40 what does the professor mainly discuss?
41 what does the professor say about Gertrude Stein as a writer?
42 why does the professor recommend the students do as part of their homework?
43 what does the professor recommend the students do as part of their homework?

Questions 44 through 46
Listen to a talk in a class about United States history.
last week,you recall,we discussed the early development of railroads in the United States.today i want to mention an even earlier form of transportation , one that brought the first European settlers to America. and that's the wooden sailing ship. from colonial times sailing ships were vital to the economy. many coastal towns depended on fishing or whaling for employment and income. this was especiallytrue in the northeastern states. and there the wood from nearby forests and the skills of local designers and workers also formed the basis of an important shipbuilding industry. but the big profits were to be made on trade with far away places.and since sea captains often became part owners of their ships,they had a strong interest in the commercial success of their voyages.so these Yankees,that's what US sailor and officers cmae to be called, they carried on a very profitabletrade with other partsof the world.the high pointof this trade came in the mid-19th centurywith the introduction of the clipper ship,the enormous Yankee clippers with huge sails reaching nearly two hundredfeet into sky.he'd carry passengers and cargo from New York around South America to San Francisco in less than three months and clear to China in just half a year.at that time this seemed unbelievalbe fast and efficient.but in the 1860s ,more reliable steam-poweredship began to take over. and soon the important role of sailing ships in the US economy would come to an end.
44 what aspect of United States histroy does the professor mainly discuss?
45 According to the professor,what may be one reason for the success of the merchant ships of the United States?
46 what does the professor say about clipper ships?

Questions 47 through 50:
Listen to part of a talk in a class on early childhood education.the professor is discussing penmanship: the quality of one's handwriting. as you prepare to become elementary school teachers,you'll be hearing a lot of disscussion about the relevance of teaching permanship.now years ago when i was studying education in college,reading writikng and arithmetic were the basics of elementary school education.it went without saying that writing meant first and foremost penmanship.that is,the neatness of a child's handwriting.back then,penmanship was often taught as a separate subject from the fist grade right up through the sixth grade long after the children had moved from writing in block capital letters to cursive scipt. it was considered so important that sometimes prizes were even awarded for the best handwriting.but when we move ahead a few decades into the 1980s,we see teachers and administrators and even parents telling us that teaching penmanship is waste of time.with computers,they said,children can successfully manipulate the keyboard or mouse of their home computers before they can even hold a pencil. this change in attitude had an impact on the classroom. in your homework for this week you'll be looking at what statewide curriculum standards in the US say about penmanship.you'll see that in many states penmanship hasbeen de-emphasized in a required curriculum,especially in the later years of elementary school.in california,for example,the curriculum calls for fourth-grade students to...and i quote,"write fluently and legibly in cursive or grades.but after this,the curriculum makes no further mention of penmanship in grade five,six or beyond,Any higher level of quality or neatness is simply not among the curricular objectives.your assignment is to look at what the curricular standards say for all fifty states say about penmanship.

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