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Lack government support, they had to approach sponsors, organizers, and musicians on their own — at first, she claims, in her country.

There is an ever-widening gap between black male college enrollees and their female and white counterparts, says the American Council on Education (ACE).　　Twenty years ago, according to ACE’s “Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education,” 30 percent of African American male high school graduates (ages 18 to 24) were enrolled in college, compared with 28 percent of same-age black females and 41 percent of white males. Now, some 37 percent of black men are enrolled, compared with 42 percent of African American women and 44.5 percent of white males. So while there are more black males enrolling in college today than 20 years ago, other groups have outstripped them in enrolling and, even more importantly, in retention rates.　　The graduation rate of black men is lower than that of any group. Only 35 percent of black males enrollees graduated within six years from colleges in 1996, compared with 59 percent of white males,46 percent of Hispanic men,41 percent of American Indian males and 45 percent of the black women who entered the same year.　　Surveys and reports are hinting that the country’s educational apparatus is stacked against the black male. Fewer than one in five students of color have graduated from high school, have a set of college-prep courses on their high school transcripts and “demonstrate basic literacy” — the necessities for being “college ready.”　　Another glaring problem is that black males are disproportionately labeled as discipline and behavioral problems and fast tracked out of high schools through expulsions and suspensions. As if that’s not enough, says ACE’s William Harvey, there’s a virtual drying up of federal aid-to-education grant money coupled with jacked-up tuitions, which make it necessary for low-income students to assume an average $ 20,000 debt to finish a four-year curriculum.　　“For those in the lower economic category, the availability of financial aid determines who gets to go to college and who doesn’t,” observes Harvey.　　Harvey points out that, over the years, federal funding has undergone a “complete reversal,” from “a 70 percent to 30 percent grant-to-loan ratio 20 years ago” to the exact opposite today..”An 18-year-old male will be more inclined to say, I want money in my pocket now’ and attempt to get a job,” adds Harvey. “But many take on the debt, become part-time students, work 20-plus hours a week and become five-year students at a four-year college.”　　The inequity of that educational apparatus is especially clear when you look at the black males who persevere — those who go on to finish high school, earn a bachelor’s degree and even finish grad school.　　A recently released Census report shows that, whether they have a high school diploma or a master’s degree, black men will earn roughly 25 percent less than Whites.

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According to the passage, it can be concluded that a “multifaceted approach” to human motivation in the workplace to __________.

Very little was said about the matter, wasn’t it?

As much is known about what occurs during sleep, the precise function of sleep and its different stages remains largely in the realm of assumption.

Mr. Smith can’t believe that his child would read of her own accord.

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Elvis Presley blazed a trail in pop music and was considered one of the greatest pop icons in American history.

Niagara Falls is a great tourist attraction, luring millions of visitors each year.

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The word “it” underlined in Paragraph 2 refers to __________.

Public Schools　　However good the state schools may be, it is still true that if an English parent has enough money to pay the fees to send his children to an independent school he will most probably do so.　　In independent schools boys and girls above the age of eight are usually educated separately. The terms “primary” and “secondary” are not usually applied to independent schools at the different levels because the age of transfer from a lower to a higher school is normally thirteen or fourteen instead of eleven. The principal schools for boys of over thirteen are called “public schools” and those for younger boys are usually called “preparatory” (or colloquially “prep”) schools.　　For girls there are some preparatory schools and public schools which are female imitations of the boys’ institutions.　　A typical “preparatory school’“—or private primary school—is very small, with between fifty and a hundred boys, either all boarders or all dayboys, or some of each. Many of these schools are in adapted houses in the country or in small towns, houses built in the nineteenth century and too big to be inhabited by families in the conditions of the modern world. If there are fifty boys, aged between eight-plus and thirteen-plus, they will probably be taught in five or six grades (or “forms”); the headmaster will himself work as an ordinary teacher, and he will have four or five assistants working for him. The preparatory schools prepare boys for the public schools’ common entrance examination and for public school life. The, schools in the state system do not prepare boys for the public schools’ common entrance examination, so a boy who tried to change from the states system to the independent school system at the age of thirteen would find difficulty in entering a public school at all.　　With a few exceptions public schools are all boarding schools, providing residential accommodation for their pupils, though many of them take some day-boys also. Most are in the southern half of England. Some of them are several hundred years old, but many others, including some of the most prominent thirty, were founded during the past 140 years. Most public schools, particularly the most eminent ones, are called by the name of the town or village in which they are situated; some are called “College” and some are not. The four most famous of all are Eton College, Harrow School, Winchester College and Rugby School.　　Public schools are inspected by the inspectors of the Department of Education, but otherwise they are quite independent. Each has a board of governors. They control the finances and appoint the headmaster, who in his turn appoints the other teachers. To send a boy to .a leading public school costs about 900 to 1,100 pounds a year, though some of the less prominent schools may cost as little as 600 pounds. All the schools award “scholarships” to some of their boys who do very good work in an examination on entering or during their first year, and the boys who win scholarships pay reduced fees or in a few cases no fees at all.

The example of the pupils’ learning about Mexico shows that __________.

What is the best title for the passage?

You can take off your raincoat now. The rain seems to stopped.

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It was clear that they abused their power and rode roughshod over the people.

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三分之一欧美人视中国经济增长为机遇　　本周一，跨大西洋合作智囊机构“德国马歇尔(Marshall)基金会”公布了一项民意调查结果。该调查显示，三分之一的欧美人将中国经济的迅速发展视为一种机遇，而近60%的人则对中国日益增长的经济实力保持着警惕。　　这项调查在法国、德国、意大利、波兰、斯洛伐克(Slovakia)、英国和美国等七国开展。调查表明，中国怀疑论者对中国经济表示担忧，他们认为大量中国廉价商品的出口以及外国公司进驻中国是一种潜在威胁。　　调查显示，70%的法国人以及近70%的波兰人、意大利人和斯洛伐克人对中国经济的崛起感到不安。历来倡导自由贸易的英国有更多人认为中国的崛起是机遇而不是威胁。　　由于欧洲制造业受到了来自亚洲的压力，所以欧盟对中国包括皮鞋在内的一系列出口商品征收了反倾销税。　　欧盟和中国将于下月就一项最新全面双边协议进行磋商，其中涉及一些经济问题。美国财政部部长亨利·鲍尔森(Henry Paulson)将于本月末率高层代表团访问中国。