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say 100 million more could go hungry this year because of the food and financial crises.
To deal with the situation, the UN World Food Program has started a project to help small farmers.
These farmers are mainly women.Many cannot produce enough food even to feed and support their own
families.
The new effort is called Purchase for Progress, or P4P.It aims to connect local farmers with
dependable markets.That way, they could get a chance to sell their surplus (剩余) at competitive prices.
P4P will be tested in as many as 21 countries during the next five years.
The biggest contributor to the project is Bill Gates, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Another donor (捐款者) is the Howard Buffett Foundation, led by a son of the American investor
Warren Buffett.The government of Belgium is also support
ing the project in a former colony (殖民地), now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Together these donors have provided more than 76 million dollars for projects in Africa and Central
America.
Purchase for Progress will work with United Nations agencies, governments and nongovernmental
organizations to help increase crop production.The World Bank Group and other partners are to help
train farmers in better crop management and marketing skills.
The World Food Program says it expects to buy 40,000 tons of food in the first year using methods
carried out by the project.That will be enough to feed 250,000 people.
P4P is expected to develop food cooperatives and longterm agreements for buying corn, wheat and
other food crops.About 350,000 farmers could be assisted.
Officials say the project will change the way the World Food Program buys food in d
eveloping countries. Executive Director Josette Sheeran says this is the first time her agency will buy a large
amount of food from small farmers.The agency has traditionally bought most of its food from developing
countries, but through larger trading organizations.
1. From the passage, we know that________.
A. in all 900 million people worldwide lack food
B. a project has been started to help women farmers
C. there are only two donors to help the project
D. some farmers still cannot support their families
2. According to the passage, ________will work hard to deal with the situation.
A. the United Nations
B. the combined efforts
C. some governments
D. some nongovernmental organizations
3. Which of the following will NOT be done to help small farmers?
A. To donate money.
B. To reform the way of food purchase.
C. To provide them with food.
D. To buy a
large amount of food from them.4. What"s the best title for this passage?
A. Project to Help Small Farmers
B. Contribution to Small Farmers
C. Food Problems
D. P4P Is Being Carried Out
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A. Social background for the Development of Adult Education
B. What is
the present situation?C. The purposes in Adult Education
D. Ways of Adult Education
E. The history of Adult Education
F. What is Adult Education
1. _____
Voluntary learning in organized courses by m
ature men and women is called adult education.Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults.Adults may
want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out
about new technological development, seek better selfunderstanding, or develop new talents and skills.
2. _____
This kind of education may be in the form of selfstudy with proper guidance through the use of
libraries, correspondence (函授) courses, or broadcasting.It may also be acquired collectively in schools
and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs, and professional associations.
3. _____
Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the
rise of the Industrial Revolution.Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were
moving from rural areas to cities: new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system.
These and other factors produced a need for further education and reeducation of adults.
4. _____
The earliest program of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the
founding of an adult school at Nottingham and a mechanics" institute at Glasgow.The earliest adult
education institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in
Philadelphia in 1727.
5
. _____People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today.For
example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining
programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs.Adult education programs are springing up
constantly to meet these and other needs.
good parent.
I no longer consider myself the center of the universe.I show up.I listen.I try to laugh.I am a good
friend to my husband.I have tried to make marriage vows (誓言) mean what they say.I am a good friend
to my friends, and they to me.Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today.
So here"s what I want to tell you today:Get a life.A real life, not a desire of the next promotion (提升),
the bigger paycheck, the larger house.
Get a life in which you are not alone.Find people you love, and who love you.And remember that love
is not leisure (休闲), it is work.Pick up the phone.Send an email.Write a letter.And realize that life is the
best thing and that you have no business taking it for granted.
It is so easy to
waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.It_is_so_easy_to_exist_instead_of_to_live.I learnt to live many years ago.Something really, really bad happened to me, something that
changed my life in ways that, if I had my choice, it would never have been changed at all.And what I
learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination.I learned to look at all the good in the world and try
to give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and totally.And I tried to do that, in part, by
telling others what I had learned.
By telling them this:Read in the backyard with the sun on your face.Learn to be happy.And think of
life as a deadly illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and passion (激情) as it ought to be
lived.
1. It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A. the author is a success in personal life
B. the author didn"t try her best to work well
C. the author spent all her time caring for her children
D. the author likes traveling ve
ry much2. How did the author form her view of life?
A. Through social experience.
B. By learning from her friends.
C. Through an unfortunate experience.
D. From her children and husband.
3. By the underlined sentence "It is so easy to exist instead of to live" in the fifth paragraph, the
author really means that people tend to________.
A. make a living rather than live a real life
B. work rather than enjoy life
C. waste a lot in life
D. forget the most important lessons in life
4. What"s the author"s attitude toward work?
A. Do it well to serve others.
B. Earn enough money to make life better.
C. Try your best to get a higher position and a pay raise.
D. Don"t let it affect your real life.
invented a suit that can be worn while they wash.
The suit has been specially designed so that it can be cleaned under the showerhead.There is no need
for soaking (浸泡), dry cleaning-or even soap.
