Somebody phoned me from your office while I was out, ____ ?A. didn't theyB. did theyC. didn't itD. was it

While human achievements in mathematics continue to reach new levels of complexity, many of us who aren't mathematicians at heart (or engineers) may struggle to remember the last time we used calculus. It's a fact not lost on American educators, who amid rising math failure rates are debating how math can better meet the real-life needs of students. Should we change the way math is taught in schools, or eliminate some courses entirely? Andrew Hacker, Queens College political science professor, thinks that advanced algebra and other higher-level math should be cut from curricula in favor of courses with more routine usefulness, like statistics. "We hear on all sides that we're not teaching enough mathematics, and the Chinese are way ahead of us," Hacker says. "I'm suggesting we're teaching too much mathematics to too many people. Not everybody has to know calculus. If you're going to become an aeronautical engineer, fine. But most of us aren't." Instead, Hacker is pushing for more courses like the one he teaches at Queens College: Numeracy 101. There, his students of "citizen statistics" learn to analyze public information like the federal budget and corporate reports. Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of, say, a carpet by area. Hacker's argument has met with opposition from other math educators who say what's needed is to help students develop a better relationship with math earlier, rather than teaching them less math altogether. Maria Droujkova is a founder of Natural Math, and has taught basic calculus concepts to 5-year-olds. For Droujkova, high-level math is important, and what it could use in American classrooms is an injection of childlike wonder. "Make mathematics more available," Droujkova says. "Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences." Pamela Harris, a lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, has a similar perspective. Harris says that American education is suffering from an epidemic of "fake math"—an emphasis on rote memorization of formulas and steps, rather than an understanding of how math can influence the ways we see the world. Andrew Hacker, for the record, remains skeptical. "I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road to calculus."【小题1】What is the general complaint about America's math education according to Hacker? A．America is not doing as well as China. B．Math professors are not doing a good job. C．It doesn't help students develop their literacy. D．There has hardly been any innovation for years. 【小题2】What does Andrew Hacker's Numeracy 101 aim to do? A．Allow students to learn high-level math step by step. B．Enable students to make practical use of basic math. C．Lay a solid foundation for advanced math studies. D．Help students to develop their analytical abilities. 【小题3】What does Maria Droujkova suggest math teachers do in class? A．Make complex concepts easy to understand. B．Start teaching children math at an early age. C．Help children work wonders with calculus. D．Try to arouse students' curiosity in math. 【小题4】What does Pamela Harris think should be the goal of math education? A．To enable learners to understand the world better. B．To help learners to tell fake math from real math. C．To broaden Americans' perspectives on math. D．To exert influence on world development.

Strange it seems we have never properly sat down and talked about this issue.(2022)A. in spiteB. despiteC. evenD. though

6.How could he get the plan _ without any one to support him?A. to carry outB. carry outC. carrying outD. carried out

4. (1.0分) Is Shanghai the () city in China?--- No. It's Chongqing.A. bigB. biggerC. largeD. biggest

