A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor.Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking and cheap, some extremely expensive — telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.The fact is that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee.In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously(有意识地) went for the best cups...And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not change the quality of life we live.Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."God makes the coffee, not the cups.Enjoy your coffee!"The happiest people don't have the best of everything.They just make the best of everything."

Live simply.Love generously.Care deeply.Speak kindly.Leave the rest to God.

1.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A.the nice-looking cup .

B.the ordinary-looking cup .

C.the coffee of good quality .

D.the coffee of poor quality.

2.Why did the professor offer his students coffee with varieties of cups?

A.To give his students many more choices.

B.To teach his students how to enjoy coffee.

C To tell his students the right attitude to life

D.To show the students his collection of cups.

3.According to the professor, the happiest people are the ones who _____.

A.get the best type of coffee cups

B.care about social status and wealth

C.have a wide range of coffee cups

D.make the best of what they have

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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory____course 20 years ago.

The professor ____the lecture hall, placed upon his desk a large jar filled with dried beans(豆), and invited the students to ____how many beans the jar contained. After ____shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the ____ answer, and went on saying, ”You have just ____an important lesson about science. That is: Never____ your own senses.” Twenty years later, the ____could guess what the professor had in mind. He ____himself,perhaps,as inviting his students to start an exciting ____into an unknown world invisible(无形的)to the ,which can be discovered only through scientific .But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even the invitation. She was just to understand the world. And she that her firsthand experience could be true .The professor, however, said that it was .he was taking away her only for knowing and was providing her with no substitute替代.“I remember feeling small and ,”the women says,“and I did the only thing I could do. I the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”

1.A.art B.history C.science D.math

2.A.searched for B.looked at C.got through D.marched into

3.A.count B.guess C.report D.watch

4.A.warning B.giving C.turning away D.listening to

5.A.ready B.possible C.correct D.difficult

6.A.learned B.prepared C.taught D.taken

7.A.lose B.trust C.sharpen D.show

8.A.lecturer B.scientist C.speaker D.woman

9.A.described B.respected C.saw D.served

10.A.voyage B.movement C.change D.rush

11.A.professor B.eye C.knowledge D.light

12.A.model B.senses C.spirit D.methods

13.A.hear B.make C.present D.refuse

14.A.suggesting B.beginning C.pretending D.waiting

15.A.believed B.doubted C.proved D.explained

16.A.growth B.strength C.faith D.truth

17.A.firm B.interesting C.wrong D.acceptable

18.A.task B.tool C.success D.connection

19.A.cruel B.proud C.frightened D.brave

20.A.dropped B.started C. passed D.missed

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,选项中有两项为多余选项。

Money Matters

Parents should help their children understand money.___ 1.__so you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.

1. The basic function of money

Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It’s important to show your child how money is traded for the thing he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier .__ 2._____when your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more complex ways of using money.

2. Money lessons

Approach money lessons with openness and honesty. ___3.___ .If you must say no to a child’s request to spend money, explain, “You have enough toy trucks for now.” Or, if the request is for many different things, say. “You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy.”

3. __4.___

Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands of a product—a name brand butter and a generic(无商标产品),for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. __5.___ If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.

A. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you

B. Permit the child to choose between them

C. The value of money

D. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest

E. Wise decisions

F. Tell your child why he can ---or cannot---have certain things

G. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

International Exchange Programme

The application form for participation on the exchange programme for 2016/17 can be found in Application Procedures.

Applying Qualification—Current Queen Mary undergraduate students(with the exception of students in Biomedical Sciences,Chemistry,Dentistry and Medicine)have qualifications to apply.

Law Students—Students enrolled in The School of Law should contact Sheila Shirley(s.shirley@qmul.ac.uk)for details of study abroad opportunities.

English and Drama Studen—Students cannot study abroad for the full academic year. Students will be able to spend only the autumn semester studying at one of our exchange partners·

Applications

A complete application will consist of the two-page application form,a personal statement and a supporting academic reference.Students should follow these application procedures. Applicants must ensure they have spoken to their departmental study abroad instructor before submitting their application.Applications can be submitted in person at The Study Abroad Office(E09,Ground Floor,Queens’Building)or by email to h.gibney@qmul.ac.uk

New Exchange Partners for 2016/2017

For 2016/17 we hope to offer students the opportunity to study abroad at the following new partners:The University of Pennsylvania—UPenn(USA),The University of Sydney(Australia) and Waseda University(Japan).Should we be unable to send students to any of these new institutions on exchange,and if you intend to include one or more of these destinations with your application,please provide at least one alternative destination from the list of other partner programmes.

1.Who can apply for the exchange programme?

A.Students in Biomedical Sciences

B.Students in Chemistry

C.Students in Dentistry

D.Students in English and Drama

2.The law students who want to study abroad should______.

A.email to h.gibney@qmul.ac.uk

B.email to s.shirley@qmul.ac.uk

C.go to E09,Ground Floor,Queens’Building

D.go to Masons Lecture Theatre Hall,Bancroft Building

3.What will you do if you can’t be sent to the new exchange partners?

A.Wait for another proper opportunity.

B.Cancel your exchange programme.

C.Provide another university from the list.

D.Contact the university by yourself.

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。(请将答案涂在答题卡的1-5的位置)

There is distinction between reading for information and reading for understanding. ___1.___

The first sense is the one in which we read newspapers, magazines, or anything else. ___2._____ Such materials may increase our store of information, but they cannot improve our understanding. And clearly we don’t have any difficulty in gaining the new information, for our understanding was equal to them before we started. Otherwise, we would have felt the shock of puzzlement.

The second sense is the one in which we read something that at first we do not completely understand. Here the thing to be read is at the first sight better or higher than the reader. The writer is communicating something that can increase the reader’s understanding. _____3._____ Otherwise one person could never learn from another. Here “learning” means understanding more, not remembering more information.

What are the conditions in this kind of reading? First, there is inequality in understanding. ____4.___ Besides, his book must convey something he possesses and his potential readers lack. Second, the reader must be able to overcome this inequality in some degree. And he should always try to reach the same level of understanding with the writer. If the equality is approached, success of communication is achieved.

____5._____ It is the least demanding and requires the least amount of effort. Everyone who knows how to read can read for entertainment if he wants to. In fact, any book that can be read for understanding or information can probably be read for entertainment as well.

A. The writer should have a better communicating skill.

B. Such communication between un equals must be possible.

C. We can get access to the content of those materials easily.

D. The writer must be “superior” to the reader in understanding.

E. Thus, we can employ the word “reading” in two distinct senses.

F. Reading for entertainment is capable of increasing our understanding for information.

G. Besides gaining information and understanding, there’s another goal of reading—entertainment.

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