【正文】 mplating terrorist actions or other criminal activities? Says the DOJ39。 the request has been scaled back to one week39。(C) to imbue them with the notion(C) sharpened and advanced(C) Looking smart is more important for young people at school.(D) making them understand their family crisis3. What is the message that peer pressure conveys to children? ambition to succeed EXCEPT ________.(A) Children are born with a kind of healthy ambition. or praising high performance alone. Most of all, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and rigid separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren39。t involved in some family crisis at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or peer pressure that conveys the message that doing well academically somehow isn39。s not quite that simple. Kids can be given the opportunities to bee passionate about a subject or activity, but they can39。 and the children39。s test scores.(C) Eight months.(B) Twice weekly. education more wellrounded. appreciation of nature.(B) Boiling pasta in.(D) An absence of taste.14. (A) Lookingsmellingtasting.(C) Atlantic City.(B) A master water taster.(D) 17 to 25.10. (A) Curbing highlevel corruption.(C) All residents in the region ten kilometers from the base of the mountain have evacuated.s top car maker.(B) Global warming may spread disease that could kill a lot of people in Africa.(D) The centenarians eat spicy food, drink whiskey, and have sweet pork every day.5. (A) Work hard.(C) The strength to adapt to loss, diet, exercise, and genetics.(B) Whether it is feasible to establish a village for the oldest old people. learning process. It produces a deeper, ___________ (19) of the world and its possibilities. We begin giving meaning to life through story making, and playing out ___________ (20).Part B: Listening ComprehensionDirections: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversations. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.1. (A) in Cherry Blossoms Village ninety of the residents are over 85 years old. and ‘mindson39。(D) Almost all the residents in Cherry Blossoms Village have unusual hobbies.2. (A) Whether the centenarians can live independently in small apartments.(B) Optimism, mitment to interesting things, activity or mobility, and adaptability to loss.(C) The centenarians eat a lowfat and lowcalorie, unprocessed food diet.(D) Always find something to laugh about.Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.6. (A) Global temperatures rose by 3 degrees in the 20th century.(B) Creating a leadership vacuum at the country39。(B) The eruption of Mount Merapi has been the worst in Indonesia over the past two decades.(C) 11 to 16.(D) Surveying the threats to national security.Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.11. (A) A wine taster.(B) Santa Barbara.(C) A certain amount of minerals.(D) Tastinglookingsmelling.15. (A) Bathing.(B) Increase the students39。(B) To make the students39。 math skills.18. (A) Once weekly.(B) Seven months.(B) The children39。(D) Both the teachers39。s no wonder some parents find themselves hoping that, just maybe, ambition can be taught like any other subject at school.It39。t suffer from an emotional or learning disability, or isn39。 interest in school and turned around their declining math grades. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, parents can play a critical role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, strategy and progress rather than emphasizing their ‘smartness39。s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. The crux of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions, says Michael Nakkual, a Harvard education professor who runs a Bostonarea mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get lowine underachievers in touch with their aspirations. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to disabuse them of the notion that classwork is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. Like any ambitious toddler, they need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run.1. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the first paragraph?(D) Some teenage children lose their drive to succeed.2. According to some educators and psychologists, all of the following would be helpful to cultivate students39。(C) enlarging the areas for children to succeed(B) Book knowledge is not as important as practical experience.(B) blocked and impaired(B) to help them understand the ideas continuing attempt to police Internet pornography. In 1998, Congress passed the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), but courts have blocked its implementation due to First Amendment concerns. In its appeal, the DOJ wants to prove how easy it is to inadvertently stumble upon pore. In order to conduct a controlled experimentto be performed by a UC Berkeley professor of statisticsthe DOJ wants to use a large sample of actual search terms from the different search engines. It would then use those terms to do its own searches, employing the different kinds of filters each search engi