What might the man dress up like for the coming Halloween?
A. A ghost. B. A skeleton. C. A witch.
What’s the probable relationship between the man and Mary?
A. Father and daughter. B. Friends. C. husband and wife.
What is in the study?
A. A thief. B. A rat. C. A dog.
阅读下面的材料，然后按要求写一篇 150 词左右的英语短文。
A gap year is a period of time during which students take a break from studying after they finished school and before they start college or university. Gap years are popular with Americans. A survey by the American Gap Association（AGA）found that the number of students who took a gap year climbed 27 percent from 2017 to 2018.
Although well received in the West, the concept of gap year has yet to take off in China. In 2018, Peking University(PKU) hosted an activity to encourage students to go on a “Gap Year”, but only few Chinese students entered for it.
Many Chinese educators have realized the importance of gap year and spread the idea by setting up the China Gap Year Foundation on March 19, 2018, which is the first domestic fund specially providing financial support for 18- to 28-year-old students all over Chinese universities to attend domestic and international activities lasting from three months to one year.
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1、用约 30 个单词概括上述信息的主要内容；
2、结合上述信息，简要分析“间隔年”现象在中国学生间鲜见的原因（两点）；
3、你是支持还是反对“间隔年”？用 2-3 个理由或论据支撑你的观点。
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1、写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；
2、作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3、不必写标题。
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请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填 1 个单词。
Extreme sports are becoming increasingly popular. In fact, activities such as mountain biking, snowboarding and skateboarding continue to attract larger numbers of people every year. At the same time, a decline has been noted, for years on end, in other outside activities that are considered to be more traditional, including basketball. This is most likely linked to several factors, ranging from the increased adrenaline（肾上腺素） all the way to the positive mental and physical health aspects of participating in an extreme sport.
Extreme sports can push you to your physical and mental limits. Individuals who regularly perform feats （超群的技艺） such as going bungee jumping actually change the chemical makeup of their mind. When this happens, you become more capable of staying calm and centered in stressful situations. In other words, extreme sports can make the rest of your life easy to manage. Besides, those who participate in extreme sports are able to turn their fears into positive experiences. There probably aren’t too many people in the world who won’t feel fearful the first time they go bungee jumping. But seeing that you manage to do them will help you reduce your fear response.
We all do certain movements during the day; however, you’ve probably felt sore after doing something that isn’t on your typical daily schedule. This is because you have asked your muscles to move in an unusual way when you are working out. Although this can cause soreness, it can also be good for your overall physical fitness. When you embrace an extreme sport, you will build up different muscles of your body, and this will be a positive thing for your health.
Extreme sports task you with overcoming difficult physical challenges. If you can complete these challenges, your rewards will be much more than merely physical. Studies have found a strong link between extreme sports and a higher level of self-confidence. This makes sense when you consider the fact that accomplishing a task so physically daunting（使人畏缩的） is something that you should feel proud of. The self-confidence increase can have a positive impact on every aspect of your life, which makes extreme sports a good idea for everyone who is physically capable of meeting the great challenges.
However, before you begin any extreme sport, ensure you’re physically and mentally capable of performing the necessary tasks. Once you’re ready to begin, you’ll be able to choose from a long list of adventurous sports that are certain to get your adrenaline flowing.
Extreme sports | |
Introduction | Every year 1. a growing increase in extreme sports and a 2. decline in traditional outside activities. |
Reasons for enjoying 3. |
You’ll find inner 4. and focus on your task in a stressful situation. You will 5. respond to your fears after succeeding in doing extreme sports. You can 6. different muscles of your body and change your health for the 7.. Overcoming physical challenges 8. you to gain self-confidence , thus appealing to those who can 9.on challenges. |
Suggestion | Make sure that you are well 10. physically and mentally for an extreme sport. |
It is that time of the year again. Up and down the country, thousands of students stay in the library, attempting to cram（ 死记硬背） the information necessary to get through finals. I am one of them — a Cambridge finalist, attempting to deal with the Oxbridge stress in the only way I know: caffeine hits and reclusion（隐遁生活）. Whether you love or hate Oxbridge, the fact that these two universities provide unique learning environments is something of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, students have access to some of the best education in the world; on the other hand, the pressure that comes with this can prove damaging to them and can’t be swept under the carpet for they have to face it eventually.
Many Cambridge students find themselves trapped in a pressure of expectation, whether this comes from their supervisors or tutors, their director of studies or even from themselves. The drive towards achievement is either the key to success or to possible serious personal issues, as Mark Phippen, head of the University of Cambridge’s Counseling Service said, “There are plenty of perfectionists in Cambridge, but it can work two ways: it can push them to accomplish and to achieve, or it can get out of hand, disabling them.”
Many students say that they can’t handle it any more while working in certain libraries which are filled with other students hard at work. The competition and paranoia（ 多 疑 ） are more common than what we realize or question: you can feel as if you are being judged for how much time you spend on Facebook or YouTube, or how little time you spend reading.
Too many students feel almost frustrated by the pressure to achieve but feel unable to speak about it. As everyone seems to be coping, they must also pretend to cope too. The only thing students have: tutors and supervisors regularly encourage students to avoid extracurricular activities, urging them to focus on their studies to such an extent that many find it hard to handle it. One current Cambridge tutor has been known for checking up on the activities of students involved in extracurricular theatre by searching for them on the camdram.net website, which details who is involved in certain plays each term — just in case it affects the student’s work output.
Problems arise when the pressure produces mental health issues. Problems have been brought to attention in articles primarily from Oxford’s Cherwell and Cambridge’s The Tab. The attention has made the Cambridge University Student Union set up Students Deserve Better — a campaign to handle complaints about supervisors and tutors lacking the ability to provide proper spiritual support. “When I told my supervisor about my problems with anxiety and therefore about my worries surrounding the workload she was suggesting, she said that I would probably feel less anxious once the work was done,” a finalist student called Jane said. “It shouldn’t be an accepted response in one of the world’s best universities. Their responses only worsened any feelings I had concerning my final year.”
Phippen said, “At this point the exams seem like the most important thing in the world. However, two years down the line you’ll realize that the exams you did at university aren’t very important at all, as what then becomes more important is what you have done within those two years afterwards. Finalist exams can become depressing for students studying at any university. All you must remember is that you are not alone and you are good enough, and that a few years down the line, your ability to recount the plots of Euripides’ nineteen plays will no longer matter. So why worry?”
1.The underlined part “be swept under the carpet” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to “ ”.
A. be covered up B. be dealt with
C. be given up D. be figured out
2.What’s Mark Phippen’s attitude towards the pressure put on the students at Oxbridge?
A. Critical. B. Doubtful.
C. Objective. D. Ambiguous.
3.What can we know from Paragraph 4?
A. Extracurricular activities fail to appeal to most students.
B. Some tutors and supervisors push their students too hard.
C. There is a lack of communication between students and their supervisors.
D. Some students don’t speak about the pressure because they think they can handle it.
4.What Jane said in Paragraph 5 suggests that she .
A. didn’t get her problems across to her supervisor
B. had expected better spiritual guidance from her tutors
C. was dissatisfied with her supervisor’s delayed responses
D. was glad that Students Deserve Better was set up to help students like her
5.In the last paragraph, Mark Phippen aims to.
A. guarantee the equality of exams
B. stress the importance of exams
C. ease students’ pressure from exams
D. encourage students to perform better in exams
6.Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?
A. Oxbridge pressure: the key to students’ achievements
B. Oxbridge finals: the toughest exams in the country
C. Oxbridge graduates: the strongest competitors in the job market
D. Oxbridge success: the result of teacher-student interaction
