A youngster’s social development has a very great effect on his academic progress. Kids who have trouble getting along with their classmates can end up behind academically as well and have a higher chance of dropping out. In the early grades especially, experts say, youngsters should be encouraged to work in groups rather than individually so that teachers can find children who may be having problems making friends. “When children work on a project,” says LiNian Kate, an educational professor at the University & Illinois, “they learn to work together, to disagree, to think to take turns and lighten tensions.” These skills can’t be learned through lecture. We all know people who have wonderful technical skills but don’t have any social skills. Relationships should be the first “R”.

At a certain age, children are also learning to judge themselves in relation to others. For most children, school marks are not set by an inside clock but by the outside world Just as the 1 – year – old is struggling to walk and the 6 – year – old is struggling to meet expectations. “Young kids don’t know how to distinguish between effort and ability”, says Tynette Hills, professor of early – childhood education for the state of New Jersey. If they try hard to do something and fail, they may conclude that they will never be able to accomplish a particular task. “The effect is serious,” says Hills, “A child who has had his confidence really damaged needs a rescue operation.”

1．The author seems to think that a kid’s poor relationship with his classmates would         .

       A．have negative effects on his study

       B．develop his individualism but limit his intelligence

       C．eventually lead to his leaving school

       D．have nothing to do with his achievements in a course

2．For most children, school makes them understand         .

       A．that it is society rather than individual that decides one’s future

       B．that they can meet the social needs.

       C．that one’s effort and one’s ability can be two quite different matters

       D．that social needs and individual needs have nothing in common

3．Which of the following is most unlikely for the author to do?

       A．To talk to the students who have mental problems.

       B．To help students develop a feeling of self – respect.

       C．To keep a student from playing alone.

       D．To announce a student’s scores in public.

4．Which of the following is the major concern of the passage about a student’s needs?

      A．Individualism and cooperation.

       B．Academic success and independent thinking.

       C．Socialization and feeling of ability.

       D．Intelligence and respect.

Many people believe that “It is always calm before a storm.” Actually it is not true. Before the Tangshan earthquake, strange things happened. Some animals were too n________to eat and the water pipes in some buildings cracked and b_______. At 3:42 a.m. the terrible earthquake broke out. In fifteen seconds, a large city lay in r_______ The suffering of the people was e________. Almost everything was d_______ and thousands of children were left homeless. Before people could r__________from the first quake, a second one hit the city. Some rescue workers and doctors were t_________ underground. Water, food, and e________were cut off. People began to wonder how long the d________ would last.

       L_________, people all over the nation offered the helping hand. With the joint efforts, the city began to breathe again.

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[1] If you are a recent soc,ial science graduate who has had to listen to jokes about unemployment from your computer major classmates, you may have the last laugh．There are many advantages for the social science major because this high-tech“Information Age" demands people who are flexible（灵活

的）and who have good________．

[2]There are man}r social science majors in large companies who take up important positions．For example,a number of research studies found that social science majors have achieved greater managerial success than those who had technical training or pre-professional courses． Studies show that social science maiors are most suited to change, which is the leading: feature of the high speed,high-pressure,_high-tech world we now live in．

[3] Social science majors are not only experiencing success in their long-term company jobs,but they are also finding jobs more easily． A study showed that many companies had filled a largepercentage of their entry-level positions with social science graduates． The study also showed that themost sought-after(广受欢迎的）quality in a person who was looking for a job was communicationskills, noted as "very important" by 92 percent of the companies．Social science majors have these skills, often without knowing how important they are． It is probably due to these skills that they have been offered a wide variety of positions．

[4]  Finally, although some social science majors may still find it more difficult than their tech-nically trained classmates to land the first job, recent graduates report that they don't regret theirchoice of studv．

76． What's the main idea of the passage?(Please answer within 10 words．)

______________________________________________________________________________

77．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

For instance,a study showed that social science majors had held more important positions, com-pared to those technically trained students．

______________________________________________________________________________

78．Fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence． (Please answer within 5 words．)

______________________________________________________________________________

79．What have you learned about the social science majors in finding a job in this high-tech "Infor-mation Age"?( Please answer within 30 words．)

______________________________________________________________________________

80．Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese．

______________________________________________________________________________

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1.G_________________ from a key university is always an advantage in finding a job.

2.Online friends are not r__________________. They may cheat you.

3.She has o_________________ three parties with her partner in the past two weeks.

4.His d _______________ look suggests that he won’t change his mind at all.

5.Come on! You’ve changed your hair again. I hardly r_______________ you at the first sight.

6.When people use words and e_________________ different from the “standard language”, it is called a dialect.

7.Tens of thousands of people were killed. It was one of the most serious e______________ in the world.

8.Meredith, who is from America, can also speak f_______________ French.

9.During the national holiday, we made a j_______________ to Kuocang Mountain. Gosh!

10.My grandpa was successfully operated on in Taizhou Hospital last week and now he is r_________________.

Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It expresses agreement or approval.

    Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw(乔克托语). The Choctaw word “okeh” means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century.

But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in reports published in the 1960s. He said the word began being used in the 1830s.    Some foreign-born people wrote “ all correct” as “o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters OK. Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put the first letters of his name---O and K---on each object people gave him to send on the train. 

  The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840. They called their group the OK club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born---Old Kinderhook, New York.

Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.”    One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.

There are also funny ways to say okay.    These expressions were first used in the 1930s. Today, a character on the American television series “The Simpsons” says it another way. He says okely-doke.

A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.

B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.

C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.

D. But many experts don’t agree on what the expression means.

E. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.

F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word “all correct”.

G. However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age.