Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality (理性), but when it comes to my college education I am an idealist and a fool. In high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer and, of course, any reasonable student with my aims would have chosen a college with a large engineering department, many famous professors and lots of good labs and research equipment. But that’s not what I did.
I chose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts (文科) university that doesn’t even offer a major in electrical engineering. Obviously, this was not a practical choice; I came here for more noble reasons. I wanted a broad education that would provide me with flexibility and a value system to guide me in my job. I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by communicating with people who weren’t studying science or engineering. My parents, teachers and other adults praised me for such a wise choice. They told me I was wise and grown-up beyond my 18 years, and I believed them.
I headed off to the college and sure I was going to have an advantage over those students who went to big engineering "factories" where they didn’t care if you had values or were flexible. I was going to be a complete engineer: technical expert and excellent humanist all in one.
Now I’m not so sure. Somewhere along the way my noble ideas crashed into reality, as all noble ideas finally do. After three years of struggling to balance math, physics and engineering courses with liberal-arts courses, I have learned there are reasons why few engineering students try to reconcile engineering with liberal-arts courses in college.
The reality that has blocked my path to become the typical successful student is that engineering and the liberal arts simply don’t mix as easily as I supposed in high school. Individually they shape a person in very different ways. The struggle to reconcile the two fields of study is difficult.
小题1:Why did the author choose to study engineering at a small liberal-arts university? | A．He intended to become an engineer and humanist. | | B．He intended to be a reasonable student with noble ideals. | | C．He wanted to be an example of practicality and rationality. | | D．He wanted to communicate with liberal-arts students. |
小题2:According to the author, by communicating with people who study liberal arts, engineering students can ___________. | A．become noble idealists | | B．broaden their knowledge | | C．find a better job in the future | | D．balance engineering and liberal arts |
小题3: Which word below can replace the underlined word “reconcile”?| A．confuse | B．compare | C．combine | D．compete |
小题4:The underlined sentence in 1st paragraph means ___________.| A．he has failed to achieve his ideal aims | | B．he is not a practical and rational student | | C．his choice of attending to a small liberal-arts university is reasonable | | D．his idea of combining engineering with liberal - arts is noble and wise |
小题5: The author suggests in this passage that ___________. | A．liberal-arts students are supported to take engineering courses | | B．technical experts with a wide vision are expected in the society | | C．successful engineering students are more welcomed in the society | | D．engineering universities with liberal-arts courses are needed |
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文章大意：作者讲述了一段自己的经历来说明自己不明智的选择。他抱着今后成为一名既是技 术专家又是人文主义者的目的选择在一所很小的文科大学里学习理科结果证明他的选择并非如他原来想像的那么理想。
小题1:A文章第二段中间作者谈到了他这样选择的原因“I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by communicating with people...”。
小题1:B 文章第二段“I wanted to open my eyes and expand my vision by interacting with people who weren’t studying science or engineering.”中expand my vision 与选项A的broaden their horizons属于同义替代。
小题1:C 考查词义推测。根据句意可知reconcile为“结合之意”。
小题1:A 这句话的大概意思是工程类的学生被认为是很实际并很理性的但轮到我选择教育时我成了理想主义者和傻瓜。言下之意是他的教育失败了。
小题1:B从作者选择学校和专业的理由来推断社会需要知识面宽的专业人才。 |
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试题【Engineering students are supposed to be examples of practicality and rationality】；主要考察你对
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阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意, 然后从1-15各题所给出的A、B、C、D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manager in a company, and his __1__ didn’t seem too bright, they were very __2__ together until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back. She also told him that she couldn’t see any future for both of them, “so let’s go our own __3__ from now on…” The young man was __4__, but he agreed. When he regained his __5__, he worked hard day and night, just to make something out of himself. Finally with all the __6__ work, this man set up his own __7__.
One rainy day, while this man was __8__, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain, walking to somewhere. He __9__ that they were his ex-girlfriend’s (前女友)parents, so he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to find him in his expensive car and to know that he had his own company, car, etc.
To the man’s surprise, the couple were walking towards a cemetery (墓地). He got out of his car and followed them. And there he saw his ex-girlfriend — a photograph of her __10__ as sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone, and those precious paper cranes in a glass bottle! He walked over and asked the couple why this had happened. They explained that __11__ she did not leave for France at all. She fell ill with cancer. In her heart, she had believed that he would __12__ some day. She didn’t not want her __13__ to be his barrier(障碍). Therefore, she chose to leave him. She asked her __14__ to put his paper cranes beside her, because if the day comes when fate brings him to her again he can take some of those back with him.
The man just cried __15__. He was heartbroken once again.
1. A. appearance
| B. future
| C. salary
| D. apartment
| 2. A. happy
| B. pleasant
| C. worried
| D. sensitive
| 3. A. futures
| B. goals
| C. ways
| D. courses
| 4. A. excited
| B. mad
| C. heartbroken
| D. puzzling
| 5. A. position
| B. confidence
| C. independence
| D. freedom
| 6. A. main
| B. beautiful
| C. hard
| D. heavy
| 7. A. office
| B. family
| C. studio
| D. company
| 8. A. running
| B. driving
| C. walking
| D. wandering
| 9. A. recognized
| B. noticed
| C. understood
| D. memorized
| 10. A. glaring
| B. talking
| C. smiling
| D. crying
| 11. A. fortunately
| B. recently
| C. difficultly
| D. actually
| 12. A. come
| B. make
| C. suffer
| D. succeed
| 13. A. illness
| B. heart
| C. cranes
| D. sadness
| 14. A. husband
| B. parents
| C. friends
| D. son
| 15. A. heatedly
| B. hardly
| C. sadly
| D. excitedly
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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
小题1:What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
A．He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
| B．He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
| C．He will give the very person long list of direction.
| D．He is going to show the man an opposite direction. |
小题2:Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?| A．Because of his poor sense of direction. | | B．Because he always forget the way to home. | | C．Because he did not have any friend. | | D． Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way. |
小题3:How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?| A．He felt strange. | B．He felt embarrassed. | | C．He felt very sad. | D．He felt astonished. |
小题4:Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?| A．Someone we don’t know. | B．The writer did it for himself.
| C．The secretary did so. | D．A warm-hearted old lady did itI. |
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A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said, "I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."
