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　　Companies can save millions in health-care costs simply by encouraging their employees to exercise a little bit, researchers reported on Friday.

　　They said obese (肥胖的) employees had higher health-care costs, but lowered those expenses by exercising just a couple of times a week without even losing any weight.

　　Feifei Wang and colleagues at the University of Michigan studied 23 500 workers at General Motors.

　　They estimated that getting the most sedentary (惯于久坐的) obese workers to exercise would have saved about $ 790 000 a year, or about 1 .5 percent of health-care costs for the whole group. Company-wide, the potential savings could reach $ 7 .1 million per year, they reported in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

　　Of the whole group of workers, about 30 percent were of normal weight, 45 percent were overweight (超重的), and 25 percent were obese. Annual health-care costs averaged $ 2 200 for normal weight, $ 2 400 for the overweight, and $ 2 700 for obese employees. But among workers who did no exercise, health-care costs went up by at least $ 100 a year, and were $ 3 000 a year for obese employees who were sedentary.

　　But adding two or more days of light exercise---at least 20 minutes of exercise or work hard enough to increase heart rate and breathing---lowered costs by on average $ 500 per employee a year, the researchers found.

　　"This indicates that physical activity behavior could reduce at least some of the harmful effects of excess body fat, and in consequence, help lower the health-care costs," Wang and colleagues wrote.

(1) How can employees help lower the health-care costs?

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(2) By encouraging its employees to exercise General Motors could save ________.

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(3) How many workers in General Motors were NOT of normal weight?

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(4) For which group of the workers were the health-care costs the highest?

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A．The employees of normal weight.

B．The overweight employees.

C．The obese employees.

D．The sedentary obese employees.

(5) How often should the employees exercise to help lower the health-care costs?

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A．At least seven days a week.

B．At least twenty minutes a week.

C．At least twice a week.

D．At least once a week.

　　Mr Hill is a young man of twenty-two. He joined the police as soon as he graduated from a famous university. He likes his job and tries his best to be an able officer. Once his colleague (同事) Mr Scott was ill and he was told to take his place---to train several new policemen who had hardly touched guns by then. None of them was good at shooting. A week passed but few of them could hit the targets (靶子). Mr Scott was worried about it, so did Mr Hill.

　　One day, when he was passing a school, he found there were a lot of small circles on the wall, which had been drawn with chalk. In every circle there was a bullet (子弹) hole. He was surprised at such a good marksmanship (枪法). He was eager to see the crack shot (神枪手). He hoped the crack shot would teach the new policemen to shoot.

　　From then on Mr Hill walked by the school every day. One afternoon he saw a boy shooting at the wall, holding an air gun. He was even more surprised and came up to him.

　　 "How old are you, my little friend?" asked Mr Hill.

　　 "Eight," answered the boy.

　　 "Eight?" Mr Hill couldn't help calling out. "I couldn't believe that all this had been done by you unless I saw it with my own eyes! How do you shoot at the circles?"

　　 "That's easy, sir," the boy said with a smile. "I always shoot at the wall first!"

(1) ________ before lie asked for a sick leave.

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A．Mr Scott had taught Mr Hill how to catch thieves

B．Mr Scott's job was to choose good policemen

C．Mr Scott had trained some new policemen

D．Mr Scott got ready to train some new policemen

(2) Mr Hill was worried because ________.

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A．lie didn't know how to train the new policemen

B．he was afraid the new policemen wouldn't obey him

C．he couldn't repair the guns

D．he himself was a new policeman, too

(3) Seeing the holes and circles on a school wall, Mr Hill thought ________.

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A．he met a good instructor

B．lie found a good new policeman

C．lie could soon be a crack shot

D．lie would soon learn to shoot

(4) In fact, ________.

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A．the boy couldn't shoot at all

B．the boy played a joke on Mr Hill

C．the boy drew a circle around the bullet hole after shooting

D．the boy began to practise shooting when he was very young

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　　The National Education Association claims, "The school bus is a mirror of the community." They further add that, unfortunately, what appears on the exterior (外部) does not always reflect the reality of a chosen community. They are right---sometimes it reflects more! Just ask Liesl Denson. Riding the school bus has been more than a ride to school for Liesl.

