1.? What can you infer from Paragraph 2?

A) Entrepreneurship can help a student fulfill his academic ambitions.

B) Entrepreneurship can make a student become good at time management.

C) Entrepreneurship can make a student become more confident.?。。。

D) Entrepreneurship can help a student acquire qualities leading to future success.

2.?What is not the benefit of starting a business in college?

A) Gaining industry experience along with pursuing degrees.

B) Having professionals for valuable consultations.

C) Exposure to interesting people and different new ideas.

D) Guidance from entrepreneurship heroes like Branson and Devenport.?。。。

3.?What’s the author’s attitude towards taking up entrepreneurship in college?

A) Enthusiastic and encouraging.?。。。

B) Enthusiastic but withholding.

C) Neutral but optimistic.

D) Clear-headed and neutral.

4.?What kind of students is likely to achieve success in the long run?

A) A student who can develop valuable personal networks.

B) A student who is good at juggling work and study.

C) A student who can think across disciplines and sectors.?。。。

D) A student who can learn from successful business models.

5.?What is the best title for this passage?

A) Why entrepreneurship is challenging and rewarding.

B) How to become a student entrepreneur.?。。。

C) Why is college an ideal place for business?

D) Why students are born entrepreneurs.?

6.?How did the author feel when he realized he had left his mobile phone at home?

A) He felt disappointed. ??????????????????B) He felt sad.

C) He felt drowned. ?????????????????????D) He felt something bad would happen.?。。

7.?What is the meaning of “nomophobia”?

A) The fear of being too occupied with mobile phone calls.

B) The fear of being alone without people around.

C) The fear of being out of mobile phone contact.?。。

D) The fear of being unable to afford a mobile phone.

8.?Which of the following statements is true?

A) According to a study from 2012, one-third of people experience “nomophobia”.

B) The study says that women are most likely to suffer fear of being without their mobiles.

C) 77% of the 18-24 year-olds are unable to be apart from their phones for more than a few minutes.?。。

D) According to the study, men are more “nomophbia” than women.

9.?Which word was used to describe old mobile phones?

A) Toys. ??????????????????????????????B) Bricks.?。。

C) Cells. ??????????????????????????????D) Bottles.

10..?How did the author feel not having his phone after meeting his friend?

A) He felt a sinking feeling. ??????????????B) He felt relieved.

C) He felt anxious. ?????????????????????D) He felt it was “strangely liberating”.?。。

11. When people feel they’ve been unjustly treated, they usually _______.

A) take it as a major issue ???????????B) don’t care much about it

C) desire to get an apology?。。??????????D) want to prove their position reasonable

12. Which of the following is not a result of the son’s meeting with his father?

A) The son apologized to his father.。。

B) The son and his father embraced each other.

C) The son and his father talked about many things.

D) The son and his father began to understand each other.

13. When we do things that upset others, we should make an apology, which may _______.

A) help our coworkers ??????????????B) enable us to keep our promises

C) help us meet an important deadline ??D) produce very good results。。

14. When people are really angry, often they only want to _______.

A) have a room to themselves ????????B) speak out their feelings。。

C) find a solution to a problem ???????D) make complaints

15. When we don’t realize that our behavior has offended others, we should _______.

A) clarify our behavior??。。????????????B) throw the blame on others

C) take things personally ???????????D) apologize for forgiveness

16.?What is NOT the author’ s problem with job interviews?

A) Talking too much. ?

B) Losing his train of thought.

C) Not knowing what to say when the interviewer asks about his future.

D) Being too nervous.?。。

17.?What role was the candidate in Cardiff applying for?

A) Clerk. ???????????????????????????????B) Shop assistant.?。。

C) Salesman. ????????????????????????????D) Teller.

18.?How should you react when interviewers unsettle you, according to Simon Mitchell?

A) Be well prepared. ?????????????????????B) Keep calm.?。。

C) Refuse to answer questions. ?????????????D) Complain to the newspapers.

19.?What should you research about before going to a job interview?

A) Control your nerves.

B) Think about specific examples of things you’ve achieved in previous organizations.

C) Information about the company you want to work for.?。。

D) Be prepared to say something intelligent when confronted with the question: “What’s your biggest fault?”

20.?Which answer might be intelligent when you are asked the question “What’s your biggest fault?” in a job interview?

A) I am lazy. ??????????????????????????B) I tend to be a workaholic.?。。

C) I am not sociable. ???????????????????D) I tend to be a shopaholic.?

21.?By referring to the first paragraph, the study shows that _____B_.

girls become cleverer than boys from as young as four

teachers believe that girls could outperform boys at school

teachers have higher expectations of girls only during primary school

boys begin to fulfill themselves in their study by the age of seven or eight

22.?The likely result of teachers’ gender prejudice is that __A___.

boys have not enough motivation to do well at school

girls are less successful in their study than boys

parents also pick up on the same notion

boys are underestimated by girls

23.?What does Bonny Hartley think of class division by gender? D

Inevitable.

Unpractical.

Beneficial.

Unacceptable.

24.?Why did British girls have great academic progress in the latter half of the 20th century? ?D

Boys with good performance at school were labeled as feminine.

Feminism advocated women’s superiority over men.

Middle-class girls were particularly smart.

Feminism affected the girls’ view of themselves.

25.?What can we learn from the last paragraph? ?B

Adults should be sure of themselves as learners.

Adults could contribute a lot to children’s learning.

Adults should pay all their attention to boys of low achievement.

