6、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.

1．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.

2．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

3．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

4．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

5、They once seemed more at home on the bustling streets of Asia like Delhi, Calcutta and Bangkok but cycle powered rickshaws （人力车） can now be seen taking people across town in many European cities. Many people believe that rickshaws are a good way of experiencing a city, close-up, while also cutting down on traffic jams and pollution. In Berlin, one of the first cities to introduce this new model of transport, more than 200 bike-taxis go along at 15km per hour, past many tourist attractions and city parks.

       “It is completely environmentally friendly; we have new models with an engine to help the driver up the hills but they use renewable energy.” said a spokesman for VELOTAXI, the leading rickshaw company which has carried a quarter of a million people this year.

       While the city still has 7,000 motor-taxis, rickshaw company officials say their taxis’ green ethics, speed and safety make them more than just a tourist attraction. While now increasingly out of fashion in Delhi, Berlin people have eagerly accepted the new fleet since their launch in 1997.

“It’s better than a taxi, better than a bus, better than the train,” said ULF Lehman, 36, as he leapt out of a rickshaw near the world famous Brandenburg gate. “ It feels so free.”

       “ This is something out of the ordinary you feel you are on holiday in Bangkok instead of Berlin,” said another traveler.

       In Amsterdam, driver Peter Jancso said people like to be driven around in his bright yellow rickshaw and pretend to be a queen in a golden carriage. "I like my passengers to feel important," he said as he dropped off another passenger. Another visitor noted how cheap it was compared with a normal taxi.

       Although increasingly popular in Europe, it is the opposite in India, where hand-pulled rickshaws are considered inhuman and a symbol of India's backward past.

       Nearly 500 bike-rickshaws are running in London and are not required to pay the city's road tax but things may change as other taxi drivers complain of unfair treatment.

1．Where are rickshaws becoming more popular?

    A．Delhi, Berlin, Paris.                          B．Amsterdam, Bangkok, Delhi.

    C．Athens, London, Berlin.                    D．Berlin, Amsterdam, London.

2．Why are rickshaws no longer as widely used in India as in the past?

    A．They are a reminder of a bad period in India's history.

    B．They have been banned because they are too cruel.

    C．The streets of India are too crowded for them to move through easily.

    D．Indians now prefer to travel by car because they are richer.

3．What does the underlined sentence "This is something out of the ordinary you feel you are on holiday in Bangkok instead of Berlin" suggest?

A．The passenger didn't like taking a rickshaw as it reminded him of Bangkok.

    B．The passenger enjoyed being on holiday in Berlin more than in Bangkok.

    C．The passenger was impressed when taking a rickshaw and considered it unusual.

    D．The passenger disapproved of rickshaws because they were not original to Berlin.

4．What is the author's attitude towards rickshaws?

    A．He gives no personal opinion.

    B．He believes they will be of no use.

    C．He thinks they will reduce pollution.

       D．He thinks they are old-fashioned.

4、Reading poems is not exactly an everyday activity for most people. In fact, many people never read a poem once they get out of high school.

It is worth reminding ourselves that this has not always been the case in America. In the nineteenth century, a usual American activity was to sit around the fireside in the evening and read poems aloud. It is true that there was no television at the time, or movie theaters, or World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure, of self-education, of connection to other people or to the world beyond one’s own community. Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, like reading poems by the fireside, another way in which poetry has a place in everyday life.

How did things change? Why are most Americans no longer comfortable with poetry, and why do most people today think that a poem has nothing to tell them and that they can do well without poems?

There are, I believe, three culprits（肇事者）：poets, teachers, and we ourselves. Of these, the least important is the third: the world surrounding the poem has betrayed us more than we have betrayed the poem. Early in the twentieth century, poetry in English headed into directions unfavorable to the reading of poetry. Readers decided that poems were not for the fireside or the easy chair at night, and that they belonged where other difficult-to-read things belonged.

Poets failed the reader, so did teachers. They want their students to know something about the skills of a poem, they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles.

1．Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because          .

    A．it built a link among people                         B．it helped unite a community

    C．it was a source of self-education                D．it was a source of pleasure

2．The underlined word “diversion”（in Para2） most probably means “         ”.

    A．concentration              B．change             C．amusements              D．stories

3．According to the passage, what is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry?

    A．Students are becoming less interested in poetry.

    B．Students are poorly educated in high school.

    C．TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry.

    D．Poems have become difficult to understand.

4．In the last paragraph, the writer questions          .

    A．the difficulty in studying poems                                       B．the way poems are taught in school

C．students’ wrong ideas about poetry    D．the techniques used in writing poem

3、It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot debates, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal area in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. Almost immediately word spread on the internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on through the group’s on-line service, Death NET. “We posted statements all day long, because this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.” says Hofsess.

The newly-passed law has left doctors as well as citizens trying to deal with its different meanings. Some have shown satisfaction, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly fought against the law. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, life-extending （延长生命） technology and changing society attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia （安乐死）. In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes （多米诺骨牌） to start falling.

Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can require death — probably by a deadly injection or pill — to end suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as incurably ill by two doctors. After a “cooling off” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of requirement. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin citizen suffering from lung cancer, the new law means he can get on with living without the fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. “I’m not afraid of dying, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and tearing at their masks （氧气面罩）,” he says.

1．From the second paragraph we learn that ________.

    A．the disagreement of euthanasia is slow to come in other countries

    B．doctors and citizens share the same view on euthanasia

    C．changing technology is mainly responsible for pass of the law

    D．it takes time to realize the importance of the law’s passage

2．When the author says that observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means __.

    A．observers are against euthanasia

    B．similar laws are likely to be passed in the US, Canada and other countries

    C．observers are waiting to see the result of the game of dominoes

    D．the passed bill may finally come to a stop

3．When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will ________.

    A．choose euthanasia and die peacefully

    B．experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient

    C．have a strong fear of terrible suffering

    D．have a cooling off period of seven days

4．The author’s attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that of ________.

    A．disagreement             B．doubt           C．agreement               D．cold

2、此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词；把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（ ∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意；原行没有错的不要改。

   Did you enjoy yourself yesterday? I suppose you do.            1．         

But I had a very terrible day yesterday. Everything               2．         

went wrong. In the morning, your alarm clock didn't ring, so I      3．         

woke up late. I was in such hurry that I burnt my hand when     4．         

I was preparing breakfast. Then I ran out the house to catch                              5．         

the 8:30 bus. That was the bus I normal took. I missed it. I was    6．         

worried so my teacher hated the students coming late to           7．         

School. As a result, I ran three mile to school. When reaching       8．         

to the classroom, I found all the classmates were in the            9．         

classroom and I felt ashamed .How a bad day it was!               10．         

1、假设你是新华大学的学生李华，得知某英文报招聘兼职记者，你有意应聘，请按下列要点给报社写一封自荐信。

       1．表示感兴趣；

       2．说明优势：知识面、英语水平、合作精神、相关经历；

       3．希望得到回复。

      注意：

       1．词数：100左右；

       2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

       3．文章的开头和结尾已给出。

Dear Sir or Madam,

      I’m a student from Xinhua University.

                                                                                                                                                      Yours sincerely,

                                                           Li Hua

25、—Mike got “F” in his history test.

—           ? He has been working so hard on it.

A．How come           B．So what         C．What for        D．Why not

24、           is often the case with elder people, my grandma talked about my new hairstyle for

at least 50 minutes nonstop.

A．That         B．Which         C．As           D．It

23、To some people life is enjoyable, while to           it is suffering.

A．ones          B．others            C．those            D．another