Some schools offer teachers ______ working hours, recognizing their need to balance work and private life.
A.tremendous
B.vigorous
C.flexible
D.singular
A.tremendous
B.vigorous
C.flexible
D.singular
听力原文: Religious and private schools receive little or no support from public taxes in the United States. As a result, they are more expensive to attend. The religious schools in America axe usually run by churches. Therefore they tend to be less expensive than private schools. When there is free education available to all children in the United States, why do people spend money on private schools? Americans offer a great variety of reasons for doing so. Some parents send their children to private schools because the classes there are usually smaller. In their o pinion the public schools in their area are not of high enough quality to meet their needs. Private schools in the United States range widely in size and quality, and they offer all kinds of programmes to meet the needs of certain students.
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A.The number of students they take in is limited.
B.They receive little or no support from public taxes.
C.They are only open to children from rich families.
D.They have to pay more taxes.
听力原文: Religions and private schools receive little or no support from public taxes in the United States. As a result, they are more expensive to attend. The religious schools in America are usually nm by churches. Therefore they tend to be less expensive than private schools. When there is free education available to all children in the United States, why do people spend money on private schools? Americans offer a great variety of reasons for doing so. Some parents send their children to private schools because the classes there are usually smaller. In their opinion the public schools in their area are not of high enough quality to meet their needs. Private schools in the United States range widely in size and quality, and they offer all kinds of programs to meet the needs of certain students.
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A.The number of students they take in is limited.
B.They receive little or no support from public taxes.
C.They are only open to children from rich families.
D.They have to pay more taxes.
A、Every high-school student takes some practical training courses.
B、All high-school students take the same subjects.
C、The subjects every student takes may vary.
D、All public schools offer the same subjects to students.
Where can one find a career counselor?
A.In some large community.
B.In most colleges or high schools
C.In the companies that offer jobs.
D.In school libraries.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Religious and private schools receive little or no support from public taxes in file United States. As a result, they are more expensive to attend. The religious schools in America are usually run by churches. Therefore they tend to be less expensive than private schools. When there is free education available to all children in the United States, why do people spend money on private schools? Americans offer a great variety of reasons for doing so. Some parents send their children to private schools because the classes there are usually smaller. In their opinion the public schools in their area are not of high enough quality to meet their needs. Private schools in the United States range widely in size and quality, and they offer all kinds of programs to meet the needs of certain students.
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A.The number of students they take in is limited.
B.They receive little or no support from public taxes.
C.They are only open to children from rich families.
D.They have to pay more taxes.
Which of the following statements about selective schools is TRUE?
A.Selective schools offer better instructional approaches to their students.
B.There are more essay exams in selective schools than other schools.
C.Their new teaching methods secure their graduates' high salaries.
D.They don't outperform. other schools in terms of professors' feedback.
Public schools are softening their position on home schooling because ________.
A) there isn’t much they can go to change the present situation
B) they want to show their tolerance for different situation
C) home schooling provides a new variety of education for children
D) public schools have so many problems that they cannot offer proper education for all children
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文: Some people cannot attend a school or a university to continue their education. For them there are radio or TV courses and correspondence courses. These courses are different from regular university courses because the instructor and the student never meet each other. Everything is done by mail. The schools mail the books and the assignments to the students. Then the students complete the assignments and mail them back to the instructor. The instructor then checks the assignments for mistakes and at the end of the course, mails a grade to the student.
Correspondence schools are very popular. They offer courses in more than a thousand subjects, from Chinese to biology. Today more than a million Americans are taking some kind of a correspondence course.
Many different kinds of people have graduated from correspondence schools: singers like Donny and Marie Osmond, and even "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles Schulz.
Some correspondence schools have courses to give training for people wanting to get jobs in industry. The Cleveland Institute of Electronics has courses to help workers get jobs in companies like Eastman Kodak or Procter and Gamble. Some universities have general interest courses or introductory courses. Other universities offer a complete program. The University of Iowa, for example, offers a Bachelor of Liberal Studies. The courses are general because there is no specific major. To register, students only have to fill out a registration form. and mail it in with a check for school fees.
