3、In Western society, three out of five people think once we’ve got our college degree, the learning phase is over – it’s time to work. In fact, we carry on learning after we’ve left school approached the right way, learning can be process of exploration, growth and enrichment.

For me, the primary reason to keep learning new things is not that it can give me the same enjoyment that I get from watching a movie. There are always frustrating （受挫） moments in the process, but I’m happier in the long run. Instead of chasing （追求） quick entertainment that fails to satisfy, you’ll have the pure pleasure of those moments when something finally clicks （成功）. The more you learn, the more you can make connections between pieces of knowledge, the more creative you’ll be.

I left my day job （如意的工作） last year because I was bored. The first month was fairly novel: it was my first experience of real work and I was learning a lot of new thins, some of them stretching me beyond my comfort zone （適溫范圍）. But after that, the routine （例行公事） was the same day after day. Now, I am working for myself, which enables me to learn all sorts of new things: both hard skills （including some higher degrees） and soft skills （like knowing how to interact well with clients 客戶）. This keeps me interested and motivated. Learning has another benefit. Studies have shown older people who stay mentally active are much less likely to suffer from illnesses like Alzheimer’s disease （阿爾茨海默氏�。�. Besides, in your personal life, you’ll want to learn how to bring up your kids well.

Learning about personal finance and money management – something that we’re rarely taught in school – can turn your life around. The final reason is because that’s what successful people do. If you decide that you’ve learnt everything you need to know about running a business or about competitors who have a passion for learning.

1．Over half Westerners think that learning         .

       A．should last a whole life                         B．happens only at school

       C．is a process of exploration                    D．stops once there are no exams

2．The greatest benefit the writer gets from learning is that        .

       A．he has read a great many interesting books

       B．he has got the desired quick entertainment

       C．he can escape frustrating moments in life

       D．he can enjoy himself in the learning process

3．What does the underlined word “novel” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

       A．Interesting.          B．Frightening.         C．Demanding.         D．Difficult.

4．We can conclude from the passage that        .

       A．degrees will be of no importance if you keep learning

       B．learning should be based on proper learning methods

       C．the writer gave up his own business to keep learning

       D．the writer is satisfied with school education

5．What is the purpose of the passage?

       A．To tell us how to succeed in school

       B．To explain the right attitude towards learning

       C．To prove the importance of lifelong learning

       D．To introduce some good ways of learning

2、此題要求改正所給短文中的錯(cuò)誤.對(duì)標(biāo)題號(hào)的每一行做出判斷：如無(wú)錯(cuò)誤，在該行右邊的橫線上劃（√）；如有錯(cuò)誤（每行只有一個(gè)錯(cuò)誤），則按下列情況改正：

此行多一個(gè)詞：把多余的詞用斜線劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個(gè)詞：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（^），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

此行錯(cuò)一個(gè)詞：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯(cuò)的不要改。

A French writer was invited to give talk at a university                 1．       

to a large group of students while he visits Japan. Because                  2．       

none of them could understand the French language, so he had             3．       

to have a man translate what he said in to Japanese. He spoke              4．       

a funny story went on for quite a long time during his talk.                   5．       

At last he stopped to let the man translate them into Japanese.               6．       

Much to his surprising, the man did this in a few seconds,                   7．       

and after that all the students laughed loudly. Before the talk,                8．       

when asked how he could manage to change that long story                 9．       

into such short a Japanese one, they young man said, “I just                10．       

said, ‘The writer has just told a funny story. Please laugh.’”

1、假定你是李華，你班最近就“北京大學(xué)授權(quán)少數(shù)中學(xué)校長(zhǎng)推薦學(xué)生上北大”一事進(jìn)行了討論。請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下信息用英語(yǔ)寫一篇短文，投給某英文報(bào)社的“學(xué)生習(xí)作”專欄。

注意：

1．詞數(shù)：100左右；

2．可適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；

3．短文的開頭已給出，但不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

Recently we have had a heated discussion in our class about the news that Peking University allows a very small number of headmasters to recommend suitable students for it.

27、This village appears _______ to mine, but I’m not _______ with it at all．

A．similar; familiar                                           B．similar; similar

C．familiar; similar                                    D．familiar; familiar

26、Jack drove his newly-repaired car home but it broke down halfway．He should have bought a new one _______．

A． in the place           B．in place       C．in first place        D．in the first place

25、Having failed my French exams, I decided to _______ science subjects．

A．stick to         B．insist on         C．concentrate on          D．a(chǎn)dapt to

24、Better _______ academically, he returned home to continue his experiment．

A．furnished       B．equipped       C．provided          D．installed

22、Generally speaking, the music of one country is quite a lot in ______ with its culture．

A．use       B．common          C．order       D．same