Meet the “Tutor Kings and Queens”
“If you want to be a top tutor, it definitely helps if you are young and attractive. Students look at your appearance，” said Kelly Mok, 26, a “tutor queen” at King's Glory, one of Hong Kong's largest tutorial establishments.
Richard Eng from Beacon College, a former secondary school teacher, is often credited with being the first of Hong Kong's “star tutors”. “In school all the teachers look the same, there's no excitement，” he said.
The celebrity tutor phenomenon is a result of the huge growth in outofschool tutoring in Asia. It is fuelled by highly pressured examination systems and ambitious parents wanting their children to secure places at top universities and highstatus secondary schools.
In societies where success is_equated_with good exam results, parental anxiety converts into a “steady stream of revenue(收入)” for tutoring establishments, according to a study by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)．
The tutoring industry, or “shadow education” as the ADB calls it, has become very widespread in Asia, fed by the growth in universities and the rising proportion of school leavers aiming for university. Hong Kong University's professor Mark Bray, one of the authors of the ADB study, said a staggering 72% of finalyear school students in Hong Kong now go to private tutors.
It's not just Hong Kong. Tutoring has “spread and intensified(强化) in Asia and become more commercialized，” said Professor Bray. In South Korea, 90% of primary school children attend such classes. In China, New Oriental Education and Technology has grown to become one of the largest tutoring schools in Asia with around 2.4 million students this year. In South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India, tutorial schools use star tutors to attract even more students.
1.According to Kelly Mok, tutors ________.
A．have a lot in common with school teachers
B．benefit much from their appearances
C．become more and more popular in the world
D．have much more pressure than in the past
2.Who is probably a “tutor king” in Hong Kong?
A．Kelly Mok. B．Richard Eng.
C．Mark Bray. D．Not mentioned.
3.What Professor Bray says in this passage means that ________.
A．the number of school leavers is increasing
B．tutoring may improve achievement for individual students
C．star tutors have attracted 2.4 million students
D．more and more students in Asia go to private tutors
4.The underlined part in Paragraph 4 is similar in meaning to ________.
A．is equal to B．leads to
C．results in D．is different from
5.Where is this passage probably taken from?
A．An English newspaper. B．A travel guide.
C．A fashion magazine. D．A physics book.
Yu Bingbing is a 28yearold market research manager. When she is ____ her way to work each morning, she cannot help feeling ____ about whether she has locked the door of her apartment and ____ off the gas.
“I'm usually ____ with these feelings for the entire day，” Yu said. Working at an international pharmaceutical(制药的) firm, Yu looks older than she is and her heavily madeup face always has a(n) ____ look. “Since I have been ____ to a managerial position, I lose my temper with my parents and husband more frequently just because of some ____ things，” she said, adding that ____ wrinkles and acne(粉刺) on her face have irritated her even more, and even luxury cosmetics cannot ____ her.
“I have to work six days a week and don't even have extra offtime when I'm sick，” she said. “I have to ____ myself to become a workaholic since the competition in my company is really ____ and I also have to pay a 5,000 yuan monthly mortgage, besides saving a certain amount of money for my ____ baby.”
Life is like riding on a ____ for Yu and many other members of China's post80s generation, the first generation ____ after the ____ of the familyplanning policy and the group to benefit ____ from the country's opening up policy and its booming economy.
Being the only child in their family, and without much to trouble them during their youth, most of them were taken good care of or even ____ by their parents and grandparents.
Having such a ____ carefree youth—when this generation reached ____ and had to ____ with soaring(猛增的) prices, the high cost of raising children and intense competition in the workplace—they suffered a rude awakening.
According to statistics, the population of China's post80s generation is over 200 million. The media usually refers to them as “slaves” to property, credit cards, children and marriage.
1.A.on B．inC．at D．off
2.A.unsure B．doubtfulC．anxious D．angry
3.A.turned B．tookC．got D．run
4.A.wrestling B．goingC．associating D．keeping
5.A.worried B．exhaustedC．sad D．terrible
6.A.promoted B．risenC．put D．occupied
7.A.unhappy B．unimportantC．bad D．household
8.A.big B．manyC．heavy D．slight
9.A.help B．decorateC．benefit D．beautify
10.A.makeB．pushC．pull D．encourage
11.A.fierce B．severeC．strong D．huge
12.A.planned B．preparedC．behaved D．grown
13.A.bike B．horseC．rollercoaster D．line
14.A.born B．raisedC．started D．suffered
15.A.practice B．introductionC．completion D．influence
16.A.much B．mostC．approximately D．little
17.A.loved B．protectedC．avoided D．spoiled
18.A.likely B．seriouslyC．greatly D．relatively
19.A.childhood B．youthC．adulthood D．midlife
20.A.cope B．meetC．talk D．share
(2013·山西高三诊断)Honey, you ________ alcohol for they have stopped drinking.
A．may not have bought B．mustn't have bought
C．can't have bought D．needn't have bought
(2013·河北普通高中高三质量预测)—What courses are you going to learn next term?
—I don't know.But it's about time ________ on something.
A．I'd decide B．I decided
C．I decide D．I'm deciding
(2013·辽宁五校第一联合体高三考试)The little child ________ go out alone at night, so he ________ walk in the dark that night.
A．doesn't dare to; dared not to
B．daren't to; didn't dare to
C．daren't; dared not
D．doesn't dare to; dare not
(2013·开封高三第一次模考)—Did Ann fail in English?
—She ________.Don't you notice that she looks depressed?
A．might B．must
C．may have D．could have
