Many foreign students report feeling lonely or unwelcome in Australia. Those feelings are among the reasons why Australia is taking a close look at its international education industry. But wherever international students go, making friends may not always be easy. Elisabeth Gareis of Baruch College in New York surveyed 454 international students. They were attending four-year colleges and graduate schools in the American South and Northeast.
Students from English-speaking countries and from northern and central Europe were more likely to be happy with their friendships. But 38% of the international students said they had no close friends in the United States. And half of the students from East Asia said they were unhappy with the number of American friends they had. Thirty percent said they wished their friendships could be deeper and more meaningful.
Professor Gareis says, “Students from East Asia have cultures that are different on many levels from the culture in the United States. There are also language problems, and maybe some social skills, such as small talk, which are possibly not as important in their native countries, where it's not as important to start friendships with small talks. Many East Asian students blamed themselves for their limited friendships with Americans, for not speaking the language well enough and for not knowing the culture well enough.
VOA's Student Union blogger Jessica Stahl did her own survey to find out how American students and foreign students relate to each other. More than 100 students, about half of them American, answered her online questions.
Half of the international students and 60% of the Americans said they related as well or better to the other group than to their own group.
Professor Gareis says: "International students who make friends with host nationals are, overall, more satisfied with their stay in the host country. They have better language skills, they have better academic performance and they have better attitudes toward the host country."
1.What can be the best title for the text?
A. Making Friends Is Not Always Easy for Foreign Students
B. Students from East Asia Are Not Good at Making Friends
C. International Education Industry in Australia and America
D. The Relation between Foreign Students and Host Countries
2.Professor Gareis tends to think that ___________.
A. culture shock should be blamed for many levels of American culture
B. foreign students don’t know small talks mean a lot to Americans
C. foreign students should learn some basic social skills first of all
D. foreign students have difficulty making friends for different reasons
3.How did Jessica Stahl carry out her survey?
A. By doing questionnaires from Students Union
B. By asking questions on the Internet
C. By forming the students into groups
D. By doing a survey through VOA
4.Which of the following statements will the writer probably agree with?
A. International students like to make more friends in their own group
B. International students are more likely to remain in the host country after graduation
C. Students who make more friends at home have better academic performance
D. Students who make friends in their host countries feel happier with their experience
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A cellphone is one of the few things that we hold close to our faces all the time, and yet it could possibly explode - this is what made the recent Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 smart-phone accidents so shocking.
According to technology news website The Verge, flawed(有瑕疵的)phone batteries might be to blame.
Even if you are not a science student, you probably know that it is common sense that the anode (the negative(負的)end of the battery) and the cathode (the positive end) should never touch. If they do, the battery will short-circuit(短路), causing a powerful electrical reaction that can destroy the battery and cause a fire.
This is why all lithium-ion(鋰離子)batteries - the kind that can be found in many of our devices like tablets and cameras - have a separator layer inside to stop the two ends from touching one another.
But somehow, the separators in some of the Samsung phones broke, causing explosions.
Overcharging is another problem that can make batteries heat up quickly. Fortunately, most batteries are designed to be able to automatically stop charging once they are fully charged. But again, this somehow failed to happen in some of the Samsung phones.
The two “somehows” may sound random(隨機的)and hard to explain. But they actually both come from the fact that phone producers have been pushing the limits of batteries to meet customers’ demand for a longer battery life.
According to Lynden Archer, a materials scientist at Cornell University, US, we have already achieved 90 percent of the battery life possible from a lithium-ion battery. Customers’ demand that their devices get thinner has also given producers little choice but to try to put more power into thinner batteries.
“The more energy you put into a box, the more dangerous it’s going to be,” Billy Wu, a lecturer at Imperial College London, told The Guardian.
A thinner battery also means producers have to use thinner material for separators, and thinner material has more chance of breaking.
1.A separator layer is put in lithium-ion batteries in order to ___________.
A. ensure a longer battery life
B. prevent a battery from short circuiting
C. connect the anode and the cathode
D. reduce a certain electrical reaction
2.What are the direct reasons for the Samsung phone explosions?
A. Short circuiting and overheating
B. Pushing the limits of batteries
C. Overcharging and thinner batteries
D. Automatic charging and broken separators
3.Lynden Archer’s comments indicate that ___________.
A. demands for thinner cellphones are unreasonable
B. lithium-ion batteries can’t hold much more power than that they do now
C. producers can use 10 percent of a lithium-ion battery
D. new material for batteries is needed to meet consumers’ demands
4.What is the writer’s main purpose of writing the article?
A. To describe problems facing cellphone producers
B. To explain the reasons for the Samsung phone explosions
C. To teach us common sense when it comes to batteries
D. To warn us about the dangers of lithium-ion batteries
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When I say I believe all children can learn, people sometimes misunderstand. Because I have been working with poor children in Harlem for the last 25 years, some people think I am saying that if you give a bright kid from a poor family a good ____ support system, he or she can succeed. That’s absolutely true, ____ that’s not what I mean. You see I truly believe that all kids can learn. I believe it, I’ve seen it, and I’ve even _____it.
Back in 1975 I worked in a summer camp ____ for kids with real problems. They are kids that everyone – ____ their parents – had given up on.
We would ____ with the kids. These children didn’t know the difference between baking powder (面粉) and salt, but ____ they had eaten a warm biscuit out of the oven, they wanted to learn how to make some more.
___ , kids who couldn’t sit ____ were carefully looking at ingredients as we measured them out, learning the simple math and spelling lessons we could along the way. By the end of the summer, I remember parents crying when they saw how their children had ____ .
