[填空题]Mother
Ours is a small country. That’s why I want to emigrate. I think it will guarantee my children’s future. I believe that I will be able to find a job as a university lecturer in maths and that my husband, a doctor, will easily find a job. Though I will miss my own country and friends, I am confident I will soon make new friends and settle well and quickly into Australia. I have already been there twice and I really liked it.
Father
I recognize that things are not going well in my country. Nevertheless, I am very attached to it. I love the way I spend my life here and I also have my elderly parents to consider. They would not emigrate and could I leave them I will always be able to make some kind of living in my country, and hope that my children will probably land on their feet. However, Australia may be a safer bet. I tend to be a rather conservative person.
Daughter
I am 20. I am doing a degree in engineering and I know that it is

[填空题]Mother
Ours is a small country. That’s why I want to emigrate. I think it will guarantee my children’s future. I believe that I will be able to find a job as a university lecturer in maths and that my husband, a doctor, will easily find a job. Though I will miss my own country and friends, I am confident I will soon make new friends and settle well and quickly into Australia. I have already been there twice and I really liked it.
Father
I recognize that things are not going well in my country. Nevertheless, I am very attached to it. I love the way I spend my life here and I also have my elderly parents to consider. They would not emigrate and could I leave them I will always be able to make some kind of living in my country, and hope that my children will probably land on their feet. However, Australia may be a safer bet. I tend to be a rather conservative person.
Daughter
I am 20. I am doing a degree in engineering and I know that it is

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Why was everyone interested in time by 1900
A. Everyone needed to measure their spare time.
B. Everyone wanted to be punctual.
C. Efficiency meant much more money.
D. Efficiency was closely related to time.

[单项选择]Why was my mother disappointed
A. Because I didn’t show her my homework.
B. Because I didn’t show her my homework in time.
C. Because I didn’t do my homework.
D. Because my homework was done poorly.

[单项选择]Passage 3 If a mother pushes her small son in a swing, giving only a light force each time he returns, eventually he will be swinging quite high. The child can do this for himself by using his legs to increase the motion, but both the mother’s push and the child’s leg movements must occur at the proper moment, or the extent of the swing will not increase. In physics, increasing the swing is increasing the amplitude; the length of the rope on the swing determines its natural oscillation period. This ability of an object to move periodically or to vibrate when stimulated by a force operating in its natural period is called resonance. Resonance is observed many times without consciously thinking about it; for example, one may find an annoying vibration or shimmy in an automobile, caused by a loose engine mount vibrating with increasing amplitude because of an out-of-round tire. The bulge on the tire slaps the pavement with each revolution; at the natural resonance point of t
A. vibrate
B. resonate
C. swing
D. oscillate

[单项选择]Why is their mother unhappy（）
A. Their father is unable to keep his promise.
B. Their father is going on a vacation without her.
C. Their father isn’t telling her the truth.
D. Their father doesn’t want to travel abroad.

[简答题]
It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty-seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gifts giving.
A tree covered with tinsel(闪光片的) and gaudy(艳丽的) paper chains graced one corner. In another rested a manger(食槽) scene produced from cardboard and poster paints by chubby(微胖的), and sometimes grubby(不干净的), hands. Someone had brought a doll and placed it on the straw in the cardboard box that served as the manger. It didn’t matter that you could pull a string and hear the blue-eyed, golden-haired dolly say, "My name is Susie." "But Jesus was a boy baby!" one of the boys proclaimed. Nonetheless, Susie stayed.
Each day the children produced some new wonder—strings of popcorn, hand-made trinkets, and German bells made from wallpaper samples, which we hung from the ceiling. Through it all she remained aloof(避开的), watching from afar(遥远地), seemingly miles away. I wo

[单项选择]If a mother pushes her small son in a swing, giving only a light force each time he returns, eventually he will be swinging quite high. The child can do this for himself by using his legs to increase the motion, but both the mother’s push and the child’s leg movements must occur at the proper moment, or the extent of the swing will not increase. In physics, increasing the swing is increasing the amplitude; the length of the rope on the swing determines its natural oscillation period. This ability of an object to move periodically or to vibrate when stimulated by a force operating in its natural period is called resonance.
Resonance is observed many times without consciously thinking about it; for example, one may find an annoying vibration or shimmy in an automobile, caused by a loose engine mount vibrating with increasing amplitude because of an out-of-round tire. The bulge on the tire slaps the pavement with each revolution; at the natural resonance point of the engine mount, it
A. revolution
B. movement
C. frequency
D. amplitude