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Passage 4
In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments.
But the instructor at US’s Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge said her job is getting harder every day.
"I kid you not, the number of errors that I’ve seen in the past few years have multiplied five times," she said.
Experts say e-mail and instant messaging are at least partly to blame for an increasing indifference toward the rules of grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
They say the problem is most noticeable in college students and recently graduates.
"They used to at least feel guilty (about mistakes)," said Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, D.C. "They didn’t necessarily write a little better, but at least they felt guilty."
Ironically, Baron’s latest book, "Alphabe
A. It was poorly edited.
B. It failed to come out.
C. It was renamed "Whatever".
D. It caused her to lose her jo

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Passage 4
In her 26 years of teaching English, Shannon McCuire has seen countess misplaced commas, misspelled words and sentence fragments.
But the instructor at US’s Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge said her job is getting harder every day.
"I kid you not, the number of errors that I’ve seen in the past few years have multiplied five times," she said.
Experts say e-mail and instant messaging are at least partly to blame for an increasing indifference toward the rules of grammar, spelling and sentence structure.
They say the problem is most noticeable in college students and recently graduates.
"They used to at least feel guilty (about mistakes)," said Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, D.C. "They didn’t necessarily write a little better, but at least they felt guilty."
Ironically, Baron’s latest book, "Alphabe
A. More and more students ask her to teach how to write instant messages.
B. More and more structural errors are seen in her student's writings.
C. Students are becoming increasingly indifferent to learning English.
D. Parents are more demanding as to the teaching content of the school.

[单项选择]Her fluency in English gives her an advantage ___________ other girls for the job.
A. against
B. above
C. over
D. with

[单项选择]For 14 years after her spouse's death, she saw the ______ meaning of her life as nourishing her son and safeguarding her husband's works.
A. due
B. lone
C. sole
D. keen

[单项选择]I wish I ______ to study English years ago.


A. had started
B. started
C. could start
D. would start

[单项选择]We can conclude from the passage that in teaching the intermediate reader much attention should be paid to ______.


A. individual learners
B. extensive reading
C. supplementary, graded readers
D. both A and C

[单项选择]How many years of her life did Marta Betty devote to working for children


A. 40 years.
B. 76 years.
C. 29 years.
D. 36 years.