Even students of average intelligence can be top students without additional work.(英译中)

A、Even though

B、In case

C、Now that

D、If only

A.Law schools were not attractive to students any moreB)Students graduated from law schools would have heavy debts

B.Graduates of law schools could find a job even in the recession

C.Law schools meant a good job in the law firm with high salar y.

Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie with the student. 【21】______ a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with the 【22】______ in the reading even if they do not discuss it in class or take an examination. The 【23】______ student is considered to be 【24】______ who is motivated to learn for the sake of 【25】______ , not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned 【26】______ brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is 【27】______ for learning the material assigned. When research is 【28】______ , the professor expects the student to take it actively and to complete it with 【29】______ guidance. It is the 【30】______ responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain 【31】______ a university library works; they expect students, 【32】______ graduate students, to be able to exhaust the reference 【33】______ in the library. Professors will help students who need it, but 【34】______ that their students not be 【35】______ dependent on them. In the Unit ed States, professors have many other duties 【36】______ teaching, such as administrative or research work. 【37】______ the time that a professor can spend with a student outside class is 【38】______ . If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either 【39】______ a professor during office hours 【40】______ make an appointment.

【21】

A．If

B．Although

C．Because

D．As

students end dorm life as soon as they can. Residence(住校)choices at U.S. colleges and universities are as different as the institutions themselves, but the first-year dorm experience is generally a mandatory rite(仪式)of passage. Students often complain about the space, but compared with most Chinese dorm rooms those in the U.S. are costly and satisfying. Most students spend their first year in a double room, usually with an area of somewhere between 12 and 15 square meters. A standard room includes a sink(washbasin), a telephone, a bunk-bed, two desks and two wardrobes. Rooms often come equipped with cable TV and broadband Internet access. Students usually provide other extras for themselves-they buy or rent a mini-refrigerator and bring along a carpet, a computer and audiovisual equipment. Roommates are usually chosen by chance from among all the new students at the university, so it's quite likely you won't share any classes with your roommate. It's not only the lack of space, but the many rules that make students feel they've had enough after a year. Rules on visitors of the opposite sex and alcohol are considered by many as the most bothersome(讨厌的)。 Some students put much effort into making their rooms different, especially by using paint, but this can lead to fines. Many students who leave move into an apartment or share a house with friends. This offers more freedom and sometimes even costs less than residence hall living. But a few grow fond of dorm life and stay on for another year or even longer. The most devoted go on to serve as resident assistants, the enforcers(执行者)of rules.

1.Students usually have dorm life for at least one year because ().

A.they have to

B.they like to try something new

C.they want to make new friends

D.their dorm life is quite satisfying

2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage？()

A.Students can have other residence choices after their fist-year dorm life

B.It's not necessary that you share a room with your classmates

C.Maybe boys are only allowed to visit girls at fixed time

D.No one would like to go on with their dorm life after first-year dorm life experience

3.Which of the following is probably NOT the reason why students end their dorm life as soon as possible？()

A.Rooms are too small

B.Their roommates are not friendly

C.They don't like the many rules there

D.It is more expensive.

4.What does the author want to tell us in the last paragraph？()

A.All students do enjoy their dorm life

B.Some students become the enforcers of rules

C.Though many students move out, there are some students who stay on

D.Students are allowed to stay on

5.What is the best title for the passage？()

A.Most U.S. Students Move Our of the Dorm

B.U.S. University Students Today

C.University Life in the U.S.

D.The U.S. University Students Need More Freedom

ood education is often regarded as a ticket to Success in their future.So，many of these students try their best to get a good mark in their examinations.They have a lot of homework every day and exams are a big headache.Sometimes，some of them are even made to go to remedial(补习的)classes after school.

Schools run programmes outside school hours.The students can take part in sports and games，music and dance，hiking and rock-climbing，etc.They are also very active in community service(社区服务).

In their spare time，most students like to listen to pop music.Hollywood blockbusters(大片)，Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular among them.They understand IT very well.Some of them also spend their free time surfing the Internet，e—mailing their friends，playing computer and video games.

They sometimes go to cafes，fast—food restaurants，shopping centres and big bookstores.

So，it looks like life as a middle school student in Singapore is not easy but it is rich and colorful.

21.Many students want to get good education to be （） in the future.

A.popular

B.successful

C.comfortable

D.generous

22.（） go to remedial classes after school in Singapore.

A.A11 of the students

B.Few of the students

C.Not all the students

D.Most of the students

23.In the school，the students can’t outside school （） hours.

A.have sports

B.dance

C.go hiking

D.go to a restaurant

24.According to the passage，most students in Singapore like （）.

A.Hollywood blockbusters

B.writing to their friends

C.talking to their friends

D.having exams

25.The meaning of the underlined sentence in the passage is （）.

A.the middle schoo1 students’ life in Singapore is easy

B.the middle school students’ life in Singapore is amazing

C.the middle school students’ life in Singapore is boring

D.the middle school students’ life in Singapore is hard，but it’s interesting

eir students' writing exhibits a tendency toward a superficiality that Wash't seen, say 10 or 15 years ago. It shows up not only in their lack of analytical skills, but in poor command of grammar and rhetoric. I've been asked by a graduate student what a semicolon is. The mechanics of the English language have been tortured to pieces by TV. Visual, moving images—which are the venue of television—can't be held in the net of careful language. They want to break out. They really have nothing to do with language, grammar, and rhetoric, and they have become fractured.

Recent surveys by dozens of organizations also suggest that up to 40% of the American public is functionally illiter- ate. That is, our citizens' reading and writing abilities, if they have any, are impaired so seriously as to render them, in that handy jargon of our times, dysfunctional. The reading is taught - TV teaches people not to read. It renders them incapable of engaging in an activity that now is perceived as strenuous, because it is not a passive hypnotized state.

