Have you dreamed of traveling to cool places, meeting different people, and maybe picking up a language or two? No matter which country you live in, you can fly over the world’s highest waterfalls in Venezuela, study in France or take dancing lessons in Ghana. Besides the excitement of traveling, there is another reason to study abroad. "Obviously, I learned the language and am now fluent, but perhaps what’s more important was how much I learned about cultures, people, and myself." said Andrew, who studied in France.
Christina studied in Caracas, Venezuela, a city of 10 million people and a huge change from her hometown of 35,000! Christina said she learned how to better speak for herself and her beliefs and to express herself in another language. What could make you more confident than that?
Living away from home can also help you become adapted to the transition (过渡) to college and adulthood. Matthew said that he returned from studying in Australia with confidence, and a real interest in international affairs. "After having gone abroad in high school, I found the transition to college was a breeze — moving 560 miles from home didn’t seem difficult at all after having lived thousands of miles away. "
Speaking of college, improving your language skills might help you get into ideal colleges and even land future jobs. Colleges and employers know that studying abroad provides leadership skills in a world that needs much communication. Most of all, it’s fun! You won’t suffer from the general boredom (单调) while you’re studying in a different learning environment.
小题1:What do we know about Andrew?
A．He once flew over the world’s highest waterfalls.
| B．He took dancing lessons in Ghana.
| C．He learned about cultures in Caracas, Venezuela.
| D．He studied in France. |
小题2:According to Christina, studying abroad enables people to ________.
| A．get along with people around | B．have confidence in themselves
| C．get used to a different life | D．know about different cultures |
小题3:By saying "I found the transition to college was a breeze", the author means it is _______ to adapt to college life.
| A．interesting | B．difficult | C．easy | D．disappointing |
小题4:From the last paragraph, the greatest thing you can get by studying abroad is to _______.
| A．enjoy the excitement of traveling | B．pick up a new language
| C．enter the university you dreamed of | D．make your life full of pleasure |
小题5:What does the text mainly talk about?
| A．The advantages of studying abroad. | B．What to prepare to study abroad.
| C．The experiences of studying abroad. | D．Different opinions on studying abroad. |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:C
小题4:D
小题5:A |
试题分析：本文讲述的是到国外学习的多种好处和优势。可以让我们树立信心，很容易就适应新的生活，而起还有很多的乐趣。
小题1:D 细节题。根据文章第一段第一行Andrew, who studied in France.可知D正确。
小题2:B 细节题。根据第二段2，3行Christina said she learned how to better speak for herself and her beliefs and to express herself in another language. What could make you more confident than that?可知她通过国外学习，对自己有了强烈的信心，故B正确。
小题3:C 推理题。根据本句"After having gone abroad in high school, I found the transition to college was a breeze — moving 560 miles from home didn’t seem difficult at all after having lived thousands of miles away. "可知在高中的时候，出国学习让自己很容易第就适应了大学的生活。故C正确。
小题4:D 细节题。根据文章最后2行Most of all, it’s fun! You won’t suffer from the general boredom (单调) while you’re studying in a different learning environment.可知道国外学习是很快乐的事情，故D正确。
小题5:A 主旨大意题。通读全文尤其是文章最后一段可知本文讲述的是到国外学习的多种好处和优势。可以让我们树立信心，很容易就适应新的生活，而起还有很多的乐趣。故A正确。
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点评：本文讲述的是到国外学习的多种好处和优势。本文考查细节题为主，细节题可以在文章中直接找到与答案有关的信息或是其变体。搜查信息在阅读中非常重要它包括理解作者在叙述某事时使用的具体事实、数据、图表等细节信息。在一篇短文里大部分篇幅都属于这类围绕主体展开的细节。做这类题一般采用寻读法即先读题，然后带着问题快速阅读短文，找出与问题有关的词语或句子，再对相关部分进行分析对比，找出答案。 |
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试题【Have you dreamed of traveling to cool places, meeting different people, and mayb】；主要考察你对
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Just when scientists think they have discovered and recorded every species of insect that crawls the earth they find something new. Earlier this month, Peter Jager, the head of Frankfurt’s Senckenberg Research Institute reported the discovery of a unique eyeless spider.
The creature that has a leg span (跨度) of six centimeters and a body size of just twelve millimeters was found in a cave inside the tiny nation of Laos, in Southeast Asia. It was identified as a member of the Huntsman spider, a large family that consists of 1100 species. However, the other members of the family all have eyes. The spider is the first one that has no eyes. They believe that the kind of spider has adapted to the fact that they do not really need the eyes to such a degree that they have dispensed with them altogether.
But they are not the only creature to have done that. Over the years, scientists have discovered completely blind cave fish, and even a freshwater crab, which happens to live in the same cave as this eyeless spider!
