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--Professor Bush, would you please give us a lecture on how to learn English？ -- ______
A、The same to you.
B、Thank you all the same.
C、OK. What's the time？
D、Sorry, I didn't mean it.
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______ is a professor of agriculture.
A．George W. Bush
B．Tom Slunecka
C．James Woolsey
D．David Bransby
A．She is the assistant of Professor Johnson.
B．She knew a lot about the school.
C．She worked as Professor Johnson's assistant before.
D．She has been a teacher.
What does the man mean？
A．Teachers like Professor Jonson are rare.
B．Professor Jonson has won a million dollars.
C．Professor Jonson is likely to be teaching at that school.
D．There are many teachers as good as Professor Jonson.
What is the professor's opinion of the concertos called The Four Seasons？
A．They are the world's most beautiful pieces of music.
B．They are popular because they are easy to play.
C．They are perfect examples of Baroque music.
D．They are more complex than Monteverdi's operas.
It′s that time of the yea—graduation. The end of school year is nearly in sight,and it′s an especially big deal if you′re finishing high school or college.
One amazing(令人惊叹的) 16-year-old Florida girl, Grace Bush, graduated from both high school and college this week! She actually got her college diploma(毕业证书) before her high school diploma. How′d she do that？ "
Hard work and dedication(专心致志)," she told a local TV news station," have made me succeed in doing high school and college at the same time. " She started taking college courses when she was just 13. She would often get up at 5:30 a.m. and not finish until after 11 p. m.
Doing both at once is a huge achievement, but it has also helped her family save money. She′s one of the 9 children, all home-schooled until the age of 13. Her father is a math professor while her mother is a part-time history teacher in a high school. Grace Bush has earned her college degree in law, with a near perfect GPA of 3.8 and she hopes to become a lawyer one day, although her parents expect her to teach at university. By the way, she also plays basketball in her college team in her spare time.
Why does the author say that Grace is amazing？
A.She finished high school earlier than others.
B.She never went to bed before 11 p. m.
C.She graduated from both high school and college at 16.
D.She got two diplomas from the same school.
What did the parents do to help Grace with her education？A.They shared with her college history lessons.
B.They taught her until she was 13
C.They made her interested in math
E.They hired a part-time teacher.
What do Grace′s parents want her to be in future？A.A news reporter.
B.A basketball player.
C.A university teacher.
D.A lawyer.
Which of the following is the key to Grace′s success？A.Taking college courses at 13
B.Doing high school and college at the same time
D.Being born in a professor's family.
E.Being devoted to her studies.
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
When George W. Bush delivered his State of the Union Address this past January, three words appeared that had not previously been heard from the Oval Office: Switchgrass, stalks and woodchips.
Bush's signals on renewable energy have been decidedly mixed. Shortly before he visited the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado last February, a $5 million funding shortfall forced the lab to lay off 32 workers. Bush blamed the layoffs, and NREL got its funding back.
Switchgrass is a fast-growing perennial plant native to the central and eastern U.S. and tolerant of many different soil types. To make cellulosic ethanol, switchgrass -- or any cellulose-based plant -- is broken down to make sugar, then fermented to make the fuel. Supporters say that when blended with petroleum products, ethanol from switchgrass results in a net energy gain of 334 percent, compared to just 21 percent for corn- based ethanol.
The cellulosic process has been invented and is being refined, but it hasn't been commercialized, and that' s what is preventing it from going into our tanks today, says former CIA Director James Woolsey, among switchgrass' s biggest supporters.
Corn-based ethanol has made great strides. According to Tom Slunecka, executive director of the Ethanol Promotion and Information Council, the U.S. currently produces four billion gallons a year, or approximately three to four percent of the fuel supply. "It' s growing rapidly," he says. "By 2012 we' re projecting 7.5 billion gallons, but I think we' 11 far surpass that." Automakers get federal tax credits for producing "bi-fuel" cars and trucks that can nm on ethanol, but until recently the lack of an ethanol refueling infrastructure (永久性设施) obstructed the actual use of the fuel. But now General Motors and other carmakers are promoting ethaonol vehicles with a new vigor. Even without bi-fuel technology, all cars today can burn a 10 percent ethanol blend
Slunecka says biobased ethanol production is still in its infancy: He cites a Canadian plant currenty producing 100,000 gallons per year. "It works, it' s not science down the road," he says. "Private companies m trying to crack the cost barrier. But the feedstock potential is enormous. I can' t wait until these cellulosic plants are bolted onto the front side of traditional ethanol plants."
