[单项选择]In addition to cultural differences, overseas students have to overcome linguistic ______ as soon as possible.
A. hindrance
B. impediment
C. barriers
D. hurdles

[单项选择]In addition to cultural differences, overseas students have to overcome linguistic _______ as soon as possible.
A. barriers
B. hurdles
C. hindrance
D. obstacles

[单项选择]American people ignore cultural differences in other countries because ______.
A. they can afford it with powerful economy and great wealth
B. they are aggressive by nature and proud of their own culture
C. people in other cultures respect the American culture
D. people in other cultures are particularly tolerant

[单项选择]Cross-cultural differences are difficult to research even though anyone who works in different cultures will ________you they exist.
A. pledge
B. secure
C. insure
D. assure

[单项选择]The passage advertises overseas
A. jobs.
B. studies.
C. travel.
D. aid.

[单项选择]Henning concluded that beginning and advanced students______.


A. have no difficulty holding words in their short-term memory
B. have much difficulty holding words in their short-term memory
C. differ in the way they retain words
D. hold words in their short-term memory in the same w

[单项选择]The census distinguished itself from previous studies on population movement in that ______.

[单项选择]Anthropologists believe differences between traditional and modem societies are that in the old society ______.

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Passage Three
Students should be allowed to study without worrying about grades. Fortunately, most educators are becoming aware of the fact that students have different interests and abilities. However, the discipline resulting from grades still exists. Grades often cut down creativity. Competing for better grades causes many students to turndown opportunities to pursue music, dramatics and sports. Grades impose a subjective standard of success on everyone. I do not demand as some extremists do, that grades be ended immediately. How- ever, I do believe that less emphasis should be placed on grades. I hope that someday grades will become optional at Village High School.
Magdalena Smith, President
Drama Club
Let’s face the facts about grades. Grades perform three basic functions. First, grades motivate students to work at their highest level of competence. Second, they act as a re- ward for hardworking students and as a scolding to stude
A. students to get good jobs
B. students to participate in music, dramatics, and sports
C. students to compete more for grades
D. educators to have more control over grades

[单项选择]The pattern needs special practice as Chinese students may find ______.
A. difficult to get used to it
B. it difficult for getting used to
C. it difficult to get used to
D. it difficult to get used to it

[单项选择]From the information given we understand that students ______.
A. may only borrow books from their local library
B. must have special tickets to borrow books from another library
C. may lend their tickets to students in other libraries
D. may use their tickets to borrow books from other libraries

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Passage Two
There Student thieves look out. Students can easily get many research papers off the Internet. A new Web site could help teachers catch copiers.
Some students research and write their term papers. Others, however, just copy them off the Internet and turn them in as their work.
Two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have written a program to catch the students who copy. It compares a student’s paper with every other term paper on the Web.
A hundred million Web pages on the Internet are searched. The top 20 search engines are used for the search. This service can be found at www. plagiarism, com. They also have a local data base of term papers.
Teachers who sign up can send their students’ papers to the Web site. Within 24 hours they know if the student did the work.
Every sentence that was a word-for-word match with another sentence either found on the Internet or within our d
A. ask other students to write their papers
B. draw pictures instead
C. copy from reference books
D. copy papers or large parts of papers from the Internet