user: Read the article and select the best answer. Article: prefix = st1 /11 Windrift Circle Methuen, MA 978 - 555 - 4539 JOB OBJECTIVE Seek special education, primary school, or middle school math teaching position. EDUCATION Rivier College, Nashua,NH Bachelor of Arts in Education - May, 2006 Major: Elementary Education Have successfully completed PRAXIS I and PRAXIS II. Meet highly qualified testing requirements for Massachusetts and New Hampshire. TEACHING EXPERIENCE November, 2005 - January, 2006 Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst,NH Student Teacher * Developed and completed student - centered lessons in all subject areas for various groups of fifth grade special and regular education students. *Adapted lessons to meet student's needs by reviewing their backgrounds and learning needs through IEPs. *Communicated with parents on a regular basis via newsletters, daily or weekly progress reports, phone calls, and email, resulting in increased parental participation at home. August, 2005 - November, 2005 Charlotte Avenue Elementary School, Nashua,NH Student Teacher *Taught reading and writing through Language Experience Approach methods. *Introduced a Writer's Workshop appropriate for first grade students to help them to develop their writing skills. *Developed learning stations in reading and science, enabling students to be more independent learners. Spring, 2005 Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst,NH Designed and taught a unit on Insects and Spiders, based on New Hampshire Standards to 23 self -contained, third and fourth grade students with disabilities. Fall, 2004 Amherst Street Elementary School, Nashua,NH Taught a class of 24 third grade students with a wide range of abilities. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE *After-School Aid, Amherst School District, Amherst,NH(2004 - 2005) *Summer Camp advisor, YMCA, Nashua,NH(Summers, 2002 and 2003) *Big Brother / Big Sister Volunteer, Nashua,NH(2002 - 2005) Question: Which of the following is NOT included in the ways Linda used to communicate with the students' parents? Options: A: Newsletters. B: Phone calls. C: Face-to-face talks. D: Daily or weekly progress reports.
C
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Read the article and select the best answer. Article: Pacing and Pausing Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing. Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara. It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel. The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping  . And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in -- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up. That's why slight differences in conversational style -- tiny little things like microseconds of pause -- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this cause was a judgment of psychological problems -- even in the mind of... Question: According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns? Options: A: Americans. B: Israelis. C: The British. D: The Finns.
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B
Read the article and select the best answer. Article: The sun was just coming up when I headed out to work last May at 6 a.m. Not quite dark but dark enough to need my headlights. I turned onto one of the lonely rural country roads. Maybe it was because I was listening to the radio, maybe it was because I was already thinking about some projects at work, that I didn't spot the dark object on the road until I was too late. I ran over it and felt the back left tire pull, and then sink. I stopped and got out of the car. No mystery here---- my back left tyre was cut like a loaf of bread. Back 50 yards was a piece of sharp iron I had run over. I had never changed a tyre. I looked up the road. Not a car in either direction. The nearest service station was miles away. I threw up my hands. Then I remembered---- my cell phone! I powered it up before realizing, I didn't know who to call. Wouldn't you know it, I spotted a car coming from the opposite direction. The driver slowed as he approached. I guessed he could see I was in trouble. He stopped his car, got out and immediately saw the trouble. "Madam, would you like me to change that tyre for you?" he asked. The man couldn't have been more friendly. I was frightened out there and he put me completely at ease. "There," he said, after putting on the spare, "you are all set to go." "Good thing for me that you were driving this way," I told him, as I climbed back into my car. "Funny you should say that," he said. "Just like you, I was heading to work, but my job is in the opposite direction. I made a wrong turn at some point. I don't know what I was thinking." Question: The writer didn't notice the object on the road because   _  . Options: A: it was rather dark then B: she didn't use her headlights C: there was much traffic D: she was careless when driving


assistant: D