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听力原文： Governments throughout the world make public reports about the condition of their economics. Most do this by measuring the value of their countries' yearly production of goods and services. Some countries including the Unites States have used a measure called the "gross national product" or GNP. It includes all goods and services produced by citizens of the country anywhere in the world. Recently the American Commerce Department began using a new method to measure production. The new method is known as the "gross domestic product" or GDP, It counts only goods and services that have been produced within the nation's borders. Earnings by foreign-owned companies operating in the United States are included in the GDP. But earnings of American companies operating in other countries are not. Economic experts generally approve of the change. They say the gross domestic product provides a truer measure of the economy. They also note that most other industrial countries use this method. Therefore, they say, it will be easier to study the economies of different countries. Some officials also say the new system will help them to make better economic policy decisions. They say it will provide them with a clear understanding of economic activity in the United States. The new measure, officials say, is less likely to be affected by sadden changes in foreign oil prices or in the value of the American dollar in other countries. Economic experts say the changes from GNP to GDP reduces the value of American production by at least 40,000 million dollars a year, but that is really a very small change in the American economy, less than one percent.

According to this passage, what is exactly GDP?

A．It's a new method to measure a country's production.

B．It's a way to study the economies of different countries.

C．It's a new system to help make economic decisions.

D．It's a means to understand a country's economic changes.

Pillow.com is an online booking______ for boutique hotels throughout the world.

A．agency

B．charity

C．activity

D．practice

Schools throughout the world are experiencing a period of rapid change and, in many cases, are finding that extremely【M1】______ difficult to achieve a balance among a number of critical concerns. Some of the issues that educators and schools are facing include certainty about what academic and cultural knowledge and skills【M2】______ will be needed by students in the future, wholesale revisions of curricula, experimentation in teaching strategies, the need for teachers and students to become aware and competent in using【M3】______ new technologies, dramatic changes in bureaucratic and legislating【M4】______ policies and regulations, and increased demands on teachers. With the exception of the education system in the United States, perhaps no education system has been studied more【M5】______ intensively than of Japan. In 2001, in a well-balanced presentation【M6】______ of the Japanese model of schooling, including its similarities to and fro differences with that in the United States, Tsuneyoshi【M7】______ characterized the American approach to education as one that places an emphasis on competitiveness, individual attention from teachers along with individual accomplishment on the part of students, development of cognitive abilities, and separation of teachers in terms of their disciplines. In contrary, the Japanese【M8】______ approach(particularly at the elementary school level)focuses on the "whole child"; close interactions between teachers and pupils for long periods of time in cooperative settings with attention to collected goals, tasks, and rewards; and efforts to provide the same【M9】______ or very similar treatment for all students. One advantage of the American approach that is seriously missed in the Japanese【M10】______ approach is the formers attention to diversity and a sensitivity and concern for minority rights.

【M1】

Although he designed buildings throughout the world, he was perhaps best known for his work in Japan.

A．尽管他所设计的建筑遍布世界各地，但他最为人熟知的作品可能还是在日本。

B．虽然他的建筑设计作品遍布全球，但是最了解他作品的可能还是日本人民。

C．尽管他曾为世界上很多地方设计过建筑，但其最好的作品可能还是在日本。

D．虽然作为一名建筑设计师他曾在世界各地工作过，但是他最了解的还是日本的情况。