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Youth volunteers from Beijing University visited Songtang Hospital,a care clinic for the aged and dying patients,during the second Global Youth Service Day on April 21.

Thirty student volunteers from the university’s School of International Studies sat at the beds of the patients in their specially-decorated “careful huts”.They talked with them and gave massages to patients kept in their beds.

“I felt sorry that I could not offer more to these people than talking with them and trying to cheer them up,”said Deng Yetao,20,a third-year student.“But it occurred to me that they need more care and love than babies.They are afraid of the coming death.Their loneliness is worse than physical pains.”

“Even though they are suffering a lot,the majority of the elderly people want to talk to us.Each of them has a lot of life experiences and philosophies to share.Instead of doing them a favor,I felt I was gaining a valuable lesson,”said Mao Xiaohua,another third-year student.

The fact that most of the patients in the 80-room clinic are aged people with diseases which will lead to death soon made the volunteers hearts heavy.

Ninety-one percent of the patients will spend the last days of their lives in the clinic,according to a survey by the hospital.“For people at this stage of their lives,loneliness is even more dreadful than death itself,”said Li Wei,president of the hospital.

Daily visits and services by social workers and youth volunteers are a very important part of their programme.A total of 330 000 Beijing students from 119 universities and colleges have visited the hospital.Many continue to offer services in their spare time.Some of them volunteer to hold the hands of dying patients during the last minutes of their lives.

Yin Hang,a student from Beijing Medical College,said he felt “the glory of life”as he saw the fading smile on the face of the old man who passed into a deep unconsciousness while he was holding his hands.

1.Youth volunteers from Beijing University went to Songtang Hospital to _____.

A.pay a visit to the aged?

B.talk to the aged

C.show their love for the aged?

D.help the aged out

2.What the aged are most worried about is _____.

A.loneliness

B.death

C.physical pains

D.wealth

3.When volunteers know most of the aged people are dying patients,they feel _____.

A.sad

B.worthless

C.satisfied

D.disappointed

4.After reading the passage,we know _____.

A.the youth are fond of doing popular things

B.the Second Youth Service Day is started by the Chinese government

C.91% of the aged in China are facing death

D.the volunteers are taking an active part in the act

The unquestioned role of a student is to learn as much as possible through whatever means it takes to acquire knowledge.Teachers and professors are human beings and are therefore not perfect.No one knows the correct answer to every question even when you limit the questions to a certain field of study.Having certain skepticism(质疑)about what they are being taught can help students to make the teachers even better by correcting mistakes and misinformation.

Students certainly have a huge role in their own abilities to learn.Teachers should act more as guides along the way rather than try to force each student to learn.The best teachers in the world cannot teach an unmotivated student.If the teacher，for whatever reason，cannot motivate the student，then the student must somehow find a way to motivate himself or herself.

One method of doing this is by becoming an active rather than a passive student.The more the student involves himself or herself in the act of studying，the better he or she can learn.One of the best ways to become more active is simply to ask the teacher or professor questions.Students who passively sit in a classroom and take everything that the teacher says for granted are not fully using their mental capacities to learn.

Better education comes from teachers who are able to get their students to think about a subject rather than merely absorb a certain amount of information.Having a healthy skepticism can improve a student's ability to both think and absorb knowledge in a learning situation.

Teachers are human beings and no one is one hundred percent right all the time，even in a classroom situation.Perhaps a teacher would simply unconsciously say the wrong word or pass on some misinformation that the teacher truly believed was correct.A student's question could prevent an entire classroom from becoming confused or misinformed.

There is of course a fine balance between a student having a healthy skepticism，and just being a downright skeptic.But with the proper attitude toward learning and a little skepticism，both the students and teachers can improve upon the learning process and maximize learning efficiency.

1．Which of the following is the author's main argument?

A．Passive learning results from passive teaching in class.

B．A student's ability plays a huge role in the learning process.

C．A healthy skepticism fully depends on students' motivation and ability.

D．A healthy skepticism and proper attitude contribute to effective learning.

2．Being passive learners，the students ________.

A．use little of their mental ability while studying

B．seldom involve themselves completely in learning

C．can hardly tell the right from the wrong in class

D．simply ask their teachers questions without thinking

3．According to the passage，a good teacher should ________.

A．help the unmotivated students patiently

B．instruct students in the learning process

C．make no mistakes in the teaching process

D．answer all the questions raised by students

4．The author will most probably agree that ________.

