Why should you go to college? One important answer to this question is more __16___. As opposed to generations of the past, high school graduates today are _17___ to get the number of high-paid jobs that were __18__ available. The U.S. has been changed from a manufacturing-based economy into an economy based on ___19_, and the importance of a college education today can be _20___ to that of a high school education forty years ago. It __21__ as the gateway to better choices and more opportunity.
There are __22_ reasons as to why it is important to go to college. When students _23__ a post-secondary education, they have the opportunity to read books and listen to the __24__ of top experts in their fields. It __25__ students to think, ask questions, and __26_ new ideas, which allows for additional growth and ___27_ and provides college graduates with an edge in the job market __28__ those who have not experienced a higher education.
The importance of a college education is also because of the opportunity to __29__ valuable resources. The more connections which are __30___ during your college career, the more _31___ you will have when you begin your job search. Once you have ended your job search and have started your career, ___32__, the importance of a college education has not been exhausted. Having a college degree often __33_ greater promotion opportunity.
So, why should you go to college? The reasoning does not begin and end with the _34___ aspect. A good education is __35__ from many different viewpoints, and while the importance of a college education is quite evident for many high school students, what is often not as clear is how they will pay for that education.
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| 小题2: | | A．likely | B．unable | C．afraid | D．unwilling |
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| 小题3: | | A．once | B．just | C．never | D．also |
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| 小题4: | | A．nature | B．culture | C．knowledge | D．agriculture |
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| 小题5: | | A．referred | B．added | C．devoted | D．compared |
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| 小题6: | | A．follows | B．serves | C．unites | D．disappears |
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| 小题7: | | A．additional | B．secret | C．interesting | D．financial |
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| 小题8: | | A．discuss | B．ignore | C．experience | D．imagine |
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| 小题9: | | A．stories | B．requests | C．suggestion | D．lecture |
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| 小题10: | | A．helps | B．encourages | C．forbids | D．advises |
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| 小题11: | | A．design | B．explore | C．change | D．refuse |
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| 小题12: | | A．development | B．payment | C．agreement | D．experiment |
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| 小题14: | | A．admire | B．satisfy | C．gain | D．notice |
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| 小题15: | | A．removed | B．collected | C．explained | D．controlled |
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| 小题16: | | A．inventions | B．choices | C．worries | D．salaries |
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| 小题17: | | A．besides | B．therefore | C．however | D．otherwise |
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| 小题18: | | A．saves | B．includes | C．ensures | D．means |
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| 小题19: | | A．life | B．character | C．communication | D．job |
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试题分析：本文主要是从各个方面阐述了大学教育的多角度的好处，目的在于劝告人们接受大学教育，增加自己工作提拔以及丰富人生的机会。
小题1:D 名词辨析。A时间B自由C尊敬D机会；对于为什么要上大学这个问题一个重要的回答就是上大学可以给我提供更多的机会。
小题2:B 上下文串联。和以前不同，现在的高中毕业生不能够找到那些曾经的高中生能够找到的高报酬的工作。
小题3:A 副词辨析。A曾经B仅仅C从未D也；指现在的美国的高中毕业生不能够找到那些曾经的高中生能够找到的高报酬的工作。
小题4:C 名词辨析。A自然B文化C知识D农业；美国已经从制造业的经济发展到了知识经济的时期。
小题5:D 动词辨析。A提及B增加C致力D比较；现在的大学教育可以比作为40年前的高中教育。
小题6:B 动词辨析。A采用B充当C团结D消失；现在的大学教育是更好的机会的敲门砖。
