Bruce Alberts, the former President of the National Academies (USA), has now taken over as Editor-in Chief of Science. Judging by his editorial in this week’s issue Considering Science Education there could be some interesting times ahead in Science offices.
Here’s part of what Bruce has to say about science education…
I consider science education to be critically important to both science and the world, and I shall frequently deal with this topic on this page. Let’s start with a big-picture view. Science has greatly advanced our understanding of the natural world and has enabled the creation of countless medicines and useful devices. It has also led to behaviors that have improved lives. The public appreciates these practical benefits of science, and science and scientists are generally respected, even by those who are not familiar with how science works or what exactly it has discovered.
But society may less appreciate the advantage of having everyone acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that are central to practice of successful science: scientific habits of mind. These habits include a critical attitude toward established claims and a strong desire for logic and evidence. As famous astronomer Carl Sagan put it, science is our best detector (检测器). Individuals and societies clearly need a means to logically test the constant clever attempts to operate our purchasing and political decisions. They also need to challenge what is unreasonable, including the intolerance that led to so many regional and global conflicts.
So how does this relate of science education? Might it be possible to encourage, across the world, scientific habits of mind, so as to create more rational (理性的) societies everywhere? In principle, a strong expansion of science education could provide the world with such an opportunity, but only if scientists, educators, and policy-makers redefine (重新定义) the goals of science education, beginning with college-level teaching. Rather than only conveying what science has discovered about the natural world, as is done now in most countries, we should provide first all students with the knowledge and practice of how to think like a scientist.
1. Which of the following is NOT included in the “scientific habits of mind”?
A. A critical attitude toward established claims. B. A strong desire for logic.
C. A clever and active mind. D. A strong desire for evidence.
2. What does the underlined phrase “such an opportunity” refer to in the last paragraph?
A. To create more rational societies everywhere.
B. To relate decision-making to science education.
C. To encourage science education around the world.
D. To set right goals of science education.
3.In Bruce Alberts’ opinion, which is the most important in science education?
A. Offering all students enough practice to drill their mind.
B. Equipping all students with a thinking model of a scientist.
C. Telling students what science has discovered about the natural world.
D. Advising all students to challenge all established scientific achievements.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A. Bruce Alberts, a great science educator
B. Science education and world peace
C. The government and science education
D. Bruce Alberts’ opinion on science education
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Bruce Alberts, the former President of the National Academies (USA), has now taken over as Editor-in Chief of Science. Judging by his editorial in this week’s issue Considering Science Education there could be some interesting times ahead in Science offices.
Here’s part of what Bruce has to say about science education…
I consider science education to be critically important to both science and the world, and I shall frequently deal with this topic on this page. Let’s start with a big-picture view. Science has greatly advanced our understanding of the natural world and has enabled the creation of countless medicines and useful devices. It has also led to behaviors that have improved lives. The public appreciates these practical benefits of science, and science and scientists are generally respected, even by those who are not familiar with how science works or what exactly it has discovered.
But society may less appreciate the advantage of having everyone acquire the ways of thinking and behaving that are central to practice of successful science: scientific habits of mind. These habits include a critical attitude toward established claims and a strong desire for logic and evidence. As famous astronomer Carl Sagan put it, science is our best detector (检测器). Individuals and societies clearly need a means to logically test the constant clever attempts to operate our purchasing and political decisions. They also need to challenge what is unreasonable, including the intolerance that led to so many regional and global conflicts.
So how does this relate of science education? Might it be possible to encourage, across the world, scientific habits of mind, so as to create more rational (理性的) societies everywhere? In principle, a strong expansion of science education could provide the world with such an opportunity, but only if scientists, educators, and policy-makers redefine (重新定义) the goals of science education, beginning with college-level teaching. Rather than only conveying what science has discovered about the natural world, as is done now in most countries, we should provide first all students with the knowledge and practice of how to think like a scientist.
1. Which of the following is NOT included in the “scientific habits of mind”?
A. A critical attitude toward established claims. B. A strong desire for logic.
C. A clever and active mind. D. A strong desire for evidence.
2. What does the underlined phrase “such an opportunity” refer to in the last paragraph?
A. To create more rational societies everywhere.
B. To relate decision-making to science education.
C. To encourage science education around the world.
D. To set right goals of science education.
3.In Bruce Alberts’ opinion, which is the most important in science education?
