Female students constitute the majority of our class._______________（相比之下，他们班全由男生组成).

Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class？

A) Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.

B) Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence.

C) Her female students can do just as well as male students.

D) More female students are pursuing science than before.

"Let me do it for you" behavior. toward female students is detrimental to their becoming independent.（Sexism in School）（）

此题为判断题(对，错)。

A. Female students are unfit for studying physics.

B. He can serve as the woman's tutor.

C. Physics is an important course at school.

D. The professor's suggestion is constructive.

Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class？

A．Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.

B．Her students’ performance has brought back her confidence.

C．Her female students can do just as well as male students.

D．More female students are pursuing science than before.

Why does the author feel great satisfaction when talking about her class？

A.Female students no longer have to bother about gender issues.

B.Her students performance has brought back her confidence.

C.Her female students can do just as well as male students.

D.More female students are pursuing science than before.

is is a problem of ____________ inequivalence.

A、experience

B、vocabulary

C、concept

D、grammar and syntax

Recently, a student used his Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to film a female teacher berating(训斥) and tearing the work of a classmate. The public discussion that the 【C1】______ caused was confined initially to the virtual community in which the video clip was posted. 【C2】______ , when it came to the media's attention, it quickly became a 【C3】______ topic in the education circles. The reactions so far suggest that the focus of the debate has been 【C4】______ one question: Whom to blame？

Teachers who are anxious 【C5】______ their professional integrity have tried to put the blame on the students. They cited intrusion of privacy 【C6】______ the reason for their request to the Ministry of Education (MOE) to ban PDAs in schools. On the other hand, some parents and students have taken a 【C7】______ position. They feel that the teacher is also at fault. Caught up in the war of words between both sides, people are 【C8】______ interested in the "troth" of the matter which seems now unimportant. It was left to newspaper commentaries to identify the 【C9】______ issue of the controversy, by highlighting the deep 【C10】______ problems in our educational system.

For those responsible for educating the young, this PDA episode conveys the message that "times have 【C11】______ ", a reality that must have been felt even more 【C12】______ by the female teacher when reflecting 【C13】______ this unpleasant experience. Different times call for different professional 【C14】______ in education. The ability to understand the students they are teaching has always been 【C15】______ successful teachers. Despite some factors, the outburst by the teacher shows a lack of professionalism 【C16】______ her part. 【C17】______ , there are rules under current system to deal with 【C18】______ students. Also, it 【C19】______ an issue we are familiar: What to do with new technology？ With PDA, the new technology, the 【C20】______ between the teacher and students in classroom has been changed.

【C1】

A．accident

B．incidence

C．incident

D．accidental

Passage 4

Marie Curie was the first female professor at Sevres, a college for girls who wanted to teach higher education. These twenty-year-olds would _1_ become professors. Marie was not liked by her pupils during her first year as a professor. By her second year, the students loved her. One student reported that the courses taught by Marie were “the _2_ reference during the entire length of my career. She didn’t dazzle us, she _3_ us, attracted us, held us with her simplicity, her desire to be useful to us, the sense she had of both our ignorance and our _4_ She was the first to take her students into the laboratory to physically manipulate their newly-learned theories. She also taught by example, and invited the physics class to hear the _5_ of her dissertation (论文). Marie argued for the elimination of additional, difficult tests given only to the female students. She also _6_ the dean to provide calculus classes to the female students. Marie wanted the girls to have the tools to succeed in academia and fought tooth and nail to provide every _7_. This woman is known for her scientific discoveries and the progress _8_ from them. Of course her scientific discoveries are _9_ and usefull.It is also important to understand the kind of woman that she was.She was stubborn, and she hated to lose, but it was her goal to use science to help the world in whatever way possible. Her stubbornness led to persistence and _10_. These qualities promoted the use of her brilliance. The love and support of her family taught Marie to never question the possibilities that stood before her.

A) trivial

B) convinced

C) possibilities

D) merely

E) reassured

F) impressive

G) opportunity

H) dispensable

I) derived

J) adaptabilities

K) eventually

L) defense

M) confused

N) determination

O) essential

第1空答案是：

The New Math on Campus

Sexual Imbalance in Colleges

After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority (女学生联谊会) women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into a basement bar. Bathed in a colorful glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and shouted lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a night out, it had everything--except guys.

North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel weirdly like women's colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students.

The Effects of the Sexual Imbalance

In terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women--it's a sign of female achievement. But surrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night. Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, complained that the population of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. "Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent," she said.

