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Living away from home tends to be the toughest adjustment for first-year students. You may feel homesick in your first weeks or months. It can help to call, write, or email your parents and friends, making them know how you’re going. You can also talk with your roommates. As first-year students themselves, they’re probably experiencing many of the same fears and worries that you’re dealing with .
But what if you don’t get along well with your roommates?
In some cases, it can be a good thing if you and your roommates aren’t much alike. Different views on things may be helpful, so respect your differences no matter what.
If you and your roommates don’t get along well, it can help to find someone who you feel does understand you, which should be easy on a campus with so many people. Many schools have student organization nights where all of the campus clubs gather and promote their organizations, so you can meet people with the same interests there as you. You’ll also meet tons of people in class or in your dorm building.
As homesickness, painful throats, sprained (扭伤的) ankles and wisdom teeth that act up are common among college students, you should check out your student guidebook or your school’s website to find out information about the university health center.
If you think you cannot deal with your problems, make a stop at the school counseling (咨询)center. First-year troubles are something the counselors know well. You can get help there.
小题1:From Paragraph 1 we can infer that __________.
| A．Katie had been worried about the changes before starting her college life. |
| B．Katie felt satisfied when her college life started. |
| C．Katie wasn’t used to the new environment in college at first. |
| D．Katie has fallen behind in her study after the first semester in college. |
| A．Adjust to it gradually. |
| B．Never share fears with your parents. |
| C．Talk to your roommates about it. |
| D．Get along with your roommates. |
| A．Not trying to change them. |
| B．Avoid making friends with them. |
| C．Developing the same interest as them. |
| D．Not talking with them. |
| A．It’s easy for the first-year students to adapt to the college life. |
| B．First-year students can get along well with roommates quickly. |
| C．The university center can only help the first-year students solve problems. |
| D．The school counseling center is familiar with the problems the first-year students face. |
| A．Freshmen may meet many problems. |
| B．Communication is important in college. |
| C．How you can adjust to your first year in college. |
| D．How schools help freshmen to get used to college life. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
试题分析：文章主要讲了大一新生如何处理想家、健康等问题，以适应大学生活。
小题1:细节题：根据第一段的具体描述：Katie学习Psych 101课程有困难，发现室友与她非常不同，不习惯食堂的肉等，可概括出Katie起初不适应大学的环境。所以选C。
小题2:细节题：根据第二段You can also talk with your roommates. As first-year students themselves, they’re probably experiencing many of the same fears and worries that you’re dealing with可知如果想家，可以和室友交谈，所以选C。
小题3:推理题：根据第四段的句子：“so respect your differences no matter what”可推知对待室友不要去改变他们，所以A正确。
小题4:细节题：根据最后一段的句子：If you think you cannot deal with your problems, make a stop at the school counseling (咨询)center. First-year troubles are something the counselors know well. You can get help there.可知大学的咨询中心对大学新生的问题很熟悉，所以选D。
小题5:主旨题：文章主要讲了大一新生如何处理想家、健康等问题，以适应大学生活。所以选C。
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核心考点
试题【A popular student in her small high school, Katie started college, expecting to 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
For many centuries, people used windmills to grind (磨碎) wheat into flour or pump water from deep underground. When electricity was discovered in the late 1800s, people living in remote (偏僻的) areas began to use them to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. However, by the 1940s when electricity was available to people in almost all areas of the United States, windmills were rarely used.
During the 1970s, people started becoming concerned about the pollution that is created when coal and gas are burned to produce electricity. People also realized that the supply of coal and gas would not last forever. Then, wind was rediscovered, though it means high costs. Today, there is a global movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind.
