Which of the following points is NOT included in the passage?
A. One of the major tasks of education is to discover the most promising students.
B. In order to teach effectively, educators are requested to lay emphasis on one particular field.
C. Some subjects have been over-emphasized in public schools.
D. The progress Of the society can not merely rely on inventors.
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"Drive on", he said. "I've got a gun (枪)."
"I'm a doctor," said Johnson. "I'm on my way to a hospital to operate on a very sick..."
"Don't talk," said the man in the old black coat. "Just drive."
A mile out of the town he ordered the doctor to stop the car and get out. Then the man drove on down the road. The doctor stood for a moment in the snow. A half hour, Dr Johnson found a telephone and called a taxi (出租车). At the railway (铁路) station he learned that the next train to Glens Falls would not leave until 12 o'clock.
It was after two o'clock in the morning when the doctor arrived at the hospital in Glens Falls. Miss Clarke, a nurse, was waiting for him.
"I did my best," said Dr Johnson. Miss Clarke said. "The boy died an hour ago."
They walked into the waiting room. There sat the man in the old black coat, with his head in his hands.
"Mr Shute," said Miss Clarke to the man, "this is Dr Johnson. He had come all the way from Albany to try to save your boy."
From the story we know it took Dr Johnson ______ to get to the hospital.
A. 12 hours
B. 2 hours
C. only I hour
D. about 5 hours
第二节 完型填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
As she walked round the large shop, Edith realized how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas 【B1】 for her father.
She 【B2】 that he were as easy to please as her mother, who was 【B3】 satisfied with perfume. 【B4】 , shopping at this time of the year was a most 【B5】 job. People 【B6】 on your feet, pushed you with their shoulders and almost 【B7】 you over in their hurry in order to 【B8】 something cheap ahead of you.
Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter, where some beautiful ties were on 【B9】 . "They are 【B10】 silk," the shop assistant told her with a smile trying to 【B11】 her to buy one. But Edith knew from past 【B12】 that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.
She moved on slowly and then, quite by chance, 【B13】 where a small crowd of men had gathered round a counter. She found some fine pipes on sale and the 【B14】 were very beautiful. Edith did not hesitate for long. Although her father 【B15】 smoked a pipe once in a while, she believed this was 【B16】 to please him.
When she got home, with her small but 【B17】 present hidden in her handbag, it was time for supper and her parents were already 【B18】 table. Her mother was in great 【B19】 . "Your father has at last decided to stop smoking," she told her daughter happily. Edith was so 【B20】 that she could not say a single word.
【B1】
A. suit
B. card
C. thing
D. gift
听力原文:Hello, everyone. I'd like to tell you a story about Miss Richards.
Miss Richards was a teacher at a school for boys and girls. She taught chemistry and physics from the lowest to the highest classes in the school. Sometimes the new classes learned rapidly, but sometimes they were very slow, and then Miss Richards had to repeat things many times.
One year, the first class had been studying chemistry for several weeks when Miss Richards suddenly asked, "What is water7 Who knows? Hands up."
There was silence for a few seconds, and Miss Richards felt sad but then one boy raised his hand. "Yes, Dick?" said Miss Richards encouragingly. He was not one of the brightest students in the class, so she was glad this boy could answer.
"Water is a liquid which has no color until you wash your hands in it, then it turns black," the boy replied.
What was Miss Richards?
A chemistry teacher.
B. A physics teacher.
C. A science teacher.
The shop in Cardiff ______.
A. was big and very modem
B. was old but beautiful
C. didn't sell furniture only
D. was famous in London