The UK’s exports of services to China far exceed China’s exports of services to the UK.

China's exports to the ( ) zone increased by 48.6 per cent year on year to US$16.33 billion in the first four months of this year.在今年的前四个月里中国对欧元区的出口商品额达到了163.3亿美元，比去年同期增长了48.6%。

A、euro

B、money

C、dollar

D、pounds

The passage gives examples of some typical bloggers to describe blogging as a new way of online performance.

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

The passage cites examples of scholars in the following fields EXCEPT ______ .

A．philosophy

B．anthropology

C．psychology

D．chemistry

Sex Change Surgery Guidelines Drafted

China is set to issue its first clinical guideline on sex-change surgery, according to a notice put on the website of the Ministry of Health yesterday. The ministry is now soliciting public and professional______【51】on the draft guideline. The coming guideline aims to regulate and standardize sex reassignment surgery, part of a treatment for gender identity disorder in transsexuals.

Experts______【52】nearly 2,000 Chinese have undergone sex-change surgery while 100,000 to 400,000 are still considering it. However, no official number is available. In the draft, the MOH sets minimum ______【53】for both surgical candidates and medical institutions.

Candidates for the surgery must be older than 20 and single, the draft guideline said.

They are also required to prove a persistent______【54】for a sex change, to live for at least five consecutive years full-time in the new gender role, and to engage mental therapy for at least one year.

Before surgery can take place, a candidate must receive a recommendation for the operation from a______【55】after an appropriate series of therapy sessions. Also, several legal requirements must be met______【56】the procedure. The candidate must provide proof from police that he or she has does not have any criminal______【57】in the past.

Police must also agree to change the sex status on the identity card of the receiver before the______【58】can take place.

The advent of such a guideline is believed to show that the government is concerned ______【59】the needs of a relatively small number of people who want to change sex.

But doctors also warn______【60】all stakeholders, including the hospital and prospective receivers, should be highly cautious about this surgery.

The operation is more than a medical______【61】due to its huge social and legal consequences. Doctors should make it clear to those______【62】sex-change surgeries that the option always remains to continue to live in the original role. The guideline ______【63】surgeons to tell patients about other options such as hormone therapy.

They are also required to explain the______【64】involved, and underlying social barriers including discrimination, and administrative recognition and approval.

For the candidates, the surgery itself is not the______【65】issue in the long run. The real issue is the kind of life he or she will have to lead afterward.

(51)

A．policies

B．places

C．opinions

D．services

A．To argue that wind farms should not be built along ridge lines

B．¨To point out that the deaths of migratory birds exceed the deaths of birds of prey

C．¨To explain why some environmentalists oppose wind energy

D．¨To suggest that wind turbines result in relatively few bird deaths

1 In proposed changes to Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education, the Bush administration wants to encourage creation of single-sex public schools and classes.

2 Our studies of sexism in America's education system have praised private single-sex schools because they offer the promise that education can transform. the future of girls. Girls who attend these schools speak more freely in class, are more likely to major in math and science, and perhaps most encouraging, are more likely to attend college and graduate school.

3 So, given our past support for single-sex schools, you might expect us to be real cheerleaders for the new Bush administration plan.

4 But we are not cheering.

5 There is a right way and a wrong way to explore educational innovation, and the Bush administration has chosen the latter. Congress and the public should stop it before the real problems begin.

6 The No Child Left Behind Act promises to avoid fads and to build educational programs based on scientific evidence and research. But, for public single-sex education, the Bush administration has decided we can skip the evidence. This proposal ignores sound educational policy, and is particularly troubling considering that the effectiveness of single sex education in public schools—which involve different factors from private schools—has yet to be carefully studied.

7 What we applauded in private single-sex schools was not their gender uniformity, but their educational practices. Many educators, including us, attribute much of the academic successes of these private schools to their smaller class sizes, engaged parents, well-trained teachers, and strong academic emphasis. Other educators believe that single-sex schools work less well for boys than for girls, or that only boys from low-income families benefit. Still others believe such schools may intensify gender stereotypes and homophobia. But so far, the Bush plan does not address these factors.

