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private tutors (指导教师) for our children is now widespread. And this year, as always, the
Easter holidays will be peak time (高峰期) for tutor demand.
"My husband and I tried to tutor her at home, but we found all our knowledge was out of date.
We also tried a group revision course but all the children were sitting exams for different boards (入
学考试). On the whole, we think onetoone tuition works best and it is worth the money," says
Ashan Sabri from London, whose daughter Zarren, 18, is having tuition in biology in preparation for
Alevels this summer.
The real question is: does tutoring do any good?
"It"s not the magic bullet," says educator Judith Ireson. "It"s still up to the child to do the learning.
If he or she isn"t interested, then sending them to a private tutor won"t do any good."
In this case, it"s time to break open the Champagne (香槟酒)? "Not necessarily," says Elaine
Tyrrell, head of a private school.
"While we recommend private tutoring for children whose first language isn"t English, we don"t
encourage it for the others," says Tyrrell. "With the level of education they get here, children really
ought to be able to pass the entrance exams. Besides, our biggest worry is that they might just get
in with the help of lastminute tutoring, but once they get to that school, they won"t be able to manage."
It"s a point really worth considering. After all, who would want his child to stay at the bottom of
the class?
B. a student
C. a famous educator
D. a headmaster of a private school
B. Taking different kinds of exams.
C. Taking part in group revision courses.
D. Hiring a private tutor to help her.
because ________.
B. the education that children receive in class is enough for them
C. the quality of private tutoring may be poor
D. children may be misled by private tutors
B. Critical.
C. Uninterested.
D. Uncertain.
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试题【阅读理解 On the whole, it"s not something we parents shout about, but one in fou】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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States. Yale, Princeton, and Columbia were opened soon after Harvard. In the early years, these
schools were much alike. Only young men could go to college. All the students studied the same
subjects, and everyone learned Latin, and Greek. Little was known about science then. When the
students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later,
lawyers could receive their training (训练) in Harvard"s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and
Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching
American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students
were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them. Today, there are many different kinds of
colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of
learning. There"s so much to learn that one kind of school can"t offer it all.
B. Harvard
C. Princeton
D. Columbia
B. People, young or old, might study in the colleges.
C. Students studied only some languages and science.
D. When the students finished their school, they all became lawyers or teachers.
B. law and something about medicine
C. many new subjects
D. the subjects that interested students
B. the world-famous colleges in America
C. how colleges have changed
D. what kinds of lessons each college teaches
an international computer programming contest. The Battle of the Brains took place in Harbin, China.
__1__
Jerry Cain, coach of Stanford University Team California, says, "One of the programming problems
was trying to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a
certain numb er of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible. __2__"
The students first listed the problems in order of difficulty.__3__ They designed ways to test their
solutions. And they wrote needed software systems. Even the winning team from Shanghai Jiaotong
University in China was not able to solve all the problems within the given time limit. Stanford"s team
solved five problems and finished in the 14th place. Stanford was one of twentyone American universities
that took part in the contest this year.
__4__ It began in 1970 at Texas A&M University. The contest quickly became popular in the
United States and Canada. It developed and grew as more and more schools took part in local and
area contests.
The first final competition was held in 1977 at the Association for Computing Machinery Computer
Science conference. Today, a network of universities holds area competitions that send the winners to
the world finals, now organized by IBM. Contest spokesman Doug Heintzman says the world champions
receive prizes and scholarships. __5__
A. The competitors show real interest in IBM.
B. Then they figured out the requirements of each.
C. And that"s probably the simplest of all of them.
D. This competition is an opportunity to be recognized by famous universities from the world.
E. Threeperson teams from each school had five hours to solve eleven real world problems.
F. The official name of the Battle of the Brains is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
G. They are also guaranteed an offer of employment with IBM.
Ashcombe Primary School in WestonsuperMare, Somerset, has told parents that cards declaring love
can be "confusing" for children under the age of 11, who are still emotionally and socially developing.
In his February newsletter (简讯), Peter Turner,head teacher, warned that any cards found in school
would be confiscated.
He wrote, "We do not wish to see any Valentine"s Day cards in school this year. Some children and
parents encourage a lot of talks about boyfriends and girlfriends."
"We believe that such ideas should wait until children are mature enough emotionally and socially to
understand the commitment involved in having or being a boyfriend or girlfriend."
Mr. Turner said any families wanting to support the Valentine"s Day concept should send cards in the
post or deliver them to home addresses by hand.
His views were supported by Ruth Rice, 46, who has twins Harriet and Olivia,9,at the school.
She said, "Children at that age shouldn"t really be thinking about Valentine"s Day, and they should be
concentrating on their schoolwork."
"They are at an age when they are easily influenced and most parents including myself are with
Mr. Turner."
She added, "The cards caused too much competition. If someone gets a card and another doesn"t then he will be disappointed."
