Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
My Campus Life
I spent my freshman year at Tulane University culture-shocked and out-of-place, desperate to leave. It wasn’t known to me anyone else who was on scholarship, I 1.(surprise) by the racism and sexism on campus.
2.(do) poorly my first year of college was terrible; 1 felt stupid and unworthy. This feeling was terrible because I had attended a famous math and science public high school in New York 3.grades meant everything. But changing colleges - 4. the move was forced and unplanned - set the stage for me to find my passion and, eventually, a career.
When I picked up the pieces after Tulane and enrolled in a state college in Albany, New York, I was still raw from my freshman year experience. I drank a lot, didn’t know 5. classes to take and generally felt lost, It wasn’t 6. I took my first women’s studies class - an introductory feminist course - that I found my footing.
Suddenly I could see the ways that everything from pop culture and politics devalued women, and I understood more fully 7. injustices weren’t random but systemic. Most importantly, however, I realized that there was nothing wrong with me. Nothing is wrong with being loud or opinionated. These were just characteristics not valued in women.
Once the personal validation took hold, the broader political implications followed. I became active in campus causes,joined a women’s studies 8.(teach) collective and started to get good grades in my classes and not just the feminist ones. Finding genuine enthusiasm for a topic - one that related so directly 9. the world around me - gave me a drive that I 10. (not experience) before. And it has not stopped since.
Questions are based on the following passage.
1.
A.Maths and reading skills. B.Writing skills
C.Critical thinking. D.Physical development
2.
A.For intellectual benefit. B.For boost in confidence
C.For better health, D.For quaility education
3.
A.Ifs easier to go to college on football.
B.A good chess-player helps to play football better.
C.A good footballer helps to play chess better.
D.Ifs easier to go to college on chess.
4.
A.Chess-playing is a waste of time.
B.Chess-playing will ensure a scholarship.
C.Children should keep playing chess even without a scholarship.
D.Children should keep playing chess if they can win a scholarship.
Questions are based on the following passage.
1.
A.Over $100 million. B.Over $4.5 billion.
C.It has almost tripled on the past decade. D.It has almost quadrupled since 1995.
2.
A.The source of tuition. B.The arrival of more students.
C.Subjects students major in. D.The rise of students’ wealth.
3.
A.Growth of the Chinese economy.
B.Exchange of culture, ideas and skills.
C.More and more Chinese students in the U. S.
D.Chinese students' favorite subjects.
Questions are based on the following passage.
1.
A.To take a shower. B.To meet friends,
C.For comfortable sleep. D.For enjoyable meals,
2.
A.Ringing his way to sell telephones.
B.Encouraging strangers to shop with credit cards.
C.Working his way for potential buyers.
D.Persuading strangers into a credit card debt.
3.
A.A homeless beggars life. B.A current journalist’s life.
C.A former urban professional’s living. D.A diplomats economic condition.
A.The man is a graduate student. B.The man is relocating.
C.The man is living at the college. D.The man is a professor.
A.He was wrong about Carol’s wedding date,
B.Carol’s wedding has been postponed till July.
C.He can’t remember when Carol got married.
D.Carol has only been married since June.
