【正文】 untry, most students are also workers. The reality of college can be pretty different from the images presented in movies and television. Instead of the students who wake up late, party all the time, and study only before exams, many colleges are full of students with pressing schedules of not just classes and activities, but real jobs, too. This isn39。t a temporary phenomenon. The share of working students has been on the rise since the 1970s, and onefifth of students work year round. About onequarter of those who work while attending school have both a fullcourse load and a fulltime job. The arrangement can help pay for tuition (學(xué)費(fèi)) and living costs, obviously. And there39。s value in it beyond the direct cause: such jobs can also be critical for developing important professional and social skills that make it easier to land a job after graduation. With many employers looking for students with alreadydeveloped skill sets, onthejob training while in college can be the best way to ensure a job later on. But it39。s not all upside. Even fulltime work may not pletely cover the cost of tuition and living expenses. The study notes that if a student worked a fulltime job at the federal minimum wage, they would earn just over $15,000 each year, certainly not enough to pay for tuition, room, and board at many colleges without some serious financial aid. That means that though they39。re sacrificing time away from the classroom, many working students will still graduate with at least some debt. And working full time can reduce the chance that students will graduate at all, by cutting into the time available for studying and attending classes. There is little reward for attending but not finishing college Students who end up leaving school because of difficulty in managing work and class are likely to find themselves stuck in some of the same jobs they might have gotten if they hadn39。t gone at all. The difficulty of working too much while in school can create a cycle that pushes students further into debt without receiving any of the financial or career benefits.（1）According to the passage, the reality of college students is that ________. throw parties a lot stay up late every night work besides attending classes pay no attention to exams（2）What is the indirect cause of an increasing number of working students? need of developing social networks. lack of summer jobs for young adults. chance of finding a job after graduation. expenses of high tuition and living costs.（3）We can learn from the passage that _________. students are more likely to finish college can cover their college expenses through working receive a huge reward for managing work and class while attending school may not help students get career benefits（4）What is the best title for the passage? Difficulties of Landing a Job Struggle of WorkSchool Balance Reward of Working While Studying Images of Working College Students【答案】 （1）C（2）C（3）D（4）B 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇議論文，講述大學(xué)生在校期間學(xué)習(xí)和工作平衡的利與弊。 （1）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“In colleges around the country, most students are also colleges are full of students with pressing schedules of not just classes and activities, but real jobs, too.”可知，在大學(xué)里面，多數(shù)的學(xué)生也是工人。他們既要忙于學(xué)習(xí)和參加活動(dòng)又要忙著工作。故選C。 （2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第三段中的“With many employers looking for students with alreadydeveloped skill sets, onthejob training while in college can be the best way to ensure a job later on.”可知，很多老板聘用具備成熟技能的學(xué)生，大學(xué)期間的工作培訓(xùn)可能是以后找工作的最好方法。這是大學(xué)生參加工作的間接原因，故選C。 （3）考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)最后一段中的“The difficulty of working too much while in school can create a cycle that pushes students further into debt without receiving any of the financial or career benefits.”在校期間工作太多可能對(duì)學(xué)生的財(cái)務(wù)和職業(yè)發(fā)展并無益處。故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。縱觀全文可知，本文講述大學(xué)生在校期間工作均衡的利與弊。The Struggle of WorkSchool Balance“在校期間學(xué)習(xí)工作平衡的沖突”概括了全文內(nèi)容，適合作為標(biāo)題。故選B。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇教育類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。8．閱讀理解 Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catch or wake up early in order not to miss varies by culture. From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays. Russia39。s late nights and early mornings generally correspond(相一致)to public holidays. On New Year39。s Eve, Russians have the world39。s latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 a. m. Russians also get up an hour later on International Women39。s Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives. Similarly, Americans39。 late nights, late mornings, and longest sleep fall on threeday weekends. Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey(冰球)final. The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation. The worst night for sleep in the U. K. was the night of the EnglandItaly match on June 14. British people stayed up a halfhour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime. That was nothing, though, pared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the World Cup. It should be made clear that not everyone has a tool to record their sleep patterns。 in some of these nations, it39。s likely that only the richest people do. And people who select to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. Even if that39。s the case, the above findings are still striking. If the most healthconscious (注重健康的) among us have such deep swings(明顯改變)in our sleep levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing?（1）What do we learn about the Russians regarding sleep? don39。t fall asleep until very late. don39。t sleep much on weekends. get less sleep on public holidays. sleep longer than people elsewhere.（2）The underlined word deprivation in the last paragraph but one means_______. （3）Why do some rich people use a tool to record their sleep patterns? want to get more sleep. hav