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Individuals(个人) should pay for their higher education.
A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates eam more than
non-graduates.Meanwhile,social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However,only
some people have it. So the imli-
vidual,not the taxpayers,should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources(资源) of the
government. Using taxpayers" money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future
is not one of them.
Full govemment funding(资助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish
university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford,
where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the govemment. Guaranteed salaries,Smith argued,were the enemy of hard work;and when the academics were lazy and incompetent,the
students were similarly lazy.
If students have to pay for their education,they not only work harder,but also demand more from their
teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teachjng seriously,and giving less time to their own research interests,that is surely something to celebrate.
Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济) . Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth,but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because
graduates are economically productive,you should also believe that the government should pay part of
business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the govemment to
invest. Therefore,it is the individual,not the govemment,who should pay for their university education.
B. pressing calls
C. college graduates
D. govemment resources
B. students are more demanding
C. students will become more competent
D. teachers will spend less time on teaching
B. call on them to finance students" studies
C. encourage graduates to go into business
D. show their contribution to higher education
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In July 2010 Burt"s Bees, a personal-care products company, was going through enormous
change as it began a global expansion into 19 new countries. In this kind of high-pressure situation,
many leaders bother their assistants with frequent meetings or flood their in-boxes with urgent
demands. In doing so, managers lift everyone"s anxiety level, which activates the part of the brain
that processes threats and steals resources from the prefrontal cortex ( 大脑皮层), which is
responsible for effective problem solving.
Burt"s Bees"s then-CEO, John Wolfgang, took a different approach. Each day, he"d send out an
e-mail praising a team member for work related to global marketing. He"d interrupt his own
presentations to remind his managers to talk with their teams about the company"s values. He asked
me to further a three-hour session with employees on happiness in the course of the expansion effort.
As one member of the senior team told me a year later, Wolfgang"s emphasis on developing positive
leadership kept his managers actively involved and loyal as they successfully transformed the
company into a global one.
That outcome shouldn"t surprise us. Research shows that when people work with a positive
mind-set (思维模式), performance on nearly every level-productivity, creativity, involvement-
improves. Yet happiness is perhaps the most misunderstood driver of performance. For one, most
people believe that success comes before happiness. "Once I get a promotion, I"ll be happy," they
think. Or, "Once I hit my sales target, I"ll feel great. "But because success is a moving target-as
soon as you hit your target, you raise it again-the happiness that results from success does not last
long.
In fact, it works the other way around: People who have a positive mind-set perform better in
the face of challenge. I call this the " happiness advantage"-every business outcome shows
improvement when the brain is positive. I"ve observed this effect in my role as a researcher and
lecturer in 48 countries on the connection between employee happiness and success. And I"m not
alone: In an analysis of 225 academic studies, researchers found strong evidence of cause-and-effect
relationship between life satisfaction and successful business outcomes.
Another common misunderstanding is that our genetics, our environment, or a combination of
the two determines how happy we are. To be sure, both factors have an impact. But one"s general
sense of well-being is surprisingly unstable. The habits you form, the way you interact with
colleagues, how you think about stress-all these can be managed to increase your happiness and
your chances of success.
world.It gets more than nine feet of rain each year.
The Amazon is in South America. Almost two-thirds of the rainforest is in Brazil but it also stretches
across parts of Guyana,Venezuela,Colombia,Suriname,French Guiana,Peru,Ecuador and Bolivia.
The first Europeans to discover the Amazon were Spanish,who found it while searching for gold and
silver tobring back to their king. The first people they met in the rainforest were female warriors,so
Francisco de Orellanamed the river after a Greek myth about women warriors called "Amazons".
Even if the Amazon makes up only two percent of the earth"s surface area,it is where more than half of
theworld"s plant and animal species are. The Amazon has 60,000 types of plants,1,000 species of birds
and 300 typesof other animals. Jaguars,piranhas and pink freshwater dolphins are just a few of the animals that live in the Amazon rainforest.
Because the Amazon is so large and____,it helps the world breathe a little easier by changing
carbondioxide into oxygen. The Amazon is also home to thousands of undiscovered plants and animals
that might be used
to cure diseases,like AIDS,one day. But uncontrolled development and forest fires are hurting the
Amazon.
______________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Brazil has the largest part of rainforest in the world.
__________________________________________________________________________
3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within
5words.)
_______________________________________________________________________________
4. Why do you think we should protect the Amazon? (Please answer within 30 words.)
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the fourth paragraph into Chinese.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Lucy skeleton (骨骼) unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 - will go on an exhibition tour abroad for the first time
in the United States, officials said Tuesday.
