C . the urgency of getting rid of government controls D . the relationship between supply and demand

正确答案:the possible results of government controls

题目详解:本文从rent control和最低工资控制两方面讨论了政府控制可能造成的后果。进一步说，许多政府行为可能保护某些利益，但从长远看，也会带来许多问题。the possible results of government controls正确。the relationship between supply and demand “（文章叙述了）供需关系”；the necessity of government control “（文章叙述了）政府控制的必要性”；the urgency of getting rid of government controls（文章叙述了）摆脱政府控制的紧迫性”。文章并没有深入谈及这三项内容，显然不能成为文章主旨。 5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A . Economic theory can predict the results of economic decisions if other factors are not changing.

B . The results of economic decisions can not always be predicted. C . Economic decisions should not be based on economic theory. D . Minimum wage can not always protect employees.

正确答案:Economic decisions should not be based on economic theory.

题目详解:依据第四段第二句话：The predictions may be correct only if \things are equal\可得知The results of economic decisions can not always be predicted是对的。从第二段可得知规定最低工作会使得雇主雇用更少的工人，会考虑用机器替代工人，也就会导致更多的人失业，所以Minimum wage can not always protect employees应该是可以成立的说法。Economic theory can predict the results of economic decisions if other factors are not changing的内容实际上就是The results of economic decisions can not always be predicted的另一种说法，也可成立。依据第四段内容，可得知Economic decisions should not be based on economic theory不正确。经济理论应该有相当参考价值，只是还需考虑方方面面的因素。

A feature of US education that we have not yet discussed is continuous classroom interaction between teacher and students. From Los Angeles to New York, and from Chicago to Houston, educators believe that students master information by discovering it for themselves. They believe that teachers do not actually teach, but simply help students learn. In this view, learning takes place through a process of challenging old ideas and asking questions. The faculty member aims to exchange ideas with students, rather than simply tell them what they should know.

The concept of constantly exchanging ideas may seem strange to you at first. Perhaps you come from a country where people believe that whatever is written in a book must be true, and that teachers are always right in matters of learning. If so, you will probably find the United States system disquieting. Of course, American students know that their textbooks are mostly right and that their teachers are better informed than they are. But they think for themselves and their teachers expect them to ask questions and challenge ideas. The point, again, is not that Americans have the \approach to learning, but that the interactive classroom is a strong feature of US education.

Comparatively few courses in the university classroom are so clearly organize

d for interaction. Nevertheless, the course in which a professor lectures steadily to hundreds of silent students is relatively rare in the United States. Enrollments are often limited (many classes will have fewer than 30 students), so that all students have a chance to participate. Where the lecture format is necessary, as in a freshman chemistry course, the large class meets once or twice a week, then divides into small group meetings. The lecture is used to present information efficiently - for example, through slides and demonstrations as well as actual lecturing - but group meetings provide important sessions where homework can be reviewed and questions answered.

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1. Which is the best summary of the information in the text?

A . Classroom in the United States: advantages and disadvantages. B . Features of classrooms in the United States.

C . Students-teacher relationship in the United States. D . How to adapt to classrooms in the United States.

正确答案:Features of classrooms in the United States.

题目详解:整篇文章在讲美国大学教室里学生和老师的互动气氛。文章认为这是美国大学的一个重要特点，但未对其优缺点做任何评价。[How to adapt to classrooms in the United States.]、[Classroom in the United States: advantages and disadvantages.]、[Features of classrooms in the United States.]都是对内容的曲解，只有[Features of classrooms in the United States.]比较适合地总结概括了文章的主题。 2. Which of the following is rare in a typical American classroom? A . Heated discussion. B . Intense interaction.

C . Frequent questions from students. D . Listening to a lecture.

正确答案:Listening to a lecture.

题目详解:这个题目所涉及的信息可以在文中第三段第二句找到。文章谈到，美国大学中几百个人听讲座这种情况比较少见。

3. What does the word \(Para. 2) mean? A . Great. B . Difficult. C . Noisy.

D . Uncomfortable.

正确答案:Uncomfortable.

题目详解:上下文谈到美国大学和其他国家大学教育不太一样的地方。可以推测，适应一种新的环境经，心情会比较紧张，不太舒服。因此相比之下Uncomfortable比较符合 4. What is the aim of faculty members in the US universities? A . To give them challenging tasks.

B . To tell the students what they should know. C . To exchange ideas with the students. D . To give students freedom.

正确答案:To exchange ideas with the students.

题目详解:这个题目所涉及的信息在文中第一段找到。原句是“The faculty member aims to exchange ideas with students, rather than simply tell them what they should know.”

5. What is the purpose of having a lecture course?

A . To encourage students exchange ideas with each other. B . To review homework.

C . To present information effectively. D . To save time and space.

正确答案:To present information effectively.

