As for how much of IQ comes from the genes and how much come from experiences,______.A．sci

antage in a large part due to

A．inefficient advertising.

B．underrated slogan.

C．medium handicap.

D．rampant dishonesty.

The phrase "free of their freedom" (Line 3, Paragraph1) can be paraphrased as ______

A．released from responsibility.

B．getting rid of their freedom.

C．gaining absolute freedom.

D．free from being controlled.

So little______about mathematics that the lecture was completely beyond me.

A．I knew

B．did I know

C．I know

D．do I know

I like watching TV______ to the cinema.

A．more than to go

B．than going

C．rather than to go

D．more than going

______ we shall go out for a picnic on Monday.

A．Weather permits

B．Weather permitted

C．Weather permitting

D．With weather to permit

dents to help a student who is suffering from a severe disease. Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use "The Students Union" instead. You do not need to write the address.

y a society is grossly inaccurate, its education system will betray its youth. Imagine an Indian tribe which for centuries has sailed its dugouts on the river at its doorstep. During all this time the economy and culture of the tribe have depended upon fishing, preparing and cooking the products of the river, growing food in soil fertilized by the river, building boats and appropriate tools. (47)So long as the rate of technological change in such a community stays slow, so long as no wars, invasions, epidemics or other natural disasters upset the even rhythm of life, it is simple for the tribe to formulate a workable image of its own future, since tomorrow merely repeats yesterday. It is from this image that education flows. Schools may not even exist in the tribe; yet there is a curriculum—a cluster of skills, values and rituals to be learned. Boys are taught to scrape bark and hollow out trees, just as their ancestors did before them. The teacher in such a system knows what he is doing, secure in the knowledge that tradition of the past—will work in the future. (48)What happens to such a tribe, however, when it pursues its traditional methods unaware that five hundred miles upstream men are constructing a gigantic dam that will dry up their branch of the river? Suddenly the tribes image of the future, the set of assumptions on which its members base their present behavior, becomes dangerously misleading. Tomorrow will not replicate today. The tribal investment in preparing its children to live in a river culture becomes a pointless and potentially tragic waste. A false image of the future destroys the relevance of the education effort. This is our situation today. Only it is we, ironically, not some distant strangers who are building the dam that will annihilate the culture of the present. (49)Never before has any culture subjected itself to so intense and prolonged a bombardment of technological, social, and info psychological change. (50)This change is accelerating and we witness everywhere in the high: technology societies evidence that the old industrial-era structures can no longer carry out their functions.

The author tries to convince us that______.

A．the purely economic rationale for college is not as compelling as it once was

B．college education paves the way for future success

C．a college diploma is the prerequisite credential for better jobs

D．higher education faces an unforeseeable future

In the narration of the first two paragraphs, the author employs the device of ______.

A．comparison

B．inversion

C．contrast

D．omission

What does the sentence "The reverse now appears to be true" ( Lines 6~7, Para. 7) mean?

A．Now the number of newly arrived illegal immigrants outnumbers those legally entering the U.S.

B．Now the number of newly arrived legal immigrants outnumbers those illegally entering the U.S.

C．The past statistics are not true.

D．Now there are more illegal immigrants than those legal ones in the U.S.