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A common assumption about the private sector of education is that it caters only to the elite. 【C1】______ recent research points in the opposite direction. If we want to help some of most 【C2】______ group in society, then encouraging deeper private sector 【C3】______ is likely to be the best way forward.
Several developments are 【C4】______ in India, all of which involve the private education sector meeting the 【C5】______ of the poor in distinct ways. 【C6】______ India is not unique in this respect — similar phenomena are happening all over the developing world.
As a point of departure, how do government schools serve the poor? Usefully, the government sponsored Public Report on Basic Education in India from 1999 paints a very 【C7】______ picture of the " 【C8】______ " of the government schools for the poor. When researchers 【C9】______ unannounced on their random sample of the schools, only 53% had any "teaching activity" going on. 【C10】______ , the team noted that the 【C11】______ of teaching standards has nothing to do 【C12】______ disempowered teachers, but instead could be 【C13】______ " plain negligence". They noted "several cases of irresponsible teachers 【C14】______ a school closed for months at a time".
But is there any 【C15】______ to these schools? Surely no one else can do better than government 【C16】______ the resources available? As it happens, the Report pointed to private schools that were serving the poor and 【C17】______ that such problems were not found in these schools. Most parents believed that private schools were successful because they were more accountable: "the teachers me accountable to the manager who can fire them, and, 【C18】______ him or her, to the 【C19】______ who can withdraw their children." Such accountability was not present in the government schools, and "this contrast is 【C20】______ with crystal clarity by vast majority of parents."
【C1】

A. In addition
B. On the contrary
C. In effect
D. In general

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Personal space, an updated form. of Edward T. Hall's 1966 proxemics, is the region surrounding each person, or that area which a person considers his domain or territory. Often if entered by another being without this being desired, it makes them feel uncomfortable. The amount of space a being (person, plant, animal) needs falls into two categories, individuate individual physical space (determined by imagined boundaries), and the space au individual considers theirs to live in (often called habitat).
What distance is appropriate for a particular social situation depends on culture. It is also a matter of personal preference. Personal space is highly variable. Those who live in a densely populated environment tend to have smaller personal space requirements. Thus a resident of India may have a smaller personal space than someone who is home on the Mongolian steppe, both in regard to home and individual.
Personal space can be determined on a habitat level by profession, livelihood, and occupation. It can also be heavily affected by a person's position in society, with the more affluent a person being the larger personal space they demand. While it is highly variable and difficult to measure accurately the best estimates for personal physical space place it at about 24.5 inches (60 centimeters) on either side, 27.5 inches (70 centimeters) in front and 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) behind for an average westerner.
In certain circumstances people can accept having their personal space violated. For instance in romantic encounters the stress from allowing closer personal space distances can be reinterpreted into emotional fervor. Another method of dealing with violated personal space, according to psychologist Robert Sommer, is dehumanization. He argues that, for instance on the subway, crowded people imagine those infiltrating their personal space as inanimate. Changing perceptions about personal space and the fluctuating boundaries of public and private in European culture since the Roman Empire have been explored in "A History of Private Life", under the general editorship of Philippe Aries and Georges Duby, published in English by the Belknap Press.
Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Personal space means the space one occupies as a resident.
B. The research of personal space originated from promexics.
C. Not only human beings need personal space.
D. Imagined boundaries and habitat consist one's need of personal space.

Even though African game preserves have saved many animals, there are ______ that will not

A. some other
B. all other
C. many more
D. much more

听力原文:W: May I ask how you met with theater? I read that you were an actor first.
M: No, at first I was a stage technician and electrician. Then I became an actor. And then a director. When I was 45 I quit acting and became a director. I also taught at a theater school, that was 36 years ago.
W: When you direct a play, what point do you focus on?
M: Whatever my imagination says, whichever my thoughts of the world today are. I love Oriental theater, and the Ancient Greeks, I love the roots or, in other words, the conventional theater. I love music and ballet, which are abstract arts. For me, drama is just for selected groups so much so that not everyone would understand. That's why I can be myself.
W: Are there any works of art or architectural sites, that you use your impression in your work?
M: Certainly. Parthenon, Acropolis in Greece, Coliseum in Rome. Some cities that I love very much, like Jerusalem.
W: Did you ever think of becoming a film director or a writer?
M: You know, I wanted to. I write all my compositions myself. I'd like to make at least one film. But once I turn around, something goes wrong with finances.
What does the man think of drama?

A. It is beyond his imagination.
B. It is easy to understand.
C. It is an abstract art.
D. It is only for 'certain groups of people.

Where did the conversation mostly probably take place?

A. In a police station.
B. In the street.
C. In a registration office.
D. In a garage.

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