The Basics of Math—Made Clear

Basic Math introduces students to the basic concepts of mathematics, as well as the fundamentals of more tricky areas. These 30 fantastic lectures are designed to provide students with an understanding of arithmetic(算數(shù)) and to prepare them for Algebra (代數(shù)) and beyond.

The lessons in Basic Math cover every basic aspect of arithmetic. They also look into exponents (指數(shù)), the order of operations, and square roots. In addition to learning how to perform various mathematical operations, students discover why these operations work, how a particular mathematical topic relates to other branches of mathematics, and how these operations can be used practically.

Basic Math starts from the relatively easier concepts and gradually moves on to the more troublesome ones, so as to allow for steady and sure understanding of the material by students. The lectures offer students the chance to “make sense” of mathematical knowledge that may have seemed so frightening. They also help students prepare for college mathematics and overcome their anxiety about this amazing — and completely understandable — field of study.

By the conclusion of the course, students will have improved their understanding of basic math. They will be able to clear away the mystery (神秘性) of mathematics and face their studies with more confidence than they ever imagined. In addition, they will strengthen their ability to accept new and exciting mathematical challenges.

Professor H. Siegel, honored by Kentucky Educational Television as “the best math teacher in America,” is a devoted teacher and has a gift for explaining mathematical concepts in ways that make them seem clear and obvious. From the basic concrete ideas to the more abstract problems, he is a master in making math lectures learner-friendlier and less scary.

With a PhD in Mathematics Education from Georgia State University, Dr. Siegel teaches mathematics at Central Arizona College. His courses include various make-up classes and a number of lectures for future primary school teachers.

If the course fails to provide complete satisfaction to you, you can easily exchange it for any other course that we offer. Or you can get your money back.

1.What does the course Basic Math mainly cover?

A. Arithmetic. B. College Mathematics.

C. Algebra. D. Mathematics Education.

2.What benefits can students expect from Basic Math?

A. Stronger imaginative ability.

B. Additional presentation skills.

C. Greater chances of becoming teachers.

D. More mathematical confidence.

3.What can we learn about Professor H. Siegel?

A. He is a guest lecturer at Kentucky Educational Television.

B. He works in Georgia State University.

C. He is to deliver 30 lectures in Basic Math.

D. He specializes in training teachers.

4.Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?

A. A news report. B. An advertisement

C. A lesson plan. D. A book review

Gene technology to benefit people

Among all the fast growing science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic talked about by people.

The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only can these two diseases be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but also the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life can be longer.

Gene technology can help people to give birth to more healthy and clever children. Some families, with the English imperial family being a good example, have hereditary (遺傳的) diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing with hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientists just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.

Some people are worrying that the gene research can be used to make human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in very normal way. Of course, the governments must take care to control gene technology.

1.What does “these two killers” in the second paragraph refer to?

A. Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases.

B. The two murderers who killed the cloned baby.

C. Hereditary disease and cancer.

D. Cancer and heart disease.

2.In what way can gene technology help to treat hereditary diseases?

A. Using gene technology, a scientist finds the wrong gene and corrects it.

B. Using gene technology, people with hereditary diseases can live longer.

C. Using gene technology, human babies can also be cloned.

D. Doctors can cure cancer and heart disease with the help of gene technology.

3.What is the main purpose of writing the text?

A. Explaining that gene technology will also do great harm to human race.

B. Telling the readers the positive effects gene technology has on people’s life.

C. Expressing the writer’s idea that gene technology will benefit people.

D. Informing people that gene technology helps clone babies in large quantities.

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

Business is the organized approach to providing customers with the goods and services they want. The world business also refers to an organization that provides these goods and services. Most business seek to make a profit(利潤)—that aim to achieve income that is more than the costs of operating the business. 1. Commonly called nonprofits, these organizations are primarily nongovernmental service providers. 2.

Business management is a term used to describe the techniques of planning, direction, and control of the operations of a business. 3. One is the establishment (制定)of broad basic policies with respect to production; sales; the purchase of equipment, materials and supplies; and accounting. 4. The third relates to the establishment of standards of word in all departments. Direction is concerned primarily with supervision(監(jiān)管)and guidance by the management in authority. 5.

A. The second aspect relates to the application of these policies by departments.

B. However, some businesses only seek to enough to cover their operating costs.

C. Control includes the use of records and reports to compare actual work with the set standards for work.

D. Examples of nonprofit business top management and operative management.

E. Planning in business management has three main aspects.

F. In the theory of business management, organization has two main aspects.

G. In this connection there is the difference between top management and operative management.

文中共有10處語言錯誤，每句中最多有兩處。每處錯誤涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧)，并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線(﹨)劃掉。

修改：在錯的詞下面畫一橫線，并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：1. 每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞;

2. 只允許修改10處，多者(從第11處起)不計分。

John, a little boy living next door to me, liked fast food very much. His parents was so busy that they had a little time to cook for him at home. So they often took him eat fast food. That's because John became overweight. My mother had always told his parents that too much fast food was harmful, and they ignored my mother's advices. Recently, the doctor warned him never to eat fast food any more after the poor boy has a physical examination. Her parents came to realize what a terribly mistake they had made. Now John's mother often comes to ask my mother for advice in how to make healthy food.