　　Bruce Hardy, school bus driver for Althouse Bus Company, has been Liesl's bus driver since kindergarten. Last year when Liesl's family moved to Parkesburg, knowing her bus went by her new residence, she requested to ride the same bus.

　　This year Liesl is a senior and will enjoy her last year riding the bus. She says, "It's been a great ride so far! My bus driver is so cool and has always been a good friend and a good listener. Sometimes when you're a child, adults do not think that what you have to say is important. Mr Hardy always listens to what you have to say and makes you feel important." Her friends Ashley Batista and Amanda Wolfe agree.

　　Bruce Hardy has been making Octorara students feel special since 1975. This year he wifl celebrate 30 years working for Althouse Bus Company. Larry Althouse, president of the company acknowledges Bruce Hardy's outstanding record: "You do not come by employees like Bruce these days. He has never missed a day of work and has a perfect driving record He was recognized in 2000 by the Pennsylvania School Bus Association for driving 350 000 accident free miles. Hardy's reputation is made further evident through the relationships he has made with the students that ride his bus."

　　Althouse further adds, "Althouse Bus Company was established 70 years ago and has been providing quality transportation ever since. My grandfather started the business with one bus. Althouse Bus Company is delighted to have the opportunity to bring distinctive and safe service to our local school and community and looks forward to continuing to provide quality service for many more years to come."

　　Three generations of business is not all the company has enjoyed. Thanks to drivers like Bruce Hardy, they have been building relationships through generations. Liesl's mother Carol also enjoys fond memories of riding Bruce Hardy's bus to the Octorara School District.

(1) The underlined word "mirror" in the first line could be best replaced by ________.

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(2) Bruce Hardy has been working with Althouse Bus Company ________.

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(3) Which of the following statements is NOT true of Bruce Hardy?

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A．He is popular with his passengers.

B．He has never missed a day of work.

C．He is an impatient person.

D．He has driven 350 000 accident free miles.

(4) Althouse Bus Company was founded by ________.

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(5) Althouse Bus Company pays much attention to ________.

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A．employing young drivers

B．running quality schools

C．providing free driving lessons

D．building sound relationships

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　　Solar energy for your home is coming. It can help you as a single home owner. It can help the whole country as well. Whether or not solar energy can save your money depends on many things. Where you live is one factor and the type of home you have is another. Things like insulation (绝缘材料), present energy costs, and the type of system you buy are added factors.

　　Using solar energy can help save our precious fuel. As you know, our supplies of oil and gas are very limited. There is just not enough on hand to meet all our future energy needs. Sooner or later Mother Nature will say that's all. The only way we can delay hearing those words is by starting to save energy now and by using other sources, like the sun.

　　We won't have to worry about the sun's running out of energy for another several billion years or so. Besides, the sun doesn't offer as many problems as other energy sources. For example, fossil fuel (矿物燃料) adds to already high pollution levels. With solar energy, we will still need sources of energy, but we won't need as much. That means we can cut down on our pollution problems.

　　With all these good points, why don't we use more solar power? There are many reasons for this. The biggest reason is money. Until now, it was just not practical for a home owner to put in a solar unit. There were cheaper sources of energy.

　　All that is changing now. Solar costs are starting to equal the costs of oil and electricity. Experts say that gas, oil and electricity prices will continue to rise. The demand for electricity is increasing rapidly. But new power plants will use more gas, oil or coal. Already in some places the supply of electricity is being rationed (限量供应). Solar energy is now in its infancy (初期). It could soon grow to become a major part of our nation's energy supply.

(1) What's this passage mainly about?

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A．Something about solar energy and pollution.

B．Solar energy.

C．Energy and pollution.

D．Energy and money.

(2) Solar energy can help us ________.

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A．escape punishment from nature

B．become home owners

C．get rid of present energy

D．save our precious fuel

(3) The sun is an endless source of energy, and it will not run out of energy for ________.

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A．several million years

B．several hundred years

C．several billion years

D．several thousand years

(4) Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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A．Energy from coal would not pollute our living environment.

B．Energy from natural gas would not pollute our living environment.

C．Energy from the sun would not pollute our living environment.

D．Energy from oil would not pollute our living environment.

(5) Solar energy is now in its infancy, ________.

