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Lately，presidents of some American universities have added inflation to their worry list．They are not concerned about inflation of prices，but of academic grades．Larry Summers，president of Harvard．recently caused a storm when he told one of the university’s professors he didn’t like grade inflation．
Insiders say that nearly half the grades Harvard awards have lately been A or A minus—a lot moreman in the l980s．Is this trend a bad thing，in fact2 And is this grade inflation really“inflation”
To take the second question first，the answer is N0，not strictly speaking．”Inflation”in grades ought to mean that work of a given standard would be awarded an ever higher grade，year by year. The highest permissible grade would therefore have to keep rising in a ceaseless process on of non-improvement．Because in reality the top grade is fixed，the process is not so much grade inflation as grade compression．This is worse：a distortion in relative prices is more confusing than a uniform up
A. its causes
B. its features
C. its impacts
D. its purposes
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How many former American presidents attended Gerald Ford’s funeral service
[单项选择]Of all the American Presidents, whose presidential term is the longest
A. George Washington.
B. Thomas Jefferson.
C. Abraham Lincoln.
D. Franklin Roosevelt.
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Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little education. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shopkeeper and postmaster in his early years.
A large number of American presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school— West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined because he broke the roles of the school.
The jobs of the US president are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do and h
A. Grant.
B. Taft.
C. Eisenhower.
D. Roosevelt.
[填空题]American presidents seem to age before our eyes. But common belief that high-office stress grays our leaders faster than --62-- may be a myth, new research finds. In fact, the majority of American presidents have lived longer than --63-- men of their times.
That’s not to --64-- that chronic stress has no effect on a person’s lifespan, but -65-- does high social standing. The findings --66-- to a body of research linking high status to better health: --67-- , Oscar winners live longer than those who were only --68-- ; and the longevity (长寿) effect is also seen in Nobel Prize winners.
The new study, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association --69-- the dates of birth, inauguration and death of all 34 past presidents who died of natural causes. The --70-- lifespan for these men should have been 68 years， --71-- they’d aged twice as fast during their years in --72-- as the popular wisdom suggests they do.
--73--, the study found, these presidents live
A. A．syndrome
B．diagnosis
C．prescription
D．infection
