The library is one of the most popular places at a western university. Students
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The library is one of the most popular places at a western university. Students turn to it for research, conversations about class, and many other services.
Compared with Chinese libraries, college libraries, college libraries in the US and UK tent to offer more resources. A postgraduate at Yale University can borrow as many as 225 books at a time.
In addition to borrowing books, there are online and electronic resources. These include a database search of popular and academic material, such as LexisNexis Academic, which offer items from newspapers and magazines.
Although books and articles are the items that students ask for most frequently, some libraries provide audio and video recordings, maps and sheet music （活页乐谱）. At some schools, teachers and tutors put electronic copies of their teaching PPTs on the library Web to give easier access for students.
Another useful service in Western college libraries is the Interlibrary Loan. This allows a student at one school to borrow books from another school. The loan request is make through the student’s college library, which gets the book, gives it to the user, and arranges for its return.
Technology has brought more services to students and has made libraries attractive. Some universities have services for students to send messages through the computer or mobile texts to ask the library staff for information.
Earlier this year, Harvard University introduced a new Scan and Deliver service, allowing students to make requests for parts of books and articles. Requests made through the system are handled by library staff. The student receives and e-mail with an Internet link to the scanned pages. The service is free and all material comes within four days.
It used to be that libraries didn’t allow food or drinks. But that rule is changing and many of them now contain a café so students can spend as much time as they want in the library.
Actually, some US university libraries are now all-night affairs, or have at least one study room open all night.
1. In Western college libraries a postgraduate can ______.
A. have a free drink or a meal
B. borrow as many books as they want
C. access not only books but other study resources
D. ask questions and get answers from their tutors
2. LexisNexis Academic is the name of ______.
A. a database
B. a library
C. a university
D. a guide
3. How can a college student borrow books from other college’s libraries?
A. By going to these libraries.
B. By getting them through the Internet.
C. By sending messages through the computer or mobile texts.
D. By borrowing them through their own library.
4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Chinese library services are better than western ones.
B. Library staff play an important role in college library service.
C. Postgraduates can post their own PPTs to the library website.
D. 24-hour services are adopted in all western libraries nowadays.
5. Why are university libraries more attractive now?
A. Because students can eat and drink there at any time.
B. Because students can have a stay-over there all night.
C. Because students can enjoy quicker and more convenient services.
D. Because students can borrow anything they want there. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:C |
解析
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举一反三
New rules will let millions of Americans know where more of their food comes from. The law is known as COOL—Country of Origin Labeling.
American Congress first passed the law in 2002. Stores have had to label seafood by country of origin since 2005. But industry pressure delayed other requirements until last week.
Products that must now be labeled include fresh fruits and vegetables, muscle meats and some kinds of nuts. But the rules are complex, and many foods are excluded. For example, organ meats are free to be labeled. So are processed foods, including cooked or smoked food.
The United States has imported more and more food in recent years to save money and expand choices. Country-of-origin labeling has become more common lately but has still been limited in many stores.
Food safety is one reason why some shoppers pay close attention to where foods came from. For example, when a large number of people recently got sick from salmonella（沙门菌病）, officials blamed peppers from Mexico. Yet the last big food scare involved spinach (菠菜) grown in California. But labeling is also a way for people to know they are getting what they want. Some want to buy local foods or foods from a particular country.
The country-of-origin labeling law gives stores 30 days to correct any violations that are found. Stores and suppliers that are found to be deliberately violating the law could be fined 1000 dollars per violation. Federal inspectors are not to take action to enforce the law for six months to give time for an education campaign.
Some food safety activists say they are generally pleased with the law. They call it a good step that will give people more useful information.
1. What’s the regulation in the new rules?
A. Stores have to label food by its producing date from now on.
B. The country-of-origin labeling has to be marked on more food.
C. Stores have to label seafood by country of origin.
D. Labeling of food should include more useful information.
2. Why has more and more food been imported to the United States in recent years?
A. Because it is economical and provides people with more choices.
B. Because the United States is short of food supply.
C. Because Americans need more and more food recently.
D. Because foreign food is of higher quality than native food.
3. Consumers are more concerned about where foods came from because ______.
A. they are curious about the country of the food origin
B. they are particular about the tastes of the food
C. they are concerned about food safety and want to get what they want
D. most of the shoppers are food safety activists themselves
4. The new rules of the country-of-origin labeling law will come into effect ______.
A. right now B. in a month C. in three months D. in half a year
5. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A. Most Americans prefer imported vegetables to the vegetables grown in local places.
