听力原文:In 1968, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had a problem. The city' s schoo

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听力原文：The term "satellite city" is used to describe the relationship between a large ci

听力原文： 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 centres existing with one-industry economies as the creatures of some nearby centre. 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 water power sites in the midst of a farming region that could supply sufficient 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 Vera Schlakman and Stanley Buder have pointed out in their excellent urban biographies, had a one-dimensional quality, a lack of social vigor. These cities could not stand alone; they were in a sense colonies of a multifunctional mother city.

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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 the earth.

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听力原文：In 1968, the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, had a problem. The city's school

system needed a new school building and teachers but did not have the money to pay for this multi-million-dollar project.

City officials solved the problem in a unique way. They decided to use the many scientific mad cultural institutions in the city as the classrooms. Experts who worked in the various institutions would be the teachers. About 100 institutions in Philadelphia — public, private, and commercial — helped the program.

The experiment in institutions in education, known as the Parkway Program, began in February 1969. John Bremer, an Englishman and an innovator in the field of education, planned the program and became its director.

The Program has grown in size from 142 to 500 high school students end is so popular that thousands of applicants are denied places each year. The program gives a freedom to high school education never known before. Besides basic courses required for a diploma — languages, history, science — students may choose from more than one hundred other courses. Any subject will be offered if an instructor can be found. Every group of 15 buys and girls belongs to a "tutorial group", led by a teacher and one assistant. Students in the Program say that school is no longer a place but an interesting activity.

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A．City officials.

B．Newly-graduated university students.

C．Experts in various institutions.

D．Some famous scientists.

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听力原文：Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of the

听力原文： Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, the first child of the family. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a Wall Street financier who was elected to the Senate of the United States from Connecticut in 1952. Although his father began his career in the oil industry, he eventually served as a congressman.

At the age of two, Bush moved with his parents from Connecticut to Odessa, Texas, where his father embarked on a career in the petroleum business. After a year in Texas, the family moved to California for business reasons. A year later, the family moved back to Texas and settled in Midland, a town in western Texas legated about 500 km (300 mi) from Fort Worth. Bush lived in Midland from 1950 to 1959. He had three brothers Jeb, Neil, and Marvin, and a sister, Dorothy. In 1959, again for business reasons, the family moved to Houston, Texas. In 1961 Bush left Texas and went to Andover, Massachusetts, to attend Phillips Academy, a boarding school that his father had also attended.

At Phillips, Bush played basketball, baseball, and football. He was best known for being heed cheerleader. In 1964 he enrolled at Yale University in Connecticut; his father and grandfather had also attended Yale. That same year, Bush campaigned for his father in his unsuccessful bid to win a U.S. Senate seat from Texas.

At Yale, Bush was considered an average student, but he was popular with his classmates. During Bush's time at Yale, college students all over the country began to hold protests about a variety of issues, including protests against U.S. involvement in rite Vietnam War (1959-1975). Bush was uncomfortable with the growth of the student protest movement, and he generally refrained from participating in campus polities. In 1968 he campaigned on behalf of his father, who was running for reelection for a seat in the House of Representatives that he had won in 1966.

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A．He was a Wall Street financier.

B．He was a congressman.

C．He did petroleum business.

D．He began his career in the oil industry.

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听力原文：What kind of class went on the field trip？（21)A．Biology.B．Photography.C．Swimming.

听力原文：What kind of class went on the field trip？

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A．Biology.

B．Photography.