1、听力(共两节,满分30分 不计入总分)略第二部分:阅读理解(共两节,满分35分)第一节(共10小题;每小题2.5分,满分25分)AMy First Day at SchoolIts been over 12 years since I had such a day. I felt usual butterflies and excitement of a fresh start. I was in a room full of people like me, students who have dreams, ideas and fears like I do. I met people fr
2、om Russia, South Korea, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Malawi, Canada and the U.S. I felt welcome. I met quite a few professors and tried to express my goals for my studies. I told the story of how I came to be at the University of Edinburgh and how my husband was here to support me. Each first year post
3、graduate student talked about how they got here. Student leaders made us know the secrets to the bus and rail system, as well as how to make a “buy-one-get-one-free” deal in restaurants all over town. Thank the Lord for knocking off pounds!We toured the library. going up and down many stairs and see
4、ing quite a few study rooms. Each student was assigned( 分配)a study space where we could leave our books. Many students who had been here for a year or more told me they came in at 9 and left at 5, like a regular job. Students decorated their study spaces, I saw one with a white board that laid out h
5、is or her progress and one with a little bookcase to hold his or her books. Students decorated their cubicles(小间隔)to their personalities. The strong desire to learn and adapt is common.My schools student body is different, yet there is also commonality. Each person has come,often from a far, to stud
6、y and research in their area of interest, but we all have come to learn21. What does the underlined word“butterflies ”in the first paragraph refer to?A. A kind of insect with a thin body and wings. B. A feeling of nervousness and fearC. A person good at communicating D. An event in a swimming match2
7、2. According to the second paragraph. the writerA. felt uncomfortable because she was new hereB. left her husband and children at homeC. could eat in the town at u lower priceD. had no way to know the city for the moment23. The purpose of their going to the library is_.A. to find where they could bo
8、rrow some hooksB to find their fixed places to study afterwardsC to find some friends to ask for help laterD. to learn how to arrange their studBOn the Internet, what would our life be like without you? We certainly wouldn1 be immediately messaging someone we met at Machu Picchu six years ago. We wo
9、uldnt be able to design a sentence using only emojis like or Before the Internet, there was no such thing as “unfriending” someone.We no longer require homes, bars, offices or cafes to keep in touch with people. We can do it anywhere we happen to be. This leads to the question: when we connect ourse
10、lves to our devices, are we disconnecting from people around us? Are we hiding behind a screen from the physical world? For better or worse, here are a few of the ways the Internet is changing the way we communicate.Online relationships. Online dating becomes cool -it removed the embarrassment of fo
11、rever-alone sitting at home imaging long walks on the beach and candlelit dinners. According to the New York Times, about 50 million people use Tinder every month. Outside of Tinder, online dating has increased rapidly on platforms like RSVP and OkCupid. Gradually, dating online is just like meeting
12、 someone at a bar these days.Everyone is an expert. The blogger vs. journalist debate has been very hot lately. While blogs are seen by their readership as an authentic(原汁原味) channel of communication,bloggers knowledge is often called into question by those, journalists, for example, who have taken
13、a more traditional route to get where they are. Thanks to the Internet, anyone with a keyboard can say anything they want.Social media. It has enabled us to communicate with a much larger number of people all over the globe. While this is great when it comes to keeping friendships alive over great d
14、istances, it also increases the demand for keeping a much larger number of relationships going at the same time.No matter whether the Internet has changed communication for worse or better, there is no doubt that it plays a major role in our lives today. So make sure you keep up with the latest tech
15、nologies!24. The first two paragraphs mainly talk about_.A. the advantages the Internet has created B. the progress the Internet has madeC. the lessons we learn from the Internet D. the effect the Internet has on our life25. According to the passage, Tinder is_.A. a certain network language B. part of The New York TimesC. a long walk on the beach D. a platform for online dating26. Which of the following can best describe the author s attitude towards the Internet?A. Unconcerned B. Supportive C. Doubtful D. NegativeCIt is quite reasonable to blame traffic jams, the cost of gas and th
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