Fried chips Ingredients (成分)800g potatoes, peeled and cut into thick chips, oil for shallow or deep frying. MethodShallow fry thick, fat chips in hot oil until crisp. Dry on brown paper(牛皮纸), sprinkle with sea salt and serve. A more traditional way to make chips is to deep fry them. Dry chips thoroughly and deeply fry them in a frying basket, in 3 or 4 times, in hot oil until cooked through 4 to 5 minutes. Remove the basket and increase the temperature of the oil. Deep fry chips for a further 2 to 3 minutes, or until crisp.Fried chips Ingredients:Potatoes, peeled and cut into thick chips, oil Method:1.shallow fry: dry on (1) .2.deep fry: dry chips (2) and deep fry in a (3) for (4) minutes.3.remove the basket and (5) the temperature for 2 to 3 minutes. 3()
Text 2 Good teachers matter. This may seem obvious to anyone who has a child in school or, for that matter, to anyone who has been a child in school. For a long time, though, researchers couldn’t actually prove that teaching talent was important. But new research finally shows that teacher quality is a close cousin to student achievement: A great teacher can cram one-and-a-half grades’ worth of learning into a single year, while laggards are lucky to accomplish half that much. Yet, while we know now that better teachers are critical, flaws in the way that administrators select and retain them mean that schools don’t always hire the best. Failing to recognize the qualities that make teachers truly effective and to construct incentives to attract and retain more of these top performers has serious consequences. Higher salaries draw more weak as well as strong applicants into teaching — applicants the current hiring system can’t adequately screen. Unless administrators have incentives to hire the best teachers available, it’s pointless to give them a larger group to choose from. Study after study has shown that teachers with master’s degrees are no better than those without. Job experience does matter, but only for the first few years, according to research by Hoover Institution’s Eric A. Hanushek. A teacher with 15 years of experience is no more effective, on average, than a teacher with five years of experience, but which one do you think is paid more This toxic combination of rigid pay and steep rewards for seniority causes average quality to decline rather than increase as teacher groups get older. Top performers often leave the field early for industries that reward their excellence. Mediocre teachers, on the other hand, are soon overcompensated by seniority pay. And because they are paid more than their skills command elsewhere, these less-capable pedagogues settle in to provide many years-of ineffectual instruction. So how can we separate the wheat from the chaff in the teaching profession To make American schools competitive, we must rethink seniority pay, the value of master’s degrees, and the notion that a teacher can teach everything equally well — especially math and science — without appropriate preparation in the subject. Our current education system is unlikely to accomplish this dramatic rethinking. Imagine, for a moment, that American cars had been free in recent decades, while Toyotas and Hondas sold at full price. We’d probably be driving Falcons and Corvairs today. Free public education suffers from a lack of competition in just this way. So while industries from aerospace to drugs have transformed themselves in order to compete, public schooling has stagnated. School choice could spark the kind of reformation this industry needs by motivating administrators to hire the best and adopt new strategies to keep top teachers in the classroom. The lesson that good teachers matter should be taught, not as a theory, but as a practice. According to the author, seniority pay favors
A. good teachers with master’s degrees.
B. young and effective teachers.
C. experienced and effective teachers.
D. mediocre teachers of average quality.
Dear Laura,It was certainly grand of you and Ted to come and see me off! I kown it wasn’t easy for you to get to the airport at such an early hour, so I appreciate it all the more.Flying over water can get dreadfully boring after the first few hours, and your book of detective stories came in very handy. It was sweet and thoughtful of you to think of it.The flight was uneventful and we arrived in Beijing on schedule time. Kate and Luke met me at the airport, and we went straight to their charming little house. I know I am going to love here; I’m living together with my sister and her husband!I’ll write to you again, Laura. In the meantime, my thanks to you and Ted for your many kindnesses to me---- and my love to you both, always! What kind of letter is itIt’s a letter of ()
Getting an online degree through distance learning has become possible because of the increased availability of the Internet throughout the world. However, what are the actual benefits and disadvantages of distance education Potential benefits: The most obvious reasons for trying to get an online degree are time and money. With an online course, you can join a class, do assignments on the internet, and even communicate with classmates in chat rooms or on bulletin boards. Technology has even reached the point where students can interact with other students and the teacher through high-quality web conferencing. All of these activities can be done from the comfort of your home or laptop: any time, any place. Second, getting such a degree can, in some cases, be cheaper because you don’t have to pay costs related to an oversea adventure: air-tickets, housing, local transportation, etc. Potential disadvantages: For all these benefits, there are a number of disadvantages to this kind of learning. Above all else, you have to consider how a degree from an online school will be received by future employers because they might feel that the academic standards of such an online institution are not as high as a regular program. Second, you probably won’t have face-to-face contact with other students since everything is online. Such contact is very important in learning how to deal with many aspects of non-verbal communication that aren’t obvious in an online chat room. It is possible to get an online degree thanks to ______.
A. the increasing distance of education
B. the improvement of personal computers
C. the available option of technologies
D. the worldwide use of the Internet