Passage Two
The National Weather Service at Ryan Airport brought out the following forecast (预报). Saturday night for Satonp Rouge and vicinity(附近地区).
It will be partly cloudy through Monday with a chance of afternoon showers. High Sunday and Monday will be in the mid 80s,with a low Sunday night in the upper 60s. Winds will be southeasterly 10 to 15 miles per hour diminishing at night.
Probability of rain will be 20 percent Sunday.
On the coast, winds will be southeasterly 10 to 15 knots(节、海里/小时). Seas will run 2-4 feet and will be 3 feet higher near a few thunder-showers. High tide will be at 1 p.m. ,Iow tide at 12:24 a. m..
Record high for May 22 was 93 posted in 1956 and record low was 51 recorded in 1954. Normally, temperatures should be from 86 to 65 degrees.
There will be afternoon thunder-showers Tuesday and over the west part of the state Thursday. Tuesday through Thursday, lows will be in the mid to upper 70s,with highs in the mid to upper 80s.
High Saturday was 86, with a low 65.
40. This weather forecast probably appeared in a______.
A. Saturday morning paper
B. Sunday evening paper
C. Sunday morning paper
D. Monday morning paper
Passage Three
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them; our purpose is to prepare them for life. As soon as we realize this fact, we will understand that it is very important to choose a system of education which will really prepare children for life. It is not enough just to choose the first system of education one finds, or to continue with one's old system of education without examining it to see whether it is in fact suitable or not.
In many modern countries, it has for some time been fashionable to think that by free education for all—whether rich or poor, clever or stupid—one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough; we find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees than there are jobs for them to fill. Because of their degrees, they refuse to do what they consider "low" work; and, in fact, work with the hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries.
But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor. We can live without education, but we will die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we would have terrible diseases in our towns. In countries where there are no servants because everyone is ashamed to do such work, scientists have to waste much of their time doing housework.
In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to prepare for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever job is suited to his brain and ability, and secondly, we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and it is very bad to be ashamed of one's work, or to scorn someone else's. Only such a type of education can be called valuable to society.
44. Education is______.
A. a purpose
B. a means
C. fashionable
D. the first system