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A．but in the future it will become an important part of our nation's energy supply

B．so we will build more power plants

C．and the supply of electricity will be rationed throughout the country

D．so we don't need it

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　　This is an eight-hour course for beginners who want to learn how to use a 35mm camera. The teacher will cover such areas as kinds of film, light, and tenses (镜头). Bring your own 35mm camera to class.

　　Course charge: $ 50

　　Jan. 10, 12. 17, 19 Tues. & Thurs. 6～8 p. m.

　　Marianne Adams is a professional photographer whose photographs appear in many magazines.

　　Understanding Computers

　　This twelve-hour course is for people who do not know very much about computers, but who need to learn about them. You will learn what computers are, what they can and can't do, and how to use them.

　　Course charge: $ 10

　　Jan. 14, 21, 28 Sat. 9～11:50 a. m.

　　Joseph Saimders is Professor of Computer Science at New Urban University. He has over twelve years of experience in the computer field.

　　Do you want to stop smoking? Have you already tried to stop but failed? Now is the time to stop smoking using the latest methods. You can stop smoking, and this twelve-hour course will help you do it.

　　Course charge: $ 30

　　Jan. 4, 11, 18, 25 Mon. 4～7 p. m.

　　Dr John Coode is a practicing psychologist (心理学家) who has helped hundreds of people stop smoking.

　　This course on weekdays is for those who want to learn to type, as well as those who want to improve their typing. You are tested in the first class and practice at one of eight different skill levels. This allows you to learn at your own speed. Each program lasts 200 hours. Bring your own paper.

　　Coufse charge: $ 125

　　Materials charge: $ 25

　　Two hours each evening for two weeks.

　　New classes begin every two weeks.

　　This course is taught by a number of business education teachers who have successfully taught typing courses before.

(1) The underlined word "professional" in this advertisement most probably means ________.

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(2) The shortest course is ________.

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A．Basic Photography

B．Understanding Computers

C．Stop Smoking

D．Typing

(3) A course which can do something good for your health will cost ________.

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(4) There are typing courses ________.

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A．on Saturdays and Sundays

B．from Monday to Friday

C．from Monday to Saturday

D．on each day in the week

　　Six months' preparation in Denmark: Africa studies, team work combined with social work with risk group teenagers.

Six months' community work in Malawi in People to People Projects: Child Aid, HIV/ AIDS Fights and Teacher Training.

　　Qualifications: 18 years, hardworking and social engagement.

　　Please contact us by e-mail: takeacion@ better-world. com.

　　YOUTH International is a non-profit high school foreign exchange students organization. We welcome teenagers from over 80 countries worldwide and provide host families. The community represent-ative is a part-time position designed for people with a strong desire to do something rewarding in the community and earn some extra money.

　　Applicants (申请人) best suited for this work should enjoy teenagers, have a strong interest in cross-cultural communication and feel comfortable networking. Full training and support will be provided through branch offices throughout the US Positions available in most states.

　　If interested, please e-mail staff@ youth. org or call 888-123-9872.

　　Hi, I'm an ESI. student in China. I'm 20, quiet and polite, and I speak reasonable English. I'm looking for a summer job in an English-speaking country. I can teach Chinese or do house and garden work and cook Chinese dishes. Can anybody offer me a job? I don't need to earn much, just enough in two months (July and August) to pay for my return ticket to China. My goal is to improve my English and see a bit more of the world.

　　My e-mail is ram3462@ hotmail. com.

　　I am looking for native speakers of English to join in an experiment. This experiment is carried out over the Internet. You don't need any specific knowledge other than understanding and speaking English at a native level. The first task will take you around 15 minutes. After this task, you can decide whether you want to continue the experiment. The tasks involve reading texts and designing questions and answers.

　　If you are willing to help me, then please e-mail us: club3864@ hotmail. corn.

(1) Who is suitable to work as a Community Representative in YOUTH International?

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A．One who enjoys working with teenagers from different countries.

B．One who hopes to take action in fighting against diseases.

C．One who has a strong desire to improve his or her English.

D．One who wants to earn some pocket money in the program

(2) Where will Jack, a volunteer, receive the training before he is sent to work in Malawi?

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A．In some local offices in the US.

B．In an ESL organization in China.

C．In a preparation program in Denmark.

D．In an exchange student center in Africa.

(3) If Mrs Black in the US hopes to learn some Chinese at home, she may contact ________.

