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Real-time web search—which scours only the latest updates to services like Twitter—is currently generating quite a buzz because it can provide a glimpse of what people around the world are thinking or doing at any given moment. Interest in this kind of search is so great that, according to recent leaks, Google is considering buying Twitter.The latest research from the interact search giant, though, suggests that real-time results could be even more powerful—they may reveal the future as well as the present.Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian combined data from Google Trends on the popularity of different search terms with models used by economists to predict trends in areas such as travel and home sales. The result? Better forecasts in almost every case. It works because searches reveal something about people’s intentions. Google has demonstrated before that search data can predict flu outbreaks, and last week World Bank economist Erik Feyen said he could cut errors in a model that forecasts lending to the private sector by 15% using Google search data.But real-time results could have even more predictive power: knowing what people are actually doing, not just thinking, at a particular instant gives a strong hint of the future consequences.Johan Bollen of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Alberto Pepe of the University of California, Los Angeles, applied a mood rating system to the text from over 10,000 Future Me emails sent in 2006 to gauge people’s hopes, fears and predictions for the future. They found that emails directed at 2007 to 2012 were significantly more depressed in tone than messages aimed at the subsequent six years. Could they have predicted the world’s current economic slump?Without more data, that is no more than an intriguing possibility. So Bollen plans to look at more Future Me emails, as well as Twitter messages, to search for mood swings that foreshadow other economic changes. If he finds any such links, the same sources might be used to try and predict future economic fluctuations.So will our online footsteps become a central part of economic forecasting? We’ll have to wait and see—or perhaps do a quick web search.1.What is “real-time” web search like Twitter?2.What is the result of research established by Google researchers Hyunyoung Choi and Hal Varian?3.What can we infer from Para. 5?4.What's the meaning of “Without more data, that is no more than an intriguing possibility.”？5.What's the attitude of author to real-time search?

“Family” is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of “family” in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life.For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one’s parents and starting one’s own life. The man’s first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife’s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife’s parents nor the husband’s, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, have any right to interfere with them—they are their own masters.Readers of novels like Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families was arranged by the girl’s parents, that is, it was the parents, duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time, the girl was protected and maintained in the parents’ home, and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry （嫁妆）. It is very different today. Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage. This has had two results: a girl chooses her own husband, and she gets no dowry.1.What does the author mean by “Family is of course an elastic word”？2.For an English family, the husband’s duty is（）.3.Everything is decided in a family（）.4.What is true concerning the book Pride and Prejudice?5.With regard to marriage in Britain, present-day girls differ from former time girls in（）.

Teaching children to read well from the start is the most important task of elementary schools. But relying on educators to approach this task correctly can be a great mistake. Many schools continue to employ instructional methods that have been proven ineffective. The staying power of the “look-say” or “whole-word” method of teaching beginning reading is perhaps the most flagrant example of this failure to instruct effectively.The whole-word approach to reading stresses the meaning of words over the meaning letters, thinking over decoding, developing a sight vocabulary of familiar words over developing the ability to unlock the pronunciation of unfamiliar words. It fits in with the self-directed, “learning how to learn” activities recommended by advocates（倡导者）of “open” classrooms and with the concept that children have to be developmentally ready to begin reading. Before1963, no major publisher put out anything but these “Run-Spot-Run” readers.However, in 1955, Rudolf Flesch touched off what has been called “the great debate” in beginning reading. In his best-seller Why Johnny Can’t Read, Flesch indicted （控诉）the nation’s public schools for miseducating students by using the look-say method. He said--and more scholarly studies by Jeane Chall and Rovert Dykstra later confirmed_that another approach to beginning reading, founded on phonics（语音学）,is far superior.Systematic phonics first teaches children to associate letters and letter combinations with sounds; it then teaches them how to blend these sounds together to make words. Rather than building up a relatively limited vocabulary of memorized words, it imparts a code by which the pronunciations of the vast majority of the most common words in the English language can be learned. Phonics does not devalue the importance of thinking about the meaning of words and sentences; it simply recognizes that decoding is the logical and necessary first step.1.The author feels that counting on educators to teach reading correctly is（）.2.The author indicts the look-say reading approach because（）.3.One major difference between the look-say method of learning reading and the phonics method is（） .4.The phrase “touch-off”（Para 3）most probably means（）.5.According to the author, which of the following statements is true?

Many American students（1）higher education to prepare for professional employment. In your academic training you will need to begin planning for the（2）from college to career. A career is really a process—it is how you progress through a （3）of jobs and occupations during your working years. A college education can help you get started on your career journey.In America society, the type of occupational fields you choose and jobs you hold（4）your entire lifestyle: your concept, income, prestige, choice of friends, and where you will live. This freedom to choose from thousands of employment choices can be（5）or troubling—if you don’t know where and how to begin.Career planning is a comprehensive process that takes much time and（6）. Career planning can greatly increase your（7）of obtaining employment in the occupation you choose. However, career planning includes much more than a job search. It begins with carefully considering what you want and need in life.Career planning can be divided into four（8）steps that include self-assessment, occupational exploration and selection, career preparation, and job seeking. Although each student’s goal will be（9）, one suggested timetable to help you keep on course is to complete one step in each university year. Your（10）may be longer or shorter depending on your career goal.

They bought the land with a（） to build a new office block.

Many scientists remain（） about the value of this research program.

When you are camping, there are many inconveniences that have to be（）.

The price of the coal will vary according to how far it has to be transported and how expensive the freight（） are.

It suddenly occurred to Anne that money couldn't（） all that Bob had suffered in the past five years.

The Prime Minister was followed by five or six（） when he got off the plane.

As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he（） his parents' strict rules.

The old lady has developed a（） cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.

The wings of the bird still（） after it had been shot down.

Rumors are everywhere, spreading fear, damaging reputations, and turning calm situations into（） ones.

I （） on a book with him. He help me a lot with collecting materials.

Sadly, the Giant Panda is one of the many species now in danger of（）.

If you work under a car when repairing it, you often get very（）.

Can you find（） at the hotel for the night?

We couldn't really afford to buy a house so we got it on hire purchase and paid monthly（）.

Doctors are interested in using lasers as a surgical tool in operations on people who are （） to heart attack.

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