Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes, 40 points)

　　Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B,C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

　　Passage One

　　Don't have time to read anymore ? Now you can get free, quick literature via email. More than 100,000 people open their email each day to read a chapter of a book, through Chapter-A-Day, an online book club created two years ago. It's a free email service that provides a short daily reading for busy people, exposing them to literature they may not find on their own, inspiring some to recommit to the reading habit. About550 public library systems representing over 3,000 branch libraries already have signed up to offer Chapter-A-Day. Via email, participants get about five minutes' worth of reading every day. After three chapters are emailed, the installments stop, and those who want to keep reading can borrow the book at their public library or purchase it online.

　　Chapter-A-Day has eight free book clubs, and sells thousands of books each month. Chapter-A-Day started in 1999 when Suzanne Beecher, a lifelong book lover,

　　realized how many of the women who worked part-time for her software development company didn't have time in their busy lives to read. She decided to type part of a

　　chapter of a book, and send it to her employees through email. The next day she typed a little more, and continued to send literary installments each day. She says she started getting feedback from the staff about how reading made them feel. "They were

　　interested, and realized that, though they didn't have time in their busy lives for reading, just reading that little bit each day got them back in the habit". Realizing that many other people could benefit, she decided to take the idea even further and start an email "chapter-a-day" book club to help others ease their way back into daily reading. "Reading makes changes in people's lives." Beecher says.

　　Pat Dempsey, a librarian at a public library in Ohio, has found Chapter-A-Day helps her library clients get back in the habit of reading. "It's a different way to get people hooked on books," she says.

　　31. Chapter-A-Day is intended to help people _    _.

　　A. get back into the habit of reading         B. relieve stress from office work

　　C. find interesting books online             D. buy books more conveniently

　　32. The passage was written in     _.

　　A. 1999         B. 2000          C. 2001          D. 2002

　　33. It can be inferred that through Chapter-A-Day _     _.

　　A. public libraries have become crowded with readers

　　B. MS Beecher made much money for her software company

　　C. people begin to read very slowly and patiently

　　D. people cannot finish reading any book online

　　34. The word "installment" in the passage probably means "      ".

　　A. a library email   B. a rare piece of literature   C.  a free novel     D. a part of a book

　　35. Ms Beecher decided to expand her Chapter-A-Day service because        .

　　A. over 3,000 libraries had joined        B. many other people could benefit

　　C. eight book clubs supported her        D. free email service was available

　　Passage Two

　　Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers-now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999,when Rouses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine(巴勒斯坦)，visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they'd hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hired.

　　The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it's a partnership between Chicago Public Schools and the U.S. Government. Because the teacher shortage in Chicago is so extreme, the Government allows the school district to temporarily hire foreign teaching candidates using H1-B visas. The Government grants these vise only to skilled foreign-born citizens so they can work in highly specialized jobs that can't be filled with available U.S. workforce.

　　Through the GEO, the school district has hired dozens of teachers from 22 different countries. Applicants must pass an English language test and specialize in math, science, world language or bilingual(双语的) education. Hannon and the first GEO teachers started in the classroom at the beginning of the 2000-2001 school year.

　　What do the GEO teachers think of the American classroom? Hannon, who was hired to teach math at Gage Park High School, says classrooms in Chicago are very different from those in Palestine. For one thing, he says, the fixed schedule that forces students to attend the same classes at the same time each day becomes too dull. In Palestine, the class schedule changes each week. He says in Palestine, the culture forces students to work hard because if they don't they'll be kicked out and put in vocational schools, which limits their career options. There is not nearly as much pressure for American students to do well. He says he has to do double the amounts of work just to get his students interested.

　　36. Chicago Public Schools began to employ foreign teachers because        .

　　A. there were not enough American teachers    B. a program for foreign teachers was started

　　C. the school board was interested in foreign teachers

　　D. foreign teachers taught better than American teachers

　　37.The  American Government is involved in the program because        .

　　A. the schools are public schools             B. tile Government is to finance the program

　　C. the Government grants visas to the foreign teachers

　　D. the program involves bilingual education

　　38. It seems that the Global Educator Outreach will       .

　　A. be difficult to continue                 B. last a limited period of time

　　C. pose a threat to US workforce           D. be extended to other cities

　　39. Chicago Public Schools do not seem to lack teachers of        .

　　A. English           B. math              C. science         D. world language

　　40. Hannon, as a GEO teacher, has found that        .

　　A. class schedules in America and Palestine are very much the same

　　B. fixed class schedules make it easy for teachers to prepare lessons

　　C. vocational schools offer a good career option for American students

　　D. American students do not work as hard as Palestinian students