As the new term starts, freshmen around the world are asking the same question:

As the new term starts, freshmen around the world are asking the same question:

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As the new term starts, freshmen around the world are asking the same question: how can I make the best of four years at college? The New York Times received suggestions recently from PhD students and seniors at some of the top universities . Here is their advice.
“Many young people today are raised in a protective cocoon(茧)”, wrote Tim Novikoff, a PhD student at Comell. “College is a time to explore the world beyond and a chance to learn new things about yourself. Take classes in different subjects. Try lots of different clubs and activities.”
Remember also to take some time away from campus, suggested Willie Lin, a student at Washington University. “If you spend all of your time in school, then it becomes too easy to let criticism from an unkind professor or a conflict with a roommate take up large proportions.
Try to find work assisting a researcher or a professor---this is the advice from Aman Singh Gill, a PhD student at Stony Brook University. And he also said, “With a window into the world of research, you will find yourself thinking more critically, accepting fewer states at face value and perhaps developing a brave sense of what you can accomplish.”
Many young people can’t imagine even a single day without devices such as computers and cell phones. But try to keep yourself off them, cautioned Christine Smallwood, a PhD student at Columbia University.
Start by scheduling a few Internet-free hours each day, with your phone turned off. It’s the only way you’ll be able to read anything serious. “This will also have the benefit of making you harder to reach, and thus more mysterious and fascinating to new friends and acquaintances(熟人),” she suggested.
小题1:The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 means we should _________.
A.spend more time at schoolB.take some time out of school
C.listen to criticism moreD.not argue with roommates
小题2:Who thinks it is important to consider something critically?
A.Aman Singh GillB.Christine Smallwood
C.Tim NovikoffD.Willlie Lin
小题3:As for modern information devices, the last two paragraphs mean to tell us ________.
A.to keep ourselves off them forever not to use them
B.to turn them off
C.to make a schedule to use them
D.not to use them
小题4:This passage is mainly about _________.
A.tips from some students for college life
B.ways to read something serious regularly
C.days without cell-phones and computers
D.chances to go to university you really like

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
解析

试题分析:本文讲述的是一些专家对于大学生活应该如何度过所提出的建议。
小题1:B 推理题。根据本段第一句Remember also to take some time away from campus,说明本段内容是建议我们走出校园,到外面去参加各种活动,故下划线的句子也是表达这个意思,B正确。
小题2:A 推理题。根据第四段2,3,4行And he also said, “With a window into the world of research, you will find yourself thinking more critically, accepting fewer states at face value and perhaps developing a brave sense of what you can accomplish.”说明他认为要批评地考虑一切问题,故A正确。
小题3:C 推理题。根据文章最后一段,尤其是最后一段第一行Start by scheduling a few Internet-free hours each day, with your phone turned off.说明这两段的内容是关于要我们做好计划和安排,让自己在某段时间之内远离网络,故C项正确。
小题4:A 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段The New York Times received suggestions recently from PhD students and seniors at some of the top universities . Here is their advice.可知本文是一些大学生如何度过自己的大学生活的建议,故A正确。
点评:本文讲述的是一些专家对于大学生活应该如何度过所提出的建议,测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力,要求考生根据文章所述事件的逻辑关系,对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断;或根据作者所阐述的观点理论,对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释。考生首先要仔细阅读短文,完整了解信息,准确把握作者观点。
举一反三
The English, as a race, are very different from all other nationalities, including their closest neighbors, the French, Belgians and Dutch. It is claimed (声言) that living on an island  36  from the rest of Europe has much to do with it. Whatever the  37  are, it may be fairly stated that the Englishman has  38  many attitudes and habits which make them  39 from other nationalities.
Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a  40  , shy and reserved person who is fully relaxed only among people he  41  well. In the  42  of strangers or foreigners he often seems embarrassed. You have only to walk around a city any morning or evening to  43  the truth of this. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit  44  their newspapers or have a light sleep in a corner with no one speaking.  45 , to do so would seem most unusual to many foreigners. An Englishman pretending to be giving 46  to overseas visitors, once suggested, “On entering a railway carriage, shake hands with all the passengers”. Obviously , he was not being  47  . There is an unwritten  48 clearly understood code (规则) of behaviour which, if  49  , makes the person immediately suspect(怀疑).
In many parts of the world it is quite  50  to show openly their enthusiasm, emotion, excitement, etc. The Englishman is somewhat  51  . Of course, an Englishman lacks no deep feelings, in fact , no less deeply than any other nationality, but he tends to display his 52  far less. This is reflected in his use of  53 . Imagine a man making a comment on the great  54  of a young girl. A more emotional man might  55  her as “extremely beautiful,” “precious”, however, an Englishman might just say, “Um, she is all right.” The girl who heard this should not be angry because "not bad" and " all right" very often have the same meaning as "first class" " excellent" and this unique style of language use is common in England.
小题1:
A.divided B.separatedC.partedD.broke
小题2:
A.problemsB.arrangements C.reasonsD.differences
小题3:
A.developedB.gotC.createdD.made
小题4:
A.differB.separateC.sufferD.vary
小题5:
A.noisyB.rude C.nobleD.quiet
小题6:
A.recognizesB.knowsC.sees D.likes
小题7:
A.frontB.absenceC.lackD.presence
小题8:
A.look at B.find out C.tell D.keep
小题9:
A.publishingB.sellingC.readingD.showing
小题10:
A.In other words B.On the contrary
C.On the wholeD.In fact
小题11:
A.advice B.performances C.speeches D.way
小题12:
A.funnyB.greatC.seriousD.careful
小题13:
A.as well as B.orC.andD.but
小题14:
A.brokenB.madeC.explainedD.followed
小题15:
A.enough B.rightC.normalD.impossible
小题16:
A.proudB.kind C.hard D.different
小题17:
A.feelingsB.talentsC.giftsD.behaviors
小题18:
A.action B.language C.time D.life
小题19:
A.speech B.mark C.beautyD.intelligence
小题20:
A.speakB.describe C.take D.treat