Surrounded by Burma and China on the northwest, Vietnam on the east, Cambodia on the south and Thailand on the west, the landlocked nation of Laos is filled with a large number of new and exotic (新奇的) species. In the last few years researchers have discovered the Saola—never-before-seen antelope-like creature, a small deer species called muntjacs, a tiny stripped rabbit and a rock rat that was thought to have been extinct 11 millions years ago. In addition to that it is also home to over one hundred species of large mammals ranging from tigers to macaques and over 165 species of amphibians (两栖动物) and reptiles like the terrible King cobra and the noisy Tokay gecko, a permanent resident inside most Laos households.
64. 小题1:Which of the following is the best title of passage?| A．Laos full of a large number of exotic species | | B．Laos popular with plenty of strange species | | C．Every species of insect discovered and recorded by scientists | | D．World’s first eyeless spider discovery in Southeast Asia. |
65. 小题2:What does the second paragraph mainly tell us about the unique eyeless spider?| A．The eyesight, identification and family members. | | B．The size, identification and the reason for being eyeless | | C．The body, species and living environment | | D．The size, identification and the species |
66. 小题3:The underlined part “dispensed with” (in 2nd Para) means _________.| A．got rid of | B．put up with | C．carried away | D．taken no notice of |
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In most parts of the world, many students help their school make less pollution. They join in “environment(环境) clubs”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment clean.
Here are the things students often do.
Turn off the water! Do you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty tons of water an hour? In a year, that would fill a small river! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets.
No-car day. On a no-car day, nobody comes to school in a car—not the students and not the teachers! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember:
Walk, jump, bike or run.
Use your legs! It’s lots of fun!
No-garbage(垃圾) lunches. How much do you throw away after lunch? Environment clubs ask students to bring their lunches in bags that can be used again. Every week they will choose the classes that make the least garbage and report them to the whole school!
We love our environment. Let’s work together to make it clean!
小题1:After mending the broken toilets, they save ________.| A．a small river | B．a lot of water | C．a toilet | D．a year |
小题2:On a no-car day, ________ will take a car to school.| A．only students | B．only teachers | | C．both students and teachers | D．neither students nor teachers |
小题3:Environment clubs ask students ________.| A．to run to school every day | B．to play sports every day | | C．not to throw away lunch bags | D．not to forget to take cars |
小题4:From this passage we know the students usually have lunch ________.| A．at school | B．in clubs | C．at home | D．in shops |
小题5:The writer wrote the passage to tell students to ________.| A．join in clubs | B．help teachers | | C．make less pollution | D．clean schools |
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Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? For years people believed that it is impossible for a human being to 【1】 a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it 【2】 in 1954．Within one year, 37 runners 【3】 the belief barrier．And the year after that, 300 other runners did the same thing．
What happens if you put an animal in a 【4】? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through．What happens when someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? You 【5】．If an animal who has not learned swimming could 【6】 by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal does not．
These 【7】 show the power of beliefs．There is no other more 【8】 force in directing human behavior than belief．Our beliefs have the power to 【9】 and to destroy．
In a way it is our beliefs that determine how much we’ll be able to 【10】 our potential．So pay attention to some of your 【11】．Do you believe you are weak in mathematics? Do you believe that other people dislike you？Do you believe life is full of 【12】？
Belief is not 【13】, however．It’s nothing but the generalization of a past incident．As a kid, if a dog bit you, you believed all dogs to be 【14】．To change certain behavior, identify the beliefs associated with it．Change those beliefs and a new pattern is 【15】 created．
| 小题2: | | A．right | B．wrong | C．fake | D．true |
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| 小题3: | | A．broke | B．built | C．faced | D．lowered |
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| 小题4: | | A．cage | B．desert | C．forest | D．pond |
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| 小题5: | | A．drown | B．swim | C．float | D．sink |
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| 小题6: | | A．struggle | B．escape | C．drown | D．leave |
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| 小题7: | | A．samples | B．cases | C．situations | D．periods |
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| 小题8: | | A．terrible | B．reasonable | C．considerable | D．powerful |
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| 小题9: | | A．damage | B．provide | C．create | D．withdraw |
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| 小题10: | | A．access | B．realize | C．show | D．perform |
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| 小题11: | | A．problems | B．beliefs | C．possibilities | D．subjects |
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| 小题12: | | A．surprises | B．choices | C．problems | D．possibilities |
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| 小题13: | | A．beautiful | B．changeable | C．strong | D．mysterious |
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| 小题14: | | A．safe | B．rude | C．merciless | D．dangerous |
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| 小题15: | | A．occasionally | B．immediately | C．accidentally | D．automatically |
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If you are planning to learn a foreign language, here are some suggestions about language learning. I hope these suggestions can help improve your learning of a foreign language
Try to set aside some time every day for your study when your brain is at the most time for receiving information. It’s better to study for 30 minutes every day than for 3 hours once a week. If you can spare two or three hours a day, break them up into some periods to avoid brain getting tired.
