What efforts have been made to increase graduation rates?
What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that______.
A.greater efforts should be made to improve people's living standards
B.70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years
C.40 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare
D.the living standards of most people are going down
What does "politically impossible to bring it down" (Para. 3) really mean?
A.Politicians will not sacrifice their interest to deal with inflation.
B.Politicians think rise in inflation is no big deal.
C.Politicians may not recognize inflation is a big threat.
D.All efforts conducted by presidents have been useless.
A.The festival has achieved continuing and growing success.
B.It has taken great efforts to hold the festival.
C.The festival has brought in a large amount of money.
D.There have been thousands of fans attending the festival.
What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that ________.
A) greater efforts should be made to improve people’s living standards
B) 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years
C) 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare
D) the living standards of most people are going down
What does the author think will likely happen to the car-bomb planting terrorists?
A.They will soon be arrested and severely punished.
B.The police will have great difficulty catching them.
C.They will escape overseas with the help of their organizations.
D.The police are unlikely to continue their efforts to identify them.
The author implies in this passage that ______.
A.Rivera has always been objective in reporting what he finds
B.Rivera never tries to conceal his own compassion in his reporting
C.Rivera has changed people's views on the disabled
D.Rivera's work and efforts have greatly improved the conditions of the disabled in New York
W: Thank you! And now we are all working still harder to prepare for the final.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
(7)
A.The debating team failed in the final.
B.The debating team couldn't reach the final.
C.The debating team has ultimately won the final.
D.The debating team is working very hard for the final.
What will be the Kosovo situation in the near future?
A.It will be better.
B.It will be worse.
C.It is unclear about that now.
D.It is not mentioned in the news.
Who most likely are the listeners?
A.Travelers.
B.News reporters.
C.Journalists.
D.Researchers.
A second aspect of the Web is that it is the first medium that honors the notion of multiple intelligences. This past century's concept of literacy grew out of our intense belief in text, a focus enhanced by the power of one particular technology-the typewriter. It became a great tool for writers but a terrible one for other creative activities such as sketching, painting, notating music, or even mathematics. The typewriter prized one particular kind of intelligence, but with the Web, we suddenly have a medium that honors multiple forms of intelligence—abstract, textual, visual, musical, social, and kinesthetic. As educators, we now have a chance to construct a medium that enables all young people to become engaged in their ideal way of learning. The Web affords the match we need between a medium and how a particular person learns.
A third and unusual aspect of the Web is that it leverages (起杠杆作用) the small efforts of the many with the large efforts of the few. For example, researchers in the Maricopa County Community College system in Phoenix have found a way to link a set of senior citizens with pupils in the Longview Elementary School, as helper-mentors (顾问). It's wonderful to sec-kids listen to these grandparents better than they do to their own parents, the mentoring really helps their teachers, and the seniors create a sense of meaning for themselves. Thus, the small efforts of the man—the seniors—complement the large efforts of the few—the teachers. The same thing can be found in operation at Hewlett-Packard, where engineers use the Web to help kids with science or math problems. Both of these examples barely scratch the surface as we think about what's possible when we start interlacing resources with needs across a whole region.
What does the word mind-stretching imply?
A.Obtaining one's mental power.
B.Strengthening one's power of thought.
C.Making great demands on one's mental power.
D.Exerting one's mental power as far as possible.