【正文】 he campus in Decatur, a leafy suburb of Atlanta, every year until 2012. They asked if I39。s papers will be preserved in a publicly accessible institution, but disappointed that we didn39。s Children was voted the best Booker prize winner in 25 years and he is regarded as a leading British literary novelist. The sale of his papers will annoy the British Library, which is about to hold a conference to discuss how to stop famous writers39。t see why I should give them away, he said. It seemed to me quite reasonable that one should be paid. The sum involved is likely to match or exceed similar deals. In 2003 Emory bought the archive of Ted Hughes, the late poet laureate, for a reported $600,000. Julian Barnes, the author of Flaubert39。 quality is closely related to a number of factors.Questions 1115The British author Salman Rushdie is selling his personal archive to a wealthy American university. The archive, which includes personal diaries written during the decade that he spent living in hiding from Islamic extremists, is being bought by the Emory University in Atlanta for an undisclosed sum. The move has sparked concern that Britain39。(C) The average quality of the teachers in America is declining.(A) Most average teachers want to leave school because of high pressure.(D) petition must be introduced into the public education system10.(B) the public schooling has stagnated because of petitions auto industry is exceeding America39。When the author uses the automobile industry as an example, she argues that ________.(C) tell the essential qualities of good teaching(A) distinguish better teachers from less capable ones(D) mediocre teachers of average quality:8.(B) young and effective teachers with master39。 ________.(D) Good teachers treat students as their own children.7.(B) Good teachers determine the personality of students.The beginning sentence Good teachers matter. can mainly be explained as which of the following?s degrees, and the notion that a teacher can teach everything equally well—especially math and science—without appropriate preparation in the subject.://Our current education system is unlikely to acplish this dramatic rethinking. Imagine, for a moment, that American cars had been free in recent decades, while Toyotas and Hondas sold at full price. We39。s degrees are no better than those without. Job experience does matter, but only for the first few years, according to research by Hoover Institution39。s pointless to give them a larger group to choose from.If public school hiring processes are bad, their pensation policies are worse. Most districts pay solely based on years of experience and the presence of a master39。s because higher salaries draw more weak as well as strong applicants into teaching—applicants the current hiring system can39。s own ability on standardized tests reliably predicts good performance in the classroom. You would think, then, that topscoring teachers would be swimming in job offers, right? Not so, says Vanderbilt University professor Dale Ballou. Highscoring teaching applicants do not fare better than others in the job market, he writes. Indeed, remarkably they do somewhat worse.Even more surprising, given the national shortage of highly skilled math and science teachers, school administrators are more keen to hire education majors than applicants who have math or science degrees. No one knows for sure why those who hire teachers routinely overlook top talent. Perhaps they wrongly think that the qualifications they shun make little difference for students. Also, administrators are probably naturally drawn to teachers who remind them of themselves.But failing to recognize the qualities that make teachers truly effective (and to construct incentives to attract and retain more of these top performers) has serious consequences. For example, because schools don39。 worth of learning into a single year, while laggards are lucky to acplish half that much. Parents and kids, it seems, have been right all along to care whether they were assigned to Mrs. Smith or Mr. Brown.Yet, while we know now that better teachers are critical, flaws in the way that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don39。(D) It was decided to be held on the first Friday in October each year.Questions 610Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a child in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in school. For a long time, though, researchers couldn39。(B) It was to promote general kindness and charity toward children in need.Which of the following is NOT true about the World Smile Day?(C) irritated(A) perplexedIn the expression Loufrani39。(C) To explain why Americans liked the Smiley Face during that period.(A) To have a review of the contemporary American history.(D) Harvey Ball had the intention to abandon the copyright of Smiley Face3.(B) the Smiley Face was immediately accepted by the publicWhen the author used the expression spread like drifting pollen () to describe the gradual distribution of Smiley Face, he implies that ________.(D) has organized the exhibit to arouse the Americans39。(B) has posed a prehensive history of the Smiley Face through the exhibitionAccording to the passage, the Worcester Historical Museum ______. Loan launched a very public marketing campaign in 1967 centered on the Smiley Face. It eventually distributed 150,000 buttons along with piggy banks and coin purses. Old photos of the bank show giant Smiley Face wallpaper.By 1970, Murray and Bernard Spain, brothers who owned a card shop in Philadelphia, were affixing the yellow grin to everything from key chains to cookie jars along with Have a happy day. In the 1970s, there was a trend toward happiness, says Wallace. We had assassinated a president, we were in a war with Vietnam, and people were looking for [tokens of] happiness. [The Spain bro