Even the Ethiopian public has only seen Lucy twice. The Lucy on exhibition at the Ethiopian National
Museum in the capital, Addis Ababa, is a replica while the real remains are usually locked in a secret
storeroom. A team from the Museum of National Science in Houston, Texas, spent four years discussing with the Ethiopians for the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September.
"Ethiopia"s rich culture of both the past and today, is one of the best kept secrets in the world," said
Joel Bartsch, director of the Houston museum.
The six-year tour will also go to Washington, New York, Denver and Chicago. Officials said six
other U.S. cities may be on the tour. But they said plans had not been worked out.
Travelling with Lucy will be 190 other fossils.
Lucy, her name taken from a Beatles song that played in a camp the night of her discovery, is part of
the skeleton of what was once a 3-foot-tall ape-man (猿人).
B. describe some research work
C. discuss the value of an ape-man
D. report a coming event
B. A photograph of Lucy
C. A copy of the skeleton.
D. A written record of Lucy.
B. Five.
C. Six.
D. Eleven.
B. A song.
C. A singer.
D. A camp.
Mothers, doctors and nurse alike have no idea of where a baby"s blood sugar level lies. All we know is
that a low level is harmful to brain development and makes a baby easily annoyed. In this state, the baby is difficult to calm down and sleep is impossible. The baby asks for attention by crying and searching for food with its mouth.
It is not just unkind but also dangerous to say a four-hourly feeding schedule will make a baby satisfied. The first of
the experts to advocate a strict clock-watching schedule was Dr Frederic Truby King, who was against
feeding in the
night. I"ve never heard anything so ridiculous. Baby feeding shouldn"t follow a timetable set by the mum.
What is important is feeding a baby in the best way, though it may cause some inconvenience in the first
few weeks.
Well, at last we have copper-bottomed research that supports demand feeding and points out the weaknesses of strictly timed feeding. The research finds out that babies who are fed on demand do better at
school at age 5, 7, 11 and 14, than babies fed according to the clock. By the age of 8, their IQ(智商)
scores are four to five percent higher than babies fed by a rigid timetable. This Research comes from
Oxford and Essex University using a sample(样本)of 10,419 children born in the early 1990s, taking
account of parental education, family income, a child"s sex and age, the mother"s health and feeling style.
These results don"t surprise me. Feeding according to schedule runs the risk of harming the rapidly growing brain by taking no account of sinking blood sugar levels.
I hope this research will put an end to advocating strictly timed baby feeding practices.
A. sick
B. upset
C. sleepy
D. hungry
B. He is unkind.
C. He has the wrong idea.
D. He sets a timetable for mothers.
A. basic
B. reliable
C. surprising
D. interesting
B. The baby will have its brain harmed.
C. The baby will have a low blood sugar level.
D. The baby will grow to be wiser by the age of 8.
B. every four hours
C. whenever it wants food
D. according to its blood sugar level
is available. First aid may save a life or improve certain important signs including pulse, temperature, an
unobstructed (未堵塞的) airway and breathing. In minor emergencies, first aid may prevent a victim"s
condition from worsening and provide relief from pain. First aid must be done as quickly as possible. In
the case of the badly injured, a few minutes car make the difference between complete recovery and loss
of life.
First-aid measures depend upon a victim"s needs and the provider"s level of knowledge and skill.
Knowing what not to do in an emergency is as important as knowing what to do. Improperly moving a person with a neck injury,for example,can lead to lifelong disabilify.
Despite the variety of possible injuries, several suggestions should be followed if first aid applies to all
emergencies. The first step is to call for professional medical help. The victim, if sensible, should be
reassured that medical aid has been requested, and asked for permission to provide any first aid. Next,
assess (评估) the scene, asking other people or the injured person"s family or friends about details of the
injury or illness, any care that may have already been given, and preexisting conditions such as high blood
pressure and heart trouble. The victim"s medical card should be checked that describes special medical
conditions. Unless the accident scene becomes unsafe or the victim may suffer further injury, do not move
the victim.
First aid requires rapid assessment of victims to determine whether life-threatening conditions exist.
One method to assess a victim"s condition is known as the ABC, which stands for:
A-Airway: ls it open and unobstructed?
B-Breathing: Is the person breathing? Look, listen, and feel for breathing.
C-Circulation (循环) : Is there a pulse? Is the person bleeding badly? Check skin color and
temperature for additional indications of circulation problems.
B. spend a few minutes making the difference between recovery and death
C. know what to do and what not to do according to the condition of the victim
D. make it clear what illness the victim has had
B. Checking whether the victim is bleeding.
C. Telephoning a hospital at once.
D. Waiting for medical treatment before giving first aid.
B. signs
C. instruments
D. treatments
B. the history and skills of first aid
C. some knowledge to help anyone who may be injured in an accident
D. that first aid is dangerous to those who do not know how to do it
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