Being an orphan （孤儿） is difficult；however，being an animal orphan can be deadly. This season，the Volunteers for Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Locust Valley took in six young red-tailed hawks （鹰）.If we could get these birds back with their parents，they would have a better chance of surviving.However，we couldn't find their nests or parents. But there was another way to help them：foster （寄养的） parenting.But we must place the orphans with other adult pairs before nesting season ended in early July.It's not always easy.Hawk nests are often 40 or 50 feet high in trees.What's more，not all birds will accept foster chicks.So we paid close attention to the research by experts before moving chicks. That day，we happily knew of a nest that was still active at Bethpage State Park!There was one chick in the nest.And the young bird was going to fly but was still in the nest and being fed. So we decided to move one of our orphan birds.I drove the bucket truck to the nest tree；Lauren，my workmate，held our chick.And up we three went in the bucket.We worked fast，for the wild parents might be back soon，and the female hawk could be aggressive! To make sure the adults had accepted their new child，I came by later in the day and the next morning.Oh，they had!The chick was just fed up and the adult female hawk sat nearby，staring at me closely. The results were so encouraging and we tried it again!A week later ，we successfully placed another chick in the same nest. The adult hawks now had three children to care for，one theirs and two foster chicks.It was heartwarming to see the two animal orphans living in their new loving family!（1）What was the problem for the volunteers？ ____ A.They didn't know how to feed the orphans.B.Many chicks died before nesting season ended.C.No birds would like to foster other parents' chicks.D.They couldn't find the animal orphans' homes.（2）Why did they place the orphans with other adult pairs？ ____ A.To do some research on the chicks.B.To help the orphans find their parents quickly.C.To let the orphans get a better chance of surviving.D.To look for a big tree for the orphans to nest.（3）The underlined word "aggressive" in paragraph five probably refers to ____ .A.worriedB.relaxedC.dangerousD.forgetful（4）What can we know about the nest at Bethpage State Park？ ____ A.The adult hawks had three their chicks to look after.B.The young bird was still fed in the nest.C.The wild parents were always watching closely near-the.nest.D.The adult female hawk was much kinder to people.（5）What did the author think of the result？ ____ A.Pleasing.B.Challenging.C.Tiring.D.Hopeful.

39.Text 1 In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada,Miranda Priestly,played by Meryl Streep,scold her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her.Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with feverish world described in Overdressed,Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of“fast fashion”.In the last decades or so,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara,H&M,and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.Quckier turnrounds mean less wasted inventory,more frequent releases,and more profit.Those labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposal——meant to last only a wash or two,although they don’t advertise that——and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.By offering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices,Cline argues,these brands have hijacked fashion cycles,shaking all industry long accustomed to a seasonal pace.The victims of this revolution,of course,are not limited to designers.For H&M to offer a 5.95 knit miniskirt in all its 2300-plus stores around the world,it must rely on low-wage,overseas labor,order in volumes that strain natural resources,and use massive amount of harmful chemicals.Overdressed is the fashion world’s answer to consumer activist bestsellers like Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.Mass-produced clothing,like fast food,fills a hunger and need,yet is non-durable,and wasteful,”Cline argues,Americans,she finds,buy roughly 20 billion garments a year——about 64 items per person——and no matter how much they give away,this excess leads to waste.Towards the end of Overdressed,Cline introduced her ideal,a Brooklyn woman named SKB,who,since 2008 has make all of her own clothes——and beautifully.But as Cline is the first to note,it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft;her example,can’t be knocked off.Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment——including H&M,with its green Conscious Collection Line——Cline believes lasting-change can only be effected by the customer.She exhibits the idealism common to many advocates of sustainability,be it in food or in energy.Vanity is a constant;people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford to it.21.Priestly criticizes her assistant for her A.B. A. poor bargaining skill C.D. B. insensitivity to fashion E.F. C. obsession with high fashion G.H. D. lack of imagination

