【推荐1】As a society we might want to rethink the time and money spent on education, so that these resources can benefit a greater percentage of the population. Ideally, both high schools and colleges can prepare individuals for the ever-changing roles that are likely to be expected of them.

High school degrees offer less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy. We encourage students to go on to college whether they are prepared or not, or have a clear sense of purpose or interest, and now have the highest college dropout rate in the world.

We might look to other countries for models of how high schools can offer better training, as well as the development of a work ethic (勤奋工作的美德) and the intellectual skills needed for continued learning and development. I recommend Harvard’s 2011 “Pathways to Prosperity” report for more attention to the “forgotten half” (those who do not go on to college) and ideas about how to address this issue.

Simultaneously, the liberal arts become more important than ever. In a knowledge economy where professional roles change rapidly and many college students are preparing for positions that may not even exist yet, the skill set needed is one that prepares them for change and continued learning.

Learning to express ideas well in both writing and speech, knowing how to find information, and knowing how to do research are all-solid background skills for a wide variety of roles, and such training is more important than any particular major in a liberal arts college. We need to continue to value broad preparation in thinking skills that will serve for a lifetime.

Students also need to learn to work independently and to make responsible decisions. The lengthening path to adulthood appears exacerbated (恶化) by parental involvement in the college years. Given the rising investment in college education, parental concern is not surprising, but learning where and when to intervene will help students take more ownership of the outcomes of these increasingly costly educations.

1. What kind of education does the author think is ideal?

A．It encourages students to learn throughout their lives.

B．It benefits the great majority of the general population.

C．It prepares students to meet the future needs of society.

D．It ensures that students’ expectations are successfully fulfilled.

2. What does the author say is the problem with present high school education?

A．Teaching skills to be used right after graduation only.

B．Giving little attention to those having difficulty learning.

C．Creating the highest dropout rate in the developed world.

D．Ignoring the needs of those only with high school education.

3. What characterizes a knowledge economy according to the passage?

A．Students majoring in liberal arts usually have difficulty securing a job.

B．New positions are constantly created that require people to keep learning.

C．People have to receive higher education to qualify for a professional position.

D．Colleges find it hard to teach student how to cope with the changing economy.

4. What suggestion does the author offer to parents?

A．Rethinking the value of higher education

B．Investing wisely in their children’s education.

C．Helping their children to bring their talent into full play.

D．Involving themselves properly in their children’s education.

【推荐3】Plagiarism is the act of representing another person’s words or ideas as your own. The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book. Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied—or bought—from somebody else.

Intellectual dishonesty is nothing new. The only difference now is that the Internet has made it much simpler to steal other people’s work. Yet the same technology that makes it easy to find information to copy also makes it easier to identify plagiarism.

Teachers can use online services that compare papers to thousands of others to search for copied work. The teacher gets a report on any passage that is similar enough to suspect plagiarism. These services are widely used. Turnitin.com, for example, says it is used in more than 100 countries and examines more than 130,000 papers a day.

Professional writers who plagiarize can be taken to civil court and ordered to pay damages. In schools, the punishment for cheating could be a failing grade on the paper or in the course. Some schools expel(驱逐) plagiarists for a term; others, for a full academic year. Some degrees have even been withdrawn after a school later found that a student had plagiarized.

Accidental plagiarism can sometimes result from cultural differences.

At Indiana University in Bloomington, 60 percent of students who use the Office of Writing Tutorial Services are non-native English speakers. The director, Joanne Vogt, says some have no idea that copying from published works is considered wrong. She says students from China, for example, may think they are insulting readers if they credit other sources. They believe that educated readers should already know where the information came from.

The more you give credit, the less you risk accusations of plagiarism. Any sentence taken directly from a source should appear inside quotation marks. And even if you put those sentences into your own words, you should still give credit to where you got the information.

1. According to the passage, what is the role of the Internet in Plagiarism?

A．The Internet discourages people from choosing proper papers to copy.

B．The Internet helps people get their papers published online.

C．The Internet enables people to share their papers with others.

D．The Internet contributes to people copying papers from others easily.

2. We can infer from the passage that teachers know a paper is copied when they __________.

A．happen to be familiar with the content of the paper

B．make investigations concerning the paper among students

C．compare the paper with many others online to search for the copied ones

D．search journal and periodicals in the library for the original paper

3. Which of the following has NOT been mentioned as the punishment for plagiarism?

A．Fine of a certain amount of money.	B．Withdrawal of some degrees.
C．Being forced to leave school.	D．A failing grade.

