美国竞选高三年级英语关于学校生活类话题阅读理解专项训练题二

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高三英语

关于学校生活类话题阅读理解

专项训练题二

学校
:__ _________
姓名：
___________
班级：
________ ___
考号：
___________


一、阅读理解

Whether
you’ve
been
in
college
or
you’re
looking
forward
to
going
to
university
in the future, you and your family likely spend some time worrying about the
cost
of
your
college
education.
It’s
no
secret
that
college
is
one
of
the
biggest
investments. However, that will go to great avail for years to come. Earning
scholarships is a great way to help you. The Financial Aid Office at Illinois
State
helps
students
identify
scholarship
opportunities
every
day.
Here
is
some
advice to help you.
Begin in your own backyard
Have
you
asked
your
high
school
or
community
college
financial
aid
office
about
scholarships at your school? Many schools have a list of several scholarships
right
there.
Local
awards
can
often
be
easier
to
get
as
the
applicant
pools
are
smaller and less competitive. Check with community organizations, banks and
credit unions, and large employers who may offer scholarship opportunities in
your area.
Find you
r “hook”

While you’re searching, consider what makes you special as a student. Your
unique characteristics can help your scholarship applications stand out. Pay
special attention to awards that mention your best qualities, whether that’s
academic
achievement,
leadership,
community
service,
or
something
less
common.
Think about why a donor wants to assist you in paying for your education. Most
scholarship providers want to encourage a particular behavior. Companies may
want to attract future employees. Non-profit organizations like helping those
who support their cause or suffer from the disease they’re working to fight.

Develop a routine
Every scholarship is different in terms of when you can apply, what you need
to submit, when the winner is announced, and how the money is given to you.
Typically? scholarship applications open in the late fall or early spring for
the next school year’s awards, but that also varies depending on the donor.
























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There isn’t a single application or search engine that allows you to fi
nd and
apply for everything.
Visit the website of the Office of Student Financial Aid
for lists of scholarship opportunities. Go through the lists to find the ones
that match you best and keep track of when you can apply for them.
1
．
What can we learn from the passage?
A. You can apply for the scholarships fit for you.
B. It is hard to pay for the college education.
C. It is difficult to apply for the scholarships.
D. You can depend on parents to attend college.
2
．
What does the underlined part in the first paragraph mean?
A. Achieve nothing. B. Pay off.
C. Prove meaningless. D. Have a long way to go.
3
．
The author suggests applying for scholarships locally because .
A. the community offers more scholarships
B. fewer students think of doing that
C. your high school will be ready to help
D. it is relatively easy to get scholarships
4
．
What kind of students do the scholarship providers want to help?
A. Students who only take interest in their studies.
B. Students who plan to do community service.
C. Students who are eager to get a good education.
D. Students who are considered of high qualities.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的
A
、B
、
C
、
D
四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A
University Room Regulations
Approved and Prohibited Items
The
following
items
are
approved
for
use
in
residential
(
住宿的
)
rooms:
electric
blankets,
hair
dryers,
personal
computers,
radios,
televisions
and
DVD
players.
Items that are not allowed in student rooms include: candles, ceiling fans,
fireworks, waterbeds, sun lamps and wireless routers. Please note that any
prohibited items will be taken away by the Office of Residence Life.
























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Access to Residential Rooms
Students are provided with a combination (
组合密码
) for their room door locks
upon check-in. Do not share your room door lock combination with anyone. The
Office of Residence Life may change the door lock combination at any time at
the expense of the resident if it is found that the student has shared the
combination with others. The fee is $$25 to change a room combination.
Cooking Policy
Students living in buildings that have kitchens are only permitted to cook in
the
kitchen.
Students
must
clean
up
after
cooking.
This
is
not
the
responsibility
of housekeeping staff. Kitchens that are not kept clean may be closed for use.
With the exception of using a small microwave oven (
微波炉
) to heat food,
students are not permitted to cook in their rooms.
Pet Policy
No
pets
except
fish
are
permitted
in
student
rooms.
Students
who
are
found
with
pets, whether visiting or owned by the student, are subject to an initial fine
of $$100 and a continuing fine of $$50 a day per pet. Students receive written
notice when the fine goes into effect. If, one week from the date of written
notice, the pet is not removed, the student is referred to the Student Court.
Quiet Hours
Residential buildings must maintain an atmosphere that supports the academic
mission
of
the
University.
Minimum
quiet
hours
in
all
campus
residences
are
11:00
pm
to
8:00
am
Sunday
through
Thursday.
Quiet
hours
on
Friday
and
Saturday
nights
are 1:00 am to 8:00 am. Students who violate quiet hours are subject to a fine
of $$25.
5
．
Which of the following items are allowed in student rooms?
A. Ceiling fans and waterbeds.
B. Wireless routers and radios.
C. Hair dryers and candles.
D. TVs and electric blankets.
6
．
What if a student is found to have told his combination to others?
A. The combination should be changed.
B. The Office should be charged.
























