题目内容
________ most school teachers were men, but today there are more women than men.
A.All the time
B.At one time
C.At a time
D.At times
Recently, online high schools in America have sparked (激发) a debate about whether or not taxpayers’ money should be used to support online education. Online schools receive the same amount of funding as all other public schools, even though they don’t have to pay for rent or school equipment. States should use their educational funds to improve education at real schools, not to support online programs.
Some students only use online classes to supplement their school work. They benefit from the social experience of a traditional high school, while still taking online courses.
However, about 90 thousand students in America receive their education only from online schools. 50 thousand of these students take courses at Florida Virtual School, the largest online school in the country. While this method of schooling helps students who live in remote regions, most school systems are upset that they are losing more students each year to these online programs.
Although online learning allows children to work at their own pace, these online schools have only one teacher per several hundred students. Often, teachers can’t give struggling students the help they need as they are unable to talk face-to-face with them, to find exactly what they’re having difficulty with.
Additionally, even though online schooling accommodates (顾及) students who live in more remote states, students in online programs may suffer in social situations because they will not learn valuable communication skills from their schooling. Similar to students who are home schooled, those who take only online classes won’t learn social etiquette (礼节), and will be treated differently by their peers.
Online schooling might be useful for places where there are not enough students for a real school, such as agricultural regions, but states should only spend taxpayers’ money on online schools in extreme cases.
【小题1】What is the passage mainly about?
| A.Whether students should study at online schools. |
| B.Whether online schools should be allowed to exist. |
| C.Whether taxpayers should pay for online schools. |
| D.Whether traditional schools should be replaced. |
| A.is helpful to students living in remote regions |
| B.allows students to work together |
| C.makes it possible for students to get immediate help |
| D.develops students’ critical thinking |
| A.might lose interest in learning |
| B.would play online games |
| C.could not receive teachers’ help |
| D.could not become fully developed |
| A.Taxpayers should not pay for online schools at all. |
| B.Taxpayers should pay more for online schools than real schools. |
| C.Taxpayers’ money should be spent on online schools conditionally. |
| D.Taxpayers should support online schools in different ways. |
HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.
Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.
“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.
High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.
Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”
“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.
The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.
Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.
“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.
Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.
【小题1】What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?
| A.The size of fat population. | B.The number of fast food restaurants. |
| C.The economic growth rate of the state. | D.Things related to unhealthy ways of life. |
| A.Houston. | B.Dallas. | C.Detroit. | D.Philadelphia. |
| A.are growing fatter | B.are living wastefully | C.eat too many fatty foods | D.are spending too much time working |
| A.Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S. |
| B.Bill White is happy with the newspaper report. |
| C.People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S. |
| D.Most school children in Houston have weight problems. |
HOUSTON (Reuters) — Houston tops a U.S. magazine’s annual fattest cities list for the fourth time in five years, with four other Texas cities in the top 25.
Fast food restaurants — Houston has twice the national average number — are partly to blame for the dishonor, Men’s Fitness editor-in-chief Neal Boulton said.
“Americans work long hours, don’t take vacations, and when they’re faced with the worst food choices, they indulge (沉溺于) in those,” he said.
High humidity, poor air quality and some of the nation’s longest commute (每天去上班的路程) times also helped Texas’ most populous city unseat Detroit, the 2003 heavy weight champion, the magazine said.
Houston Mayor Bill White, who has worked with a major food company to develop healthy food products and the city’s public schools to improve lunch menus, called the report “mostly ungrounded and nonsense.”
“On the other hand, it calls attention to real issues the mayor is trying to deal with,” his spokesman, Frank Michel, said.
The magazine said it looked at factors such as the number and types of restaurants, park space, air quality, weather and the number of health clubs.
Philadelphia, Detroit, Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago followed Houston on the seventh edition of the fat list. Texas cities Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth and El Paso were in the top 14, which Boulton said was no surprise.
“It’s pure big indulgence, just living big, and that’s part of the culture,” said Boulton.
Seattle ranked as the fittest city. Austin and Arlington, a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, were the only Texas cities on the fit list. Austin was 19th and Arlington 22nd out of 25.
1.What decides the magazine’s annual fattest list?
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A.The size of fat population. |
B.The number of fast food restaurants. |
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C.The economic growth rate of the state. |
D.Things related to unhealthy ways of life. |
2.Which city topped 2003 fattest cities list?
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A.Houston. |
B.Dallas. |
C.Detroit. |
D.Philadelphia. |
3.By saying “living big” (in Paragraph 9), Boulton means people _________.
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A.are growing fatter |
B.are living wastefully
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C.eat too many fatty foods |
D.are spending too much time working |
4.Which of the following is best supported by the text?
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A.Texas has the most fat cities in the U.S. |
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B.Bill White is happy with the newspaper report. |
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C.People in Texas are the most hardworking in the U.S. |
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D.Most school children in Houston have weight problems. |