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What’s the meaning of “humor” in the first paragraph?

Which of the following is NOT true about the teenagers’ attitude towards their parents?

“看完之后觉得像以前做过的梦，或者是别人告诉我的一个故事，也许是以前读Coco小说时一瞬间产生的情绪，总而言之我很喜欢这种感觉……比如先把什么东西打碎了，然后重新拼凑起来，令人多愁善感。”　　莎米尔做了个用手掩胸的姿势，“真的吗?”她说话的声音里有种奇怪的童音，举手投足忽而沉静如水，然后又会突然爆发。当她同意你的意见时就会伸手抓住你的手腕，用令人信服的口气强调说：“是的，就是这样子的。”

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In some countries young people are encouraged to work or travel for a year between finishing high school and starting university studies. Read the article carefully and write your response in about 300 words, m which you should:　　1. summarize briefly the opinions in the article:　　2. give your comment.　　Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.　　A gap year is a year off that you can take between finishing high school and starting university. Otherwise known as deferring your studies, it can be a good alternative to starting university if you’re feeling exhausted or you’re just not sure what you want to do. Perhaps you want to travel, earn some money by working full-time or get some work experience in your field of interest. There’s a lot to weigh up when deciding whether to take a gap year.　　Some common masons to take a gap year include:　　Broaden your view of the world　　Whether you simply want to see and experience another country, or gain an appreciation and awareness of global issues, taking a defer year can be a great way to immerse yourself in another country.　　Gain relevant work experience and key skills　　Working during your defer year means you’ll gain plenty of experience, skills and knowledge, which (especially if in a relevant field) can be highly valuable when applying for jobs later on.　　Earn some money　　Following on from that, a working year off can also be a great way to earn some extra money before starting university. You might not earn enough to pay your entire university costs, but you could perhaps cover expenses such as accommodation, text books, travel or even the first semester/ term of your course fees.　　Develop useful contacts　　During your defer year, you’ll likely meet a range of different people from all walks of life. This could include people you can call on for job opportunities and references, or simply some international friends on whose sofas you can crash on if you get the chance to visit their home country later.　　Challenge yourself　　Many students take the year to tackle challenges they’ve set for themselves, step out of their comfort zone, face their fears and enjoy new experiences. You might decide to go trekking through a jungle, climb a mountain for charity, volunteer in a developing country, or go scuba diving, skiing or snowboarding.　　Improve and gain new life skills　　This can be anything from learning and becoming fluent in a foreign language, becoming an instructor in an adventure sport, boosting your IT skills or learning how to teach English as a foreign language.　　While there are many benefits to taking a gap year, it’s worth considering that there are also risks involved. Some of the disadvantages of a gap year you might encounter include:　　You’ll be a year behind everyone who graduated high school/ secondary school with you, if they didn’t take a year off themselves.　　It can cost a lot of money to organize and realize.　　You may get injured or sick during your travels—if you need prescription medication, make sure to check whether your medication is legal and available in your destination country.　　You might find your break too interesting/ distracting, and end up not wanting to go back into formal education.　　Your study skills may have diminished, making it harder for you to adjust to life in education. This can be particularly true for mathematics or physics students, or any course that involves complex theoretical processes and techniques that may not be used outside of the classroom.　　You may simply find that you didn’t get the experience you were hoping for.

Some people may disagree with the author on his method because they think______.

In the 2nd paragraph, “those who don’t fit the pattern” refers to______.

What is Greene’s attitude toward avoidance of medicine for diabetes patients?

To cope with the difficulty that funeral business faces, SCI has done the following EXCEPT_____.

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Which of the following does NOT account for Cerritos’ success?

Recently a group of college girls have aroused a heated debate in the United States because they wore flip-flaps when visiting the White House. While the girls think their choice was ok, many criticized them of being too disrespectful. Here in China, a boy student sued a female classmate who sat in front of him in a important examination because she wore too little, which distracted him so much that he failed in the exam. Do you think universities students now have sufficient awareness of what is proper to wear? Do you think university should make an explicit dress code for students? Write a composition of about 400 words on this topic. You should supply a title for your composition.　　In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement .with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.　　Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a toss of marks.

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Which of the following best describes teenagers according to Ms. Fox and Ms. Frankel?

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The grammatical words which play so large a part in English grammarare for the most part sharply and obviously different from the lexical words. Arough and ready difference which may seem the most obvious is that grammatical　　　 1．_______words have “less meaning”, but in fact some grammarians have called them　　　　　 2．_______“empty” words as opposed in the “full” words of vocabulary. But this is a rather 3．_______misled way of expressing the distinction. Although a word like theis not the name　　4．_______of something as man is, it is very far away from being meaningless; there is a　　　 5．_______sharp difference in meaning between “man is vile” and “the man is vile”, yet theis the single vehicle of this difference in meaning. Moreover, grammatical words　　 6．_______differ considerably among themselves as the amount of meaning they have even in th 　7．_______lexical sense. Another name for the grammatical words has been “little words.”But size is by no mean a good criterion for distinguishing the grammatical words 　　8．_______of English, when we consider that we have lexical words as go, man, say, car.　　　　9．_______Apart from this, however, there is a good deal of truth in what some people say:we certainly do create a great number of obscurity when we omit them. This　　　　　10．_______is illustrated not only in the poetry of Robert Browning but in the prose of tele-grams and newspaper headlines.

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Which of the following can best reflect the trend of globalization?

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We live in a society which there is a lot of talk about science, but I would　　 1．_______say that there are not 5 percent of the people who are equipped with schooling,including college, to understand scientific reasoning. We are more ignorant ofscience as people with comparable education in Western Europe.　　　　　　　　      2．_______　　There are a lot of kids who know everything about computers — how tobuild them, how to take them apart, and bow to write programs for games. So　　　   3．_______if you ask them to explain about the principles of physics that have gone into　　　4．_______creating the computer, you don’t have the faintest idea.　　　　　　　　　　　　   5．_______　　The failure to understand science leads to such things like the neglect of　　　6．_______human creative power. It also takes rise to blurring of the distinction between　　 7．_______science and technology. Lots of people don’t differ between the two. Science is the8．_______production of new knowledge that can be applied or not, and technology is theapplication of knowledge to the production of some products, machinery or thelike. The two are really very different, and people who have the faculty for onevery seldom have a faculty for the others.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　 9．_______　　Science in itself is harmless, more or less. But as soon as it can providetechnology, it is not necessarily harmful. No society has yet learned to forecast　10．_______the consequences of new technology, which can be enormous.