假設(shè)你是學(xué)生會主席李明，為了增進(jìn)學(xué)生之間交流，學(xué)生會決定在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上建立中外學(xué)生英文交流論壇，請你根據(jù)下列要點(diǎn)提示介紹此論壇，并號召大家參與論壇。

注意：1. 詞數(shù)100左右.

2．可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫.

3. 開頭已給出，但不計入總詞數(shù).

Students’ Union has decided to set up our own BBS. ________________________

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I was in a strange city I didn’t know at all, and what’s more, I could not speak a word of the language. On my second day I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got off and walked on. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough, then I decided to turn back to my hotel for lunch. After walking about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived, and even that I pronounced badly. I stopped to ask a newspaper-seller. He handed me a paper. I shook my head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him some money and went on my way. The next person.I asked was a policeman. He listened to me carefully, nodded and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left again. I nodded politely and began walking in the direction he pointed.?

About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only thing left for me to do was find the nearest railway station.

1.The writer preferred to walk back to his hotel because.

A. he had no money to buy a ticket

B. he wanted to lose himself in the city

C. he tried to know the city in this way

D. it was late and there were no buses passing by

2. The newspaper-seller______.

A. didn’t know where the hotel was

B. didn’t understand what the writer said

C. could understand what the writer said

D. didn’t want to take the money from the writer

3. From the story we know that the policeman______.

A. was kind but didn’t understand the writer

B. told the writer where to take a train

C. knew what the writer really meant

D.was cold-hearted and didn’t help the writer

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. The writer got close to the hotel where he stayed.

B. The writer got to the hotel with the policeman’s help.

C. The writer found he was much farther away from the hotel.

D.The writer found the hotel in the direction the policeman pointed.

Jesse Owens was born in Alabama in the USA, in 1913. There were ten children in his family. Jesse was the youngest. He went to school in the city of Cleveland. At school he showed he had a special talent for athletics (田徑). He could run fast. He could jump high. He could jump far. Because he was good at athletics, Jesse became a student at Ohio State University.

　　   In May, 1935 in Michigan, USA, he broke the world record for the long jump. This was his first world record. On the 25th May Jesse did something unusual. In 45 minutes he broke six world records. Some people think that this was the greatest athletics achievement ever.

　　   In 1936 Jesse went to the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. There were only nineteen black athletes in the USA team. He won gold medals in the 100 meters race, the 200 meters race, the long jump and the relay race.

　　   Jesse was not a professional athlete. This meant that he could not get money for running. Later, he became a professional athlete. To make money he had to appear in strange races. Sometimes he had to race against horses.

　　   In 1960 somebody broke Jesse's last world record. In 1980 Jesse died.

1.Jesse Owens was born in _____in the USA.

A. Alabama     B. Cleveland     C. Ohio     D. Michigan

2.Jesse showed he was very good at ______ when he was at school.

A. basketball   B. swimming     C. athletics    D. shooting

3.Jesse's first world record was for the ______.

A. running    B. relay race   C. high jump     D. long jump

4.He won ______ gold medals in 1936 in the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.

A. two      B. four       C. six    D. eight

People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.

　　Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.

1.________ leads to people's deeper understanding of health.

A.Common knowledge B.Better conditions of living

C.Progress in scientific research D.Quality of life

2.According to the passage, to people of today, health means ________.

A.absence of illness B.overall satisfaction with life

C.good conditions of living D.a long life

3.The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because _________.

A.people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer

B.people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health

C.people have realized the importance of mental well-being

D.people are inspired by medical advances

4.This passage is mainly about __________.

A.different understandings of the term "health"

B.improving the quality of life

C.the importance of quality living

D.people's expectations of a long and healthy life

Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to background music.

　　To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing (舒適的) atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost(提升) sales or increase factory production by as much as a third.

　　But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts(收入) by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving-unless, of course, the resulting indigestion(消化不良) leads to complaints.

1.Background music was first used ________.

A.in the cinemas and theatres in the USA

B.in the offices and hospitals in the USA

C.in the schools and churches in the USA

D.in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA

2.An American marketing expert has found background music can __________.

A.increase sales or factory production

B.create a soothing atmosphere

C.make people slow down

D.make people forget their worries

3.Restaurant owners are advised to play ____ to increase overall sales.

A.lively music B.loud music

C.faster music D.slower music

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1.

 Home can be a great place for children to study. It’s important to provide a workspace of their own where they can read books or just write a letter to their friends.

●Location （位置）

 2.  Kitchen and dining room are not so well suited for regular study, since books and pens get in the way of the day-to-day uses of those areas. Set up a place where a child can settle in and leave papers and pens at hand without having to clear everything away each night. For a child that likes being alone, set aside a corner of his bedroom, but keep it separate from things like games, music and other hobbies not related to studying.

●Keeping Things in Order 

 Parents should encourage their child to spread out, but to leave it neat and orderly when he isn’t using his workspace. Ownership is very important for self-respect. 3. The workplace should be personal, but not another part of the playroom.

● 4.   

 Encourage the whole family to help build a supportive environment that children need for success in school. Give them a good example of how to deal with problems, how to manage time and get things done in the right way.  5.  Study will be more enjoyable and effective when supported by the whole family.

A. Attitude Is Everything

B. Bring Organization into Your Home

C. Here are several ways to choose a location.

D. Building a Good Home Learning Environment.

E. Hold a can-do attitude and your child will follow your example.

F. Setting up a space in a common area of your home can be a good idea for children.

G. A child who learns to organize his space will carry organization into every corner of his life.