innumerable无数的，数不清的
insane精神失常的
inspect检查，视察
instrumental[根义]仪器的，(音乐)乐器的；[多义]有帮助的
intact完整无缺的
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement
contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.
You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by
marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Caring for elderly parents catches many unprepared
1、spit v. 吐(唾液等);唾弃
2、bacteria n. 细菌
3、budget n. 预算 v. 编预算，作安排
4、campus n. 校园
5、vanish vi. 消灭，不见
There are many people who think that wealth is better than health. I used to think so until one day I read a story about Howard Hughes.
He was an American billionaire who got everything he wanted. However, in the last twenty years of his life,his health began to deteriorate and he was miserable.
He had the best doctors and nurses. However, he could still find no relief. I realized that health is worth all the money in the world.
If you have millions of dollars but your health is poor, you will not be able to do what you want to do. So I would like to say don't hurt yourself and try to make money.
Instead, take care of your body and be happy at what you do. Health is more important.
时光荏苒，岁月如梭，不知不觉间学期末即将来临，蓦然回首，往事历历在目，感觉自己已然成熟了很多，思想上得到升华，教学上得到历练，可以说忙碌而充实，*凡而实在。现将具体工作总结如下：
一、思想品德方面
本人能认真学*党的路线、方针和政策，时刻与*保持一致，加强自我修养。我能做到热爱党的教育事业，热爱本职工作。在工作中时刻以学生为主体，热爱学生，真诚对待学生，真正做到学高为师，身正为范。我热爱教育事业，贯彻党的教育方针，有高度的事业心和责任感，有无私奉献的精神。坚持把德育放在首位，既教书又育人，热爱、关心、尊重、理解学生，处处晓之以理，动之以情，诲人不倦，形成师生互相信赖、互相尊重的良好氛围，深受学生的敬爱。
二、教学工作方面
1、勤勉教学，尽职尽责。作为一名教师，我始终把“教书育人、为人师表”作为己任，把成为学者型的教师作为自己的目标，孜孜追求。
一年来，本人热爱教育事业，精心培育桃李。认真进行学术研究，取得不错的成绩。下面是我一年来的述职情况：
一、政治和职业道德方面
政治上，我坚持“四项基本原则”，作为一个党员积极参加支部组织的党内民主生活学*。我一直以一名大学教师而自豪，热爱工作，关爱学生，在工作中认真负责，严格要求自己，时刻提醒自己无愧于“灵魂的工程师”这样一个称号。
二、教学和科研方面
本年度我教授《xxxx学》、《xxxx学》等课程，虽然有的课程我已经带过多遍，但我并不因循守旧，而是不断进行教学改革，包括教学内容、教学形式方法、考核方法等方面，受到学生的欢迎和得到同行的认可。
1、consume v. 消耗，耗尽
2、slide v. 滑动，滑落 n. 滑动;滑面;幻灯片
3、transmit v. 传播，播送;传递
4、suspicious a. 怀疑的，可疑的
5、brake n. 刹车，制动器 v. 刹住(车)
1、Frenchman ([pl.]Frenchmen)n.法国人，法国男人
2、formal a.正式的；形式上的
3、giant n.巨人；才智超群的人仏，巨大的
4、gesture n.姿势；表示 v.做手势
5、file n.档案；文件夹；纵列v.把（文件） 归档；(for)提出；排成纵队行进
Neil Postman
Author's Note: Having sat through two dozen or so graduation speeches, I have naturally wondered why they are so often so bad. One reason, of course, is that the speakers are chosen for their eminence in some field, and not because they are either competent speakers or gifted writers. Another reason is that the audience is eager to be done with all the ceremony so that it can proceed to some serious reveling. Thus any speech longer than, say, fifteen minutes will seem tedious, if not entirely pointless. There are other reasons as well, including the difficulty of saying something inspirational without being b***. Here I try my hand at writing a graduation speech, and not merely to discover if I can conquer the form. This is precisely what I would like to say to young people if I had their attention for a few minutes.
If you think my graduation speech is good, I hereby grant you permission to use it, without further approval from or credit to me, should you be in an appropriate situation.
Members of the faculty, parents, guests and graduates, have no fear. I am well aware that on a day of such high excitement, what you require, first and foremost, of any speaker is brevity. I shall not fail you in this respect. There are exactly eighty-five sentences in my speech, four of which you have just heard. It will take me about twelve minutes to speak all of them and I must tell you that such economy was not easy for me to arrange, because I have chosen as my to//www.oh100.com/picplex subject of your ancestors. Not, of course, your biological ancestors, about whom I know nothing, but your spiritual ancestors, about whom I know a little. To be specific, I want to tell you about two groups of people whose influence is still with us. They were very different from each other, representing opposite values and traditions. I think it is appropriate for you to be reminded of them on this day because, sooner than you know, you must align yourself with the spirit of one or the other.
The first group lived about 2,500 years ago in the place we now call Greece, in a city they called Athens. We do not know as much about their origins as we would like. But we do know a great deal about their accomplishments. They were, for example, the first people to develop a complete alphabet, and therefore they became the first truly literate population on earth. They invented the idea of political democracy, which they practiced with a vigor that puts us to shame. They invented what we call philosophy. And they also invented what we call science, and one of them—Democritus by name—conceived of the atomic theory of matter 2,300 years before it occurred to any modern scientist. They composed and sang epic poems of unsurpassed beauty and insight. And they wrote and performed plays that, almost three millennia later, still have the power to make audiences laugh and weep. They even invented what, today, we call the Olympics, and among their values none stood higher than that in all things one should strive for excellence. They believed in reason. They believed in beauty. They believed in moderation. And they invented the word and idea which we know today as ecology.
