In order to pass the college entrance examination, I spent every day studying()in my room.
A、locked
B、locking
C、being locked
D、to lock
A、locked
B、locking
C、being locked
D、to lock
A.So that
B.In order that
C.To
D.As to
The course is divided up into two parts: class time for learning laws and regulations and driving time to practice driving. Each student is required to drive a total of six hours. The students are divided up into groups of four. The students and the instructor go out driving for two hour blocks of time. Thus, each student gets half an hour driving time per outing. Drivers Ed cars are unlike other cars in which they have two sets of brakes, one on the driver's side and one on the other side where the instructor sits. Thus, if the student driver should run into difficulties the instructor can take over.
After a student has passed the driver's education course and reached the appropriate age to drive (this age differs in every state but in most cases the person must be 16 years old), he must take his driver's test. The person must pass all three tests in order to be given a driver's license. If the person does well in his or her driver's education class, he or she will pass the test with flying colors and get a driver's license.
In America, the driver's course mentioned above______.
A.is considered as part of the advanced education
B.is given to anyone wanting to get a driver's license
C.is carried on after students graduate from high school
D.is offered to all the students of Grade 2 in high school
When the Civil War ended in 1865 , the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution adopted in 1868 and 1870 granted citizenship and right to vote to blacks but not to women. Discouraged but resolved, feminists influenced more and more women to demand this right. In 1869 the Wyoming Territory had yielded to demands by feminists, but eastern states resisted more stubbornly than before. A women' s voting bill had been presented to every Congress since 1878 but it continually failed to pass until 1920, when the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote.
With what topic is the passage primarily concerned?
A.The Wyoming Territory.
B.The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
C.Abolitionists.
D.Women's Right to Vote.
(1) The author claims that there is a difference in reading speed ___________.
A、among all the readers
B、among readers who have different experience
C、between the poorly educated and the highly educated
D、among the highly educated people
(2) A good reader is a reader who ___________.
A、concentrates on the wonderful part of the article
B、always reads slowly and carefully
C、changes his speed according to the type of reading matter
D、changes his speed according to the interesting part of the text
(3) The author says that when reading more difficult material,a good reader can read ___________
A、every part of the book
B、the most wonderful part of the book
C、the major part of the book
D、the scientific part of the book
(4) The last two sentences of the first paragraph mean that ___________.
A、reading speed too slow for a difficult book is just right for a non-serious one
B、reading speed too slow for a non-serious book may be too fast for a difficult one
C、reading speed too fast for difficult material is just right for a non-serious book is also too slow for a difficult one
D、reading speed too slow for a non-serious book is also too slow for a difficult one
(5) What is the passage mainly about?
A、Practise reading skill.
B、Difference between the highly educated and the poorly educated.
C、Reading and listening.
D、Difference in the speed and efficiency of reading.
Section B – TWO questions ONLY to be attempted
Bluefin School (Bluefin) is a school for 12 to 17-year-old pupils. It currently has 1,000 pupils attending drawn from its local area. The school is run by an executive group comprising the head of school and two deputy head teachers. This group reports to a board of governors who are part-time and selected from the local community and parents. The school is wholly funded by the government.
The school’s ethos is ‘to promote learning, citizenship and self-confidence among the pupils. This is developed from a consensus, led by the board of governors and the head of school and informed by the views of the pupils’ parents.’
The school information systems are highly decentralised. Each department keeps its own records on a stand-alone PC using basic word processing and spreadsheet packages. The school’s administrative department has a small network in its own offices with compatible applications and also a database and financial recording and reporting package for use in schools (provided by the government).
The school is broken down into 11 academic departments such as mathematics, science and history. Each department head must prepare information for reporting to the board by inputting and processing the data. They obtain some help from an administrator who visits each department to spend a few hours per week helping in the recording and preparation of the departmental information. The department heads have different approaches to reporting their performance, with some using average marks in the annual exams for each class and some using pass rates of the annual exams. Some department heads present graphs of their data while most use tables of figures.
The information is passed from each department to the school administration office on a memory stick (USB flash drive). The school administration office prints out the information for each department and adds it to a financial report creating a governors’ pack of usually about 13 pages for the annual review board meeting. The financial report is a detailed income and expenditure statement for the period under review (usually a two page print-out from the reporting package). An example of one of the 11 departments’ report is given in the Appendix.
The board of governors meets every quarter and reviews the governors’ pack once a year. The board are concerned that the information that they are receiving is not meeting their needs and that there are a number of problems with the control and security of some of the data.
It has been suggested that the school should consider improving its information systems by installing a network across the school to link the departmental computers and the administration department. A single database would be created to store all the performance information. The computers would then be linked to the internet in order to facilitate data transfer to other schools in the region and to the government.
Appendix
Bluefin School
Mathematics department
Notes:
Each year contains pupils of the same age.
Annual national exams are set in years 4, 5 and 6.
Each year group is divided into different classes in order to ensure that classes do not exceed 35 pupils.
(Not all pupils take every subject each year.)
Average marks are for the annual examinations.
Required:
(a) With reference to the current situation at Bluefin School, discuss the controls and security procedures that are necessary for management information. (9 marks)
(b) Using the limited information available, evaluate the usefulness of the pack that is provided to the board of governors. (6 marks)
(c) Evaluate the improvements suggested to the information systems at Bluefin. (5 marks)
all must be at least 21 years old. This is one example of how the Open 3 University is different from all other universities. Its students must either work full-time or be at home all day. For instance, mothers of families do not have to pass any examinations before they are accepted as students. This is why the university is called “open”. The university was started in order to help a known group – people who missed having a university education when they were young.
The first name for the Open University was “the University of the Air”. The idea was to teach “on the air”, in other words on radio and television. Most of the teaching is done like this. Radio and television have brought the classroom into people’s homes. But this, on its own, is not enough for a university education. The Open University students also receives advice at one of 283 study centers in the country, 36 weeks of the year he or she has to send written work to a “tutor”, the person who guides his or her studies. The student must also spend 3 weeks every summer as a full-time student. Tutors and students meet and study together, as in other universities.
1. The purpose of the Open University is to ().
A. help the young to go to school
B. help those who want to study the university
C. help those who are younger than 21 years old
D. help those who had missed the chance to study when they were young
2. “On the air” means ().
A. on the show
B. on radio and TV
C. on the flight
D. flying everywhere
3. The students at the Open University have their education ().
A. both at home and at some study centers
B. through many kinds of examinations
C. with their written work only
D. in the local centers only
4. “Tutor” in the second paragraph means ().
A. the person who is in charge of various exams
B. the person who is to help students get through exams
C. the person who provides guidance to students in their studies
D. the person who teaches students face to face
5. Which of the following is implied but not stated? ()
A. Everyone wants to go to such an open university
B. Every country needs such a university
C. Students must be over 21 years old in the Open University
D. The Open University really benefits a lot those who did not have the chance to have university education
A.will pass
B.passed
C.could pass
D.can pass
Those who pass the test will be ______ to the next grade.
A.promoted
B.proceeded
C.progressed
D.proposed