【正文】 nderstanding is the key to successful adoption.C) Most people prefer to adopt children from overseas.D) Early adoption makes for closer parentchild relationship.Passage Two Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.30. A) He suffered from mental illness.B) He bought The Washington Post. C) He was once a reporter for a major newspaper.D) He turned a failing newspaper into a success. 31. A) She mitted suicide because of her mental disorder. B) She got her first job as a teacher at the University of Chicago. C) She was the first woman to lead a big . publishing pany. D) She took over her father’s position when he died.32. A) Katharine had exerted an important influence on the world.B) People came to see the role of women in the business world. C) American media would be quite different without Katharine.D) Katharine played a major part in reshaping Americans’ mind.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. A) It’ll allow them to receive free medical treatment.B) It’ll prevent the doctors from overcharging them.C) It’ll enable them to enjoy the best medical care. By almost any measure, there is a boom in Internetbased instruction. In just a few years, 34 percent of American universities have begun offering some form of distance learning (DL), and among the larger schools, it’s closer to 90 percent. If you doubt the popularity of the trend, you probably haven’t heard of the University of Phoenix. It grants degrees entirely on the basis of online instruction. It enrolls 90,000 students, a statistic used to support its claim to be the largest private university in the country. While the kinds of instruction offered in these programs will differ, DL usually signifies a course in which the instructors post syllabi (課程大綱), reading assignments, and schedules on Websites, and students send in their assignments by . Generally speaking, facetoface munication with an instructor is minimized or eliminated altogether. The attraction for students might at first seem obvious. Primarily, there’s the convenience promised by courses on the Net: you can do the work, as they say, in your pajamas (睡衣). But figures indicate that the reduced effort results in a reduced mitment to the course. While dropout rates for all freshmen at American universities is around 20 percent, the rate for online students is 35 percent. Students themselves seem to understand the weaknesses inherent in the setup. In a survey conducted for eCornell, the DL division of Cornell University, less than a third of the respondents expected the quality of the online course to be as good as the classroom course. Clearly, from the schools’ perspective, there’s a lot of money to be saved. Although some of the more ambitious programs require new investments in severs and networks to support collaborative software, most DL courses can run on existing or minimally upgraded(升級(jí)) systems. The more students who enroll in a course but don’t e to campus, the more the schools saves on keeping the lights on in the classrooms, paying doorkeepers, and maintaining parking lots. And, while there’s evidence that instructors must work harder to run a DL course for a variety of reasons, they won’t be paid any more, and might well be paid less.36. What is the most striking feature of the University of Phoenix? B) Its online courses are of the best quality. D) Anyone taking its online courses is sure to get a degree.37. According to the passage, distance learning is basically characterized by _________. A) a considerable flexibility in its academic requirements C) a minimum or total absence of facetoface instruction A) earn their academic degrees with much less effort C) select courses from various colleges and universities A) There is no strict control over the academic standards of the courses. C) There is no mechanism to ensure that they make the required effort. A) building up their reputation B) cutting down on their expenses D) providing convenience for studentsPassage TwoQuestions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage. In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the petition, my 8yearold daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a petition she won last year. As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface. A revelation (啟示) came last week when I asked her, “Don’t you want to win again?” “No,” she replied, “I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.” I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自發(fā)地) told them. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall. I offered suggestions first grade was quickly “guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it. Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade. I had to accept the fact that I was coopting (借用) my daughter’s experience. While steeping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting m