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people44,Which of the following statements is RIGHT? A. Most trained dogs are very intelligent. B. It usually takes long to train Seeing Eye dogs. C.German shepherds are the most intelligent dogs in the world. D.Seeing Eye dogs can only help blind people walk about. B I was born an albino. No one in my family had ever known what an albino was,what it meant to be an albino,and what had to be done differently because I was an albino. My parents treated me just like they treated everybody else.That was just about the best thing they could have helped me trust myself,so when the annoyances came along,I could deal with them. True,my photo always looked like a snowball with two pieces of coal for eyes.Kids would tease me, asking if I was joining the circus and calling me “Whitey”.Like most albinos,I had terrible eyesight, and my grades suffered until eventually I overcame my feeling ashamed of myself and realized it was okay to ask to sit in the front of the classroom so I could see the blackboard better. People stared at me when I held reading material right at the tip of my nose so I could see it well enough to read. Even when I was eight for nine, movietheater clerks started asking me to pay adult prices because I “l(fā)ooked older”. The worst part for me was that because my eyesight was so bad, I couldn’t play sports very well. I didn’t give up trying, though. And I studied harder.Eventually, I got better at school and loved it. By the time I got to college I was double majoring, going to summer school and devoting myself to every kind of extracurricular activity I could find. I had learned to be proud of being an albino. I did my best to make albino a positive word. And I decided to make my living with my eyes. I couldn39。t see well enough to play sports ,but with a solid education and the drive to do it. I could make a living involved in the field I loved. I39。ve done it now for more than thirty years in print and in video, and now in cyberspace. People make jokes about how I39。m the only blind editor they know, but most of the time the jokes are signs of respect. And I make jokes about being an albino. I was just a proud albino kid from the coal country of Pennsylvania. I now realize that being born an albino helped me to overe difficulties, gain confidence, and be proud of my personal achievement and humble about my professional acplishments. is an albino according to the passage? A. Someone with bad eyesight. B. Someone with some kind of disease. C. Someone who looks older than his age. D. Someone who joins the circus.46. What does the underlined word 39。it in Paragraph 2 refer to? A. The fact that the author was born an albino. B. What had to be done differently to the author. C. The way that the author39。s parents treated him. D. The fact that the author had no idea what an albino was. of the following statements is TRUE? A. The author39。s study was affected by his eyesight at first. B. The author had to pay adult prices for movies when he was still young. C. Despite his bad eyesight, the author played sports well. D. Albino39。 has already bee a positive word now.48. Why are people39。s jokes about the author mostly signs of respect? A. Because he is an albino. B. Because he has a solid education. C. Because they think he is a great blind editor. D. Because they think he is proud of his achievement.C A home school is a school in which parents educate their children at home instead of sending them out to a public or private school. Home schooling is legal throughout Europe,Australia,New Zealand, North America, Hong Kong, and South Africa. Home schooling is most popular In Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Home schooling IS legally accepted in all 50 states of the US,but each state has its own laws about it.Currently,it is estimated(估計(jì))that over one million families teach their children at home. Most of these families include a breadwinner and a stayathome parent who does most of the teaching,alth