The president said he'd made no firm （decide)________ on whether he would run for a second term in office.

A．He won't vote for the woman.

B．He may also run for class president.

C．He should promise to support the woman.

D．The woman should ask his roommate to vote for her.

A．He won"t vote for the woman.

B．He may also run for class president.

C．He has promised to support the woman.

D．The woman should ask his roommate to vote for her.

听力原文： The front-runner in the presidential election in Haiti Rene Preval has accused the electoral authorities of committing fraud in an attempt to stop him winning outright. With almost all the votes counted, Mr. Preval is just short of the majority needed to avoid a second round. Two people were killed during unrest in the city. The United Nations Security Council has called for calm and extended the mandate of its peace mission in Haiti by six months. According to official election figures with around 90 per cent of the votes counted, Rene Preval is just short of the 50 per cent he needs to avoid a second round runoff. Speaking in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, he said he'd seen gross errors and probably gigantic fraud. Claiming a first round victory, he urged his supporters to keep up protests, but he also called them on to be mature, responsible and non-violent.

If Rene Preval's supporters exceeded 50% of the total voters, he would ______.

A．surpass another candidate.

B．be the president of Haiti.

C．avoid a second round runoff.

D．defeat his rival in the first round.

听力原文： The front-runner in the presidential election in Haiti Rene Preval has accused the electoral authorities of committing fraud in an attempt to stop him winning outright. With almost all the votes counted, Mr. Preva1 is just short of the majority needed to avoid a second round. Two people were killed during unrest in the city. The United Nations Security Council has called for calm and extended the mandate of its peace mission in Haiti by six months. According .to official election figures with around 90 per cent of the votes counted, Rene Preval is just short of the 50 per cent he needs to avoid a second round runoff. Speaking in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, he said he'd seen gross errors and probably gigantic fraud. Claiming a first round victory, he urged his supporters to keep up protests, but he also called them on to be mature, responsible and non-violent.

If Rene Preval's supporters exceeded 50% of the total voters, he would

A．surpass another candidate.

B．be the president of Haiti.

C．avoid a second round runoff.

D．defeat his rival in the first round.

听力原文：I In Washington, President Bush said again Wednesday US forces will remain in Iraq until it's a free country run by the Iraqi people. And in Iraq, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said attacks on united forces will not succeed in getting those forces to leave the country before security is established. Bush administration officials say the White House may make a decision shortly on sending US peacekeeping troops as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force to help end Liberia's deadly civil war. Washington has come under intense international pressure to do something about the fighting which killed hundreds of civilians in Liberia's capital last week. White House spokesman says there are indications that the Bush administration would like to settle the issue before the President leaves Monday on a 5-day African tour. Mr. Bush expressed concern for the suffering of the Liberian people Wednesday and again called for Liberian President Charles Taylor to step down in the interest of peace. In Liberia, President Taylor signaled a willingness to leave, but to leave on his terms, on his schedule.

President Bush said US forces will remain in Iraq until ______.

A．It's a free country run by UN

B．It's a colony nm by US

C．It's a free land nm by its own people

听力原文： In Washington, President Bush said again, Wednesday US forces will remain in Iraq until it's free country run by the Iraqi people. And in Iraq, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said attacks on united forces will not succeed in getting those forces to leave the country before security is established. Bush administration officials say the White House may make a decision shortly on sending US peacekeeping troops as part of a multi-national peacekeeping force to help end Liberia's deadly civil war. Washington has come under intense international presure to do something about the fighting which killed hundreds of civilians in Liberia's capital last week. White House spokesman says there are indications that the Bush administration would like to settle the issue before the President leaves Monday on a 5-day African tour. Mr. Bush expressed concern for the suffering of the Liberian people Wednesday and again called for Librian President Charles Taylor to step down in the interest of peace. In Liberia, President Taylor signaled a willingness to leave, but to leave on terms, on his schedule.

President Bush said US forces will remain in Iraq until ______.

A．It's a free country run by UN

B．It's a colony run by US

C．It's a free land run by its own people

Thank-you cards--heartfelt expressions of gratitude for gifts, services and general kindness— seem to be rare in an age when the Internet continues to reduce human interaction.

Although our society has changed greatly over the past century, the etiquette(礼节) of thank- you notes has not. While most people would agree that thank-you notes under these circumstances are a necessity, there are still those who forever postpone or are forgetful for unknown reasons. And at no time of the year are thank-you notes more visible than June, the month of brides and graduations, and the beginning of summer parties. "It's a must-do thing. A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read," said etiquette expert Letitia Baldrige.

Don't think for a second that Baldrige is old-fashioned. Handwritten thank-you notes--any handwritten correspondence, for that matter--have taken on an air of extra importance and dignity in this e-hyper world. Baldrige remains hopeful that the art may be enjoying a renaissance(复兴).