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C. He should replace the door lock.
D. He should check out of the room.
7
．
What do we know about the cooking policy?
A. A microwave oven can be used.
B. Cooking in student rooms is permitted.
C. A housekeeper is to clean up the kitchen.
D. Students are to close kitchen doors after cooking.
8
．
If
a
student
has
kept
a
cat
in
his
room
for
a
week
since
the
warning,
he
will
face _____.
A. parent visits B. a fine of $$100
C. the Student Court D. a written notice
9
．
When can students enjoy a party in residences?
A. 7:00 am, Sunday. B. 7:30 am, Thursday.
C. 11:30 pm, Monday. D. 00:30 am, Saturday.

A
typical
school
day
in
the
UK
starts
around
8:30
am.
This
is
often
even
earlier
elsewhere
in
the
world,
with
students
siting
down
to
their
first
lesson
at
7:30
am in the US. The average teenager ideally needs eight to nine hours’ sleep
each night, but in reality a lot of teenagers struggle to get this much. A lot
of
the
problems
happen
because
our
sleep
patterns
are
not
fixed,
and
they
change
as we grow.
So a later school start time
（推迟到校时间）
could help to solve this problem,
by ensuring to get their eight plus hours of sleep and react properly to their
body's natural rhythms
（规律）
. There has been a general change over the past
25 years to shorten the school day, This is not at the cost of teaching time
(which has remained constant) but at the cost of natural breaks, which has led
to reduced lunch time and lesson breaks.
Later start times
could help teens’ grades and health. This is mainly because
it makes the management of children easier. Managing hundreds of children
“playing” requires effective staffing（人员配备）
. And there is always the
fear that behavior worsens during breaks. So the theory goes that having them
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But this means that students barely have enough time to absorb what they were
doing in maths before suddenly they are forced to study ancient history. And
teaching staff also move through from one class to another, with hardly a rest
or time to refocus.
Clearly rethinking the school day could benefit everyone included. Anyway, it
could also lead to better achievement in teenagers and less of a struggle for
parents in the mornings. For teachers, it could also mean a less stressful day
all around and what could be better than that?
10
．
At what time do the students start their first lesson in the US?
A. 7:00 B. 7:30
C. 8:00 D. 8:30
11
．
How do schools often shorten the school day?
A. They reduce children’s lunch time and lesson breaks.

B. They reduce the teaching time.
C. They prop
erly adjust children’ natural rhythms.

D. They increase more holidays.
12
．What’s
the purpose
of the children’ short
lesson breaks
according
to the
text?
A. To manage children more easily.
B. To make children quickly take in what they learned.
C. To reduce
children’s excitement.

D. To make children behave better in class.
13
．
What can we learn about later school start time from the text?
A. It will add to the teacher’s pressure.

B. It has always been there for 25 years.
C. Parents may support it.
D. It benefits the students only.
14
．
What can be the best title for the text?
A. The benefits of a less stressful day.
B. The benefits of later school start time.
C. How to solve teenagers’ sleep problem.

D. The reasons why teenagers sleep differently.
























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阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（
A
、
B
、
C
和
D
）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题
纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

A
From the very beginning of school we make books and reading a constant source
of possible failure and public humiliation. When children are little we make
them read aloud, before the teacher and other children, so that we can be sure
they “know” all the words they are reading. This means that when they don’t
know
a
word,
they
are
going
to
make
a
mistake,
right
in
front
of
everyone.
After
having
taught
fifth-grade
classes
for
four
years,
I
decided
to
try
at
all
costs
to rid them of
their fear and
dislike
of books,
and to get them to
read
oftener
and more adventurously.
One day soon after school had started, I said to them, “Now I’m going to say
something
about
reading
that
you
have
probably
never
heard
a
teacher
say
before.
I would like you to read a lot of books this year, but I want you to read them
only for pleasure. I am not going to ask you questions to find out whether you
understand
the
books
or
not.
If
you
understand
enough
of
a
book
to
enjoy
it
and
want to go on
reading it, that’s
enough for me. Also
I’m not
going to
ask you
what words mean. “

The children sat stunned and silent. Was this a teacher talking? One girl, who
had just come to us from a school where she had had a very hard time, looked
at
me
steadily
for
a
long
time
after
I
had
finished.
Then,
still
looking
at
me,
she said slowly and seriously, Mr Holt, do you really mean that?” I said just
as seriously, “I mean every word of it.

