Passage 1 Technology's influence on education is nothing new. There is an old saying that the best educational setup consists of a log with teacher at one end and pupil at the other. Our modern world is not only woefully ( 悲哀地、悲伤地 ) short of teachers, but also runn ing out of logs. But there has always been a shortage of teachers, and technology has been used to improve this — a fact that many people tend to forget. The first great technology aid to education was the book. You don't have to clone teachers to multiply them. The printing press did just that, and the mightiest of all educational machines is the library. Yet this potent ( 强有力的 ) resource is now abou t to be surpassed by an even more remarkable one, the Internet, a depository of knowledge as astonishing to most of us today as books were to our remote ancestors. Though they are not yet as important as books, audiovisual aids such as filmstrips, 16-millimeter projectors, and multi-media are rapidly penetrating the educational field. Most of these aids are still far too expensive for developing countries, however, and I am not sure they are really worth the cost of producing them. 1 . The third sentence in the first paragraph employs ______. A) analogy B) irony C) simile D) metaphor 2 . The biggest source of information nowadays is the ______. A) libraries B) teachers C) Internet D) media 3 . "They" in the first sentence in the last paragraph refers to ______. A) audiovisual aids B) teachers C) books D) web stations 4 . Which statement is NOT true according to the passage? A) Books can be cloned nowadays. B) The Internet offers a greater depository of knowledge than libraries. C) Teachers are not enough today. D) Many educational aids can be used in teaching. 5. The author will most probably agree if the audiovisual aids ______. A) are disposed B) become more expensive C) take the place of books D) become cheaper Passage Two The term "satellite city" is used to describe the relationship between a large city and neighboring smaller cities and towns that are economically dependent upon it. Satellite cities may be collection and distribution points in the commercial linkages of a trading metropolis, or they may be manufacturing or mining centers existing with one-industry economics as the creatures of some nearby center. This latter form is what is generally meant when one uses the term "satellite city". Taken in this sense, nineteenth-century Chicopee and Lowell, Massachusetts, were satellites of Boston. Both were mill towns created by Boston investors to serve the economy of that New England metropolis. Located on cheap land along waterpower sites in the midst of a farming region that could supply ample labor, they were satellites in the fullest sense of the term. Pullman, Illinois, and Gary, Indiana, were likewise one-industry towns created in conjunction with the much broader economy of nearby Chicago. Such places, as Ver a Schlakman and Stanley Buder have pointed out in their excellent urban biographies, had a one-dimensional quality, a paucity ( 缺乏 ) of social vigor. These cities could not stand alone; they were in a sense colonies of a multifunctional mother city. 6 . Which of the following is the characteristic of a satellite city? A) It is a self-sufficient community. B) It offers cheap land to people. C) It tends to concentrate on a single product. D) It lies within a space station orbiting Earth. 7 . According to the passage, Chicopee and Lowell were ideal location for the development of towns because they had ________. A) fully developed electric power plants B) an adequate number of workers C) farmland that could supply enough food D) extremely wealthy investors 8 . The author describes each of the following as being economically dependent on another city EXCEPT ________. A) Chicopee, Massachusetts B) Pullman, Illinois C) Gary, Indiana D) Boston, Massachusetts 9 . It can be inferred from the passage that Vera Schlakman and Stanley Buder are ________. A) authors B) social workers C) investors D) government officials 10 . Vera Schlakman and Stanley Buder would describe satellite cities as ________. A) diversified B) dependent C) vigorous D) uninhibited