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Parents who send their children abroad for a summer to study English usually believe that the native speaking environment, including the courses, teachers, and host families, can help their children to learn English better. This might be true if the students really study hard and they really get an all-English environment. But the fact is that, most of the time, the tour part is more important than the study part. Although these tours take place in foreign countries, students are rarely exposed in an all-English environment. You will find that, in the morning classes, Taiwanese students would like to stick together and speak Chinese with each other, even though there are some students from other countries. In the afternoon, the students go on a sightseeing excursion with their companions from Taiwan; they speak Chinese of course. In the evening, when students return to the host families, they would stay in their room and share the day with their roommate, another Taiwanese student. People who speak the same language with you is like a log(原木)in the ocean when living in a foreign country where you can not express yourself well, so that you would naturally stick with them. This is especially true with children.
Another unrealistic expectation parents have for these tours is that the experience of living abroad can make their children more independent and mature. However, maturity does not come overnight. It takes time and practice. The most important of all is that they need a good mentor(顾问). None of these exist in the study tours.
小题1:Which of the following is the most important thing for children who study in an English environment according to the writer?
A.Host families. | B.Hard work. | C.Courses. | D.Teachers. |
A.active | B.free | C.outgoing | D.grown-up |
A.Doubtful. | B.Negative. | C.Positive. | D.Neutral. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:B
解析
小题1:推理题。根据第2段3,4行This might be true if the students really study hard and they really get an all-English environment.可知学生的努力才是最重要的。B正确。
小题2:猜测词义题。根据make their children more independent and mature.可知这个词与independent是相近意义的词,选项里只有D:成熟符合要求。独立且成熟!
小题3:推断题。根据第一段最后两行However, for me, as an English major and former participant of many English study tours, I find these summer tours ineffective.可知作者认为这样的夏令营没有效率,对此持否定态度。
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试题【As the summer time approaches, more and more commercials and advertisements can 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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In Brazil, the celebration is supposed to go on from the Saturday before Mardi Gras (大斋节前的最后一天)to Mardi Gras Day, but in some Brazilian cities the celebration can last seven or eight days. Just like New Orleans, not many important things are decided in Brazil from New Year"s Day to Mardi Gras Day because everyone is preparing for or celebrating carnival. Most Brazilian parades have a subject, which could be political or historical. The parades had to have a subject related to Brazil until 1996. Some cities in Brazil do not have a street carnival, but they might have an indoor party.
Bolivia has carnival parades for children and then more parades for adults. The children dress up in costumes and march in the streets. The adults make traditional dance groups and dance in the streets. But the main part of Bolivia"s carnival is getting wet. Almost everyone gets wet from water balloons and water buckets. In Oruru, Bolivia, their carnival is held in the last ten days of the carnival season. People there join in dancing, but their main carnival event is a ceremonial parade that lasts for twenty hours and parades for four kilometers. Over 20,000 dancers are involved as well as 10,000 musicians. This parade attracts at least 400,000 people.
The carnival in Venice, Italy is often regarded as the most carefully prepared carnival and lasts ten days before Lent (大斋节). Many events are held in the canals including shows, concerts, dances and water processions(队列). The official ending to the celebration is the party held in St. Mark"s Square.
小题1:What"s the best title for the passage?
A.Ways of Carnival |
B.Carnival Parades |
C.Carnivals around the World |
D.History of Carnival |
A.not all cities have a street carnival |
B.all Brazilian cities celebrate carnival for a week |
C.the parades should have a subject related to Brazil politics |
D.people prepare for or celebrate carnival after Mardi Gras Day |
A.people join in dancing |
B.nearly all people are wet |
C.children wearing costumes march in the streets |
D.adult dance groups dance in the streets |
A.The time of celebrating carnival in Bolivia is mentioned. |
B.There are details and numbers about carnival celebrations in Bolivia. |
C.People in the carnival celebration in Bolivia are mentioned. |
D.Events or performances for carnival celebrations in Bolivia are told. |
A.Louisiana. |
B.Bolivia. |
C.Venice. |
D.Brazil. |
Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21, reversing a trend(逆转潮流)in the 1960s to reduce it to 18. After New Jersey lowered it to 18, the number of people killed by 18—20-year-old drivers more than doubled, so the state recently upped it back to 21.
Reformers, however, fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “responsible attitudes” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink.
Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already, to a marked drop in accidents, some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks. A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “obviously drunk” and later drove off the road, killing a nine-year-old boy.
As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state, some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national prohibition(禁令)of alcohol that began in 1919, which President Hoover called the “noble experiment”. They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking, but encouraged political corruption(腐败)and organized crime. As with the booming drug trade generally, there is no easy solution.
小题1:What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey?
A.Young drivers were usually bad. |
B.The legal drinking age should be raised. |
C.Some drivers didn’t surprise the legal drinking age. |
D.Drivers should not be allowed to drink. |
A.merciful | B.cruel | C.serious | D.determined |
A.judges are no longer lenient |
B.new laws are introduced in some states |
C.drivers do not appreciate their manly image |
D.the problem has attracted public attention |
A.It is difficult to solve this problem. |
B.It may lead to organized crime. |
C.The new laws can stop heavy drinking |
D.There should be no bars to serve drinks. |
Now I must explain how the alarm works:
l There is a power siren(警报器) in the control unit. It makes a very loud noise.
