King's College Summer School is an annual (每年的) training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King's College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year's summer school will be from July 25 to August 15. More information is as follows：

Application (申请) Date

　　·Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2007.

　　·Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16,2007.

　　·Foreign students should send their applications before July 10,2007.

　　·English language

　　Spoken English: 22 hours

　　Reading and Writing: 10 hours

　　·American History: 16 hours

　　·American Culture: 16 hours

　　·A letter of self-introduction

　　·A letter of recommendation (推荐)

　　*The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information.

　　·Daily lessons: $ 200

　　·Sports and activities: $ 100

　　·Travels: $ 200

　　·Hotel service: $ 400

　　* You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city.

　　Please write to:

　　Thompson, Sanders

　　1026 King's Street

　　New York, NY 10016, US

　　E-mail: KC-Summer-School@yahoo. com

(1) You can most probably read the text in ________.

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(2) Which of the following is true about King's College Summer School?

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A．Only top students can take part in the program.

B．King's College Summer School is run every other year.

C．Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program.

D．Only the teachers of King's College give courses.

(3) If you are to live with your relatives in New York, you will have to pay the school ________.

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(4) What information can you get from the text?

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A．The program will last two months.

B．You can write to Thompson only in English.

C．As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14,2007.

D．You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone.

　　Since the 1950s, the Netherlands has had courses in English especially for foreign students. Students are expected to be critical of what they read and hear, and to be able of working independently. Foreign students will soon notice that at Dutch institutions for higher learning, people are expected to do a lot of talking. The most common form of teaching is the seminar (研讨会) or working group, where a small group of students work under a teacher's supervision (监督，管理) to analyze (分析) a certain problem. On exams, they have to show that they know the material, and that they have formed well-founded opinions on the subject.

Accommodations (住宿)

　　If you are in an exchange programme or an international course, it is quite possible that a room will be arranged for you. Accept it immediately, or you will regret it later. That's because finding a place to live in a country as crowded as the Netherlands is not easy.

　　Before you leave China, ask your host institution whether or not housing will indeed be arranged in advance. If you are in the Netherlands and still looking for a place, ask the international relations office or the student dean for advice.

　　Tuition (学费)

　　Bachelor's degree: about 2 500 euros a year

　　Master's degree: 5 000～12 000 euros a year

　　Living expenses:

　　Experience has shown that a year in the Netherlands costs a Chinese student about 450～750 euros a month.

　　Here is a breakdown of average prices of supermarket goods:

　　Litre of milk:　　　　0.5～0.8 euro

　　Kilo of apples:　　 1.5 euros

　　Shampoo, 400m1:　　4 euros

　　Tube of toothpaste: 1 euro

　　Bed sheet:　　　　 20 euros

　　Other expenses:

　　Haircut: 15 euros

　　Air ticket to China: 600～800 euros

　　Mobile phone call (one minute): 0.1～0.3 euro

Phone call to China (with IP card): 7 euros (one minute)

　　Postage stamp in the Netherlands: 0.39 euro

　　Stamp for China: 0.78 euro

　　(1 euro=about 10 yuan)

　　Trains, buses and trams (有轨电车) run throughout the country.

　　If you really want to sample Dutch life, and get around quickly and easily, buy yourself a bicycle. Most students buy second-hand bicycles. A reasonable one will cost you 70～120 euros. You can find them at second-hand bicycle shops or at the bicycle parking facilities near railway stations.

(1) Teachers expect foreign students to do much talking and analyzing in order to make them ________.

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A．get higher marks

B．pass exams easier

C．be able to work independently

D．get in close touch with each other

(2) The passage implies that ________.

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A．it is easier to find a room in Netherlands

B．it is difficult to find a room in Netherlands

C．your host institution will surely find a room for you

D．the international relations office can find a room for you

(3) It costs at least ________ a year for a master's degree.

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(4) Most students ride second-hand bicycles mainly because ________.

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A．they can ride them fast and easily

B．bicycles are safe and comfortable for riding

C．bicycles are convenient and easy to park

D．bicycles are convenient and cheap

　　In one way of thinking, failure is a part of life. In another way, failure may be a way towards success. The "spider story" once taught Robert Bruce, leader of the Scots in the 13th century, who was hiding in a cave from the English. He watched a spider spinning a web. The spider tried to reach across a rough place in the rock. He tried six times without success. On the seventh time he made it and went onto spin his web. Bruce is said to have taken heart and to have gone on to defeat the English. Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one.

　　So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it? Were conditions right? Were you in top form of yourself? What can you change so things will go right next time?

　　Second, is the goal you're trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think about this question. "If I do succeed in this, where will it get me?" This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn't be doing anyway.

