Some say college is wasted on the young. So many of us look back at our own college years and realize what we could have done differently to make the most of them. While we can't go back, we certainly can offer our sons and daughters our best advice to help them make the right choices in college. Hopefully, they will have fewer regrets than we do. Following are five guide?lines parents can share with their college-bound kids to put the whole experience in perspective.
EDUCATION IS YOUR FIRST PRIORITY
As soon as you arrive on campus, there will be competing interests. Feel free to check them out but always remember that you are there first and foremost for your education. Go to class prepared and on time. Be engaged during class. Make sure your professor knows you and realizes that you care.
BE RESPONSIBLE
There are many layers of responsibility. Do what you say you will do and, if you can't, own up to it early and communicate clearly. But being responsible isn't just about meeting your commitments; it is also about taking care of you, your body, and your friends. For ex?ample, more than 1800 college students die annually from alcohol-related injuries. Look out for yourself and other people. Make moderate, sensible decisions so you aren't reeling from the consequences later.
TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY
Incredible opportunities will present themselves: studying abroad, interning at a unique place, trying new things. Don't let fear prevent you from taking advantage of them. There may never be so much time or as many resources devoted to your betterment again in your life. Say yes to opportunities that will help you grow.
FIND AND BE A MENTOR
Some of the best lessons available to us can come outside of the classroom in the form of a mentor. One of the most powerful growth opportunities is being a men?tor. Early on, find someone on campus who you feel can help you grow and develop a relationship with him or her. Also find someone for you to mentor. You will reinforce and enrich your own learning experience by teaching someone else.
GET THE JOB DONE
It is natural to occasionally feel you want to quit, and it will make more sense to you when you go to find a full-time job. Resist that urge. As Jocelyn Negron-Ri-os， a mother of two, who is currently completing her degree, advises, "No matter how difficult it seems, keep at it because however insurmountable it feels now, multiply that by 10， 000 and that is how it feels when you are in your thirties with a full-time job and a family and are trying to pursue a degree.，，
5. According to the passage, the most important thing for college students is .
A. taking part in different activities
B. working hard to get a degree
C. seizing every chance to try new things
D. improving themselves by learning from the oth?ers
6. Which of the following about college life is TRUE?
A. Passing on what you've learned in college can help you enrich your learning experience.
B. Make sure that you are responsible for yourself rather than others.
C. Professors will not assess your performances in class but the grades you get in exams.
D. You can make full use of the opportunity when?ever you want.
7. What can we infer from the words said by Jocelyn in the last paragraph?
A. Persistence is the key to success when you meet
with difficulties in your learning process.
B. It is better if you gain more working experience before you finish your education.
C. As long as you work hard, you can gain a degree even when you are in your thirties.
D. Youth is the best time to learn since you have less burden.
8. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To give some rules for the college students.
B. To call on the students to make full use of college years.
C. To summarize some tips for parents to share with their children.
D. To analyze the benefits and difficulties of college life.
【文章大意】本文是作者提出的父母亲应给上大学的孩子的五条建议，指导孩子应该如何度过自己的大学生活。
B推理判断题.根据文章第二段的"Feel free to check them out but always remember that you are there first and foremost for your education. Go to class prepared and on time. Be en?gaged during class. Make sure your professor knows you and realizes that you care."可知在大学里接受教育是最重要的， 也就是我们要努力学习以得到大学的学历和学位，故B项正确。
A 推理判断题。根据文章第五段的"Some of the best les?sons available to us can come outside of the classroom in the form of a mentor. One of the most powerful growth opportu?nities is being a mentor."可知在大学里做别人的顾问，把自己所学到的东西拿来指导别人可以大大丰富我们的学习经历，让我们的学习经历更为有趣，故A项正确。
D 推理判断题。根据最后一段的"No matter how difficult it seems, keep at it because however insurmountable it feels now,multiply that by 10, 000 and that is how it feels when you are in your thirties with a full-time job and a family and are trying to pursue a degree."可知她认为年轻的时候是学习的最好时间，因为那时你没有家庭的压力，故D项正确。
C主旨大意题。根据主题段第一段最后一句"Following are five guidelines parents can share with their college-bound kids to put the whole experience in perspective.可知本文是作者提出的五条父母亲对于上大学的孩子的指导建议，故C项正确。
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：
I.阅读理解
A [2015 •山东淄博实验中学高三4月教学诊断]
Few of us haven't read Cinderella ， the story of a young woman living in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a
hidden Cin?derella in everyone's heart―we all wish we could achieve rec?ognition or success after a period of obscurity(默默无闻).
Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story ， a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes complete?ly when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.
Joey has everything the rest of the boys in her class don't have―kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey's paths cross at a ball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes the only clue Joey has to find the girl of his dreams. Of course, there is a wicked stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary-after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn't get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern-day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refresh?ingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
The movie takes the Cinderella fairy tale as its jump?ing-off point," writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. "Yet the focus is firmly on following your dreams."
1. The first paragraph is mainly to .
A. inform us of the importance to marry a prince
B. remind us why Cinderella is popular all the years
C. build interest and lead us to Mary's secret dream
D. tell us how interesting the fairy tale Cinderella is
2. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Joey is just like other boys in Mary's class.
B. The MP3 player helps Joey in finding Mary.
C. Not many people have a dream to be realized.
D. Mary's mother influences her a lot in singing.
3. What does the movie critic Amber Wilkinson mean by his words about Another Cinderella Story ？
A. The movie is exactly another copy of the Cinderella fairy tale.
B. The movie is as good as the story Cinderella.
C. The movie and Cinderella both focus on following your dreams.
D. The movie is based on the story Cinderella while a lit?tle different from it.
4. The passage is mainly about .
A. an introduction to Mary Santiago
B. a review about a film
C. an essay about dreams
D. an advertisement of Cinderella
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I.阅读理解
A [2015 •莆田一中、漳州一中、泉州五中三校联考]
They will be here in a minute, surely. I'll just stare at my shoes a little while longer to pass the time. Wish I'd brought a book. Hang on, though, what if I，ve got the wrong day? The wrong place? Have the clocks gone back? No, damn it; I'm off home. Whoever I'm waiting for clearly lives in a different time zone from me.
I am always 10 minutes early, so if you're 10 minutes late, I've been foot-tapping for 20 minutes. I know it's not fair to hold the first 10 against you, but I just can't help my?self. I never wait more than 20 minutes beyond the meeting time we decided upon, not for anyone, ever.
OK, that's not .strictly true. I have, on occasion, hung around anxiously and heart-brokenly for up to an hour, but the bitter anger that follows is never a pretty sight. If you've made me wait that long, you will wish you hadn't bothered turning up at all.
How come some people are always late and some are al?ways on time? If I can manage to be punctual, why can't you? Because I left a hot cup of coffc^' at home while you sat down to roll another cigarette. Because I spilled jam on my pants and quickly wiped it off whereas you took time to change your whole outfit. Because I switched off midway through a TV series? but you had to ride out the end, didn't you? And don't even think about blaming the traffic. How do you think I got here? By flying carpet? Only carelessness or arrogance(傲慢) can explain a habit of lateness.
Some people are always late because they can't make re?alistic calculations about how long it takes to do things. There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Just deal with it. Painful as it may be, you have to accept that, as you've agreed to meet at eight and it's now a quarter to eight, you don't have time to phone your girlfriend.
Much worse, though, are those with big egos (自我). Being late is just rude. Being late on purpose really means that you hate the person you are meeting.
Of course, there are some perfectly lovely latecomers out there. I just never wait long enough to find out.
1.Which of the following words best describes how the author feels in the first paragraph?
A. Anxious. B. Curious.
C. Thankful. D. J oyful.
2.What does the author think contributes to people always being late?
a. Their big egos.
b. Traffic jams.
c. Their carelessness.
d. Being picky when choosing clothes.
e. Their realistic calculations of how long it takes to do things.
A. a, b B. a, c C. b， d， e D. c， d， e
3.We can learn from the article that the author .
