[单项选择]A. Tom is very responsible.
B. Tom’s words aren’t reliable.
C. What Tom said is tree.
D. Tom is not humorous at all.

[简答题]My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were, but I spend fewer of them at the office. (Passage 2)

[单项选择]Elephants who paint aren’’t new. Paintings by Ruby, an Asian elephant who lived at the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona, sold for up to $5,000 in the late 1980s, said Dick George, a consultant with the zoo. "Ruby was about seven months old when she first came to the zoo," said George. "She lived with a goat and some chickens, but she didn’’t have an elephant companion for a number of years. She spent a lot of time drawing in the dirt with a stick to make her days more stimulating. Her keeper bought her some art supplies." George said, "Ruby was excited about painting right from the beginning." The elephants at the art academies in Southeast Asia are taught to hold a paintbrush with the tip of their trunks. Initially, the keeper guides the elephant’’s trunk over the canvas (画布) and offers rewards for good performance. "It only takes a few hours to a day to teach them," said Mia Fine man, an art historian whose book "When Elephants Paint" is an illustrated history of the A
A. who was sold for a price as high as $5,000
B. who was famous for being the first painting elephant
C. whose paintings sold for as high as $5,000
D. who started painting in the late 1980s

[单项选择]What can’t be used at Tom’s school
A. Electronic dictionaries. B. Mobile phones.
B. MP4 players.

[单项选择]W: Aren’t you disappointed that you didn’t get the promotion
M: May be a little, but I know I need more experience before I’m ready for that kind of responsibility.
Q: What do we learn about the man from this conversation（　）.
A. He is rather disappointed.
B. He is highly ambitious.
C. He can’t face up to the situation.
D. He knows his own limitations.

[简答题]High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics 　　A)In this month’s Atlantic cover article, “The Case Against High-School Sports,” Amanda Ripley argues that school-sponsored sports programs should be seriously cut. She writes that, unlike most countries that outperform the United States on international assessments, American schools put too much of an emphasis on athletics, “ Sports are embedded in American schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else,” she writes, “Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America’s international mediocrity(平庸)in education.” 　　B)American student-athletes reap many benefits from participating in sports, but the costs to the schools could outweigh their benefits, she argues, In particular, Ripley contends that sports crowd out the academic missions of schools: America should learn from South Korea and Finland and every other country at the top level of international test scores, all of whom emphasize athletics far less i