小题1:From the text we know that windmills _______.
| A．were invented by Europeans armies |
| B．have a history of more than 2800 years |
| C．used to supply power to electric lights in remote areas |
| D．have rarely been used since electricity was discovered |
| A．Sailing a boat. | B．Producing electricity. |
| C．Grinding wheat into flour. | D．Pumping water from underground. |
| A．wind power is cleaner |
| B．it is one of the oldest power sources |
| C．it was cheaper to create energy from wind |
| D．the supply of coal and gas failed to meet ends |
| A．The advantages of wind power. |
| B．The design of wind power plants. |
| C．The worldwide movement to save energy. |
| D．The global trend (趋势) towards producing power from wind. |
That’s an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone a 13-year-old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two cows and a cat.
They just might succeed in cloning Missy soon — or perhaps not for another five years.
Westhusin"s experience with cloning animals leaves him upset by all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Missy project, using hundreds upon hundreds of dog"s eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos carrying Missy"s DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate（代孕的）mother. The wastage of eggs and the many spontaneously aborted(流产，发育不全) fetuses（胎）may be acceptable when you"re dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. “Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous,” he says.
Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice research payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, Westhusin"s phone has been ringing with people calling in hopes of duplicating their cats and dogs, cattle and horses. “A lot of people want to clone pets, especially if the price is right,” says Westhusin. Cost is no obstacle for Missy"s mysterious billionaire owner; he"s put up $3.7 million so far to fund A&M"s research.
Contrary to some media reports, Missy is not dead. The owner wants a twin to carry on Missy"s fine qualities after she does die. The prototype（原型；雏形）is, by all accounts, athletic, good-natured and super-smart. Missy"s master does not expect an exact copy of her. He knows her clone may not have her temperament（气质、性情）. In a statement of purpose, Missy"s owner and the A&M team say they are “both looking forward to studying the ways that her clones differ from Missy.”
Besides cloning a great dog, the project may contribute insight into the old question of nature vs. nurture. It could also lead to the cloning of special rescue dogs and many endangered animals.
However, Westhusin is cautious about his work. He knows that even if he gets a dog pregnant, the offspring, should they survive, will face the problems shown at birth by other cloned animals: abnormalities like immature lungs and heart and weight problems~ “Why would you ever want to clone humans,” Westhusin asks, “when we"re not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet?”
小题1:By “stupid endeavor”, Westhusin means to say that ________.
| A．human cloning is a foolish undertaking |
| B．animal cloning is absolutely impractical |
| C．human cloning should be done selectively |
| D．animal cloning is not worth the effort at all |
| A．Its success is already in sight. |
| B．It is progressing smoothly. |
| C．It is doomed to utter failure. |
| D．Its outcome remains uncertain. |
| A．study the possibility of cloning humans |
| B．search for ways to modify its temperament |
| C．find out the differences between Missy and its clones |
| D．examine the reproductive system of the dog species |
| A．a bad temper |
| B．defective（有缺陷的、有毛病的）organs |
| C．immune deficiency |
| D．an abnormal shape |
| A．Cloning of Missy |
| B．Scientist Says ‘No’ to Human Cloning |
| C．Human Cloning Is Dangerous . |
| D．Westhusin Is Cautious about Cloning |
| The Summit 2009 World leaders from about 20 countries met at the London Summit (峰会)2009 on April 2nd, Thursday and reached an agreement of $1,00,000 million to fight against the worst economic crisis (经济危机).They said they would take more tight control of the financial rules (金融管制) to stop it happening again. Chairman Hu Jintao on behalf of (代表) the Chinese government attended the summit and played an important role in it. | The Shanghai Tower The Shanghai Tower has some famous neighbours. It"s next to the 1615-foot-tall Shanghai World Financial Center that is the second tallest completed skycraper (摩天大楼) in the world. So far, the first is Taiwan"s 1670-foot-tall Taipei101. The Tower is also next to the Jin Mao Buliding, which is the fifth tallest in the world at 1381 feet high.At 2073feet, the Shanghai Tower will top (超过) all the three. The design work began in 1993 and it wil be finished in 2013. |
