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We continue our Foreign Student Series on higher education in the United States. Now we move on to college life once you are admitted to a school. The first thing you need to value is a place to live. Housing policies differ from school to school. Students might have to live in a dormitory, at least for the first year there.

Dorms come in all sizes. Some have suites. Six or more students may line in one suite. Other dorms have many rooms along a common hallway, usually with two students in each room . Many students say dormitories provide the best chance to get to know other students. Also, dorms generally cost less than apartments or other housing not owned by the school.

Most colleges and universities offer singe-sex dorms, but usually males and females live in the same building. They might live on the same floors and share the same common bathrooms. They may live in the same room only if they are married.

Edward Spencer is the associate vice president for student affairs at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He says it is important to understand the rules of the building in which you will live. He advises students to ask questions before they decide about their housing. For example, if a student requires a special diet, will the school provide it ?How much privacy can a student expect ? Will the school provide a single room if a student requests one ? And what about any other special needs that a student might have?

Virginia Tech, for example, had a ban against candles in dorms . But it changed that policy to let students light up candles for religious purposes. The university also has several dorms open all year so foreign students have a place to stay during vacation time.

56.Why do some students in the U.S. choose to live in dorms, according to the passage ?

A. Dorms allow students in the U.S. choose to live in dorms

B. Dorms are safer for students to live in most cases.

C. Dorms offer the chance to meet other people and are cheap as well.

D. In most schools students are required to live in the dorms.

57. The second paragraph is mainly about ______.

A. what suites in American schools are like

B. what dorms in American schools are like

C. what dorms are owned by schools

D. when people get to know each other

58. Who is the passage most probably intended for?

A. Visitors who want to pay a visit to America

B. New reporters who expect to report the college life in the U.S.

C. Travel agencies who take responsibility for training guides.

D. Foreign students who will study in the U.S.

59. We can infer from what Edward Spencer says that ______.

A. colleges usually don’t provide a special diet

B. housing rules differ from one building to another

C. a ban against candles in dorms is necessary

D. the U.S. college always satisfies students’ requests

60.What is the passage mainly about ?

A. Places to live in U.S. colleges

B. housing polices in the U.S.

C. Advantages of dormitories

D. Rules of single-sex dorms

56C 57B 58D 59B 60 A

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　 If we eat more vegetables and less　 61　 , there will be more food available for everyone. Land that is used to grow crops　 62　 five times more people than land where animals are kept. Our natural resources will　 63　 longer if we learn to recycle them. The world population will not rise so quickly if people use modern methods of birth 64　 .

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A. beautiful B. unlimited C. rare D. valuable

A. common B. the same C. changeable D. different

A. crowded B. small C. dirty D. busy

A. protecting B. saving C. polluting D. fighting

A. may not B. will not C. shall not D. could not

A. wonders B. realizes C. consider D. discovers

A. poles B. boats C. methods D. ideas

A mountains B. the sea C. trees D. forests

A. continue B. have C. ought D. go on

A. grow B. plant C. save D. cut down

A. Thus B. However

C. Generally speaking D. Therefore

A. still B. even C. also D. certainly

A. too many B. a few C. some D. few

A. production B. pollution C. population D. revolution

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A. fruit B. meat C. fish D. grain

A. feeds B. increases C. supplies D. helps

A. use B. stay C. keep D. last

A. control B. born C. plan D. reward

A. nature B. sea C. planet D. forest

The story of the touchstone(探金石) tells of a man who was told that if he could find the touchstone, its magical powers could give him anything he wanted. It could be found, he was 31 , among the pebbles (卵石) of a beach. All he need to do is 32 a stone.If it feels warm, the magical touchstone is 33 .
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When it 49 habits, practice may not make perfect. But practice will certainly make permanent. So form the habits you want and let them 50 you into the person you want to be.

【小题3】A made B. found C. controlled D. offered

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We know that if too many trees are cut down,   45  will disappear and nothing will 46  on the land. Yet, we continue to use bigger and more powerful machines to   47  more and more trees.
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【小题5】A. accuracy B. unit C length. D. limit

The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems as people struggle to deal with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned Thursday．

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already affected by mental problems such as depression and bipolar disorders （带躁狂的抑郁症） and the current market meltdown （崩溃） could worsen feelings of despair among people who can't stand such illnesses．

The United Nations agency said the impact could be especially marked for those living in low and middle income countries where access to treatment is often limited．

"We should not be surprised at the turbulence （动荡） and likely consequences of the current financial crisis．Now we are seeing a huge gap in taking care of people in great need," WHO director general Margaret Chan told at a meeting of mental health experts．

"It should not come as a surprise that we continue to see more stresses, suicides and mental disorders," Chan warned．

Benedetto Saraceno, director of WHO's mental health, said mental health disorders affected one in four people at some point in their lives．

Mental and neurological disorders are often chronic （慢性） and disabling, he said．Nearly 1 million people commit suicide worldwide every year, a large part of them are young adults．

Asked about the financial crisis, Saraceno said, "Poverty can be the consequence of such events, the debts, despair and sense of loss that may reach middle and lower classes．Even the poor can be affected by this crisis．"

"There is clear evidence that suicide is linked to financial disasters．I am not talking about the millionaire's jumping out of the window but about poor people," he said．The global crisis could be expected to affect the "stability of communities and families", according to Saraceno．

60．According to the passage, the chief result of the worldwide financial crisis is that ．

A．more people will be poorer

B．more people will be out of jobs

C．more people will suffer from mental problems

D．more people will commit suicide

61．The United Nations agency worried that ．

A．more rich people would commit suicide

B．the financial crisis might especially influence developing or underdeveloped countries

C．the current market meltdown could worsen feelings of despair

D．hundreds of millions of people in the world were already affected by mental problems

62．It can be inferred that ．

A．far more work should be done to help those who are mentally ill

B．it will be surprising to see more people commit suicide

C．a mental disorder is a chronic disease

D．many more young adults commit suicide worldwide than people of other ages

63．The best title for the passage is ．

A．Global Financial Crisis．

B．Mental Disorders Resulting From Global Financial Crisis．

C．Suicides as a Result of Market Meltdown．

D．Chronic Mental Disorders．

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