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of time. People think I'm selfish or not kind-hearted. But I don't feel sorry for that, and I think more parents
will be coming around to my way of thinking. Britain's universities are failing to serve either the country or
our children. It's about time we voted (投票) with our feet.
I can't remember when I began to change my mind on education. Like a lot of middle-class parents,
we had believed that going to university was what your children did. It's one of the reasons (理由) we offered
more than $ 100,000 in fees (学费) for Jim to go to a private (私立) school rather than a free public one.
Education is more important than nice cars, new kitchens or skiing holidays.
Jim is a young boy of whom any parent would be proud. He's clever and helpful; he's good at things like
hanging pictures and mending doors; he can get on well with other kids. But he's shown little interest in study.
It's not Jim's intellect (智力) that's the problem-after he entered the school he was asked to sit an exam
but an in-built reluctance (勉强) to do any more work than necessary to get by. We've tried everything to make
him work harder. None of it has worked. For his final exams, Jim got a D and two Es. Even allowing for our
low expectations (期望), this came as a surprise to his mother and me.
"Surely," I said to one of Jim's teachers, "the only subject Jim would get on with such poor grades would
be the kind of subject that wouldn't be worth doing anyway."
"Not at all," the teacher answered, as if speaking to a dinosaur. He read out the names of a lot of univer-
sities I'd never heard of, saying they'd all be fit for Jim.
It was at this point I realized how far away I was from today's education. I knew that, since I was at
school in the early 1980s-when a student with such poor grades as Jim's would not have been allowed to go to
any university-the population in the UK going on to higher education has gone up from 14% to a surprising 44%.
B. there are few universities in the UK
C. Jim won't be allowed to go to university
D. it's a waste of time and money to do so
B. He is interested in anything except study.
C. He doesn't want to use his head at school.
D. He never likes working hard and being busy.
B. He is sure most universities will certainly refuse to take Jim.
C. He is sure Jim's father is too old to understand today's education.
D. He thinks education in the UK has changed a lot in the past years.
B. many young people don't go to university in the UK
C. parents are usually strongly against higher education
D. education in the UK is becoming worse and worse
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When high school started, Sally and I became best friends. We shared many interests and quickly became very close.When high school ended, we both cried because we would enter different 1 in autumn.
Our first term of college life was 2 , so we often sent long e-mails and encouraged each other. We missed each other so much! In the second term, I found some new friends and I felt very 3 with them. These were friends with whom I could be myself and pour out my feelings. I was eager to share my new friends with Sally.
When Sally 4 visited me at my school, we were excited. She brought a toy bear to me 5 a present and told me about her college life. 6 , something unexpected happened when I introduced her to my new friends.Her eyes grew dark and I could see the sadness in them.My new friends tried to share their friendship, but Sally seemed unwilling to accept it.I didn't understand 7 the people I loved most
couldn't love each other.
Sally left. I knew she was not happy. I thought long about what had happened. I asked her many questions but she didn’t answer me. I 8 that she was jealous. She saw me with my new friends and was afraid that we no longer shared the same experiences. She saw that I could still enjoy myself 9 her and wished she could be a part of it.
I wrote Sally a letter to 0 she's always my best friend. I told her everyone had friends from home and friends from school, and all the friends were indeed life's greatest 11 .Sally wrote me back soon. She was in agreement and felt sorry about 12 she had done.
I think Sally and I both 13 an important lesson from it. Nothing can influence our 14_ and change the experiences we've shared.We are now walking on two different paths of life. While new friends are special and exciting, old friends are 15 there, waiting to share their heart, no matter how far away they are from each other.
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请认真阅读下面短文,然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出一个最佳 选项。 As we all know, the environment around us is getting worse and worse. In some places we can’t see fish 1 in the river or trees on the hills. Some people even have no clean water to drink. Recently, a new lifestyle called low carbon life is 37 2 every comer of our country. The meanings of low carbon are 3 energy and no waste. It is such an important project that I can’t wait 4 my ideas on how to promote it. First,we should 5 a no-car day every week in our school. Because cars not only cause serious air pollution but also waste energy. 6 the no-car day, neither students 7 teachers are allowed to drive to school. At the same time,just walk or run. Use our 8 and enjoy the fun. Second, we had better not use plastic bags 9 . No one can stand the “white pollution”, 10 it is wise to use cloth bags which can 11 again and again. 12 ,one thing 13 we should keep in mind is that every big thing comes from the small details. So, as students, we ought to turn 14 the lights the moment we leave, use 15 sides of the paper, and reuse our textbooks and so on. All in all, it weighs greatly for all of us to put the low carbon lifestyle into practice. Just set our mind to these:no-car days, no plastic bags, and no waste. Let’s do it now. | |||
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