There is no doubt that to study abroad gives you an excellent opportunity to learn things which are very helpful in your career building. Today Canada has earned a good name in providing quality education and safe healthy environment for its students. That is why more than 130,000 international students enroll（登記入學） every year in famous Canadian universities. It is an ideal education destination and gives students a unique experience of education and its versatile（多樣的） arts and culture. Canada spends a lot on education and is ranked the highest in G-8 countries.
To study in Canada is very cost effective. These universities are affordable compared to other universities in the world such as in the US, New Zealand and UK where cost of education and living is very high. According to a survey in 2006, “Canada offered the lowest tuition fees（學費） for foreign students compared to UK and Australia.”
The low rate of crimes and the peaceful safe environment of the country also attracts a lot of international students to Canadian universities. Canada has 92 universities and 175 community colleges and university degrees have three levels—Bachelor’s(學士), Master’s（碩士） and Doctoral（博士）.
A Bachelor’s degree in Canada is for three or four years’ full-time study depending on the nature of the program you are doing. On the other hand, a Master’s degree consists of two years of study. For a Doctoral program in Canadian universities, you require a minimum （最低/小的） of three to four or sometimes five years of research and study.
You can also find many diploma and certification （認證） program in Canadian universities where the time is generally one year. Some of the Canadian universities are well-regarded worldwide and the degree and diploma obtained from these Canadian universities are recognized globally and promise bright future. After the completion of studies, a person could also find great job offers in Canada itself. International students require a work permit to work on campus.
【小題1】 How long will you spend at least in total if you want to finish your Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Canada?

A．11 years

B．9 years

C．8 years

D．7 years

【小題2】 What advantages does Canada have to attract foreign students according to the passage?
①Q(mào)uality education ② Safe environment
③ Versatile culture ④ Bright job future
⑤ High scholarships ⑥ Low tuition fees

A．①②④⑤⑥

B．①②③⑤⑥

C．①③④⑤⑥

D．①②③④⑥

【小題3】What’s the author’s attitude towards studying in Canada?

A．Favorable	B．Critical
C．Doubtful	D．Not mentioned

【小題4】What’s the best title for the passage？

A．Canadian culture

B．The life in Canada

C．Benefits of studying abroad

D．Study in Canada — a unique experience

Playing with toy blocks (積木) may lead to improved language development in young children, a new study reported.
Early childhood is an important period in the development of young minds. The newborn brain grows three times in size between birth and age 2. Scientists have said that certain activities during this important period may promote (促進) healthy development while others may hold it back, and development of memory and language may especially be helped by imaginative play.
After six months, language scores among half of the 175 children aged 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 who were sent plastic blocks were 15 percent higher than a matched group that did not receive the free blocks, according to the study by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Parents were given ideas about how to help their children play with the blocks, then were told to keep diaries of their children’s activities over four days. Finally, all the parents filled out questionnaires that judged their children’s vocabulary, grammar, and other language abilities. Study author Dimitri Christakis said unstructured play with blocks motivated children’s thinking, memory and physical skills at a time when a child’s brain is growing rapidly. “They are the foundation of thought and language,” he wrote of the skills learned from building blocks. “Older children begin to make up stories for these objects .”
Such play may also take the place of less helpful activities such as watching TV, he said, adding parents ought to have doubts about some toy-makers’ words. “An increasing number of media-based products are making ungrounded (無根據(jù)的) claims that they can make children smarter, more literate, and more musical,” Christakis said.
【小題1】What can we learn from the second paragraph?

A．Parents should allow their children to play as long as they want.

B．The brains of kids develop very quickly before they are two years old.

C．Playing blocks can help children do well in sports at school.

D．Activities, like imaginative play, may delay the development of the brain.

【小題2】According to the study, about ________ children’s language scores were 15 percent higher than those of children who didn’t play with blocks.

A．87

B．55

C．23

D．157

【小題3】Building blocks helps kids gain language skills because _________.

A．young children always talk to themselves while building blocks

B．their parents can teach them when they are playing with blocks

C．their parents are given ideas on how to develop their brains

D．it can help them improve thinking, memory and physical skills

【小題4】The aim of the passage is probably to _______.

A．raise the present level of children’s language ability

B．encourage parents to let their babies play with blocks

C．improve parents’ knowledge of raising children

D．encourage makers of blocks to develop more toys

【小題5】We can infer from what Mr Christakis said that _____.

A．television will be definitely replaced by blocks

B．the market will be full of media-based toys

C．we can’t always believe what toy makers say

D．toy makers care about kids’ development very much

 

Students from Florida International University in. Miami walked on water Thursday for a class assignment. To do it, they wore aquatic (水上的)shoes they designed and created.

