Pat Dempsey, a librarian at a public library in Ohio, has found Chapter-A-Day helps her library clients get back in the habit of reading. “It’s a different way to get people hooked on books,” she says.

31．       Chapter-A-Day is intended to help people        .

A．get back into the habit of reading

B．relieve stress from office work

C．find interesting books online

D．buy books more conveniently

32．       The passage was written in        .

A．1999                      B．2000                      C．2001                     D．2002

33．       It can be inferred that through Chapter-A-Day        .

A．public libraries have become crowded with readers

B．Ms Beecher made much money for her software company

C．people begin to read very slowly and patiently

D．people cannot finish reading any book online

34．       The word “installment” in the passage probably means“        ”.

A．a library email                                           B．a rare piece of literature

C．a free novel                                               D．a part of a book

35．       Ms Beecher decided to expand her Chapter-A-Day service because        .

A．over 3,000 libraries had joined

B．many other people could benefit

C．eight book clubs supported her

D．free email service was available

Passage Two

Chicago Public Schools are going to great lengths to hire teachers—now the school district recruits teachers from other countries to help solve a shortage of teachers. It all started in 1999, when Youses Hannon, a math and physics teacher from Palestine (巴勒斯坦), visited Chicago. He read about the teacher shortage at Chicago Public Schools and asked the school board if they’d hire him. The board was interested and decided to create a special program for foreign-born teachers like Hannon, and he was the first teacher hired.

The program is called the Global Educator Outreach or GEO, and it’s a partnership between