into __48__ evening wear and cloaks by Chinese tailors and seamstresses.
Today there is a culturally diverse Chinese __49__ in Australia with links to south-eastern China as well as Vietnam and Hong Kong. The Chinese communities in Australia are brought together every year by __50__ of Lunar New Year.
III. Reading Comprehension Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
New Tech Network, a new education organization, strives to ensure all students have the skills, knowledge, and attributes they need to thrive in post-secondary education, career and civic life.
New Tech Network cooperates with district leaders, administrators, and teachers who share a common purpose: to provide an education in which students acquire knowledge and develop skills vital to __51__ in the post-secondary path of their choosing. The New Tech design is simply a blueprint, __52__ a set of core beliefs, tools, and strategies to help each school fulfill its purpose. New Tech design principles provide for an __53__ approach centered on project-based learning, a culture that enables students and teachers, and the use of technology in the classroom. Through extensive professional development, personalized coaching, and access to Echo, New Tech Network, a learning __54__ system, enables principals, teachers, and students to develop relevant and meaningful learning communities. TEACHING THAT ENGAGES
A K-12 Pathway
Through project-based learning, internships（见习期）, dual enrollment, and other experiences in New Tech schools, students are well __55__ post-secondary pursuits. __56__, New Tech Network has worked with public school districts to redesign high schools. More recently, however, New Tech Network is partnering with several school districts to __57__ New Tech middle schools and elementary schools. In some districts, this provides students with a K-12 pathway. In elementary and middle schools, the design principles are the same—teaching that engages, culture that empowers, and technology that enables. As the elementary and middle schools mature, New Network will measure success on student __58__.
Learning __59__
The years spent in a New Tech school allow students to gain the academic and deeper learning skills necessary for success in any post-secondary option. New Tech students learn disciplinary knowledge and skills to conduct inquiry and solve real-world problems. Throughout a project, they cooperate with peers, facilitators, and experts in the field. Students __60__ their learning through effective oral and written communication for authentic audiences.
Ownership of their learning experience and engagement in relevant and challenging tasks helps students develop a sense of agency, a skill essential to success in __61__, career, and civic duty.
Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning is at the heart of New Tech Network?s instructional approach. Students cooperate on projects, ranging in __62__ from two to eight weeks, which require critical thinking and communication. Projects often occur in integrated subject area courses, where Entry Events, the Need-to-Know (NTK) process, and skill building workshops support student-centred learning. During projects, students often engage with subject matter experts who provide feedback on real-world products. Through project-based learning, students not only master __63__ content, but also successfully apply content when solving authentic problems.
__64__ -Based Internships
New Tech students also engage in experiences designed to prepare them for success in the contemporary workplace. By cooperating with others on projects, students acquire a level of responsibility similar to a __65__ work environment. Students engage with field experts and community stakeholders(利益相关者) during projects, and final products are presented to authentic audiences. Additionally, two-thirds of New Tech high schools offer such practical activities, with nearly half of all seniors participating.
51. A. success B. rescue C. survival D. reform 52. A. owing to B. getting rid of C. depending on D. accompanied by 53. A. intermediate B. intelligent C. instructional D. informative 54. A. innovation B. requirement C. management D. negotiation 55. A. related to B. prepared for C. classified by D. compared with 56. A. Accidentally B. Accordingly C. Absolutely D. Historically 57. A. evaluate B. observe C. connect D. create 58. A. teaching B. learning C. engaging D. developing 59. A. Problems B. Outcomes C. Strategies D. Discipline 60. A. demonstrate B. promote C. highlight D. motivate 61. A. elementary schools B. middle schools
C. high schools D. college 62. A. length B. courses C. topics D. targets 63. A. advanced B. academic C. complex D. adequate 64. A. Network B. Workshop C. Community D. College 65. A. permanent B. professional C. popular D. familiar
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Rosalind Franklin always liked facts. She was logical and precise, and impatient with things that were otherwise. She decided to become a scientist when she was 15. She passed the examination for admission to Cambridge University in 1938, and it sparked a family crisis. Although her family
was well-to-do and had a tradition of public service and charity, her father disapproved of university education for women. He refused to pay. An aunt stepped in and said Franklin should go to school, and she would pay for it. Franklin?s mother also took her side until her father finally gave in.
