If you planning to study in the United States, you need to consider several fact
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If you planning to study in the United States, you need to consider several factors （因素）. Everyone has different opinions about where is the best place to live in. Also, the best places to live in are not always home to the best schools. What’s more, many schools specialize in different areas of study. They Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, is a great school for computer science. And if you want to study oceanography, your interests may be better served by attending school in a place which is near the ocean.
Now I will tell you about which states I believe are the best to live in. California is a nice state. Northern California especially has very good weather. As for me, I enjoyed the time I spent in Massachusetts, Virginia and Mary land. These states have a lot of history and culture. The weather is not so perfect as that in California, but is still quite nice. My favourite of America is the Midwest. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values. Besides, there are many good universities, too.
Also you need to think about your likes and dislikes and then research the different areas. You like sunshine and hate snow? Then you probably won’t like the Midwest or even the Northeast. Open space, nature, peace and quiet? Then you’d better stay away from America’s larger cities. Are you interested in government? Then Washington D.C. is the only place for you. Whatever you decide, put some thought into it.
小题1:From the first paragraph we can infer that in the USA .| A．all colleges and universities lie in big cities | | B．all colleges and universities lie in beautiful places | | C．famous colleges and universities lie in nice places | | D．famous colleges and universities may not lie in nice places |
小题2:____should be considered first if you want to study in the USA.
A. The climate
B. The scenery
C. The study condition
D. The living condition
小题3:The writer likes Middle America best because .| A．he feels the real character of the nation here | | B．the weather is fine here | | C．the life is full of excitement | | D．he likes sunshine and hates snow |
小题4:The passage mainly .| A．tells us something about American universities | | B．gives us some advice on studying in America | | C．lets us know about America | | D．describes the scenery of America |
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答案
小题1:D
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B |
解析
试题分析：文章介绍如何在美国挑选最适合的大学，首先要考虑学习条件，然后是气候，还有风景和生活条件以及自己选择的专业。
小题1:细节题：根据第一段第二句“the best places to live are not always home to the best schools”可知名校不一定座落在最好的地方。故选D。
小题2:推理题：根据文章内容可以看出决定出国学习的因素很多，学校所处的地理位置、学校所侧重的科目及学校的学习环境等，所有的因素比较起来，学习环境应该是最重要的。故选C。
小题3:推理题：根据第二段中“My favourite of America is the Midwest. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values.”我最喜欢美国中西部我认为美国中部是真正美国人价值观的起源地，由此可知在这里作者能感受到美国真正的特点。故选A。
小题4:主旨题：阅读全文可知文章介绍如何在美国挑选最适合的大学给的一些建议。故选B。 |
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The Internet can provide a wealth of educational resources for small children, if you know where to look. This article will offer some educational websites to small children. You may need to assist your children in navigating(导航) the pages until they understand where their favorite activities are.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted learning is a great website for children, and I know several teachers who rely on it for materials for their classrooms. Most of the information is free, but for $20.00 per year, you can purchase a membership that allows you to have access to the site without the advertising. The pages here are great. There are colored pages and worksheets for toddlers(学步儿童) and school-age children. They focus on learning language, science, animals, geography, astronomy, explorers, music, art and nursery rhymes.
Starfall
Starfall is another good educational website for small children. Teachers often use this website in classrooms. It emphasizes reading skills for early learners. The website is aimed at first grade level learners, but it has tools that can help all children from pre-K to second grade. The website has reading activities, worksheets to download, and a store where you can purchase educational materials for your children.
Sesame Street Workshop
Kids love Sesame Street, and it is always educational. This is one of the funniest websites online for children because it is very well animated and has great sound effects. The website has games and stories for small kids, and they can create letters at the post office and mail them to their favorite characters.
Sprout Online
Sprout has features on its television network, which are just for children. There are games, colored pages, recipes, music, videos, sign language activities and exercise videos for children. There are also online activities based on Sprout television shows. These include Roary the Race Car, the Wiggles, the Mighty Jungle and many others.
These are just a few of many educational websites for children. Small children love to use computers, so help them find some websites that contain fun and learning at the same time.
小题1:What’s the purpose of the author in writing this passage?| A．To introduce some educational websites to parents for their kids. | | B．To let parents distinguish between good and bad websites. | | C．To attract the readers to download some useful information. | | D．To enrich young children’s spare time with some Internet games. |
小题2:What’s the difference between people who have memberships and those who don’t?| A．With a membership, you can get the information for free. | | B．You can download materials you want for free with a membership. | | C．With a membership, you can have access to the site without the ads. | | D．You can look through more pages with a membership. |
小题3:If you want to buy educational materials for your children, you should choose _________ .| A．Enchanted Learning. | B．Starfall | | C．Sesame Street Workshop. | D．Sprout Online. |
小题4:Why does the Sesame Street Workshop have more fun than others?| A．Because it has games and stories for young kids． | | B．Because children can mail letters to their favorite characters. | | C．Because it is always educational, and children love it.. | | D．Because it has great sound effects and animation. |
小题5:It can be learnt from the passage that ______ .| A．Enchanted Learning has reading activities and worksheets to download. | | B．Starfall is designed for learners from pre-K to second grade | | C．the Wiggles and the MightyJungle are not based on television shows. | | D．websites that involve joy and learning are beneficial to kids. |
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New crime prediction software should reduce not only the murder rate, but the rate of other crimes. Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software has already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation(缓刑) or parole(假释) are most likely to murder and to be murdered.
