C

Is there a better way to get talented employees without hiring under­qualified college graduates and paying for extensive training to get them up to the required level? There is. Instead of just complaining that today's graduates are under­qualified, your company can invest in education. Find a local college or university that offers a major in your company's field and build a relationship with it. This relationship can take many forms, with different levels of involvement(参与)for both the school and the business.

Starting small is a good idea. Call the college, talk to the appropriate department head, and offer your company's assistance. Offering in the school a chance to train students in your company's software or hardware means that there will be more people trained in the use of these products. This adds to your company's market share and potential employee pool, and enhances its public image. Donations may qualify your company for deduction, which can help its bottom line.

This knowledge swap benefits your company and the school. Your company gets graduates trained in areas it chooses and has a place to send current employees for more training. While your company's corporate image improves, the school gains resources that makes it more attractive to prospective students.

Your company will have access(进入)to inexpensive, bright, motivated labor; a chance to recruit the most qualified college graduates; and a chance to influence those who will work in its industry. Students do not forget what they learn during a good internship(实习)experience. And someday they may be in a position to choose, on behalf of an entire company, between your company's product and a competitor's.

The school benefits, too. The promise of good internships is a great way to recruit(招收)students, because internships give the students a chance to apply the skills they have learned in a practical setting. We all know how much better real­world experience looks on a resume than just educational experience.

From both the business and the educational perspective, relationships between corporations and colleges can be mutually(互相)beneficial. If such partnerships grow in the future, the current gap between the number of technology jobs and the qualified pool of talent to fill them may yet be closed.

39.The author suggests many ways except that________.

A.the partnership can take many forms

B.a school should find a company and build a relationship with it

C.a company should offer the school a chance to train students in its software and hardware

D.a company must enhance its public image

40.According to the author, the partnership between business and education will________.

A.be mutually beneficial           B.benefit only the company

C.benefit only the school           D.not solve the talent shortage

41.The main idea of the passage is(that)________.

A.the real­world experience looks better than just educational experience.

B.the majority of interns are eager to apply their learning in school to the real world

C.the lack of technology talent

D.the business and education should have a marriage

42.What does the underlined word mean in the third paragraph?

A.sweep       B.union           C.exchange       D.development

D

I am an elementary school teacher. I think homework should be done by the child and it should take only about half an hour. Parents should write a note if they had to help a lot, and this tells the teacher that the day's lesson needs more review. Some things are more easily learned if they are practiced at home. Students should develop independence and organization. I send home fairly simple homework because I do not wish to see how creative mom, dad, the neighbors and grandma are with large projects...what is this teaching the child? Independence? Creativity?

Many readers are noticing the alarming trend(趋势)to test, test, test. These new tests are not like the ones we remember. They are really difficult and abstract. Besides the usual math problems, third and fourth grade tests now ask about probablity(概率), tessellation and flips, slides, turns. Some teachers have had to increase the pace of their instruction to cover all the topics that will appear on the tests, thus, they send home homework that kids may not fully understand or send more homework home so they can, they hope, cover more content faster. It's not a good idea, but the trend of testing has driven teachers to push, push, push. Parents should be concerned about the testing that is such an important issue. I would advise parents to walk to the teacher if they find the homework too hard. Is the child not getting work done at school, or is it simply too much? Some teachers will change the amount of work. And yes, I have been on the other side of the blackboard and had to make my son and daughter do their homework. I was a sticker for not doing it for them.

43.The passage might be an opinion posted on the Internet under the title________.

A.How Should Homework Done Independently by Students

B.Should Parents Contribute to Kids' Homework

C.Should You Say No to Homework

D.How Should Test Papers Be Written

44.According to the writer, ________.

A.reasonable amount of easy homework is necessary

B.neighbors are not creative and independent enough

C.homework is good to children and teachers

D.parents are placed too much burden by teachers

45.The tests referred to by the author________.

A.are questioned about the possibilities to solve the math problems

B.catch up with the increasing number of topics

C.are the result of teachers pushing

D.include much more demanding problems

E

Asia will continue to deliver strong growth in the mobile phone market due to constant demand from China and India, the world's two biggest markets of such services.

However, even if Asia is the world's largest broadband market in terms of absolute numbers, it lags the United States and Europe in overall penetration(接入), with just 3.6 out of every 100 inhabitants connected to the high­speed Internet, the International Telecommunication Union(ITU)said in a report.

India and China combined have total cellphone(手机) subscribers of about 900 million, accounting for a quarter of the world total. “Every month, India adds 9 million new subscribers and more, which is higher than China. We hope the excitement will continue，”said N.K. Coyal, president of consultant group of Communications and Manufacturing Association of India.

But if India is the world's fastest­growing mobile phone market with nearly 300 million subscribers, only 11 million people in the country have access to the Internet.

While developed markets like South Korea and Singapore are among the world's top 10 economies for household broadband access, most of the low and lower­middle­income economies in the Asia Pacific region have limited and costly access to the Internet. Developing countries in Asia should speed up plans to develop high­speed broadband Internet access, incuding making spectrum available and creating investment incentives(刺激).

To serve growing demand for mobile data services, which is driven by things like smart phones and embedded laptops, operators are focusing on new ways to improve value­added services.

Wang Jianzhou, chairman and CEO of China Mobile, said his company was banking on the development of newgeneration wireless technologies such as Long­Term Evolution(LTE), which promises to speed up everything from mobile video sharing to music downloads. Over a third of China Mobile users use their handsets to listen to music, much higher than in the United States, Britain, France and Germany.

“Surely it is Asian operators who will be among the first to use the technological potential of ITE, translating it into real­world services, revenues(收入，税收)and customer numbers，”said Toure.

46.According to the report of ITU, in Asia________.

A.there is the largest number of users of the Internet

B.most inhabitants have access to the high­speed Internt

C.China and India are in great need of phones rather than file Internet

D.there is a growth in the cellphone in Asia and India

47.Which country has the most cellphone subscribers every day?

A.China.     B.India.        C.South Korea.    D.Singapore.

48.The peculiar character of Long­Term Evolution is________.

A.advanced  B.cheap      C.high­speed  D.convenient

49.From the last paragraph, we can infer________.

A.the technology of LTE is mainly used in the field of translating

B.the technology of LTE is just potential in reality

C.the use of LTE will bring Asian operators more profits