Question

Every September in China, people love to talk about the overprotective parents following their children around everywhere during university enrollment.

Now, with more than 420,000 youngsters in the UK starting their new college school year, what is their first day like? BBC’s Sean Coughlan described it in a recent report.

According to Coughlan, at the very beginning it is not hard to spot something familiar to Chinese–a stream of parents arriving with their sons and daughters at the student village. Mothers, fathers and a teenager–now most likely taller than they are – stand together like the three might have done on the first day of primary school.

“The approach road to the student village is a long traffic jam of family cars, stuffed full with boxes, pillows and nervous families,” he writes. “The door closes on a student’s room and parents and children go their separate ways. For many families, if childhood has a final moment, this is it.”

But saying goodbye to parents is not the only similarity between college freshmen in the UK and China. In both cases, new arrivals most want to know about their Internet connections. “It’s their most urgent concern,” notes Coughlan.

Even on their first day, university in the UK won’t be an entirely lonely experience for some new students. “Before they arrive they have been using social networking to get to know their future roommates,” writes Coughlan.

Still, the first night is something no UK university student ever forgets. There are people they meet and then spend three years avoiding and people who become their friends for the rest of their lives. First week stories are all about over-partying, bad cooking and misguided clothing, Coughlan says.

As he concludes: “These new students are entering their own soap opera of romance, friendship and ambition. It’s a huge adventure that they’ve worked for years to achieve.”

1.What is the author’s purpose in writing the article?

A. To introduce how UK students prepare for college.

B. To show different challenges that college freshmen face in the UK and China.

C. To describe how UK colleges welcome newcomers.

D. To inform us about what the first day of college is like in the UK.

2.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A. On the first day of college, UK freshmen don’t know each other.

B. When the new semester begins, most UK freshmen drive to college by themselves.

C. For many freshmen, when they say goodbye to their parents, they are also saying goodbye to their childhood.

D. Most British parents stay around their children’s colleges for a few days at the beginning of the semester.

3.A similarity between college freshmen in the UK and China is that ______.

A. the approach roads to their colleges are packed with cars filled with nervous families

B. they have contacted their future roommates through social networking sites

C. once they get to the campus, they want to make sure that they have access to the Internet

D. they spend their first week getting to know their roommates and partying

4.From the article, we can conclude that Sean Coughlan’s report is ______.

A. descriptive B. critical

C. sympathetic D. bitter

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.C

3.C

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：中國每年的九月是傳統(tǒng)的開學季，這時，人們都會關(guān)注大學生報名的情況。那么，在英國，新生開學時的情況是什么樣的呢？相似的一點是，父母都會送孩子去上大學，并在大學里互相告別。

1.what is their first day like? BBC’s Sean Coughlan described it in a recent report.”可知，文章主要向大家介紹了英國大學開學第一天的情況，故選D。

2.The door closes on a student’s room and parents and children go their separate ways. For many families, if childhood has a final moment, this is it.”可知，當新生與父母告別時，也就預示著他們與有家人陪伴的童年的結(jié)束，從此開始獨立的大學生活，故選C。

3.In both cases, new arrivals most want to know about their Internet connections.”可知，英國新生和中國新生一樣，都是先確認能否上網(wǎng)，故選C。

4.Coughlan客觀地描述了英國大學開學時候的情景，Coughlan的報道是描述性的，故選A。

考點：教育類短文閱讀