【正文】 atever happens in the other parts of the world C. are concerned only with the events of their own household D. only read newspapers in Europe and North America 正確答案： B 5). Today the publishing of newspapers and magazines is more economical because ____________. A. more people are engaged in newspaper publishing B. new inventions are changing the techniques of newspaper publishing C. Telstar can send pictures to any part of the world D. the petition in newspaper publishing is getting severe 正確答案： B Passage 5 Hello, new students! This is a message from the Students Union Committee. We39。ve been at the university for at least a year now, so we can give you some good tips. Don39。t worry – we remember being new and making a lot of mistakes! And we haven39。t fotten feeling a little bit scared. First, as you know, there are no longer any grants. If you borrow money from the government, remember that like all loans, you have to pay it back. Spending all your money in the first week is not a sensible strategy. Try to make a budget for each term and stick to it. But if you are struggling to make ends meet, you can get a parttime job–restaurants and bars in the town take lots of students on in the evenings and at weekends. Come and see us for advice. Stop worrying about making new friends. Start to join the sports and hobbies societies – they39。re cheap and you can begin meeting a lot of people that way. It39。s a great chance to take up a pletely new hobby. Living in a new city a long way from home can be very stressful. One tip, don39。t fet your parents. After all, they are paying your tuition fees here. You will be very busy working and enjoying yourself, but stop to phone your parents sometimes and don39。t fet to go home for the weekend from time to time. And remember to take your dirty washing! Finally, remember to work hard and play hard. Go on working steadily towards your first degree (BA or BSc) throughout your three years here —— try to keep things in perspective. You39。ll always find someone in the Student Union office if you need to talk. 1). What does the word scared mean in the second paragraph? A. excited B. frightened C. worried D. new 正確答案： B 2). What does the word grants mean in the third paragraph? A. money given by the government to support the students39。 study, which they needn39。t pay back B. money from the government which the students need to pay back C. money from the school which is similar to scholarship D. a kind of loan from the government with low interests 正確答案： A 3). The sentence But if you are struggling to make ends meet, …at weekends in the third paragraph implies_________. A. if you are short of money, you can find a parttime job in the restaurants and bars in your spare time B. if you want to have a better life than others, you can find a parttime job in your spare time C. restaurants and bars need more hands in the evenings and at weekends D. restaurants and bars don39。t need more hands in the evenings and at weekends 正確答案： A 4). From the fifth paragraph, we can infer that in order to overe the stress of living faraway from home, _________. A. it39。s better for new students to talk to their parents over the phone from time to time B. new students need to do their washing themselves C. new students should keep themselves as busy as possible so that they will not miss home D. new students should stop phoning their parents 正確答案： A 5). This passage is written for the purpose of _________. A. telling new students the problems facing them in the university B. telling new students how to budget their money C. offering new students some advice about their university life D. talking new students into joining them 正確答案： C Passage 6 PALO ALTO, California – ―Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter – even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise,‖ US researchers said last week. A study of 192 third and fourth graders, generally aged eight and nine, found that children who cut the number of hours spent watching television gained nearly two pounds () less over a oneyear period than those who did not change their television diet. “ The findings are important because they show that weight loss can only be the result of a reduction in television viewing and not any other activity,” said Thomas Robinson, a pediatrician(兒科專家 ) at Stanford University. “ American children spend an average of more than four hours per day watching television and videos or playing video games, and rates of childhood being very fat have doubled over the past 20 years,‖ Robinson said. In the study, presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Societies39。 annual meeting in San Francisco, the researchers persuaded about 100 of the students to reduce their television viewing by onequarter to onethird. Children watching fewer hours of television showed a significantly smaller increase in waist size and had less body fat than other students who continued their normal television viewing, even though neither group ate a special diet or took part in any extra exercise. “ One explanation for the weight loss could be the children unstuck to the television may simply have been moving around more and burning off calories,‖ Robinson said. ―Another reason might be due to eating fewer meals in front of the television. Some studies have suggested that eating in front of the TV encourages people to eat more,‖ Robinson said. 1). The author tries to tell us in the first two paragraphs that ____________. A. children will get fatter if they eat too much B. children will get thi