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On  a  wet  Wednesday  evening  in  Seoul,  six  government  employees  gathered  at  the  office  to  prepare  for  a  late-night  patrol(巡逻).  The  mission  is  to  find  children  who  are  studying  after  10  p.  m.  and  stop  them. 
In  South  Korea,  it  has  come  to  this.  To  reduce  the  country’s  addiction  to  private,  after-hours  tutoring  academies(called  hagwons),  the  authorities  have  begun  enforcing  a  curfew(宵禁令)—even  rewarding  citizens  for  turning  in  violators. 
But  cramming(临时死记硬背)is  deeply  anchored  in  Asia,  where  top  grades  have  long  been  prized  as  essential  for  professional  success.  Before  toothbrushes  or  printing  presses,  there  were  civil  service  exams  that  could  make  or  break  you.  Chinese  families  have  been  hiring  test  preparation  tutors  since  the  7th  century.  Nowadays  South  Korea  has  taken  this  competition  to  new  extremes.  In  2010,  74%  of  all  students  engaged  in  some  kind  of  private  after-school  instruction,  sometimes  called  shadow  education,  at  an  average  cost  of  KRW  2,  600  per  student  for  a  year.  There  are  more  private  instructors  in  South  Korea  than  school  teachers,  and  the  most  popular  of  them  make  millions  of  dollars  a  year  from  online  and  in-person  classes.  When  Singapore’s  Education  Minister  was  asked  last  year  about  his  nation’s  reliance  on  private  tutoring,  he  found  one  reason  for  hope,  “We  are  not  as  bad  as  the  Koreas.  ”
In  Seoul,  legions  of  students  who  failed  to  get  into  top  universities  spend  the  entire  year  after  high  school  attending  hagwons  to  improve  their  scores  on  university  admission  tests.  And  they  must  compete  even  to  do  this.  At  the  prestigious  Daesung  Institute,  admission  is  based  on  students’  test  scores.  Only  14%  of  applicants  are  accepted.  After  a  year  of  14-hour  days,  about  70%  gain  entry  to  one  of  the  nation’s  top  three  universities. 
South  Koreans  are  not  alone  in  their  discontent.  Across Asia, reformers  are  pushing  to  make  schools  more  “American”—even  as  some  U.  S.  reformers  make  their  own  schools  more  “Asian”.  In  China,  universities  have  begun  fashioning  new  entry  tests  to  target  students  with  talents  beyond  book  learning.  And  Taiwanese  officials  recently  announced  that  kids  will  no  longer  have  to  take  high-stress  exams  to  get  into  high  school.  In  South  Korea,  the  apogee  of  extreme  education,  gets  its  reforms  right,  it  could  be  a  model  for  other  societies. 
The  problem  is  not  that  South  Korea  kids  aren’t  learning  enough  or  working  hard  enough,  but  that  they  aren’t  working  smart.  When  I  visited  some  schools,  I  saw  classrooms  in  which  a  third  of  the  students  slept  while  the  teacher  continued  lecturing,  seemingly  undisturbed. 
The  government  has  repeatedly  tried  to  humanize  the  education  system,  but  after  each  attempt,  the  hagwons  come  back  stronger.  But  this  time,  its  reforms  are  targeting  not  just  the  dysfunctional  symptom  but  also  the  causes.  It  is  working  to  improve  normal  public  schools  by  putting  teachers  and  principals  through  rigorous(严格的)evaluations—which  include  opinion  surveys  by  students,  parents  and  peer  teachers—and  requiring  additional  training  for  low-scoring  teachers.  At  the  same  time,  the  government  hopes  to  reduce  the  pressure  on  students.  Admissions  tests  for  high  schools  have  been  abolished.  Middle  schoolers  are  now  judged  on  the  basis  of  their  regular  grades  and  an  interview.  And  500  admissions  officers  have  been  appointed  to  the  country’s  universities,  to  judge  applicants  not  only  on  their  test  scores  and  grades  but  also  other  abilities. 
The  six  government  employees  were  asked  to     

A. arrest the students who work late at night
B. reward citizens who turn in violators
C. conduct a survey among students
D. prevent students from studying too late

In  Paragraph  3  toothbrushes  and  printing  presses  are  mentioned  in  order  to     

A. tell us that they were invented in Asia
B. show that hagwons play an important role in people’s daily life
C. show that private tutoring has a long history
D. tell us that civil service exams are of equal importance as them

What  can  be  concluded  from  the  passage? 

A. Hagwons are the source of South Korea’s educational problem.
B. Students in South Korea don’t learn efficiently.
C.It is the teachers and headmasters who are to blame for the educational problem.
D. Private tutoring is not common in Singapore.

The  main  point  of  the  last  paragraph  is  that     

A. it is very difficult to get rid of hagwons
B. the causes of hagwons have been found
C. teachers will have a hard time because of the reforms
D. the government is determined to reform the present education system
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Compared with the aunt, the nephew ___ .

A.had 3 times the number of friends
B.has spent more time on the Internet all the time
C.spends less time on Facebook
D.had the access to the Internet only when he grew up

What does the underlined word in the second paragraph refer to?

A.Young people
B.Old people
C.These functions
D.Young and old people

Which is true according to the third paragraph?

