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     One important thing during the pre-Christmas rush at our house was the arrival of my daughter's kindergarten report card. She got high praise for her reading. vocabulary and overall enthusiasm. On the other hand, we learnt that she has work to do on her numbers and facility with the computer, though the detailed handwritten report her teachers prepared is absent of any words that might he interpreted as negative in describing her efforts. A number system indicates how she's measuring up in each area without any mention of passing or failing.
     All of which seems to make my daughter's school neither fish nor fowl when it comes the debate over the merits of giving formal grades to kids. At one level, the advantages and disadvantages are obvious. A grade system provides straightforward standard by which to measure how your child is progressing at school—and bow he or she is getting on compared to other children.
     But as writer Sue Ferguson notes, "Grades can deceive." The aim should be "to measure learning, not simply what a student can recall on a test. "The two aren't the same—and if you doubt that as an adult, ask yourself whether you could sit down without any preparation and still pass those high school-level examinations.
     If you're old enough, you've lived through this debate before. At one time, it was considered unfair to put children in direct competition with one another if it could be avoided. The intention behind that may have been good, but it ignored the fact that competition, and the will to come out on top, are essential components the human condition.
     This time around, educators working with a no-grades approach are emphasizing different reasons. The thing is, that approach is much more commonplace in the adult workplace than is the traditional pass-fail system we place on our children. Many workplaces conduct regular employee evaluations. There are usually fairly strict limits to what an employer can tell an employee in those evaluations—and even then, negative evaluations can be challenged by the employee. No matter where you sit in the debate over the grade system, then, the real question is this: if it's so good for kids, why isn't that also true for adults?

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     One important thing during the pre-Christmas rush at our house was the arrival of my daughter' s kindergarten report card. She got high praise for her reading, vocabulary and overall enthusiasm. On the other hand, we learnt that she has work to do on her numbers and facility with the computer, though the detailed handwritten report her teachers prepared is absent of any words that might be interpreted as negative in describing her efforts. A number system indicates how she' s measuring up in each area without any mention of passing or failing.
     All of which seems to make my daughter' s school neither fish nor fowl when it comes to the debate over the merits of giving formal grades to kids. At one level, the advantages and disadvantages are obvious. A grade system provides a straightforward standard by which to measure how your child is progressing at school--and how he or she is getting on compared to other children. But as writer Sue Ferguson notes, "Grades can deceive. " The aim should be "to measure learning, not simply what a student can recall on a test. " The two aren' t the same--and if you doubt that as an adult, ask yourself whether you could sit down without any preparation and still pass those high-school-level examinations.
     If you're old enough, you've lived through this debate before. At one time, it was considered unfair to put children in direct competition with one another if it could be avoided. The intention behind that may have been good, but it ignored the fact that competition, and the will to come out on top, are essential components of the human condition.
     This time around, educators working with a no-grades approach are emphasizing different reasons. The thing is, that approach is much more commonplace in the adult workplace than is the traditional pass-fail system we place on our children. Many workplaces conduct regular employee evaluations. There are usually fairly strict limits to what an employer can tell an employee in those evaluations and even then, negative evaluations can be challenged by the employee. No matter where you sit in the debate over the grade system, then, the real question is this: if it's so good for kids, why isn't that also true for adults?

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     You do not usually get something for nothing. Now, a new study reveals that the evolution of an improved learning ability could come at a particularly high price: an earlier death. 

     Past experiments have demonstrated that it is relatively easy through selective breeding to make rats, honey bees and—that great favourite of researchers—fruit flies a lot better at learning. Animals that are better learners should be competitive and, thus, over time, come to dominate a population by natural selection. But improved learning ability does not get selected amongst these animals in the wild. No one really understands why.
     Tadeusz Kawecki and his colleagues at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland have measured the effects of improved learning on the lives of fruit flies. The flies were given two different fruits as egg-laying sites. One of these was laced with a bitter additive that could be detected only on contact. The flies were then given the same fruit but without an additive. Flies that avoided the fruit which had been bitter were deemed to have learned from their experience. Their children were reared and the experiment was run again.
     After repeating the experiment for 30 generations, the children of the learned flies were compared with normal flies. The researchers report in a forthcoming edition of Evolution that although learning ability could be bred into a population of fruit flies, it shortened their lives by 15%. When the researchers compared their learned flies to colonies selectively bred to live long lives, they found even greater differences. Whereas learned flies had reduced their life spans, the long-lived flies learned less well than even average flies.
     The authors suggest that evolving an improved learning ability may require a greater investment in the nervous system which takes resources away from processes that delay ageing. However, Dr. Kawecki thinks the effect could also be a byproduct of greater brain activity increasing the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), which can increase oxidation in the body and damage health.
     No one knows whether the phenomenon holds true for other animals. So, biologists, at least, still have a lot to learn. 

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     John Lubbock, a British member of the Parliament, led to the first law to safeguard Britain's heritage — the Ancient Monuments Bill. How did it happen?
     By the late 1800s more and more people were visiting Stonehenge for a day out. Now a World Heritage Site owned by the Crown, it was, at the time, privately owned and neglected.
     But the visitors left behind rubbish and leftover food. It encouraged rats that made holes at the stones’ foundations, weakening them. One of the upright stones had already fallen over and one had broken in two. They also chipped pieces off the stones for souvenirs and carved pictures into them, says architectural critic Jonathan Glancey.
     It was the same for other pre-historic remains, which were disappearing fast. Threats also included farmers and landowners as the ancient stones got in the way of working on the fields and were a free source of building materials.
     Shocked and angry, Lubbock took up the fight. When he heard Britain’ s largest ancient stone circle at Avebury in Wiltshire was up for sale in 1871 he persuaded its owners to sell it to him and the stone circle was saved.
     “Lubbock aroused national attention for ancient monuments,’’ says Glancey, “At the time places like Stonehenge were just seen as a collection of stones, ancient sites to get building materials.”
     “Lubbock knew they were the roots of British identity. He did for heritage what Darwin did for natural history. ”
     But Lubbock couldn’t buy every threatened site. He knew laws were needed and tabled the Ancient Monuments Bill. It proposed government powers to take any pre-historic site under threat away from uncaring owners, a radical idea at the time.
     For eight years he tried and failed to get the bill through parliament. Finally，in 1882，it was voted into law. It had，however, been watered down; people had to willingly give their ancient monuments to the government. But what it did do was plant the idea that the state could preserve Britain's heritage better than private owners.
     Pressure started to be put on the owners of sites like Stonehenge to take better care of them. 

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     Today there are three different kinds of New Yorkers: the people who act as if they were born here; the people who are here and wish to be elsewhere; and the collection of virtual New Yorkers all over the world, who wish they were living in New York. These are the three States of mind and what they have in common are longing and illusion. In fact, it's a city of dreamers.
     What makes New York special? New Yorkers are convinced of its specialness--but Toronto is more diverse, London is larger, Washington is more powerful. So why does New York think it's the capital of the world?
     People often explain the problems in European cities by citing inequality. But New York today is one of the most unequal cities in America. In 2010, 1 percent of New Yorkers earned 45 percent of its income. That works out to an average of $ 3.7 million a year for the city's top 34,500 households. The average daily income of this group is greater than the average annual income of the city's bottom 10 percent.
     So why would people still come to try their luck in this tough place? Is it opportunity or illusion that draws them?
     They come because any newcomer can find a place in the hierarchy of New York. If you look at a New York City restaurant, for example, the cook might be French, the people washing dishes might be Mexican, the hostess might be Russian, the owner might be British. They are not all equal. They earn different rates. But they work together to get food to hungry people.
     What New York demonstrates is this: immigration works. The city can use its immigrants, even the illegal ones. Though they broke the law by illegally crossing the borders, the city's economy would be a shell of itself had they not, and it would collapse if they were deported. Attracted here by the founding myth of the city, each immigrant is seeking to escape from history, personal and political. For him, New York is the city of the second chance. 