David Bransby, a professor in Auburn University' s Agronomy Department, says we need to take action because we' re in an international competition. "Europe is ahead of everybody in the use of biodiesel, and Brazil! is leading the world in the production and use of ethanol. We are behind. I hope that the President' s address indicates that there is going to be a change, but he' s fighting a war in Iraq and trying to recover from two, hurricanes. To be quite honest, these alternative fuels are just as important as those other things. It's all part o national security and needs to be treated with the same priority."
From the passage we know switchgrass is ______.
A．a biochemical product
B．a kind of animal
C．a kind of grass growing very fast
D．a kind of grass growing in a specific soil
Productivity improvements like those at IBM can be a boon in a healthy economy, helping to make American business more competitive abroad and keeping a lid on inflation as employees work harder to meet strong demand for their products. But today's soaring productivity is having a harmful side effect: it's holding back job growth. Last Thursday the Commerce Department reported that GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.4 percent. But unemployment was hovering at an uncomfortably high 6.2 percent in July, and 44,000 additional jobs were axed from payrolls, marking the sixth month in a row the economy has lost jobs.
One fault is that seemingly profligate spending on high tech during the '90s boom. More than three years after the bust, it's continuing to generate a productivity payoff inside companies. Even industries like entertainment and higher education, once thought to be largely immune to productivity improvements, have been revolutionized by digital media, online research tools, cell phones and e-mail.
But that's not the only reason for the problem. Over the last three years, American manufacturers have shipped 2.6 million jobs to low-Wage countries like China. Meanwhile, a flood of white-collar jobs—like computer technicians and customer service reps—have gone to countries with well-educated work forces, such as India.
There is of course a simple solution to all this-a hotter economy, with stronger demand that would force companies to hire workers. But the seven-point decline in July of the Consumer Confidence Index doesn't offer much near-term hope. Some economists also worry that Bush's deep tax cuts are "a very expensive way of getting an amount of stimulus that is too small," says Janet Yellen, a professor at the Haas School of Business who also chaired Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. The Bush administration responds by asking Americans to wait until the full effect of the cuts are felt and the economy kicks into a high gear growth rate of 3 percent to 4 percent. For the millions of Americans who are out of work, that day can't come soon enough.
By citing the detailed numbers related to the plant, the author intends to show that
A．the productivity increases here are amazing.
B．the plant is highly effective and sophisticated.
C．IBM is successful in producing computer-chips.
D．East Fishkill is famous for the production of computer-chips.
Like millions of others, economists from circles of academia and public policy spend hours each day writing for nothing. The concept seems at odds with the notion of economists as intellectual instruments trained in the maximisation of utility or profit. Yet the demand is there: some of their blogs get thousands of visitors daily, often from people at influential institutions like the IMF and the Federal Reserve. One of the most active "econobloggers" is Brad DeLong, of the University of California, Berkeley, whose site, delong, typepad, com,, features a morning-coffee videocast and an afiernoon-tea audiocast in which he holds forth on a spread of topics from the Treasury to Trotsky.
So why do it？ "It's a place in the intellectual influence game," Mr. DeLong replies (by e-mail, naturally). For prominent economists, that place can come with a price. Time spent on the Internet could otherwise be spent on traditional publishing or collecting consulting fees. Mr. DeLong caps his blogging at 90 minutes a day. His only blog revenue comes from selling advertising links to help cover the cost of his servers, which handle more than 20,000 visitors daily.
Gary Becket, a Nobel-prize winning economist, and Richard Posner, a federal circuit judge and law professor, began a joint blog in 2004. The pair, colleagues at the University of Chicago, believed that their site, becker-posner-blog, com, would permit "instantaneous pooling (and hence correction, refinement, and amplification) of the ideas and opinions, facts and images, reportage and scholarship, generated by bloggers." The practice began as an educational tool for Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard and a former chairman of George Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. His site, gregmankiw, blogspot, com, started as a group e-mail sent to students, with commentary on articles and new ideas. But the market for his musings grew beyond the classroom, and a blog was the solution. "It's a natural extension of my day job—to engage in intellectual discourse about economics," Mr. Mankiw says.
