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Passage Two
America put more people in prison in the 1990s than in any decade in its history. That started a debate over the wisdom of spending billions of dollars to keep nearly 2 million people locked up. According to statistics, the United States ends 1999 with 1983084 men and women in prisons. That shows an increase of nearly 840,000 prisoners during the 1990s and makes the United States the country with the highest prisoner population in the world. With the cost of housing a prisoner at about $20,000 a year the cost in 1999 for keeping all these prisoners behind bars is about $39 billion.
Some experts argue that the money is well spent, saying the cost of keeping prisoners behind bars doesn't seem much in comparison in the 1990s coincided with (与……相一致) a steady drop in the US crime rates. It is reported that serious crime has decreased for seven years in a row. "There are noticeable number of people who don't do crimes because they don't want to go to prison," they say.
36. There is a heated debate among American experts because ______.
A. America has put 2 million people in prison
B. the cost for housing a prisoner keeps rising
C. billions of dollars has been spent on prisoners
D. the prisoner population is the largest in the world
The painter lived more than a decade in Europe, () he could be in close contact with other masters(大师 ).
A.where
B.in which
C.that
D.in that
听力原文: What kind of car will we be driving by the year 20107 It may be rather different from the type we know today. With the next decade, bringing greater change than the past 50 years, the people who will be designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems may well accelerate the pace of the car' s development. The vision is that of a machine with 3 wheels instead of 4, electrically-powered, environmentally clean and able to drive itself along intelligent roads, equipped with built-in power supplies. Future cars will pick up the fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road, or stored in small quantifies for travelling in the city. Instead of today' s seating arrangement, two in front, two or three behind, all facing forward, the 2010 car will have an interior with adults and children in a family circle. This view of future carls based on a much more sophisticated road system. Cars will be automatically controlled by a computer. All the drivers will have to do is to say where to go and the computer will do the rest. It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another. The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.
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A.They will be much bigger.
B.They will have more seats.
C.They will have three wheels.
D.They will need intelligent drivers.
According to the passage, urban Japanese __________
A.enjoy more the convenience of modem life than rural people
B.have realized the objective set down a decade ago
C.cherish more the chance to live with other relatives
D.are more likely to be the victim of the current life-styles
根据材料回答下列各题:Compared with people a decade ago, Japanese nowadays __________
A. are less likely to observe conventional ideas on working
B. tend to work harder for themselves than for a company
C. are more clear about what they should do in their lives
D. are always confused by the western standard on hard working
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransfgord and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that knowledge to a new situation but a quality was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called "preparation for future learning." The researches asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protect bald eagles from extinction. Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality (through the college students had better spelling skills). From the standpoint of a traditional educator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems and extinction, major scientific ideas.
The researches decided to go deeper, however. They asked both groups to generate questions about important issues needed to create recovery plans. On this task, they found large differences. College students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles("How big are they?" and "What do they eat?"). The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking. They had learned how to learn.
Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondly schools. At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry We found that when we taught participants to ask "What if?" and "How can?" questions that nobody present would know the answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit-asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better interpretations of their results. Specially, their questions became more comprehensive at the new exhibit. Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question. Asking juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative inquiry into the science content found in exhibits.
This type of learning is not confined to museums of institutional settings. Informal learning environment tolerate failure better than schools. Perhaps many teachers have too little time to allow students to form. and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the curriculum. But people must acquire this skill somewhere. Our society depend on them being able to make critical decisions about their own medical treatment, says, or what we must do about global energy needs and demands. For that, we have a robust informal system that gives no grades, takes all comers, and is available even on holidays and weekends.
56.What is traditional educators' interpretation of the search outcome mentioned in the first paragraph?
A.Students are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems
B.College students are no better than fifth graders in memorizing issues.
C.Education has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.
D.Educated has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.
57.In what way are college students different from children?
A.They have learned to think critically
B.They are concerned about social issues
C.They are curious about specific features.
D.They have learned to work independently
58.What is benefit of asking questions with no ready answers?
A.It arouse students' interest in things around them.
B.It cultivates students' ability to make scientific inquiries.
C.It trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.
D.It helps students realize not every question has an answer
59.What is said to be the advantage of informal learning?
A.It allows for failures
B.It is entertaining
C.It charges no tuition
D.It meets practical need.
60.What does author seem to encourage educators to do at the end of the passage?
A.Train students to think about global issues.
B.Design more interactive classroom activities.
C.Make full use of informal learning resources.
D.Include collaborative inquiry in the curriculum.
A.happened
B.participated
C.involved
D.joined
A.It has been due for more than two months.
B.It has been overdue for less than two months.
C.It has been overdue for more than two months.
D.It has been overdue for more than three months.