题目详解:这个题目所涉及的信息可以在文中最后一段看到。原句是“The lecture is used to present information efficiently... ”

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, the true instinct for what is beautiful and awe- inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to be responsible for the Christening (洗礼、仪式) of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so undeniable that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing protection against the boredom of later years, the inattention of things that are artificial, the alienation (疏远、转让) from the sources of our strength. If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. Parents often have a sense of inadequacy when facing on the one hand the eager, sensitive mind of a child and, on the other, a world of complex physical nature, confused by a life so various and unfamiliar that it seems hopeless to reduce it to order and knowledge. In a mood of self-defeat, they exclaim, \can I possibly teach my child about nature －why, I don't even know one bird from another?\

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to know as to feel. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. The years of early childhood are the time to prepare the soil. Once the emotions have been aroused－a sense of the beautiful, the excitement of the new and unknown, a feeling of sympathy, pity, admiration or love － then we wish for knowledge about the object of our emotional response. Once found, it has lasting meaning. It is more important to prepare the way for the child to want to know than to put him on a load of facts he is ready to understand.

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1. The word \\1, Line 2) can be best replaced by___. A . inborn sense B . response C . wisdom

D . emotion

提交的答案:inborn sense 正确答案:inborn sense

题目详解:依据本句中\clear-eyed vision\的提示，判断出问题1（释义题）中的\ct\与选项中的\sense\含义相关。

2. According to the first paragraph, which of the following statements in Not true? A . Adults are concerned with things that are artificial. B . Adults often lack a sense of wonder.

C . Children may lose their sense of wonder when they grow up. D . Fairies make a child's world fresh and full of wonder.

提交的答案:Fairies make a child's world fresh and full of wonder. 正确答案:Fairies make a child's world fresh and full of wonder.

题目详解:根据第一段的第三句中使用的假设型的虚拟语气\If I had … I should ask… be a sense of wonder … would last.（如果说为孩子承担洗礼责任的仙女确实存在的话，那么她给孩子的礼品应该是永不消失，持续终生的）.\的提示，判断出与选项中的\make a child's world fresh and full of wonder\含义相关。

3. It can be learned from the second paragraph that ___. A . parents can never teach their children about nature

B . parents often do not know much about nature themselves C . parents should know one bird from another D . parents should learn from their children

提交的答案:parents often do not know much about nature themselves 正确答案:parents often do not know much about nature themselves

题目详解:依据第二段中的\often have a sense of inadequacy…（家长们总是有一种不满足感） hopeless to reduce it to order and knowledge (没有能力理智地给孩子解答问题)\的提示，判断出与选项中的\often do not know much about nature themselves\含义相关。

4. What does the author think about facts?

A . Facts are so undeniable that they should be recognized without prejudice. B . Facts are less important than the ability to feel. C . Facts are the most important things for children. D . Facts are meaningless for children.

提交的答案:Facts are less important than the ability to feel. 正确答案:Facts are less important than the ability to feel. 题目详解:细节题

要点：依据第三段的\not half so… as… （与其说重要的是了解还不如说重要的是感觉）If facts… then the emotions and impressions of the senses…（如果说知识是种子的话，那么感觉和印象就是肥沃的土壤）It is more important …than to put him on a load of facts （更重要的是使孩子掌握学习知识的方法而不是知识）\的提示，判断出与选项中的\Facts are less important than the ability to feel\含义相关。 5. The best title of this passage can be ____. A . Keeping Alive the Sense of Wonder B . Children and Adulthood C . Facts and Emotions

D . Children and Parents

提交的答案:Keeping Alive the Sense of Wonder 正确答案:Keeping Alive the Sense of Wonder

题目详解:依据第一段中的\child's world…fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement（童年时代充满了好奇和激动）和 …dimmed and even lost…（这种好奇和激动随着年龄的增长而消失）以及…a sense of wonder so undeniable that it would last throughout life（使这种好奇心永不消失，持续终生）…an unfailing protection against…(永远保护我们免于遭受成年烦恼的伤害，免于被人为的事情分散注意力，免于失去本能的能力)\的提示，判断出与选项中的\Alive the Sense of Wonder\含义相关。 Basic to any understanding of Canada in, the 20 years after the Second World War is the country's impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada's population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase.

The depression of the 1930's and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950's producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada's history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950's supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.

After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level .in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer, more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.

Although the growth in Canada's population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the. First half of the 1960's was only nine percent, another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957. ________________________________________ 1. What does the passage mainly discuss? A . Educational changes in Canadian society. B . Standards of living in Canada.

C . Population trends in postwar Canada. D . Canada during the Second World War.

正确答案:Population trends in postwar Canada.

题目详解:依据问题中?What does the passage mainly discuss?的提示，从第一段中?…the