During
the
spring
she
really
astonished
me.
One
day,
she
was
reading
at
her
desk,
From a glimpse of the illustrations I thought I knew what the book was. I said
to myself, “It can’t be,” and went to take a closer look. Sure enough, she
was
reading
Moby
Dick
,
in
edition
with
woodcuts.
I
said,
“Don’t
you
find
parts
of it rather h
eavy going?” She answered, Oh, sure, but I just skip over those
parts and go on to the next good part. “

This
is
exactly
what
reading
should
be
and
in
school
so
seldom
is,
an
exciting,
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bad parts, get what you can out of it, go on to something else. How different
is our mean- spirited, picky insistence that every child get every last little
scrap of “understanding” that can be dug out of a book.

15
．According to the passage, children’s
fear and dislike of books may
result
from________.
A. reading little and thinking little
B. reading often and adventurously
C. being made to read too much
D. being made to read aloud before others
16
．
The teacher told his students to read______ .
A. for enjoyment
B. for knowledge
C. for a larger vocabulary
D. for higher scores in exams
17
．Upon
hearing
the
teacher’s
talk,
the
children
probably
felt
that________.

A. it sounded stupid
B. it was not surprising at all
C. it sounded too good to be true
D. it was no different from other teachers' talk
18
．
Which of the following statements about the girl is TRUE according to the
passage?
A. She skipped over those easy parts while reading.
B. She had a hard time finishing the required reading tasks.
C. She learned to appreciate some parts of the difficult books.
D. She turned out to be a top student after coming to this school.
19
．
From the teacher's point of view,_________ .
A. children cannot tell good parts from bad parts while reading
B. children should be left to decide what to read and how to read
C. reading is never a pleasant and inspiring experience in school
D. reading involves understanding every little piece of information

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To: (happylizijun) @ yaboo. com. cn
Subject: My school
Hi, Li Zijun,
Thanks very much for your email. I really enjoyed reading it. I think we have
a lot in common. I wonder if our school life is similar too.
I
go
to
a
big
high
school
in
Sydney
called
Maylands
High
School.
There
are
about
1000 students and 80 teachers. My class has 25 students in it, which is normal
for
a
Year
11
class.
In
the
junior
school
there
are
about
30
students
in
a
class.
In the senior high school we have lots of subjects to choose from, like maths,
physics,
chemistry,
biology,
history,
German,
law,
geography,
software
design,
graphic arts and media studies. (Different schools sometime have different
optional
subjects.)
English
is
a
must
for
everyone
and
we
have
to
do
least
three
other
subjects
in
Year
11
and
12.
At
the
end
of
Year
12
we
sit
for
a
public
exam
called the High School Certificate.
As well as school subjects, most of us do other activities at school such as
playing
a
sport,
singing
in
the
choir
or
playing
in
the
school
band.
We
can
also
belong
to
clubs,
such
as
the
drama
club,
the
chess
club
and
the
debating
society.
We have a lot of homework to do in senior school to prepare for our exam, so
unless
I
have
basketball
practice,
I
usually
go
straight
home
and
start
studying.
I arrive home about 4 pm, make myself a snack and work till 6 pm. Then I help
the
family
to
make
dinner
and
we
all
eat
together.
I’m
usually
back
in
my
room
studying by 8 pm. I stop at about 10 o’clock and watch TV or read a book for
half an hour to relax. On Saturdays, I usually go out with my family or with
friends
and
I
sleep
in
till
late
on
Sunday
morning.
Then
it’s
back
to
the
books
on Sunday afternoon.
How about you? What’s your school life like? Do you have a lot of homework?
What
do
you
do
to
relax
when
you’re
not
studying?
I’m
looking
forward
to
finding
out.
Your Australian friend
Terrie
20
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How many subjects do the students have to do at least in Year 11 and 12?
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