(27)
A.Correspondence schools conduct the students by mail.
B.Correspondence schools conduct the students by radio.
C.Correspondence schools conduct the students through TV programs.
D.Correspondence schools conduct the students by telephone.
Task 2
Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.
At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online course in 2004, according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of colleges offering "face-to-face" courses also offer online ones. But what were once two distinct types of classes are looking more and more alike--and often dipping into the same pool of students.
At some schools, online courses--originally intended for nontraditional students living far from campus--have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A recent study by South Dakota's Board of Regents found 42 percent of the students enrolled in its distance-education courses weren't so distant: they were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online course.
Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and "face-to-face" credits. Motives range from lifestyle. to accommodating a job schedule to getting into high-demand courses.
Washington State had about 325 on-campus undergraduates taking one or more distance courses last year. As many as 9,000 students took both distance and in-person classes at Arizona State last year.
The first paragraph mainly tells us that ______.
B.online courses are becoming more important than traditional courses
C.online courses were different from traditional courses
D.online courses are becoming more popular in college education
E.online courses are actually not different from traditional courses
SECTION B INTERVIEW
Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
听力原文:STARNES: Well, Secretary, thank you very much for spending some time with us this afternoon.
SECRETARY: Oh, you're quite welcome. Thank you for all the interest.
STARNES: Well, Secretary, we'd like talk about the state of education in America. So I guess we—let's start off just by—just giving us your general impression of the state of education in America.
SECRETARY: I think our educational system is underperforming and leaving large numbers of children behind, especially minority children, inner-city children, and some rural children. Some of it tracks along the lines of our family structures, especially those families that have some vulnerabilities or weaknesses so that education for that child is, I think, concurrently weakened as well. And we need to find a way. And I think we have found a way to make sure that none of these children are left behind either. And the President's vision for that is called "No Child Left Behind." And that bill passed the Congress and was signed last year. We're one year into it now and I think that it is going to be a savior for a lot of kids who are otherwise left behind.
STARNES: Secretary, we've seen a number of parents pulling their children out of public schools and home-schooling them or sending them to private schools. Can you see any justification on why they're doing that?
SECRETARY: Absolutely. No child should be tied to a school that's failing them. It is one of the, I think, most grievous sins that we have in the United States as far as school is concerned, that is insisting that a child attends a school that's failing them. A child should be free to—a parent should be free to select a school that best meets that child's needs, whether it's private or whether it's public or whether it's a eyber-sehool or whether it's home schooling or whatever. There will be a complex matrix of educational delivery systems, which includes all these different delivery systems. And private schools have a wonderful track record. There's a vast body of research from the University of Chicago and elsewhere that indicate that private schools offer a high-quality education to some low-income students in inner-city settings. So it's a wonderful part of our educational system.
STARNES: But why do you think adversaries of the Administration are against letting students go to these types of schools?
SECRETARY: Well, I think most people in this Administration would be absolutely for parents having wide options and choices to make decisions for their child's school site. The politics of it is what interferes With it. And we need the kind of political support in order to get that accomplished through the federal system that we operate in. I don't think it's that we don't want to have that. We do want to have it.
STARNES: How would you respond to the complaint the President was too religious? And even the Democrats have said that he has too much religion or religiosity. What would you say to those critics?
SECRETARY: I would offer them my prayers.
STARNES: As the leader of the nation's education system, how do you maintain—how do you not let it all get to you? It's a huge responsibility you have.
SECRETARY: Well, I think faith is a good response to that. But I don't think my job is to solve all education problems in the world. My job is to work towards the right solutions and make sure I conduct myself properly. It's kind of like the battle's never won, only fought well.
STARNES: Uh-huh. What do you see as the greatest challenges facing the education system coming up in the next years?
SECRETARY: I think it is getting the idea ac
A.satisfactory
B.encouraging
C.hopeless
D.imperfect
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