40. This passage is
mainly about ______.
A. talking to ships at sea around the world
B. breaks in the worldwide network
C. the first American to orbit the
earth
D. a satellite which fell into the ocean
41. From the passage we can see that ______.
A. Friendship 7 stopped in Perth, Australia
B. all tracking stations are inside the United States
C. radio equipment is important in space flight
D. many people could see Glenn in his capsule when he
made the flight
42. During his flight Glenn could always ______.
A. see lights on the ground
clearly
B. reach ships at sea
C. reach one of the tracking
stations
D. arrive at Mercury in his Friendship 7
43. Why did people in Perth turn on the lights?
A. They wanted to guide Glenn to
land.
B. It was too dark for them to see in the room.
C. They wanted to see Friendship 7.
D. They wanted to greet Glenn.
C
The Beatles had a song that once was a hit
on US college campuses, back in the 60s, that went like this: “They say the
best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees. Now
give me money. That’s what I want.”
That may have been almost 40 years ago, but
those words are still true for some students today, according to a survey of
students’ attitudes.
The American Freshman Survey of more than
267,000 students at 413 colleges and universities nationwide showed more than
50 percent of them said they went to college for “financial well-being in the
future”. Fewer than 40 percent saw higher education as a way of developing a
meaningful philosophy of life.
University of California education professor
Linda Sax, the director of the survey, said this reflects a longstanding
tension between material rewards and the value of education, something that has
been strengthened in recent years.
“Students
also increasingly concentrate on prestige(声望)
and college rankings, making them more concerned about where they go to school
than why they’re going,” Sax said.
Dustin Grant, a freshman of University of
Southern California, said the survey results matched his views on what students
think about as they leave high school.
Grant, who is a business major, thinks the
high costs of college fuel this materialism.
“This is a major investment - like US$40,000
a year. When you’re putting so much in, you’re going to expect to get something
out of it,” he said.
But, the 20-year-old added: “Required
courses in humanities and the intellectual life on campus can encourage
students to think critically about their values and beliefs. College surely
opens up new perspectives(景象).
Seniors probably express a greater concern for finding meaning in life.”