[单项选择]School shootings across the country continue to discuss the story of the student who is outcast by fellow peers and decides to lash out. These reports may leave some wondering if ostracism is a legitimate cause for violence. Kip Williams believes it is. Williams, a professor of psychology at Purdue University, recently came to campus to speak about the effects of being ostracized. These effects can be distressing, but they often go unnoticed, he said. "I would have rather been beaten or bullied than be ignored," Williams said, reflecting on what some of the participants in his experiments felt after they were left out of a game of toss. "Even two minutes of invisibility is painful," he said.
Ostracism, the act of ignoring or excluding, is a phenomenon not only found in the adult world, according to Williams. Children play simple games which leave peers out without being taught to do so. Even animals use forms of ostracism, Williams said. Lions, wolves and bees, for example, use th
A. It is often and harmful.
B. It is rare but harmful.
C. It is often but harmless.
D. It is rare and harmless.

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School shootings across the country continue to discuss the story of the student who is outcast by fellow peers and decides to lash out. These reports may leave some wondering if ostracism is a legitimate cause for violence. Kip Williams believes it is. Williams, a professor of psychology at Purdue University, recently came to campus to speak about the effects of being ostracized. These effects can be distressing, but they often go unnoticed, he said. "I would have rather been beaten or bullied than be ignored," Williams said, reflecting on what some of the participants in his experiments felt after they were left out of a game of toss. "Even two minutes of invisibility is painful," he said.
Ostracism, the act of ignoring or excluding, is a phenomenon not only found in the adult world, according to Williams. Children play simple games which leave peers out without being taught to do so. Even animals use forms of ostracism, Williams said. Lions, wolves
A. the problem of distressing experienced by school students
B. the phenomenon of some students being excluded by peers
C. the violence happening on campus witnessed by students
D. the issue of some students unwilling to communicate with peers

[简答题]Scattered efforts across the country indicate that new technology, properly applied, might some day turn these millions of tons of refuse into an excellent source of raw materials for new uses. (Passage Two)

[填空题]How does the writer put across his views on the digital revolution A by examining the forms of media that will be affected by it B by analysing the way entertainment companies have reacted to it C by giving a personal definition of technological innovation D by drawing comparisons with other periods of technological innovation

[单项选择]Cities across the country have not learned a thing from tearing down too many historic houses in a massive urban renovation in the last two decades. Sadly, big metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai are setting bad examples.
The recent decision to dismantle a former residence of Lu Xun in Beijing, one of China’s greatest writers and thinkers, has sparked huge public outcry. This is an emergency that calls for immediate government intervention.
In his downtown Beijing courtyard house, known as siheyuan in Chinese, Lu Xun wrote several well-known novelettes, such as Madman’s Diaries and The True Story of Ah Q. These short stories, which are still included in high school textbooks, have influenced more than a generation of Chinese.
The fact that few Chinese writers have had the same impact on the nation as Lu Xun in the last 80 years would make any of his former residences worthy of government protection. This was the very place where his popular stories were autho
A. the shortsightedness of the city planners
B. the lack of laws for protecting our history
C. the negative impact of the "cultural revolution"
D. the bad examples set by big metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai