[简答题]

[complain (抱怨), under the pressure of... ( 在......压力之下), ever-increasing burden (日益加重的负担), for one thing...for another...(一方面......, 另一方面......), lighten(减轻)]
Outline:
1. 现在学生背上的书包越来越重;
2. 学生负担减轻不了的原因;
3. 结论。
Children’s Schoolbags Are Getting Heavier

[简答题][complain (抱怨), under the pressure of... ( 在......压力之下), ever-increasing burden (日益加重的负担), for one thing...for another...(一方面......, 另一方面......), lighten(减轻)]
Outline:
1. 现在学生背上的书包越来越重;
2. 学生负担减轻不了的原因;
3. 结论。
Children’s Schoolbags Are Getting Heavier

[单项选择]
Why are American students usually under pressure of work
A. Because their academic performance will affect their future career in the future.
B. Because they are heavily involved in student affairs.
C. Because they have to observe the university discipline.
D. Because they want to run for positions of authority.

[单项选择]Under pressure from animal welfare groups, two national science teachers associations have adopted guidelines that ban classroom experiments harming animals. The National Association of Biology Teachers and the National Science Teachers Association hope to end animal abuse in elementary and secondary schools and, in turn, discourage students from mishandling animals in home experiments and science fair projects.
Animal welfare groups are apparently most concerned with high school students experimenting with animals in extracurricular projects. Barbara Orlans, President of the Scientists’ Center for Animal Welfare, said that students have been performing surgery at random, testing known poisonous substances, and running other pathology experiments on animals without even knowing normal physiology.
At one science fair, a student cut off the leg and tail of a lizard to demonstrate that only the tail can regenerate, she said. In another case, a student bound sparrows, starved the
A. maintain ecological balance.
B. please animal welfare groups.
C. get financial support from their sponsors.
D. protect necessary harmless experiments on animals.