．—Did you listen to the speech?

—No, we ________ it. But we had a lot of traffic on our way.

A．must have attended                              B．must attend

C.  could have attended                                   D．should attend

 

Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

First, let’s talk about  what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it’s very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn’t enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you’ll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.

1.The main purpose of this text is       .

A．to persuade the students to attend lectures

B．to encourage the students to take part in discussions

C．to advise the students to choose proper majors

D．to help the students to learn about university life.

2.We can learn from the passage that university professors       .

A．spend about 5 hours on lectures each week

B．must join the students in the discussion sections

C．require the students to read beyond the textbooks

D．prefer to use textbooks in their lectures

3.A discussion section does NOT include       .

A．talking over what the students have read about the courses

B．working under the guidance of university professors

C．discussing the problems related to the students’ homework

D．raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture

4.According to the author, science majors       .

A．read and write less than non science majors

B．have to work harder than non science majors

C．spend less time on their studies than non science majors

D．consider experiments more important than discussions

 

 

The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll get your words mixed up (混合) and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can't understand them. But if you keep your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you make. Don't be unhappy if people seem to be laughing at your mistakes. It's better for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, because they don't understand what you are saying. The most important thing for learning English is: "Don't be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes."

1. The writer thinks that the most important thing for you to learn a language is___________.

A. reading      B. writing     C. using     D. listening

2. What should you do in learning English?

A. Try to make some mistakes.              B. Avoid making any mistakes.

C. Remember as many new words as you can.  D. Use it as often as you can

3. If people laugh at the mistakes you make, you should ___________.

A. be angry with them                 B. be angry with yourself

C. not care                          D. believe you are right

4. When you make a mistake, you should___________.

A. never make any mistakes again     B. tell others not to make the same mistake

C. punish yourself for making it       D. keep your sense of humor

5. The story tells us:" ___________."

A. It is normal (正常的) that we make some mistakes in learning English

B. Everyone must make mistakes

C. We can avoid making mistakes in learning a language

D. Laughing can help one learn English well

 

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Around twenty years ago I was living in Seattle and going through hard times. I could not find   36  work and I found this especially difficult as I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree.

To my   37   I was driving a school bus to   38   my family. I had been through five   39   with a company and one day they   40   to say I did not get the job. I went to the bus barn, feeling   41  .

Later that afternoon,   42   doing my rounds through a quiet suburban neighborhood I had an inner wave   43   from deep inside me and I thought “Why has my   44   become so hard?” “Give me a sign, I asked, a physical sign, not some inner   45   type of thing.”

Immediately after this internal（内心的） scream I   46   the bus over to drop off a little girl and as she   47   she handed me an earring saying I should keep it   48   somebody looked for it. The   49   was stamped metal, painted black and said “BE HAPPY”. Then it struck me. I had been putting all of my   50   into what was wrong with my life   51   than what was right! 

One night there was a phone call for me from the   52   at a large hospital. She asked me whether I   53   do a report for 200 hospital workers. I said   54   and got the job.

My day with the hospital workers   55   very well. I got a great welcome and many more days of work. To this day I KNOW that it was because I changed my attitude to gratitude.

A. satisfying      B. probable       particular       D. considerate

 A. joy                    B. luck               shame             D. surprise

 A. meet                  B. supply           C. provide               D. support

 A. meetings            B. interviews      conferences         D. reports

 A. came                 B. hoped            called                 D. expected

 A. excited               B. worried          disappointed              D. frightened

 A. though               B. while             unless                 D. until

 A. rise                    B. shout             raise                   D. cry

  A. work                 B. situation         life                 D. position

A. sound                B. voice             noise                  D. thought

A. pulled                B. carried                  brought                     D. held

A. took off             B. put off                  gave off             D. got off

A. as long as           B. now that         in case                D. as soon as

A. earring               B. watch             necklace             D. bag

A. money               B. ideas              energies              D. strength

A. rather                B. other              more                  D. less

A. nurse                 B. work              patient                D. manager

A. should               B. would            must                  D. ought

A. no                            B. hello              yes                     D. nothing

A. went                  B. looked                  seemed               D. appeared