语法填空题 (共10题,10.0分)题型说明: Complete each sentence with the proper form of the words in brackets.5. (1.0分) He was so ____(excite) that he could not say a word.

The College Essay:Why Those 500 Words Drive us Crazy Meg is a lawyer-morn in suburban Washington,D.C., where lawyer-morns are thick on the ground. She’s asked us not to use her last name to prevent mortification (难堪) to her son Doug. He is quite mortified enough already. Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall. The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov.1, and by early October he had yet to fill out the application. More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application. According to a college legend, a well-turned essay has the power to convince an admissions committee. "He wanted to do one thing at a time," Meg says, explaining her son’s delay. "But really, my son is a huge procrastinator (拖延者). The essay is the hardest thing to do,so he’s put it off the longest." Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be extremely unpleasant. "But I tell them, you can’t scare me," she says. "I’m already there. I mean, I was an English major, I’m a lawyer, I write for a living! And I’m panicking already." The panic is arriving early this year. Back in the good old days--say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal--a high-school student applying to college could postpone all the way to New Year’s of senior year, assuming he or she could withstand the parental bothering. But things change fast in the upsetting world of college admissions. The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov. 1 or early December for many students. If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what it has always been. And it’s not the application itself. A college application is a relatively straightforward questionnaire asking for the basics:name,address,family history, employment history. It would all be innocent enough--20 minutes of busy work-- except it comes attached to an incendiary (纵火的) device: the personal essay. "There are good reasons it causes such anxiety," says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counseling at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N. Y. "It’s not just the actual writing. By now everything else is already set. Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set. All that’s done. But the essay is something you can still control, and it’s open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite." Or stall (拖延) and stall and stall. The application essay,along with its mythical importance, is a recent invention. In the 1930s, when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants’ school papers to assess their writing ability. By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another. Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions. Those schools usually require essays of their own, but the longest essay, 500 words maximum, is generally attached to the Common App. Students choose one of six questions. Applicants are asked to describe an ethical dilemma they’ve faced and its impact on them, or discuss a public issue of special concern to them, or tell of a fictional character or creative work that has profoundly influenced them. Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversity--a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education. The most popular option:write on a topic of your choice. "Boys in particular look at the other questions and say, ’Oh, that’s too much work, ’" says John Boshoven, a counselor in the Ann Arbor,Mich. ,public schools. "They think if they do a topic of their choice, ’ I’ll just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person application essay! ’ And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous." Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of "don’ts" in essay writing is much longer than the "dos." "No book reports, no history papers, no character studies," says Sohmer. "It drives you crazy, how easily kids slip into repetitive and boring topics," says Boshoven. "They don’t realize how typical their experiences are. ’I scored the winning goal in soccer against our arch-rival. ’ ’My grandfather served in World War Ⅱ, and I hope to be just like him someday. ’ That may mean a lot to that particular kid. But in the world of the application essay,it’s nothing. You’ll lose the reader in the first paragraph." "The greatest strength you bring to this essay," says the College Board’s how-to book, "is 17 years or so of familiarity with the topic=YOU. The form and style are very familiar, and best of all, you are the world-class expert on the subject of YOU... It has been the subject of your close scrutiny (仔细检查) every morning since you were tall enough to see into the bathroom mirror." The key word in the Common App prompts is "you." "For all the anxiety the essay causes," says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania,"it’s a very small piece of the puzzle. I was in college admissions for 10 years. I saw kids and parents beat themselves up over this. And at the vast majority of places, it is simply not a big variable in the college’s decision-making process." Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically super high grades and test: scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tiebreaker between two equally qualified candidates. The thought is certainly enough to keep the pot boiling under parents like Meg, the lawyer-mom, as she tries to help her son choose an essay topic. For a moment the other day,she thought she might have hit on a good one. "His father’s from France," she says. "I said maybe you could write about that, as something that makes you different. You know. half French, half American. I said, ’You could write about your identity issues. ’He said, ’ I don’t have any identity issues! ’" "And he’s right. He’s a well-adjusted, normal kid. But that doesn’t make for a good essay, does itIn the 1930s,school papers were required______. A. to assess the applicants’ writing ability B. to see why students chose one school over anotherC. to divide students into different classes D. as a very important method to give scholarships

Which subject is supposed to have no direct value for job hunting?A. Mathematics.B. English.C. Technical drawing.D. History.

