3. Who was it that was strongly for the idea of having The Godfather Returns written and what was his job?
4. The reason why the author of The Godfather Returns is satisfied with the story is that . Keys:
1.What is the mainly purpose of writing the new fiction, The Godfather Returns? 答句：To cover what was not written in the original novel.
2. It was Random House publishers and the Puzo estate that had Mark Winegardner _________________________________.
答句：write the book called The Godfather Returns.
3. Who was it that was strongly for the idea of having The Godfather Returns written and what was his job?
答句：Mr. Karp, Mr. Puzo’s editor at Random House.
4.The reason why the author of The Godfather Returns is satisfied with the story is that __________________________________. 答句：most of the readers enjoy reading it.
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SectionＤ
Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.?
Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality, but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any sensible student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, famous reputation and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that's not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal arts university that doesn't even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren't studying science or engineering.
I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering ―factories‖ where they didn’t care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical genius and sensitive humanist all in one.
Now I’m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideals crashed into reality, as all noble ideals eventually do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile (协调) engineering with liberal arts courses in college.
The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as I assumed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways; together they threaten to confuse. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
1. What is the writer’s problem?
___________________________________________________________________________
2．I wanted to become a (an) ______________________________ in high school.
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3. Which sentence in the passage can best replace the following one?
With the belief in the privilege over others attending a large engineering department because of their ignorance of flexibility and value system, I went to a small liberal arts university.
__________________________________________________________________________
4. I chose to study engineering at a small liberal arts university because ____________________. Keys
1. Engineering and the liberal arts simply don't mix as easily as he assumed in high school. / He found it difficult to reconcile engineering and liberal arts.
2. an electrical engineer
3. I headed off to college sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering ―factories‖ where they didn’t care if you had values or were flexible.
解析：文中上述句子中的sure…对应所给句子中的with the belief；advantage over others attending engineering department对应privilege over those students who went to big engineering factories…；didn’t care if you had values or were flexible对应ignorance of flexibility and value system。
4. I wanted a broad education( that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my career)and I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision (by interacting with people who weren't studying science or engineering).
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SectionＤ
Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.?
In a time of low academic achievement by children in the United States, many Americans are turning to Japan, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find.
In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one investigation, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents listed ―to give children a good start academically‖ as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the American respondents chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japanese schools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as persistence, concentration, and the ability to function as a member of a group. The vast majority of young Japanese children are taught to read at home by their parents.
In the recent comparison of Japanese and American preschool education, 91 percent of Japanese respondents chose providing children with a group experience as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. Sixty-two percent of the more individually oriented Americans listed group experience as one of their top three choices. An emphasis on the importance of the group seen in Japanese early childhood education continues into elementary school education.
Like in America, there is diversity in Japanese early childhood education. Some Japanese kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and secondary schools. Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way of out for the heavy intellectualizing in some Japanese kindergartens.
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1. Japanese preschool education emphasizes not academic education, as many Americans had expected, but ____________________________________________.
2. What do most Americans surveyed hope their children to get in preschool education?
3. Free play has been introduced in some Japanese kindergartens in order to _________________ .
4. Why do Japanese parents send their children to university-based kindergartens?
Keys
1. shaping children’s character. 2. Group experience.
3. cultivate children’s creativity / be free from the heavy intellectualizing.
4. Because they believe that it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated schools and universities.
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