There are more than forty universities in Britain-nearly twice as many as in 1960s. During the 1960s
eight completely new ones mere founded,and ten other new ones were created 1 converting old
colleges of technology into universities. In the same period the 2 of students more than doubled,from
70,000 to 3 than 200,000. By 1973 about 10% of men aged from eighteen 4 twenty-one were
in universities and about 5% of women.
All the universities are private institutions. Each has its 5 goveming councils, 6 some local
businessmen and local politicians as 7 as a few academics (大学教师). The state began to give grants
to them fifty years 8 , and by 1970 each university derived nearly all its 9 from state grants. Students
have t0 10 fees and living costs,but every student may receive from the local authority of the place
11 he lives a personal grant which is enough to pay his full costs,including lodging and 12 unless his
parents are 13 . Most 14 take jobs in the summer 15 about six weeks,but they do not normally do
outside 16 during the academic year. The Department of Education takes 17 for the payments
which cover the whole expenditure(费用) of the 18 , but it does not exercise direct control. It can
have an important influence 19 new developments through its power to distribute funds,but it takes the
advice of the University Grants Committee,a body which is mainly 20 of academics. |
( )1. A. with
( )2. A. amount
( )3. A. more
( )4. A. with
( )5. A. self
( )6. A. making
( )7. A. good
( )8. A. ago
( )9. A. suggestions
( )10. A. make
( )11. A. what
( )12. A. living
( )13. A. poor
( )14. A. professor
( )15. A. at
( )16. A. travel
( )17. A. responsibility
( )18. A. govemment
( )19. A. at
( )20. A. consisted | B. by
B. quantity
B. much
B. to
B. kind
B. consisting
B. long
B. before
B. grades
B. pay
B. which
B. drinking
B. generous
B. students
B. since
B. work
B. advice
B. school
B. to
B. composed | C. at
C. lot
C. less
C. from
C. own
C. including
C. little
C. after
C. profits
C. change
C. where
C. food
C. kindhearted
C. politicians
C. with
C. experiment
C. duty
C. universities
C. on
C. made | D. into
D. number
D. fewer
D. beyond
D. personal
D. taking
D. well
D. ever
D. funds
D. delay
D. how
D. shelter
D. rich
D. businessmen
D. for
D. study
D. pleasure
D. committees
D. form
D. taken |
答案
| 1-5: BDABC 6-10: CDADB 11-15: CCDBD 16-20: BACCB |
举一反三
用下列方框中单词填空。
A. mean B. make up C. personal D. regular E. bet
F. correct G. judgement H. stand for I. resource J. especially | Twenty years ago,kids in school had never heard of the Internet. Now, 1 1 you can"t find a
single person in your school who hasn"t at least heard of it. In fact,many of us use it on a 2 basis
and even have access to it from our homes! The "net" in "intemet" should 3 network. A network is
two or more computers connected together so that information can.be shared,or sent from tree computer
to another. The Intemet is a vast 4 for all types of infor- mation. You may enjoy using it to do
research for a school project,downloading your favorite songs or communicating with friends and family.
Information is accessed through web pages that companies,organizations and individuals create and post.
It"s kind of like a giant bulletin board that the whole world uses ! But since anyone can put anything on
the Internet,you also have to be careful and use your best 5 and a little common sense.
Just because you read something on a piece of paper someone sticks on a bulletin board,it doesn"t 6 it"s good information,or even 7 . So you have to be sure that whoever posted the
information knows what they"re talking about, 8 if you"re doing research! But what if you"re just
e-mailing people? You still have to be very careful. If you"ve never met the person that you"re
communicating with online,you could be on dangerous ground ! You should never give out any 9
information to someone you don"t know,not even your name! And just like you can"t believe the
information on every website out there,you can"t rely on what strangers you "meet" on the Intemet tell you
either. Just as you could 10 things about yourself to tell someone,someone else could do the same
to you! | | 阅读理解。 | Michelle Katz is a health-care saving expert with a master"s degree in nursing,so when her husband
Martin had a heart attack right in front of her,she fought to save his life. Then,she fought the errors on his
medical bill and saved the
couple $ 7,000.
