【正文】 hungry, we eat at home instead of going out. We take buses instead of taxis. And we wear our old designer jeans just a few months longer. With college expenses at alltime highs, high school students are eager to do anything to cut the cost of a university education.s degree in three years instead of four. Educational institutions have been actively exploring ways to make the learning process more efficient. But there39。I doubt that mainstream North American colleges will carry out a threeyear curriculum any time soon. For one thing, most universities already allow highly qualified students to graduate early by testing out of certain classes and obtaining a number of college credits. In addition, at famous universities, the mittee who determine which courses are required and which courses are electives are unlikely to suddenly throw out one quarter of the required credits. Professors will resist diluting (稀釋) the quality of the education they offer.s not a good idea to water down medicine. If we want to help students find their way through university, we should help them understand early on what knowledge and skills they need to have upon graduation. We should allow students to test out of as many courses as possible. We should give them a chance to earn money as interns (實(shí)習(xí)生) in meaningful parttime jobs that relate to their university studies, such as the fiveyear coop program at Northeastern University.（1）Which of the following can best sum up the main idea? 39。根據(jù)第二段中的“Few US universities have formally approved a ‘threeyear degree’ model.”很少有美國大學(xué)正式批準(zhǔn)“三年學(xué)位”模式；以及最后一段中的“In my opinion, a quality fouryear education is always superior to a quality threeyear education.”在我看來，優(yōu)質(zhì)的四年教育總是優(yōu)于優(yōu)質(zhì)的三年教育。根據(jù)第二段中的“Few US universities have formally approved a ‘threeyear degree’ model.”美國很少有大學(xué)正式批準(zhǔn)“三年制學(xué)位”模式。可知，特別優(yōu)秀的大學(xué)生可以提前畢業(yè)。s not a good idea to water down medicine.”削弱教育不是個好主意，就像削弱醫(yī)學(xué)不是個好主意一樣。2．閱讀理解 d cast a careful glance and ask Why? before grabbing the apple pie.re grateful every day for a week! my response was frankly doubtful. I did the math. Five things a day for seven days is a lot of brainpower to expend without so much as the promise of an apple pie.s Psychological Services Clinic. What39。s when I first heard the term positive psychology. The gratitude thing, as I had called it, was but one small and simple element of the practice. Kind of like training the brain to focus on joy, my friend Heidi explained. It39。 Every day for a week, I found five distinct things for which I was thankful. They had to be different every day. I couldn39。s attitude toward the student with desserts? A.Respectful.t worth the effort.B.Because she could do five things every day easily.（3）What does Collie Conoley suggest the author should do? A.Be thankful for things but not people.C.s the best title for the text? A.Practicing Gratitude Changed My LifeBeing Grateful to One Good Person【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）D（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文，在一個星期的時間里，作者堅(jiān)持每天都能發(fā)現(xiàn)五件她特別感激的事情，而且每天都有所不同。 （1）考查推理判斷。故選A。連續(xù)7天每天做5件事，甚至連吃蘋果派的承諾都沒有，那就太費(fèi)腦力了。根據(jù)第四段中的“But I could, suggested Collie Conoley, another positive psychologist, express my gratitude for specific aspects of a certain person each day. He39。他總是把我們的家庭放在第一位?？抵Z利建議作者具體說明她感激什么。m rediscovering the peace of that old saying: accepting the things I can39。并根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行邏輯推理，從而選出正確答案。 A few hours after my first mission, returning to Earth on the space shuttle Endeavour, I pleted all of my medical tests after flight, met with NASA officials, and reunited with my family. Finally, I was alone in my office room in astronaut crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center, exhausted and ready for bed. And I did what anyone does when they return to their hotel room on a business trip: I turned on the TV. The television news started up: Such and such had happened, people were shocked, blah blah blah. Sports scores. Silly mercials.t take more than a minute before I had to turn it off. It felt like my body was rejecting all this input, just as it would reject an organ donation that had the wrong blood type. All of this noise was just pletely foreign to who I was—or, more appropriately, who I had bee. A few hours before, I had been orbiting Earth, seeing our planet from space, flying the most amazing machine ever built by human hands, working with a team that was the absolute success of human. And now here in my room watching what was being sold as news, and with my newfound perspective, I just could not stomach it. My worldview was changed forever in a profound (深刻的) way.Access.D.t like watching TV any more.C.Live in the present moment.C. （1）考查詞義猜測。根據(jù)第三段中的“The biggest change by far and the one for which I will always be most grateful is this bigpicture perspective.”可知，作者最重要的改變是他對世界有更廣闊的看法，故選A。4．閱讀理解 s home for one or two nights? Give me a break.ve always wanted to explore. I would couch surf at every stop there.Relaxed.D.He treated the author as a friend.He saw off the author at the train station.（3）Why did people offer couch surfing to strangers? A.To exchange houses for a short time.C.Travel on Trust and CouchesB.A Plan for Couch Surfing【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）D（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夾敘夾議文,作者從初步了解到親身體驗(yàn)沙發(fā)沖浪這種旅游模式（在旅游時,由一個陌生的當(dāng)?shù)厝颂峁┟赓M(fèi)吃住并擔(dān)當(dāng)導(dǎo)游,基于相互信任和共同趣味建立起來的一種旅游模式）,再到得出感悟的全過程。根據(jù)第三段中的He was a live wire, giving me an effusive wele and hiking with me to his apartment, where he showed me the sleeper sofa, served me tea, and engaged me in warm conversations. He also handed me a key to e and go as I pleased. 可知,他對作者非常熱情并且非常信任,像朋友一樣對待作者,故 選C 。通讀全文可知,本文主要講述了作者從初步了解到親身體驗(yàn)沙發(fā)沖浪這種旅游模式——在旅游時,由一個陌生的當(dāng)?shù)厝颂峁┟赓M(fèi)吃住并擔(dān)當(dāng)導(dǎo)游,基于相互信任共同趣味建立起來的一種旅游模式,再到得出感悟的全過程。 When he was young, Thomas Edison always got good grades at school.B.s uncle regarded