However, Rajeev Takyar, 40, who sells newspapers and has two children Jai, 11, and Aryan, 5, at the school, said he was "genuinely outraged".
He said, "There are schools that have banned conkers (康克戏) and snowballs, and now Valentine"s
Day cards."
"I think banning the cards stops children from having social skills. How are they going to learn about relationships otherwise? It"s ridiculous."
Alec Suttenwood, founder of the AntiPolitical Correctness Group, said of the ban, "It"s totally
ridiculous. Young children just send the cards to each other as friends and to their parents. It"s just a bit of harmless fun. There is no difference between this and Mother"s or Father"s Day."
B. teachers haven"t taught them how to make friends
C. children shouldn"t learn about social relationships
D. students talk too much about boyfriends and girlfriends
B. destroyed
C. taken away
D. burnt away
B. children should focus their mind on their lessons
C. sending holiday cards waste both time and money
D. making friends has a negative influence on children
B. Children should learn how to develop social skills.
C. English schools don"t allow students to play games.
D. Some parents think it unreasonable to ban the cards.
B. Shall We Send Valentine"s Day Cards?
C. Different Opinions on Valentine"s Day Cards
D. Parents" Concern about Valentine"s Day Cards
is only mildly annoying. On a cellphone, it could make you want to skip the purchase entirely.
This is why investors, startups (初创企业) and major corporations are pouring money into services
that make it easier to use cellphones to buy goods and transfer money. The aim is to turn phones into
virtual credit cards or checkbooks, enabling the kind of clickandbuy commerce and online banking that
people have come to expect on their PCs. But shrinking down (缩小) those services presents serious
challenges.
The services must work on many different phones and through many cellphone service providers,
which usually control the billing relationships with customers. That adds complexity to the already tricky
business of safely and securely transferring funds among financial institutions and merchants.
Mobile payment systems have been tried before, with only modest success. Driving a new flurry (一
阵兴奋) of deal making, industry analysts and executives say, is the success of the iPhone, BlackBerry
and other sophisticated (尖端的) devices. These phones make complex interactions easier.
Now the race is on to develop new payment systems-and to get several percentage points in fees
from each transaction. They"re seeing that returns could be so huge. Obopay, a startup that lets people
transmit money to one another via text message, raised $ 35 million from Nokia"s investment. Also, a
mobile payments startup called Boku announced that it had received $ 13 million in venture capital
financing.
When people can use their phone numbers to make a purchase, they are 10 times as likely to follow
through on a transaction as when they have to type in credit card and billing information, said David
Marcus, chief executive of a startup called Zong.
Mobile payment companies also need to get cooperation from merchants, which must add a payment
option to their mobile sites or applications.
But the potential opportunity to get fees from the growing number of mobile transactions is too__
juicy__to__pass__up,__despite the risks, said an analyst with IDC Financial Insights, a market research
company.
cellphones instead of PCs.
B. two
C. three
D. four
B. convenient
C. troublesome
D. impossible
B. Too difficult to seize.
C. Too heavy to lift.
D. Too unsafe to handle.
B. The Great Risks on Payments via Cellphone
C. How to Deal with Payments via Cellphone
D. Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone
still prefer lowtech ways of doing things. Here"s an example of why this is happening. You can
microwave a frozen hamburger in 60 seconds. However, it won"t taste as good as the one you cook
on the stove. And if you"re in that much of a hurry, you probably won"t take time to toast the bun.
Hightech cooking saves time, but it doesn"t make bettertasting meals.
Most people get their news from hightech sources like television or the Internet. This has many
advantages. For example, electronic news is more up to date than newspapers or magazines. It"s also
more exciting to see live and videotaped news events than photographs. However, newspapers and
magazines have some important advantages. They give more background and details. They also let
you read the parts that are important to you and skip the rest.
Other hightech timesavers have similar disadvantages. For example, most people use the phone
or email to stay in touch with friends and family members who live in other places. But when you use
the Internet or the phone, you don"t always think carefully about what you are saying, and sometimes
you forget the important things you want to communicate. Similarly, when you wordprocess a
homework assignment instead of handwriting it, you can check your spelling electronically and put in
fancy headings. However, some students are so busy with the computer that they don"t pay enough
attention to the actual words they are writing.
B. Lowtech cooking produces bettertasting meals.
C. Hightech news programs always keep you reading what is important to you.
D. Handwritten homework is better than wordprocessed homework.
B. Easy come, easy go.
C. Every coin has two sides.
D. Learn to walk before you run.
B. Advantages vs disadvantages.
C. Newspapers and magazines vs television and the Internet.
D. Wordprocessing vs handwriting.
B. Opinion-Discussion-Description.
C. Topic-Comparison-Supporting examples.
D. Introduction-Supporting examples-Discussion.
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