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综合题，请根据题目给出的内容，来回答下面给出的试题。Part I Writing (30
minutes)
请根据上面给出的内容，来回答下面的简答题（共1题）。
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the
topic “Education: Examination-Oriented or Quality-Oriented”. You should write at
least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese:
1. 应试教育现状及其原因;
2. 素质教育的优点;
3. 你的观点。
(本题0 分)
请填写答案：
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly.
For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C)
and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the
passage.
Selling Expertise on the Internet for Extra Cash
Teresa Estes, a licensed mental-health counselor, watched as business at her
private practice decreased last year. Then the single mother turned to her keyboard to
boost her income.
Ms. Estes applied to become an “expert” on LivePerson Inc., a Web site where
clients pay for online chat time with professionals and advisers of all fields. For $1.89
a minute — a rate she set — the 39-year-old from Marianna, Fla., dispenses advice
to clients around the globe. She spends about four hours a day online, often at night,
when her daughter has gone to bed.
“It was the economy,” she says of her move to take her skills online. “Live
Person is more profitable than my private practice.” Ms. Estes had charged her
private clients up to $75 an hour.
As the recession deepens, a small but growing number of people are taking their
skills online, offering expertise or performing specified tasks for a fee.
Labor-at-the-keyboard sites are gaining popularity as people increasingly turn to the 免费？宅在家学英语？怎么报名？
Web in search of work. Internet job-search sites saw a 51% rise in traffic from
January 2008 to January 2009, according to comScore Media Metrix, to 26.7 million
unique visitors.
Among the many fee-for-service Web sites out there, at least three are
attracting a significant number of users — though consumers should exercise a
healthy degree of skepticism when consulting any of these sites. Live Person seeks
out experts on a slew of topics, including mental health, financial services, shopping
and fashion, as well as psychics and spiritual advisers. Mechanical Turk, a Web
service run by Inc., pays workers to perform tasks, such as cataloging
products online. Associated Content pays contributors to write articles on a wide
range of subjects, from organic flower gardening to how to apply for financial aid.
Live Person went public in 2001, and the current version of the site was launched
in late 2007. Today, the site has 30,000 registered experts, attracting an average of
100,000 people a year who pay for the offered services, says Chief Executive Officer
Robert LoCascio. Roughly 3,500 people have made contributing to the site their
full-time job, he says.
Live Person says it vets contributors’ qualifications, such as medical licenses or
financial certification, through a third party, and relies heavily on its community
reviews. Some 200 people a day apply to be Live Person experts, up from 120 a year
ago, says Mr. LoCascio. Once cleared, advisers work with clients on a
cost-per-minute basis set by the adviser. The site takes a commission of between 30%
and 35%.
Associated Content, by contrast, reviews submissions in house and then decides
how much to pay for them. The site, which specializes in how-to pieces and feature
stories on news topics, had 237,000 registered contributors and more than one million
content pieces as of February, both about double from the same month a year ago.
After posting the content, the site sells advertisements against it and distributes it
to other companies, such as online shoe retailer Zappos, which use the content on
their own Web sites. If Associated Content accepts a submission (it says it rejects
about 25% of them), the author gets between $5 and $30, plus $1.50 for each 1,000
page views. An ability to write “search-engine-optimized” content, an industry term
for generating good Google results, helps, says site founder Luke Beatty.
People are not only looking for payment but also establishing their credentials
“as somebody with experience”, he says. Writing about a specific profession, such
as law or real estate, helps raise a person’s profile online, enhancing his job searches,
says Mr. Beatty.
Sabah Karimi, a 26-year-old from Orlando, Fla., left a career in marketing to
