7、It is commonly believed that school is where people go to get education.  1  , it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The   2  between schooling and education suggested by this is important.

Education is  3 , compared with schooling. Education knows no edges. It can take place   4  , whether in the shower or on the job, whether in a kitchen or on a tractor. It includes both the  5__ learning that takes place in schools and the whole universe of learning out of class.   6   the experience of schooling can be known in advance, education quite often produces surprises. A chance talk with a  may lead to a person to discover how  8  he knows of another country. People obtain education from  9  on. Education, then, is a very  10  and unlimited term. It is lifelong experience that starts long  11  the start of school, and one that should be a necessary part of one’s entire life.

Schooling, on the other hand, is a  12  experience, whose style changes  13   from one way to the next. Throughout a country, children arrive at school at the same time, take  14  seats, use similar textbooks, do homework, and   15  , and so on. Schooling has usually been limited by the edges of the subjects being taught.

1. A. Then           B. However         C. Thus            D. Therefore

2. A. difference    B. importance      C. use             D. problem

3. A. unexpected    B. endless        C. countless       D. simple

4. A. anywhere       B. nowhere         C. somewhere       D.somewhere else

5. A. part-time      B. public          C. standard        D. strict

6. A. If             B. Because         C. So              D. Though

7. A. neighbor      B. friend          C. foreigner       D. teacher

8. A. wonderful      B. well            C. greatly         D. little

9. A. babies        B. grown-ups        C. women           D. men

10. A. long         B. broad            C. narrow          D. short

11. A. that         B. when             C. after           D. before

12. A. basic        B. right            C. final           D. irregular

13. A. unusually    B. differently      C. little          D. frequently

14. A. large        B. new              C. fixed           D. small

15. A. take exams   B. hold exams       C. mark papers     D. read papers

 

 

5、Visitors from space may have landed on our planet hundreds of times during the long, empty ages, while Man was still a dream of the distant future. Indeed, they could have landed on 90% of the earth as recently as two or three hundred years ago, and we could never have heard of it. If one searches through old newspapers and local records, one can find many reports of strange incidents that could be interpreted (解释) as visits from outer space. A winter, Charles Fort, had made a collection of UFO sightings in his book. One is tempted to believe them more than any modern reports, for the simple reason that they happened long before anyone had ever thought of space travel. Yet at the same time, one can’t take them too seriously, for before scientific education was widespread, even sightings of meteors (流星) and comets (慧星) gave rise to the most unbelievable stories, as they still do today.

1. According to the passage visitors from space may have landed on the earth _____.

A. long before man had dreamed of it 

B. long before there were human beings

C. in the last few hundred years      

D. after the space age began

2. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

A. All observations of UFO are believable

B. Charles Fort collected a lot of UFOs himself

C. Older civilization (文明) may exist on other planets

D. People have seen visitors from other planets everywhere

3. If visitors from other planets have actually landed on the earth, one can suppose that they came to _____.

A. make war  B. play jokes   C. settle down   D. explore

4. The passage implies that with the spread of scientific education, it has _____.

A. made the reported sightings unbelievable 

B. increased the number of UFOs

C. stopped the scientific study of UFO      

D. given clearer pictures of UFOs

5. According to the passage, _____.

A. UFO’s are only recent observations     

B. UFO sightings are not new

C. UFO’s always are meteors and comets   

D. UFO’s are invented by people

4、Dog owners now have a little help understanding their furry friends . A new device called Bow-Lingual “translates” dog barks into English , Korea or Japanese.

Bow-Lingual’s Japanese inventors spent much time and money analyzing dog barks . They found that dog noises can be broken down into six different emotions : happiness , sadness , frustration , anger , assertion and desire .

Part of the Bow-Lingual device hangs on the dog’s collar . The other part is a handle-held unit for the owner . When the dogs barks , the unit displays translated phrases .

Some people have scoffed at Bow-Lingual. “Who would pay US$ 120 to read a dog’s mind?” they ask .

But those who have purchased Bow-Lingual praise the device . Pet owner Keiko Egawa , of Japan , says it helps her empathize with her dog , Harry . “Before we go to the park , he always says he wants to play,” says Egawa , “and after a walk , he always says he is hungry.”

Bow –Lingual is not yet available in Chinese. So you’d better keep studying Studio Classroom , or soon your dog may know more English than you do !

1.This passage is mainly talking about         .

A.Bow-Lingual’s inventors    

B.dog’s different emotions

C.talking dogs                 

D.a little help for dog owners

2.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage ?

A.Dog owners now can understand their dogs better .

B.Bow-Lingual is a new device that enables dogs to talk in English , Korean or Japanese .

C.More and more Chinese dog owners would keep studying Studio Classroom in

 order to know more English than their dogs .

D.People who have used the Bow-Lingual say it helps them better understand their dogs .

3.What does “scoffed at” mean in the 3rd paragraph ?

A.shouted at      B.questioned at   C.laughed at    D.doubted about

4.How do you understand the sentence “Bow-Lingual is not yet available in Chinese” in the last paragraph ?

A.Bow-Lingual has not yet appeared in Chinese market .

B.Bow-Lingual can not yet recognized Chinese dogs’ barks .

C.Chinese dog owners do not know yet how to use Bow-Lingual .

D.Dog barks can not yet be translated into Chinese phrases with Bow-Lingual .

5.The writer of this passage is most likely to be         .

A.a dog owner  B.a reporter   C.an advertiser   D.an expert on dog barks

3、When you enter a supermarket, you see shelves full of food. You walk between the shelves. You carry a shopping basket and put your food in it. You probably hear soft, low music as you walk between the shelves. __1  .

Maybe you go to the meat department first. There is some meat on sale, and you want to find it. The manager of the supermarket knows where customers enter the meat department.       2  . Maybe you will buy some of the expensive meat instead of the meat on sale.

     The department selling milk and milk products such as butter and milk powder is called the dairy department.   3   . One store has three different jars of low fat milk. One says “1 percent fat” on the jar. The second says “99 percent fat free.” The third says “LOW FAT” in big letters and “1 %” in small letters. As you can see, all the milk has the same amount of fat. The milk is all the same,    4   . Maybe the customers will buy the milk that costs the most.

       5  . The expensive meat says “Buy me!” as you walk by. The expensive jar says “Buy me! I have less fat.”

A. However, in this store the three jars of milk cost three different amounts of money.

B. If you hear fast music, you walk quickly. The supermarket plays slow music, and you walk slowly and have more time to buy things.

C. Most of the food in the supermarket is very pleasing. It all says “Buy me!” to the customers.

D. The cheaper meat is at the other end of the meat department, away from where the customers enter. You have to walk by all the expensive meat before you find the cheaper meat.

E. Many customers like milk that has only a little fat in it.

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