Question

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

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.C

3.B

4.A

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要是让学生了解大学生活及学习情况。

1.答案A ， B为细节，无论对错不能成为此类题型的答案.而且文章没有涉及到如何选择专业的问题，C不能入选，故D为正确答案。

2.从第二段So it isn’t enough to just read your textbooks可以得知大学教授要求学生阅读不仅仅局限于课本。

3.“讨论在大学教授的指导下进行”没有提及 ，故选B，注意仔细阅读第二段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

4.文章最后一句话告诉我们：学文科（比如文学和历史专业）的学生要比学理科的学生读得多，写得多。

考点：这是一篇帮助学生在校学习，生活的文章。

点评：本文主要是让学生了解大学生活及学习情况。本文集中考查推理题，要求考生在阅读时体会字里行间的言外之意，对于考生在上下文中理解字里行间的能力要求较高。