[单项选择]The second paragraph is meant to demonstrate that ______.
A. students of other disciplines than journalism are preferred employees of newspapers
B. young people should learn other subjects than journalism after leaving school.
C. veterans of the author’s trade would give the same advice to puzzled youngsters
D. young people should diversify their learning subjects to be better employed
The author’s primary purpose in writing this passage is to ______.
A. propose an academic discipline for young people wishing to be journalists
B. debate both sides of the proper pattern of Britain’s higher education
C. condemn Charles Clarke for his improper statements about higher education
D. contrast Charles Clarke’s claim about higher education to that of his own

[单项选择]The second paragraph is meant to demonstrate that ______.When young people who want to be journalists ask me what subject they should study after leaving school, I tell them: "Anything except journalism or media studies."
Most veterans of my trade would say the same. It is practical advice. For obvious reasons, newspaper editors like to employ people who can bring something other than a knowledge of the media to the party that we call our work.
On The Daily Telegraph, for example, the editor of London Spy is a theologian by academic training. The obituaries editor is a philosopher. The editor of our student magazine, Juice, studied physics. As for myself, I read history, ancient and modern, at the taxpayer’s expense.
I am not sure what Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, would make of all this. If I understand him correctly, he would think that the public money spent on teaching this huge range of disciplines to the staff of The Daily Telegraph was pretty much waste
A. students of other disciplines than journalism are preferred employees of newspapers
B. young people should learn other subjects than journalism after leaving school.
C. veterans of the author’s trade would give the same advice to puzzled youngsters
D. young people should diversify their learning subjects to be better employed

[填空题]What can we infer from the second paragraph

[填空题]From the second paragraph, we can safely conclude that Simonton’s method places greater emphasis on treating the mind than treating the body.

[简答题]In the second paragraph, there are three problems mentioned by the author: they are

[单项选择]The author writes the second paragraph mainly in the hope that we may understand that_________ .
A. the importance of one’s life is not related with his reputation or fame
B．poets are more important than politicians in their contribution to society
C. statesmen are always ready to do small things for people around them
D. poets are often dreamers who live short lives


A. statesmen are always ready to do small things for people around them
B. poets are often dreamers who live short lives
C. poets are more important than politicians in their contribution to society
D. The author writes the second paragraph mainly in the hope that we may understand that_________ .
E. the importance of one’s life is not related with his reputation or fame

[填空题]According to the second paragraph, Basic English is sufficient for ______.

[填空题]The second paragraph of the passage focuses on the possible use of computers in ______.

[填空题]From the second paragraph, what are the interior minds of us while judging others2

[简答题]In the second paragraph, what does the author say about the great boss