[单项选择]Greg Woodburn, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning sneakers. Some of them once belonged to him; some belonged to his friends. But soon the shoes will have new owners: underprivileged children in the United States and 20 other countries, thanks to Woodburn’s Share Our Soles (S.O.S.) charity.
"I started thinking about all the things I got from running—the health benefits, the friendships, the confidence," he says. "And I realized there are children who don’t even have shoes." Woodburn gathered up his own stash of slightly worn sneakers, then put out a call to teammates and the town. His goal was to have 100 pairs by this Christmas. When the count climbed to more than 500 pairs, he decided to turn the shoe drive into a year-round endeavor.
Back then, the sneakers came from donation boxes at the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) and the local sporting goods store and from door-to-door pickups. Woodburn has now set up collecti
A. He is a sophomore at the University of Southern California.
B. He has cleaned almost all of the shoes by himself.
C. He paid Sports Gift to ship the shoes to children around the world.
D. He has started three chapters of Share Our Soles charity.

[单项选择]Greg Woodburn, a sophomore at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning sneakers. Some of them once belonged to him; some belonged to his friends. But soon the shoes will have new owners: underprivileged children in the United States and 20 other countries, thanks to Woodburn’s Share Our Soles (S.O.S.) charity.
"I started thinking about all the things I got from running—the health benefits, the friendships, the confidence," he says. "And I realized there are children who don’t even have shoes." Woodburn gathered up his own stash of slightly worn sneakers, then put out a call to teammates and the town. His goal was to have 100 pairs by this Christmas. When the count climbed to more than 500 pairs, he decided to turn the shoe drive into a year-round endeavor.
Back then, the sneakers came from donation boxes at the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association) and the local sporting goods store and from door-to-door pickups. Woodburn has now set up collecti
A. Because he believed running can bring good health, friendships and confidence.
B. Because he thought it was a waste of money to get rid of worn shoes.
C. Because he wanted to help the poor children who don’t even have shoes.
D. Because he hoped more children would like to help strangers as him.

[单项选择]"Why is the university doing so much building""The number of students（）that there aren’t enough classrooms."
A. have increased so rapidly
B. has increased so rapid
C. have increased so rapid
D. has increased so rapidly

[单项选择]Greg sells gaskets. On three sales, Greg has received commissions of $385, $70, and $190, and he has one additional sale pending. If Greg is to receive an average (arithmetic mean) commission of exactly $220 on the four sales, then the fourth commission must be:（）.
A. $135
B. $155
C. $220
D. $235
E. $645

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Megan Della Selva, a sophomore at George Washington University, has already traded e-mail messages with her morn, just to say hi, Maria Minkarah, the friend she is having lunch with, has just talked to her dad, to report on a doctor’s visit and her latest thoughts about studying abroad. The young women keep in close touch with their families, discussing matters big and small, academic and personal. Interviews with students on a variety of campuses suggest that many turn to their parents for help with everything from roommate troubles to how to improve the paper they e-mailed home. Perhaps the most striking thing was the tone students had when talking about their parents: fond, warm and admiring. The sense of parents as people to be admired was widespread.
Not all college students are this closely connected with their parents. But university officials, students and their families say that the generation gap is nothing like what it used to be, now that baby boomers, o
A. freshman
B. sophomore
C. junior
D. senior

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Anne Whitney, a sophomore at Colorado State University, first had a problem taking test when she began college. "I was always well prepared for my tests. Sometimes I studied for weeks before a test. Yet I would go in to take the test, only to find I could not answer the questions correctly. I would blank out because of nervousness and fear. I couldn’t think of the answer. My low grades on the tests did not show what I knew to the teacher." Another student in microbiology had similar experiences. He said, "My first chemistry test was very difficult. Then, on the second test, I sat down to take it, and I was so nervous that I was shaking. My hands were moving up and down so quickly that it was hard to hold my pencil. I knew the material and I knew the answers. Yet I couldn’t even write them down."
These two young students were experiencing something called test anxiety. Because a student worries and is uneasy about a test, his or her mind doe
A. to be like a blanket
B. to be sure of an answer
C. to be unable to think clearly
D. to show knowledge to the teacher

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