     It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.
     Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked “Smith Enterprises”, she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.
     Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. In the front of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.
     Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Marie. Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr. Smith, who would arrive at any moment. Then Marie realized that the day’s work in the office began just before Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35, so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.

     What is the best title for this text?（）

     "We are not about to enter the Information Age but instead are rather well into it.” Present predictions are that by 1990, about thirty million jobs in the United States, or about thirty percent of the job market, will be computer-related. In 1980, only twenty-one percent of all United States high schools owned one or more computers for student use. In the fall of 1985, a new survey revealed that half of United States secondary schools have fifteen or more computers for student use. And now educational experts, administrators, and even the general public are demanding that all students become “computer literate (慢点…的)." "By the year 2000 knowledge of computers will be necessary in over eighty percent of all occupations. Soon those people not educated in computer use will be compared to those who are print illiterate today.”

     What is this paragraph mainly about?（）

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     It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the office building where she was going to work. Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic, making her a few minutes late for her very first job. She decided to start out half an hour earlier the next day.
     Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevators and wait several minutes before she could get on one going to the sixth floor. When she finally reached the office marked “Smith Enterprises”, she knocked at the door nervously and waited. There was no reply. She tapped on the door again, but still there was no answer. From inside the next office, she could hear the sound of voices, so she opened the door and went in.
     Although she was sure it was the same office she had been in two weeks before when she had the interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite different now. In fact, it hardly looked like an office at all. The employees were just standing around chatting and smoking. In the front of the room, somebody must have just told a good joke, she thought, because there was a loud burst of laughter as she came in. For a moment she had thought they were laughing at her.
     Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped his hands and said something to the others. Quickly they all went to their desks and, in a matter of seconds, everyone was hard at work. No one paid any attention to Marie. Finally she went up to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the door and explained that this was her first day in the office. Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seat and wait for Mr. Smith, who would arrive at any moment. Then Marie realized that the day’s work in the office began just before Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he lived in Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same train every morning, arriving in the office at 9:35, so that his staff knew exactly when to start working.

Read the following text. Answer the questions on the text by choosing A, B, C or D.

     “We are not about to enter the Information Age, but instead are rather well into it.” Present predictions are that by 1990, about thirty million jobs in the United States, or about thirty percent of the job market, will be computer-related. In 1980, only twenty-one percent of all American high schools owned one or two computers for student use. In the fall of 1985, a new study showed that half of United States secondary schools have fifteen or more computers for student use. And now educational experts, administrators, and even the general public are demanding that all students become "computer-literate". By the year 2000 knowledge of computers will be necessary in over eighty percent of all occupations. Soon those people not educated in computer use will be compared to those who are “print-illiterate” today.
     What is “computer literacy”? The term itself seems to imply some degree of "knowing" about computers, but knowing what? The present opinion seems to be that this should include a general knowledge, of what computers are, plus a little of their history and something of how they operate.
     Therefore, it is important that educators everywhere take a careful look not only at what is being done, but also at what should be done in the field of education. Today most adults are able to use a motor car without the slightest knowledge of how the internal combustion engine works. We effectively use all types of electrical equipment without being able to tell their histories or to explain how they work.
     Business people for years have made good use of typewriters and adding machines, yet few have ever known how to repair them. Why, then, attempt to teach computers by teaching how or why they work?
     Rather, we first must fix our mind on teaching the effective use of computer as the tool is.
“Knowing how to use a computer is what's going to be important. We don't talk about 'automobile literacy'. We just get in our cars and drive them.”

     Today there are three different kinds of New Yorkers: the people who act as if they were born here; the people who are here and wish to be elsewhere; and the collection of virtual New Yorkers all over the world, who wish they were living in New York. These are the three States of mind and what they have in common are longing and illusion. In fact, it's a city of dreamers.

