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Pathways to Research: Problem-solving
(1) Pittsburgh&39;s many hills aren&39;t kind to bikers. Anyone hoping to pedal to work there has to contend with steep streets like Canton Avenue, which famously climbs at a nearly 40-degree angle. As a result, some residents avoid biking altogether.<br>
(2) But University of Pittsburgh graduate Micah Toll,23, and a few friends recently launched an invention that they hope will increase the city&39;s pedal power. An electric bike called to Pulse PEVO.<br>
A super-strong battery powers the bicycle. Able to hit nearly 20 miles per hour without pedaling, it zips up the city&39;s most daunting(令人却步的)hills. Toll hopes it will persuade people in Pittsburgh and elsewhere to get out of their cars and onto bikes.<br>
(3) If it sounds like Toll has a knack (窍门 ) for fixing problems, that&39;s because he does. In high school, he designed a new type of construction beam. It weighs no more than a feather pillow but can be used to build sturdy (坚固的 ) homes for refugees fleeing war or natural disaster.<br>
For his work, Toll was invited to attend the Inter International Science and Engineering Fair(self)- twice, in 2006 and 2007. The annual competition for young researchers is program of Society for Science & the Public (that&39;s the parent organization of Science News for Kids). Toll says that when, it comes to science, he keeps it simple: "You see a problem and say, "How could I solve that?"<br>
(4) He&39;s not the only to take that approach. Many young researchers get their start by trying to solve a problem or fulfill a need in their own communities. When students dedicate themselves to finding a solution that many benefit their community, "a passion is ignited (点燃) ," says Wendy Hawkins, executive director of the Inter Foundation, which sponsors Intel ISEF." Finding that passion and fostering it can be the key to many students future success," she says.
Paragraph 1 __________ 查看材料
A.Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
B.The enthusiasm for solving problems
C.The young researchers" passion
D.An invention increasing pedal power
E.Why people avoid biking in Pittsburgh
F.The cause of national disaster
The University of Washington
A.situates in Pacific Northeast
B.enrolls few international students
C.only offers financial aid to undergraduate students
D.does not offer financial aid to overseas students
A.growth
B.grows
C.grown
D.grower
A. conclusion
B. standard
C. potential
D. recognition
A description of the current international monetary system is as follows:______.
A.a free-floating system
B.all currencies are pegged (fixed in price) to another currency or to a basket (group) of currencies
C.some currencies are pegged and some float, but few remain fixed at the same rate for very long
D.all currencies float within an agreed upon range of one another
The author believes that, since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol,____.
A) politicians have started to do something to better the situation
B) few nations have adopted real tough measures to limit energy use
C) reductions in energy consumption have greatly cut back global warming
D) international cooperation has contributed to solving envoronmental problems
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Star Quality
A new anti-cheating system for counting the judges&39; scores in ice skating is flawed, according to leading sports specialists. Ice skating&39;s governing body announced the new rules last week after concerns that a judge at the Winter Olympics may have been unfairly influenced.<br>
Initially the judges in the pairs figure-skating event at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City voted 5 to 4 to give the gold medal to a Russian pair, even though they had a fall during their routine. But the International Skating Union suspended the French judge for failing to reveal that she had been put under pressure to vote for the Russians. The International Olympics Committee then decided to give a second gold to the Canadian runners-up (亚军 ).<br>
The ISU, skating&39;s governing body, now says it intends to change the rules. In the future 14 judges will judge each event, but only 7 of their scores- selected at random--will count.<br>
The ISU won&39;t finally approve the new system until it meets in June but already UK Sport, the British Government&39;s sports body, has expressed reservations. "I remain to be convinced that the random selection system would offer the guarantees that everyone concerned with ethical sport is looking for," says Jerry Bingham, UK Sport&39;s head of ethics (伦理) .<br>
A random system can still be manipulated, says Mark Dixon, a specialist on sports statistics from the Royal Statistical Society in London. "The score of one or two judges who have been nobbled (受到贿赂) may still be in the seven selected."<br>
Many other sports that have judges, including diving, gymnastics, and synchronized swimming,have a system that discards the highest and lowest scores. If a judge was under pressure to favour a particular team, they would tend to give it very high scores and mark down the opposition team, so their scores wouldn&39;t count. It works for diving, says Jeff Cook, a member of the international government body&39;s technical committee. "If you remove those at the top and bottom you&39;re left with those in the middle, so you&39;re getting a reasonable average."<br>
Since the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, diving has tightened up in its system still further. Two separate panels of judges score different rounds of diving during top competitions. Neither panel knows the scores given by the other. "We have done this to head off any suggestion of bias," says Cook.<br>
Bingham urged the ISU to consider other options. "This should involve examining the way in which other sports deal with the problem of adjudicating (裁定) on matter of style. and presentation," he says.<
Who won the gold medal in the pairs figure-skating event? 查看材料
A.The Russian pair
B.The Canadian pair
C.Both the Russian pair and the Canadian pair
D.The French pair
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A.From the moment they join the company, employees are faced with having to think internationally.
B.This can be through involvement in international task forces or through living and working abroad.
C.Should, for example, only an elite few receive international experience in preparation for top jobs or should it be offered to a wider group?
D.These problems mean that developing managers who think and operate globally is absolutely vital for companies operating in foreign markets.
E.Language training, overseas visits and in-house management courses are all expensive to implement.
F.Jet-setting between international operations merely creates a business equivalent of the over-packaged tourist.
G.Companies are now emphasising the human skills involved in managing other people.
H.These trends are pushing companies' existing management resources to the limit.
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Travel Across Africa
For six hours we shot through the barren (荒芜的) landscape of the Karoo desert in South Africa. Just rocks and sand and baking sun. Knowing our journey was ending, Daniel and 1 just wanted to remember all we had seen and done. He used a camera. I used words. I had already finished three notebooks and was into the fourth, a beautiful leather notebook I&39;d bought in a market in Mozambique.<br>
Southern Africa was full of stories and visions. We were almost drunk on sensations. The roaring of the water at Victoria Falls, the impossible silence of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.<br>
And then the other things: dogs in the streets, whole families in Soweto living in one room, a kilometer from clean water.<br>
As we drove towards the setting sun, a quietness fell over us. The road was empty--we hadn&39;t seen another car for hours. And as I drove, something caught my eye, something moving close enough to touch them, to smell their hot breath. I didn&39;t know how long they had been there next to us.<br>
I shouted to Dan: "Look! but he was in a deep sleep, his camera lying useless by his feet."<br>
They raced the car for a few seconds, then disappeared far behind us, a memory of heroic forms in the red landscape.<br>
When Daniel woke up an hour later I told him what had happened.<br>
"Wild horses? "he said. "Why didn&39;t you wake me up, Sophia?"<br>
"I tried. But they were gone after a few seconds."<br>
"Are you sure you didn&39;t dream it?"<br>
"You were the one who was sleeping! "<br>
"Typical," he said. "The best photos are the ones we never take."<br>
We checked into a dusty hotel and slept the sleep of the dead.
Daniel and Sophia drove slowly through the busy desert. 查看材料
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Not mentioned
What do Nick Gibb’s words mean?
A) The British government should put more money into math education.
B) Britain is falling behind in the international knowledge competition.
C) The British government should learn from other countries’ failures.
D) The British government should change their teaching methods every few years.