It is hard to reconcile his splendid speeches （ ）his actual behavior.

A.to B.on C.against D.with

The drop in the price of Brent crude from a high of more than $115 a barrel in June to less thanA$60 earlier this month has put extra money into consumer’s pockets and boosted B Cfuel-intensive businesses, while cutting oil companies’ revenues and stoking financial crises in Doil-producing countries including Russia and Venezuela.

The Carnegie Foundation report says that many colleges have tried to be “all things to all people”. In doing so, they have increasingly catered to a narrow-minded careerism while failing to cultivate a global vision among their students. The current crisis, it contends, does not derive from a legitimate desire to put learning to productive ends. The problem is that in too many academic fields, the work has no context; skills, rather than being means, have become ends. Students are offered a variety of options and allowed to pick their way to a degree. In short, driven by careerism, “the nation’s colleges and universities are more successful in providing credentials than in providing a quality education for their students.” The report concludes that the special challenge confronting the undergraduate college is one of shaping an “integrated core” of common learning. Such a core would introduce students “to essential knowledge, to connections across the disciplines, and in the end, to application of knowledge to life beyond the campus.”Although the key to a good college is a high-quality facility, the Carnegie study found that most colleges do very little to encourage good teaching. In fact, they do much to undermine it. As one professor observed, “Teaching is important we are told, and yet faculty know that research and publication matter most.’，Not surprisingly, over the last twenty years, colleges and universities have failed to graduate half of their four year degree candidates. Faculty members who dedicated themselves to teaching, discover that they will not be granted tenure, promotion, or substantial salary increases. Yet 70 percent of all faculty members say their interests lie more in teaching than in research. Additionally, a frequent complaint among young scholars is that “There is pressure to publish although there is vitally no interest among administrators or colleagues in the content of the publications”.1.When a college tries to be “all things to all people” it aims to （ ）.2.By saying that “in too many academic fields, the work has no context” the author means that the teaching in these areas （ ）.3.One of the reasons for the current crisis in American college and universities is that（ ）.4.American colleges and universities failed to graduate half of their four-year degree candidates because （ ）.5.It can be inferred from the passage that high-quality college education calls for （ ）.

A.satisfy the needs of all kinds of students simultaneously B.focus on training students in various skill C.encourage students to take as many courses as possible D.make learning serve academic rather than productive ends
问题2：
A.ignores the actual situation B.is not based on the right perspective C.only focuses on an integrated core of common learning D.gives priority to the cultivation of a global vision among students
问题3：
A.a narrow vocational ism has come to dominate many colleges B.students don’t have enough freedom in choosing what they want to learn C.skill are being taught as a means to an end D.students are only interested in obtaining credential
问题4：
A.most of them lack high-quality faculties B.the interests of most faculty members lie in research C.there are not enough incentive for students to study hard D.they attach greater importance to research and publication than to teaching
问题5：
A.putting academic work in the proper context B.a commitment to students and effective teaching C.the practice of putting learning to productive ends D.dedication to research in frontier areas of knowledge

Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from “invisible earnings” to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only $285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional $375 million and this washes out the almost $400 million by which imports exceed exports.It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma（古希腊银币）out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus - $66 million. Greece has a decent one third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing（接合）incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don’t mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece’s problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $60 to $70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countryside, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here: “Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the backward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government’s red tape and shrewdness about small points.”Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities. Tourism itself has jumped from approximately $31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome—without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either.1.The title below that best expresses the ideas of this passage is（ ）.2.Many peasants earn less than （ ）.3.The Greek Government spends （ ）.4.According to the passage, Greece has （ ）.5.Greece imports annually goods and materials （ ）.

A.Greek income and expenditures B.The improving economic situation in Greece C.The value of tourism D.Military expenditures
问题2：
A.$60 a week B.$2 a week C.$1 a day D.$10 a month
问题3：
A.more than 25% of its budget on military terms B.More than its collects C.A third of a billion dollars in gold D.Less than 25% of its budget on military terms
问题4：
A.a dictatorship B.a monarchy C.a single majority party D.too much red tape
问题5：
A.totaling almost $700 million B.that balanceexports C.that are paid by tourists D.costing $66 million

If England had won the Revolutionary War, the whole history of the English-speakingA BC world had been different. D

A.had won B.the C.English-speaking D.had been

Artists use caricature to distort the human face or figure for comic affect while at the same time A Bcapturing an identifiable likeness and suggesting the essence of the personality or character Cbeneath the surface. The humor lies in the fact that the caricature is recognizable, and yet exasperated.D