The cursive hand is the most commonly used and the easiest way of handwriting.

The easiest way to anchor a vessel in a current is to ().

A.Stem the current and make very slow headway when the anchor is dropped

B.Stem the current and be falling aft very slowly when the anchor is dropped

C.Stem the current and endeavor to make neither headway nor sternway when the anchor is dropped

D.Stop all headway through the water and keep the current astern when the anchor is dropped

The easiest way to start an academic brawl is to ask what an educated person should know. The last time Harvard University tackled that question was in 1978, when it established its Core Curriculum, which focused less on content than on mastering ways of thinking. Like Harvard's so-called Red Book standards of 1945, which helped inspire a generation of distribution requirements, the core had broad resonance at other major universities. Now, after a four-year process initiated under controversial former president Lawrence Summers, the nation's most famous university has come up with a whole new set of guidelines that proponents say will help clarify how liberal-arts subjects like philosophy and art history shed light on the hurly-burly of more quotidian topics. "Students will be more motivated to learn if they see a connection with the kinds of problems, issues and questions they will encounter in later life," says interim president Derek Bok. Harvard isn't the only institution rethinking what and how to teach its students. Yale, Rutgers and the universities of Pennsylvania and Texas have recently made similar changes, and now that Harvard has joined the club, others are likely to follow.

Harvard's new curriculum establishes eight primary subject areas that all students will have to take. The categories include Societies of the World, encompassing subjects like anthropology and international relations; Ethical Reasoning, a practical approach to philosophy; and the United States in the World, which will likely span multiple departments, including sociology and economics. The plan, which is expected to be formally approved by the faculty in May, won't go into effect before September 2009 at the earliest.

But the school is already preemptively dismissing charges that it is embracing purely practical knowledge. "We do not propose that we teach the headlines," said a report published on Feb. 7 by the curriculum committee, comprising professors, students and a dean. "Only that the headlines, along with much else in our students' lives, are among the things that a liberal education can help students make better sense of."

One point likely to raise eyebrows among academic traditionalists is the rationale for the newly mandated study of Empirical Reasoning, which will cover math, logic and statistics. It is being added, the committee report says, because graduates of Harvard "will have to decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances". Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently announced new president, Drew Gilpin Faust—the first woman to head the institution—is a renowned historian?

The plan's advocates say the curriculum is flexible enough that students will still be able to take courses in whatever interests them, be it ancient art or cutting-edge science. What's crucial, they say, is that the new approach emphasizes the kind of active learning that gets students thinking and applying knowledge. "Just as one doesn't become a marathon runner by reading about the Boston Marathon," says the committee report, "so, too, one doesn't become a good problem solver by listening to lectures or reading about statistics." Acknowledging how important extracurricular activities have become on campus, the report calls for a stronger link between the endeavors students pursue inside and outside the classroom. Those studying poverty, for example, absorb more if they also volunteer at a homeless shelter, suggests Bok, whose 2005 book, Our Underachieving Colleges, cites a finding that students remember just 20% of the content of class lectures a week later.

There were, however, some contemporary

Refertotheexhibit.CatalystRistherootbridgeforbothVLAN1andVLAN2.Whatistheeasiestwaytoload-sharetrafficacrossbothtrunksandmaintainredundancyincasealinkfails，withoutusinganytypeofEtherChannellink-bundling？（）

A.Increasetherootbridgepriority（increasingthenumericalprioritynumber）forVLAN2onCatalystDsothatportD2becomestherootportonCatalystDforVLAN2.

B.DecreasetheportpriorityonR2forVLAN2onCatalystRsothatportD1willbeblockedforVLAN2andportD2willremainblockedforVLAN1.

C.DecreasethepathcostonR2onCatalystRforVLAN2sothatportD1willbeblockedforVLAN2andportD2willremainblockedforVLAN1.

D.Increasetherootbridgepriority（decreasingthenumericalprioritynumber）forVLAN2onCatalystRsothatR2becomestherootportonCatalystDforVLAN2.

Task 2

Directions: This task is the same as Task 1. The 5 questions or unfinished statements are numbered 41 through 45.

Some people might put this question: How useful is walking for your health?

Now, the answer comes as follows:

Walking is the one of the easiest way to exercise. You can do it almost anywhere and at any time. Walking is also inexpensive. All you need is a pair of comfortable shoes. Walking will give you more energy, make you feel good, help you to relax, reduce stress, help you sleep better, tone your muscles, decrease the risk of death, heart attacks, stroke, some cancers, depression, anxiety and obesity. It improves overall health and lightens your mood. It also helps control your appetite, and increase the number of calories(卡路里) your body uses. For all these masons, people have started walking programs.

Doctors recommend thirty minutes of physical activities (walking or other physical activities) on most days. A fast 30-minute uses 100 calories. You can easily add 30 minutes of exercise daily by making a few minor changes, such as parking farther from work or from a store, then walking the extra distance.

Which is not mentioned as one of the advantages of walking in this passage?

A．It can help you lose weight.

B．It gives you more energy.

C．It's cheap.

D．It helps to increase your appetite.

What is the easiest way to learn a language according to the speaker?

A．To try at home, with the help of tapes or radio.

B．To go to evening classes.

C．To learn the language in the country where it is spoken.

D．To study for quite a long time each way.

Centuries ago, man discovered that removing moisture from food helps to preserve it, and that the easiest way to do this is to expose the food to sun and wind.

All foods contain water--cabbage and other leaf vegetables contain as much as 93% water, potatoes and other root vegetables 80% , lean meat 75% and fish anything from 80% to 60% depending on how fatty it is. If this water is removed, the activity of the bacteria(细菌) which cause food to go bad is checked.

Nowadays most foods are dried mechanically. The conventional method of such dehydration(脱水) is to put food in chambers through which hoi air is blown at temperatures of about 110°C at entry to about 43°C at exit. This is the usual method for drying such things as vegetables, minced meat, and fish.

Liquids such as milk, coffee, tea, soups and eggs may be dried by pouring them over a heated horizontal steel cylinder or by spraying them into a chamber through which a current of hot air passes. In the first case, the dried material is scraped off the roller as a thin film which is then broken up into small, though still relatively coarse flakes. In the second process it falls to the bottom of the chamber as a fine powder.

Dried foods 'take up less room and weigh less than the same food packed in cans or frozen, and they do not need to be stored in special conditions. For these reasons they are invaluable to climbers, explorers and soldiers in battle, who have little storage space. They are also popular with housewives because it takes so little time to cook them.

The chief point of the second paragraph is about ______.

A．the comparison of lean meat and fish

B．the removal of water in food

C．the water content in food

D．the relationship between water and food