A. Offering all students enough practice to drill their mind.
B. Equipping all students with a thinking model of a scientist.
C. Telling students what science has discovered about the natural world.
D. Advising all students to challenge all established scientific achievements.
4.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A. Bruce Alberts, a great science educator
B. Science education and world peace
C. The government and science education
D. Bruce Alberts’ opinion on science education
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Chelsea Clinton, the 31-year-old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is stepping into her own spotlight.
According to the New York Times, NBC has hired Clinton to become a full-time special correspondent(记者) for NBC News. Her feature stories will reportedly be used in the “Making a Difference” series, which runs on “NBC Nightly News”. The sections attract people who volunteer to improve the lives of others in their communities.
When Bill Clinton won the presidency in 1992, the first lady asked the press to keep Chelsea out of the public eyes. As a young adult, Chelsea continued to avoid media attention in order to attend college and quietly enter the business world. Once her mother decided to run for the presidency in 2007, however, Chelsea made hundreds of public appearances, mostly on college campuses, to support the campaign. More recently, she has worked for New York University and promoted her father’s latest book. She is currently pursuing a doctor’s degree at Oxford.
Clinton is the second daughter of a president hired by NBC News; Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush, works as a correspondent for NBC’s “Today” show.
1. Chelsea Clinton continued to stay out of media attention to _____.
A.improve the lives of others
B.help her father in the election
C.study and go to the business circle
D.support her mother for the presidency
2. What does the underlined word mean in Paragraph 2?
A.is shown B.flows C.is managed D.spreads
3. Which is the right order of the events?
a. Chelsea helped to sell Bill Clinton’s latest book.
b. Chelsea pursues her doctor’s degree.
c. Chelsea supported her mother’s career.
d. Chelsea was out of the public attention.
A.d, a, c, b B.c, d, b, a
C.c, b, d, a D.d, c, a, b
4. According to the text, we can conclude that _____.
A.Chelsea Clinton is the second daughter of Bill Clinton
B.Chelsea Clinton is in favour of her parents’ careers
C.Chelsea Clinton always follows her mother’s advice
D.Jenna Bush Hager is a correspondent for “NBC Nightly News”
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When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.
At the age of two,Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.
In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.
At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.
Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.
In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.
1.What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?
A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.
B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.
C. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.
D. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House.
2.We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.
A. got on very well at the universities
B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football
C. did everything as his father had done
D. was a very successful politician like his father
3.Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?
A. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.
B. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended.
C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.
D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.
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When he took office, George W. Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, became the first son to follow his father into the White House since John Quiney Adams followed John Adams in the early 19th century.
Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Although George Herbert Walker Bush began his career in the oil industry, he finally served as a congressman(国会议员), and vice(副) president and president of the United States.
At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father took up the oil business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family returned to Texas and settled in Midland, where Bush lived from 1950 to 1959.
In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, aboarding school(寄宿学校) that his father had also attended.
At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being head cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut.His father and grandfather had also attended Yale. At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates.
Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Then he joined the Air National Guard and remained in the Guard until 1973. After earning his MBA from Harvard in 1975, Bush returned to Midland. Like his father, he first entered the oil industry as a “landsman(新手)”. However, Bush’s oil companies never enjoyed great success. He took more interest in politics. He helped his father to become president and in 1994 he himself was elected governor of Texas.
In the summer of 1999, Bush began to run for the president of the USA and on January 20, 2001, George W. Bush, hand raised, took the oath(宣誓) of office to become the 43rd president of the US.
1.What does the writer intend to tell us in the first paragraph?
A. George W. Bush is the first son in American history to follow his father into the White House.
B. George W. Bush is the first son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush.
C. George W. Bush is the second one in American history to follow his father into the White House.
D. John Quincy Adams and his father were both former American presidents.
2.We may learn from the text that young Bush ______.
A. got on very well at the universities
B. was very good at basketball, baseball and football
C. was a very successful politician like his father
D. did everything as his father had done
3.Which of the following is NOT true about George W. Bush?
A. He once studied at a university that his father and grandfather had also attended.
B. Young Bush lived with his family in Texas from 1948 to 1961.
C. He once ruled over an American state before he entered the White House.
D. He once served at the Air National Guard for about five years.
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While the National Congress of Communist Party, President Xi instructed the party never to forget we started and then we can accomplish our mission.
