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A.Well, I wonder whether the recent layoffs are affecting the quality of our customer service
B.What do you think? But I have no idea?
C.That' s the client' s own problem, I guess
What is the minimum value of H(p1,…,pn)=H(P) as P ranges over the set of n-dimensional probability vectors？ Find all P's which achieve the minimum.
The writer is mainly talking about ______.
A．a person's living space needs
B．building and floors
C．equipment and conditions
D．population and violence
A.Servers
B.Routers and switches
C.Databases
D.Firewall types
Property at cost (useful life 15 years) $45 million
Accumulated depreciation $6 million
On 1 April 2014, Dune decided to sell the property. The property is being marketed by a property agent at a price of $42 million, which was considered a reasonably achievable price at that date. The expected costs to sell have been agreed at $1 million. Recent market transactions suggest that actual selling prices achieved for this type of property in the current market conditions are 10% less than the price at which they are marketed.At 30 September 2014 the property has not been sold.
At what amount should the property be reported in Dune’s statement of financial position as at 30 September 2014？
A、$36 million
B、$37·5 million
C、$36·8 million
D、$42 million
The company’s total fixed production overheads are budgeted to be $72 million each year and total machine hours are budgeted to be 96 million hours. The company absorbs overheads on a machine hour basis.
What is the budgeted life-cycle cost per unit for product P？
A.$24·40
B.$25·73
C.$27·40
D.$22·73
根据以下内容回答题:Happiness can be described as a positive mood and a pleasant state of m
根据以下内容回答题:
Happiness can be described as a positive mood and a pleasant state of mind． According to recent polls sixty to seventy percent of Americans consider themselves to be moderately happy and one in twenty persons feels very unhappy．Psychologists have been study-ing the factors that contribute to happiness．It is not predictable nor is a person in an apparently ideal situation necessarily happy．The ideal situation may have little to do with his actual feel-ings． A good education and income are usually considered necessary for happiness．Though both may contribute，they are only chief factors if the person is seriously under-educated or actually suffering from lack of physical needs． The rich are not likely to be happier than the middle-income group or even those with very low incomes．People with college educations are somewhat happier than those who did not gra-duate from high school，and it is believed that this is mainly because they have more opportuni-ty to control their lives．Yet people with a high income and a college education may be less happy than those with the same income and no college education． Poor health does not rule out happiness except for the severely debilitated or those in pain．Learning to cope with a health problem can contribute to happiness．Those with a good sex lifeare happier in general，but those who have a loving affectionate relationship are happier than those who rely on sex alone．Love has a higher correlation with happiness than any other factor． It should be noted that people quickly get used to what they have，and they are happiest when they feel they are increasing their level no matter where it stands at a given time． Children whose parents were happily married have happier childhoods but are not nece—ssarily happier adults． The best formula for happiness is to be able to develop the ability to tolerate frustration，to have a personal involvement and commitment，and to develop self-confidence and self-esteem．
According to the article，happiness is greatly dependent upon（） ．
A.happy childhood
B.great wealth
C.a feeling that conditions are improving over what they were
D.a college degree
Homeschooling
Just in last year, more than one million children in the United States chose homeschooling but not traditional school education.This surprising figure was published by the National Center for Education Statistics.Homeschooling is a recent development in education.Not very long ago, it was still considered to be too radical by many education experts.Today, it has been accepted n almost every state.Thousands or even millions of children have tried homeschooling and many more parents are seriously considering it.The interesting thing was what led to such a change.There have been many recent surveys to show that parents are getting impatient and fed up with our public schooling system because it doesn't teach children any practical or real-life skills.
Parents are also concerned about the negative news from schools.For example, some students take drugs in schools, fight with schoolmates and even bring guns and knives to school.Parents are deeply worried about how the behavior. of these students would affect their children's healthy growth.
Homeschooling, on the other hand, allows parents to bring up their children in a natural and loving environment.It is especially important in the early years of the children's development (between three and twelve years old) because this is the period when they are easily affected by negative influences and peer pressure.And during this time most of them cannot tell what is right and what is wrong.Obviously, homeschooling can keep them from some of these bad influences.
Homeschooling has some other benefits, Since parents and children spend more time together, a nice relationship or a stronger bond can be formed between them.This bond can connect with them closer than they have ever thought before.If parents choose homeschooling, they can easily pass their moral values and beliefs on to their children since they stay together longer or maybe they are even the teachers themselves.
So what major factors are stopping parents from adopting homeschooling？ One important thing is that homeschooling costs a lot of time and money.For most families, both parents have to work full-time to support the family.Many homeschooling families depend on one parent for the income, while the other parent has to spend all the time on teaching the child.Therefore in some cases, it is not possible to adopt homeschooling if the family doesn't have stable income.
To help and guide homeschooling families, more and more homeschooling support groups are appearing in the neighborhood.Some have even gone online.If parents do decide to choose homeschooling, they can always get advice from a homeschooling support group.