The Japanese market has taken a liking to the "shower suit", described as "revolutionary" by its owner Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), which is the research and marketing body that represents Australian
woolgrowers.Orders have been placed for 170,000 of the woolen suits.
The suit could be worn in the shower, although it was probably better to hang it on a clothes hanger
and carry it instead, AWI corporate affairs spokesman Stephen Feighan said."The idea is that you hang it
up and then...you give it a
spray (喷雾), and it"s dry the next morning, " Mr Feighan said.A Japanese researcher working for AWI invented the suit by combining three technologies.The secret
is the best lining (内衬), which allows the suit to dry quickly.The shower suit attracted busy corporate
people, particularly those who often traveled or stayed up late, Mr Feighan said.The airline industry was
also interested.
Mr Feighan confessed he had not worn one of the suits yet, or tried to wash it in the shower, because
they cut to fit Japanese figures.
AWI believes that the shower suit will spread from the Japanese market through Europe and India
.Mr Feighan hoped the suit, made from local wool, would be available in Australia in 12 to 18 months"
time.
1. What is the writing purpose of the article?
A. To introduce a newlydesigned shower suit.
B. To help the white collars arrange their life more sensibly.
C. To provide suggestions on saving time in bath.
D. To praise AWI for its important achievement.
2. Which is true about the suit according to the passage?
A. It can spare the owner"s trouble of soaking, dry cleaning and applying soap.
B. It is of the quality of fast dry for its best cloth.
C. It is not suitable for hanging.
D. It has attracted more orders than any other suit.
3. The suit draws the attention from all the following groups EXCEPT________.
A. corporate people who are always on the go
B. people on occasional business trips
C. the airline industry
D. people burning the mid
night oil4. Which of the following has much to do with Mr Feighan?
A. The invention of the suit.
B. The tryon of the sui
t.C. The combination of the three technologies on the suit.
D. The popularization of the suit and best wishes for it
5. It can be inferred from the passage that________.
A. Australians prefer foreign markets to the domestic one
B. wool is the most favorite material for clothing
C. westerners have different body sizes and figures from easterners
D. Australia"s economy will not recover within a year
A. The Development of an Early Union.
B. Support from the Public.
C. The Decline of an Early Union.
D. A Brief Comparison between the Union and the Medieval Craft Guilds.
E. Management"s Reaction to the Labour Movement.
F. Reasons for starting a Union.
1. _____
Some scholars hav
e associated trade unions with the medieval craft guilds (中世纪的行会), but there are important differences between the two.The guild members were masters craftsmen who owned
capital and often employed workers.Unions are known as associations of workers with similar skills.
2. _____
In the past, individual worker had no control over the conditions of their working lives; political and
economic power was concentrated in the hands of wealthy business owners.Workers found, however,
that there was strength in uniting.From their earliest years, union objectives have been higher wages and
improved working conditions.
3._____
Employers resisted, of course.They made great efforts to stop union organizing its activities.Union
members were fired, workers were forced to sign contracts in w
hich they promised not to join a union,and companies hired strikebreakers (罢工破坏者) and even gunmen to frighten organizers.
4._____
One of the earliest successful labour organizations in the United States was the Knights of Labour,
founded in 1869.The Knights, which included both skilled and unskilled workers, attempted to organize
all workers into one great union.After it successfully struck the Wabash railroad owned by Jay Gould in
1885, its popularity and power grew dramatically.In 1886 the Knights had 700,000 members.
5._____
The decline of the Knights of Labour, however, came quickly.The strike against Gould was gradually
broken, and the Knights radical positions on social issues cost them public support.In the end, a lack of
unity as well as the rapid inflow of unskilled immigrants weakened the union"s economic power, and the
organization came to an end.
you meet is your mirror.
Mirrors have a very particular__1__.They reflect the image in front of them.Just as a__2__mirror
works as the vehicle to reflection, __3__do all of the people in our lives.
When we see something beautiful such as a flower garden, that garden__4__a reflection.When we
love someone, it"s a(n)__5__of loving ourselves.We have often heard things like "I love how I am when I"m with that person". That si
mply__6__into "I"m able to love me when I love that other person". __7__, when we meet someone new, we feel as though we "click". Sometimes it"s as if we"ve__8__each other for a long time.That feeling can come from__9__similarities.
Just as the "mirror" or other people can be a positive reflection, it is more likely that we"ll__10__it
when it has a negative connotation (内涵). __11__, it"s easy to remember the times when we have met
someone we"re not particularly__12__about.We may have some criticism (批评) in our mind about the
__13__.This is especially true when we get to know someone with whom we would rather spend__14__
time.
Oftentimes, when we__15__qualities in other people, ironically (讽刺地), it"s usually the mirror
that"s__16__to us.
At times we meet someone__17__and feel distant, disconnected, or disgusted.__18__we don"t
want to believe it, and it"s not easy or__19__to look further, it can be a great learning lesson to__20__
what part of the person is being reflected in you.It"s simply just another way to create more selfawareness.