"Is the man of the house home?” they asked. "No", she replied, "He’s out." "Then we cannot come in", they replied.
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what had happened. "Go to tell them I am home and invite them in!" The woman went out and invited the men in. "We do not go into a house together," they replied. "Why is that?" she asked.
One of the old men explained that their names were Wealth(财富), Success and Love. Then he added, "Now go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home."
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband was overjoyed and he suggested inviting Wealth to fill their home with wealth. And his wife wanted to invite Success; but their daughter-in-law suggested they should invite Love so that their home would be filled with love. At last the husband said to his wife. "Go out and invite Love to be our guest."
The woman went out and asked the three old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our guest."
Love got up and started walking toward the house.
The other two also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"
The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would have stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever He goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"
小题1:The best title for this passage would be __________.| A．A Woman and Three Men | B．Wealth, Success and Love | | C．A Strange Thing Happened to a Woman | D．A Husband and his Wife |
小题2:The woman asked the three men to come in and have something to eat because _________.| A．she was a warm-hearted woman | B．they were her neighbors | | C．they asked her to do | D．they were her friends |
小题3:Who does the underlined word “the man” in the second paragraph refer to?| A．The woman’s son. | B．The woman’s father. | | C．The woman’s son-in-law（女婿） | D．The woman’s husband. |
小题4:It can be inferred（推断）from the passage that __________.| A．The three old men are brothers and they can’t be separated. | | B．The husband will refuse them in. | | C．The wife will be scolded by the husband. | | D．If a person has love, he will own everything. |
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It was a busy morning, about 8:30, when an elderly gentleman in his 80s came to the 41 . I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30.
The nurse had him take a 42 in the waiting area, 43 him it would be at least 40 minutes 44 someone would be able to see him. I saw him 45 his watch and decided, since I was 46 busy — my patient didn’t 47 at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor’s appointment.
The gentleman said no and told me that he 48 to go to the nursing home to have breakfast with his 49 . He told me that she had been 50 for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be 51 if he was a bit late. He replied that she 52 knew who he was, and that she had not been able to 53 him for five years now. I was 54 , and asked him, “And you 55 go every morning, even though she doesn’t know who you are?”
He smiled and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I know who she is.” I had to hold back 56 as he left.
Now I 57 that in marriages(婚姻), true love is acceptance of all that is. The happiest people don’t 58 have the best of everything; they just 59 the best of everything they have. 60 isn’t about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
| 小题1: | | A．school | B．hospital | C．station | D．bank |
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| 小题2: | | A．breath | B．test | C．seat | D．break |
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| 小题3: | | A．persuading | B．promising | C．understanding | D．telling |
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| 小题4: | | A．if | B．before | C．since | D．after |
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| 小题5: | | A．taking off | B．giving up | C．looking at | D．getting into |
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| 小题6: | | A．very | B．also | C．seldom | D．not |
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| 小题7: | | A．turn up | B．take in | C．come on | D．go away |
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| 小题8: | | A．needed | B．forgot | C．agreed | D．happened |
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| 小题9: | | A．daughter | B．wife | C．mother | D．sister |
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| 小题10: | | A．late | B．well | C．around | D．there |
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| 小题11: | | A．lonely | B．worried | C．doubtful | D．hungry |
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| 小题12: | | A．so far | B．neither | C．no longer | D．already |
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| 小题13: | | A．recognize | B．answer | C．believe | D．expect |
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| 小题14: | | A．moved | B．disappointed | C．surprised | D．satisfied |
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| 小题15: | | A．only | B．then | C．thus | D．still |
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| 小题16: | | A．chat | B．tears | C．words | D．judgement |
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| 小题17: | | A．realize | B．suggest | C．hope | D．prove |
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| 小题18: | | A．necessarily | B．completely | C．naturally | D．frequently |
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| 小题19: | | A．learn | B．make | C．favor | D．try |
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| 小题20: | | A．Adventure | B．Beauty | C．Trust | D．Life |
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Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horse back riding.
When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.
Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.
One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman — Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her.
She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”
Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!
小题1:The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans .| A．at the age of 13 | B．before she got married | | C．after they moved to new homes | D．before the writer’s family moved away |
小题2:They didn’t often write to each other because they .| A．got married | B．had little time to do so | | C．didn’t like writing letters | D．could see each other on special time |
小题3:There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she .| A．was in trouble | | B．didn’t know Linda’s address | | C．received the card that she sent | | D．didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happiness or sadness |
小题4:The writer was happy when she .| A．read the newspaper | | B．heard Linda’s voice on the phone | | C．met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda | | D．wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman |
小题5:They haven’t kept in touch .| A．for about 40 years | B．for about 27 years | | C．since they got married | D．since the writer’s family moved away |
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