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It was graduation day at the university where I work and a beautiful day quite unlike the first graduation I attended as a young professor. On that cold day years ago, as we watched the students walking into the hall, one of my colleagues turned to me and said, "Graduation will be one of the happiest and one of the saddest time of your life." At my inquiry, he answered, "Because the students you have gotten to know have to leave."

As years went by, my previous confusion about my colleague's words no longer existed. When I came across naughty students, I have had to rethink why I chose to be a teacher. It obviously isn't the money. Once a former computer science student of mine called me, asking me if I wanted to have a change. He was working at Nintendo Corporation. His salary was higher than my current one, though I have more education and have worked for over a decade. With my programming skills, he said he could get me hired. I thanked him, but declined his kind offer.

A few days before this current graduation, while working on final grades, I found a note a student had slipped in with her homework. She thanked me for being her teacher and said the things she had learned in my class — not about math, but about life — would be things she would remember long after the math skills had faded away. As I finished reading, I remembered why I had become a teacher.

Now, on this sunny graduation day, as I again observed the sea of blue hats and gowns, I did so with renewed dedication (奉献) and a deeper sense of satisfaction — I will always be grateful that I am a teacher.

小题1:Hearing his colleague's description of graduation for the first time, the author         .

A.quite agreed with his colleague

B.thought it very funny

C.was very puzzled

D.was very sad.小题2:The computer science student called up the author because he         .  

A.wanted to inform the author of his present job

B.tried to persuade the author to work with him

C.wanted the author to share his joy and satisfaction

D.thought the author wasn't fit to be a teacher小题3:The underlined part blue hats and gowns refers to         .  

A.university colleagues

B.life memories

C.graduates' clothes

D.decorations in the hall小题4:The author wrote this passage to         .  

A.express his devotion to being a teacher

B.compare two different graduation ceremonies

C.talk about the meaning of graduation

D.give advice on how to be a good teacher小题5:The reason why he earns less than the computer science student is that         

A.he was only a young professor

B.he didn't do well in his work

C.he taught his students more about life than math

D.salaries for different careers are different

答案

小题1:C

小题2:B

小题3:C

小题4:A

小题5:D

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     Language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the

language does not change, either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited

vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English

and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all new plants and

animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish

vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.

     There are several major language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families,

but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think

that they came from the same parent language About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages

that are not in these major families.

1. The early language had ______.

A. a lot of problems

B. words and easy grammar

C. words but no grammar

D. grammar but not many words

2. In the next few hundred years we can expect language to ______.

A. stay exactly the same

B. change a great deal

C. change only a little

D. add more words and drop some grammar

3. What this article shows is that ______.

A. languages change fast

B. languages really don't want to change

C. language changes with changes of society

D. Spanish and English change

4. From this article we can see that ______.

A. language can change very slowly or very quickly

B. if we don't change, then our language won't change, either

C. we should give our plants new names

D. English and Spanish are the only languages that have changes