Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D．, so commuting（經(jīng)常往返） to class isn’t the problem. But he doesn’t like lectures much, isn’t a morning person, and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles.

So Steele, a full-time senior business major, has been taking as many classes as he can from the South Dakota State system’s online offerings. He gets better grades and learns more, he says, and insists he isn’t missing out on the college experience.

“I still know a lot of people from my first two years living on campus, and I still meet a lot of people,” he says. But now, he sets his own schedule.

At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online courses, according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of colleges offering “face-to-face” courses also offer online ones. But what were once two different types of classes are looking more and more alike and often falling into the same pool of students.

At some schools, online courses originally intended for non-traditional students living far from campus have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A recent study found 42 percent of the students enrolled（登記） in its distance education courses were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online courses.

Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and “face-to-face” credits. Motives range from lifestyle to adapting a job schedule to getting into high--demand courses.

Washington State had about 325 on-campus undergraduates taking one or more distance courses last year. As many as 9,000 students took both distance and in-person classes at Arizona State last year.

“Business is really about providing choices to their customers, and that’s really what we want to do,” said Sheila Asker, extended services coordinator （協(xié)調(diào)人） at Black Hills State.

Many schools, such as Washington State and Arizona State, let departments and academic units decide who can take an online course. They say students with legitimate academic needs a conflict with another class, a course they need to graduate that is full--often get permission, though they still must take some key classes in person.

1．What is the purpose of the passage?

      A．To introduce Steele to us, who prefers online courses.

      B．To tell us about the development of campus courses.

      C．To show the differences between campus courses and online courses.

      D．To show more on-campus students are taking online courses.

2．We can learn from the passage that Andy Steele _______.

      A．lives far from the campus

       B．knows none of his classmates

       C．wants to have his own lifestyle

       D．doesn’t get good marks

3．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

       A．The undergraduates attend the online courses for different purposes.

       B．It is expected that distance education is popular with on- campus students.

       C．About 325 on-campus undergraduates took online courses in Washington last year.

      D．Different colleges have different policies about online courses.

4．From what Sheila Asker said in the passage, we can tell _______.

       A．business is the most popular major in universities

      B．colleges should provide more majors for students

       C．where the similarity between business and colleges lies

       D．why colleges offer online courses to on-campus students

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D, Because it was the only coin Denver mint made out of copper in 1943.
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A．were worth collecting for selling later
B．were surely valuable if not made out of steel
C．wouldn’t be sold for large amounts of money
D．were only useful for some coin museums
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The collector who sold the penny is also keeping his name a secret. It took four years to convince him to give up the rare coin. Now that he has finally donating all of the money to charity.

1.Why is the Lincoln penny worth over one million dollars?

A．Because it has a history of thirty-four years.

B．Because it was made out of a rare material.

C．Because it was made on one night of 1943 by the Denver mint.

D．Because it was the only coin Denver mint made out of copper in 1943.

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A．were worth collecting for selling later

B．were surely valuable if not made out of steel

C．wouldn’t be sold for large amounts of money

D．were only useful for some coin museums

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A．He already had two copper pennies from 1943.

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The collector who sold the penny is also keeping his name a secret. It took four years to convince him to give up the rare coin. Now that he has finally donating all of the money to charity.

1.Why is the Lincoln penny worth over one million dollars?

A. Because it has a history of thirty-four years.

B. Because it was made out of a rare material.

C. Because it was made on one night of 1943 by the Denver mint.

D, Because it was the only coin Denver mint made out of copper in 1943.

2.Before the Lincoln penny was sold, people thought one-cent coins __________.

A．were worth collecting for selling later

B．were surely valuable if not made out of steel

C．wouldn’t be sold for large amounts of money

D．were only useful for some coin museums

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A．Five

B．Twelve

C．Seventeen

D．Eighteen

4.What can we learn about the collector who sold the penny?

A．He already had two copper pennies from 1943.

B．He wanted to complete the set of copper pennies.

C．He didn’t want to sell his penny in the beginning.

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"Kissing is seldom taken as the theme of artworks because in oriental (東方的) culture, people restrain themselves from expressing their emotions," says Jiang Shan, who is in charge of the exhibition.

"Through the exhibition, we hope to encourage people to be confident and brave in expressing their love."

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Among the decorations, a bright-colored wool artwork attracts most eyeballs and brings about a feeling of warmth.

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Artist Wang Xuejun sets up a stainless-steel mirror at the mall's gate leading to Zizhong Lu. Visitors, including men, are invited to put on lipstick and kiss the mirror, thus kissing themselves.

The Beast Floral Shop, a flower shop in Shanghai, contributes two walls of flowers that are made into the shape of a book, named Kiss Book. Artifacts (手工藝品) of bees and butterflies are fixed among the blossoms, kissing the flowers. The work represents love and harmony in nature.

Architect Ma Ke creates a Kiss Bridge with transparent (透明的) acrylic boards and ceramic（陶瓷的）fishbowls. Bridges are often spots for dating lovers in traditional Chinese folk stories and the goldfish in the bowls are witnesses of the lovers' kisses.

In the south plaza, an18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment encourages people to kiss. Each kiss turns a certain light on, reminding audiences of their sweet childhood memories of kisses.

At the side of the tree is a counter, in which each kiss is counted and represents a donation to charity organizations.         

46. What is the main idea of the article?

  A. It tells people how important kisses are to life.

  B. It describes what Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall looks like.

  C. It introduces an exhibition under the theme “kiss”.

  D. It introduces various activities in Shanghai Xintiandi Style Mall.

47. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

  A. people encourage themselves to express their emotions.

  B. people discourage themselves from expressing their emotions.

 C. people teach themselves to express their emotions.

 D. people learn a lot from expressing their emotions.

48. What can we learn from the article?

  A. Most people are interested in Jiang Shan’s art-piece, which brings about a feeling of warmth.

  B. Most visitors will kiss each other in front of the stainless steel mirror at the gate.

 C. All the decorations in the mall are aimed at encouraging lovers to express their love bravely.

  D. The 18-meter-high interactive tree-shaped light equipment will be on for each kiss.

49. The article above probably is taken from a ____________.

  A. text book     B. science and technology magazine    C. news website    D. travel leaflet

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