CONGRATULATIONS We’ve organized the following information to help you prepare fo
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CONGRATULATIONS
We’ve organized the following information to help you prepare for your arrival at Boston College．Please feel free to contact our Admissions Office at any time over the coming months with any questions．
Your First Steps…
Please return the Acknowledgment Form sent with your acceptance letter to Dean Robert Howe, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, McGuinn Hall 221,140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467．
■For Ph．D．Acceptances and Master’s Acceptances with funding, we ask you to reply by April 25, 2008．
■For Master’s Acceptances without funding and Non-degree Acceptances, we ask you to reply by May 31, 2008．
■You should also contact your department to receive any department information．
Over the Coming Months…
Get informed about services around campus．We have provided links for you to the following offices．
■Student Services
After you return your Acknowledgment Form, you should receive a letter containing your BC Username and Eagle ID number．With this information you can reach email and Agora．In Agora, BC’s online community, you can update your student information, check your student account, and register （登记） for classes．
The Office of Student Services issues （发行） your BC Eagle One Card．This ID card acts as your campus library card and meal card．
Student Services’ website offers a complete listing of courses for the school year, as well as student forms and other important student information．The Office of Student Services also handles billing．
■Housing …
CLICK HERE for more information．
If we can be of any more help to you, just contact us．Congratulations again! We look forward to you joining our University!
小题1:The above page can most probably be read _________．| A．on the Boston College website | B．in the Boston College newspaper | | C．on BC Eagle One Card | D．at Student Services |
小题2:The information above is particularly useful for those ________．| A．who want to apply for Boston College | | B．who want to know about Boston College | | C．who’ve been admitted to Boston College | | D．who’ve decided to pay a visit to Boston College |
小题3:If you want to study for your master’s degree with funding, you will have to _______．| A．return your Acknowledgment Form by May 31, 2008 | | B．send back your Acknowledgment Form by April 25, 2008 | | C．email your Acknowledgment Form to Admissions Office by May 31, 2008 | | D．return your Acknowledgment Form to Student Services by April 25, 2008 |
小题4:If you want to decide what courses for the school year you’d better _________．| A．call up the Office of Student Services | | B．get in touch with the Admissions Office | | C．read your acceptance letter | | D．visit Student Services’ website |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D |
解析
试题分析：本文介绍了Boston College的网站上提供的一些关于新手入学的一些注意事项。
小题1:A 推理题。根据文章开头和结尾We’ve organized the following information to help you prepare for your arrival at Boston College．和CLICK HERE for more information．说明本文最可能出现在Boston College的网站上，故A正确。
小题2:C 推理题。根据文章第一段和最后一段We’ve organized the following information to help you prepare for your arrival at Boston College．和If we can be of any more help to you, just contact us．Congratulations again! We look forward to you joining our University!说明本文是写个那些被Boston College所录取的学生的，介绍了其中的一些注意事项。故C正确。
小题3:B 细节题。根据For Ph．D．Acceptances and Master’s Acceptances with funding, we ask you to reply by April 25, 2008．说明B项内容正确。
小题4:D 推理题。根据Student Services’ website offers a complete listing of courses for the school year, as well as student forms and other important student information．The Office of Student Services also handles billing．
说明在Student Services’ website里，有很多相关的信息，故D正确。
点评：本文介绍了Boston College的网站上提供的一些关于新手入学的一些注意事项。文本所给信息非常丰富，要求考生从中选出适合题目要求的信息。解此类题目时，考生可以先阅读题目和选项，了解具体要求，然后再仔细阅读文章，认真筛选甄别，这样的阅读就有的放矢，可以大大提高阅读的速度和效率。 |
举一反三
What is colour? Why do some of the things around us look red, some green, others blue?
Colours are really made by reflected(反射)light. We see colour because most of the things reflect light. Something is red, for it reflects most of the red light. In the same way, if something is green, it reflects most of the green light. If something reflects all light, it is white. If it doesn‘t reflect any light, it is black.
Some of the light is reflected and some is taken in(吸收)and turned into(变成)heat(热能).The darker the colour is, the less light is reflected, the more light is taken in. So dark-coloured(深色的)clothes are warmer in the sun than light-coloured clothes.
小题1:When something reflects light, we can_______.| A．see its colour | B．see its heat | C．not see its colour | D．see nothing |
小题2:In summer _____make people feel cool.| A．dark-clolured clothes | B．red-coloured clothes | | C．green-coloured clothes | D．light-coloured clothes |
小题3:(Originally created) Why does the author use a question at the beginning of this passage?| A．The author doesn’t has a knowledge of colour. | | B．The author shows off his knowledge of colour. | | C．To ask the readers to answer this question. | | D．To draw the readers’ interest in reading this passage. |
小题4:(Originally created) In which of the following you can find this passage?
A. A travel book B.A history book
C. A popular science magazine C, An entertainment newspaper.
小题5:What’s the best title(题目)of this passage(短文)?| A．Dark colour | B．Colour | C．Heat | D．Clothes |
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A special laboratory at the University of Chicago is busy only at night. It is a dream laboratory where researchers are at work studying dreamers. Their findings have discovered that everyone dreams from three to seven times a night, although in ordinary life a person may remember none or only one of his dreams.
While the subjects—usually students—sleep, special machines record their brain waves and eye movements as well as the body movements that signal the end of a dream. Surprisingly, all subjects sleep soundly.
Observers report that a person usually fidgets(烦躁不安) before a dream. Once the dream has started, his body relaxes and his eyes become more active, as if the curtain had gone up on a show. As soon as the machine shows that the dream is over, a buzzer wakens the sleeper. He sits up, records his dream, and goes back to sleep—perhaps to dream some more.