B. The government of America will forbid importing peppers from Mexico.
C. The law was not fully carried out until last week because of food industry’s resistance.
D. Store owners are most likely to be the supporters of the law. |
第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Many years ago, there was a king in China. He 36 a beautiful girl named Chang Er and made her stay in the palace so that he could see her 37 he wanted. However, the girl did not like the frightened figure of the king. She. 38 spoke a word in the palace. Each time the king went to her place, he 39 show her some treasures and brough some gifts to 40 her.
On every full moon, the girl would light candles to worship the moon. People believed that there was a god living in the moon that made the moon 41 .
One day, the full moon of the eighth month, the king 42 three pills to show her. “ This is from the priest(道士) of the palace. If we eat them up, we can live forever.” He 43 .
Because the king was afraid that the pills would have side effects. He forced the girs to take the 44 first. If nothing wrong with her after taking the pill, he would take it immediately. 45, the girl recognized that if she took all three of them, the king would 46 her eventually. Therefore, she 47 the king for the first time, “ Let me have a look at the pills first. Otherwise, I will not try at all.”
The king was 48 that the girl talked to him. So he 49 the pills to the girl. She did not say 50 but eat all of them. The king was extremely angry. He wanted to kill her.
At this moment, the girl started to 51 . She could fly for the sake of the 52 of the pills. The king could not catch her but had to watch her fly 53 the moon and disappear.
After that, people 54 . that there was a beautiful girl stay in the moon with a little old man and a bunny. The old man was believed to be the god inside the moon and bunny was his 55 . Day after day, Chinese believed that there were people lived in the moon.
36.A.met B.married C.inspected D.loved
37.A.wherever B.however C.whatever D.whenever
38.A.seldomB.never C.ever D.always
39.A.should B.might C.would D.could
40.A.satisfy B.show C.guarantee D.please
41.A.shine B.light C.appear D.hide
42.A.took B.brought C.carried D.fetched
43.A. answered B.responded C.exclaimed D.forecasted
44.A.palace B.pill C.moon D.bunny
45.A.Therefore B.Moreover C.Besides D.However
46.A.forgive B.give up C.leave D.give away
47.A.turned to B.talked with C.depended on D.spoke to
48.A.surprised B.confused C.angryD.scared
49.A.donated B.returned C.awarded D.handed
50.A.something B.nothing C.anything D.everything
51.A.fly B.rise C.develop D.strike
52.A.quality B.variety C.intakeD.instructions
53.A.into B.toward C.onto D.within
54.A.argued B.estimated C.guessed D.believed
55.A.companion B.guideC.pet D.choice |
“She was born for the camera,” said a photographer who shot Liu Yifei’s picture when she was only eight.
Over the past year, Liu, an 18-year-old Chinese American, has shot to fame while playing Wang Yuyan in Jin Yong’s Eightfold Path of the Heavenly Dragon(《天龙八部》). Millions of teenagers have been drawn in by her light smile and beautiful long hair. Many magzines have described her as one of the most charming young actresses of 2004. People say that Liu will be even bigger this year.
“ She is so beautiful on TV. She has the special character to give flesh and blood to the fairy-like and beautiful Wang Yuyan,” said Yang Mingwei, a Senior 2 boy and Liu’s fan from Wuyi High School in Fujian.
Currently Liu filmed the TV series The return of the Condor Heroes(《神雕侠侣》), another Jin Yong novel. In the show aired this year, Liu played the Little Dragon female.
Liu is now a grade three student at the Beijing Film Academy, the star factory of China. But some people say that her success is only down to her beauty. When she returned to China with her mother at the age of 14, she did original work as a model. It was when a director saw her picture on an advertisement board on the street that her opportunity to work in TV arose.
“A pretty face does not last forever. To be a good actress you must work hard and have a professional attitude,” Liu said. Every day she spends hours practising all the kungfu kicks and punches for the show.
“There have been times during filming when I have remained hanging in the air on wires for half a day as the director keeps trying to get the perfect take,” said Liu recenly.