　　The third thing is to bear in mind that failure is a part of life. Learn to "live with yourself" even though you may have failed. Remember, "You can't win them all."

(1) This passage deals with two sides of failure. In Paragraph 1, the author talks mainly about ________.

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(2) The lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce seems ________.

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(3) The author doesn't tell us to ________.

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A．think about the cause of your failure

B．check out whether your goals are right for you

C．consider failure as a part of life

D．bear in mind that you will never fail in your life

(4) We can not conclude from the passage that ________.

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A．Bruce and Edison were successful examples

B．failure may be regarded as a way towards success

C．Edison learned a lot from the lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce

D．one may often raise a question whether his goals are worth trying

　　A historical change is taking place in middle-school education. Teachers are being asked to be responsible, as never before, for how well they serve their students. It has become as common in middle schools for students to grade teachers as for teachers to grade students. In fact, student ratings (评价) have become the most widely used and in many cases, the only important information on teaching effectiveness. In comparing three studies of the same 600 middle and high schools in more than thirty states, it was found that the number of schools using student ratings to evaluate (评估) teachers had climbed from 29 percent to 68 percent to 86 percent. No other method of evaluation got that degree of usage, and other studies have found similar results.

　　One reason that student evaluations of teachers have become so popular is that they are easy to carry out and to score. But they are also easy to put to wrong use. If they are expected to throw meaningful light on teachers' performance, the ratings must be used in a way that shows at least some of what we've learnt about them from research and from experience.

　　Research and experience have shown us, for example, that student ratings should never be the only basis for evaluating teaching effectiveness. There is much more to teaching than what is evaluated on student rating forms. When ratings are used, we know that students should not be expected to judge whether the materials used in a course are up to date (新颖的，时尚的) or how well the teacher knows the subject matter of the course. These judgments that require professional background are best left to the teacher's fellow workers. On the other hand, students should be asked to comment (评论) what they have learned in a course, and to report on such things as a teacher's ability to communicate at the students' level, general behavior in the classroom, relationship with the students, ability to develop interest in the subject and ways to encourage students to teach themselves.

(1) The central idea of the passage is that ________.

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A．student ratings are the only way to learn about teaching effectiveness

B．other methods are better than student ratings in evaluating teachers

C．it is quite right to make student ratings popular in the country

D．student ratings are very popular and should be properly used

(2) In Paragraph 2, the underlined expression "throw meaningful light on teachers' performance" means ________.

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A．judging teachers' teaching ability and understanding of the course

B．making teachers' performance clear and understood to all

C．having a main opinion of teachers' performance

D．speaking highly of the teachers' performance

(3) Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage?

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A．Students should not be asked questions that require professional background.

B．Student evaluations are popular because they are extremely accurate.

C．Student ratings can be used in all the schools in any case.

D．Student ratings are already used in almost every school.

(4) In student ratings, one can not asked the question "________"

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A．Can the teacher make himself easily understood?

B．How does the teacher deal with the students?

C．Are students interested in what is taught?

D．Is what is taught by the teacher new?

　　The Internet is a way of life for US college students, with research showing them to be one of the most connected groups.

　　A recent study by Harris Interactive and 360 youth found that 93 percent of American college students visit the Internet, and this market is expected to grow from 15.2 million in 2003 to 16.4 million in 2007.

　　That is slow but it could be the result of the already high number of college Internet users.

　　About 88 percent of American college students own a computer, and more than half have broadband (宽带) connections. Furthermore, 67 percent own cell phones and 36 percent use their mobile devices to visit the Inter net.

　　Study findings are that 42 percent go online mainly to communicate socially, and 72 percent of college students check e-mails at least once a day, with 66 percent using at least two e-mail addresses.

　　The most popular online social activity is forwarding messages to friends or family, with 37 percent of college students saying they do so.

　　The study looked beyond the Internet surfing (冲浪) habits and into the buying habits of this group, and found them responsible for more than US $ 210 billion in sales last year alone.

　　College students have learned how to spend their money, with 93 percent saying low prices were important when shopping.

　　The study also showed that 65 percent make loan (贷款) payments; 41 percent of freshmen have a credit card; and 79 percent of seniors have a credit card.

　　A significant number of charges on those credit cards are likely to be for entertainment and leisure expenses.

(1) College students in the US, as this passage shows, ________.

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A． don't have to learn their lessons in their classrooms

B．spend too much time visiting the Internet

C．lead an exciting life by using the Internet

D．waste too much time visiting the Internet

(2) From the fourth paragraph we can find that in the US ________.