小题7:A 形容词辨析。A另外的B秘密的C有趣的D经济的；大学教育很重要还有另外一个原因。
小题8:C 动词辨析。A讨论B忽视C体验D想象；当学生在体验大学教育的时候，他们有更多的机会接受更高级的教育和培训。他们可以听到自己领域里的专家的演讲。
小题9:D 名词辨析。A故事B请求C建议D演讲；他们可以听到自己领域里的专家的演讲。
小题10:B 动词辨析。A帮助B鼓励C禁止D建议；这就鼓励学生思考，提出问题，并探索更多新的想法。
小题11:B 动词辨析。A设计B探索C改变D拒绝；这就鼓励学生思考，提出问题，并探索更多新的想法。
小题12:A 名词辨析。Ａ发展Ｂ付钱C协议D实验；这就给大学生提供了额外的进步和发展。
小题13:B 介词辨析。这里的over表示超过…；这就给大学生更多超过那些没有接受的大学教育的人的机会。
小题14:C 动词辨析。A钦佩B满足C赢得D注意到；大学教育另一优势就是给了学生得到更珍贵的资源的机会。
小题15:B 动词辨析。A去除B收集C解释D控制；在大学阶段你收集的社会关系越多，你在开始寻找工作的时候的选择也就越多。
小题16:B 名词辨析。A发明B选择C担忧D薪水；本句解释的大学生活的另外一个优势：在大学阶段你收集的社会关系越多，你在开始寻找工作的时候的选择也就越多。
小题17:C 连词辨析。A而且B因此C然而D否则，要不然；然而大学教育的好处还不仅如此。
小题18:D 动词辨析。A节约，挽救B包括C确保D意味着；拥有大学学历还意味着有更多的被提拔的机会。
小题19:D 名词辨析。A生活B性格C交流D工作；大学教育重要性不仅仅在于工作方面，在其他方面也有很多的潜在的优势。
小题20:C 形容词辨析。A自由B罕见C有益D缺席；从很多不同的角度来看，良好的教育都有很大的益处。故C正确。
点评：本文主要是从各个方面阐述了大学教育的多角度的好处。从本篇完型我们可以看出完形的考查趋势。突出考察学生词汇与结构，词汇与结构这部分既是整个考试的基础，也是本题考察的重点部分，在以后的复习中，要特别重视词汇与语法的复习，重视自己基础的夯实与提高，只有这样，才能以不变应万变，在高考中中立于不败之地。另外在答题注意上下文理解，同时结合逻辑推理进行答题，题目就能迎刃而解了。 |
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试题【Why should you go to college? One important answer to this question is more __16】；主要考察你对
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Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to pre-school children. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.
The two-year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.
Shayne Piasta, an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, was an author of the study. She says most pre-school teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read story-books in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text. “If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.” But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.
More than 300 children aged four and five were observed in classrooms. They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program called Project STAR--- Sit Together and Read. The project is based at Ohio State. It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to pre-school children in their classrooms.
There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger. They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the organization of the print--- for instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.
小题1:What do we know about the ways pre-school children are usually taught?| A．More attention is paid to the pictures ,with words and letters being ignored. | | B．Preference is given to the shape of letters and the organization of the print. | | C．The focus of the teaching is on bringing them up to be good readers. | | D．Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures. |
小题2:What does Shayne Piasta suggest pre-school teachers should do in class?| A．Teach children how to draw pictures to get an idea of what they mean. | | B．Change the way they teach and pay more attention to words and letters. | | C．Adopt different methods according to the students’ difference in reading skills. | | D．Read storybooks to children rather than explain the meaning of the pictures. |
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE about the study on language skills of pre-school children?| A．Many teachers want to change their way of teaching pre-school children. | | B．Attention on the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading. | | C．Project STAR aims to research into the results of reading books to pre-school children in the classroom. | | D．Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching. |
小题4:Which section of a magazine does the passage probably come from?| A．Fashion. | B．Economy . | C．Entertainment. | D．Education. |
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There have been big changes in the attitudes of most parents over the last few years. Physical punishment is banned in schools in most countries, and in many countries, there are moves to ban all physical punishment of children even at home. However, many parents still believe that they have the right to use some physical punishments to deal with certain misbehavior at certain ages.