     The writer mentions the three kinds of New Yorkers to stress that （）. 

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     Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a wealthy Massachusetts slave-holders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett”.
     For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley's wife tried to strike Mumbet's sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued for her freedom.
     While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the new Massachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom—the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
     Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Sedgewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants. One of her great-grandchildren was W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
     Mumbet's tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”

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     Persons who are overweight should watch their diet carefully in order to lose pounds. The best way to do this is to start a weight control program. At first it is wise to talk with your doctor. He can advise you of the number of calories you should have in your meals each day. He can tell you about exercising while on your diet. A good rule is to lose slowly. A loss of a pound or two is plenty.
     Plan meals around foods you know. This means that it is wise to include foods that you are used to and that are part of your regular eating habits. When you have lost the weight you wish, simple items can be added to your diet so that you can maintain the weight you want. While you are dieting, try to build a pattern of eating that you can follow later to maintain your desired weight.
     When dieting, choose low-calorie foods. Avoid such items as fats, fried food, sweets, cakes, cream and soft drinks. Try to take coffee and tea without sugar or cream. Snacks can be part of your diet. For example, a piece of fruit or a simple dessert saved from mealtime can be eaten between meals.
     Keep busy! This way you will not be tempted to go off the diet. Make full use of opportunities to exercise. Try walking instead of riding whenever possible. Happy dieting!

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     Do you give your children money when they perform well at school?
     According to a study, such an action could be  to their development, and cause them to be more materialistic as adults. The study suggests that those who were rewarded and spoiled were more likely to think possessions define who they are. “Using material possessions to express love or reward children for their  can have bad effect,” wrote the authors of the study. “It can  materialism in them.”
     The authors surveyed 701 adults to measure the long term  of material parenting. They were asked to describe their current life situation and values, and also reported on a  of childhood circumstances, their relationship with their parents, and the rewards and punishments they received.
     Results showed adults who had received more material rewards and punishments as children were more likely than others to use possessions to define who they are. And they were likely to continue rewarding themselves with material .
     Parents should, therefore, be cautious about using material possessions to express their love and reward their children for good behavior,  the authors. They say  emphasis on material possessions during childhood can have significant effects. It can  “the way for their children to grow up to be more likely than others to  people with expensive possessions and judge success by the kinds of things people own.” the authors conclude. 

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     One in six. Believe it or not, that’s the number of Americans who struggle with hanger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation’s largest  hunger relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, It’s asking  across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to .
     It’s the kind of work that’s done every day at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio, People who  at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren’t looking for God-they’re there for something to eat, St. Andrew’s runs a food pantry that  the city and several of the  towns. Janet Drane is its manager.
     In the wake of the .the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is  that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What’s most surprising is that 36% of them live in  where at least one adult is working. “It used to be that one job was all you needed.” says St. Andrew’s Drane. “The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they’re still right on the edge .” 

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     When I tell people that I work from wherever I am, whether it is home or a friend' s office, I am generally met with a bit of scorn or a response that points out how "lucky” I am. Actually, I’m just getting to  what millions of people are already living: the mobile office.
     Office space has undergone marked changes in the past few decades, with wooden desks being  by customizable cubicle walls and desks, then shifting to many of the new open-office designs we see now. This evolution is continuing as  realize that mobile technology is keeping workers away from the office more than ever.
     Perhaps the most  change this yeas is something that has already begun. Thanks to increasing  on mobile devices, professionals can make a seamless transition from home to meetings to the office, with clients and  never realizing the change in location. Phones can easily be routed to cell phones and cloud-based file storage means documents can be  from any device with an Internet connection.
     As the "work anywhere” trend continues to grow, professionals will have more  than ever. They’ll no longer be chained to a desk eight hours a day, allowing them to be more  and more reachable when they’re needed. In time, this will most likely  the definition of the office to include any location where an Internet connection is available. 

