Many of the students are working to help（)their college tuition.

A.therefore

B.however

C.instead

D.besides

gs cannot be _______ measured.

A、perfect

B、precisely

C、total

D、distinctive

A.with

B.against

C.for

D.to

students end dorm life as soon as they can. Residence(住校)choices at U.S. colleges and universities are as different as the institutions themselves, but the first-year dorm experience is generally a mandatory rite(仪式)of passage. Students often complain about the space, but compared with most Chinese dorm rooms those in the U.S. are costly and satisfying. Most students spend their first year in a double room, usually with an area of somewhere between 12 and 15 square meters. A standard room includes a sink(washbasin), a telephone, a bunk-bed, two desks and two wardrobes. Rooms often come equipped with cable TV and broadband Internet access. Students usually provide other extras for themselves-they buy or rent a mini-refrigerator and bring along a carpet, a computer and audiovisual equipment. Roommates are usually chosen by chance from among all the new students at the university, so it's quite likely you won't share any classes with your roommate. It's not only the lack of space, but the many rules that make students feel they've had enough after a year. Rules on visitors of the opposite sex and alcohol are considered by many as the most bothersome(讨厌的)。 Some students put much effort into making their rooms different, especially by using paint, but this can lead to fines. Many students who leave move into an apartment or share a house with friends. This offers more freedom and sometimes even costs less than residence hall living. But a few grow fond of dorm life and stay on for another year or even longer. The most devoted go on to serve as resident assistants, the enforcers(执行者)of rules.

1.Students usually have dorm life for at least one year because ().

A.they have to

B.they like to try something new

C.they want to make new friends

D.their dorm life is quite satisfying

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？()

A.Students can have other residence choices after their fist-year dorm life

B.It's not necessary that you share a room with your classmates

C.Maybe boys are only allowed to visit girls at fixed time

D.No one would like to go on with their dorm life after first-year dorm life experience

3.Which of the following is probably NOT the reason why students end their dorm life as soon as possible？()

A.Rooms are too small

B.Their roommates are not friendly

C.They don't like the many rules there

D.It is more expensive.

4.What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph？()

A.All students do enjoy their dorm life

B.Some students become the enforcers of rules

C.Though many students move out, there are some students who stay on

D.Students are allowed to stay on

5.What is the best title for the passage？()

A.Most U.S. Students Move Our of the Dorm

B.U.S. University Students Today

C.University Life in the U.S.

D.The U.S. University Students Need More Freedom

Homecoming Day

In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance.

Several days before Homecoming Day，students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team，and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming Day twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

The members of school clubs build booths and sell lemonade，apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.

During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is great honor to be chosen.

Homecoming Day is a happy day，but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering. (240 words)

11. What do many high schools and colleges with a football team have？

A. A Homecoming game.

B. A Homecoming party.

C. A Homecoming dance

D. A Homecoming concert

12. When do students begin to plan the Homecoming Day？

A. Two weeks in advance.

B. One week in advance

C. Many weeks in advance

D. Two or three days in advance

13. What do students start to do several days before the Homecoming Day？

A. Stop classes for parties

B. Decorate the school

C. Set up welcoming groups

D. Hold all kinds of parties

14. Which is NOT mentioned about the things they do before the football game？

A. Look for teachers

B. See old friends

C. Talk together.

D. Order tickets

15. When does the band play school songs？

A. While the game is going on

B. After the game

C. When the game is half over

D. Before the game

A.A.这些十二、三岁的学生中许多人在进那个学校以前从没进过教室

B.B.这些年龄12至13岁的学生中的许多人在进那个学校以前还从来没有踏进过教室的门

ey do not actually hear every word.They also fail to understand that they integrate their knowledge about language with their experience and knowledge of such things as topic and culture, and do not need to hear to hear every word. This means that learners Often have unrealistic expectations and try to understand each word Of a listening text. As some experts point 0ut，“such total comprehension…is a misconception 0f how normal comprehension works in the native language.” Learners’anxiety may get worse when a classroom procedure does not provide adequate context for the text Or prepare the topic by activating their prior knowledge;in Other words，a procedure which asks students to“Listen to the text and then answer the questions.” This tests listening ability rather than aiming to teach it.Adults returning to English language learning whose earlier experiences have been of this nature may have developed negatlve perceptions 0f their ability as 1isteners and a maior task for the teacher will be to build confidence. This means recognizing anxiety and a major tasking care to provide positive classroom experiences.For example，the teacher needs to make sure that the pace and length of a 1istening activity is not too taxing as the concentration required in trying to cornprehend unfamliliar sounds can be tiring.

21.When they comprehend their native language by 1istening，many language learners tend to think that they_____

A.need to hear every word

B.have linguistic knowledge

C.know the culture very well

D.have some existing experience

22.According to the passage,foreign language learning depends very much upon_____.

A.native lauguage competence

B.ability to concentrate

C.experience and knowledge

D.personal preference

23.This passage is mainly about _______.

A.writing

B.speaking

C.reading

D.1istening

24.The language teacher should _______.

A.develop negative perceptions Of students’ability

B.activate the prior knowledge students have

C.refer t0 the past experience 0f adult 1earners

D.help students understand their native 1anguage first

25.The word “taxing” in the last sentence probably means

A.costly

B.demanding

C.anxious

D.interesting

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With One day, Mr. Green told his students to make sentences (1) the words“love, hate” and so on. The kids were all busy (2) the work on their notes.