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Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 The Place Where the Poor Once Thrived A)This is the land of opportunity. If that weren't already implied by the landscape-rolling green hills, palm trees, sun-kissed flowers--then it's evident in the many stories of people who grew up poor in these sleepy neighborhoods and rose to enormous success. People like Tri Tran, who fled Vietnam on a boat in 1986. showed up in San Jose with nothing, made it to MIT, and then founded the food-delivery start-up Munchery, which is valued at 300 millionB) Indeed, data suggests that this is one of the best places to grow up poor in America. A child born in the early 1980s into a low-income family in San Jose had a 12.9 percent chance of becoming a high earner as an adult, according to a landmark study released in 2014 by the economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues from Harvard and Berkeley. That number-12.9 percent--may not seem remarkable, but it was: Kids in San Jose whose families fell in the bottom quintile (五分位数) of income nationally had the best shot in the country reaching the top quintile.C) By contrast. just 4.4 percent of poor kids in Charlotte moved up to the top; in Detroit the figure was 5.5 percent. San Jose had social mobility comparable to Denmark's and Canada's and higher than other progressive cities such as Boston and MinneapolisD) The reasons kids in San Jose performed so well might seem obvious. Some of the world's most innovative companies are located here, providing opportunities such as the one seized by a 12-year-old Mountain View resident named Steve Jobs when he called William Hewlett to ask for spare parts and subsequently received a summer job. This is a city of immigrants--38 percent of the city's population today is foreign-born-and immigrants and their children have historically experienced significant upward mobility in America. The city has long had a large foreign-born population (26.5 percent in 1990), leading to broader diversity, which, the Harvard and Berkeley economists say, is a good predictor of mobility.E) Indeed, the streets of San Jose seem, in some ways, to embody the best of America. It's possible to drive in a matter of minutes from sleek (光亮的) office towers near the airport where people pitch ideas to investors, to single-family homes with orange trees in their yards, or to a Vietnamese mall. The libraries here offer programs in 17 languages, and there are areas filled with small businesses owned by Vietnamese immigrants Mexican immigrants. Korean immigrants, and Filipino immigrants to name a few.F) But researchers aren't sure exactly why poor kids in San Jose did so well. The city has a low prevalence of children growing up in single-parent families, and a low level of concentrated poverty, both factors that usually mean a city allows for good inter generational mobility. But San Jose also performs poorly on some of the measures correlated with good mobility. It is one of the most unequal places out of the 741 that the researchers measured, and it has high degrees of racial and economic segregation (隔离). Its schools underperform based on how much money there is in the area, said Ben Scuderi, a predoctoral fellow at the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard, which uses big data to study how to improve economic opportunities for low-income children. "There's a lot going on here which we don't totally understand," he said. "It's interesting, because it kind of defies our expectations."G) The Chetty data shows that neighborhoods and places mattered for children born in the San Jose area of the 1980s. Whether the city still allows for upward mobility of poor kids today, though, is up for debate. Some of the indicators such as income inequality, measured by the Equality of Opportunity Project for the year 2000, have only worsened in the past l6 yearsH) Some San Jose residents say that as inequality has grown in recent years, upward mobility has become much more difficult to achieve. As Silicon Valley has become home to more successful companies. the flood of people to the area has caused housing prices to skyrocket. By most measures, San Jose is no longer a place where low-income. or even middle-income families. can afford to live. Rents in San Jose grew 42.6 percent between 2006 and 2014, which was the largest increase in the country during that time period. The city has a growing homelessness problem, which it tried to address by shutting down "The Jungle," one of the largest homeless encampments (临时居住地) in the nation, in 2014. Inequality is extreme: The Human Development Index- a measure of life expectancy, education and per capita (人均的) income gives East San Jose a score of 4.85 out of 10, while nearby Cupertino, where Apple's headquarters sits, receives a 9.26. San Jose used to have a happy mix of factors- cheap housing, closeness to a rapidly developing industry, tightly-knit immigrant communities-that together opened up the possibility of prosperity for even its poorest residents. But in recent years, housing prices have skyrocketed, the region's rich and poor have segregated, and middle-class jobs have disappeared. Given this, the future for the region's poor doesn't look nearly as bright as it once did.I)Leaders in San Jose are determined to make sure that the city regains its status as a place where even poor kids can access the resources to succeed. With Silicon Valley in its backyard, it certainly has the chance to do so. "I think there is a broad consciousness in the Valley that we can do better than to leave thousands of our neighbors behind through a period of extraordinary success," San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said.J)But in today's America--a land of rising inequality, increasing segregation, and stagnating (不增长的) middle-class wages- can the San Jose region really once again become a place of opportunity?K) The idea that those at the bottom can rise to the top is central to America's ideas about itself. That such mobility has become more difficult in San Jose raises questions about the endurance of that foundational belief. After all, if the one-time land of opportunity can't be fixed, what does that say for the rest of America?1. According to some people living in San Jose, it has become much harder for the poor to get ahead due to the increased inequality.2. In American history, immigrants used to have a good chance to move upward in society.3. If the problems of San Jose can't be solved, one of America's fundamental beliefs about itself can be shaken.4. San Jose was among the best cities in America for poor kids to move up the social ladder.5. Whether poor kids in San Jose today still have the chance to move upward is questionable.6. San Jose's officials are resolved to give poor kids access to the resources necessary for success in life.7. San Jose appears to manifest some of the best features of America.8. As far as social mobility is concerned, San Jose beat many other progressive cities in America.9. Due to some changes like increases in housing prices in San Jose, the prospects for its poor people have dimmed.10. Researchers do not have a clear idea why poor children in San Jose achieved such great success several decades ago.

