[单项选择]E-mail, as well as telephones, （　）an important part in daily communication.
A. is playing
B. have played
C. are playing
D. play

[单项选择]Is teaching important Well, of course it is. There was a time when the necessary knowledge could be taught to the young by family members. (25) But as societies became more complex and division of labor more common, it was impossible for family members to teach the information and skills young people needed to become useful members of the society. As the need for specialists appeared, the job of teaching came into being in our society, and teaching as a job has been of increasing importance over the past hundred years. Today, we have strict rules for teachers. We hope all children can attend schools. Many things tell us that teaching is indeed an "important" job. In recent years, there has been an increasing need for teachers to be "responsible". This means that the public expects teachers to succeed in teaching important information to the young. Teachers’ salaries today, while not much, certainly are much higher than they were in years past. These increases have come about be
A. young people had had to be self-educated
B. specialists had been in charge of teaching young people
C. family members had been responsible for the education of the young
D. the society had played an important role in educating young people

[单项选择]E-mail, as well as telephones, ______ an important part in daily communication.
A. is playing
B. have played
C. are playing
D. play

[简答题]In a quickly changing world the most important part of education is to learn how to think critically．how to create and how to ask interesting questions．It is much less important to learn how to categorize knowledge and how to answer old questions．

[单项选择]Etiquette(礼节) is important at a Chinese dinner party. Usually, the host(主人) should politely ask the guests to be seated first before he sits down. If there is a speech, people stop eating and drinking to listen. Every time a dish is brought out, the host asks the guests to try it first. Guests would not start eating the dish until the host asks them to. While eating, people should stop often to talk for a while. Eating all the time without stopping is not polite, and could be laughed at. Usually, people do not finish a dish. A finished dish would suggest that there is not enough of the dish to eat, which may make the host embarrassed( 不好意思的), so people would not usually pick up the last piece off a plate. During a meal, the host asks the guests again and again to eat and drink more. Without this, some people may feel embarrassed about how much they eat. From time to time, people pick up food to give it to those sitting beside them. The host keeps the guests company all the way through