A．keeping skepticism to a certain degree is important

B．having a good attitude can ensure the learning process

C．taking everything for granted makes a student learn nothing

D．a teacher's ability can be improved by encouraging doubts

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I watched as my little brother was cahught in the act. He sat in the corner of the living room, a   21   in one hand and my father’s hymnbook(赞美诗集) in the other. Hearing my father coming, my brother 22    it slightly. He sensed that he had done something   23 . I saw he had 24    my father’s new book and scribbled（乱写）on the first page in pen. Now, 25    at my father fearfully, we 26    waited for his punishment.My father    27   his book, looked at it, and then sat down without saying a word． He was a clergyman and the holder of several degrees. For him, books were knowledge, and yet, he    28   his children.Instead of 29 my brother, he sat down,   30   the pen from my brother’s hand and wrote in the book himself, “John’s work. 1959. aged three.”
The years and the books came and went. Our family   31 what all families go through. We   32 knew our parents loved us and that one   33 was the book by the piano. From time to time we   34 open it, look at the scribbles, read my father’s expression of love and feel   35 .
Now I know that through this   36 act my father taught us how every   37 in life has a positive side-if we are   38 to look at it from another angle. But he also taught us about what really matters in life:   39 ,not objects; tolerance, not judgment; love, no anger. Love is at the very   40 of a family.
When thinking about these, I smile and whisper, “Thank you, Dad. ”
21．A．toy                       B．knife                  C．pen                        D．cup
22．A．tore                      B．covered              C．wiped                     D．threw
23．A．wrong                   B．important            C．helpful                   D．great
24．A．borrowed              B．stolen                C．opened                   D．read
25．A．glancing                B．staring                C．coming                   D．laughing
26．A．all                        B．either                 C．both                       D．each
27．A．picked up              B．made up             C．put up                    D．wrapped up
28．A．admired                B．needed                C．hated                      D．loved
29．A．punished               B．trusting               C．helping                   D．praising
30．A．moved                  B．took                   C．brought                  D．robbed
31．A．spent                     B．experimented      C．suffered                  D．experienced
32．A．seldom                  B．always                C．never                      D．sometimes
33．A．proof                    B．result                  C．effect                     D．impression
34．A．might                    B．should                C．would                     D．could
35．A．excited                  B．encouraged         C．surprised                 D．frightened
36．A．rapid                     B．sudden                C．hard                       D．simple
37．A．event                    B．porblem              C．trouble                   D．accident
38．A．forbidden              B．chosen                C．prepared                 D．forced
39．A．money                  B．people                C．bilief                      D．spirit
40．A．corner                  B．mouth                C．bottom                   D．Heart

Many Going to College Are Not Ready
Only about half of this year’s high school graduates have the reading skills they need to succeed in college, and even fewer are prepared for college-level science and math courses, according to a yearly report from ACT, which produces one of the nation’s leading college admissions tests.
The report, based on scores of the 2005 high school graduates who took the exam, some 1.2 million students in all, also found that fewer than one in four met the college-readiness benchmarks （基准）in all four subjects tested: reading comprehension, English, math and science.
ACT sets its college-readiness benchmarks — including the reading comprehension benchmark, which is new this year—by correlating（联系）earlier students’ ACT scores with grades they actually received as college freshmen. Based on that data, the benchmarks indicate the skill level at which a student has a 70 percent likelihood（可能性）of earning a C or better, and a 50 percent chance of earning a B or better.
Among those who took the 2005 test, only 51 percent achieved the benchmark in reading, 26 percent in science, and 41 percent in math; the figure for English was 68 percent. Results from the new optional ACT writing test, which was not widely taken this year, were not included in the report.
About 40 percent of the nation’s 2005 high school graduates took the ACT, and the average overall score was unchanged from the year before. Minority students make up 27 percent of all ACT test takers. Besides, there are also other worrying trends in the ACT report as well, including a continuing decline in the percentage of students planning to major in engineering, computer science and education.
50. The report from ACT mainly tells readers the problem that ______.
A. few minority students graduates took ACT
B. many who intend to go to college are not ready
C. the college-readiness benchmarks is high this year
D. the tests for some subjects are too difficult
51. According to the benchmarks in 2005, about how many students will not earn C?
A. 30 percent.      B. 70 percent.      C. 50 percent.       D. 26 percent.
52. Which of the following pictures can correctly show the numbers of the students who achieve the benchmark in different subjects?
A.        B.
C.        D.
53. Which of the followings can be found in the report from ACT in 2005?
A. The report about the writing test is very objective.
B. More boy students are not good at science and math.
C. The percentage of students majoring science declined.
D. The average score of 2005 ACT participants changed greatly.

It was a Friday afternoon. An elderly lady was doing the 21 in a supermarket. When she returned to her 22 , she found four men in the act of 23 her car. So she 24 her shopping bags and took out her 25 , screaming at the top of her voice, “I have a gun, and I know how to use it! 26 the car!”

The four men didn’t 27 for a second threat. They all got out immediately and 28 like mad.

After she got into the 29 seat and prepared to drive away, she was 30 that she could not get her key into the ignition (点火开关). She 31 over and over again, and then she suddenly realized why, 32 she found that there was a football, a jacket and two packs of cigarettes in the front seat.

A few minutes later, she saw her own car 33 four or five spaces farther down. She put her bags into the car and drove to the police station to report her 34 .

The police officer to whom she told the story couldn’t stop 35 . He pointed to the other end of the corner, where four 36 men were reporting that their car was 37 by a mad, elderly woman 38 as white, less than five feet tall, glasses, curly white hair, and 39 a large handgun. Not surprisingly, the elderly lady felt very sorry for what she had done, and 40 to the four men.

1.

A．experiment

B．business

C．shopping

D．research

2.

A．garden

B．house

C．garage

D．car

3.

A．running after

B．leaving with

C．looking at

D．taking apart

4.

A．hid

B．brought

C．showed

D．dropped

5.

A．glasses

B．key

C．handgun

D．beer

6.

A．Get out of

B．Go away with

C．Take away

D．Watch out

7.

A．leave

B．ask

C．wait

D．stand

8.

A．spoke

B．ran

C．laughed

D．stood

9.

A．driver’s

B．passenger’s

C．back

D．middle

10.

A．guilty

B．embarrassed

C．surprised

D．disappointed

11.

A．tried

B．closed

C．stopped

D．found

12.

A．before

B．though

C．as

D．if

13.

A．passed

B．moved

C．driven

D．parked

14.

A．trouble

B．mistake

C．news

D．joke

15.

A．talking

B．laughing

C．worrying

D．arguing

16.

A．stupid

B．strong

C．typical

D．frightened

17.

A．bought

B．stolen

C．robbed

D．sold

18.

A．treated

B．painted

C．considered

D．described

19.

A．firing

B．carrying

C．buying

D．finding

20.

A．apologized

B．shouted

C．waved

D．Walked

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