A.Facebook accelerated the adoption of the Internet in the ordinary families.
B.America Online was the first act in the Internet Revolution.
C.Facebook has spurred the application of the Internet use in demographics.
D.America Online spurred the ordinary use in all od the world families.

Using Facebook, you can ___.

A.communicate with whoever is using the Facebook right now
B.do one thing every time
C.have dinner together with your friends and families
D.tell you anyone who is not using the Facebook

What is the main idea of the passage?

A.The drawbacks and the strengths of the Facebook.
B.Facebook makes the communication more convenient for the old and the young.
C.People’s Internet Revolution: Facebook.
D.Facebook and America Online

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During the Tang Dynasty, poems were recited when lovers walked under the moonlight. Poems were also recited when soldiers fought on the battlefield. People recited them in the open air or at temple fairs.
Tang Dynasty poets wrote poems to win fame and also to develop their temperament(性情). They poured our deep feelings for their friends and criticized injustice in the world through poems.
In the Tang Dynasty scholars had to be poets. Their readers were not only people of high social position but also common people. Poets recited poems, women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems. This atmosphere affected foreigners who visited the country at that time. As a result, Tang poetry was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.
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We can conclude form the passage that ___ .

A.only people in the Tang Dynasty created poems
B.in total there was four famous poets in the Tang Dynasty
C.the Tang Dynasty probably existed for about three centuries
D.in the Tang Dynasty most common people were poets

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A.Why the poets created poems?
B.Some other kinds of spiritual wealth in the Tang Dynasty.
C.The significance and influence if the Tang Dynasty.
D.The editors of Poems of the Tang Dynasty.

The underlined word “adjacent”probably means ___ .

A.strong
B.neighboring
C.poor
D.rich

What does the author really want to tell us in Paragraph 4?

A.Tang Dynasty poems were quite popular.
B.In the Tang Dynasty all scholars were poets.
C.Many foreigners came to our country during the Tang Dynasty.
D.in the Tang Dynasty many poems were sung by women singers.

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A.near the volcanoes
B.in southern Costa Rica
C.in a grave
D.in churches

The writer ___ in the passage.

A.admires the spheres very much
B.doesn’ t believe the spheres were once made by humans
C.tells us a discovery
D.thinks highly of the spheres

The underlined word ”polished” refers to “___”.

A.buried
B.wrapped
C.made shining
D.made big

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A.The stone balls found in the Diquis River Delta are all very huge.
B.The stone balls were unearthed from the graves.
C.The local people show great interest in the stone balls.
D.There are a lot of treasures in the stone balls.

The passage mainly tells us ___ .

A.the stones are of great value.
B.the stones proved to be made by non-humans.
C.the stones are mystery.
D.the stone are ornaments.

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During the Tang Dynasty, poems were recited when lovers walked under the moonlight. Poems were also recited when soldiers fought on the battlefield. People recited them in the open air or at temple fairs.
Tang Dynasty poets wrote poems to win fame and also to develop their temperament(性情). They poured our deep feelings for their friends and criticized injustice in the world through poems.
In the Tang Dynasty scholars had to be poets. Their readers were not only people of high social position but also common people. Poets recited poems, women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems. This atmosphere affected foreigners who visited the country at that time. As a result, Tang poetry was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.
Tang poetry is a most brilliant page in the history of ancient Chinese literature. It’s a miracle(奇迹) in the cultural history of mankind. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful empire with a vast territory. It inherited(继承) Chinese civilization that went back to ancient times, was combined with the best of other cultures and adopted the benefits of other nations in the world. Tang poetry wasn’t the only spiritual wealth created by the Tang Dynasty people. Philosophy and religion, handwriting and painting, and music and dance all gained new peaks of development. Tang poetry, however, was the jewel in the crown and its greatest achievement.
We can conclude form the passage that ___ .

A.only people in the Tang Dynasty created poems
B.in total there was four famous poets in the Tang Dynasty
C.the Tang Dynasty probably existed for about three centuries
D.in the Tang Dynasty most common people were poets

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A.Why the poets created poems?
B.Some other kinds of spiritual wealth in the Tang Dynasty.
C.The significance and influence if the Tang Dynasty.
D.The editors of Poems of the Tang Dynasty.

The underlined word “adjacent”probably means ___ .

A.strong
B.neighboring
C.poor
D.rich

What does the author really want to tell us in Paragraph 4?

A.Tang Dynasty poems were quite popular.
B.In the Tang Dynasty all scholars were poets.
C.Many foreigners came to our country during the Tang Dynasty.
D.in the Tang Dynasty many poems were sung by women singers.

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In paragraph 1 it is thought people will use computers for ___.

A.playing games, shopping and making telephone calls
B.making telephone calls, having meals and seeing films
C.seeing films, buying food, and going for holidays
D.playing games, making telephone calls and seeing the doctor

Which reason for using computerizes books is NOT said in the passage?

A.Computerized books won’t be very expensive.
B.Computers can keep many different books in them.
C.We won’t have lots of pages.
D.We won’t need any paper.

Paragraph 4 tells ___.

A.about the old and new ways of shopping and communicating
B.if the Internet will change our habits
C.about computerized books
D.about future uses of computers

The title for this passage is ___ .

A.Computers will replace shops and books
B.Computers are the future
C.Computers will do everything for man
D.How computers change our habits

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