A.protect undocumented immigrants from deportation
B.offer young immigrants free education and job training
C.undergo broad immigration reform. across the states
D.make progress toward fair immigration enforcement
Two years in making, the new rules, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, will allow districts to create single-sex schools and classes as long as enrollment is voluntary. School districts that go that route must also make coeducational schools and classes of "substantially equal" quality available for members of the excluded sex.
The federal action is likely to accelerate efforts by public school systems to experiment with single-sex education, particularly among charter schools. Across the nation, the number of public schools exclusively for boys or girls has risen from 3 in 1995 to 241 today, said Leonard Sax, executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education. That is a tiny fraction of the approximately 93,000 public schools across the country.
"You're going to see a proliferation of these," said Paul Vallas, chief of schools in Philadelphia, where there are four single-sex schools and plans to open two more. "There's a lot of support for this type of school model in Philadelphia."
Until now, Mr. Vallas said, there had been a threat of legal challenge that had delayed, for example, a boys' charter school from opening in Philadelphia this September. New York City has nine single-sex public schools, most of which opened in the past four years.
While the move was sought by some conservatives and urban educators, and had backing from both sides of the political aisle, a number of civil rights and women's rights groups condemned the change.
"It really is a serious green light from the Department of Education to re-instituting official discrimination in schools around the country," said Marcia Greenberger, a co-president of the National Women's Law Center.
Under Title IX, the 1972 law that banned sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funds, single-sex classes and extracurricular activities are largely limited to physical education classes that include contact sports and to sex education.
To open schools exclusively for boys or girls, a district has until now had to show a "compelling reason", for example, that it was acting to remedy past discrimination.
But a new attitude began to take 'hold with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Law in 2002 when women senators from both parties came out in support of same-sex education and asked the Education Department to draft guidelines to permit their growth.
The new rules, first proposed by the Education Department in 2004, are designed to bring Title IX into conformity with a section of the No Child Left Behind Law that called on the department to promote single-sex schools.
What is the requirement for the districts to create single-sex schools?
A.There should be coeducational schools.
B.There should be quality classes available to both sexes.
C.There should be voluntary enrollers in such schools.
D.There should be equal approach to both single-sex classes and coeducational classes.
The caverns have been known and used since the days of the Cherokee Indian Nation. The cave expands into a series of huge rooms from a small opening on the side of the mountain. Approximately one mile from the entrance, in a room called "the Council Room", many Indian artifacts have been found. Some of the items discovered include pottery, arrowheads, weapons and jewelry.
For many years there were persistent rumors of a large underground lake somewhere in a cave, but it was not discovered until 1905. In that year, a thirteen-year-old boy named Ben Sands crawled through a small opening three hundred feet underground. He found himself in a large cave half filled with water.
Today tourists visit the Lost Sea and ride far out onto it in glass-bottomed boats powered by electric motors. More than thirteen acres of water have been mapped out so far and still no end to the lake has been found. Even though teams of divers have tried to explore the Lost Sea, the full extent of it is still unknown.
According to the passage, the lost Sea is unique because it is ______.
A.part of a historical cave system
B.the biggest underground lake in the world
C.listed in the "Guinness Book of World Records"
D.the largest body of water in Tennessee
Germans have long fretted over time. Wasting it is forbidden;【C6】______ is required. The country's austere Protestantism helps to explain this, but【C7】______ may a culture of industrial might. The efficient division of labor requires a【C8】______ schedule. And the family【C9】______ of a lone male breadwinner set a broad daily framework. With few mothers working, shop opening hours could be short, schools could open for only half the day and child care assistance was【C10】______ .
Yet with the economy 【C11】______ driven by services, this time corset (紧身衣) is gradually loosening. More than half of employees now 【C12】______ their own working hours.【C13】______ two-thirds of all women work, up from half in the 1970s. Then there is digital technology:【C14】______ arriving on the dot, you can send a text message apologizing for being late.【C15】______ , many Germans seem to have trouble adjusting to their new flexibility. There are objective reasons, such as the continuing【C16】______ of child-care facilities, which makes it harder for mothers to combine jobs and children.
【C17】______ , this is all an outcome of rising wealth and ever more distractions. Yet there are also 【C18】______ barriers that keep Germans from using their time better. One is a bias【C19】______ hiring help, which many see as akin to slavery. Germans spend much time toiling at home unpaid:【C20】______ other countries have so many home-improvement stores.
【C1】
A.After
B.Until
C.When
D.While
【B1】
A.length
B.interval
C.period
D.meantime
Unfortunately many young people have to make career plans【C8】______benefit of help from a(n)【C9】______vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing【C10】______about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their lifework on a hit-or-miss basis. Some【C11】______from job to job. Others【C12】______to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted.
One common mistake is choosing an occupation for【C13】______real or imagined prestige. Too many high school students--or their parents for them--choose the professional field,【C14】______both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal【C15】______.The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a white-collar job is no good【C16】______for choosing it as life's work.【C17】______, these occupations are not always well paid, since a large【C18】______of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the【C19】______of young people should give serious【C20】______to these fields.
【C1】
A.identification
B.entertainment
C.accommodation
D.occupation
听力原文: Some luxury brands have always aimed exclusively at either men or women, but most are happy to promote their stores to serve both sexes. (33)Yet just as some educators believe that single-sex classrooms are better for learning, some luxury brands are finding that single-sex stores sell better. The trend of opening stores for men only took off two years ago. Now more brands are catching on.
Men can be very loyal customers, supporting their favorite brands more than women do, but they also tend to adopt a hunting attitude toward shopping. Men like to hunt, while women gather. (34)Men will set out on a shopping expedition with a clear, specific goal in mind, and once they've found what they want, they quickly leave the crowd. Women are content to spend hours searching, often with no clear goal. But give a man a retail environment where he feels at home--or even more comfortable than he does at home--and you'll keep him there longer, and almost certainly sell him more. Even luxury brands already strongly associated with menswear are paying more attention to their retail space, trying to create a private club environment.
The men-only concept store is likely to expand as luxury firms pursue male spending power in emerging markets, particularly in Asia. "Though things are slowly changing, traditionally the man has had the spending power in China," says Barker. (35)"And now that the rich Chinese customer isn't under pressure to hide his wealth, men are really treating themselves and visibly enjoying the fruits of their success."
(30)
A.Single-sex stores appeal to customers better.
B.Single-sex stores can't perform. well.
C.It is hard to arrange a single-sex store.
D.Kids will prefer to single-sex stores later.
听力原文: Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between be does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence mere than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and is number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure.
The aim of conversation is, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening, during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationalists.
(30)
A.To exchange ideas.
B.To prove their value.
C.To achieve success in life.
D.To overcome their fear of silence.
According to the author, conversation is by and large a grim effort to ______.
A.prevent men thinking they are failures
B.eradicate man's fear of silence
C.avoid silence
D.make a man feel he has value in other's eyes