“When a person goes on probation or parole he is supervised(监督) by an officer. The question is ‘what level of supervision is appropriate?’” said Berk. It used to be that parole officers used the person’s criminal record, and their judgment to make decisions.
“This research replaces those seat-of-the –pants calculations,” he said.
Technology helps determine level of supervision. On average there is one murder for every 100,000 people. Even among high-risk groups the murder rate is one in 100. Predicting such a rare event is very difficult, but advances in computer technology works.
Years ago, the researchers made a dataset of more than 60,000 various crimes. Using the software they developed, they found some much more likely to commit murder when paroled or probated. They could identify eight future murderers out of 100.
Berk’s software examines roughly two dozen variables(可变因素), from criminal record to geographic location. The type of crimes, and more importantly, the age at which that crime was committed, were two of the most predictive variables.
“People assume that if someone murdered then they will murder in the future,” said Berk. “ What really matters is what that person did as a young individual. Predicting future crimes sounds well. But we aren’t anywhere near being able to do that.”
“Berk’s scientific answer leaves policymakers with difficult questions. By labeling one group of people as high risk, and supervise them closely, there should be fewer murders, which the potential victims should be happy about. It also means that those high-risk individuals will be supervised more aggressively. For human rights advocates, that means punishing people who, most likely, will not commit a crime in the future,” said Bushway. “It comes down to a question of whether you would rather make these errors or those errors.”
小题1:The underlined words(in Para.3) probably mean___. | A．calculations based on subjective opinions | | B．calculations based on widespread voting | | C．calculations made by advanced technology | | D．calculations based on serious considering |
小题2:For 650 people with crime records, how many potential murderers would the software find?小题3:From Para 7, we can infer that______.| A．the technology developed by Richard Berk will soon be widely used in the US | | B．the technology would not be widely accepted in the short term | | C．whether a person murders or not largely decided by his upbringing while young | | D．if a person murdered when he was fifty, he is sure to murder again while on probation |
小题4:Bushway’s attitude to the technology put forward by Richard Berk is ____.| A．positive | B．negative | C．objective | D．indifferent |
小题5:Which would be the best title for the passage?| A．Closely Supervise Potential Murders | | B．Measures Taken to Prevent Criminal Behavior | | C．Technology Revolutionizes Judges’ Way of Working | | D．Software is Developed to Predict Criminal Behavior |
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Humans have sewn by hand for thousands of years. It was said that the first thread was made from animal muscle and sinew (腱). And the earliest needles were made from bones. Since those early days, many people have been involved in the process of developing a machine that could do the same thing more quickly and with greater efficiency.
Charles Wiesenthal, who was born in Germany, designed and received a patent on a double-pointed needle that eliminated the need to turn the needle around with each stitch (缝合) in England in 1755. Other inventors of that time tried to develop a functional sewing machine, but each design had at least one serious imperfection. ,科Frenchman Barthelemy Thimonnier finally engineered a machine that really worked. However, he was nearly killed by a group of angry tailors when they burned down his garment factory. They feared that they would lose their jobs to the machine.
American inventor Elias Howe, born on July 9, 1819, was awarded a patent for a method of sewing that used thread from two different sources. Howe’s machine had a needle with an eye at the point, and it used the two threads to make a special stitch called a lockstitch. However, Howe faced difficulty in finding buyers for his machines in America. In frustration, he traveled to England to try to sell his invention there. When he finally returned home, he found that dozens of manufacturers were adapting his discovery for use in their own sewing machines.
Isaac Singer, another American inventor, was also a manufacturer who made improvements to the design of sewing machines. He invented an up-and-down-motion mechanism that replaced the side-to-side machines. He also developed a foot treadle(脚踏板) to power his machine. This improvement left the sewer’s hands free. Undoubtedly, it was a huge improvement of the hand-cranked machine of the past. Soon the Singer sewing machine achieved more fame than the others for it was more practical, it could be adapted to home use and it could be bought on hire-purchase. The Singer sewing machine became the first home appliance, and the Singer company became one of the first American multinationals.
However, Singer used the same method to create a lockstitch that Howe had already patented. As a result, Howe accused him of patent infringement（侵犯）. Of course, Elias Howe won the court case, and Singer was ordered to pay Howe royalties（版税）. In the end, Howe became a millionaire, not by manufacturing the sewing machine, but by receiving royalty payments for his invention.
