When Pat Jones finishes college, she decides to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could while she was young. Pat wants to visit Latin America first, so she got a job as an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, so she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn't know much English.

Once, a sentence she had read somewhere struck her mind; if you dream in a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and hopes that some day she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in English.

One day, one of her worst students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had gone to bed early and had slept badly.

“What does this have to do with your homework?” Pat asked.

“I dreamed all night, Miss Jones. And my dream was in English.”

“In English?” Pat was very surprised, since he was such a bad student. She was even secretly jealous. Her dream was still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young students, “Well, tell me about your dream.”

“All the people in my dream spoke English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English.”

“But that's wonderful,” said Pat. “What did all the people say to you?”

“I am sorry, Miss Jones. That's why I slept so badly. I didn't understand a word they said. It was a nightmare.”

21. Pat believed that           .

A. people can learn foreign languages in their dreams

B. she already dreamed in Spanish so she has mastered Spanish

C.one of her worst students had already mastered English

D. dreaming in a foreign language means a good command of it

22. Pat's student didn't finish his home work because      .

A. the home work was too difficult

B. the student dreamed in English

C. the student didn't sleep well

D. the student didn't know much English

23. The writer wrote this story       .

A.to show us how to learn a foreign language

B. to show us how to teach a foreign language

 C.to amuse us with an interesting story

D.to encourage us to travel to foreign countries

24.From the passage we can infer that       .

A.in Bolivia,people speak Spanish

B.Pat’s student who dreamed in English was actually good at English

C.Pat has already learned much Spanish

D.in Latin America,the newspapers and magazines are in English

About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way.Women are luckier,only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter.Perhaps,after all,it is safer to be driven by a woman.

There are different forms of color blindness.In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red.He may think that red,orange and yellow are all shades of green.Sometimes a person can’t tell the differences between blue and green.In rare cases an unlucky man sees everything in shades of green-a strange world in deed.

Color blindness in human beings is strange thing to explain.In a single eye there are millions very small things called “cones”.These help us see in a bright day and tell the differences between colors.There are also millions of “rods”,but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark.They show us shapes but not color.Some insects have favorite colors.Mosquitoes like blue but do not like yellow.A red light will not attract insects but a blue lamp will.In similar way human being also have favorite colors by day and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible colors around us.

25.The passage is mainly about       .

A.color and its surprising effects on drivers

B.Women being luckier than man that fewer of them are color blind

C.Danger caused by color blindness

D.Color blindness and how our eyes tell different colors and shapes

26.According to the passage,with the help of“cones”we can       .

A.tell different colors

B.see in weak light

C.tell different shapes

D.tell orange form yellow

27.Why do some people say it is safer to be driven women?

A.Women are more careful.

B.There are fewer color blind women.

C.Women are fonder of driving than men.

D.Women are weaker but quicker in thinking.

28. Which of the following statements about color blind people is true?

A. Not all of them have the same problem in recognizing colors.

B. None of them can sec deep red but all can tell blue from green.

C. None of them can tell blue from given but nil can see deep red.

D. Ail of them are lucky enough to see everything in shades of green

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This is the SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, I'm Barbara Klein.

Animal experts say one of the world's most beautiful and rare kinds of big cat is close to disappearing from the wild. A study earlier this year found that about thirty Amur leopards(豹)still live free. The cats are also called Far Eastern leopards.

Recently, their number has been reduced by one, Some person shot a female Amur, then beat her to death. The animal's body was discovered last month in the Barsovy National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Russia.

An official of the World Wildlife Fund, Darron, said this was the third such killing in the area in the past fives years. Mr, Collins said the death of even one adult female is a huge loss for the endangered cat, He noted that the killing reduces the possibility for cubs（幼兽）or young.

It is not clear how many Amur leopards still live free. One population count was performed in February and March. Wildlife expert Dmitry Pikuuov led this study. It found evidence of seven to nine males. The study identified three to seven females without cubs, Four leopards were identified as females with cubs. In all, five or six cubs were recorded, Six to eight animals could not be identified.

Most of the land where the Amur leopard once lived was in China.New roads and climate change there threatened the animals. So did hunters who kill big cats for their body parts.

Mr. Pikuuov says adult Amurs need about five hundred square kilometers with good forests to survive. He said they also need a large and continuing supply of animals like deer for food. He believes the answer to saving the Amur leopard is for governments to provide protected spaces for wildlife.

32. This passage is probably from           .

A. a magazine     B. a newspaper report  

C. a TV report    D. a film

33. Why is the killing of an adult female a huge loss?

A. It could lead to the death of an adult male.

B. It means it can not give birth to the young any more.

C. 11 is worth more money than a male.

D. There is only one adult female in the world.

34. The number of the Amur leopards in China is becoming smaller because of all the following EXCEPT           .

A. new roads        B. climate change

C. human hunting    D. rare diseases

35. According to the experts the Amur leopards          .

A. are living on plants            B. are living in the zoo

C. are well protected by people     D. are endangered

The traditional American school year begins in late August or early September.It ends in May or June, followed by summer vacation. 36 Because long ago, young people had to help their families harvest summer crops, At least this is what people today may think.

37 A recent report from an education policy center at Indiana University explored the historical roots of the traditional school calendar.

In the early days of the United States, children were not required to attend school School calendars depended on local needs. 38 They worked on family farms during the other months, City schools were often open much longer, some for eleven months of the year.

After the Civil War, more and more people saw the need for a system of required education. 39 Many city schools wanted a shorter year and a longer summer break, The schools were often crowded. There was no modern air conditioning. Hot days would make it difficult to learn. Many rural educators, however, pushed for a longer school year. They thought it would keep children safe from industrial dangers when there were few child-labor laws.

So the traditional school calendar was a compromise(折中). The average school year used to be one hundred and seventy days. Times have not changed much. 40  But some experts think the traditional school calendar needs to change because the needs of the  nation have changed. This thinking has led some schools to keep students in class longer.

A. Why such a long break?

B.Today the common average is one hundred and eighty days.

C.Americans think highly of their traditional school calendar.

D.Most schools had similar school calendars.

E.But the reason has more to it.

F.Students in rural areas went to school for no more than six months of the year.

G.But they.had different ideas.for the calendar.