1.In the first paragraph, the photographer commented on Liu’s .
A.beauty B.talent as an actress
C.promising future D.special character
2.What does the underlined word “aired” probably mean?
A.Flown. B.Broadcast. C.Published. D.Recorded.
3.From Yang Mingwei, we learned that he meant Liu Yifei ______.
A.worked hard when playing Wang Yuyan
B.is more beautiful than Wang Yuyan
C.did a good job in the playing Wang Yuyan
D.was very lucky to play Wang Yuyan
4.In which part of a newspaper can you read the above passage?
A.National news. B.Business. C.Advertisement. D.Famous people. |
第Ⅱ卷(非选择题 共35分)
第四部分写作(共二节，满分35分)
第一节对话填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据所给的字母的提示，在标有题号的横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺
Here is a conversation between a baby snail and his mother, which 76.t______ me deeply.
Baby snail: “Why was I born with a 77.s______ that grew so hard and so heavy?”
Mother snail: “Because we do not have bones to 78.s______ us. We can only crawl and move 79.s______, so we get a shell to protect us.”
Baby snail: “The caterpillar（毛虫）has no bones either, nor can she move quickly. Why can she go without a shell?”
Mother snail: “That’s because a caterpillar will become a 80.b_______. She can fly high to sky, and the sky can protect her.”
Baby snail: “But the earthworm（蚯蚓）81.c______ like us. He has no bones, nor can he turn into a butterfly. Why does he not 82.c______ a hard and heavy shell?”
Mother snail: “He can drill a hole into the ground to protect himself.”
Baby snail: (Bursting into tears) “What a 83.p______! We have no 84.p______ from either the sky or the ground.”
Mother snail: “That’s why we are 85.g______ with a shell. We don’t need to depend on the sky or the ground for protection. We depend on ourselves.” |
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Think you can’t be happy? You’ll think again after reading this story.
Barbara Ann Kipfer hated her feet. They were too big and she always seemed to 36 over them when someone was 37 —usually a smart guy. Come to think of it, her teeth were too big, too. The other kids teased her because of the way she 38 and because she wanted to be a sportswriter some day. No matter what she did, she was teased for being “ 39 .”
That’s 40 she started writing down things that she liked in a notebook. “It was like a friend, and it 41 me that there are good things, 42 everything around me is unpleasant,” she says. She copied the list over and over, 43 new things every day.
One day, she decided to 44 her list with some of the girls in her class, hoping they would think it was as much fun as she did. But 45 , they made her feel stupid again. “They laughed at me,” she remembers, “I was ashamed, and I 46 doing it.” Here comes the 47 part. When she was in 10th grade, Kipfer found her old notebook and decided to 48 where she left off. “It was like a diary, like a photograph of my life,” she says. She started writing to publishers, asking them if they’d be interested in printing her list as a book.
She kept writing to one company 49 , because she liked the types of books it printed. “He kept saying, ‘It’s just a list, what am I supposed to do with it?’” “You’re not 50 to do anything with it. It’s 51 supposed to remind people of something they did that was really 52 .”
Finally, the publisher 53 to turn Kipfer’s list into a book, which sold more than million copies! 14,000 Things to Be Happy About even 54 it to be New York Times Best Sellers list. 55 being a best-selling author, Kipfer also went to realize her dream of becoming a sports editor at the Chicago Tribune.
36. A. jump B. fall C. turn D. push
37. A. nearby B. around C. watching D. laughing
38. A. dressed B. lived C. thought D. looked
39. A. foolish B. special C. different D. shy
40. A. what B. when C. because D. where
41. A. reminded B. told C. persuaded D. helped
42. A. because B. but C. unless D. even though
43. A. adding B. finding C. making D. giving
44. A. talk B. discuss C. share D. write
45. A. then B. naturally C. further D. instead
46. A. continued B. stopped C. enjoyed D. hated
47. A. cool B. important C. exciting D. funny
48. A. find out B. pick up C. think of D. give up
49. A. in general B. at first C. in particular D. at last
50. A. made B. going C. advised D. supposed
51. A. often B. just C. also D. always
52. A. excellent B. successful C. fun D. true
53. A. hoped B. agreed C. refused D. considered
54. A. made B. expected C. hoped D. helped
55. A. Without B. Instead of C. While D. Besides |
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