It’s easy to find reasons to allow some physical punishments. One issue is that many parents find it very difficult to abandon physical punishment completely. Parents argue that this was the way they were brought up and that it didn’t do any harm to them. They believe that for the child’s sake they have the right to discipline the child in any way they consider fit, including using some physical punishments. The other one is that physical punishment can be quick and effective. There is not much point reasoning with a screaming child in the supermarket.
However, there are several reasons why we should stop using physical punishment. One point is that most parents are not trained to deal with misbehaving children. They don’t have enough resources or choices to handle the situation. As a result, they immediately react by hitting the child even if there are other solutions to the problem. Another point is that unless people are challenged or forced to change their belief, they may keep following negative habits. An example is seat belt use —now most people wear seat belts without thinking, while years ago the idea of using seat belts was strange to most people. In the same way, banning physical punishment will force people to change their habits.
In conclusion, parents have to change some of their belief and ideas about how children should be raised. It is possible to avoid the use of physical force, and doing so will help us move closer to the dream of removing violence from our society.
小题1:According to the first paragraph, many parents think that ____________.| A．they are free to use physical punishment on their children | | B．most of the children behave badly in their daily life | | C．they have changed their attitudes towards their children | | D．physical punishment is effective to educate their children |
小题2:Many parents won’t give up physical punishment because _____________.| A．they are disappointed with their children | | B．they were brought up just in the same way | | C．they don’t want to hurt their children badly | | D．they don’t know what to do with their children |
小题3:The author gives the example of using seat belts in order to show ____________.| A．most people are used to wearing seat belts | | B．it’s not difficult to change some negative habits | | C．seat belts are really very necessary and useful | | D．people won’t change their old habits unless forced |
小题4:The main purpose of the author in writing this passage is to ____________.| A．talk about a ban on using physical punishment | | B．tell us we should educate our children in other ways | | C．advise parents to give up using physical punishment | | D．suggest physical punishment should be used at home |
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More than 200 scientists have completed a twoyear study to identify the most natural and undeveloped areas on Earth. Their findings are reported in a new book called Wilderness：Earth’s Last Wild Places. The book describes 37 wilderness areas around the world. Each has an area greater than 10,000 square kilometers. The study considered only areas where at least 70% of all plants are native.
North and South America are home to the largest number of wilderness areas. There are 16 such areas, from southern Argentina to Alaska and northern Canada. Africa has 8 wilderness areas, including the thick forests and the grasslands. Australia and New Guinea (几内亚) share 6 areas. Europe has 3 areas and Asia has 2.The Arabian Desert and Antarctica also are considered wilderness areas.
The largest wilderness area is the Boreal Forest (北方森林)．It extends for 16million square kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. The Boreal Forest extends across Alaska, Canada, northern Europe and Russia. The smallest of the 37 wilderness areas is the Sundarbans. It is the world’s largest tidal mangrove forest (红树林)．It covers 10,000 square kilometers of land at the mouth of the Ganges River in India and Bangladesh (孟加拉国)．
The study found that wilderness areas cover about 46% of the Earth’s land surface. However, they are home to less than 2.5% of the world’s population. Nineteen of the wilderness areas have only about one person for each square kilometer. Native people usually live in these areas.
Wilderness areas help to influence the world’s weather systems and rainfall. They are also home to many plants and animals. Population growth and the spread of agriculture and mining operations threaten wilderness areas. But just 7% of all such areas have some form of official protection.
小题1:What does the author think of the wilderness areas around the world in the book?| A．Unwanted. | B．Long-lasting. | C．Valuable | D．Perfect. |
小题2:The writer describes the wilderness areas to show that they ________.| A．are worth the public support | B．can attract readers’ attention | | C．need to be stressed as resources | D．are seen on every continent |
小题3:According to the 4th paragraph, we can draw a conclusion that the 37 wilderness areas are ________.| A．deserted | B．crowded | C．uncontrolled | D．undeveloped |
小题4:As the result of the effect on nature, the wilderness areas on Earth should be ________.| A．thought more of by the governments | B．explored as natural habitats very soon | | C．further made full use of at present | D．discovered for their advantages of nature |
小题5:The purpose of writing this text is to tell us ________of the wilderness areas around the world.| A．the importance | B．the situation | C．the development | D．the environment |
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In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child"s acquisition (学会) of each new skill -- the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself.