She was invited to King?s College in London to join a team of scientists. The leader of the team assigned her to work on DNA with a graduate student. Franklin?s assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory?s second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the time, and when he returned, their relationship was puzzling. He assumed she was to assist his
work; she assumed she?d be the only one working on DNA. They had powerful personality differences as well: Franklin direct, quick, decisive, and Wilkins shy, hesitant, and passive.
In 1953, Wilkins changed the course of DNA history by disclosing, without Franklin?s permission, her Photo 51 to competing scientist James Watson, who was working on his own DNA model with Francis Crick at Cambridge. Upon seeing the photograph, Watson said, “My jaw fell open and my pulse began to race,” according to author Brenda Maddox who wrote the book Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA.
The two scientists did in fact use what they saw in Photo 51 as the basis for their famous model of DNA, which they published on March 7, 1953, and for which they received a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick and Watson were also able to take most of the credit for the finding: they included a footnote acknowledging that they were “stimulated by a general knowledge” of Franklin?s and Wilkin?s unpublished contribution, when much of their work was rooted in Franklin?s photo and findings. Franklin didn?t know that these men based their article on her research, and she didn?t complain either, likely as a result of her upbringing. Franklin “didn?t do anything that would invite criticism… (that was) bred into her,” Maddox said.
66. Wilkins? relationship with Franklin was characterized by __________. A. unity and harmony B. confusion and competition C. cooperation and miscommunication D. misunderstanding and conflict 67. What does Watson mean by saying “My jaw fell open and my pulse began to race”? A. He was confused that Crick had not made this discovery.
B. He was surprised that Wilkins had discovered this information. C. He was satisfied with the importance of Photo 51.
D. He was anxious about the progress Wilkins and Franklin had made.
68. What is Brenda Maddox?s main intention according to the quote in the last paragraph? A. To re-evaluate the importance of the DNA model. B. To criticize King?s College and Cambridge. C. To emphasize Franklin?s importance in science.
D. To deny Watson?s and Crick?s contribution to science. 69. Franklin?s career as a scientist demonstrates _________. A. that her work was pointing at the most difficult problem B. that she was the only female scientist during the period C. the importance of DNA in modern science
D. that perseverance leads to success and recognition of field scientists
(B) Reviews Cultual Breaks by Brian Aldiss Reviewed by Paul Kincaid Brian Aldiss is an amazing and frustrating writer. When he is on song, his style is forceful, disturbing and delectable. But he is a restless writer. He came into his own in the enthusiastic and experimental atmosphere of the New Wave, and he has been driven to try the new and the different ever since. That he is still experimenting now, 50 years after his first appearance, is a measure of a man who has never been prepared to settle back on his laurels. The Secrets of Jin-Shei by Alma Alexander Reviewed by Donna McMahon With so many fantasy novels using European-derived settings and mythology, ancient China makes a refreshing change. The landscape is tempting and yet familiar enough to feel very real, and the author uses magic sparingly, in ways appropriate to her society. This and the complex detail put into the backdrop makes the novel feel very much like historical fiction. Straken by Terry Brooks Reviews by Nathan Brazil The third novel in the High Druid of Shannara series jumps straight back into the story where it left off. It continues the quest of unlikely hero Penderrin Ohmsford. Now equipped with the means to break in – and back out- of the Forbidding, where his aunt, the overthrown Ard Phys of Druids, is stranded, Pen must first get back to Paranor. His rescue attempt can only begin from within the chamber where Grianne Ohmsford disappeared. Unfortunately, this will deliver him straight into the hands of those responsible for his aunt?s disappearance.
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