As he left that house, he not only started to feel stronger physically, but also had a stronger faith in the human race.A. 正如他离开那座房子时一样,身体变强壮了,也对人类有了更坚定的信念。B. 由于离开了那户人家,他只感觉更有力气了,但是对人类失去了信心。C. 离开这户人家时,他不仅开始觉得有了力气,而且对人也更有信心了。

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Directions: Fill in the blanks using some of the words or phrases given below. Change the form where necessary. paralyze bold facility absorb modestly assume invariably virtue summon haste falter blank strain rid sb./sth. of sth. in the hope that 1) I made a mistake and I will responsibility for it. 2) She is only 4 years old but she can play the piano with . 3) My mind was a(n) and I could not remember her name. 4) Wilson was so in reading that he kept reading without his dinner. 5) The economy is showing signs of during the period of economic crisis. 6) Too heavy a load will the rope to its breaking point. 7) The electricity failure the water supply the day before yesterday. 8) The wine made him enough to approach her and introduce himself. 9) They left in , without even saying goodbye. 10) We will keep searching for survivors of the earthquake a miracle might happen.assume facility blank absorbed faltering strain paralyzed bold haste in the hope that

Task 1 Match the word with its definition These words are chosen from the video. Talk with a partner or consult the dictionary, and match the word with its definition. 1. prominent (著名的) A. a journey undertaken by a group of people with a particular purpose 2. expedition (远征) B. to improve the appearance of something 3. willow (柳树) C. a state of disturbance 4. unrest (骚乱) D. important or well known 5. beautify (美化) E. a tree that typically has narrow leaves and grows near water