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Costs have been ______(减少)by 20 % over the past year.

 

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科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:阅读理解

  A sixth of undergraduates in Beijing this year have registered at driving school. The students, mostly from majors such as business management or international trade, will finish their driving courses within 20 days or so.

  Training costs have dropped to 2, 600 yuan for students, according to the Haidian Driving School in Beijing. The price is not really low, but students will accept it, seeing it as an investment (投资)in their future. Familiarity with the operation of computers and fluent English are the basic skills graduating students need to find a job. But a driver’s permit has become another factor (因素).

  “In the job market, owning a driver’s permit sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness for a good position, ”says Zhou Yang, an undergraduate at the China University of Political Science and Law.

  Cars will become a necessary part of many people’s lives in the coming years, and it is difficult to get a permit of campus because of the pressures on working people’s time. “Having a fulltime job after graduation offers limited time to learn to drive. We senior students have plenty of spare time, plenty of opportunity to learn. ”Zhou says.

  Xu Jian, an official at the driving school, said undergraduates were very able and serious, and could grasp in an hour what ordinary people took four hours to learn. In this driving school, middle -aged people, young women and college students are the main customers.

  To get a driver’s permit, a beginner is now required to have at least 86 hours’practice before the final road test.

 ________ in Beijing want to learn to drive.

  A. Most of the undergraduates

  B. Many undergraduates

  C. Many students in the driving school

  D. Most of the students who learn business or international trade

  The undergraduates are learning to drive because ________.

  A. they need this skill to find a good job

  B. they like to drive cars

  C. they will not have any time to learn to drive after they have

  found a full - time job

  D. most of them will be able to buy cars in the future

  Which of the following is likely to be Xu Jian’s opinion of students learning to drive?

  A. He thought it was better to learn it at college than at work.

  B. He decided it was a waste of money and time to learn to drive.

  C. He agreed that they could learn to drive.

  D. He thought they would spend three times more time to learn to drive than usual.

  Which of the following can be the best headline for the passage?

  A. Students Pay Less to Learn to Drive Now.

  B. Students Learn to Drive.

  C. It is Better to Learn to Drive at Colleges.

  D. Welcome to the Driving School.

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科目:高中英语 来源:2013-2014学年福建省高三上学期期中英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解

A sixth of undergraduates in Beijing this year have registered at driving school. The students, mostly from majors such as business management or international trade, will finish their driving courses within 20 days or so.

  Training costs have dropped to 2, 600 yuan for students, according to the Haidian Driving School in Beijing. The price is not really low, but students will accept it, seeing it as an investment (投资)in their future. Familiarity with the operation of computers and fluent English are the basic skills graduating students need to find a job. But a driver’s permit has become another factor.

  “In the job market, owning a driver’s permit sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness for a good position, ”says Zhou Yang, an undergraduate at the China University of Political Science and Law.

  Cars will become a necessary part of many people’s lives in the coming years, and it is difficult to get a permit out of campus because of the pressures on working people’s time. “Having a fulltime job after graduation offers limited time to learn to drive. We senior students have plenty of spare time, plenty of opportunity to learn. ”Zhou says.

  Xu Jian, an official at the driving school, said undergraduates were very able and serious, and could grasp in an hour what ordinary people took four hours to learn. In this driving school, middle-aged people, young women and college students are the main customers.

  To get a driver’s permit, a beginner is now required to have at least 86 hours’ practice before the final road test.

1.The undergraduates are learning to drive because ________.

A. they like to drive cars

B. they need this skill to find a good job

C. they will not have any time to learn to drive after they have found a full-time job

D. most of them will be able to buy cars in the future

2.Which of the following is likely to be Xu Jian’s opinion of students learning to drive?

A. It is better to learn it at college than at work.

B. Young people have an advantage in learning to drive.

C. It is a waste of money and time to learn to drive.

D. They will spend three times more time to learn to drive than usual.

3.Which of the following can be the best headline for the passage?

A. Students Learn to Drive.

B. Students Pay Less to Learn to Drive Now.

C. It is Better to Learn to Drive at Colleges.

D. Welcome to the Driving School.

 

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科目:高中英语 来源:广东省20092010学年高一下学期期末考试试题(英语) 题型:阅读理解

