[单项选择]Who thinks the Reading First program a failure（　）
A. Teachers.
B. Critics.
C. Congressmen.
D. Federal officials.

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Junk Hunting
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Anyone who thinks exploration always involves long journeys should have his head examined.Or, better, he should put on his oldest clothes and go off in search of a junk shop. There are three kinds—one full of discarded books, one full of discarded Government equipment, and one full of discarded anything.A junk shop may have four walls and a roof,or it may be no more than a trestle-table in an open air market;but there is one infallible test:no genuine junk shopkeeper will ever pester you to make up your mind and buy something. And you are no true junk shopper if you march purposefully round the shop as if you knew exactly what you wanteD．You must browse, gently chewing the cud of your idle thoughts, and nibbling here and there as a sight or a touch of the goods that lie about you. Yet you must also possess a penetrating glance, darting your eyes about you to spot the treasures that may lurk beneath the rubbish. Th
A. traveling long distances
B. careful preparation
C. a spirit of adventure
D. discovering unheard of places

[填空题]The first person who used Confucianism to express Christianity was from Japan.

[填空题]Every teacher who has taught Jenny thinks (high)______of her.

[单项选择]The first American writer who gained international fame was
A. Mark Twain.
B. R. W. Emerson.
C. Washington Irving.
D. Walt Whitman.

[多项选择] IS FAILURE A BAD THING
In the first part, state your opinion.
In the second part, give specific reasons for your opinion.
In the last paragraph, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content; organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

[单项选择]What is the goal of the program called "Reading First"（　）
A. To find effects on the teaching of reading.
B. To raise test scores in reading comprehension.
C. To increase the teaching time for reading.
D. To help all children read at or above grade level.

[单项选择]

The first man who cooked his food, instead of eating it raw, lived so long ago that we have no idea who he was or where he lived. We do know, however, that (1) thousands of years, food was always eaten cold and (2) . Perhaps the first cooked food was heated accidentally by a (3) fire or by the molten lava form an erupting (4) . No doubt, when people first tasted food that had been cooked, they found it tasted better. However, (5) after this discovery, cooked food must have remained a rarity (6) man learned how to make and control fire (7) .
Primitive men who lived in hot regions could depend on the heat of the sun (8) their food. For example, in the desert (9) of the southwestern United States, the Indians cooked their food by (10) it on a flat (11) in the hot sun. They cooked pieces of meat and thin cakes of corn meal in this (12) . We can surmise that the earliest kit
A. zone
B. sector
C. means
D. fashion