A teacher of English as a second language is the 2004 Teacher of the Year in the United States.Kathy Mellor of Rhode Island will spend the next year as an international spokeswoman for education.President Bush and his wife,Laura,honored her during a ceremony(仪式)at the White House last week.

For the past nineteen years,Kathy Mellor has taught English as a second language at Davisville Middle School in North Kingstown,Rhode Island,in the northeastern United States.She redesigned the program for E.S.L students at her school to provide each student with one to three periods per day in classes for English learners.How much instruction the students get depends on their level of skill in listening,speaking,reading and writing.The amount of time they spend in these classes is reduced as their level of English increases.

A teacher describes this as the most successful E.S.L.program in North Kingstown.She also praises Kathy Mellor for providing help to students and their families by forming a local parents group for speakers of other languages.This improved their ability to help their children.Kathy Mellor earned a master’s degree in education from Rhode Island College.She studied teaching English as a second language.

She was chosen for the national honor of Teacher of the Year from among top teachers in each of the fifty states.As Teacher of the Year,Kathy Mellor will travel around the United States and to other countries.She will talk about the importance of education and the work of teachers.

50.This passage is mainly about______.

A.Teacher of the Year 2004 in the United States

B.Ms Mellor’s English teaching instruction

C.Ms Mellor’s teaching skills of learning English

D.praises to Ms Mellor from other teachers

51.What does“E.S.L.”in the passage stand for?

A.English study learners.                               B.English speaking and listening.

C.English special learners.                           D.English as a second language.

52.From this passage we can learn that______.

A.middle school teachers from each state are honored Teachers of the Year

B.middle school teachers in the USA have to get master’s degrees

C.Ms Mellor’s students have no problems in learning English

D.the American government pays much attention to education

Ryan and Lowry had been friends since high school, but it wasn’t until after college that they hit on the idea of a home-care-products company.“We were shocked to learn how toxic cleaning products were” says Ryan.Why couldn’t they create green products that would be just as environmentally pure as Aveda’s skin-and-hair-care lines?

When Ryan’s mom heard about the plan,she stared at him blankly: “I’ve never even seen you clean your room!” Not discouraged,Lowry experimented with nontoxic ways to clean while Ryan focused on marketing.In February 2001,they mixed their first four cleaning sprays and convinced the managers of 20 grocers to try them· Once they had their approval,they tapped friends and family and pooled their  savings to come up with $90,000 in seed money.

From the start,“Go big or go home’’ was their mantra(口头禅).Their first financing— that $l million—was due to be signed on September 11, 2001. By the time they got it, two months later,says Ryan, "we had$16 in the bank and personally owed$300,000.”

Seeking a national retailer(零售商)proved just as troublesome.The friends set their sights on Target,known for its trendy,affordable goods.“But Target didn’t like the product or the brand,”recalled Ryan.“We thought the deal was dead,but then a new buyer saw that even though we weren’t selling big volumes, we were  profitable, just on a smaller scale.”They won over Target.

Consumers were hooked on the natural things and wonderful fragrance. Today, the partners sell 130 products in more than 8,000 stores,and taxes are over$100 million. Such rapid growth has at times  stressed the men’s friendship. “Eric and I agree on ‘what’ but never on ‘how,’ says Lowry. “Although we are willing to challenge each other,we come up with interesting and smarter solutions.There’s little fire and ice between us.”

The underlined word “toxic” in Paragraph 1 most probably means——·

  A.poisonous    B.dirty    C.expensive    D.troublesome

When Ryan told his mom his plan, ___________.

A.he knew his mom was sure to support him

B.his mom asked him to clean his room

C.his mom suspected his ability

D.he was discouraged by his mom

We can learn from the third paragraph that ___________.

    A.Ryan and Lowry wanted to give up and go home at first

    B.their plan didn’t go smoothly at the very beginning

    C.they made profit two months later after their first financing

    D.$1 million was not enough as their seed money

The partners’ cleaning products are sold very well because_________.

    A.the products are made of natural material and smell nice

    B.their friends and family offered to use their products

    C.they cooperated with a well—known national retailer

    D.they convinced 20 grocer managers to try them

It can be inferred from the passage that___________.

    A.Aveda’s skin-and-hair-care lines are not so successful as Ryan and Lowry’s

    B.Target is a famous environment-friendly cleaning brand

    C.The friends "cooperation with Target was very successful

D.The partners get on well with each other in their business     

The International Space Station,one of the most ambitious space projects ever and a key launching board for exploration of the solar system,turns l0 years old Thursday.

    On Nov.20,1998,the first part of the space station was launched by the Russians from Kazakhstan.NASA followed up two weeks later with Piece No 2 carried up by a space shuttle.

    The space station has grown into a giant outpost(前哨)355 km up,home to three people at any given time—soon to be six.

    Thanks to the newly arrived shuttle Endeavour,the space station now has five sleep stations,two baths,two kitchens and two mini—gyms.Ahogether, there are nine rooms,three of which are full scale labs.

    The United States has financed the main part of the project,estimated to cost some 100 billion dollars.Fifteen other countries have also contributed, including Russia,Japan,Canada,Brazil anti eleven nations belonging to the  European Space Agency.

    Fhe space station has traveled 2.1 billion km,orbited Earth more than 57,300 times,hosted 167 people from 15 countries,and served up more than l 9,000 meals

    “The ISS is the largest ever expenment in international technological cooperation,” said John Logsdon。a historian at the National Air and Space Museum in US.

    “1 think it’s a necessary stepping stone to long—term human activities in new Areas of operations,”Logsdon said.The station is“off the planet and it’s the first Step outward—not all end in itself,but a step along the way.”

1.The passage is mainly about             

A the construction of the International Space Station

B.the history of the International Space Station.

C the tenth anniversary of the International Space Station.

D.the eountries that help establish the International Space Station.

2.Piece No 2 of the ISS was put into orbit oil             

A.Nov.6,1998       B.Nov.24,1998

C.Dec.8,1998       D.Dec.9,1998

3.Which of the following is true about Endeav our according to the passage?

A.Endeavour is a newly built shuttle

B.Endeavour is part of the space station

C.Endeavour didn’t get close to the space station

D.Endeavour carried a lot of equipment for the apace station

4.Which of the following country has not made a contribution to the eonstruction of the International space station according to the passage?

A.USA.    B.Japan.    C.Korea.    D.Spain

 

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