Read this passage carefully and choose the best answer to each of the following questions
21.What did many American education experts think of the new trend of homeschooling______
A.They thought it to be a too much revolutionary idea
B.They believed that this trend would develop very fast
C.They encouraged parents to support the new idea of education
D.They hoped that governments would provide more support
22.A growing number of American parents have been accepting and choosing homeschooling as They ______.
A.realized that homeschooling is the only best way to develop their children
B.have found more and more weak points in the public education system
C.thought that public schools can spoil talents more than train them
D.began to realize that public school educators are not worth trusting
23.What do parents try to avoid in educating the kids in their early years______
A.Giving their children less knowledge from books
B.The negative effect from some bad news at school
C.Hiring non-professional educators to teach their children
D.The natural environment for their children to grow in
24.All the following except______are the main advantages brought forth by homeschooling
A.Students got more actively involved in social or community activities
B.Parents invest more time and energy in developing their children
C.Children benefit more from homeschooling than from public schools
D.The environment for learning is much better for children's healthy growth
25.When parents decide to choose homeschooling, they have to consider carefully the following major factors except the______.
A.time and energy parents have to invest
B.environment for children to learn and interact
C.Stable Income to afford the cost for children's learning
D.relationship between their children and other students
Satellites have enabled immediate reporting worldwide.A reporter can send the news to a network like CBS News and within seconds it can be all over the world.They send electronic reports that go straight into the newspaper or onto the TV screen.Reporters can now also transmit images through their mobile phones.Consequently, live, “on-the-spot” reporting has become the norm and TV viewers can get a much better idea of what a natural disaster, a conflict or an interesting scientific discovery is like.
In recent years, several changes have occurred in the ownership of news media.Networks owned by large companies and governments have become bigger and very powerful.These networks – such as BBC News 24–are hungry for news and have huge audiences.However, there can only be a limited number of such networks and their ownership is a big issue.
Some companies not only own TV and radio networks but newspaper groups as well.Who decides what news to publish and what sort of “spin” to put on it？ Is it always objective？ There are now “spin doctors” who manipulate the news,emphasising certain parts and not others – and as a result, much of it is not neutral.Therefore, the question of control of the media matters very much.In some cases, the media companies are more powerful than governments.They can even influence elections.So the question is – should they be controlled and if so, by whom？
1.Immediate reporting has become possible all over the world because of().
A.reporters
B.the use of news networks
C.the use of satellites
D.the communications revolution
2.()has become the norm.
A.Electronic reports
B.Instant news
C.Live reporting
D.Transmitting images through mobile phones
3.In what ways are media companies powerful？ ()
A.They can influence elections in some way
B.Nowadays, the manipulation of news reports is possible
C.They not only own TV and radio networks but newspaper groups as well
D.All of the above
4.According to the passage, the big issue is ().
A.ownership of news networks
B.that there can only be a limited number of such networks like BBC News 24
C.that networks owned by large companies and governments have become bigger and very powerful
D.that the news reporting is manipulated by big companies
5.What can be inferred from this passage？ ().
A.The disadvantages of the communications revolution outweigh its advantages
B.We should put the question of control of the media on the agenda
C.The news reporting has always been objective
D.A reporter can send news directly to the audiences all over the world
Six Potential Brain Benefits of Bilingual Education
A) Brains，brains，brains. People are fascinated by brain research. And yet it can be hard to point to places where our education system is really making use of the latest neuroscience(神经科学) findings.But there is one happy link where research is meeting practice: bilingual(双语的)education.“In thelast 20 years or so，there's been a virtual explosion of research on bilingualism,”says Judith Kroll，aprofessor at the University of California，Riverside.
B)Again and again，researchers have found，“ bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life,”in the words of Gigi Luk，an associate professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Atthe same time，one of the hottest trends in public schooling is what's often called dual-language or two-way immersion programs.
C)Traditional programs for English-language learners，or ELLs，focus on assimilating students into
English as quickly as possible. Dual-language classrooms，by contrast，provide instruction acrosssubjects to both English natives and English learners，in both English and a target languagc. The goal isfunctional bilingualism and biliteracy for all students by middle school. New York City，NorthCarolina，Delaware，Utah，Oregon and Washington state are among the places expanding dual-language classrooms.
D)The trend flies in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago，when advocates insisted on “English first”education.Most famously，California passed Proposition 227 in 1998. It was intendedto sharply reduce the amount of time that English-language learners spent in bilingual settings.Proposition 58，passed by California voters on November 8，largely reversed that decision，paving theway for a huge expansion of bilingual education in the state that has the largest population of English-language learners.
E) Some of the insistence on English-first was founded on research produced decades ago，in which bilingual students underperformed monolingual(单语的)English speakers and had lower IQ scores.Today's scholars，like Ellen Bialystok at York University in Toronto，say that research was “deeplyflawed.”“Earlier research looked at socially disadvantaged groups,”agrees Antonella Sorace at theUniversity of Edinburgh in Scotland.“This has been completely contradicted by recent rescarch”thatcompares groups more similar to each other.
