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　　There was a time when parents who wanted an educational present for their children would buy a typewriter, a globe or an encyclopedia set. Now those items seem hopelessly old-fashioned. This Christmas, there were a la of 1 computers under the tree. 2 that computers are the key to 3 , parents are also insisting frantically (狂乱地) that children, 4 taught to use them in school as early as possible.

　　The problem for schools is 5 it comes to computers, parents don't always know best . Marry schools are 6 parental patience and are buying hardware 7 proper educational planning so they can say, “OK, we've moved into the computer age.” Teachers 8 themselves caught in the middle of the problem between parent pressure and 9 educational decisions.

　　Educators do not even agree 10 how computers should be used. A lot of money is going for computerized educational materials 11 research has shown can be taught 12 with pencil and paper. Even those who believe that all children should have the chance to learn computers, warn people 13 potential(潜在的) 14 to the very young.

　　The temptation(诱惑) remains strong largely because young children are 15 computers. First graders have been 16 willing to work for two hours on maths skill. Some have an attention span of 20 minutes. 17 school can afford to go into computing, and that creates 18 another problem: a division between the haves and have-nots. Very few parents are 19 computer instruction in poor school districts, 20 there may be barely enough money to pay the reading teacher.

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　Extracts（摘录）from Information Booklet（手册）for car-ferry（渡船）passengers．

　　CAR DECKS

　　Car drivers are advised to use the handbrake before leaving their cars，to lock all doors and to take with them all belongings that may be needed during the crossing．

　　CURRENCY EXCHANGE

　　We regret that there are no facilities（设施）aboard for the exchange of cheques of any kind but most European currencies（notes but not coins）together with Eurocards and various types of international credit are accepted for payment in restaurants，shops，cinemas etc．and to carry out other transactions（交易）on board．

　　PASSENGER FACILITIES ON BOARD

　　The following are a small selection of those available．

　　PROMENADE DECK

　　Here you can enjoy a pleasant stroll，go for a jog，or sit or lie back in the sunshine in adaptable reclining seats．We would however advise passengers that decks may be slippery in wet or freezing weather．

　　VIEWING BRIDGE：This is situated below the Captain's Bridge and offers a view over the top of the ship．The viewing bridge is reached from the promenade deck via the foremost stairway．

　　A LA CARTE RESTAURANT：This serves the same breakfast buffet as the main

dining-room．Scandinavian and international specialties are available at lunch and dinner times．No reservations（订座）required．

　　DUTY-FREE SHOP：This is a supermarket offering Scandinavian and international goods，spirits，tobacco goods，sweets etc．

　　OPENING-TIMES：The opening times of the various shops，restaurants and other facilities are shown on the relevant entrance doors as well as on the boards in the main halls on Decks 4 and 5．

1．Passengers to the A La Carte restaurant ________．

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A．can order their breakfast from the menu

B．cannot reserve a place for lunch or dinner

C．can have the full menu whenever they like

D．can sit wherever they like when they come in

2．Information about opening times of shops and restaurants can be gotten ________．

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A．outside the shop or restaurant

B．inside the shop or restaurant

C．from the information office

D．elsewhere in the booklet

3．Which of the following car-ferry passengers might have trouble or difficulty on the ferry？

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A．A British standing on the viewing bridge below Captain's Bridge．

B．An Australian taking with him all his belongings in the car．

C．A Canadian with only banknotes from his own country．

D．A German sitting and lying on Promenade deck．

People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scan evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggests that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1.What were the people asked to do in the study?

A．To make a face at each other.

B．To get their faces impressive.

C．To classify (分类) some face pictures.

D．To observe the researchers' faces

2.What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A．The participants in the study.               B．The researchers of the study.

C．The errors made during the study.           D．The data collected from the study.

3.In comparison(比较) with Westerners, Easterners are likely to         .

A．do translation more successfully

B．study the mouth more frequently

C．examine the eyes more attentively

D．read facial expressions more correctly

4.What can be the best title for the passage?

A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul

B．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

C．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释, 写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。(每空只写一词)
【小题1】California also has the d______ of being the most multicultural state in the USA..
【小题2】According to the constitution, it is _________ (必须做的，义务的)for a citizen to undertake military service.
【小题3】Cloning plants is s___________ while cloning animals is very complicated.
【小题4】When I first applied for a patent I was very puzzled by the ______(评判的标准).
【小题5】It was this exploring around problems and his _________(充满活力的，精力充沛的)spirit that led to his most famous invention --- the telephone in 1876.
【小题6】Without any h_________, he jumped into the river to save the drowning child.
【小题7】The football game will continue, ___________（不管、不顾）of wind and rain.
【小题8】Although he is most often a________ with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing searcher after practical solutions to improve the quality of everyday’s life.
【小题9】The flower girl’s poor English will _______(使、、、注定) her to the gutter to the end of her days.
【小题10】The war ________（中断了）the trade between the two countries.

Shoppers throughout the West, wary(警惕的) of a double-dip recession（经济衰退）, are still pinching their pennies. However, Chinese consumers are opening their wallets—big time. According to McKinsey, shop sales in China have grown by 25 percent annually from 2007 to 2009. Consumer confidence is now at its highest point since 2007 and female shoppers are leading the way.

Chinese women saved just 24 percent of their income, compared with 55 percent in 2006, according to a recent study in Women of China Magazine. What’s more, three quarters of Chinese women say that they’re the ones who control the family purse strings .That means the nation’s 650 million women are an “emerging powerhouse within the powerhouse” of China.

In the 1950s women contributed just 20 percent of household income. That rose to about 40 percent in the 1990s and then reached 50 percent last year.

 In a recent study of Chinese consumer behavior, McKinsey found that women tend to shop more frequently than men, and spend more on personal-care products and food. Men, by contrast, tend to spend more of their income on gadgets(小玩意) , drinks and alcohol, dining out, and socializing. They also tend to save for the bigger-ticket items, like cars and houses.

Chinese women make up an ever-growing small part of the market—up from 20 percent a decade ago to 50 percent last year. It’s estimated that in the next five years women will account for 55 percent of the $9 billion market. “The future is female,” concludes a January HSBC(汇丰银行) report on luxury goods(奢侈品) in China.

The Chinese Market Research Group recently found that women younger than 35 are the most optimistic segment(群体) in China. A very large 80 percent of the 3,500 women surveyed saying they’ll spend more in the second half of 2010 than they did in the first half. With trends like these, Chinese women may bring new meaning to the term “the power of the purse.”

1.According to the passage, Chinese women _________.

A. save more of their income than before

B. save less of their income than before

C. make as much money as men in the 1990s

D. spend half of their income on luxury goods

2.The fourth paragraph mainly tells us that _________.

A. women go shopping more frequently than men

B. women spent more on personal care products than men

C. men tend to save for the bigger-ticket items than women

D. Chinese women and men have different consuming behavior

3.The underlined phrase in the first paragraph probably means_________.

A. making more money in a careful way

B. wasting their money without hesitation

C. spending their money in a careful way

D. recovering the economy at a fast speed

4.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A. Chinese Men Go Socializing      B. Chinese Women Go shopping

C. The Future Is Female            D. The Purse Is Powerful