Passive as it is, television has invaded our culture so completely that the medium's effects are evident in every quarter, even the literary world. It shows up in supermarket paperbacks, from Stephen King (who has a certain clever skill) to pulp fiction. These really are forms of verbal TV-literature that is so superficial that those who read it can revel in the same sensations they experience when watching television:

Even more importantly, the growing influence of television, Keman says, has changed people's habits and values and affected their assumptions about the world. The sort of reflective, critical, and value laden thinking encouraged by books has been rendered obsolete. In this context, we would do well to recall the Cyclops—the race of giants that, according to Greek myth, predated man.

Quite literally, TV affects the way people think. In Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Jerry Mander quotes from the Emery Report, prepared by the Center for Continuing Education at the Australian National University, Canberra, that, when we watch television, "our usual processes of thinking and discernment are semi-functional at best. "The study also argues that, "while television appears to have the potential to provide useful information to viewers-and is celebrated for its educational function—the technology of television and the inherent nature of the viewing experience actually inhibit learning as we usually think of it. "

The first paragraph implies_____.

A．10 or 15 years ago people seldom wrote

B．the English grammar and rhetoric can be taught on TV

C．thousands of teachers are reluctant to admit their students' inability to write

D．TV ruins students' ability to write

iety. This sickness denies many parents control over the kind of education their children receive. The power once held by parents has gravitated to professional educators. The sickness has been aggravated by increasing centralization and bureaucratization of schools. Which of the following, if true, would weaken the claim that there is continuing erosion of parents control over their childrens education？

A．As a result of community pressure, growing numbers of school administrators follow recommendations made by parents.

B．The number of professional educators has risen sharply over the last decade even though the number of students has declined.

C．Parents" organizations that lobby for changes in school curriculums are generally ineffectual.

D．More members of school boards are appointed by school administrators than are elected by the public.

E．The use of state-wide curriculum programs increased in the Untied States during the past two decades.

by memory of all the basic things one must know is a most incredible and unending effort. School is not easy and it is not for the most part very much fun, but then, if you are very lucky, you may find a real teacher. Three teachers in a lifetime are the very best of my luck. My first was a science and math teacher in high school, my second, a professor of creative writing at Stanford, and my third was my friend and partner, ED Rickets.

I have to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that three are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

My three teachers had these things in common: They all loved what they were doing; they did not tell, but stimulated a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprang wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable.

I shall speak only of my first teacher because in addition to the other things, she brought discovery. She aroused us to shouting, book-waving discussions. She had the noisiest class in school and she did not even seem to know it. We could never stick to the subject. Our speculation (思绪) ranged the world. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies (萤火虫).

She was fired, and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals. Such things must be learned. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left. I have had many teachers who told me soon-forgotten facts but only three who created in me a new attitude a new hunger. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a person？

21. In the writer’s opinion, school life is usually .

A. exciting B. interesting C. tiresome D. challenging

22. We can infer from Paragraph 2 that .

A. it is easy to find great artists as well as great teachers.

B. there are few great teachers but many great artists.

C. the greatest artists are not easy to find; nor are the greatest teachers.

D. being a great teacher is a great art to learn because teachers spread knowledge.

23. In the writer’s opinion, a good teacher should .

A. teach students the fundamental things

B. stick to one subject and be strict with students

C. teach students the knowledge ranging the world

D. arouse students’ curiosity and desire for the world

24. The writer’s first teacher was dismissed mainly because .

A. her class was the noisiest in school

B. she did not teach basic knowledge in class

C. she let students shout and wave books in class

D. she did not know how to teach basic knowledge effectively

25. What is the best title of this article？

A. The Teachers in My Life B. How to Become a Teacher

C. What to Teach at School D. What Makes a Good Teacher

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.

听力原文： Do you have a tough math test coming up？ Then listen to some classical piano music just before the test. You might come up with a higher score. Researchers at a university in California conducted an experiment. They asked a group of college students to listen to some piano music by a famous 18th century composer before taking a math test. They were surprised to find that the students' scores jumped 8 to 9 points. The music seems to excite nerve activities in the brain; similar to the activity that occurs when a person is figuring out a math problem. However, the scientists warn before you get too excited about applying this method to your math test, you should remember that brain exciting effects last only 10 or 15 minutes. Would rock music work as well as the piano music did？ No, the scientists say. In fact, the less complex music might even interfere with the brain's reasoning ability.

(27)

A．The difference between classical music and rock music.

B．Why classical music is popular with math students.

C．The effects of music on the results of math tests.

D．How to improve your reasoning ability.

Homecoming Day

In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks in advance.

Several days before Homecoming Day，students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team，and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming Day twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

The members of school clubs build booths and sell lemonade，apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.

During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over，the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is great honor to be chosen.

Homecoming Day is a happy day，but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses，the students still enjoy Homecoming Day. Some stay at the school to dance，and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering. (240 words)

11. What do many high schools and colleges with a football team have？

A. A Homecoming game.

B. A Homecoming party.

C. A Homecoming dance

D. A Homecoming concert

12. When do students begin to plan the Homecoming Day？

A. Two weeks in advance.

B. One week in advance

C. Many weeks in advance

D. Two or three days in advance

13. What do students start to do several days before the Homecoming Day？

A. Stop classes for parties

B. Decorate the school

C. Set up welcoming groups

D. Hold all kinds of parties

14. Which is NOT mentioned about the things they do before the football game？

A. Look for teachers

B. See old friends

C. Talk together.

D. Order tickets

15. When does the band play school songs？

A. While the game is going on

B. After the game

C. When the game is half over

D. Before the game