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     As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complex. Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is  for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department is interested in discussions with the employees about pay.
     If a firm wants to  a new wage and salary structure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a  of job evaluation and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be , that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers. In job evaluation, all of the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, usually in "points", which are  together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and their  to solve problems. Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without  to an evaluation system based on points.
     In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should  the value of each job with these in the job market. , payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simple to measure the work done, as in the works done with hands, monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen, for  workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed. 

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     I can't believe the kind of rubbish that some people call art. Yesterday, my girlfriend dragged me to a modern art  to see an exhibition she had read about in the paper. It was five or six so-called installations made of bits of plastic, wood and paper that  just to have been thrown on the floor. It was a mess, basically--just like the floor in my sister's house when my two-year-old nephew' s left all his toys out, but less  Come to think of it,  you had given those bits of plastic, wood and paper to my nephew, he could probably have  something just as good. I guess, sometimes, the cleaners end up throwing art like that in the bins at the end of the day,  they must find it hard to work out what' s an exhibit and what' s just . 
     I think that if a painting or an installation looks like something I could have done myself in fifteen minutes, it doesn't  to be called art. But when I say that, people like my girlfriend say I' m “uncultured.” I think a lot of the people who say they  the kind of stuff we saw yesterday are just pretending_—deep down they know it' s rubbish but they don't want to be the first one to admit it because, unlike me, they' re  of being looked down on.

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     Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering morein finding a well-paying job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earners, a study released on Wednesday said.
     Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found women at all levels oftend to earn less than men, but it's at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most.
     Women with low literacy are twice as likely as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners, bringing in ＄300 a week or less, the report said.
     “Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills reallya big difference,” said Kevin Miller, aresearch associate at IWPR and coauthor of the study.
     Women need to goin their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.
     Thewas based on 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent dataand focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data wasfrom a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.
     Data showed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that, the institute said.

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     It can be a special experience to go on a family trip during the holiday season, but one reason that many parents  to stay home is the cost of travel. Here are some ways of reducing your travel .
     Flying is a fast way to arrive at your destination, but the cost of airline tickets can really add up if you are buying flights for the whole family. Often, it is cheaper to pay for gas  the whole family can fit in the car,  with the current decreases in gas prices.
     If your destination is too far to drive to, you should look at a variety of  for your flight times. For example, it is often cheaper to fly on Christmas day instead of flying a few days before Christmas. Also,  early morning flights is cheaper than traveling during peak times during the day.
     Eating out  you are on the road can quickly increase the trip cost, and it's much cheaper to stop at the grocery store, planning your own food . If you plan to eat out, then it' s usually cheaper to eat at a restaurant during breakfast or lunch,  you to skip the higher dinner prices.
     Also, it might be cheaper to visit an all-inclusive resort. These resorts include all the meals and a variety of activities, and many of them have children's activities so that the kids can  entertained during the trip. 

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     Some of the greatest successes you can think of began with failure. What a big  a little continued effort and determination can make.
     Workplace expert Nan Russell，author of “ The Titleless Leader：How to Get Things Done When You ’ re Not in Charge，” offers a number of  of people who were deemed failures—and then turned successful.
     Albert Einstein was  to be mentally challenged as a child and told he would never amount to anything. Need we say how that one turned out?
     Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because the editor thought he lacked .
     Chester Carlson’s early Xerox machines were  by 20 companies before he finally found a business partner.
     Thomas Edison failed thousands of times before inventing the light bulb. There are many quotes from the great inventor that are worth  to memory. Here’ s just one：“ Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how  they were to success when they gave up. ”
     So, while failure may not feel good, it，s often an essential part of success, the trial-and-error that can lead to greater things. If you spend all your time  about past mistakes, you might not notice when real opportunity arrives，so by all , learn from your mistakes —then put them behind you, roll up your sleeves and get back to work.
     Here’ s one more quote from Edison for us to think about : “If we all did the things we are  of, we would astound ourselves. ’’