2 Each of the small units sends out beams or rays in different directions. If anything moves, it breaks a beam. This sends a signal to the control unit. The siren makes a noise which you can hear 50 meters away.
3. When we go to bed, I press the three buttons numbered 4, 9 and 1. Then we have 30 seconds to get out of the room before the alarm starts to work.
That night I slept soundly because I was sure that no burglar(夜贼) could get into our house. However, at about 2:10 a. m., I woke up and heard the siren. “There must be a burglar in the house,” Mary said. “What shall we do?”“I’ll go and see who’s there,” I said. “Stay here. Don’t make a noise.”I went downstairs quietly. When I reached the living-room, I switched on my torch and looked round the room. Then I turned the light on. I switched the siren off and searched the rooms downstairs. There was nothing wrong except that the back door was unlocked. I locked it, reset the alarm and went back to bed. About an hour later, the alarm started again. I jumped out of bed, fell over a chair in the dark and bumped into the bedroom door. Mary woke up and started hitting me with a torch. “Hey! Wait a minute!” I whispered. “It’s only me. I’m going downstairs to see what’s wrong.”I went down into the living-room and listened for a moment. The only sound I could hear was the siren. I turned on the light and then switched the siren off. As I did so, I glanced across at the curtains in front of the windows. I saw a house lizard (a kind of small animal) disappear behind the curtains.“Oh!” I said to myself. “That’s our burglar. ”When the lizard moved, it started the siren. I guessed that the alarm had been made in Europe, where there are no house lizards. Well. I won’t finish this story but if you want an alarm system free of charge, let me know. I’ll send you ours. We bought a dog this morning. It knows the difference between a lizard and a burglar.
小题1:The writer bought an alarm system to ________.
A.make sure that he got up early every day |
B.warn him when there were lizards in his house |
C.frighten burglars and tell him that somebody had got into the house |
D.make Mary feel safe to live in the large room |
A.send a message to the control unit and start the siren |
B.sound their own sirens when the control unit told them so |
C.check that the control unit worked properly all the time |
D.give them enough light |
A.nothing would happen |
B.the control unit would not work |
C.the siren would make a noise |
D.the dog would bark |
A.tell us that the alarm system doesn’t work |
B.tell us an interesting experience |
C.show us how the alarm system works |
D.make it clear that he wants to give away his alarm system |
On the other hand, shooting at tin cans and other small objects in one’s backyard is not and should not be considered a serious sport. When uncontrolled, it can be a very dangerous practice.
Some opponents (反对者) of handgun control have stated that we are out to stop all hunting and that controlling the handgun would severely affect hunting. That is simply untrue. Handgun control would in no way limit the freedom of the true hunter. Few if any hunters consider the handgun an effective hunting weapon.
There are a few hunters who do hunt with handguns, but most states place restrictions (限制) on the type of guns that can be used in hunting, the reason is that killing of game should be done in as humane (人道的) a way as possible. Some small handguns are more likely to wound the animal rather than kill it at once. Only long guns, rifles and shotguns are effective arms of hunting.
People must understand that handguns and hunters are separate matters. Because most of the hunters use a rifle or shotgun, there is no reason why their search for game and sport should be affected by handgun control. Mixing the anti-hunting matter with the handgun matter confuses the killing of animals with killing of people.
小题1:In the writer’s opinion, people should use handguns only when .
A.hunters shoot at animals |
B.they aim at a criminal |
C.objects are under control |
D.objects are only small tin cans in the backyard |
A.hunters can use knives rather than guns to hunt animals |
B.state government encourages hunters to use other guns |
C.nobody cares what weapons are used to kill animals |
D.most hunters use rifles rather than handguns |
A.the relation between hunting and handgun control |
B.the importance of aim practice |
C.how handgun control affects hunting |
D.different types of guns used in hunting |
There are two kinds of road rage: aggressive driving and aggressive reactions to the way other people are driving. Aggressive driving can take different forms:
●Driving much faster than the speed limit.
●Increasing your speed very quickly.
●Driving very close behind the car in front and sounding the horn or flashing the headlights.
●Changing lanes very suddenly and blocking another car.
●Moving into a parking space where another car is trying to park.
There are also different reactions to the way other people are driving. These include:
●Making rude signs at people.
●Shouting at people and threatening them.
●Deliberately driving into another person’s car.
●Hitting somebody.
●Using a weapon such as a baseball bat, or even a gun or a knife.
Road rage is certainly not a joke. There have been incidents of road rage which have led to serious injuries and even murder.
Experts think that one reason for road rage is that films show a lot of examples of fast and aggressive driving such as car chases where this kind of driving seems to be positive.
Experts also think that the punishments for dangerous driving are not serious enough.
Experience shows that driving problems can be controlled, but it takes a long time. In the UK in the last 30 years, the police have been quite successful in reducing the number of people who drink and drive. They are now working to stop people using mobile phones when they are driving. Let’s hope they can have the same success with the road rage.
小题1:Which of the following statements does NOT describe aggressive driving?
A.Driving much faster than the speed limit. |
B.Drinking and driving |
C.Moving into a parking space where another car is trying to park. |
D.Changing lanes very suddenly and blocking another car. |
A.the drivers are drunk |
B.it won’t cause serious injuries or death |
C.we’re in a fast-changing society |
D.the punishments are not serious enough |
A.Sad | B.Cold | C. Optimistic | D.Exciting |
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