A. is tolerant of people being late
B. has missed lots of meetings
C. has trouble getting along with others
D. has a strong preference for good timekeeping
4. According to the author, people should .
A. be patient when waiting for a latecomer
B. keep in mind that being late is rude and selfish
C. always arrive 10 minutes early for an appointment
D. ask people around them to remind them about an appointment
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IV.短文改错[2015 .贵州普通高等学校招生适应性考试〗
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A )，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I think university life is a time for learning and experien?cing new things. I can meet the other young people like me from many different places and can make lots friends. I will probably study and live away at home during this time, so I will have a lot more independent. Studying at university will
be quite differently from studying at high school. I may not have so many homework to finish every day, but I will have to spend much more time working by myself. I know that in any university they are different societies or clubs organizing by the students themselves. I want to join the film society
and the travel club because I show interest in both activities. This societies and clubs can make my life interesting and helped me make friends.
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B [2015 •成都外国语学校高三月考] There are many ways of defining success. It is accurate to say that each of us has our own idea of success to the ex?tent that each of us is responsible for setting our own goals and determining whether we have met these goals satisfactori?ly. Because each of us possesses unique differences in genetic ability and favourable environments in which to express these abilities, it is necessarily true that we must define success broadly.
For some people,simply being able to live their life with the least misery and sufferings is considered a success. Think of the peace of mind of the poor shepherd who tends his sheep, enjoys his simple life with his family in the beauty of nature, and who is respected because he does a good job of achieving the goals expected of him and accepted by his family and his society. On the other hand, it seems that even though some people appear to be rich in material possessions, many of them seem to be miserable and consider themselves unsuc?cessful when judged by their own standards of success. Be?cause not all ventures can be successful, one should not set unrealistic goals for achieving success, but if one has self-con?fidence it would be unfortunate to set one's goals at too low a level of achievement.
A wise man once said to a young man who was experien?cing frustration (挫折)with his own professional success, "You do not have to set your goal to reach the moon in order to have success in travelling. Sometimes one can be very suc?cessful merely by taking a walk in the park or riding the sub?way downtown. " The man added, "You have not really failed and spoiled your chances for success until you have been un?successful at something you really like,and to which you have given your best effort."
5.According to the first paragraph, what is implied as basic in achieving success?
A. Ability and goals.
B. Goals and determination.
C. Ability and environment.
D. Goals and environment.
6. Some rich people consider themselves unsuccessful because ________ .
A. their life is busy and miserable
B. they haven't reached their own standards
C. they set their goals at too low a level
D. they are not rich in material possessions
7. From the last paragraph we can tell that_______________ .
A. success means achieving great goals
B. success comes from great goal setting
C. success means efforts and favourites pay off
D. success has nothing to do with the distance of your travel
8.The purpose of the passage is___________ .
A. to give us a clear definition of what success is
B. to talk about how to achieve success
C. to state what our life goal is
D. to discuss the importance of goals
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：
How could we possibly think that keeping animals in cages in unnatural environments—mostly for entertainment purposes―is fair and respectful?
Zoo officials say they are concerned about animals. However, most zoos remain "collections" of interesting "things" rather than protective habitats. Zoos teach people that it is acceptable to keep animals bored, lone?ly, and far from their natural homes.
Zoos claim to educate people and save endangered species, but visitors leave zoos without having learned any?thing meaningful about the animals' natural behaviour, in?telligence, or beauty. Zoos keep animals in small spaces or cages, and most signs only mention the species' name, diet, and the natural range (分布区).The animals' normal behaviour is seldom noticed because zoos don't usually take care of the animals' natural needs.
The animals are kept together in small spaces, with no privacy and little opportunity for mental and physical exercise. This results in unusual and self-destructive be?haviour called zoochosis. A worldwide study of zoos found that zoochosis is common among animals kept in small spaces or cages. Another study showed that ele?phants spend 22 per cent of their time making repeated head movements or biting cage bars, and bears spend 30 per cent of their time walking back and forth, a sign of unhappiness and pain.
Furthermore, most animals in zoos are not endan?gered. Captive breeding (圈养繁殖)of endangered big cats, Asian elephants, and other species has not resul?ted in their being sent back to the wild. Zoos talk a lot about their captive breeding programmes because they do not want people to worry about a species dying out. In fact, baby animals also attract a lot of paying custom?ers. Haven't we seen enough competitions to name baby animals?
