- Why don't we go get coffee somewhere？-（).

A．Because it's cold. B．Because they don't waste energy. C．Because they eat less.

W: Well, first of all, I know that your firm has a very good reputation. Then I've heard you offer good opportunities for promotion for the right person. Q: What do we know from the conversation？ (17) A．The woman is being interviewed by a reporter. B．The woman is asking for a promotion. C．The woman is applying for a job. D．The woman is being given an examination.

A．Because B．Where C．Although D．Whatever

A．Most nurses work long days. B．They don't treat patients for illness and injury. C．Caring for sick patients requires patience and concern. D．They are not dedicated.

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C．

A．She was hurt by the man. B．She lost her temper. C．She couldn't get him over. D．She didn't like the dinner party.

W: But Mr. Shin, please don't forget about your appointment with Natalie at 2:00. You know she is a very important client for us, OK？ M: I know that. I' II try to be here on time. If I am late, could you please make an excuse for me？ W: Okay, by the way, did you finish making the list of things in the warehouse for the meeting with Susan at 5:00？ Where is the man going？ A．The sales department B．To meet Anna C．Business trip D．Main office

A．worked out B．worked up C．worked over D．worked against

I've twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield, something different is happening. It's the one-upmanship among parents. We see our kids' college rating as medals proving how well or how poorly we've raised them. But we can't acknowledge that our obsession is more about us than them. So we've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths. It actually doesn't matter much whether Aaron and Nicole go to Stanford. Admissions anxiety afflicts only a minority of parents. It's true that getting into college has generally become tougher because the number of high-school graduates has grown. From 1994 to 2006, the increase is 28 percent. Still, 64 percent of freshmen attend schools where acceptance rates exceed 70 percent, and the application surge at elite schools dwarfs population growth. Take Yale. In 1994, it accepted 18.9 percent of 12,991 applicants; this year it admitted only 8.6 percent of 21,000. We have a full-blown prestige panic; we worry that there won't be enough medals to go around. Fearful parents prod their children to apply to more schools than ever. "The epicenters (of parental anxiety) used to be on the coasts, Boston, New York, Washington, Los Angeles", says Tom Parker, Amherst's admissions dean. "But it's radiated throughout the country". Underlying the hysteria is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All that's plausible and mostly wrong. "We haven't found any convincing evidence that selectivity or prestige matters", says Ernest T. Pascarella of the University of Iowa, co author of "How College Affects Students", an 827-page evaluation of hundreds of studies of the college experience. Selective schools don't systematically employ better instructional approaches than less-selective schools, according to a study by Pascarella and George Kuh of Indiana University. Some do; some don't. On two measures professors' feedback and the number of essay exams selective schools do slightly worse. In the author's eyes, parents pushing their kids to an elite degree are ______. A．aggressive B．misguided C．reasonable D．failing

A．unexpected B．unusual C．unimportant: D．uncertain

A．rough B． popular C． imcome D． vist

A．He’s going through an operation． B．He’s getting sick． C．He’s had an accident． D．He looks good today．

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