachers will come from, if the new hires will be any good, and where she'll find room for all of them. Indian Pines already has 27 portable classrooms and is waiting to break ground on a two-story, 25-classroom addition. "When you start reducing class size, you've got to find more teachers, and you run out of space," she says. "That's the reality. " Her school district, one of the nation's largest, has sent recruiters across the country, and even to Mexico and the Philippines, to fill an expected 1,700 teaching vacancies before the fall. "We are in a race to keep the schools staffed," says Robert Pinkos, a Palm Beach County recruiter who will travel to Baltimore and Madrid next month to troll for teachers.
Two and a half years after Florida voters adopted a constitutional amendment to reduce class sizes, Palm Beach County—and every other school district in the state—are tripping over a major stumbling block: There just aren't enough good teachers to go around. With classes in kindergarten through third grade capped at 18 students, fourth through eighth held at 22, and high school limited to 25, the state will need to hire an estimated 29,604 new teachers by 2009—a prospect that has many people worried. "I have every reason to expect that the quality of teachers will suffer," says John Winn, the state's education commissioner.
Nationwide, 33 states now have laws that restrict class size. And the politically popular educational reform. has proved successful in some areas, particularly among the lowest-performing students. In Burke County, N. C. , for example, discipline problems are down and test scores are up, even for the most disadvantaged students in the district. "On paper these kids should not be succeeding, but they are," says Susan Wilson, a former teacher and now director of elementary education in the rural county.
But this success comes at a price. It means hiring more teachers, building more classrooms, and retraining teachers to work with smaller groups of students. And it means, critics maintain, that states pit their own districts against one another in the race to hire. "When you mandate class-size reduction statewide, the suburban schools tend to draw the best new teachers, and the more urban schools, which already have trouble attracting teachers, can't attract the best candidates," says Steven Rivkin, an economics professor at Amherst College who has studied the effects of class-size reduction on teacher quality. Any gains from cutting class size could be undermined by hiring lower quality teachers.
Resources. Proponents contend that the reform. would be relatively pain-less if existing resources were managed well. "Hiring more teachers is only part of the solution," says Charles Achilles, one of the first researchers to study the effects of reducing class sizes. "The best programs for class-size reduction not only hire more teachers but reassign existing specialty teachers to get them back in the classroom. "
Florida policymakers are trying to find their own way out of the class-size quandary. This month, the Legislature is considering a proposal to roll back some of the size limits in exchange for an increase in teacher pay. Gov. Jeb Bush, who opposed the constitutional amendment in 2002, argues that the compromise will attract more top-quality teachers to the state while reining in costs. Voters could see the proposed change on the ballot as early as September. In the meantime, recruiter Pinkos continues his search for new teachers, sometimes working 10-hour days. His pitch？ "Palm Beach is very beautiful, but the
A．the education authorities will trip to Mexico and the Philippines for new teachers
B．there will be problems of placing redundant teachers
C．quality of teachers will probably go down
D．students are likely get more sophisticated education in smaller class
A．George W. Bush.
B．U.S. Supreme Court.
C．Hillary Clinton.
D．Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.
听力原文：W: Well, it seems quite common actually. A lot of people in Australia now are travelling and taking time off. And when I was actually travelling, I met so many people doing the same thing.
M: Yeah, yeah, so where did you start off？
W: Well, I went to New Zealand first. Eh, and got a job in a computer company as a secretary. And I worked there for 4 months.
M: Really？ You can do that, can you？ I mean it's possible for anyone to get a job in New Zealand, without being a New Zealander？
W: No, not everybody, only Australians and New Zealanders can exchange either. You know you can work in either country.
M: Right, yeah.
W: That was easy. I worked there for 4 months and raised enough money for the rest of travels really. So from there I went to Indonesia, and travelled around the different islands around Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, China, Nepal and India.
M: What about Indonesia？ What did you do？ Did you fly mostly between the Islands？
W: Eh, I did a bit of that, and boats, mainly local boats between the Islands.
M: What about Singapore？ People said it's very very modern. But because it is so modern, it's rather boring. Did you find that？
W: Well, it's difficult to say really. It has different attractions. You know the Chinese, Malay, and Hindu communities are there. Each has his own culture and custom, very different from the others. And it's a great big shopping center and I really enjoy it from that point of view. And it was very clean.
M: And after, you said you went to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and then China？ That's a great country to travel in, isn't it？
W: Eh, it was. Yeah, it was fabulous. It really was. You have been there then？
M: No, I haven't. No, I mean it's very big. What did you do？
W: Yeah. Well, I had only one month to travel in China, and that was too short for such a vast country as China. I felt I didn't have enough time, so I sacrificed a lot of places and did the main tourist throughout really. I went to Beijing, the capital, Kaifeng, Yinchuan, and Tibet.
M: Well, how exciting! You said after Beijing, you went to？
W: That was Kaifeng in the central China's Henan province. It's a charming city, and has got a lot to look around, like temples and pagodas, very traditional.
M: Eh, eh.
W: What fascinated me when I was there was that some Jews went to live in Kaifeng many years ago. As early as 16th century, there were Jewish families there. They have their synagogue and five books of Moses. Even today several hundred descendants of the original Jews still live in Kaifeng.
M: Really, I've never heard of that. And where did you go after Kaifeng？
W: I went to northwest to Yinchuan, the provincial city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
M: Is this the place where there always is a shortage of water？
W: No, no, on the contrary, it has got abundant supply of water, because it is near the Yellow River. In this sense, Yinchuan has a favorable geographical position in otherwise harsh surroundings.
M: What did you see there then？
W: Ningxia was once the capital of Western Xia during the 11th century. So outside Yinchuan, you can still see the Western Xia mausoleum, where the Kings and their Kingdoms were buried. The tombs were scattered in a pretty big area at the foot of the Henan Mountain, and inside the city there are famous mosques in the architectural style. of Middle East. It's really a place worth visiting. You got to know something about Chinese Moslems.
M: And that sounds real
A．Because many Australians are taking time off to travel.
B．Because the woman worked for some time in New Zealand.
C．Because the woman raised enough money for travel.
D．Because Australians prefer to work in New Zealand.
B．Negative growth of exports has come up.
C．Government stimulus spending.
D．The boost of stock market.
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