The following is from Clinton's remarks at Beijing University:

　　I come here today to talk to you, the next generation of China's leaders about the critical（关键的）importance to your future of building a strong partnership（伙伴关系）between China and the United States.

　　Over the last 100 years, this university has grown to more than 20,000 students. Your graduates are spread throughout China around the world. You have built the largest university library in all of Asia. Last year, 20 percent of your graduates went abroad to study, including half of your math and science majors. And in this anniversary（周年纪念日）year, more than a million people in China, Asia, and beyond have logged on（上网）to your web site.

　　The new century is upon us. All our sights are turned toward the future. Now your country has known more millennia（千年）that the United States has known centuries. Today, however, China is as young as any nation on Earth. This new century can be the dawn of a new China, proud of your ancient, proud of what you are doing, proud still of the tomorrow to come. It can be a time when the world again looks to China for the vigor（活力，精力）of its culture, the freshness of its thinking, the elevation of human dignity（人类尊严的升华）that is apparent（明显的）in its works. It can be a time when the oldest of nations helps to make a new world.

(1) Clinton's speech suggests ________.

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A．it is important for the next generation to become leaders of China

B．the younger generation will be pioneers in building their country

C．the future leaders of China will be from Beijing University

D．the students in Beijing University will give the next generation a lead

(2) Last year _______ began to study in foreign countries.

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A．20 percent students of math and science

B．10 percent of the graduates who majored in math and science

C．20 percent students who graduated from universities in Beijing

D．10 percent of the students of math and science

(3) The words “in China, Asia, and beyond” in the second paragraph mean _______.

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A．in China and the countries around China in Asia

B．in China and its neighbourhood

C．just in China and Asia, not including other countries

D．throughout the world

(4) Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．The new century will be pround of China's yesterday, today and tomorrow.

B．China has made great achievements in all fields.

C．The twenty-first century is coming to us. We are expecting it.

D．China is as young as, if not younger than the U. S.

(5) President Clinton thinks highly of China for _______.

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A．China will be full of vigor and play an important part in the new century

B．China will be the first to go into the new century

C．China will build a new world

D．the twenty-first century will be the century of China

My granddaughter, 10, was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut （比萨饼屋）to celebrate Children’s Day. For a whole day, the two girls played heartily – no homework, no extra-curricular（课外） skills training. The happy life lasted only for one day. Yesterday, everything returned to normal: doing homework till late at night and going over lessons learned at last weekend’s English and “ Olympic mathematics” （数学奥赛）　courses.

Every time I went to my daughter’s house in the evening, I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a compositions given by her teacher. On the white wall behind the desk are some words she wrote. One sentence reads: “ Why is the exercise endless?”

Poor girl!

Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children, parents have been forcing their kids to take part in different kinds of extra-curricular training courses-learning English, painting, music instrument （乐器）, weiqi, “ Olympic mathematics” and so on, every Saturday and Sunday.

Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in children’s education? The answer is certainly “ No”. Take the so-called “ Olympic mathematics” for example. These courses are very difficult for the children to understand. Often, they are difficult even for adults （成年人）.

（   ）1. The writer’s granddaughter celebrated her Children’s Day by _____.

           A．playing all day              B．doing nothing

           C．having a party              D．going over lessons

（   ）2. Usually at weekends the girl will _______.

A．stay at home               B．play with their classmates

C．do whatever she likes        D．go to different kinds of training courses

（   ）3. The writer thinks that her granddaughter ______.

A．lives a happy life            B．goes to bed early at weekend

C．has too much homework      D．likes to do more exercises

（   ）4. Which is true according to （根据）the passage?

A．The “Olympic Mathematics” is too difficult for kids.

B．The grandfather thinks playing is more important than learning.

C．Teachers often give students useless homework.

D．The parents don’t want their kids to do lots of homework.

（   ）5. From the last paragraph（段落）we know that the writer thinks _____.

A．only school courses are useful to kids

B．some extra-curricular courses kids learn after school are not necessary

C．some extra-curricular courses are even more difficult for adults

D．kids shouldn’t learn difficult courses