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A four-year study of 200 college students found that those who drink heavily and started drinking at an early age demonstrate poor decision-making skills, just like long-term, chronic(长期的) alcoholics. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia believe early onset binge drinking negatively affects psychological development.
The researches examined college students between the ages of 18 and 22. After three years, they tested them using the Iowa Gambling Test, which measures the tendency to make immediate (disadvantageous) or long-term (advantageous) choices.
Based on the students’ reported drinking habits, they were grouped into four categories: low binge drinkers, moderate binge drinkers, increasing binge drinkers and stable or high binge drinkers.
“Students in the stable or high alcohol use category, who had longer histories of binge drinking, made riskier and less advantageous choices, which reflect problems associated with planning for the future,” the researchers reported.
The study also found that only students who started binge drinking when they were younger showed impairment on the task.
“There is reason to think that heavy binge drinking during adolescence, when the brain is still rapidly developing, may have some negative legacy (遗传) on psychological development,” said Kenneth J. Sher of MU’s Midwest Alcoholism Research Center in a news release. “The interesting thing is that if we were to just look at binge drinkers and how impaired they are in the decision-making process as juniors, we’d really be obscuring(使模糊) the important issue, which is how long they’ve been binge drinkers and / or how early they started.”
小题1:What does the passage mainly tell us?
A.Four categories of heavy drinkers.
B.Heavy drinking affects college students.
C.Early onset binge drinkers are poor at decision-making.
D.People drinking at an early age will develop into binge drinkers.
小题2:Which category would make the most disadvantageous choice?
A.Low binge drinkersB.moderate binge drinkers
C.Increasing binge drinkersD.Stable binge drinkers
小题3:Early onset binge drinking negatively affects psychological development because _______.
A.adolescent students were not suitable for drinking
B.drinking too much will slow the growth of the brain
C.the brain has not fully developed during adolescence
D.drinking will make the students make dangerous choices
小题4:What Kenneth J. Sher says suggests that _______.
A.he is quite clear about what the important issue is
B.if binger drinkers started late, there would be no bad effect
C.the important issue is how impaired the students are in decision-making
D.only early binge drinkers will have their decision-making ability affected

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On Jan. 3, a netizen(网民)nicknamed “Programmer Humor”published a short story on his micro-blog. It said that there was an old lady who swept nearly every inch of his Internet company. When she passed by a programmer, she took a look at the codes on the programmer’s computer and kindly reminded him, “Be careful, the stack is overfilled!”
Certainly, it is a casual and fictitious(虚构的)story made up by the micro-blogger. However, no one would have guessed that the short blog would eventually cause the first great Internet meme(网络快速爆红现象) of 2011 in China. Suddenly, the mysterious “Sweeping Old Lady” is showing up nearly everywhere and reminding professionals of their mistakes. From 8 a. m. on Jan. 5, some netizens collected stories of the “Sweeping Old Lady” and found she had appeared to give advice in 150 kinds of careers. A netizen even said he had met with a similar situation in real life.
Actually, the “Sweeping Old Lady” is not new figure, but is based on the “sweeping monk (和尚)”in Louis Cha’s famous Kung fu novel of “Tian Long Ba Bu”. The “sweeping monk” is an old monk and does the lowest class of work in Shaolin Temple, but he is actually the No. 1 master in the noel both in Kung fu and in the study of Buddhism.
The “Sweeping Old Lady” is also a great modest master. Lots of netizens wish that they could have such a lady beside them to give them precious suggestions at a key time.
Although there may be 1,000 “Sweeping Old Ladies” in 1,000 people’s minds, it cannot prevent the “Sweeping Old Lady” from becoming the most popular figure on the Internet.
“Programmer Humor” said he is just a programmer in the real world and once he saw the story about the “Sweeping Old Lady,” he wrote it down in his micro-blog because it was funny. He never knew who the original writer of the story was and never thought the story could be so popular.
小题1:What quality does the “Sweeping Old Lady” have?
A.Honest and knowledgeable.B.Modest and patient.
C.Modest and knowledgeable.D.Honest and patient.
小题2:Which description about the “Sweeping Old Lady” is right?
A.She is an old lady good at sweeping the Internet.
B.She is just an imaginary figure created by a netizen.
C.She is well-know as the old “sweeping monk.”
D.She likes to give instructions everywhere.
小题3:What can we infer from the text?
A.The sweeping old lady is always looking down on the people around her.
B.We should ask sweeping old lady for advice when meeting with difficulties.
C.People want to have a “Sweeping Old Lady” nearby to do the cleaning.
D.We shouldn’t judge a person by his or her appearance and we’d better respect everyone.
小题4:What does the author think of the “Sweeping Old Lady”?
A.She should be praised and respected.
B.She shouldn’t mind others’ business.
C.She should go in for network.
D.She shouldn’t show off before professionals.