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters. Others are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality（准时）for meals. In general, the controls represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child"s own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency（前后一致） is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality (道德). Also, parents should realize that "example is better than precept". If they are not sincere and do not practice what they preach (说教), their children may grow confused when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents" principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
小题1:Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills, _________________.| A．should be avoided | | B．is universal among parents | | C．sets up dangerous states of worry in the child | | D．will make the child lose interest in learning new things |
小题2:In the process of children’s learning new skills, parents _________________.| A．should encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read | | B．should expect a lot of the children | | C．should achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own | | D．should create as many learning opportunities as possible |
小题3:The second paragraph mainly tells us that _________________.| A．parents should be strict with their children | | B．parental controls reflect only the values of the community | | C．parental restrictions vary, and are not always for the benefit of the children alone | | D．it’s parents’ and society’s duty to control the children |
小题4:The word“precept” in Paragraph 3 probably means “_________________”.| A．opinion | B．punishment | C．behavior | D．instruction |
小题5:In terms of moral matters, parents should _____________________.| A．follow the rules themselves | | B．be aware of the huge difference between adults and children | | C．forbid things which have no foundation in morality | | D．always ensure the security of their children |
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Over the last ten years, technology has been constantly improving. Learning languages outside classes has__36__from using sets of tapes or CDs to much more creative and interesting __37__.This is largely due to the ever __38__Internet. There are now hundreds of __39__that will help you learn a language, some are better than others; some charge and some are __40__. Below are some of the free-of-charge websites that I recommend (推荐) to __41__ you learn a language.
Busuu is like Facebook for language learners. __42__of this website span (跨越) across the globe. It works by giving you exercises to __43__; these exercises can be grammar, __44__, or reading comprehension. The more exercises you complete, the more your “Language Garden” __45__. Written exercises are corrected by native speaker of the language you are learning. You can also help students of your language by __46__ their work.
MyHappyPlanet is an online community for people __47__ in learning a language in __48__ for teaching their own language. For example, you help someone in Barcelona with their Chinese __49__they help you with your Spanish. With Myhappyplanet, you can practice speaking with a __50__speaker, learn more about other cultures, and make friends with people __51__in the world.
BBC languages is probably one of the most __52__ways to learn a language online, and it’s great for beginners .The lessons are in the __53__of a TV series shot in your target language. It’s like watching your favorite show and __54__at the same time. They also help you to have a better understanding __55__ the culture of the country
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| 小题2: | | A．points | B．ideas | C．designs | D．methods |
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| 小题3: | | A．improving | B．falling | C．requiring | D．working |
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| 小题4: | | A．books | B．websites | C．programs | D．tapes |
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| 小题5: | | A．cheap | B．expensive | C．free | D．spare |
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| 小题6: | | A．help | B．expect | C．hope | D．advise |
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| 小题7: | | A．Managers | B．Members | C．Employees | D．Employers |
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| 小题8: | | A．compete | B．report | C．teach | D．complete |
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| 小题9: | | A．structure | B．English | C．vocabulary | D．knowledge |
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| 小题10: | | A．closes | B．grows | C．ends | D．rises |
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| 小题11: | | A．showing | B．measuring | C．praising | D．correcting |
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| 小题12: | | A．interested | B．shocked | C．disappointed | D．surprised |
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| 小题13: | | A．balance | B．exchange | C．preparation | D．search |
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| 小题14: | | A．but | B．while | C．since | D．unless |
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| 小题15: | | A．strange | B．foreign | C．fluent | D．native |
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| 小题16: | | A．anybody | B．somewhere | C．anywhere | D．somebody |
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| 小题17: | | A．serious | B．difficult | C．boring | D．relaxing |
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| 小题18: | | A．fashion | B．form | C．shape | D．figure |
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