Researchers have found that if the dreamer is wakened immediately after his dream, he can usually recall the entire dream. If he is allowed to sleep even five more minutes, his memory of the dream will have disappeared.
小题1:According to the passage, researchers at the University of Chicago are studying ____.| A．contents of dreams | B．dreamers while they dream | | C．the meaning of dreams | D．the progress of sleeping |
小题2:Their finding has discovered that _____.| A．everyone dreams every night | | B．dreams are easily remembered | | C．dreams are likely to be frightening | | D．One person dreams only one dream a night |
小题3:The machines being used in the experiment record _____.| A．the depth of sleep | | B．the subjects’ brain waves and eye movements | | C．how many dreams a person has | | D．what a sleeper dreams during his sleep |
小题4:A person would be most likely to remember the dream that _____.| A．was of most interest to him | | B．occurred immediately after he went to sleep | | C．occurred just before he woke up | | D．was the longest one to him |
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Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the
reason could be that men’s hearts go into rapid decline when they reach middle age.
The latest study of the effects of ageing on the heart has found that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
“Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. “This is part of the ageing process.”
What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink. They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80, focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease. “The team has yet to find why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart,” said Goldspink.
The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.
小题1:The text mainly talks about ________. | A．men’s heart cells | B．women’s ageing process | | C．the gender difference | D．hearts and long life |
小题2:According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ________. | A．women have more cells than men when they are born | | B．women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beat | | C．the female heart loses few of the cells with age | | D．women never lose their pumping power with age |
小题3:We can know from the passage that ________. | A．the reason why ageing takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found out | | B．scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cells | | C．the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater loss | | D．women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 20 |
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The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image(形象) of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. "We were surprised by just how positive today"s young people seem to be about their families," said one member of the research team. "They"re expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There"s more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don"t want to rock the boat."
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. "My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me," says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. " I always tell them when I"m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I"m doing, they"re fine with it." Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. "Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I"d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that."
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, "Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over."
小题1:According to the author, teenage rebellion ________.| A．resulted from changes in families | | B．may be a false belief | | C．is common nowadays | | D．existed only in the 1960s |
小题2:What is the passage mainly about?| A．Education in family | | B．Negotiation in family | | C．Teenage trouble in family | | D．Harmony in family |
小题3:The study shows that teenagers don"t want to ________.| A．go boating with their family | | B．share family responsibility | | C．make family decisions | | D．cause trouble in their families |
小题4:What is the popular images of teenagers today?| A．They dislike living with their parents | | B．They quarrel a lot with other family members | | C．They worry about school | | D．They have to be locked in to avoid troubles |
小题5:Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today"s parents ________.| A．care less about their children"s life | | B．give their children more freedom | | C．go to clubs more often with their children | | D．are much stricter with their children |
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Sharks have lived in the oceans for over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs appeared. There are now about 360 species of sharks, whose size, behavior, and other characteristics differ widely.
Every year, we catch and kill over 100 million sharks, mostly for food and for their fins. Dried shark fins are used to make shark fin soup, which sells for as much as $50 a bowl in fine Hong Kong restaurants. Other sharks are killed for sport and out of fear. Sharks are vulnerable(易受伤的) to overfishing because it takes most species 10 to 15 years to begin reproducing and they produce only a few offspring（后代）.
Influenced by movies and popular novels, most people see sharks as people-eating monsters. This is far from the truth. Every year, a few types of shark injure about 100 people worldwide and kill about 25. Most attacks are by great white sharks, which often feed on sea lions and other marine（海洋的） mammals. They sometimes mistake human swimmers for their normal prey, especially if they are wearing black wet suits.
If you are a typical ocean-goer, your chances of being killed by an unprovoked（非受挑衅而发生的）attack by a shark are about 1 in 100 million. You are more likely to be killed by a pig than a shark and thousands of times more likely to get killed when you drive a car.
Sharks help save human lives. In addition to providing people with food, they are helping us learn how to fight cancer, bacteria, and viruses. Sharks are very healthy and have aging processes similar to ours. Their highly effective immune system allows wounds to heal quickly without becoming infected, and their blood is being studied in connection with AIDS research.
Sharks are among the few animals in the world that almost never get cancer and eye cataracts（白内障）. Understanding why can help us improve human health. Chemicals taken from shark cartilage（软骨）have killed cancerous tumors in laboratory animals, research that someday could help prolong your life.
Sharks are needed in the world’s ocean ecosystems. Although they don’t need us, we need them. We are much more dangerous to sharks than they are to us. For every shark that bites a person, we kill one million sharks.
小题1:Which of the following is NOT a reason why people kill sharks?| A．People kill sharks for food. | | B．People kill sharks for sport. | | C．People kill sharks out of fear. | | D．People kill sharks because they often attack swimmers. |
小题2:According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?| A．There are many different species of sharks, but only a few of them are dangerous to humans. | | B．Sharks never get ill. | | C．Sharks are a valuable resource for human. | | D．Sharks play an important role in the ocean ecosystem. |
小题3:It can be inferred from the passage that _______.| A．movies have given people the wrong impression of sharks | | B．most sharks are dangerous to humans | | C．sharks will attack anyone who is wearing black | | D．it is dangerous to swim in the ocean |
小题4:The underlined word “prolong” in the last but one paragraph means ______.| A．save | B．protect | C．lengthen | D．improve |
小题5:The best title for the passage would be _______.| A．Are Sharks Dangerous? | B．Sharks And Humans | | C．Sharks: Humans’ Friends | D．Sharks Help Save Human Lives |
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