The biscuits , ____ , were delicious, and I can still remember the taste of them today. More importantly, I still remember the lesson they taught me: that if we, the ____, can find the right ____ for a child, there’s hope for their education. That starts with looking hard at each child, finding out what ____ them, and taking advantage of that excitement.
When I was growing up poor in the south Bronx, one of four boys ____ by a single mom, I probably looked like I was ____ nowhere, getting into trouble. And I would have ____ dead or in prison, like many of my friends, if it hadn’t been for a couple of teachers who ____ my fascination with reading and made sure I had great books to read.
Because of that, I have ____ myself to going into the poorest communities in America and making sure kids like me can _____ and succeed.
My first taste of success came at that summer camp. It came with a plate of hot biscuits that tasted so good that they could have brought a tear to your eye.
1.A. cultural B. educational C. emotional D. physical
2.A. but B. and C. so D. for
3.A. trusted B. showed C. tasted D. smelled
4.A. intended B. reserved C. served D. provided
5.A. as B. even C. still D. always
6.A. cook B. chat C. act D. play
7.A. before B. while C. when D. once
8.A. Suddenly B. Unfortunately C. Expectedly D. Constantly
9.A. close B. still C. firm D. hard
10.A. exchanged B. challenged C. improved D. promoted
11.A. for example B. above all C. by the way D. in other words
12.A. adults B. experts C. researchers D. parents
13.A. conclusion B. motivation C. determination D. attention
14.A. amuses B. excites C. upsets D. comforts
15.A. cared B. supported C. protected D. raised
16.A. planning B. relying C. heading D. stopping
17.A. escaped from B. turned into C. led to D. ended up
18.A. explored B. admitted C. spotted D. permitted
19.A. applied B. buried C. absorbed D. persuaded
20.A. cook B. help C. work D. learn
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假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文,請你修改你同桌寫的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯誤,每句中最多有兩處。每處錯誤僅涉及一個單詞的增加、刪除或修改。
增加:在缺詞處加一個漏字符號(∧),并在其下面寫出該加的詞。
刪除:把多余的詞用(\)劃掉。
修改:在錯的詞下劃一橫線,并在該詞下面寫出修改后的詞。
注意:1.每處錯誤及其修改均僅限一詞。
2.只允許修改10處,多者(從第11處起)不計分。
Last weekend, our class went hiking. Early in the morning, we gathered at People’s Square in the city center and then head for the South Mountain, which was 8 kilometers away. Our goal was to climbing to the top, from which we could enjoy a good view.
It was an exhausted hike and the heats consumed all our energy. Therefore, when we finally reached to our destination, the view took our breath away. It was well wroth walking such long distance. Because I not only got relaxed by enjoying the beauty of nature but also learned the truth which our efforts will always pay off in the end.
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It is often said that eyes can speak. In a bus you may look at g stranger, 1. not too long. If he notices that he is being stared at, he may feel 2. (comfort). It is the same in daily life. When you are 3. (look) at for several more times, you will look at yourself up and down to see if there is anything wrong 4. you. If nothing goes wrong, you 5. (feel) angry with the person who is looking at you. Eyes can speak, right?
6. (look) too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are different when it 7. (come) to staring at the opposite sex, if a man glances at a woman for more than ten seconds, his intentions are obvious, that is, he wishes to attract 8. (she ) attention, to make her understand that he is admiring her.
In fact, continuous eye contact is limited to 9. (love) only, who will enjoy looking at each other 10. (gentle ) for a long time,to show affection that words cannot express. Evidently, eye communication should be done according to the relationship between the two people.
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請用英語簡單地介紹一下網(wǎng)絡(luò)好的一面和不好的一面。要點如下:
1. 可以幫助我們更好地了解外面的世界,開闊我們的視野;
2. 課后可以和老師在線交流,及時解決課堂上不明白的問題;
3. 網(wǎng)絡(luò)上有很多不良信息,比如暴力、色情等,給學(xué)生造成不好的影響;
4. 很多學(xué)生沉迷于網(wǎng)絡(luò),影響了學(xué)習(xí);
5. 長時間上網(wǎng)影響視力和健康。
注意:
1. 短文必須包括所有的內(nèi)容要點,但不得逐句翻譯;
2. 詞數(shù):120左右。
參考詞匯:開闊視野broaden one’s horizons 暴力violence 色情porn 沉迷 get addicted to
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The police are to ______ the traffic accident that we don’t know _____.
A. dealing with; how to deal with
B. deal with; how to deal with
C. deal with; how to do with
D. do with; what to deal with
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假如你是李華,是紅星外國語學(xué)校的學(xué)生會主席,根據(jù)雙方約定,你們打算今年夏天去英國Studio School進行四個星期的學(xué)習(xí)和旅游。請你寫信給Studio School,就下面事宜進行通告:
1. 你們一行有30人,其中2位教師,18個男生,10位女生,希望他們安排home-stay家庭;
2. 你們計劃上午上課,下午到圖書館學(xué)習(xí),晚上自由活動,周末安排旅游。
3. 盼望對方盡早發(fā)出正式邀請,以便辦理正式手續(xù)。
注意:
1. 可以適當(dāng)增減細節(jié),使其連貫完整;
2. 字數(shù)在100左右,信的開頭和結(jié)尾已經(jīng)給出,不計入總詞數(shù)。
參考詞匯: 辦理手續(xù) go through all the procedures 正式邀請函 formal invitation
Dear Sir,
I'm Li Hua, chairman of the Students' Union of Hongxing Foreign language School.
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