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A．most college students are from rich families

B．college students can have a computer from their colleges

C．cell phones will take the place of computers in colleges

D．mobile phones make Internet life easy for college students

(3) To communicate with friends, more than half of the college students use ________.

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(4) By using the Internet, college students in the US can do the following except ________.

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(5) The underlined word "charges" in the last paragraph means ________.

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A．cost for goods or services

B．work given as a duty

C．sudden attack at high speed

D．money in small unit

　　Every day we go to school and listen to the teacher, and the teacher will ask us some questions. Sometimes, the classmates will ask for your opinions of the work of the class. When you are telling others in the class what you have found out about these topics, remember that they must be able to hear what you are saying. You are not taking part in a family conversation or having a chat with friends---you are in a slightly unnatural situation where a large group of people will remain silent, waiting to hear what you have to say. You must speak so that they can hear you---loudly enough and clearly enough but without trying to shout or appearing to force yourself. Remember, too, that it is the same if you are called to an interview whether it is with a professor of your school or a government official who might meet you. The person you are seeing will try to put you at your ease (not worried), but the situation is somewhat different from that of an ordinary conversation. You must take special care that you can be heard.

(1) When you speak to the class, you should speak ________.

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(2) Usually, when you speak to the class, the class is ________.

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(3) The situation in the class is ________ that in your house.

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A．not very different from

B．sometimes the same as

C．sometimes not the same as

D．not the same as

(4) If you are having a conversation with an official, the most important thing for you is ________.

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A．to show your ability

B．to be very gentle

C．to make sure that you can be heard

D．to put the official at ease

(5) The main idea of this passage is ________.

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A．that we should talk in different ways in different situations

B．that we must speak loudly

C．that we must keep silent at any time

D．that we must talk with the class

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

　　A California family drives a car that could help protect the environment.

　　When Jon and Sandy go to the store or to their daughters' soccer games, they drive in high-tech style. They drive a $1 million, fuel-cell-powered car. It may be the world's most expensive car and one of the most environmentally friendly cars.

　　The FCX is the first fuel-cell-powered car to be used by a family anywhere in the world. The FCX uses hydrogen and oxygen for fuel.

　　Car makers have been working to develop vehicles that are better for the environment. They are developing cars that use fuel other than gasoline.

　　Fuel cell technology works by changing the chemicals hydrogen and oxygen into water. This process produces electricity, and water vapor which comes out of the exhaust pipe. Most cars release dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide (一氧化碳) and carbon dioxide. Many scientists say these gases are major contributors to global warming.

　　"The FCX is driven just like any other vehicle on the road, but without the gases which pollute the environment," scientists say.

　　Fuel cell technology has been around since the 1800s, but scientists have yet been to perfect it. They say it may take years before the technology is ready for widespread use.

Creating environmentally friendly cars

　　Another earth-friendly car is already on the market. Hybrid cars use both gasoline and an electric motor. They are becoming more popular with customers because they cut pollution and improve fuel efficiency.

(1) Which of the following about the FCX is not true?

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A．It may be the most expensive car in the world.

B．It is one of the most environmentally friendly cars.

C．It releases dangerous gases to pollute the air.

D．It uses hydrogen and oxygen for fuel other than gasoline.

(2) According to the passage, what is the major cause for global warming?

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A．Gases from FCX.

B．Water vapor from cars.

C．Hydrogen and oxygen.

D．Gases from cars.

(3) From the passage, we know that fuel cell technology ________.

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A．works by water

B．has a history of over two hundred years

C．works by electricity

D．has been widely used since the 1800s

(4) We can infer from the passage that ________.

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A．future cars will be environmentally friendly

B．there will be no gasoline for cars

C．people can't afford to buy cars in the future

D．global warming has been stopped

(5) Hybrid cars are popular because ________.

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A．they are the fuel-cell-powered cars

B．they are energy-saving and cut pollution

C．they are perfect cars in the world

D．they produce no gases to pollute the environment

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Susan Sontag (1933～2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything---to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early thirties, publishing essays in such important magazines as. Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edge of world culture.

　　Seriousness was one of Sontag's lifelong watchwords, but at a time when the barriers between the well-edu-cated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In Notes on Camp, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult un-derstandings, through which she could not have been more famous. "Notes on Camp", she wrote, represents "a victory of 'form' over 'content', 'beauty' over 'morals'".

　　By conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a moralist (伦理学者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latter side of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor---published in 1978, after she suffered cancer---she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities (被压抑的个性), a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

　　In America her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame. "Sometimes," she once said. "I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending... is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness." And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

(1) The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means Sontag ________.