F) So what does recent research say about the potential benefits of bilingual education？ It turns out that, in many ways，the real trick to speaking two languages consists in managing not to speak one of thoselanguages at a given moment—which is fundamentally a feat of paying attention. Saying “Goodbye”tomom and then“Guten tag”to your teacher，or managing to ask for a crayola roja instead of a redcrayon(蜡笔)，requires skills called “inhibition”and“task switching.”These skills are subsets of anability called executive function.
G) People who speak two languages often outperform. monolinguals on general measures of executive function.“Bilinguals can pay focused attention without being distracted and also improve in the abilityto switch from one task to another,”says Sorace.
H) Do these same advantages benefit a child who begins learning a second language in kindergarten instead of as a baby？ We don't yet know.Patterns of language learning and language use are complex. ButGigi Luk at Harvard cites at least one brain-imaging study on adolescents that shows similar changes inbrain structure when compared with those who are bilingual from birth，even when they didn't beginpracticing a second language in earnest before late childhood.
l) Young children being raised bilingual have to follow social cues to figure out which language to use with which person and in what setting.As a result，says Sorace，bilingual children as young as age 3 havedemonstrated a head start on tests of perspective-taking and theory of mind—both of which arefundamental social and emotional skills.
J) About 10 percent of students in the Portland，Oregon public schools are assigned by lottery to dual-language classrooms that offer instruction in Spanish，Japanese or Mandarin，alongside English.Jennifer Steele at American University conducted a four-year，randomized trial and found that thesedual-language students outperformed their peers in English-reading skills by a full school-year's worthof learning by the end of middle school. Because the effects are found in reading，not in math orscience where there were few differences，Steele suggests that learning two languages makes studentsmore aware of how language works in general.
K) The research of Gigi Luk at Harvard offers a slightly different explanation. She has recently done a small study looking at a group of 100 fourth-graders in Massachusetts who had similar reading scores ona standard test，but very different language experiences.Some were foreign-language dominant andothers were English natives.Here's what's interesting.The students who were dominant in a foreignlanguage weren't yet comfortably bilingual;they were just starting to learn English.Therefore，bydefinition，they had a much weaker English vocabulary than the native speakers. Yet they were just asgood at interpreting a text.“This is very surprising,”Luk says.“ You would expect the readingcomprehension performance to mirror the vocabulary—it's a cornerstonc of comprehension.”
L) How did the foreign-language dominant speakers manage this feat？ Well，Luk found，they also scored higher on tests of executive functioning.So，even though they didn't have huge mental dictionaries todraw on，they may have been great puzzle-solvers，taking into account higher-level concepts such aswhether a single sentence made sense within an overall story line. They got to the same results as themonolinguals，by a different path.
M)American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class.Dual-language programs can be an exception.Because they are composed of native English speakersdeliberately placed together with recent immigrants，they tend to be more ethnically and economicallybalanced. And therc is some evidence that this helps kids of all backgrounds gain comfort withdiversity and different cultures.
N) Several of the researchers also pointed out that，in bilingual education，non-English-dominant students and their families tend to feel that their home language is heard and valued，compared with aclassroom where the home language is left at the door in favor of English. This can improve students'sense of belonging and increase parents’ involvement in their children's education，including behaviorslike reading to children.“Many parents fear their language is an obstacle，a problem，and if theyabandon it their child will integrate better,”says Antonella Sorace of the University of Edinburgh.“We tell them they're not doing their child a favor by giving up their language.”
O)One theme that was striking in speaking to all these researchers was just how strongly they advocated for dual-language classrooms.Thomas and Collier have advised many school systems on how to expandtheir dual-language programs，and Sorace runs“Bilingualism Matters,”an international network ofresearchers who promote bilingual education projects. This type of advocacy among scientists isunusual;even more so because the "bilingual advantage hypothesis”is being challenged once again.
P) Areview of studies published last year found that cognitive advantages failed to appear in 83 percent of published studics，though in a separate analysis，the sum of effects was still significantly positive.Onepotential explanation offered by the researchers is that advantages that are measurable in the veryyoung and very old tend to fade when testing young adults at the peak of their cognitive powers.And,they countered that no negative effects of bilingual education have been found. So，even if theadvantagcs are small，they are still worth it. Not to mention one obvious，outstanding fact:"Bilingualchildren can speak two languages!”
36. A study found that there are similar changes in brain structure between those who are bilingual from birth and those who start learning a second language later.
37. Unlike traditional monolingual programs，bilingual classrooms aim at developing students’ ability touse two languages by middle school.
38.A study showed that dual-language students did significantly better than their peers in reading Englishtcxts.
39.About twenty years ago，bilingual practice was strongly discouraged，especially in California.
40. Ethnically and economically balanced bilingual classrooms are found to be helpful for kids to get usedto social and cultural diversity.
41.Researchers now claim that earlier research on bilingual education was seriously flawed.
42. According to a researcher，dual-language experiences exert a lifelong influence on one's brain.
43. Advocates of bilingual education argued that it produces positive effects though they may be limited.44. Bilingual speakers often do better than monolinguals in completing certain tasks 41.
45. When their native language is used，parents can become more involved in their children's education.
