第1题
听力原文: American colleges and universities consider a number of things about a student who wants to be admitted. Experts on the subject say the most important thing is the student's high school record. Admissions officers look not only at the grades that the student has earned. They also look at the level of difficulty of the classes.
A student's interests and activities may also play a part in getting accepted. But in most cases another consideration is how well the student did on college entrance exams. This week in our Foreign Student Series Program, we discuss two of these tests: the SAT and the ACT. Most American schools accept either one.
The SAT measures reasoning skills in mathematics and language. Students have almost four hours to complete the SAT. The newest part is an essay. Students have 25 minutes to write an answer to a question.
Students may also need to take SAT subject tests in areas like history, science and foreign language.
The ACT is an achievement test. It is designed to measure what a student has learned in school. Students are tested in mathematics, English, reading and science. A writing test is offered but not required. Without it, the ACT takes about three hours to complete. The essay part adds 30 minutes.
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A.The grade of the ACT or the SAT.
B.The high school the applicant studied.
C.The high school record.
D.The entrance examination.
第3题
Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way.They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier.They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English.As they increased their skill they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original.The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them.All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in .
After several years of study the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read.And as they began to read Latin poems they began to write poems in Latin.Because Milton was already a poet at ten his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys.During the seven years Milton spent at university he made regular use of his command of Latin.He wrote some excellent Latin poems which he published among his works in 1645.
1.What does the passage mainly tell about?[]
A.How John Milton wrote“Paradise Lost”
B.How John Milton studied Latin
C.How John Milton became famous
D.How John Milton became a poet
2.Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin?[]
A.It has a strong Italian accent
B.It has an uncommon accent
C.It was natural and easy to understand
D.It was bad and difficult to understand
3.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A.Milton’s training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys
B.Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college
C.Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking
D.Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton
4.Which of the following is suggested in the passage?[]
A.The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin
B.The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand
C.The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory
D.Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin
5.What is the meaning of the underlined part“Latin should be beaten in”that the writer wishes you to understand?[]
A.Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin
B.Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin
C.Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time
D.Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way
第4题
At school he seems only to have been interested in mathematics. In fact, his formal education was surprisingly brief for a gentleman, and incomplete. For unlike other young Virginian of that day, he did not go to the College of William and Mary in the Virginian capital of Williamsburg. In terms of formal training then, Washington contrasts sharply with some other early American Presidents such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In later years, Washington probably regretted his lack of intellectual training. He never felt comfortable in a debate in Congress, or on any subject that had not to do with everyday, practical matters. And because he never learned French and could not speak directly to the French leaders, he did not visit the country he admired so much. Thus, unlike Jefferson and Adams, he never reached Europe.
11. Why didn’t Washington go to college?
A. His family could not afford it.
B. A college education was rather uncommon in his time
C. He didn’t like the young Virginian gentlemen.
D. The author doesn’t give any reason.
12. Washington felt uncomfortable in Congress debates because he.
A. lacked practice in public speaking
B. felt his education was not good enough
C. didn’t like arguing and debating with people
D. felt that debating was like intellectual training
13. The reason why Washington didn’t visit France was probably that he.
A. didn’t really care about going
B. didn’t know French leaders
C. couldn’t communicate directly with the French leaders
D. was too busy to travel
14. According to the author,().
A. Washington’s lack of formal education placed him at a disadvantage in later life
B. Washington should have gone to France even though he could not speak French
C. Washington was not as good a president as Adams, Jefferson or Madison
D. Washington was a model for all Virginian gentlemen
15. The main idea of the passage is that Washington’s education.
A. was of great variety, covering many subjects
B. was probably equal to those of most young gentlemen of his time
C. may seem poor by modern standards, but was good enough for his time
D. was rather limited for a president
第5题
根据下面内容,回答题:
Dr.William C.Stokoe,Jr.,was the chairman of the English Department at Gallaudet
University. He saw the way deaf people communicated and was extremely 1.He was a hearing person, and signs of the deaf were totally new to him.
Dr. Stokoe decided to propose a study of sign language. Many other teachers were not interested, and thought Dr. Stokoe was 2 to think about studying sign language. Even deaf teachers were not very interested in the project. However, Dr. Stokoe did not give up.3, he started the Linguistics Research Program in 1957. Stokoe and his two deaf assistants worked 4this project during the summer and after school. The three 5 made films of deaf people signing. The deaf people in the films did not understand 6 the research was about and were just trying to be nice to Dr. Stokoe. Many people thought the whole project was silly, but 7 agreed with Dr. Stokoe in order to please him.
Stokoe and his 8 studied the films of signing. They 9 the films and tried to see patterns in the signs. The results of the research were10: the signs used by all of the signers11 certain linguistic rules.
Dr. Stokoe was the first linguist to test American Sign Language12a real language.He published the 13 in 1960, but not many people paid attention to the study. Dr. Stokoe was still 14 ——he was the only linguist who 15 that sign language was more than gestures. He knew it was a language of its own and not just another form. of English.
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A.ashamed
B.bored
C.interested
D.involved
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第7题
One Sunday evening when I was eight years old my parents and I were riding in the back seat of my rich uncle's car. We had been out for a ride and now we were back in the Bronx, headed for home. Suddenly, another car sideswiped us. My mother and aunt shrieked. My uncle swore softly. My father, in whose lap I was sitting, said out the window at the speeding car, "That's all right. Nothing but a few Jews in here." In an instant I knew everything. I knew there was a world beyond our streets, and in that world my father was a hu- miliated man, without power or standing.