More than simply obeying rules of etiquette, thank-you cards are a sign of caring. "They're more important now than ever," expert Peter Post says. "You're building a relationship. And part of building that relationship is that you acknowledge when someone has done something nice for you. " The payoff(回报), Post says, can be huge. "It will continue indefinitely," he says. "The more we do it, the more it comes back to us, and it's a benefit to us all. It makes our world a little bit nicer place to live in. "

Thank-you cards seem to become rare because______.

A．interaction between people has been diminished than before

B．the etiquette of thank-you notes has become out of date

C．people have found better means of expressing their thanks

D．people have become forgetful in the new age

Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.

For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation To【31】their work they must read letters, reports, newspapers... In getting a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend【32】can mean the【33】between success and failure. Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are poor readers. Most of us【34】poor reading habits at an early age, and never get【35】them. The main【36】lies in the actual stuff of language itself—words.【37】individually, words have little meaning【38】they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs.【39】, however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word【40】often regressing to read words or passages. Regression, the【41】to look back over【42】you have just read, is a common bad habit in reading. Another habit which【43】down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally【44】one reads.

To【45】these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device【46】an accelerator, which moves a bar down the page at a predetermined speed. The bar is set at a slightly faster rate than the reader finds【47】, in order to "stretch" him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, making word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization,【48】impossible. At first【46】is sacrificed for speed.【50】when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve.

(31)

A．come through

B．keep up

C．come up with

D．turn in

Smother Love

Every morning, Leanne Brickland and her sister would bicycle to school with the same words ringing in their ears: "Watch out crossing the road. Don't speak to strangers". "Mum would stand at the top of the steps and call that out," says Brickland, now a primary-school teacher and mother of four from Rotorua, New Zealand. Substitute boxers and thongs for undies (内衣), and the nagging fears that haunt parents haven't really changed. What has altered, dramatically, is the confidence we once had in our children's ability to fling themselves at life without a grown-up holding their hands.

Worry-ridden Parents and Stifled Kids

By today's standards, the childhood freedoms Brickland took for granted practically verge on parental neglect. Her mother worked, so she and her sister had a key to let themselves in after school and were expected to do their homework and put on the potatoes for dinner. At the family's beach house near Wellington, the two girls, from the age of five or six, would disappear for hours to play in the lakes and sands.

A generation later, Brickland's children are growing up in a world more indulged yet more accustomed to peril. The techno-minded generation of PlayStation kids who can conquer entire armies and rocket through space can't even be trusted to cross the street alone. "I walked or biked to school for years, but my children don't," Briekland admits. "I worry about the road. I worry about strangers. In some ways I think they're missing out, but I like to be able to see them, to know where they are and What they're doing."

Call it smother love, indulged-kid syndrome, parental neurosis (神经病). Even though today's children have the universe at their fingertips thanks to the Internet, their physical boundaries are shrinking at a rapid pace. According to British social scientist Mayer Hillman, a child's play zone has contracted so radically that we're producing the human equivalent of henhouse chickens-plump from lack of exercise and without the flexibility and initiative of free-range kids of the past. The spirit of our times is no longer the resourceful adventurer Tom Sawyer but rather the worry-ridden dad and his stifled only child in Finding Nemo.

In short, child rearing has become an exercise in risk minimization, represented by stories such as the father who refused to allow his daughter on a school picnic to the beach for fear she might drown. While it's natural for a parent to want to protect their children from danger, you have to wonder: Have we gone too far?

Parents Wrap Kids up in Cotton Wool

A study conducted by Paul Tranter, a lecturer in geography at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, showed that while Australian and New Zealand children had similar amounts of unsupervised freedom, it was far less than German or English kids. For example, only a third of ten-year-olds in Australia and New Zealand were allowed to visit places other than school alone, compared to 80 percent in Germany.

Girls were even more restricted than boys, with parents fearing assault or molestation (骚扰), while traffic dangers were seen as the greatest threat to boys. Bike ownership has doubled in a generation, but "independent mobility"-the ability to roam and explore unsupervised-has radically declined. In Auckland, for example, many primary schools have done away with bicycle racks because the streets are considered too unsafe. And in Christchurch, New Zealand's most bike-friendly city, the number of pupils cycling to school has fallen from more than 90 percent in the late 1970s to less than 20 percent. Safely strapped into the family 4×4, children are instead driven from home to the school gate, then off to ballet, soccer or swimming lessons-rarely straying from watchful adult eyes.

In the U.S. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation &am

A．standards of the children's proper dressing

B．worry about the children's personal safety

C．ways to communicate with children

D．confidence in the children's ability