| The Grand Hotel Beijing The Grand Hotel Beijing is a five-star hotel. It is within the red wall to the east of the Forbidden City and is near Tian"anmen Square and Wangfujing shopping street. All of the guest rooms are made in the traditional Chinese imperial style (中国传统的皇室风格). It"s the right place where you can experience Roylty (王族) and enjoy the honor that few people can do. Add:No.35East Chang"an Avenue, Beijing, P.R.China100006 Tel: 86-10)65137788 Fax: (86-10)65130048 E-mail: sales@grandhotelbeijing.com | Chinese delay US tour Chinese tourists put off trips to the United States yesterday as the government warned on traveling to countries hit by H1N1 flu. Zhangwei, manager of the China International Travel Service"s tourism office, said the agency (旅行社) had been full of fears of being infected (被传染) by such a flu. The flu may have killed at least 83 people in Mexico. Confirmed or suspected cases have been reported first in the US, Brazil, Canada, Spain and New Zealand, then in Janpan and several provinces in China. |
| 阅读理解。 | |
| LONDON, England (CNN)—The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home Thursday from his 30,000-mile, 282-day ocean journey. Mike Perham, 17, sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall, the southernmost point in Britain, at 9:47 a.m., his race team said. "It feels absolutely brilliant," Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line. "I"m really, really excited to be going across the line at last. It doesn"t feel like long since I crossed it first." Mike set off on his round-the-world trip on November 18, 2008. He has been sailing his yacht single-handedly, though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way. The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo, according to the Guinness World Records. Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father, Peter and at age 14, he sailed across the Atlantic alone. The teenager"s school-which Mike describes as"highly supportive" of his trip-has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip. It also gave him some coursework to do during"quiet moments," according to Mike"s Web site. There haven"t been many of those quiet moments. Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal, the Canary Islands, South Africa, and twice in Australia, according to his Web site. Bad weather in the Southern Ocean-between Australia and Antarctica-forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds. He said at one point, a "freak wave" picked up the boat and turned it on its side. "My feet were on the ceiling at the time," he told CNN. "That was a really hairy moment, and I was certainly thinking, "Why am I here?" But we took the sails off and the day after I thought, "This is brilliant!"" Mike describes his father as his biggest hero, always supportive of what he wanted to achieve. Peter Perham said he wasn"t too worried about his son facing dangerous situations at sea, as long as he knew what to do and stayed safe. | |
| 1. Mike Perham returned to Britain in ______. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. August B. September C. October D. November | |
| 2. Mike Perham is ______ that went on the round-the-world trip in the world up till now. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. the first B. the bravest C. the luckiest D. the youngest | |
| 3. We can infer from the passage that ______. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. the English school is the same as ours B. the English school doesn"t care for students C. the English school has a humane management D. the English school gives students a lot of course work | |
| 4. The passage mainly tells us ______. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. Mike"s exciting sail trip around the globe B. how Mike"s father taught him to sail a boat C. why CNN wanted to report the news to the public D. the introduction of the Guinness World Records | |
| 阅读理解。 | |
BEIJING-The two-day visit to Washington has been heavy for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as | |
| 1. Brown paid the two-day visit to Washington in order to _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. improve the ties with the US and his image B. make Obama"s international image better C. congratulate Obama on coming into power D. prepare for the coming G-20 economic summit | |
| 2. The April G-20 summit will mainly focus on how _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. to solve the international energy crisis B. to solve the international economic crisis C. to relax current international tension D. to achieve the double-win goal lately | |
| 3. According to many analysts, there is the potential for bitterness between the UK and the US because _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. Obama is less friendly to Brown than Brown to Obama B. Obama hasn"t visited the UK yet as a new president C. Obama seems to have attached more importance to Europe than to the Pacific region D. many Britons believe themselves to be the victims of a crisis caused by the US | |
| 4. The underlined part in the last paragraph suggests that _____. | |
| [ ] | |
| A. Britons expect too much from Obama B. Britain and USA used to have close relationship C. the relationship between the two countries will break up D. Obama and the first lady will not spend their honeymoon in Britain |