[单项选择]Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a child in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in school. For a long time, though, researchers couldn’t actually prove that teaching talent was important. But new research finally shows that teacher quality is a close cousin to student achievement. A great teacher can cram one-and-a-half grades’ worth of learning into a single year, while laggards are lucky to accomplish half that much. Parents and kids, it seems, have been right all along to care whether they were assigned to Mrs. Smith or Mr. Brown.
Yet, while we know now that better teachers are critical, flaws in the way that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don’t always hire the best.
Many ingredients for good teaching are difficult to ascertain in advance—charisma and diligence come to mind—but research shows a teacher’s own ability on standardized tests reliably predicts good performance in the classroom. Yo
A. Good teachers help students establish confidence.
B. Good teachers determine the personality of students.
C. Good teachers promote student achievement.
D. Good teachers treat students as their own children.

[单项选择]Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a child in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in school. For a long time, though, researchers couldn’t actually prove that teaching talent was important. But new research finally shows that teacher quality is a close cousin to student achievement. A great teacher can cram one-and-a-half grades’ worth of learning into a single year, while laggards are lucky to accomplish half that much. Parents and kids, it seems, have been right all along to care whether they were assigned to Mrs. Smith or Mr. Brown.
Yet, while we know now that better teachers are critical, flaws in the way that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don’t always hire the best.
Many ingredients for good teaching are difficult to ascertain in advance—charisma and diligence come to mind—but research shows a teacher’s own ability on standardized tests reliably predicts good performance in the classroom. Yo
A. good teachers’ with master’s degrees
B. young and effective teachers
C. experienced and effective teachers
D. mediocre teachers of average quality

[单项选择]Sense and Sensibility is a good movie by any standard; ______ it should rank high on any list of romance.
A. consistently
B. consequently
C. invariably
D. subsequently

[单项选择]Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards; _______, it should rank high on any list of science fiction.
A. consistently
B. consequently
C. invariably
D. fortunately

[单项选择]No matter how complicated the problems may seem to be, he always finds ways to solve them.
A. 无论怎么复杂，这些问题似乎可能让他试着寻找办法解决。
B. 无论事情怎么复杂，这些问题似乎可能是有的，他总是在找办法解决。
C. 无论事情怎么复杂，他总是能找出办法解决。
D. 无论问题看起来怎么复杂，他总能找到解决办法。

[单项选择]No matter how complicated the problems may seem tO be，he always finds ways to solve them．
A. 无论怎么复杂，这些问题似乎可能让他试着寻找办法解决。
B. 无论事情怎么复杂，这些问题似乎可能是有的，他总是在找办法解决。
C. 无论事情怎么复杂，他总是能找出办法解决。
D. 无论问题看起来怎么复杂，他总能找到解决办法。

[单项选择]

M：Good morning. May I help you
W: Good morning. I’d like to get three 50-cent stamps.
M: Here you are. One dollar an 50 cents in all, please.

Where are they （　）
A. In a bank.
B. At a post office.
C. In a department store.

[填空题]Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful S36 ______ on those who hear it. Recorded background music first S37 ______its way into factories, shop and restaurants in the US. But it soon S38 ______to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming S39 ______difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to music. To begin with, "muzak" (音乐广播网) was S40 ______ simply to create a soothing (安慰) atmosphere. Recently, however, it’ s become big business -- thanks in part to recent research. Dr. Ronald Milliman, an American S41 ______expert, has shown that music can S42 ______sales or increase factory production. But, it has to be light music. A fast one has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts by 38%. S43 ______. Yet, slow music isn’t always the answer. Dr. Milliman found, for example, that S44 ______. So S45 ______.S40

[单项选择]It may seem an exaggeration to say that ambition is the linchpin of society, holding many of its different elements together, but it is not an exaggeration by much. Remove ambition and the essential elements of society seem to fly apart. Ambition, as opposed to mere fantasizing about desires, implies work and discipline to achieve goals, personal and social, of a kind society cannot survive without. Ambition is intimately connected with family, for men and women not only work partly for their families;husbands and wives are often ambitious for each other, but harbor some of their most eager ambitions for their children. Yet to have a family nowadays-with birth control readily available, and inflation a good economic argument against having children-is nearly an expression of ambition in itself. Ambition and futurity-a sense of building for tomorrow-are inescapable. Working, saving, planning-these, the daily aspects of ambition-have always been the distinguishing marks of a rising middl
A. the keen fantasy of gaining honor and fortune.
B. the determination of one’’s goal and way in life.
C. the reflection on general indifference to ambition.
D. the comprehension of the implications of ambition.