听力原文: Public schools in the United States are under the control of the individual states. Sometimes the state hands its control over to a smaller area, a county or city.
Most Americans start school at the age of five when they enter kindergarten. Children do not really study at this time. They only attend for half the day and learn what school is like.
Children attend elementary school for the next six years. They ]earn to read and write and work with numbers. They also study the world and its people.
After they leave elementary school, children go to junior high school for three years and senior high school for another three years. This is called secondary education. In some places the children go to elementary school for eight years and high school for four. At any rate, elementary and secondary education together take twelve years to complete, excluding kindergarten.
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A. The individual citizens control.
B. The individual states control.
C. The country controls.
D. Individual cities or village control.
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听力原文: In the Netherlands and Belgium children do not have their fun and presents on Christmas Day as we do. They go to church on Christmas Day, and they have their fun on St. Nicholas Day, which comes on December 6. The night before, they fix something to hold their gifts. Sometimes it is a well-polished shoe, sometimes a plate or a basket, and sometimes they hang up their stockings just as we do. St. Nicholas rides a gray horse or a white donkey and so the children leave water for the animal to drink and something for it to eat. They leave hay or oats or a carrot, and sometimes a piece of bread. In the morning, if they have been good, they find that St. Nicholas has left sweets and fruits and playthings for them. But if they have been bad they find only a rod or a switch.
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A. 6th.
B. 8th.
C. 9th.
D. 25th.
In the future trade the key development to watch is the relationship between the industrialized and the developing nations. The【C1】______World Countries export their mineral【C2】______and some agricultural products, which bring them【C3】______foreign exchange. Tourism has also been greatly responsible【C4】______the rapid development of some【C5】______nations. Many Third World nations with high【C6】______and low wages have seen an emigration of workers【C7】______the developed nations. Western Europe has【C8】______millions of such workers from Mediterranean countries. The developing nations profit【C9】______these workers bring their savings and their acquired technical skills【C10】______home. Many developing nations benefit when Western nations【C11】______manufacturing factories in their countries to take【C12】______of cheap labor.
【C13】______economies mature, economic growth rates tend to level off. The rate of【C14】______growth is leveling off today in Western nations. This leveling off【C15】______leads to static non-growth markets. A point of saturation (饱和)【C16】______technology and innovation have seemed to achieve the impossible,【C17】______then how much further can it go ? Herman Kahn,【C18】______his book The Next 200 Years, says that a shift in priorities will have to occur for industrialized nations.【C19】______is the creation of quality and jobs essential;【C20】______is rather the improvement of the quality of life that must be our concern.
【C1】
A. First
B. Second
C. West
D. Third
A.Six weeks,B.Six months.C.Six years.D.Sixteen years.
A. Six weeks,
B. Six months.
C. Six years.
D. Sixteen years.
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.
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A. Microwaves are strange electric waves.
B. Microwaves travel in straight lines and do not follow the curve of the earth's surface.
C. There are not any wires to send microwaves.
D. We must amplify microwaves in relay stations.