听力原文: Kids are going all over the world without ever leaving their school. They are using their computers. A school in California could be the most wired school in America. They ate wired to the Internet through their computers.
Thirty students are able to use the Internet every day. The kids are between the grades of kindergarten and fifth grade. The teacher says that it is hard to get them away from the computers. They do not even want to take a rest.
The Internet has opened the world to many people. Now students can go to any library on earth. They can get information. They can visit a child in another country.
Laura Bacon likes to visit with other students. She's going to Peggy's page. Peggy is a school student in London, England. She put her own home page on the Internet. It includes pictures of Peggy, her school, her mom, dad and friends. You can send her mail, too.
A scientist helped to wire the school, He says, "Here is a plan to connect 12 thousand California schools to the Internet."
Wiring schools in California can cost a lot of money. It needs to be done by volunteer effort or schools will not be able to afford it. They think that it will cost as much as fifty billion dollars.
Some people say that the money should be spent on teachers instead of computers. Some people say that it would be worth it to wire all of classrooms.
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A school in California.
B. A student in London.
C. Home page on the Internet.
D. Computers in the classroom.
查看答案
A.A scientist will help to wire all the schools.B.It can be very expensive.C.It is not
A scientist will help to wire all the schools.
B. It can be very expensive.
C. It is not easy to do so.
D. Technical problems are still not solved.
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: Marco Polo was 17 years old when he set out on the most famous journey in history. In 1271 he left Italy with his father and his uncle, and he spent more than three years crossing the Middle East and Asia. He wanted to see Mongolian ruler, Kublal Khan.
Marco arrived in China in 1275. The Khan liked him at once, and Marco became an important government official. He traveled all over the country and brought back information for the Khan.
It was 24 years before Marco returned to his home in Venice. When he finally arrived there, his family and friends were surprised to see him again, because everybody thought that he had died many years before.
At first, people did not pay much attention to the stories Marco told. Then, when Venice went to war with Genoa, Marco joined the Navy. He was caught by the enemy, and put into jail. While he was there, he told his stories to his fellow prisoners to pass the time. One of the prisoners was a writer called Rustichello, and he wrote down Marco's adventures in a book. This book is called "The Travel of Marco Polo", and it is still famous today.
Marco did not make any more journeys after his book was published, but he dreamed that one day he would returned to China. Almost seven centuries later, his dream came true. In the 1980s, the historical film "Marco Polo", made by a Sino-Italian team, brought Marco to meet Chinese audience.
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A. Marco was 15 years old when be set out on his first journey.
B. Marco left Italy with his sister and brother.
C. Marco wanted to become the Mongolian ruler.
D. Marco was appointed an important official by Khan.
A.It builds new oil facilities.B.It pays back to its citizens.C.It gives benefits to l
A. It builds new oil facilities.
B. It pays back to its citizens.
C. It gives benefits to large corporations.
D. It pays back to the federal government.
听力原文:M: Did you finish that paper for your political science class? It was on state taxes, wasn't it?
W: I finished it, but I ended up changing the topic.
M: Hmm, what did you finally come up with?
W: Well, I decided that state taxation was too large of an issue, so I focused on a single state. It turned out that one state stood out from the others in terms of taxes.
M: Which one was that?
W: Alaska. Alaska is the only state that pays its citizens instead of taking taxes from them.
M: What? The people in Alaska are paid by the government?
W: That's right. Since the discovery of oil there in the 1970's, there has been enormous amounts of money spent by corporations in order to take out the oil and the state charges the companies such large taxes that the state government typically has budget surpluses.
M: But other states have industries too. They don't pay the people tax money.
W: Yes, but in proportion to the amount of people living in the state, Alaska receives an extremely high amount of taxes from its industries. In order to correct the budget surplus,it was decided that the people who lived there would get the money back.
M: Wow, maybe I should move to Alaska.
W: Not so fast, the money only goes to people who have lived there for at least ten years. By the time you live there that long, there might not be any money left.
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A. The history of taxes.
B. The state of Texas.
C. The importance of oil.
D. The taxes of Alaska.