A. delivering; when B. announcing; why
C. claiming; when D. addressing; why
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As a doctor, I became the 1. (great) surgeon in the country and the president of the National Society of Surgeons. For this reason, a celebration 2. (hold) in my honor But I couldn’t help feeling sad.
On the day, my friend came up to me and said: “You’ve achieved something that others can’t even dream about. 3. are you so sad?”
“I’ve achieved something that I didn’t even want,” I said, “I 4. wanted to be a surgeon and now I can’t escape from it. If I would suffer a 5. (fail) then maybe I would have a chance to do something that I really love. But for now, I’m chained to a thing that I don’t evenlike.”
“You 6. be joking?” my friend cried out, “The biggest honor for a surgeon is 7. (become) the president of our national society. Your wife is happy, your children are happy. Everyone has the highest respect for you!”
But I don t respect myself, that’s 8. is wrong. I wanted to be a dancer, but my parents were against 9. and I listened to them. I was weak. I became a great surgeon, but I am not working in the field that I wanted to devote my life 10.. That is why I am unhappy.
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While ______ the National Congress of Communist Party, President Xi instructed the party never to forget ______ we started and then we can accomplish our mission (使命).
A.addressing;where B.sponsoring;when
C.delivering;when D.dismissing;where
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US President Barack Obama ________ a national speech at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks.
A.addressed B.delivered
C.spoke D.recited
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Former Chinese athlete, Jin Jing, made her 16 (appear) in the National Stadium, 17 (carry) Paralympic torch during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on September 6.
But now she’s back in the Bird’s Nest, and this time she’s not competing, or carrying a flame, 18 working for the media. Jin said that she was a little regretful for not being able to participate 19 the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.
Born in 1981, Jin 20 (raise) in a common wage-earning family in Hefei, Anhui Province. Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 because 21 a malignant tumor on her ankle. She then became a member of she Shanghai Wheelchair Fencing Team on July 13, 2001, the same day Beijing was selected as 22 host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
After an incident in Paris, 23 she was part of the Torch Relay and a protestor tried to take away the torch from her while she protected the Olympic Torch with her body, she became 24 (know) as the “Smiling Angel in a Wheelchair”.
Now she is still smiling, but this time from the 25 side of the camera, as she watches Chinese athletes won another gold medal.
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When former American President Bill Clinton travelled to South Korea to visit President Kim Young Sam, he repeatedly referred to the Korean president's wife as Mrs. Kim. By mistake, President Clinton’ s advisers thought that Koreans have the same naming customs as the Japanese. Clinton had not been told that, in Korea, wives keep their family names. President Kim Young Sam's wife was named Sohn Myong Suk. Therefore, she should be addressed (称谓) as Mrs. Sohn.
President Clinton arrived in Korea directly after leaving Japan and had not changed his culture gears. His failure to follow Korean customs gave the impression that Korea was not as important to him as Japan.
In addition to Koreans, some Asian husbands and wives do not share the same family names. This practice often puzzles English-speaking teachers when talking with a pupil’s parents. They become puzzled about the student's correct last name. Placing the family name first is common among a number of Asian cultures.
Mexican naming customs are different as well. When a woman marries, she keeps her family name and adds her husband's name after the word de (of). This affects how they fill in forms in the United States. When requested to fill in a middle name, they generally write the father's family name. But Mexicans are addressed by the family name of the mother. This often causes puzzlement.
Here are a few ways to deal with such difficult situations: don’t always think that a married woman uses her husband's last name. Remember that in many Asian cultures, the order of first and last names is reversed. Ask which name a person would prefer to use. If the name is difficult to pronounce, admit it, and ask the person to help you say it correctly.
67. The story of Bill Clinton is used to__________.
A. improve US-Korean relations B. introduce the topic of the text
C. describe his visit to Korea D. tell us how to address a person
68. The word "gears" in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_______.
A. action plans B. naming customs
C. travel maps D. thinking patterns
69. When a woman marries in Korea, she ___________.
A. continues to use her family name B. uses her husband's given name
C. shares her husband's family name D. adds her husband's given name to hers
70. To address a married woman properly, you'd better______.
A. use her middle name B. use her husband's first name
C. ask her which name she likes D. change the order of her names
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