When I was sixteen a girl in the next building had her nose straightened; we all went together to see Selma Shapiro lying in state, wrapped in bandages from which would emerge a person fit for life beyond the block. Three buildings away a boy went downtown for a job, and on his application he wrote "Anold Brown" instead of "Anold Braunowiitz." The newsswept through the neighborhood like a wild fire. A nose job? A name change? What was happening here? It was awful; it was wonderful. It was frightening; it was delicious. Whatever it was, it wasn't standstill. Things felt lively and active. Self-confidence was on the rise, passivity on the wane. We were going to experience challenges. That's what it meant to be in the new world. For the first time we could imagine ourselves out there.
But who exactly do I mean when I say we? I mean Arnie, not Selma. I mean my brother, not me. I mean the boys, not the girls. My mother stood behind me, pushing me forward. "The girl goes to college, too," she said. And I did. But my going to college would not mean the same thing as my brother's going to college, and we all knew it. For my brother, college meant going from the Bronx to Manhattan. But for me? From the time I was fourteen I yearned to get out of the Bronx, but get out into what? I did not actually imagine myself a working person alone in Manhattan and nobody else did either. What I did imagine was that I would marry, and that the man I married would get me downtown. He would brave the perils of class and race, and somehow I'd be there alongside him.
In the passage, we can find the author was_______.
A.quite satisfied with her life
B.a poor Jewish girl
C.born in a middle-class family
D.a resident in a rich area in New York
第8题
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
The more time children spend watching television the poorer they perform. academically, according to three studies published on Monday.【S1】______television viewing has been blamed for increasing rates of childhood obesity(肥胖)and for aggressive behavior, while its【S2】______on schooling have been inconclusive, researchers said.
But studies published on the topic in this month' s Archives of Pediatrics(小儿科)& Adolescent Medicine concluded television viewing【S3】______to have an adverse effect(反作用)on academic pursuits. For【S4】______, children who had televisions in their bedrooms--and【S5】______watched more TV--scored lower on standardized tests than those who did not have sets in their rooms. In contrast, the study found having a home computer with【S6】______to the Internet resulted in comparatively higher test scores.
"Consistently, those with a bedroom television but no【S7】______home computer had, on aver age, the lowest scores and those with home computer but no bedroom television had the highest scores," wrote study author Dina Borzekowski of Johns Hopkins University.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has【S8】______parents to limit children' s television viewing to no more than one to two hours per day--and to try to keep younger Children away from TV altogether.
In two other studies published in the same journal, children who【S9】______watched television before the age of 3 ended up with lower test scores later on, and children and adolescents who watched more television were less【S10】______. to go on to finish high school or earn a college degree.
A)Inadequate I)urged
B)available J)Excessive
C)regularly K)instance
D)therefore L)reception
E)access M)tended
F)likely N)Ordinary
G)impact O)Limitless
H)converted
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第9题
But I wonder:If American education is so poor,why is it that this is still the country of innovation. When I was 12 in Indonesia,I had to memorize the names of all the world's major cities,from Kabul to Karachi.At the same age,my son,who was brought up a Californian,thought that Buenos Aires was Spanish for good food.However,unlike children of his age in Asia and Europe,my son had studied creative geography.When he was only 6,he drew a map of the route that he traveled to get to school,including the streets,the traffic signs and the houses that he passed.
Dissatisfied American parents forget that in this country their children are able to experiment freely with ideas; without this they will not really be able to think or to believe in themselves.
Critics of American education cannot grasp one thing:freedom.America,I think,is the only country that extends even to children the license to freely speak,write and be creative.Our public education certainly is not perfect, but it is a great deal better than any other.I think I have found the answer to my question.
36.From the text we learn that ______.
A.both Americans and immigrants are dissatisfied with the quality of American education
B.the author shares the general idea that American education is worse than education in many othercountries
C.Japanese schools in America require their American teachers to teach mathematics at Japanese levels
D.the author's German friend was a little displeased because the mathematics test for his son was too easy
37.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.The author most probably was an immigrant from Asia and received some school education there.
B.Buenos Aires must be the name of a city,as are Kabul and Karachi.
C.Children in other countries are not likely to learn creative geography.
D.The knowledge of geography of the author's son shows that American education is poor.
38.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
A.If children are not allowed to experiment freely with ideas they won't grow up independent and creative.
B.Most Americans think the present American educational system is not as good as it used to be
C.Private schools run by Japanese businessmen maintain a higher level than American public schools.
D.Americans are more innovative than other people in the world.
39.In the last paragraph the author say,“I have found the answer to my question.”What is the question?
A.Is Japanese education better than American education?
B.Why do Japanese businessmen send their children to Japanese-staffed schools?
C.Why was my son not taught enough geographic knowledge?
D.Is American education really worse than education in other countries?
40.What would be the best title for this passage?
A.American education and education in foreign countries
B.Improvement needed for American education
C.Freedom to think-characteristic of American education
D.Education and innovation in America
第10题
Question 9 Complete the following paragraph by adding details.
Make sure your tone and the vocabulary you use are in unity with the relevant paragraph.
Write about 60-80 words. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.
Two Traits of a Successful College Student
First-time college students don't realize the reality shock they will receive when they get to college. High school and college atmosphere are extremely different in many ways and college students face many new challenges. To get through college successfully, all first-time college students must be dedicated and independent.
Dedication is a primary part of being successful in college. Students must work hard and take action to learn at a college level. Assignments can't be left until the last minute like they might have been in high school. College students must be willing to speak up in class and ask questions when they don't understand. Dedication means setting priorities for success; dedication means putting off going out with friends and caring about producing the best work possible. Dedicated students will do their work and do it well, spending hours reading textbooks, reviewing notes, and revising essays.
However, having dedication is not the only trait college students need to survive. College students must also be independent. (Supply the missing details)_____________________________________________.
College students need to know that being independent is a skill to acquire for college success, as well as life-long success.
College is hard work. Most first-time college students will struggle with the new experience, yet by being dedicated and independent, they will thrive in the college world.