Last year, I lived in Chile(智利)for half a year. I lived with a Chilean family and had the responsibilities of any Chilean teenager. I had good days and bad days I didn’t understand.

Chuquicamata, my host community, is a mining camp. When I arrived there, I was scared. It was so different from what I was used to. There were lots of dogs in the streets, and there was no downtown, few smoothly paved(铺砌的)streets, and little to do for entertainment. Rain was not seen very often, earthquakes and windstorms were frequent.

I had studied Spanish for two and a half years and was always one of the best students in my class. But in my first week in Chile I was only able to communicate and needed one person to whom I could explain my shock. I couldn’t speak the thoughts in my head and there were so many.

Most exchange students experienced this like me. Culture shock presents(呈现)itself in everything from increased aggression(攻击)towards the people to lack of appetite(食欲). I was required(要求)to overcome all difficulties.

As time passed, everything changed. I began to forget words in English and to dream in Spanish and love Chilean food. I got used to not depending on expensive things for fun. Fun in Chuquicamata was being with people. And I took math, physics, chemistry, biology, Spanish, art, and philosophy.

But the sacrifices(牺牲)were nothing compared to the gain. I learned how to accept and to succeed in another culture. I now have a deeper understanding of both myself and others.

1. The author came to Chile last year with the purpose of ________.

A. paying a visit to Chile as a tourist

B. experiencing Chilean life as a teacher

C. studying Chilean culture as a college student

D. studying knowledge as an exchange student

2. On arriving in Chile, why did the author feel frightened?

A. Because he did not know how to get along with the local people.

B. Because it was full of dangers like earthquakes and windstorms.

C. Because its living conditions were worse than what he was used to.

D. Because it was not convenient for him to shop there.

3.What did the author most probably think of his life in Chile?

A. Wonderful and worthwhile

B. Difficult but meaningful

C. Difficult and meaningless

D. Boring and disappointing

4. According to the passage, which of the following statements about Chile is TRUE?

A. Its official language is Spanish and English.

B. It is a developing country without foreign students.

C. It seldom rains and natural disasters often happen.

D. Most Chileans are not friendly to foreigners.

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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

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.

More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children, a new survey showed last Tuesday.

The survey, published by the Bank of America, studied the rich with $ 3 million or more in assets.It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have well-developed plans to preserve and pass on their assets to their children”.

The majority of the 457 people surveyed are self-made, first-generation rich.Fifty-two percent of parents have chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are, and 15 percent have given away nothing about the family wealth.One in their parents said they had never thought to do it.

They are worried that their children would become lazy, spend money freely, make bad decisions and even become a target for gold diggers.

Only 34 percent strongly agreed that t heir children would be able to handle any inheritance(遗产) they plan to leave them.

“There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation,” said Sallie Krawcheck, president of the Bank of America Globai Wealth and Investment Management.“Our research, however, uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.”

The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates, who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation(基金会), and not to his children.

“We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive impact,” he said.

Of his plans for his children, Gates said: “I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage… they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of.”

1.We can learn from the passage that .

A.rich parents may not know how to manage their inheritance

B.rich parents don’t equal rich kids, at least in the US

C.American children don’t get to inherit their parents’ wealth

D.poor children don’t expect themselves to be as rich as their parents

2.According to the survey, most rich Americans .

A.think they owe their children nothing

B.think it best to give their money back to society

C.doubt their children’s ability to handle wealth

D.are confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth

3.From the last paragraph, we can see that Bill Gates wants to show .

A.the trend of leaving no inheritance to children

B.the positive impact of charity on society

C.the way of giving back to society

D.the importance of independence for children

Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boats (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.

However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

1.The new products become more and more time-saving because .

A. our love of speed seems never-ending

B. time is limited.

C. the prices are increasingly high.

D. the manufactures boast a lot.

2.What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to ?

A. Imaginary life

B. Simple life in the past.

C. Times of inventions

D. Time for constant activity.

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology?

A.Critical B.Objective.

C.Optimistic. D. Negative.

4.What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The present and past times.

B. Machinery and human beings.

C. Imaginations and inventions.

D. Modern technology and its influence.

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