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A．takeaction@ betterworld. com

B．ram3462@ hotmail. com

C．club3864@ hotmail. com

D．staff@ youth. org

(4) What are volunteers for an experiment over the Internet supposed to do?

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A．To interview people online.

B．To do some housework.

C．To offer advice on Child Aid.

D．To provide language exercises.

　　College graduation brings both the satisfaction of academic achievement and the expectation of a well-paid job. But for 6 000 graduates at San Jose State this year, there's uncertainty as they enter one of the worst job markets in decades. Ryan Stewart has a freshly-minted (新兴的) degree in religious studies, but no job prospects (前景).

　　 "You look at everybody's parents and neighbors, and they're getting laid off and don't have jobs," said Stewart, "then you look at the young people just coming into the workforce... it's just scary."

　　When the class of 2003 entered college, the future never looked brighter. But in the four years they've been here, the world outside has changed greatly.

　　 "Those were the exciting times, lots of dot-com opportunities, exploding offers, students getting top dollar with lots of benefits," said Chery Allmen Vinnidge of the San Jose State Career Center. "Times have changed. It's a new market."

　　Chery Allmen Vinnidge ought to know. She runs the San Jose State Career Center, sort of a crossroad between college and the real world. Allmen Vinnidge says students who do find jobs after college have done their homework.

　　 "The typical graduate who does have a job offer started working on it two years ago. They've postured (定位) themselves well during the summer. They've had several internships (实习)," she said. And they've majored in one of the few fields that are still hot, like chemical engineering, accounting, or nursing, where average starting salaries have actually increased over last year. Other popular fields have seen big declines in starting salaries.

　　Ryan Stewart may just end up going back to school. "I'd like to teach in college some day and that requires more schooling, which would be great in a bad economy," he said.

　　To some students, a degree may not be a ticket to instant wealth. For now, they can only hope its value will increase over time.

(1) The underlined expression "dot-com" in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

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A．a company making dots

B．the Internet

C．teaching on the Internet

D．a well-known website

(2) The purpose of a college career center is probably to ________.

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A．help students do their homework

B．find jobs for students while they are in school

C．prepare students to find jobs after they graduate

D．help high school students get accepted to college

(3) Ryan Stewart is probably going to ________.

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A．get a teaching job

B．become a religious leader

C．change his major

D．go back to school

(4) What does the underlined sentence "To some students, a degree may not be a ticket to instant wealth" mean?

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A．Having a college degree does not provide travel discounts.

B．A college degree doesn't promise a person a highpaying job.

C．Most students with degrees will be able to find jobs.

D．The best way to get rich is to get a college degree.

　　Recently, in the hope of earning both money and social experience, I became a door-to-door salesman. I once read a saying: "If somebody wants something of you, you will be treated as warmly as spring, but if they don't, you may be treated as coldly as winter." You may consider it an exaggeration (夸张), but if you are a salesman, it is clearly correct.

　　You would never have found it to be so true if you hadn't been a salesman. You needn't stand doubtful looks and unfriendly views; you needn't listen to something completely wrong and nod to say that it was quite right; you needn't always keep patience and smile; you needn't repeat the same sentences over again; you needn't talk to somebody you dislike.

　　I did this work for a month; then I decided to give it up. In spite of the above reasons, I found I was paying too much attention to the job and thus sacrificing my study time. The latest test result proved that my grades were getting lower. Even worse, I hadn't enough time to join my classmates in college activities. Sometimes I felt lonely and unhappy because of both my study and my part-time job. Now I don't think it is worth doing such a thing even though I was earning money at great cost.

　　Newspapers and magazines often publish stories about good students who do part-time work and keep high scores in class. But according to my experience, part-time work can have some strong bad effects on study.

　　Most students don't see the relationship between study and work in a correct way. In my opinion. if it isn't a must for money reasons, students should be cautious about taking up a part-time job. In western countries even the children of very rich families take part in hard jobs during the summer vacation.

(1) Which fact is not a reason that caused the writer to give up his part-time job?

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A．Too much attention to it and his grades getting lower.

B．He often missed some college activities.

C．Sometimes he felt tired and unhappy.

D．It didn't earn him much money.

(2) Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word "sacrificing"?

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(3) The writer thought ________.