Needless to say, this puts guys in a position to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willing to make a commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser, a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had "hooked up with a least five of my friends in my sorority--that I know of".

These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., and large public universities in states like California, Florida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female. Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as "Girlington".

The gender gap is not universal. The Ivy League schools are largely equal in gender, and some even has a few more males. But at some schools, efforts to balance the numbers have been met with complaints that less-qualified men are being admitted over more-qualified women. In December, the United States Commission on Civil Rights moved to check admissions data from 19 public and private colleges to look at whether they were discriminating against qualified female applicants.

Leaving aside complaints about "affirmative action for boys", less attention has been focused on the social difference. Thanks to simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentine's Day. "I was talking toil friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and started grinding," said Kelly Lynch, a junior at North Carolina, recalling a recent experience.

Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students any where. But many of them--men and women alike said that the imbalanced population tends to twist behavior. "A lot of my friends will meet someone and go home for the night and .just hope for

A．How to get a boyfriend in college.

B．How to get a better degree in college.

C．Relations between sex and profession.

D．The imbalance between male and female students.

ve people are happier and healthier, have better marriage and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants (被告). But in the executive circle, beauty can become a liability.

While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.

Handsome male executive were perceived as having more integrity than plainer men; effort and ability we thought to account for their success.

Attractive female executive were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones; their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.

All unattractive women executive were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than was that of attractive overnight successes.

Why are attractive women not thought to be able？ An attractive woman is perceived to be more feminine and an attractive man more masculine than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the "masculine" qualities required.

This is true even in politics. "When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently," says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.

The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men, but the women who had been ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes.

The word "liability" (Line 4, Para. i) most probably means"

A．misfortune

B．disadvantage

C．instability

D．burden

Employment in Japan

Recruiting season: who, when and where

Every autumn, when recruitment of new graduates and school leavers begins, major cities in Japan are flooded with students hunting for a job. Wearing suits for the first time, they run from one interview to another. The season is crucial for many students as their whole lives may be determined during this period.

Permanency in employment in Japan

In Japan, lifetime employment is commonly practiced by large companies. While people working in small companies and those working for subcontractors do not in general enjoy the advantages conferred (赐予) by the large companies, there is a general expectation that employees will in fact remain more or less permanently in the same job.

How new employees are used in a company

Unlike in many Western countries where companies employ people whose skills can be effective immediately, Japanese companies select applicants with potential who can be trained to become suitable employees. For this reason, recruiting employees is an important exercise for companies, as they invest a lot of time and money in training new staff. This is basically tree both for factory workers and for professionals. Professionals who have studied subjects which are of immediate use in the workplace, such as industrial engineers, are very often placed in factories and transferred from one section to another. By gaining experience in several different areas and by working in close contact with workers, the engineers are believed, in the long run, to become more effective members of the company. Workers too feel more involved by working with professionals and by being allowed to voice their opinions. Loyalty is believed to be cultivated in this type of egalitarian(平等主义的)working environment.

The salary structure

Because of this system of training employees to be all-rounders (全才), mobility between companies is low. Wages are set according to educational background or initial field of employment, ordinary graduates being employed in administration, engineers in engineering and design departments and so on. Beth promotions and wage increases tend to be tied to seniority, though some differences may arise later on as a result of ability and business performance. Wages are paid monthly, and the net sum, after the deduction of tax, is usually paid directly into a bank account. As well as salary, a bonus is usually paid twice a year. This is a custom that dates back to the time when employers gave special allowances so that employees could properly celebrate bon, a Buddhist festival held in mid-July in Tokyo, but on other dates in other regions. The festival is held to appease (安抚) the souls of ancestors. The second bonus is distributed at New Year. Recently, bonuses have also been offered as a way of allowing workers a share in the profits that their hard work has gained.

Women and Japanese companies

Many female graduates complain that they are not given equal training and equal opportunity in comparison to male graduates. Japanese companies generally believe that female employees will eventually leave to get married and have children.

It is also true that, as well as the still-existing belief among women themselves that nothing should stand in the way of child-rearing, the extended hours of work often do not allow women to continue their careers after marriage.

The recruitment strategy of foreign firms

Disappointed career-minded female graduates often opt to work for foreign firms. Since most male graduates prefer to join Japanese firms with their guaranteed security, foreign firms are often keen to employ female graduates as their potential tends to be greater than that of male applicants. Why men sometimes resign from Japanese companies Some men, however, do leave their compa

A．Y

B．N

C．NG