People have relatively high expectations for students.

ognition onstage, but offstage--in the ranks of playwrights, directors, designers, administrators--they have mostly been relegated to relative obscurity.

A．trouble

B．satisfaction

C．curiosity about

D．fear of

We can assume from this passage that ______.

A．Sophia thought that deaf people were better off living with a relative who could take care of them and support them

B．Sophia believed that deaf people should have equal rights of education and employment

C．Sophia wished that she could have visited deaf schools in Europe

D．Sophia always wanted a dormitory to be named after her

A、Things are mostly relative to their own standards

B、There is always a golden rule in life

C、All creatures have a universal standard

D、People should find their own comfortable way of life

An answering machine (电话答应机) calls with a tape recording (磁带录音) and many answering machines allow (允许) the caller to record (记录) a message on the tape. in this way. people will never miss (错过) a call from a friend or relative (亲戚). and their social life becomes far more organized (有条理的). They can go to work. go out for a meal. even relax in file bath and know that the answering machines will record all incoming calls for them to play back later. What's inarch. the answering machines are very simple to operate (操作).

People never miss a call from a friend and relative if they have an answering machine.

A．True.

B．False.

time. If there is a letter, you read it eagerly, pleased that your friend or relative has thought of you. Other people respond as warmly as you do to a friendly letter. They are happy to be remembered. But if the letter you write makes them feel as if you yourself were with them, speaking in your own friendly way, they are especially pleased. You have given something of yourself. And to be yourself in a letter to a friend is an art you need to master.

Why are you pleased when you hear from your friend or relative？

A．Because you needn't write him a letter.

B．Because you can collect stamps.

C．Because you are remembered.

1. The relative social position of someone in a group or in society is referred to as a ___________ . A) role B) status C) neither of the above 2. Which of the following statements is true？ A) Social group membership usually gives us a set of statuses and role tags that make it more difficult for people to know what to expect from each other. B) It is common for people to have multiple overlapping statuses and roles. C) neither of the above 3. In the Indian caste system, which of the following is the highest ranking one？ A) Scheduled castes B) Vaishya C) Brahman 4. Which of the following statements is true？ A) Laws making it a crime to hire relatives would most likely be enacted in societies that emphasize ascribed statuses over achieved ones. B) Some societies emphasize either ascribed or achieved statuses and demphasize the other. C) Membership in an Indian caste is an achieved status. 5. Which of the following statements is true concerning the caste system inIndiatoday？ A) Underlying and constantly reinforcing this system of rigid social classes is the Hindu religion and its concept of ritual pollution. B) Indian restaurants usually have chefs who are from the lowest castes because cooking is a polluting occupation. C) The Indian national government has made no attempt to encourage achieved status by outlawing any part of the the caste system. 6. Which of the following statements is true of castes？ A) They exist only inIndia. B) They exist inIndiaand Europe but not in North America. C) They exist in many countries of the world.

people who have researched the subject—and studied the brain—say that riley are. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an-engineer, mathematician or scientist and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical instrument. The children themselves usually took readily to math and other analytical subjects and to music.

Black, white and Asian children in this group show the same patterns. However, it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics, science and engineering.

If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related, how can there be this great discrepancy？ One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling, while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training, as has happened with a number of well-known black musicians.

It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skill without formal training that blacks have excelled popular music rather than classical music, piano rather than violin, blues rather than opera. This is readily understandable, given that most blacks, for most of American history, have not had either the money or the leisure for long years of formal study in music.

Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular music. They have played a disproportionately large role in the development of jazz, both traditional and modern. A long string of names comes to mind—Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker... and so on.

None of this presupposes any special innate (先天的) ability of blacks in music. On the contrary, it is perfectly consisted with blacks having no more such inborn ability than anyone else, but being limited to being able to express such ability in narrower channels than others who have had the money, the time and the formal education to spread out over a wider ranger of music, as well as into mathematics, science and engineering.

What is the main idea of the first paragraph？

A．Mathematical ability and musical ability are connected.

