[简答题][complain (抱怨), under the pressure of... ( 在......压力之下), ever-increasing burden (日益加重的负担), for one thing...for another...(一方面......, 另一方面......), lighten(减轻)]
Outline:
1. 现在学生背上的书包越来越重;
2. 学生负担减轻不了的原因;
3. 结论。
Children’s Schoolbags Are Getting Heavier

[简答题]

[complain (抱怨), under the pressure of... ( 在......压力之下), ever-increasing burden (日益加重的负担), for one thing...for another...(一方面......, 另一方面......), lighten(减轻)]
Outline:
1. 现在学生背上的书包越来越重;
2. 学生负担减轻不了的原因;
3. 结论。
Children’s Schoolbags Are Getting Heavier

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Why are American students usually under pressure of work
A. Because their academic performance will affect their future career in the future.
B. Because they are heavily involved in student affairs.
C. Because they have to observe the university discipline.
D. Because they want to run for positions of authority.

[单项选择]Under pressure from animal welfare groups, two national science teachers associations have adopted guidelines that ban classroom experiments harming animals. The National Association of Biology Teachers and the National Science Teachers Association hope to end animal abuse in elementary and secondary schools and, in turn, discourage students from mishandling animals in home experiments and science fair projects.
Animal welfare groups are apparently most concerned with high school students experimenting with animals in extracurricular projects. Barbara Orlans, President of the Scientists’ Center for Animal Welfare, said that students have been performing surgery at random, testing known poisonous substances, and running other pathology experiments on animals without even knowing normal physiology.
At one science fair, a student cut off the leg and tail of a lizard to demonstrate that only the tail can regenerate, she said. In another case, a student bound sparrows, starved them and observed their behavior.
"The amount of abuse has been quite horrifying," Orlans said.
Administrators of major science fairs are short-tempered over the teachers’ policy change and the impression it has created. ’"The teachers were sold a bill of goods by Barbara Orlans," said Thurman Grafton, who heads the rules committee for the International Science and Engineering Fair. "Backyard tabletop surgery is just nonsense. The new policies throw cold water on students’ inquisitiveness," he said.
Grafton said he wouldn’t deny that there hasn’t been animal abuse among projects at the international fair, but he added that judges reject contestants who have unnecessarily injured animals. The judges have a hard time monitoring local and regional fairs that may or may not choose to comply with the international fair’s rules that stress proper care of animals, Grafton said.
He said that several years ago, the Westinghouse Science Talent Search banned harmful experiments to animals when sponsors threatened to cancel their support after animal welfare groups lobbied for change.
The teachers adopted the new policies also to fend off proposed legislation--in states including Missouri and New York that would restrict or prohibit experiments on animals.
Officials of the two teachers organizations say that they don’t know how many animals have been abused in the classroom. On the one hand, many biology teachers are not trained in the proper care of animals, said Wayne Moyer, executive director of the biology teachers’ association. On the other, the use of animals in experiments has dropped in recent years because of school budget cuts. The association may set up seminars to teach better animal care to its members.The title which best expresses the content of the text is
A. Science Teachers to Ban Testing Harmful to Animals.
B. Teachers’ Policy Change in Experiment on Animals.
C. The New Policies of Banning Harmful Experiments to Animals.
D. The Importance of Prohibiting Harmful Experiments on Animals.

[单项选择]Under pressure from animal welfare groups, two national science teachers associations have adopted guidelines that ban classroom experiments harming animals. The National Association of Biology Teachers and the National Science Teachers Association hope to end animal abuse in elementary and secondary schools and, in turn, discourage students from mishandling animals in home experiments and science fair projects.
Animal welfare groups are apparently most concerned with high school students experimenting with animals in extracurricular projects. Barbara Orlans, President of the Scientists’ Center for Animal Welfare, said that students have been performing surgery at random, testing known poisonous substances, and running other pathology experiments on animals without even knowing normal physiology.
At one science fair, a student cut off the leg and tail of a lizard to demonstrate that only the tail can regenerate, she said. In another case, a student bound sparrows, starved the
A. the seriousness of animal abuse in the classroom is unknown.
B. training teachers in animal care may contribute to reducing animal abuse.
C. fewer animals have been used in experiments in recent years.
D. many biology teachers are not trained in proper care of animal.