Actually, we will save endangered species only if we save their habitats and put an end to the reasons why-people kill them. Instead of supporting zoos, we should support groups that work to protect animals' natural habitats.
1. In the state of zoochosis, animals .
A.remain in cages
B.behave strangely
C.attack other animals
D.enjoy moving around
2.What does the author try to argue in the passage?
A.Zoos are not worth the public support.
B.Zoos fail in their attempt to save animals.
C.Zoos should treat animals as human beings.
D.Zoos use animals as a means of entertainment.
3.The author tries to persuade readers to accept his ar?gument mainly by .
A.pointing out the faults in what zoos do
B.using evidence he has collected at zoos
C.questioning the way animals are protected
D.discussing the advantages of natural habitats
4.Although he argues against zoos, the author would still agree that .
A.zoos have to keep animals in small cages
B.most animals in zoos are endangered species
C.some endangered animals are reproduced in zoos
D.it's acceptable to keep animals away from their habitats
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Scientists in theUKhave grown a living human "brain". The team at Aston University created a tiny bunch of cells which act like a mini nervous system.
They believe it could help find a cure for worse mental conditions like Parkinson's disease. Professor Michael Coleman is leading the research programme. He explained, "We are aiming to be able to study the human brain at the most basic level, using an actual liv?ing human cell system. Cells have to be alive and oper?ating efficiently to enable us to really understand how the brain works. The experiment involves changing cells from a cancer tumour (肿瘤)and making them be?have like brain cells.
Although far from finished, researchers hope the false brain cells will give them a greater understanding of how real brains work. This, in turn, could signifi?cantly further research into conditions which affect the brain. Neil Hunt, chief leader of the research group, said, "It is still very early days, but in the future the re?search could lead to a useful tool for looking into dementia (痴呆）."
The technique could also provide a way to carry on animal tests and is being supported by the Humane Re?search Trust ( HRT). The scientists predict that over the next ten years a million people will develop dementia. Professor Coleman believes their findings could change this. He said, "We hope our research will provide scien?tists with a new and highly relational human experimen?tal model to help them understand the brain better and develop new drugs to control the related disease. How?ever, the biggest challenge at present is that we are greatly short of fund, which will slow our research.，，
1.UKscientists grow a living human "brain" in orderto .
A.study the structure of human brain
B.make use of a living human cell system
Cdiscover how human brain really works
D.separate cells from a cancer tumour
2.According to Neil Hunt, research into brain cells
A.will get finished as early as possible
B.will make people discover dementia
C.will affect the brain growth in many ways
D.will help to treat some diseases in the nerve system
3 From the last paragraph, we can know that .
A.the technique provided by HRT is immature
B.animal tests are no longer allowed by law
C.a million people suffer from brain diseases
D.the research programme lacks financial support
4.The text is intended to .
A.tell us about a breakthrough in medical research
B.introduce a research programme in human's brain
C.introduce the progress of drugs for dementia
D.tell us about health problems in the nerve system
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Many people catch a cold in the spring or fall. It
makes us wonder 25. scientists can send a
man to the moon, why can't they find a cure 26. the common cold? The answer is easy. There're actually hundreds of kinds of cold viruses out there. You never know which one you will get, so there isn't a cure for each one. When a virus attacks your body, your body works hard to get rid of 27. . Blood rushes to your nose and causes 28. block in it. You feel terrible because you can't breathe well, but your body is actually eating the virus.Your temperature rises and you get a fever, but the heat of your body 29. (kill) the virus. You also have a running nose to stop
the virus from getting into your cells. You may feel miserable ,but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can 30. (kill) the cold. There are dif-
ferent ways to treat colds in different cultures. In the United States and some other countries, for example, people might eat chicken soup to feel 31.
(good). Some people take a hot bath and drink warm liquids 32. other people take medicines to relieve 33. (vary) symptoms of colds. There
was one interesting thing to note. Some scientists say taking medicines when you have a cold is 34. (actual) bad for you. The virus stays in you longer, be?cause your body doesn't develop a way to fight it and kill it.
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