B．Mathematical ability has more to do with the brain than musical ability.

C．More people are good at music than math.

D．More research should be done into the relationship between mathematical ability and musical ability.

e attacks like the apparent suicide bombings of London's transport system last week.

Home Secretary Charles Clarke has told British radio that the public must assume more potential terrorist bombers are living in their midst.

"I certainly think we have to organize ourselves on the basis that there are other people prepared to act in this way and we have to protect ourselves in the best way that we can against that," he said. "And we have to assume there are others who are ready to do the kind of things these people did last Thursday."

He spoke as police search for the masterminds behind the bombings that killed more than 50 people and wounded 700 others on three subway trains and a bus in central London.

Authorities say they have identified three of the four bombers. London media say they are British-born men of Pakistani decent, ranging in age from 19 to 30. Police believe a fourth bomber also was killed.

The focus of the police investigation has shifted toward finding out who may have recruited, financed and organized the bombers, and who provide them with the military-style. explosives they used.

A relative of one of the suspects is in police custody after being arrested during a series of raids in and around the northern city of Leeds, where three of the suspects lived.

Home Secretary Clarke says he was surprised and shocked to learn that British-born Muslims were involved in the attacks, and he is appealing for Muslim leaders to display courage and leadership to root out fundamentalists in their community.

The bombings took place on ______ in central London.

A．three trains and a bus

B．three buses and a train

C．three trains and two buses

D．three trains and three buses

听力原文： When people care for an elderly relative, they often do not use available community services such as adult daycare centers. If the caregivers are adult children, they are more likely to use such services, especially because they often have jobs and other responsibilities. In contrast, a spouse usually the wife, is much less likely to use support services or to put the dependent person in a nursing home. Social workers discover that the wife normally tries to take care of her husband herself for as long as she can in order not to use up their life savings. Researchers have found that caring for the elderly can be a very positive experience. The elderly appreciated the care and attention they received. They were affectionate and cooperative. However, even when care-giving is satisfying, it is hard work. Social workers and experts on aging offer caregivers and potential caregivers help when arranging for the care of an elderly relative. One consideration is to ask parents what they want before they become sick or dependent. Perhaps they prefer going into a nursing home and can select one in advance. On the other hand, they may want to live with their adult children. Caregivers must also learn to state their needs and opinions clearly and ask for help from others especially brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters are often willing to help, but they may not know what to do.

Questions:

29. Why are adult children more likely to use community services to help care for elderly parents？

30. Why are most wives unwilling to put their dependent husbands into nursing homes？

31. According to the passage，what must caregivers learn to do？

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A．They think they should follow the current trend.

B．Nursing homes are well-equipped and convenient.

C．Adult day-care centers are easily accessible.

D．They have jobs and other commitments.

ursing homes. They are left in the【C1】______of strangers for the rest of their lives. Their【C2】______children visit them only occasionally, but more often, they do not have any【C3】______visitors. The truth is that this idea is an unfortunate myth--an【C4】______story. In fact, family members provide over 80 percent of the care【C5】______elderly people need. Samuel Preston, a sociologist, studied【C6】______the American family is changing. He reported that by the time the【C7】______American couple reaches 40 years of age, they have more parents than children.【C8】______, because people today live longer after an illness than people did years【C9】______, family members must provide long term care. More psychologists have found that all caregivers【C10】______a common characteristic: All caregivers believe that they are the best【C11】______for the job. In other words, they all felt that they【C12】______do the job better than anyone else. Social workers【C13】______caregivers to find out why they took【C14】______the responsibility of caring for an elderly relative. Many caregivers believed they had【C15】______to help their relative, some stated that helping others【C16】______them feel more useful. Others hoped that by helping【C17】______now, they would deserve care when they became old and【C18】______. Caring for the elderly and being taken care of can be a【C19】______satisfying cxperience for everyone who might be【C20】______.

【C1】

A．hands

B．arms

C．bodies

D．homes