26.?As to higher education, which statement can describe the current trend by referring to the passage? ?D

Many educators are crossing the Atlantic.

Higher education has turned into competitive business.

American universities are enrolling more international students.

Institutions worldwide are hiring administrators from the U. S.

27.?What is the most significant factor for American universities to hire top-level administrators? ?B

Their academic qualification.

Their competence to raise funds.

Their reputation in academic circles.

Their overseas experience.

28.?What description about European universities is true according to the passage? ?D

The tuitions they charge have been on the rise considerably.

Government support varies with the rising student number.

Globalization characterizes the contemporary European higher education.

Their major financial source comes from the government.

29.?Cambridge University appointed Alison Richard as its vice-chancellor chiefly because __A____.

she was known to be good at raising money

she could set up new academics disciplines

she knew how to attract more international faculty

she boosted Yale’s academic status

30.?What is the best title for this passage? ?D

Globalization and higher education.

Professors are taking overseas positions.

Rising tuition and governmental support.

Financial competence counts

31.?What is the bus system in place in the 1950s? ?D

Passengers were required to board the bus at the front and get off at the back.

Passengers bought tickets at the front and boarded the bus at the back.

Black passengers should offer their seats to white passengers.

Black passengers had to observe discriminating rules boarding buses.

32.?The word “boycott” as it is used in the passage means _______B___.

supporting the separation of white and black passengers

refusing to ride the segregated buses

always sitting in the front of the bus

encouraging all people to ride buses for transportation

33.?What is the decision made by the Supreme Court about the bus system in Alabama? ?D

Awarded Rosa Parks with a medal.

Sentenced Rosa Parks to prison.

Approved the boycott of the bus system.

Outlawed segregation on city buses.

34.?What does Martin Luther King mean by saying “There comes a time that people get tired”? ?B

The people were physically exhausted for working overtime.

The people resented racial discrimination in the country.

The people demanded the end of the bus system in Alabama.

The people protested against the conviction of Rosa Parks.

35.?Rosa Parks has been called the mother of the civil rights movement mainly because ___A__.

she inspired black Americans to start the civil rights movement

she was a woman widely admired in her home state of Alabama

she made her fellow Americans aware of the civil rights struggle

she introduced Martin Luther King to the people of the United States

36.?By what means do the children of the author’s family go to school? ?C

They take school bus.

They take a taxi.

Their mother drives them to school.

Scout troop sends them to school.

37.?If a housewife went on strike, which one of the following statements is NOT true? ?C

Children would scream for something to eat.

No meals would appear on the table.

The scout troops would have a wonderful time.

The man of the house wouldn’t be able to take over.

38.?In the author’s opinion, __B__.

many males are going to volunteer for housewives’ work

housewives deserve a national holiday named Wonder Woman Day

the man of the house would be able to take over the housewives’ work

housewives are second-class citizens or something similar

39.?The author’s attitude toward housewives’ work is __D__.

critical

indifferent

ironical

appreciative

40.?The main idea of the passage is about __A__.

housewives, the wonder women

what would happen if housewives went on strike

the replacement of women by men as housewives

the setting up of a national holiday for housewives

In 2020.

In 2019.

In 2018.

In 2017.

1.?Whose sighting of Nessie was the first in modern times?

A) Dr. Charles Paxton. ??????????????????B) Mrs. Aldie Mackay.?。。

C) Adrian Shine. ???????????????????????D) Colonel Robert Wilson.

2.?Which of the following statements is false?

A) A picture of the monster taken in 1934 proves its existence.?。。

B) Mrs. Mackay's is widely regarded as the first “modern sighting” of Nessie ?????????

C) The reported spotting of the monster in the lake has brought fortune to the area.

D) Dr. Charles Paxton is doubtful about all the evidence linked to Nessie.

3.?The people who claimed to have seen the monster didn’t include __________.

A) police inspectors ??????????????????B) lorry drivers

C) reporters???。。???????????????????????D) fishermen

4.?What does Dr. Charles Paxton mean by saying “I suppose it is possible that people have an agenda.”?

A) He means that people are always busy in doing their jobs.

B) He means that it is likely to find people having a plan.

C) He means that it is possible to have the monster in the lake.

D) He means that people probably want to make profits by inventing the monster story.?。。

5.?What is the best title for this passage?

A) Is Nessie a Tourism Ploy???。。???????????B) People with Monster Stories

C) Tourism Traps ??????????????????????D) Scientific Study of Nessie the Monster?

6.?The time of the recognition span can be affected by the following factors except _C_______.

one’s familiarity with the text

one’s purpose in reading

the length of a group of words

lighting and tiredness

7.?The author may believe that reading _C_____.

requires a reader to take in more words at each fixation

requires a reader to see words more quickly

demands a deeply-participating mind

demands more mind than eyes

8.?What does the author mean by saying “but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently.” in the second paragraph? ??C

The ability to see words is not needed when an efficient reading is conducted.

The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve both the ability to see and to comprehend words.

The reading exercises mentioned can’t help to improve an efficient reading.

The reading exercises mentioned has done a great job to improve one’s ability to see words.

9.?Which of the following is NOT true? ?D

The visual span is a word or a group of words we see each time.

Many experts began to question the efficiency of eye training.

The emphasis on the purely visual aspects is misleading.

The eye training will help readers in reading a continuous text.

10.?The tone of the author in writing this article is _A_______

critical

neutral

pessimistic

optimistic