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Most computer users want to know how the computer mouse works.()
Among all the computer pointing devices, touch screen is the most expensive one.()
English and English Community
There is no denying that English is a useful language. The people who speak English today make up the ___1___ speech
community in the world with the exception of speakers of Chinese. Originally they were small tribes of people from northern Europe who ___2___ in England. Their languages became more and more ___3___ to each other. Finally, the language
had enough uniformity to be used by all speakers in England. The people were united into a speech community through
their shared languages.
Speech community is similar to other kinds of ___4___. The people who make up the community share common language. Often they live side by side, as they do in a neighborhood, a village, or a city. More often they form a whole country. National boundaries, however, are not always the same as the boundaries of a speech community. A speech community is any group of people who ___5___ the same language no matter where they happen to live.
We may say that anyone who speaks English ___6___ to the English speech community. For convenience, we may classify the speakers into two groups: one in which the speakers use English as their native language, the other in which the
speakers learn English as a second language for the ___7___ of education, commerce, and so on.
English serves as an alternative language in several areas of public activity for most nations in the world which employ it as an ___8___ second language. English has been adopted as the language of air traffic, commerce, as well as international
diplomacy. Moreover, English is the ___9___ of the majority of published materials in the world so that education has come
to rely ___10___ on an understanding of English.
A. international
B. native
C. speak
D. belongs
E. purpose
F. language
G. communities
H. settled
I. similar
J. same
K. heavily
L. largest
Online Dating
Online dating is a dating system which allows people to make contact and communicate with Online each other over the
Internet, usually with the object of developing a ___11___ (romance) relationship. Online dating services usually provide
matchmaking over the Internet through the use of personal computers or cell phones
Online dating sites generally requires ___12___(apply) to provide personal information before they can search the
database for other individuals using criteria they set, such as age, gender, race religion and ___13___(locate). Most sites allow members to upload photos of themselves and browse those of others. Sites may offer ___14___ (addition) services,
such as online chatting, telephone chatting, and message boards.
Some sites provide free ___15___ (register), but may offer services which require a___16___ (month) pay. For example,
they may offer full access to profiles, but provide additional services to pay, such as ___17___ (place) users' profiles at the
top of the listing their profiles appear several times in different places in the search result and giving them a more ___18___ (advance) search engine to work with. In one real example, free users may only search for persons of ___19___ (specify)
age, gender and city, while subscribers may also search for such information as height, weight and interests. Other dating
sites depend on advertising for their income. In recent years such sites have become ___10___ (increase) popular.
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What is the main idea of the passage?
The author mentions all of the follow lowing as results of a blackout EXCEPT
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Paragraph 1()
Paragraph 2()
Immigration and Problems
Hundreds of thousands of people supporting immigration rights in the US filled streets all over America in early 2006. Many held signs and American flags and asked to be __1__ as citizens rather than criminals. Senator John McCain held the opinion that the country should open a __2__to citizenship to immigrants(移民) who were already in the country illegally, while other politicians__3__ for stricter measures---including rounding up undocumented immigrants and sending them back to their home countries.
Canadian officials say that immigration applications continue to rise. Some want to keep the doors __4__. They need the labor. About 400,000 immigrants were allowed into the country in 2005, according to the Canadian Government statistics. __5__ all this growth means that cities need to adapt. New comers don’t always make a smooth transition into jobs for which they are skilled. So industries are using mentoring(辅导)programs to help new __6__ find proper jobs.
With the large numbers of undocumented African immigrants arriving in the Canary Islands, the Spanish Government has decided to get __7__. There will be no more mass amnesties(特赦)for the illegal immigrants, and anyone coming to Spain without __8__ will be sent back.
France's new immigration and integration law gives the government new powers to encourage high-skilled migration. It takes __9__ in 2007. The new law authorizes the government to help these identified employers find immigrant workers with needed skills or qualifications. The selected foreign employees will be granted"skills and talents"visas(签证). But some people show the concern that it’ll cause brain drain in 40 countries.
A. immigrants B. However
C developing D.path
E. open F. tough
G. effect H. Therefore
I developed J. permission
K. treated L.called
Testing: Is it the only way to Evaluate Students?
About ten percent of __1__ (spend)on primary and secondary education in the United States comes from the federal government. For ten years now, federal law has tied this cost to student __2__ (perform). States have been required to show progress through __3__ (year) testing.
States saying testing tells only part of the story about efforts by school and students to improve. So the Obama administration has eased the limits on states in __4__ (measure) performance.
The western state of Colorado for example, has a new __5__ (assess) method. The idea is to show __6__ (academy) growth, not just achievement on tests. It combines test scores, family income levels, school size, the ethnicity of the student and many other factors.
Josh Smith is principal of a middle school in a network of public charter schools __7__ (call). West Denver Prep Charter schools are publicly funded but not operated the same as __8__ (tradition) public schools. Mr. Smith says he likes to show his students this graph so they can see their school’s progress. On average, students enter sixth grade at West Denver Prep __9__ (perform) below grade level. __10__ (strange) enough, most are outperforming other students across the state three years later.