[填空题]

It is difficult to overstate how the reforms since 1978 have improved the life of the average citizen in China. According to China’s Office on Poverty Alleviation and Development, well over 100 million individuals have risen out of destitution and now live above the official poverty line (set at annual per capita income below 640, which equals $ 77). At present, 42 million Chinese still live below the poverty line. Much work, of course, remains to be done in this regard.
In addition to helping alleviate poverty, the economic reforms in China have brought overall gains as well as the gains per capital income for both urban and rural residents suggest. While there is some question on the veracity of data.
The overall quality of life for the average citizen in China has improved dramatically since the reform in 1978. Citizens now have access to better services in crucial areas such as health care and ’education.
41. ______.
The better live

[单项选择]It is difficult to say exactly how the music we call "rock" or "rock and roll" began. Its roots go back to many different countries and many different kinds of music and musicians.
Rock music developed mainly from the interaction of black African and white European music. The Europeans and the African slaves who came to America during the seventeenth century each had their own different kinds of music. Black Africans used heavy drumbeats, a rough singing voice, and the calling of a melody and answer of a chorus. The white Europeans, mostly English and Scots, used a stronger melody, a less heavy beat, and instruments such as guitars, horns, and fiddles. The history of rock and roll is the history of how rock evolved from these two traditions.
From the seventeenth to the twentieth century, musicians in the southern United States developed two new forms of music: the blues, usually played by blacks, and country music, played by whites. Black musicians sang the blues accompan
A. the life of Elvis Presley
B. the history of American music
C. the development of rock and roll
D. the development of black African and the white European music

[单项选择]It is difficult to conceive how, even for those people well disposed to rule themselves, the attempt to achieve happiness should be rendered so______by one single curse, that of a bad form of government.
A. laudatory
B. ineffectual
C. corrupt
D. disorganized
E. ill-tempered

[简答题]

It is difficult to see how one can teach if one is not learning. But there are some distinctions to be made here. To rely on last year’s notes, or -- even worse -- one’s last year’s memory, as if that would always be an adequate basis for passing on knowledge, is to mistake what human knowledge is. 46. And so the assimilation of books, the reading of articles, the pursuit of matters of concern will be crucial to one’s ability to introduce and develop a student’s ability to participate in a specific universe of discourse.
Research might be thought to be another matter especially if it is defined as adding to the sum total of human knowledge. 47. The expansion of higher education which has taken place, and more particularly the expansion which is likely to take place, simply makes it unlikely that all those who are legitimately involved in the teaching and who fulfill their responsibilities utterly in that regard, are themselves all c