Hilton English Language Center

Information for New Students

       CLASS TIME：8:30a．m．—10:00a．m．，10:30a．m．—12:00a．m．，1:30p．m．—3:00p．m．

       The Language Center is open Monday to Friday．Each class has one afternoon free per week． On the first day, go to the lecture hall to check your timetable．

       SELF—ACCESS：The language laboratory（Room 1110）is open Monday to Friday from 3:15p．m． to 5:00p．m． for all full-time students．

       You can learn how to use computers for language games or word-processing（文字处理）．There are tapes for students to borrow to practice their English．Go in and ask the teacher to show you．If you plan to take public examinations, there are dictation and listening comprehension tapes for you to practice with．There are cloze exercises on the computers． Ask your class teacher for a list of past exam essays．Students can borrow tapes to take home but they must be returned after two days．

       ATTENDANCE（出勤）: All students are expected to attend classes as it is required． Students who do not attend classes will be reported to OSS． Eighty percent attendance is required for students to receive their certificates（证书）when they finish their courses． It is also required by OSS for an extension to your visa．

       BOOKS: If students are given course books, the books are their responsibility．If a book is lost, the student will be expected to pay for it．

       If students wish to buy books, there is a bookshop in the college specializing in English books（Room 3520）．

1．When do classes begin and end on a full day?

       A．8:30a．m．—1:30p．m．．                B．8:30a．m．—3:00p．m．．

       C．8:30a．m．—3:15p．m．．                D．3:15p．m．—5:00p．m．．

2．Which of the following statements is true?

      A．No teachers are in the language lab．

       B．90% attendance is required for the students．

       C．Books can’t be taken out of the center．

       D．Students can prepare for exams by listening to tapes．

3．Timetable can be seen in       ．

       A．the lecture hall                                     B．Room 3520

       C．the classroom                                      D．Room 1110 

4．The books which the students wish to buy are in the       ．

       A．library                                                 B．bookshop in the college

       C．street                                                  D．classroom

1．I’m                     （决定） to succeed next time．

2．All these difficulties were caused by natural d__________（灾难）．

3．We s__________（吞咽了）all our food and drink．

4．The forest was d___    _______（毁坏）by fire．

5．The world is full of o_____   _____（机遇）and challenges．

6．This film is for a____  ______（成年人）only． Children mustn’t watch it．

7．Only a narrow strait（海峡） s______  ____（分隔）North America from Asia．

8．The m__   _______（大多数） of the students support this plan．

9．O__    _____ to（由于）your carelessness, we failed．

10．The headmaster gave a feelingfuls___  _______（演说）about good manners to the whole school．

During the summer of 2001, I started reading books

in English, mostly stories．I would learn a lot of new               1．______ 

words from these books, but I had terribly problems                2．_____  

memorizing them．I had to look up to the same word               3．_____   

many times, for which was quite troublesome．I realized            4．____    _

I do need a way to remember all this vocabulary．It was            5．____  __

a great achievement for myself．I started writing down             6．__ __   

words from books that I read．I would come back from           7．         

school, and then sit for an hour and two．I wrote down           8．         

new words and added it to my collection．By the end              9．         

of last year，my collection has grown to 3,000 words．            10．         

人们对于学生网上交友持不同意见。请你用英语写一篇关于学生网上交友的短文，介绍人们的不同观点，并表达自己的看法。

       注意：1． 文章必须包括表中的全部内容。

2． 词数为100左右。

                  3． 参考词汇： 网络朋友on-line friend（s），上当受骗to be cheated

No matter which country you travel to, you should ______the law of the country．

A． observe         B． undertake          C． break         D． seek

_______ Mr. Smith, the local doctor, made her parents very angry．

A．Jane’s engaging                                    B．Jane’s being engaged to

C．Jane having engaged to                              D．Jane has engaged to

_______some teenagers don’t realize is _________difficult life can be after they get addicted to drugs．

A．What; how         B．That; how            C．What; what a         D．That; what

Mr. Hadley _______for weeks, so he had a lot of work to _________．

A．was absence; make                                B．was absent; make up

C．had absence; make out                              D．had absent; make

We could eat Chinese food, Italian or Japanese food; do you have any_______?

A．taste             B．question            C．problem             D．preference

The Olympic mascots are the Olympic flame, the fish, the panda, the Tibetan antelope and the swallow, _______ a close group of friends．

A．to represent                B．representing           C．represented         D．represent