4. The underlined expression “give credit” in the last paragraph probably means __________.

A．attribute what you’ve quoted from other sources to the original writers

B．praise the original writer for providing useful information

C．give the original writer a credit card for your copying the paper

D．admit that the original writer has a good reputation

【推荐1】We will all probably know both some introverts （内向的人）and extroverts （外向的人）in life, and yet we can gain a wrong impression about both types of people. For example, some introverts can be extremely confident and they can be able people. However, some extroverts aren^’t as confident as they'd like to appear to be and often try to hide their true identities behind a false appearance.

Shyness can affect both introverts and extroverts and anybody else too. It can be very debilitating （使衰弱的）and, if severe, can have a huge negative influence upon our ability to form meaningful relationships and it can also affect our careers or jobs.

A lot of people feel shy because they have low self-respect and feel unworthy when comparing themselves to others. They find it difficult to communicate with others whom they don't know. In that case, one of the best ways of overcoming the shyness is to focus the attention on the other person instead. Shy people can try changing people's focus on someone else， so that they don't need to talk about themselves too much.

If you recognize that you are shy and see that as a lion in the way of enjoying your life. you should first overcome it by accepting that it's causing a problem for you. Trying getting into conversations with strangers is helpful. Shy people are challenging themselves and over- coming their shyness. In this way, shy people can get their own self-respect. Each time they do it, this will be repeated until they feel confident enough.

Like any negative thought， determination can also help you beat shyness and having a positive attitude is the key to overcoming the shyness.

1. What does the author intend to tell us in paragraph 2?

A．The difference between introverts and extroverts.

B．The relationship between ability and shyness.

C．The harmful effects of shyness.

D．The cause of shyness.

2. Why do people feel shy when communicating with others?

A．They are afraid of learning from others.

B．They are often made fun of.

C．They are short of confidence.

D．They have to talk too much.

3. What does the author advise shy people to do to overcome shyness?

A．Do sports as much as they can.

B．Listen to the voice in their heart.

C．Have a good talk with their parents.

D．Keep a strong belief in supporting themselves.

4. What's the best title for the text?

A．How to Overcome Shyness

B．Tips of Expressing Shyness

C．How to Understand Introverts

D．Tips of Talking with Extroverts

【推荐3】NASA aims to send a man and a woman to the moon by 2024. This is the goal of its Artemis program. But for Artemis to succeed, the U. S. space agency first needs to solve a big problem: the damaging threat of moon dust.

Over billions of years, celestial （天体的）bodies, such as asteroids and meteors, have slammed into the moon. These hits have crushed some lunar rocks into dust. The surfs radiation gives the dust an electric charge that makes it stick to everything. Those powdery bits are like ^u broken pieces of glass" , notes Mihaly Horanyi, a physicist at the University of Colorado Boulder. The dust is so rough, in fact, that it can damage equipment. If taken in, it might even harm an astronaut's health. Horanyi is part of a team that has now figured out how to overcome one troubling aspect of the dust: its static cling, using a low-powered electron beam （电子束）.When shined onto the dust, that beam sends the dust flying.

During the 1970s, the astronauts in NASA's Apollo missions relied on a very low-tech system to clean lunar dust off their spacesuits. They swept it away with what looked like the brushes used to paint a house. But the electrically charged nature of space dust tended to fail such hand sweepers.

The new electron-beam broom takes advantage of the dust's electrical characteristic. As the beam hits the dust, it releases electrons into the tiny spaces between particles. Some of these negatively charged electrons will be absorbed by the surrounding dust.

One problem with the electron beam, at least for now, is that it leaves up to one-fourth of the dust behind. The Boulder group aims to strengthen that cleaning power. Horanyi says the electron beam is just one of several ways future space explorers could keep surfaces clean. Others might include changes to a spacesuit's design.

1. Why should the moon dust problem be solved?

A．It might affect astronauts' health and equipment.

B．It can give off harmful radiation.

C．It can stick to the surface of the spaceship.

D．It might cause serious crashes.

2. What is the main idea of Paragraph 4?

A．The discovery of the electron beam.	B．The way the electron beam works.
C．The occurrence of the electron beam.	D．The development of the electron beam.

3. What can we learn about the new electron beam broom?

A．It is a low-tech dust cleaning system.

B．It leaves three-fourths of the dust uncleaned.

C．It needs improvement in the cleaning power.

D．It is proved less efficient than other methods.

4. What will the author most probably talk about next?

A．Astronauts' health.	B．New spacesuit's designs.
C．Spaceship surface features.	D．Future space exploration.