The family is the center of most traditional Asians’ lives. Many people worry about their families welfare, reputation, and honor. Asian families are often 1 , including several generations related by...
Music comes in many forms; most countries have a style of their own. __1__the turn of the century when jazz (爵士乐) was born, America had no prominent__2__of its own. No one knows exactly when jazz was_...
Directions:Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It ...
Every human being has unique arrangement of skin on his fingers and this arrangement is unchangeable. Scientists and experts have proved the 1 of finger-prints and discovered that no 2 similar pattern...
There was a time when big-league university presidents really mattered. The New York Times covered their every move. Presidents， the real ones， sought their counsel. For Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eise...
THESE HAVE BEEN THE ，BEST OF TIMES for many of the nation‘s top universities-and the worst of times for middle income families struggling to afford them. Thanks to a robust stock market， school endowm...
In the past few years， reformers have embraced a disarmingly simple idea for fixing schools： Why not actually flunk those students who don’t earn passing grades? Both Democrats and Republicans have be...
As colleges and universities send another wave of graduates out into the world this spring， thousands of other job seekers with liberal-arts degrees like Martin’s find themselves in a similar bind. Tr...
Amy High is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students： “Salvete， omnes!” (Hello， everyone!) The kids re...
One of the most important social developments that helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the effect of the baby boom of the 1950s and 1960s on the schools....