Dear Daughter,

　　As we drove off from Columbia, I wanted to write a letter to you to tell you all that is on my mind．

First, I want to tell you how proud we are．Getting into Columbia is a real testament of what a great well-rounded student you are．It is in college that you will truly discover what learning is about．I encourage you to be curious, but I also want to tell you “Education is what you have left after all that is taught is forgotten”．That is really what learning in college is about–this will be the period where you go from teacher-taught to master-inspired, after which you must become self-learner．So do take each subject seriously, and even if what you learn isn’t critical for your life, the skills of learning will be something you cherish forever．

There is no single simple answer to any question．Remember during your high school debate class, I always asked you to take on the side that you don’t believe in? I did that for a reason– things rarely “black and white”, and there are always many ways to look at a problem．You will become a better problem solver if you recognize that．This is called “critical thinking”, and it is the most important thinking skill you need for your life．This also means you need to become tolerant and supportive of others．I will always remember when I went to my Ph．D．advisor and proposed a new thesis topic．He said “I don’t agree with you, but I’ll support you．”

Do your best in classes, but don’t let pressure get to you．Your mother and I have no expectations for your grades．If you graduate and learn something in your four years, we would feel happy．Please don’t be worried．The only thing that matters is that you learned．The only metric you should use is that you tried．Grades are just silly letters that give the vain people something to brag, and the lazy people something to fear．You are too good to be either．

College is the four years where you have:·the greatest amount of free time．·the first chance to be independent．·the most flexibility to change．·the lowest risk for making mistakes．

So please treasure your college years．

Love,

Dad (& Mom)

(A letter from Kaifu Lee)

1．According to Kaifu Lee, the underlined sentence in the second paragraph means_________．

A．you should learn by yourself instead of learning from your teachers．

B．the knowledge isn’t as important as the ability to learn．

C．the knowledge from college is of less worth than that acquired after college．

D．education is nothing but what you have remembered．

2．Kaifu Lee expects his daughter to _________．

A．agree with those who hold the opposite opinions．

B．find out the difference between ‘right and wrong’．

C．think of more ways to solve a problem critically．

D．step into others’ shoes and think from others’ positions．

3．Based on the letter, it can be inferred that ________．

A．high grades are not important for people．

B．Kaifu Lee and his wife don’t care about their daughter’s grades or college life．

C．Kaifu Lee doesn’t expect her daughter to make any mistakes in her life．

D．Kaifu Lee’s daughter is a freshman in Columbia University．

4．We can conclude that Kaifu Lee’s daughter is _________．

A．dependent and curious                     B．tolerant and supportive

C．well-rounded and worried                         D．excellent and hard-working 

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阅读下面短文，从每题所给四个选项中选出最佳答案。

　　Crossroads International

　　How does Crossroads work?

　　Crossroads is a resource network. We take goods Hong Kong doesn't want and give them to people who badly need them. We collect those goods and give them out in the welfare arena(福利院) in Hong Kong, Mainland China, elsewhere in Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa. So Crossroads is just that：a Crossroads between need and resource.

　　Who do we help?

　　The welfare agencies we help do not run on large budgets(预算). They are grass－root groups who have seen a need and tried to meet it. They can't get the job done without back－up, though, so our task is to help them do their task. Our warehouse is full of goods, from computers to high chairs, clothing to books, stationery to medical provision, cupboards to dining sets. They send us a list of their needs and we try to match it with the resource we have in stock.

　　How do we operate?

　　Crossroads itself also operates on a low budget. We do not buy the goods we send. They are donated(捐赠). Similarly, rather than raising funds for freight (货运), we ask transport companies to donate their services. Nobody in our organization receives a salary. Even our full－time staff work on a voluntary basis.

　　Those that donate goods and services:

　　●Factories

　　●Manufacturers

　　●Hospitals

　　●Hotels

　　●Educational Institutions

　　●Householders

　　●Transport Companies

　　●Offices

　　●Other Charities

　　One resource that we are always in need of is people. While we receive large quantities of goods and there is never a short supply of requests for them, we are always in need of hands to help sort and prepare them for shipping.

What can I do?

　　We are always in need of people. We have a lot of tasks. If you are volunteering regularly, we can offer work in some of the following categories, some of the time. You are welcome to number your top three choices and we will do our best to accommodate(提供) them.

　　●Clothing categorization

　　●Sewing

　　●Toy categorization

　　●Furniture handling

　　●Book categorization

　　●Driving

　　●Household goods categorization

　　●Office work

　　●Electrical goods categorization

　　●Book keeping

　　●Stationery categorization

　　●Fund－raising

　　●Medical categorization

　　Where to find us

　　All volunteer work is done at our warehouse:

　　Located in Basement Zone M of the Kai Tak Government Building. Our warehouse hours :

　　Tues－Sat.: l0am－5 : 30pm

　　Postal Address：16Man Tong, Silvermine Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong

　　Office details：Ph：2984 9309, 2740 9657 Fax：2984 7452

　　Email：106122. 2524 @ compuserve. Com

1．Crossroads International is ________.

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A．a welfare agency

B．a place to store goods donated

C．an organization to collect goods for those who need them

D．an organization run by the government

2．People in poor areas can't get help from the Crossroads if they need ________.

A．toys and books

B．furniture and computers

C．fresh water and food

D．clothes and washing machines

3．The purpose of this brochure(小册子) is mainly to ________.

[　　]

A．look for volunteers to work for Crossroads

B．call on people to donate more goods

C．let people know what Crossroads International is

D．tell people what Crossroads can provide

4．From the above brochure, we can conclude that ________.

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A．people who work at Crossroads get low pay from it

B．Crossroads doesn't give goods directly to the people who need them

C．you can do whatever you like if you offer help at Crossroads

D．Crossroads has collected more goods than needed

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Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?

　　A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

　　Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job．

　　The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it. He is working on his Ph D at Louisiana State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. “What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process.” He said．“It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning.”

　　“Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that,” said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

　　“I don't believe you can ever replace a special love,” pet owner Paulette Callation said．

　　Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

　　Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperament or other qualities that your pet has.

(1)From the passage we know that scientists has ________.

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A．tried to clone animals

B．cloned many kinds of animals

C．been able to clone pets for people

D．once cloned goats successfully

(2)Brett Reggio started a business in order to ________.

[　　]

A．clone pets for people

B．store the DNA of people's pets for cloning one day

C．make pets members of a family

D．collect different ideas on cloning from people

(3)Some people seem not interested in cloning pets because ________.

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A．they think it would be too expensive

B．they don't think scientists will one day be able to clone their pets

C．they think the cloned pet would not be the one they once had

D．they don't want to give any love to the cloned pet

(4)If you cloned a pet, you might find that it ________.

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A．looked different from the pet you once had

B．turned out to be another kind of animal

C．had a different character

D．were just the same pet your once had