小题1:Barthelemy Thimonnier’s garment factory was burned down because _____________. | A．people did not know how to put out the fire | | B．Elias Howe thought Thimonnier had stolen his invention | | C．the sewing machines was couldn’t work finally | | D．workers who feared the loss of their jobs to a machine set fire |
小题2:Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? | A．Singer is an American inventor and manufacturer. | | B．The Singer sewing company became more practical. | | C．The foot treadle helped to make the sewer’s hands free. | | D．Singer made improvements to the design of sewing machines. |
小题3:Why did the court force Isaac Singer to pay Elisa Howe a lifetime of royalties?| A．Because the judge was against Singer for his surly attitude. | | B．Because Howe had already patented the lockstitch used by Singer. | | C．Because Singer had borrowed money from Howe and never repaid it. | | D．Because Singer and Howe had both invented the same machine. |
小题4:Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?| A．A Stitch in Time Saves Nine | | B．The Case between Howe and Singer | | C．Patent Laws on the Sewing Machine | | D．The Early History of the Sewing Machine |
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The purpose of a letter of application(求职信)is to help you to“sell”yourself. It should state the job you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have . It should be simple, human, personal and brief without out any necessary facts.
In writing a letter of application, keep in that the things a possible employer is most to want to know about are your qualifications(条件), your achievements and your aims. The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important part. the first few sentences fail to the reader’s attention, the rest of the letter may not be at all. Try to key your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the employer not your own need or desires. For example, instead of beginning with “I saw your in today’s newspaper”, you might say“I have made a careful of your advertising during the past six months”or“I have made a survey in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives your product and why they like it. ”
Try to generalities(概述). Be clear about the kind of job for which you are now . College graduates looking for their first positions often ask“What can I in a letter? Employers want experience—which, naturally, no has. ”The answer is that everything you have ever done is .
It is important to write a good strong closing for your letter. a specific request for an interview or give the possible employer something definite to do or expect. An excellent is to enclose(内附)a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your letter. That makes it for a possible employer to get in touch with you.
| 小题1: | | A．easily | B．carefully | | C．obviously | D．clearly |
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| 小题2: | | A．done | B．found | | C．known | D．heard |
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| 小题3: | | A．sending | B．leaving | | C．taking | D．picking |
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| 小题4: | | A．brain | B．sight | | C．mind | D．order |
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| 小题5: | | A．probable | B．possible | | C．able | D．likely |
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| 小题6: | | A．While | B．Although | | C．If | D．As |
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| 小题8: | | A．kept | B．read | | C．written | D．continued |
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| 小题10: | | A．article | B．report | | C．advertisement | D．introduction |
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| 小题11: | | A．watch | B．study | | C．search | D．discussion |
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| 小题12: | | A．use | B．make | | C．sell | D．change |
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| 小题13: | | A．gain | B．remember | C．protect | D．avoid |
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| 小题14: | | A．applying | B．losing | | C．preparing | D．fitting |
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| 小题15: | | A．offer | B．supply | | C．provide | D．mean |
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| 小题16: | | A．worker | B．manager | | C．owner | D．beginner |
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| 小题17: | | A．success | B．experience | | C．practice | D．development |
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| 小题19: | | A．result | B．idea | | C．promise | D．decision |
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| 小题20: | | A．easier | B．happier | | C．cheaper | D．safer |
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Beware of those who use the truth to deceive(欺骗). When someone tells you something that is , but leaves out important information that should be , he can create a false impression.
For example, someone might say, “I just a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and it in for one hundred dollars!”
This guy is a winner, ? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred , and only one was a winner. He’s really a big !
He didn’t say anything that was , but he deliberately left out some important . That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically , but they are just as not .
Untrustworthy candidates in campaigns often use this tactic(手段). Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, the state lost one million jobs and three million jobs. Then she another term. One of her opponents runs an ad , “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!”That’s true. , an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of million jobs. ”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the . An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples. ”It to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
| 小题1: | | A．false | B．true | | C．interesting | D．boring |
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| 小题2: | | A．included | B．contained | | C．ignored | D．referred |
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| 小题3: | | A．lost | B．found | | C．donated | D．won |
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| 小题4: | | A．changed | B．took | | C．turned | D．made |
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| 小题5: | | A．right | B．well | C．really | D．though |
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| 小题6: | | A．books | B．papers | | C．tickets | D．balls |
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| 小题7: | | A．winner | B．loser | | C．fighter | D．thinker |
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| 小题8: | | A．true | B．real | | C．doubtful | D．false |
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| 小题9: | | A．details | B．information | | C．mistakes | D．errors |
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| 小题10: | | A．stories | B．truth | | C．messages | D．lies |
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| 小题11: | | A．pleasant | B．exciting | | C．honest | D．clever |
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| 小题12: | | A．political | B．commercial | | C．personal | D．public |
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| 小题13: | | A．stopped | B．found | | C．avoided | D．gained |
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| 小题14: | | A．seeks | B．gets | | C．achieves | D．searches |
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| 小题15: | | A．writing | B．telling | | C．saying | D．speaking |
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| 小题16: | | A．Otherwise | B．However | | C．Meanwhile | D．Because |
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| 小题19: | | A．words | B．facts | | C．data | D．truth |
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| 小题20: | | A．fails | B．tries | | C．manages | D．plans |
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