III. 阅读 (共两节,满分40分)

第一节:阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

As goods and services improved, people were persuaded to spend their money on changing from old to new, and found the change worth the expense. When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs (and therefore air fare) would go up, but the new planes meant such an improvement that the higher cost was justified. A new car (or wireless, washing machine, electric kettle) made life so much more comfortable than the old one that the high cost of replacement was fully repaid. Manufacturers still cry their goods as persuasively as ever, but are the improvements really worth paying for? In many fields, things have now reached such a high standard of performance that further progress is very limited and very, very expensive. Airlines, for example, go to enormous expense in buying the latest prestige jets, in which vast research costs have been spent on relatively small improvements. If we abandon these vast costs we might lose the chance of cutting minutes away from flying times; but wouldn’t it be better to see airfares drop dramatically, as capital costs become relatively insignificant? Again, in the context of a 70 m. p. h. Limit, with lines of cars traveling so close as to control each other’s speeds, improvements in performance are actually irrelevant; improvements in handling are unnecessary, as most production cars grip(抓牢) the road perfectly, and comfort has now reached a very high level. Small improvements here are unlikely to be worth the thousands that anybody replacing an ordinary family car every two years may have spent on them. Let us instead have cars — or wireless, electric kettles, washing machines, television sets — which are made to last, and not to be replaced. Significant progress is obviously a good thing, but the insignificant progression from model-change to model-change is not.

1. The author is obviously challenging the social norm (社会规范) that ________________.

A. it is important to improve goods and services

B. development of technology makes our life more comfortable

C. it is reasonable that prices are going up all the time

D. slightly improved new products are worth buying

2. According to this passage, airfares may rise because ______________.

A. the airplane has been improved

B. people tend to travel by new airplanes

C. the change is found to be reasonable

D. the service on the airplane is better than before

3. According to the author, passengers would be happier if they ____________.

A. could fly in the latest model of good planes

B. could get tickets at much lower prices

C. see the airlines make vital changes in their services

D. could spend less time flying in the air

4. When manufactures have improved the performance of their products to a certain level, then it would be _______________.

A. justified for them to cut the price

B. unnecessary for them to make any new changes

C. difficult and costly to further better them

D. insignificant for them to cut down the research costs

5. In the case of cars, the author advises that we _____________.

A. cancel the speed limit                       B. further improve their performance

C. change models every two years          D. improve their durability (耐久性)

 

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科目:高中英语 来源:2010-2011学年江苏省高三上学期9月质量检测英语卷 题型:其他题

请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。

The United States is facing a growing concern: rising obesity(肥胖) rates. A new report says adult obesity rates rose last year in 23 of the 50 states. And, the percentage of obese children was at or above 30% in 30 states. Mississippi had the highest rate of adult obesity in the new study. 32.5% of the state’s adults were obese. Mississippi also had the highest rate of obese and overweight children. 44.4% of all children between the ages of ten and seventeen years were obese or overweight.

The study used a system of measurement called the Body Mass Index(B-M-I) to define words like obese and overweight. To find your B-M-I, divide your weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. A normal B-M-I is between 18.5 and 24.9. The B-M-I of someone overweight is between 25 and 29.5. And, an obese person has a B-M-I above 30.

The new report says widespread obesity is increasing the rates of long-lasting diseases, such as heart disease. Obesity is also responsible for an increasing part of health care costs in the United States. Health care costs have grown while many Americans are getting fatter. A lack of physical exercise, watching TV too much and eating junk food contribute to the rising obesity rate. The report says the current economic recession(经济衰退) could worsen obesity rates by increasing food prices. This would make healthy foods cost more. The report blames the recession for rising rates of depression, anxiety and stress, which are closely linked to obesity in many cases.

The report offers some ideas for dealing with obesity within government health care reforms. They include making sure that every adult and child has a right to preventive medical services. Also, people should do more physical exercise, drive less and eat less junk food to fight obesity.

Widespread obesity in the US

1.      

Rising obesity

rates

◆2.      obesity rates rose last year in 23 of the 50 states.

◆Child obesity rate was at or above 30% in 30 states.

Consequences

increasing the rates of 3.___________

increasing 4.       of health care

5.        

6.        physical exercise

watching TV too much

eating junk food

experiencing recession

7.        

8.          

9.          preventive medical services

People

doing more physical exercise

10.           less

eating less junk food

 

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科目:高中英语 来源:2010年上海市高二下学期期中考试英语 题型:填空题

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

 

a. selection  b. professional   c. Eventually   d. added   e. generation  ae. financial      ad. Especially   ac. experiencing   ab. choosing   bc. switch

 

One-quarter of today’s student population are suffering from symptoms of depression. Of that group, almost half will experience depression intense enough to call for __43___ help. But many reject that idea, because they don’t want people to think there is something wrong with them.

There are three reasons why today’s college students are suffering more than in earlier ____44___. First is a weaker family support structure. Today, with high divorce rates and many parents __45___ their own psychological difficulties, the traditional family is not always available for help.

Another problem is __46_____ pressure. In the past ten years education costs have risen about 66 percent at public colleges and 90 percent at private schools. __47_____, most students must work part-time.

A final cause of students’ depression is the large __48_____ of majors available. Because of the difficulty of ___49___ a major, college can prove a time of great indecision. Many students ___50____ majors. As a result, it is becoming common for them to take five or six years to get a degree. It can be disappointing to students to be faced with the __51____ costs.

 

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