【正文】 y to help improve children39。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?(B) How a baby learns to walk and talk.(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。(A) stimulating them to build up selfconfidence(C) enlarging the areas for children to succeed(A) A sudden lack of motivation is attributed to the student39。(B) Book knowledge is not as important as practical experience.(D) To achieve academic excellence should not be treated as the top priority.4. The word malleable in the clause that their intelligence is malleable, () most probably means capable of being ________.(B) blocked and impaired(D) replaced and transplanted5. The expression to disabuse them of the notion () can be paraphrased as ________.(B) to help them understand the idea(D) to inform them of the conceptQuestions 610Civilliberties advocates reeling from the recent revelations on surveillance had something else to worry about last week: the privacy of the billions of search queries made on sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft. As part of a longrunning court case, the government has asked those panies to turn over information on its users39。s 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 engine offers, in an attempt to quantify how often material that is harmful to minors might appear. Google contends that since it is not a party to the case, the government has not right to demand its proprietary information to perform its test. We intend to resist their motion vigorously, said Google attorney Nicole Wong.DOJ spokesperson Charles Miller says that the government is requesting only the actual search terms, and not anything that would link the queries to those who made them. (The DOJ is also demanding a list of a million Web sites that Google indexes to determine the degree to which objectionable sites are searched.) Originally, the government asked for a treasure trove of all searches made in June and July 2005。s worth of search queries.One oddity about the DOJ39。t need to suppress speech to protect minors on the Net. We think that our filtering technology does a good job protecting minors from inadvertently seeing adult content, says Ramez Naam, group program manager of MSN Search.Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPArelated test, it39。s Miller, I39。s personalities, says Kurt Opsahl, an Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney. They should be able to take advantage of the Internet without worrying about Big Brother looking over their shoulders.6. When the American government asked Google, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft to turn over information on its users39。(A) to protect national security(C) to monitor Internet pornography(A) it is not involved in the court case privacy is most important(D) search terms is the pany39。s worth of search queries () can be replaced by _________.(B) minimized to(D) reduced to9. In the sentence One oddity about the DOJ39。(A) counterattack the opposition(C) provide evidence to disprove the case(A) a friend or relative showing much concern(C) a dominating and allpowerful ruling powers Day, 50,000 inmates in Kenyan jails went without lunch. This was not some mass hunger strike to highlight poor living conditions. It was an extraordinary humanitarian gesture: the money that would have been spent on their lunches went to the charity Food Aid to help feed an estimated million Kenyans who, because of a severe drought, are threatened with starvation. The drought is big news in Africa, affecting huge areas of east Africa and the Horn. If you are reading this in the west, however, you may not be aware of itthe media is not interested in old stories. Even if you do know about the drought, you may not be aware that it is devastating one group of people disproportionately: the pastoralists. There are 20 million nomadic or seminomadic herders in this region, and they are fast being some of the poorest people in the continent. Their plight encapsulates Africa39。 traditional way of life. Instead they have tended to try to turn them into mercial ranchers or agriculturalists, even though it has been demonstrated time and again that pastoralists are well adapted to their harsh environments, and that moving livestock according to the seasons or climatic changes makes their methods far more viable than agriculture in subSaharan drylands.Furthermore, African pastoralist systems are often more productive, in terms of protein and cash per hectare, than Australian,