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Started in 1636, Harvard (哈佛) University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
In the early years, these schools were nearly the same. Only young men went to college. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin and Greek. Little was known about science. And few people knew that one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could study in Harvard’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began to teach modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began to teach American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.
Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer all.
In the early years, people learned ________ in colleges.

A．science

B．medicine

C．law

D．Latin and Greek

Most of college graduates became ________ in the early years.

A．ministers or teachers

B．lawyers

C．doctors

D．workers

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．In the early years, everyone can go to colleges.

B．In 1782, Harvard began to teach German.

C．In the early years, different colleges majored in different fields.

D．More and more courses were taught in college with the improvement of knowledge.

Which of the following is the right order of the courses taught in Harvard?
a. law
b. French and German
c. Latin and Greek
d. medicine
e. American history

A．d-b-e-c-a

B．a-d-b-c-e

C．c-d-a-b-e

D．c-d-b-e-a

Nowadays college students ________.

A．can learn everything they are interested in

B．go to different smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning

C．learn the same subjects

D．must learn Latin and Greek

Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, destroying fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged (破坏) that their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or broken roofs. One person was killed, several were badly hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether (总共) over two hundred people were homeless after the storm.
A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early in the morning and lasted for over an hour.
“I was eating with my wife and children,” he said, “when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best to climb out but then I saw that one of my children was missing. I went back inside and found him, safe but very frightened.”
Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she felt that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.
“There was no time to take anything,” she said, “A few minutes later, the roof came down.”
Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded (水淹的) area and the welfare department (福利机构) brought them food, clothes and shelter.
How many homes altogether were damaged in the storm?

A．Fourteen.

B．Twenty-one.

C．Twenty-nine.

D．Thirty-six.

Where was Mr. Tan when the storm first began?

A．He was in bed.

B．He was inside the house.

C．He was outside the house.

D．He was on the roof.

Mrs. Woo and her family didn’t get hurt because ________.

A．her husband knew there would be a storm

B．they were all outside the house when the storm became worse

C．she felt the house moving and they ran out immediately

D．the welfare department helped her

The underlined word “shelter” in the last paragraph means ________.

A．something to eat	B．something to wear
C．somewhere to study	D．somewhere to stay

Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?

A．A Terrible Storm	B．A Lucky Woman
C．Good Soldiers	D．Clever People

Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。

Time	Kind of holiday	Reason
Before the late 1970s	________	It was a tradition.
In the late 1970s	Package holiday	______
__________	Overseas holiday	Young people became wealthier.
These years	________	The world financial crisis.

Yang Cangxu has recently become hot on the Internet. He is considered as a hero, and known as “A Professional Life Saviour”, because he has saved 24 people’s lives during the past 26 years.
Yang, a typical Chinese farmer, lives in Baoji, Shanxi Province. He is good at swimming, which is also his favorite. When he was young, he joined the army. ① The life in the army had a great influence on him. It also helped to form one of his characters(性格)——being ready to help others.
Just seven to eight meters away from his home flows a channel ( 水渠). The water is very deep and flows fast. There is a bridge over the channel. Walking across the bridge is not an easy thing. From time to time, people fall into the water. If this happens, the person must be rescued in time. ② Otherwise, he or she will be washed away by the water.
③Yang Cangxu is always the first one to rush to the channel to save the drowning person. We must learn from him.
将①处翻译成汉语。
_________________________________________________
根据②处内容，完成下面的句子。(每空一词)
Otherwise, the water will _________him or her ________.
根据③处内容，其将改为定语从句。(每空一词)
Yang Cangxu is always the first one _______ _______ to the channel to save the drowning person.

Wang Bing’s father began smoking when he was a freshman ( 大学一年级学生)in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette. He has now been smoking for more than 30 years.
It’s a classic example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes, except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age.
It has become a major concern(担忧) in China that many teenagers begin to smoke. A survey showed that 22.5% of the middle school students questioned had tried smoking and 15.8% of them smoked regularly.
For many teenagers, smoking is a symbol of being an adult, independence, maturity(成熟) and attractiveness because the images who they love best often smoke on screen.
The social environment also plays an important role in attracting teenagers to smoking. They are used to seeing their elders, especially male family members, smoking at home. Many of them imitate adult behavior and become new smokers.
To increase the price of cigarettes is an effective way to reduce the number of young smokers, as teenagers have limited money to spend on them.
Another way is to educate the teenagers to voluntarily refuse cigarettes. A survey shows that 92.5% of the students know smoking will be bad for their health. If we persuade them in a proper way, most of them may give up smoking.
All in all, the society, the government, the school and the family should join together to take the responsibility for an anti-smoking (禁烟) campaign aimed at teenagers, not just to put empty slogans and warnings on cigarette packs.
The writer uses the first paragraph to ______.
A. tell the readers a story of a smoker
B. introduce the topic of the passage
C. introduce the college life of Wang Bing’s father.
What’s the main idea of this passage?

A．The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and independence.

B．The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke.

C．The teenagers should be educated to refuse to smoke.

D．The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China.

What does the word ”imitate”in Paragraph 5 mean in Chinese?

A．指责

B．忍受

C．模仿

D．支持

From the underlined part of the last sentence of this passage, we can infer(推断) that the writer thinks putting slogans and warnings on cigarette packs is ______to solve the problem.

A．not enough	B．of no use
C．of great help	D．of great importance.

A．Felton, California	B．the scientists
C．how to work with computers	D．sending prints by pigeon