With professors spending so much time blogging for no payment, universities might wonder whether this detracts from their value. Although there is no evidence of a direct link between blogging and publishing productivity, a new study by E. Hah Kim and Adair Morse, of the University of Michigan, and Luigi Zingales, of the University of Chicago, shows that the Internet's ability to spread knowledge beyond university classrooms has diminished the competitive edge that elite schools once held.
Top universities once benefited from having clusters of star professors. The study showed that during the 1970s, an economics professor from a random university, outside the top 25 programmes, would double his research productivity by moving to Harvard. The strong relationship between individual output and that of one's colleagues weakened in the 1980s, and vanished by the end of the 1990s.
The faster flow of information and the waning importance of location—which blogs exemplify—have made it easier for economists from any university to have access to the best brains in their field. That anyone with an internet connection can sit in on a virtual lecture from Mr. DeLong means that his ideas move freely beyond the boundaries of Berkeley, creating a welfare gain for professors and the public.
Universities can also benefit in this part of the equation.
听力原文：[Professor]
Let's continue our discussion of early American history, moving on from the War of Independence. The war we're going to talk about today had nowhere near the impact of that war, but it did produce one of the most celebrated expressions of patriotic fervor in our entire history: our national anthem.
With the possible exception of George W. Bush's Iraq war of 2003, the war of 1812 was the most strongly opposed war in America's history. In fact, Francis Scott Key, who ended up composing "The Star Spangled Banner" was among those who originally advocated negotiations rather than war. On the other hand, many people were fed up with Britain's outrageous interference with American trans-Atlantic trade. You remember, um, that Britain and France were battling for global domination？ Well, the British wanted to prevent American goods from reaching France. Eventually the hawks won out and war declared.
As soon as hostilities began, it was clear that America was the underdog. David Hickey says, [Pause] "The American army was understaffed, poorly equipped and led by incompetent officers." The British？ Well, they have had the most powerful navy on Earth. On the evening of August 24, 1814, British troops landed in Washington. They torched the Capitol, the Treasury, and the President's house. At that moment, even the most, uh, hawkish members of government may have been regretting their decision.
After their success in Washington, the British confidently turned on Baltimore. At the time of that attack, Francis Scott Key was on board a British ship. He had been detained there after negotiating the release of an American doctor, William Beanes. Although Key had uh... persuaded the British commander to release the doctor, they could not return to land right away. They had to remain on the British ship for the duration of the battle.
The bombardment of the fort in Baltimore was devastating. Key wrote in a letter:...um..."It seemed as though mother earth had opened and was vomiting shot and shell in a sheet of fire and brimstone." Sounds horrific, doesn't it？ He couldn't see much of what was going on although he watched all night from the British ship where he was being held. He saw the..."red glare" of Britain's gunpowder-propelled rockets. He was alarmed by the sounds of British "bombs bursting in air". It seemed impossible that American resistance could withstand such a pounding. Now, can you imagine the relief he must have felt when he saw the Stars and Stripes, not Britain's Union Jack, fluttering over the fort in the morning？ That sense of relief inspired our national anthem. Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" right then and there, on the back of a letter he pulled from his pocket!
Britain conceded. Key and his companions, including Dr. Beanes were released. The next day, Key's poem was printed for public distribution and set to the music of an English drinking song. By the end of the week, "The Star-Spangled Banner" was in newspapers across the nation.
So, what did America actually get out of this war？ Well, not much, urn, if you look at it only in terms of territorial gain. However, there were beneficial consequences. Internationally, America gained prestige as a foe to be reckoned with. At home, the defense of Baltimore gave an enormous boost to rational self-esteem. You might say that people felt more uh..."American" and were able to set aside some of the political rivalries that had divided the young nation since its founding. Unfortunately, this unified spirit didn't test long. As you'll see... next week we'll discuss the build up to the Civil War.
Narrator Now get ready to answer some questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.
23. What is the talk mainly about？
24. How does the professor support his statement that "America was the underdog" in the war？
25. Why was Key on b
A．The War of Independence.
B．The War of 1812.
C．The Iraq War of 2003.
D．The Civil War.
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