Kaze was talking with her husband in June 2008 when she noticed his face tuming gray. "I looked
over and I said,Martin,are you OK?""she told Good Morning America. "If I can describe death,that"s
kind of what I was seeing. And that"s when I grabbed him. And as I grabbed his hand,it was almost like
putting my hand in a vat (桶) of ice cubes.It was that cold. He started stiffening up. "
Terrified,Katz immediately gave her husband CPR.
"I started pushing down on the compressions (压缩) and was just screaming and saying"Are you
OK? Are you still with me ? ""she said. "I just wanted him to know,even if he wasn"t listening,that I was
not going to let someone die in my hands. And especially _____ "
Later,X-rays showed that Katz had cracked her husband"s ribs (肋骨) with the force of her
compressions. After 16 long minutes,an ambulance arrived and took Martin to the emergency room.
When hospital took over,Katz,the author of two books about saving money on medical bills,started
paying attention. She swore to follow the advice she had given others in Healthcare for Less and 101
Health Insurance Tips.
"I knew the dollar signs were going up, " Katz said. "That"s when I started documenting things. "In
the days that followed,Katz found errors on the bills that,when correctedlsaved her and her husband $
7,000. | 1. What"s the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 15 words)
______________________________________________________________________
2. Which sentence in the passage is the closest in meaning to the following one? In terror,Katz performed
compressions on her husband without delay.
__________________________________________________________________
3. Fill in the black in the fourth paragraph with proper words to complete the sentence. ( Please answer
within 10 words)
____________________________________________________________________
4. What are the two books mainly about? (Please answer within 10 words)
______________________________________________________________________
5. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese.
_____________________________________________________________________ | | 完形填空。 | What kind of home will we live in the future? 1 can be sure,but scientists are working 2 new ideas now.
Some scientists are 3 about building whole cities under huge glass domes (圆顶). 4 , advanced
heating and cooling systems will be 5 to control the weather in the domes. 6 , there will never be any 7 or snow,and the temperature will always be 8 .
Perhaps everyone willlive in vertical(垂直的) cities-high rises 9 are so large that they can
10 all the necessities oflife. Since vertical cities will use 11 land than flat cities,and provide homes
12 more people,it
will be practical for small countries that have 13 population. 14 idea that will be helpful to small
countries is the 15 city. Monaco has already built homes,stores,and offices 16 the water of the
Mediterranean Sea.
There are some people who think that we will go back to 17 in caves. 18 the caves of the future
will be very different from the caves of the Stone Age. Farms and parks will be on the land 19 the cave
city. When people want to go to the country or to a park,a short ride in a 20 will take them there. | ( )1. A. Somebody
( )2. A. off
( )3. A. thinking
( )4. A. On the other hand
( )5. A. possible
( )6. A. Similarly
( )7. A. cloud
( )8. A. cool
( )9. A. that
( )10. A. construct
( )11. A. wider
( )12. A. on
( )13. A. a small
( )14. A. One
( )15. A. floating
( )16. A. in
( )17. A. live
( )18. A. Also
( )19. A. in
( )20. A. lift | B. Anybody
B. out
B. considering
B. As a result
B. suitable
B. Therefore
B. rain
B. warm
B. they
B. continue
B. more
B. to
B. alarge
B. Second
B. flowing
B. above
B. be living
B. But
B. under
B. underground | C. Nobody
C. in
C. imagining
C. Of course
C. pleasant
C. According to
C. wind
C. comfortable
C. where
C. remain
C. less
C. with
C. a few
C. Next
C. shipping
C. over
C. living
C. Then
C. beside
C. plane | D. Everybody
D. by
D. suggesting
D. At the same time
D. necessary
D. Moreover
D. ice
D. satisfied
D. who
D. contain
D. fewer
D. for
D. many
D. Another
D. blowing
D. on
D. having lived
D. Again
D. over
D. bus | | 完形填空。 | Are you carrying too much on your back at school? Lots of kids at the same age are as you are.
Not only are students in China 1 from this problem,but kids in the United States are 2 fed
up with(饱受……之苦) heavy school bags.
