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Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.
听力原文： In the early part of the 19th century there were no schools in the southern states of America admitting black children to its free public schools. Some brave teachers ran secret night schools. Teachers who were found educating black children would be forced to leave town. The situation was better in the North and in 1787 the first African Free School was opened in New York City. This school and six others in the city began receiving public funding in 1824.
When Prudence Crandall opened a school for black girls, attempts were made by local white people to burn the building down. Despite attempts to prevent the school from receiving essential supplies, Crandall school continued and began to attract girls from Boston and Philadelphia. The local authorities then began using a vagrancy law against these students. These girls could now be given ten lashes of the whip for attending the school.
In 1834 a law was passed making it illegal to provide a free education for black students. When Prudence Crandall refused to obey the law she was arrested and imprisoned. Meanwhile, a white mob attacked the school and threatened the lives of Crandall and her students. Afraid that the children would be killed or badly injured, Crandall decided to close her school down.
In 1849 there was a lawsuit against the city of Boston for refusing to admit black children to its schools. The case was lost but in 1855 Massachusetts legislature changed its policy and declared that "no person shall be excluded from a Public School on account of race, colour or prejudice."
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听力原文：F: You know, the noise in my dorm bas really gotten out of control. My roommate and I can rarely get to sleep before midnight.
M: Why don't you take the problem up with the dorm supervisor？
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do？
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New York City is the destination for many immigrants. Students in cities like New York are used to hearing wide variations of English. In a town where immigrant communities flourish, many dialects and languages mix with standard English. Within the New York City public school system, a number of programs have been established to address this situation. One such innovative program is the International High School in Queens. Its mission is to help new immigrant students develop not only academic skills, but also the cultural skills that are necessary for success in high school, college, and beyond. Only students who have been in the United States for less than four years are eligible for admission.
The philosophy of this school is that you learn by doing, and not by hearing the teacher lecture. In some of the classes such as math class, six teams of young people are gathered around lab tables, building their own miniature temple out of cardboard. They're speaking Spanish, English, and Mandarin Chinese. This is not just a bilingual classroom, it's a multilingual one. Although they come from all over the world, the students at the International High School understand each other very well. Probably what they share most is the feeling of not fitting in, a feeling of estrangement.
In other classes, students who know more English and more math will help teach those who know less. Whenever they have problems with pronunciation, they correct each other instead of making fun of the errors.
New York City can be an intimidating place, even for those who have spent their whole lives here. But for young people who have just been uprooted from tight-knit, extended families and traditional communities abroad, the city can seem positively unfriendly. In the past, immigrants to the U. S. often feel the need to assimilate as quickly as possible into mainstream American culture. The fact that immigrant youngsters speak a language other than English is seen by most educators as a problem that needs to be corrected. The usual approach is to teach students exclusively in English, and to suppress the use of their native language.
However, according to teachers in the school, young immigrants don't just need a place to learn English and other subjects, they need, above all else, a place that feels completely safe and welcoming. It's particularly important for these students to have a comfort level in a place called school and for that school to feel like home, to feel like their needs are going to get met, urn, they're going to be listened to, they're going to be valued for who they are and the diverse backgrounds that they come from, and that those things are viewed as what makes them special rather than what makes them a problem.
Language is more than just the way that you communicate with the world; it's the way that you interpret the world in your own head. There's something more than just communication that's lost when you lose your native language.
Question:
16.Which one of the following statements is NOT true about the International High School？
17.What is the philosophy of the innovative program in the International High School？
18.Why can the students understand each other very well？
19.According to the teachers in the school, what's the most important need of the immigrant students？
20.What does the speaker imply when be says "Language is more than the way you communicate with the world？"
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听力原文： Every culture has many sayings that give advice about life. These sayings are part of what is commonly called folk wisdom. Of course, folk wisdom is also expressed in other ways, such as myths, fairy tales, legends, and songs. Often however, folk wisdom is shared in the form. of short sayings about the best ways to approach life's joys and sorrows.
One characteristic of American folk wisdom is its humor. Humor makes the bitter medicine of life easier to swallow. It sometimes makes the harsh realities of life more attractive. For example, Benjamin Franklin's clever saying, "A full belly makes a dull brain" means "People who are well-fed or self-satisfied can become lazy and stupid." But this paraphrasing loses the elegance and humor of Franklin's original saying. Some moralists in the United States are successful because they are able to say wise things humorously.
Abraham Lincoln expressed similar opinions about life but in a different way. Lincoln continued the tradition of "horse sense" humor. This type of humor appeals to people who are hungry for practical common sense. Lincoln, both a politician and an idealist, understood the need for horse sense. He knew how to use common sense to influence people's opinion. He could take the highest moral principles or the most critical observations and use them in folksy—or simple commonsense—humor to make them better understood and more easily accepted. Take, for example, this quote, which is one of the best known in the United States. "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. " Another of Lincoln's wise, folksy statements is: "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That's why he makes so many of them. "
There is no doubt that people need a little push sometimes to help them see the folly of their ways. Mark Twain used humor to reveal that many popular ideas were false, foolish, or even harmful. Twain thought that most human beings didn't examine why they believe certain things, and that they were too easily influenced by the opinions of people in power. He felt that it was easier for people to be "misled" than to be led correctly, so he tried to show the foolishness of those in power. For example, he said, "Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side and ain't that a big enough majority in any town？"
Now you may get the impression that Twain was a misanthrope, a person who saw everyone's mistakes and never noticed their good qualities. It's true that his humor was sometimes harsh, but it was used to reveal truths about human relationships. Twain thought the result would be a better, more just society. However, he also realized that he irritated a lot of people. He was aware that when newspapers reported his death, many people might be happy to hear the news. The telegram he sent from Europe to the Associated Press is typical of his humor. It read, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. "
Questions:
16. According to the talk, what is major characteristic of "folk wisdom"？
17.According to the talk, what is the major difference between Franklin and Lincoln when composing short sayings of folk wisdom？
18.According to the talk, which of the following statements is TRUE about "horse sense" humor？
19.According to the talk, what was Mark Twain's purpose for using humor？
20.According to the talk, why did Mark Twain send the telegram which said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. "？
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