Alex Quinones was the first to make it to the other side of a 175-foot lake on campus in record time - just over a minute. Quinones, who wore oversized boat-like shoes, also won last year and will receive $ 500. Students had to wear the aquatic shoes and make it across the lake in order to earn an '6A" on the assignment for Architecture Professor Jaime Canaves, Materials and Methods Construction Class. "It's traditional in a school of architecture to do boats out of cardboard for a boat race. I thought our students were a little bit more special than that, " Canaves said. "We decided to do the walk on water event to take it to the next level. "

A total of 79 students competed in the race this year in 41 teams. Only 10 teams failed to cross the lake. Others who fell got back up and made it to the end. The race is open to all students and anyone in the community. The youngest person to ever participate was a 9-year-old girl who competed in place of her mother, while the oldest was a 67-year-old female.

A large crowd on campus joined Canaves as he cheered on the racers. He shouted encouraging words, but also laughed as some unsteadily made their way to the end.

"A part of this is for them to have more understanding of designing and make it work better, " he said. It is also a lesson in life for the students.

"Anything, including walking on water, is possible, if you do the research,test it and go through the design process seriously.

1.Which statement about Alex 'Quinones is ture ?

A. He finished the race in less than a minute.

B. He won the race with the help of 2 boats.

C. He failed the race last year.

D. He set a new record this year.

2. For what purpose did the students take part in the race?

A. To go across the lake to school.

B. To test their balance on the water.

C. To pass Professor Canaves’ class.

D. To win the prize money of $ 500.

3.Which of the following is true about the race?

A. The students who fell into the water had to quit.

B. More than 20 teams failed to cross the lake.

C. The students kept silent when the other racers competed.

D. The youngest competitor competed instead of her mother.

4.According to Canaves, this race can help the students

A. understand designing better        B. achieve almost everything

C. work together and unite as one      D. walk on the surface of water

5.What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To advertise a student' s program.

B. To report an interesting assignment.

C. To introduce a creative professor.

D. To encourage special events on campus.

 

About 1 million adult New Yorkers are obese(肥胖的), but nearly two-thirds of them don’t think they are, according to a study released on Tuesday by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene(衛(wèi)生).
Among the obese, who account for about one in five New Yorkers, only 39% described themselves as “very overweight”, according to the report. 2% said they were very underweight, 1% said they were slightly underweight, 16% said they were just right and 42% said they were slightly over weight.
Some 2 million more New Yorkers are overweight, the report said, and one in five children in kindergarten is obese.
Only 44% of the city’s adults are at a healthy weight, and nearly 75% say they do not participate in(參加) any regular physical activity.
New York City’s adult obesity rate was 20% in 2003 compared with 23% nationwide in 2004.The national average has nearly doubled from 12% in 1993, the report said.
Overweight and obese are defined by body mass index, or BMI (=" kg/m)" , which is based on a person’s weight , adjusted(調(diào)整) for height, the department said.
Being obese means having a BMI of 30 or greater, while being overweight means a BMI of more than 25 but less than 30.
A 5-foot, 10-inch (1.78-meter) man weighing 175 pounds(79kg) would have a BMI of 25.1 and be considered overweight according to the department . If he weighed 210 pounds (95kg), he would have a BMI of 30.1 and be obese.
The report came from results of the department’s 2002 and 2003 yearly telephone surveys of some 10,000 adults.
【小題1】New York City has a population of about _____ according to the passage.

A．5,000,000

B．2,000,000

C．1,000,000

D．500,000

【小題2】We can infer from the passage that ____.

A．most adult New Yorkers go in for many regular physical activities

B．New Yorkers think that obesity shows economic development

C．New York City’s adult obesity rate increased from 1993 to 2004

D．most of the New York City’s adults are at a healthy weight

【小題3】If a 1.75-meter-tall man weighs 99 kilograms, he is ____ according to the passage.

A．overweight

B．underweight

C．slightly underweight

D．obese

【小題4】What is the passage mainly about?
A. Population explosion in USA.
B. Weight problems in New York.
C. Weight controlling measures 
D. Diet habits in USA

A new study shows that fat people in the United States suffer direct economic and social effects because of their size. The findings are from an 8-year study of about 100,000 people. The people who were studied were between the age of 18 and 24 when the research began.

The researchers who carried out the study say they consider the people fat if they are in the top of 5% of the measurement in which weight is linked to height. For example, fat women in the study were about 160 centimeters tall and weighed about 90 kilograms. Fat men in the study were about 175 centimeters tall and weighed 100 kilograms. The researchers say that more than 1,000,000 Americans are that big. The researchers found that fat young women were from wealthy families. The fat women also were 20% less likely to get married and they earned an average of about $6,700 a year less than other women. The study showed less severe effects on fat men. They earned an average of about $3,000 a year less than other men. Fat men also were 11% less likely to get married.

1.

The passage mainly tells us __________.

A．the standards of fat people	B．the number of fat Americans
C．fat people have fewer advantages	D．how long is the study

2.

From this study we know fat people in America __________.

A．were respected	B．earned less
C．were more likely to get married	D．earned more

3.

. The underlined word "severe" here means __________.

A．economic

B．social

C．good

D．serious

4.

The researchers consider the people fat if __________.

A．they eat lots of food and do less exercise

B．they are fatter than others

C．they are in the top of 5% of the measurement of weight

D．they are in the top of the measurement in which weight is linked to height.