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________ that their team will win the game.
- A.It thought
- B.People thought
- C.It's thought
- D.People thinks
新课标阶梯阅读训练系列答案Students who want to study in the United States may find that their chances for financial aid are limited. They often have to pay for their education with their own savings or their family's money.
A recent report from the Institute of International Education in New York looked at 2008-2009 school year.
Colleges and universities in the United States had more than half a million foreign students. 63% of them paid for school mostly by themselves or with family help. 26% percent were supported by the school they attended.
There are other sources of financial aid for international students. These include a student's home government or university, or the United States government. Private sponsors, international organizations and employers may also provide support. Yet during the last school year, not many students were able to depend on any of these other sources. Current employers provided the most help. Still, they represented the main support for just four percent of international students.
Those at the graduate level, however, are more likely than undergraduates to receive financial aid in the United States. More than 80% percent of foreign undergraduates depended mostly on personal and family money to pay for school last year. The same was true of less than half of graduate students. Most of the others received financial aid from their college or university in the United States.
A list of American schools that offer financial aid to foreign students can be found at a useful Web site. The address is edupass.org. This site also provides information about scholarship programs. But it warns foreign students not to pay if there is any charge for scholarship application forms. You could be cheated out of your money.
1.Most foreign students depend on _______ to pay for their education.
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A．the home universities |
B．personal or family money |
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C．the American schools |
D．international organization |
2.How many sources of financial aid are mentioned in the text?
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A．9 |
B．3 |
C．6 |
D．12 |
3.Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
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A．Foreign students have no chance to get money from American schools. |
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B．Most foreign graduate students depend on their own savings. |
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C．Edupass.org offers financial aid and scholarship information. |
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D．Usually the present employers provide the most financial help. |
4.The text mainly talks about ________.
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A．financial aid for foreign students in US |
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B．the hard life for foreign students in US |
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C．the variety of educational choices in US |
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D．the disadvantages of studying in US. |
A new argument has been put forward as to whether penguins are disturbed by the presence of tourists in Antarctica.
Previous research by scientists from Keil University in Germany monitored Adelie penguins and noted that the birds’ heart rates increased dramatically at the sight of a human as far as 30 meters away. But new research using an artificial egg, which is equipped to measure heart rates, disputes this. Scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge say that a slow moving human who does not approach the nest too closely, is not viewed as a threat by penguins.
The earlier findings have been used to partly explain the 20 per cent drop in populations of certain types of penguins near tourist sites. However, tour operators have continued to insist that their activities do not adversely affect wildlife in Antarctica, saying they encourage non-disruptive behavior in tourists, and that the decline in penguin numbers is caused by other factors.
Amanda Nimon of the Scott Polar Research Institute spent three southern hemisphere summers at Cuverville Island in Antarctica studying penguin behavior towards humans. “A nesting penguin will react very differently to a person rapidly and closely approaching the nest,” says Nimon. “First they exhibit large and prolonged heart rate changes and then they often flee the nest leaving it open for predators (掠夺者) to fly in and remove eggs or chicks.” The artificial egg, specially for the project, monitored both the parent who had been ‘disturbed’ when the egg was placed in the nest and the other parent as they both took it in turns to guard the nest.
However, Boris Culik, who monitored the Adelie penguins, believes that Nimon’s findings do not invalidate his own research. He points out that species behave differently ---- and Nimon’s work was with Gentoo penguins. Nimon and her colleagues believe that Culik’s research was methodologically flawed because the monitoring of penguins’ responses needed capturing and restraining the birds and fitting them with beart-rate transmitters. Therefore, argues Nimon, it would not be surprising if they became stressed on seeing a human subsequently.
1.According to the passage, what overall message is presented?
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A．No firm conclusions are drawn. |
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B．Neither Culik’s nor Nimon’s findings are of much value. |
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C．Penguin reduction is closed related to tourist behavior. |
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D．Tourists are not responsible for the fall in penguin numbers. |
2.Which ONE argument of the following is stated in the passage?
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A．Penguins are harder to research when they have young. |
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B．Tour operators should encourage tourists to avoid Antarctica. |
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C．Not all penguins behave in the same way. |
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D．Penguins need better protection from tourists. |
3.What do you notice about the views presented in the passage?
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A．They are groundless. |
B．They are factual. |
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C．They are descriptive. |
D．They are conflicting. |
4.What does the underlined word (final line) probably mean?
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A．Later on. |
B．Calmly. |
C．Separately. |
D．In the same place. |