(3) several minutes many of them handed in their work (4) the teacher.Mr. Green read the notes one (5) one. And most(6)the sentences made by the children were good. There was a big smile(7)his face. Just (8) that time he found a piece of red paper. On it there was such a sentence,“I love my mother better than my father.”“Eim... OK!”said Mr.Green,“but..”He turned over the paper.

He found there were no names (9) that paper. He read the sentence again and again. And slowly the big smile (10) his face was gone. Then he said to the class, “ Whose paper is this？”Tom stood up and said,“It's mine, sir.”

y speeding up the process generally. Most people can learn to cover material much faster than they do now while maintaining a high level of comprehension.

Improvement in reading efficiency has several major benefits. We need reading skills to benefit from the wealth of information that is now available in printed form. Most people get the rough outlines of their daily news from television and radio. However, the printed word still provides the in-depth coverage of topics that really produces well-informed people. Reading is also a great source of entertainment for many people. For students, it is the primary method of studying.

The time you now spend reading can be made much more productive by increasing your reading rate. For some people this will mean that they can obtain more information in the same length of time. For others it will mean that time now devoted to reading can be used in other more interesting and profitable ways.

To determine how fast you are reading, you first have to get some idea of the number of words in a given passage. Then you simply divide the number of words by the number of minutes it takes to read. That will give your rate in words per minute.

1、The passage is taken from.()

A、a story book

B、a news report

C、a report on a scientific research

D、a book on reading

2、Which of the following statements is NOT a benefit from reading according to the passage？()

A、Reading will help readers get more information

B、By reading readers will have an in-depth coverage of daily news

C、Students must read so that they can master knowledge

D、Improvement of reading helps readers get outlines of daily news

3、This passage mainly discusses.()

A、different kinds of reading

B、the importance of improving reading skills and how to calculate reading rate

C、reading as a source of entertainment

D、different ways to improve reading speed

4、"reading efficiency" in Paragraph 2 means.()

A、the average reading rate

B、the ability of reading fast with a good understanding

C、reading materials readers like

D、reading habits

5、Reading speed can be calculated by.()

A、counting how many words a reader has read

B、dividing the total number of words a reader read by the time he spends on reading

C、timing how many minutes a reader has read

D、asking help from the teacher

by memory of all the basic things one must know is a most incredible and unending effort. School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three teachers in a lifetime are the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and partner, ED Rickets.

I have to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that three are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

My three teachers had these things in common: They all loved what they were doing; they did not tell, but stimulated a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprang wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable.

I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery. She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussions. She had the noisiest class in school and she did not even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation (思绪) ranged the world. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies (萤火虫).

She was fired, and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. I have had many teachers who told me soon-forgotten facts but only three who created in me a new attitude a new hunger. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a person？

21. In the writer’s opinion, school life is usually .

A. exciting B. interesting C. tiresome D. challenging

22. We can infer from Paragraph 2 that .

A. it is easy to find great artists as well as great teachers.

B. there are few great teachers but many great artists.

C. the greatest artists are not easy to find; nor are the greatest teachers.

D. being a great teacher is a great art to learn because teachers spread knowledge.

23. In the writer’s opinion, a good teacher should .

A. teach students the fundamental things

B. stick to one subject and be strict with students

C. teach students the knowledge ranging the world

D. arouse students’ curiosity and desire for the world

24. The writer’s first teacher was dismissed mainly because .

A. her class was the noisiest in school

B. she did not teach basic knowledge in class

C. she let students shout and wave books in class

D. she did not know how to teach basic knowledge effectively

25. What is the best title of this article？

A. The Teachers in My Life B. How to Become a Teacher

C. What to Teach at School D. What Makes a Good Teacher

阅读理解 Passage 1 　　Manners evolved differently in different cultures. In earlier times there was a tendency for manners to become increasingly formal, and this was often viewed as progress. In the 18th and 19th centuries having good manners was seen as an important part of one’s education and social class, and it was necessary to be taken as a lady or a gentleman to get ahead in the world. 　　In the 20th and 21st centuries, manners have gradually become more relaxed and informal. The hosting of dinners and other social gatherings are no longer the exclusive privilege of the wealthy elite (精英), and private clubs are being gradually replaced by more open meeting places. So the manners of the salon (沙龙) are gradually combining with the manners of the pub. Clothing is a good indication of the changes in manners, as can be seen in the following examples. 　　It is surprising that the wearing of hats indoors by males is once again becoming acceptable. Students in North America often wear baseball caps to class. In many countries the wearing of hats indoors by males was once acceptable even in very polite society, but over the years this became considered as a lower-class behavior. and was thus discouraged in both the middle and upper classes. The young people who wear hats indoors do not realize they are actually restarting a very old cultural tradition. 　　A comparable development for females is the wearing of jeans. Many females now wear jeans on a daily basis, either at home or at work. Some see this as a symbolic declaration that they are now modern women, not girls or ladies. Some girls, like boys, wear baseball caps both indoors and outdoors. 　　Sneakers and shorts are now acceptable for either males or females in a variety of non-athletic situations. Some companies have rules requiring informal dress such as jeans or sneakers on Fridays (called “dress-down Friday” or “casual Friday”), and others permit it almost all the time. In these companies, and many others, it is acceptable to call the bosses by their first names. 1 What does the passage mainly talk about？

A、Changes of manners over time.

B、Formal manners in the earlier times.

C、Different manners in different cultures.

D、Development of manners in different classes.