[　　]

A．to do part-time job was unnecessary

B．part-time jobs had good effect upon study

C．it's hard to plan study and work correctly

D．part-time jobs were good for students

(4) Who should take part-time jobs according to the text above?

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A．Every college student.

B．Those who want to get study experience.

C．Those in great need of money.

D．Those from very rich families.

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　　The private car has long played an important role in the United States. In 1971 eighty-three percent of American families owned at least one car, and twenty-three percent had more than one. By giving workers rapid, convenient transportation, the car has freed them from having to live near their place of work This has helped develop the growth of the suburbs, but it has also led to traffic problems in the city. In addition, the car has caused neighborhood ties to be weak by making it easy to keep up friendship at a distance and to enjoy leisure activities far from home.

　　For farm families the car is a great comfort. It has relieved their loneliness, making it possible for them to travel to town frequently for business and for pleasure, and also to transport their children to distant schools.

　　Family life has been affected in various ways. The car helps to keep families together when it is used for picnics, outings, camping trips, and other shared experiences. However, when teenage children use or own one, they can easily escape from their parents. For some---young or old---using a car leads to dangerous traffic accidents caused by carelessness or by deliberate breaking of driving laws. In 1971, over 5 000 people were killed in car accidents in the U. S., and many more were injured. This number has been somewhat reduced by the gas shortage which has decreased driving to some degree and has also lowered the speed limit.

　　For many Americans the car is something necessary as well as convenient. But for some, it is also a mark of social status, an important middle-class symbol; and for young people, a sign of becoming an adult. Altogether, cars mean much to Americans.

(1) The car makes it possible for workers to ________.

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(2) It can be inferred from the passage that before the farmers owned cars, ________.

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A．it was not convenient for them to live their farms

B．they did not feel lonely living on their farms

C．they could not send their children to schools

D．they could only travel to town frequently for business but not for pleasure.

(3) Of the car's side effects, the author doesn't mention ________.

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A．air pollution

B．traffic problems

C．weak neighborhood ties

D．teenagers' escape from parents

(4) From the passage, we can guess that ________.

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A．there will be fewer car accidents in the United States

B．the car will cause personal relationship to be weaker

C．people cannot live happily without cars in the United States

D．the car will be merely a mark of social status

(5) What's the main idea of the passage?

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A．The car has two sides as anything else.

B．The car plays an important role in American life.

C．Some people are not aware of the car's effects on teenagers.

D．The car has advantages though it causes troubles and dangers.

　　When I met him, I had a lot of anger inside of me. I've lived my whole life in Spanish Harlem, but in my neighborhood, there are shoot-ups all the time. I know kids who have been shot or beaten up. I have friends who ended up in prison I could have ended up that way, too, but Mr Clark wouldn't let that happen.

　　Mr Clark worked long hours, making sure I did my work. My grades rose. In fact, the scores of our whole class rose. One day, he took our class to see The Phantom of the Opera, and it was the first time some kids had ever been out of Harlem. Before the show, he treated us to dinner at a restaurant and taught us not to talk with our mouths full. We did not want to let him down.

　　Mr Clark was selected as Disney's 2000 Teacher of the Year. He said he would draw three names out of a hat; those students would go with him to Los Angeles to get the award. But when the time came to draw names, Mr Clark said, "You're all going."

　　On graduation day, there were a lot of tears. We didn't want his class to end. In 2001, he moved to Atlanta, but he always kept in touch. He started giving lectures about education, and wrote a best-selling book based on his classroom rules, The Essential 55. In 2003, Mr Clark took some of us on a trip to South Africa to deliver school supplies and visit orphanages (孤儿院). It was the most amazing experience of my life. It's now my dream to one day start a group of women's clubs, helping people from all backgrounds.

(1) Without Mr Clark, the writer ________.

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A．might have been put into prison

B．might not have won the prize

C．might have joined a women's club

D．might not have moved to Atlanta

(2) The Essential 55 is ________.

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(3) How many students' names were finally drawn out of a hat by Mr Clark?

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(4) In the passage, the writer intends to tell us that ________.

[　　]

A．Mr Clark went to South Africa because he liked traveling

B．Mr Clark helped to set up a group of women's clubs

C．a good teacher can help raise his or her students' scores

D．a good teacher has a good influence on his or her students