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Most people have heard the sound of bees among flowers. Bees live almost everywhere in the world except in the Arctic areas.
Many kinds of agriculture depend on these small, social insects. Without bees, fruit and nut growers as well as many other farmers would not have a crop.
There are more than 20,000 kinds of bees. But only honey bees make enough honey for people to use. Honeybees are highly-organized social insects. They work together in a group, called a colony(群体). Each colony lives in a hive(蜂房). It contains one queen bee -- she lays all the eggs from which the members of the colony come. Each colony has only a few hundred males, called drones. The majority of all bees in a colony are workers, which are all females.
Bees even have a special stomach, called a honey stomach,  which is used to store sweet fluid that the bees gather from flowers. Bees also have long hairs on their body and legs. These hairs capture pollen(花粉) as bees go from flower to flower. Some of the pollen is taken back to the hive. Some, however, is passed to the next flower. This is how many plants are fertilized. Pollen is the reproductive material of plants. Many important agricultural crops depend on bees for fertilization.
Inside their hives, bees store sweet liquid from flowers and pollen as well. They may even gather sweet liquid from some other kinds of insects. These kinds of sweet liquid are also stored in the hive.
Bees make honey through a process. They add liquid from their own mouths to sweet liquid into simple sugar. As the honey is stored, it dries. It becomes thicker and darker.
Although bees are often thought of as honey makers, they provide a surprising number of products. Also, their greatest economic value is in fertilizing crops-not in making honey.
小题1:The passage is mainly about             .
A.bees and their colony
B.the way for bees to pass pollen
C.bees and agriculture
D.the process for bees to make honey
小题2:Honeybees are social insects because         .
A.they work in groupsB.there is queen bee in every colony
C.they live in a hiveD.each of them does the same job
小题3:The most valuable thing honeybees do for people is in             .
A.making honeyB.fertilizing crops
C.making flowers grow betterD.producing pollen
小题4:The word “fertilize” in the sentence “This is how many plants are fertilized” probably means “    ”.
A.to make plants strong and productive
B.to make soil rich for plants
C.to start the development of young flowers
D.to introduce pollen into plants

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For generations here in the deepest South, there had been a great taboo(禁忌): publicly crossing the color line for love. Less than 45 years ago, marriage between blacks and whites was illegal, and it has been forbidden for much of the time since.
So when a great job about an hour’s drive north of the Gulf Coast attracted him, Jeffrey Norwood, a black college basketball coach, had reservations. He was in a serious relationship with a woman who was white and Asian.
“You’re thinking about a life in South Mississippi?” his father said in a skeptical voice, recalling days when a black man could face mortal(致命的) danger just being seen with a woman of another race, regardless of intentions. "Are you sure?"
But on visits to Hattiesburg, the younger Mr. Norwood said he liked what he saw: growing diversity. So he moved, married, and, with his wife, had a baby girl, who was counted on the last census(人口普查) as black, white and Asian. Taylor Rae Norwood, three, is one of thousands of mixed-race children who have made this state home to one of the nation"s most rapidly expanding multiracial populations, up 70 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to new data from the Census Bureau.
In the first comprehensive accounting of multiracial Americans since statistics were first collected about them in 2000, reporting from the 2010 census, made public in recent days, shows that the nation’s mixed-race population is growing far more quickly than many researchers had estimated, particularly in the South and parts of the Midwest. That conclusion is based on the bureau’s analysis of 42 states; the data from the remaining eight states will be released soon.
In North Carolina, the mixed-race population doubled. In Georgia, it grew by more than 80 percent, and by nearly as much in Kentucky and Tennessee. In Indiana, Iowa and South Dakota, the multiracial population increased by about 70percent.
Census officials estimated the national multiracial growth rate was about 35 percent since2000 according to the known result, when seven million people ----- 2.4 percent of the population ------ chose more than one race.
小题1:If a black man married a white woman 50 years ago, the worst result was that _____.
A.he was sentenced to deathB.he was considered to be immoral
C.he was criticized by the publicD.he was treated as a lawbreaker
小题2:The underlined word “serious” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “____”.
A.stableB.badC.mixedD.dangerous
小题3:What can we infer from Paragraph 4?
A.Jeffrey Norwood was born in Hattiesburg and grew up there.
B.Taylor Rae Norwood’s mother is a white-Asian.
C.70 percent of the people in Mississippi are multiracial.
D.Mississippi has the largest multiracial population in the US.
小题4:Which of the following states had the fastest growth rate of mixed-race population?
A.Georgia.B.Tennessee.C.North Carolina.D.South Dakota.

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