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A．was a symbol of American cultural life

B．developed world literature, film and art

C．published many essays about world culture

D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture

(2) She first won her name through ________.

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A．her story of a Polish actress

B．her book Illness as Metaphor

C．publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Reoiew

D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

(3) According to the passage, Susan Sontag ________.

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A．was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B．looked down upon the pop culture

C．thought content was more important than form

D．blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

(4) As for Susan Sontag's lifelong habit, she ________.

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A．misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B．re-examined old positions

C．argued for an openness to pop culture

D．preferred morals to beauty

(5) Susan Sontag's lasting fame was made upon ________.

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A．a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

B．her lifelong watchword: seriousness

C．publishing books on morals

D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis, cricket---anything with a round ball. I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire.

　　It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind on building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.

　　The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's School of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future.

　　Journeys to the Pole aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn't say, 'You're completely crazy,'" Saunders says.

　　In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a close encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.

　　Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.

　　This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 1 800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.

(1) The turning point in Saunders' life came when ________.

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A．he started to play ball games

B．he got a mountain bike at age 15

C．he ran his first marathon at age 18

D．he started to receive Ridgway's training

(2) We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.

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A．dismissed Saunder's dream as fantasy

B．built up his body together with Saunders

C．hired Saunders for his cold-water experience

D．won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic

(3) What do we know about Saunders?

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A．He once worked at a school in Scotland.

B．He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole.

C．He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid.

D．He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole.

(4) The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.

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(5) In can be inferred that Saunders' journey to the North Pole ________.

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A．was accompanied by his old playmates

B．set a record in the North Pole expedition

C．was supported by other Arctic explorers

D．made him well-known in the 1960s

　　In the United States, it is important to be on time, or punctual, for an appointment, a class, a meeting, etc. However, this may not be true in all countries. An American professor discovered this difference while teaching a class in a Brazilian university. The two-hour class was scheduled (制定) to begin at 10 a. m and end at 12 a. m. On the first day, when the professor arrived on time, no one was in the classroom Many students came after 10 a. m. Several arrived after 10:30 a. m. Two students came after 11 a. m. Although all the students greeted the professor as they arrived, few apologized for their lateness. Were these students being rude? He decided to study the students' behavior.

　　The professor talked to American and Brazilian students about lateness in both an informal and a formal situation: lunch with a friend and in a university class, respectively. He gave them an example and asked them how they would react. If they had a lunch appointment with a friend, the average American student defined (定义) lateness as 19 minutes after the agreed time. On the other hand, the average Brazilian student felt the friend was late after 33 minutes.

　　In an American university, students are expected to arrive at the appointed hour. In contrast, in Brazil, neither the teacher nor the students always arrive at the appointed hour. Classes not only begin at the scheduled time in the United States, but they also end at the scheduled time. In the Brazilian class, only a few students leave the class at noon; many remain past 12:30 to discuss the class and ask more questions. While arriving late may not be very important in Brazil, neither is staying late.

　　The explanation for these differences isn't simple. People from Brazilian and North American cultures have different feelings about lateness. In Brazil, the students believe that a person who usually arrives late is probably more successful than a person who is always on time. In fact, Brazilians expect a person with high social position to arrive late, while in the United States lateness is usually considered to be disrespectful and unacceptable. As a result, if a Brazilian is late for an appointment with a North American, the American may misread the reason for the lateness and become angry.

　　As a result of his study, the professor learned that the Brazilian students were not being disrespectful to him. Instead, they were simply behaving in the appropriate (合适的) way for a Brazilian student in Brazil. In the end, the professor was able to change his own behavior so that he could feel comfortable in the new culture.

(1) What is the main idea of the passage?

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A．Lateness is a way of disrespect.

B．It is important to be on time for class.

C．The importance of being on time differs among cultures.

D．People should learn the importance of time when they are children.

(2) Why did the professor study the Brazilian students' behavior?

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A．To make the students polite.

B．To make the students come to class on time.

C．To understand why the students came late.

D．To change his own behavior.

(3) Which of the following is right according to the passage?

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A．Most North Americans think a person who is late is disrespectful.

B．Few American students leave immediately after the class is finished.

C．In a Brazilian class, the students leave immediately after the class is finished.

D．As a result of the study, the professor changed the Brazilian students' behavior.

(4) What do you think will happen according to the passage?

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A．An American host will feel unhappy if a guest arrives at the party 20 minutes late.

B．An American student will think he is more successful if he is late for class.

C．A Brazilian guest will say sorry to the host if he is 20 minutes late.

D．A Brazilian teacher will go on with his class after the ending time.