8 This is not the first time single-sex schooling has emerged as a quick fix. Pete Wilson, the former Republican governor of California, tried the same thing in the late 1990s, and even sweetened the pot by providing some extra funds to school districts willing to experiment with single-sex schools. A half-dozen created their own single-sex academies.

9 Did students benefit from the experiment? It's hard to say, because—like the Bush proposal—planning and evaluation were absent. California provided no training for teachers and no clear rationale for the changes, and within a few years most of these schools returned to coeducation. There were anecdotal reports that the girls enjoyed being in an environment free of sexual harassment and classroom interruptions, while the boys' schools degenerated into a disciplinary disaster, becoming little more than magnets for troubled youth. The California experiment was a valuable lesson in how not to go about educational change—a lesson this administration has chosen to ignore.

10 What the authors of these proposed changes seem to have forgotten is that Title IX is not an educational option, it is a civil rights protection. While Title IX currently permits select single-sex classes—in physical education or to remedy past discrimination, for example—it doesn't allow schools to segregate students arbitrarily.

11 There are powerful reasons for this. Whenever groups have been segregated, the least-valued group has ended up with fewer resources and fewer opportunities. Historically that has been a costly lesson for girls (and African-Americans and the poor). The proposed changes do not require equal treatment or equal facilities, but only "substantially equal" programs. As the proposal now stands, a school could provide a single

A．private single-sex schools are welcome

B．single-sex schools involve sex discrimination

C．math and science are majors for boys and girls alike

D．the changes proposed by Bush administration are encouraging

There are exceptions to the rule of male insects being smaller than the females, and some of these exceptions are intelligible. Size and strength would be an advantage to the males which fight for the possession of the females, and in these cases, as with the stag-beetle (Lucanus), the males are larger than the females. There are, however, other beetles which are not known to fight together, of which the males exceed the females in size, and the meaning of this fact is not known, but in some of these cases, as with the huge Dynastes and Megasoma, we can at least see that there would be no necessity for the males to be smaller than the females, in order to be matured before them, for these beetles are not short-lived, and there would be ample time for the pairing of the sexes.

According to the author, ______.

A．male insects are always smaller than females

B．in a given species nature provides differences between sexes to insure successful reproduction

C．size and strength protect females from other females

D．longevity is characteristic of the Dynastes and Megasoma

There are exceptions to the rule of male insects being smaller than the females, and some of these exceptions are intelligible. Size and strength would be an advantage to the males which fight for the possession of the females, and in these cases, as with the stag-beetle (Lucanus), the males are larger than the females. There are, however, other beetles which are not known to fight together, of which the males exceed the females in size, and the meaning of this fact is not known, but in some of these cases, as with the huge Dynastes and Megasoma, we can at least see that there would be no necessity for the males to be smaller than the females, in order to be matured before them, for these beetles are not short-lived, and there would be ample time for the pairing of the sexes.

According to the author, ______.

A．male insects are always smaller than females

B．in a given species nature provides differences between sexes to insure successful reproduction

C．size and strength protect females from other females

D．longevity is characteristic of the Dynastes and Megasoma

All of the following are reasons of slow-paced reform. of postal services EXCEPT

A．preference to letter writing.

B．disapproval of open markets.

C．attachment to monopolies.

D．technological problems of postal services.

In a family where the roles of women and men are not sharply separated, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this【B1】______leads to further sharing. In such a home, the【B2】______boy and girl learn to【B3】______the equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for【B4】______in a world characterized by cooperation【B5】______by the "battle of the sexes". 【B6】______the process goes too far and mans role is regarded as【B7】______important and that has happened in some cases—we are badly off as before, only【B8】______reverse. It is time to【B9】______the role of the American family. We are getting tired of "Momism" but we dont want to【B10】______it for a "neo-Popism". What we need, rather, is【B11】______that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that experts on the family are【B12】______of the part men play and that they have decided that woman should not receive all the【B13】______—nor all the blame. We have almost【B14】______saying that a womans place is in the home. We are beginning,【B15】______, to analyze mens place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place【B16】______to the healthy development of the child. The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to【B17】______rules, because each family needs to work to its own ways for【B18】______its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy【B19】______, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the【B20】______of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy democracy, but also with a healthy family.

【B1】

A．by turns

B．in turn

C．at length

D．in fact