【题文】It is fashionable today to criticize Big Business, and there is one issue on which the many critics agree: CEO pay. We hear that CEOs are paid too much (or too much relative to workers) , or that they control others’ pay, or that their pay is insufficiently related to positive outcomes. But the more likely truth is CEO pay is largely caused by intense competition.It is true that CEO pay has gone up---top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%. The typical CEO of a top American corporation-from the 350 largest such companies-now makes about 18.9 million a year.While individual cases of overpayment definitely exist, in general, the determinants of CEO pay are not so mysterious and not so trapped in corruption (腐败). In fact, overall CEO compensation for the top companies rises pretty much in line with the value of those companies on the stock market.The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay, though, is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly. The efforts of Americans highest-earning 1 % have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy.It’s not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U. S. economy.Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.” CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and maybe even how the company should trade in them. They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can cause a bad consequence. Then there’s the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries. To lead in that system requires knowledge that is fairly incredible.There is yet another trend: virtually all major American companies are becoming tech companies, one way or another. An agribusiness company, for instance, may focus on R&D in highly IT- intensive areas such as genome sequencing (基因组序列). Similarly, it is hard to do a good job running the Walt Disney Company just by picking good movie scripts and courting stars ； you also need to build a firm capable of creating significant CGI (计算机生成图像) products for cartoon movies at the highest levels of technical sophistication and with many frontier innovations along the way.On top of all of this, major CEOs still have to do the job they have always done- which includes motivating employees, serving as an internal role model, helping to define and extend a corporate culture, understanding the internal accounting, and presenting budgets and business plans to the board. Good CEOs are some of the world’s most powerful creators and have some of the very deepest skills of understanding.【小题1】Which of the following has contributed to CEO pay rise?A．The growth in the number of cooperationB．The general pay rise with a better economyC．Increased business opportunities for top firmsD．Close cooperation among leading economics【小题2】Compared with their predecessors, today’s CEOs are required to ________.A．foster a stronger sense of teamworkB．finance more research and developmentC．establish closer ties with tech companiesD．operate more globalized companies【小题3】The meaning of the underlined word “slipup” (line 5, paragraph 4) is close to ________.A．operationB．successC．mistakeD．promotion【小题4】The most suitable title for this text would be ________.A．CEOs Are Not OverpaidB．CEO Pay: Past and PresentC．CEOs’ Challenges of TodayD．CEO Traits: Not Easy to Define.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.1、A.In San Francisco.B.In New York.C.In New Zealand.D.In China.2、E.Because his mother wanted him to be a chef.F.Because his two grandmothers loved delicious food.G.Because he would like to do something creative.H.Because he would like to be a celebrity in cooking.3、I.His rich knowledge.J.His strange experience.K.His special cooking way.L.His family background.4、M.Cooking simple food.N.Using fresh ingredients.O.Making food colorful.P.Using new equipment.

We all havefirst impression of someone we just met. But why？Why do we form an opinion about someone without really knowing anything abouthim or her aside perhaps from a few remarks or readily observable traits(特点)？The answer isrelated to how your brain allows you to be aware of the world. Your brain is sosensitive in picking up facial traits. Even very minor difference in how aperson's eyes, ears, nose, or mouth are placed in relation to each other makesyou see him or her as different. In fact, your brain continuously processesincoming sensory information the sights and sounds of your world. Theseincoming signals are compared against a host of "memories" stored inthe brain areas called the cortex(皮质)systemto determine what these new signals "mean". If you seesomeone you know and like at school, your brain says "familiar andsafe". If you see someone new, it says, "new and potentiallythreatening". Then your brain starts to match features of this strangerswith other "known" memories. The more unfamiliar the characteristics,the more your brain may say, "This is new, I don't like this person"Or else," I'm intrigued(好奇的)".Oryour brain may perceive a new face but familiar clothes, ethnicity, gestures -like your other friends；soyour brain says："I likethis person". But these preliminary impressions can be dead wrong. When westereotype people, we use a less mature form of thinking (not unlike the immature thinking of avery young child) that makessimplistic and categorical impressions of others. Rather than learn about thedepth and breadth of people - their history, interest, values, strengths ,andtrue character ，we categorizethem as jocks(骗子),peeks(反常的人),or freaks(怪人)。However, if weresist initial stereotypical impressions, we have a chance to be aware of whata person is truly like. If we spend time with a person, hear about his or herlife, hopes, dreams, and become aware of our cortex, which allow us to behumane. 1.Our firstimpression of someone new is influenced by his or her. A. pastexperience. B. character. C. facialfeatures. D. hobbies. 2.If you meet astranger with familiar gestures, your brain is most likely to say A. "He isfamiliar and safe." B. "Heis new and potentially threatening." C."I likethis person." D."This is new, I don't like this person." 3.Our thinkingis not mature enough when we stereotype people because A. we neglecttheir depth and breadth. B. they are notall jocks, peeks, or freaks. C. our thinkingis similar to that of a very young child. D. our judgmentis always wrong. 4.Which of thefollowing statements best expresses the main idea of the passage？ A. One'sphysical appearance can influence our first impression. B. Our firstimpression is influenced by the sensitivity of our brain. C. Stereotypicalimpressions can be dead wrong. D. We shouldadopt mature thinking when getting to know people.