Go over each lesson several times, perhaps once in the morning, once in the evening and once several days later. Give your brain time to understand the material, but the break between periods of study shouldn’t be too long, or you will forget most of what you’ve learned.
Make sure you’re comfortable with the bases of the language before learning the more advanced knowledge. Without full understanding of basic knowledge such as words pronunciation and spelling, you’ll find it very difficult to learn more.
Setting proper targets is a good way to encourage yourself. You could set yourself a time limit or aim for a certain level.
Once you have mastered the bases of the language, learn to apply them to the things that you’re interested in. In this way you are more likely to remember the words, phrases and grammatical constructions you meet.
You will find that at times you’re making rapid progress, while sometimes you seem to stand still or even go backwards. This is normal when learning a language, so don’t be discouraged.
Making mistakes in a foreign language is nothing to worry about. What matters is getting your message across, not whether you use all the right words, tenses, cases, etc. If you cannot think of the exact words, try using other ones.
小题1:What is the best time plan for studying a foreign language ?| A．A long period every day. | B．Several short periods every day. | | C．A long period once a week. | D．Several short periods a week. |
小题2:The break between periods of study shouldn’t be too long, because ___________.| A．you will be unable to go over a lesson for several times | | B．you will be too tired to continue your study | | C．you will waste a lot of time for study | | D．you will forget what you are trying to learn easily |
小题3:If you don’t fully understand the basic knowledge, you will ____________.| A．be unable to go on with your study | B．be uncomfortable with yourself | | C．feel it very difficult to learn more | D．stop learning more in a short time |
小题4:According to the author, which of the following is NOT true ?| A．Setting a goal can help you make rapid progress. | | B．you should use what you’ve learned frequently to remember them. | | C．Sometimes you may not make any progress. | | D．Mistakes are quite normal in learning a language. |
小题5:The purpose of this passage is ____________.| A．to give some advice on foreign language learning | | B．to help students get high marks in foreign language exam | | C．to encourage more people to learn foreign languages | | D．to comfort those who don’t learn foreign languages well |
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Almost everyone wants to get smarter. We struggle to improve our 16_ , intelligence and attention. We drink cup after cup of coffee to help us 17_ the day.
18 __, a new study published in Current Directions in Psychological Science warns that there are 19___ to how smart humans can get.
Each of our body parts develops in a certain way for a reason. 20 _, we are not 3 meters tall 21 _ most people’s hearts are not strong enough to send 22 _ up that high. Scientists say that our thinking ability works in the same way. A baby’s brain size is limited by a series of __23 , such as the size of the mother’s pelvis (骨盆). If our brains developed to be bigger, there could be more 24 during childbirth.
The study of Jews, who have an average IQ much _ 25_ than other Europeans, showed they were more _26_ to develop diseases of the _27_ system. This might be because of their increased brainpower.
If intelligence cannot be improved, can we at least get better at _ 28 _ ? Not really, say scientists. They studied _29_ like caffeine (咖啡因)that improve attention. They found the drugs only helped people with serious 30 _ problems. For those who did not have trouble paying attention, the drugs could have the 31 _ effect. Scientists say that this suggests there is a(n) 32 limit to how much people can or should concentrate.
Our memory is also a “double-edged sword”. People with extremely good memories could 33__ having a difficult life because they cannot _34 bad things that happen to them.
Thomas Hills, one of the authors of the paper, said that 35 all the problems in trying to get smarter, it’s unlikely that there will ever be a “super mind”.
| 小题1: | | A．memory | B．character | C．.ability | D．emotion |
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| 小题2: | | A．go through | B．get through | C．put through | D．carry through |
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| 小题3: | | A．Though | B．Therefore | C．Meanwhile | D．However |
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| 小题4: | | A．standards | B．measures | C．ranges | D．limits |
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| 小题5: | | A．For example | B．In addition | C．At first | D．Above all |
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| 小题6: | | A．until | B．before | C．because | D．so that |
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小题7:A. blood B information C. breath D. strength
| 小题8: | | A．reasons | B．factors | C．aspects | D．effects |
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| 小题9: | | A．chances | B．lives | C．choices | D．deaths |
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| 小题10: | | A．smarter | B．better | C．higher | D．lower |
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| 小题11: | | A．likely | B．possible | C．probable | D．sure |
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| 小题12: | | A．nervous | B．bodily | C．personal | D．physical |
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| 小题13: | | A．exercising | B．concentrating | C．memorizing | D．thinking |
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| 小题14: | | A．poisons | B．drinks | C．plants | D．drugs |
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| 小题15: | | A．health | B．family | C．attention | D．living |
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| 小题16: | | A．same | B．different | C．opposite | D．similar |
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| 小题17: | | A．lower | B．smaller | C．higher | D．upper |
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| 小题18: | | A．end up | B．make up | C．start up | D．come up |
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| 小题19: | | A．remember | B．forget | C．perform | D．share |
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| 小题20: | | A．supposing | B．considering | C．concerning | D．regarding |
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