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Education is another area of social life in which information technology is changing the way we communicate. Today's college students may not simply sit in a lecture hall or a library to learn about their field. Through their computers and the wonders of virtual reality they can participate in lifelike simulated developments in information technology.

For children over the age of 10 daily attendance at schools is not compulsory. Yet, some of the older children attend school only once or twice weekly to get tutorial support or instruction from teachers. For the most part, students are encouraged to work online from home. Students must complete a minimum number of study hours per year; however, they may do this by studying at home at times that suit their family schedules. They can log on early or late during the day and even join live classes. In order to ensure that each student is learning adequately, a computer software will automatically monitor the number of hours a week each student spends studying online as well as that student's learning materials and assessment activities. Reports will be available for parents and teachers. The software can then identify the best learning activities and conditions for each individual student and generate similar activities. It can also identify areas of weak achievement and produce special programs adjusted to the students' needs.

 How many times are children over the age often required to go to school weekly?

Read the following passage and mark the teller A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

    Mercury is the smallest member of the sun's family which is only 3,100 miles across. It is also the sun's swiftest planet. Its yearly journey round the sun is only 85 days.

   Mercury always keeps one side towards the sun. On this side it is always day, on the other side it is always night. We only see the lighted side.

   Mercury appears to us like a yellowish orange star. The nearest planet to the sun, it is always seen near the sun, either just before sunrise or soon after sunset. People sometimes call Mercury the morning star or evening star. Mercury is half the size of the earth. Because it is much lighter, it has much less gravity. If you can visit Mercury in a spaceship, you will find it a strange world. Its low gravity makes you feel very light. If your weight on earth is 100 pounds, your weight on Mercury is only 27 pounds. Looking at the sun from Mercury, you can see that it’s much more brilliant than it is seen from the earth. And the yellow centre of the sun appears three times bigger from Mercury. On the lighted side, Mercury’s temperature is about 300 degrees centigrade. But the dark side is extremely cold, 150 degrees below zero so Mercury is probably the coldest as well as the hottest of the planets.

 The word swiftest in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ______.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

      English is my mother (31) ______. Besides, I can speak French and Spanish. I studied these two languages when I was at high school. Now I am still learning Spanish at University. As tor me, mastering a foreign language is not easy. After studying a language, I find that practice is very necessary and useful. Travelling to the country where the target language is spoken is very helpful, (32) ______ if you cannot speak the language well enough, you will certainly have troubles. I also frequently go to the movie, watch television, listen to the radio in the language (33)______ I           am trying to learn. Reading is another good way to learn. Books are good, but I personally think newspapers and magazines are better. However, getting (34)         ______ knowledge of the language is one of the most (35) ______ things. That’s the reason why grammar and vocabulary should be mastered first.