Experts are starting to 3 that more and more young students are having back and neck problems
as a result of school bags 4 too heavy for them.
"It"s hard for me to get up the 5 with my bag because it"s so heavy," said Rick Hammond, 6
ll-year-old student in the US.
Rick is among the students who have 7 backpacks(背包) with two straps(带子) to carry them, 8 a number of other students choose rolling backpacks.
But even with rolling backpacks, 9 up stairs and buses with them is 10 a problem for kids.
Many of them have hurt their knees,backs or necks because of heavy school bags.
But how much is too 11 ? Experts say students should carry 12 more than 10 to 15 percent of
their own body weight.
Scott Bautch,a Wisconsin 13 docotor,said kids under4th grade should 14 within 10 percent. But it"s also important that older kids don"t go 15 15 percent,because their bones are still growing.
Bautch explained that there are other injuries caused by backpacks. "Kids are 16 their balance
and falling down with these backpacks,"he said.
Parents and teachers are starting to tell the kids to only take 17 library books they will be reading
that night.Some teachers are using worksheets (作业纸) or 18 workbooks for students to take home.
One of the best answers is,as some 19 themselves suggested, to have no homework 20 ! | ( )1. A. meeting
( )2. A. already
( )3. A. explain
( )4. A. being
( )5. A. schools
( )6. A. this
( )7. A. special
( )8. A. when
( )9. A. getting
( )10. A. only
( )11. A. more
( )12. A. no
( )13. A. children
( )14. A. carry
( )15. A. about
( )16. A. keeping
( )17. A. home
( )18. A. valuable
( )19. A. reports
( )20. A. at all | B. facing
B. always
B. say
B. be
B. stairs
B. that
B. unusual
B. then
B. climbing
B. still
B. very
B. not
B. student
B. stay
B. under
B. missing
B. class
B. thin
B. teachers
B. after all | C. experiencing
C. yet
C. worry
C. are
C. houses
C. a
C. ordinary
C. but
C. going
C. even
C. much
C. any
C. bag
C. take
C. beyond
C. losing
C. school
C. important
C. parents
C. in all | D. suffering
D. also
D. announce
D. is
D. homes
D. an
D. regular
D. and
D. turning
D. just
D. many
D. much
D. back
D. bring
D. before
D. making
D. city
D. interesting
D. kids
D. for all | | The Cost of Higher Education
Individuals(个人) should pay for their higher education.
A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates eam more than
non-graduates.Meanwhile,social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However,only
some people have it. So the imli-
vidual,not the taxpayers,should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources(资源) of the
government. Using taxpayers" money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future
is not one of them.
Full govemment funding(资助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish
university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford,
where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the govemment. Guaranteed salaries,Smith argued,were the enemy of hard work;and when the academics were lazy and incompetent,the
students were similarly lazy.
If students have to pay for their education,they not only work harder,but also demand more from their
teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teachjng seriously,and giving less time to their own research interests,that is surely something to celebrate.
Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济) . Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth,but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because
graduates are economically productive,you should also believe that the government should pay part of
business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the govemment to
invest. Therefore,it is the individual,not the govemment,who should pay for their university education. | | 1. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____. | A. taxpayers
B. pressing calls
C. college graduates
D. govemment resources | | 2. The author thinks that with full govemment funding _____. | A. teachers are less satisfied
B. students are more demanding
C. students will become more competent
D. teachers will spend less time on teaching | | 3. The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to____. | A. argue against free university education
B. call on them to finance students" studies
C. encourage graduates to go into business
D. show their contribution to higher education | 最新试题
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