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In 1974, I   graduated   from   Skyline   High   School   in   Oakland,   California, an underachieving  student  with  poor SAT  scores. I couldn't afford tuition for college anyway.

1.

For thousands of commuting students like me,  Chabot  was  our  Harvard,  offering  courses in physics, stenography,  automechanics,  certified  public  accounting,  foreign  languages, journalism and so on. Classmates included veterans ( )back from Vietnam, married women returning to school, middle-aged men wanting to improve their employment prospects and paychecks. We could get our general education requirements out of the way at Chabot — credits we could transfer to a university — which made those two years an invaluable head start.

Classes I took at Chabot have rippled (起涟漪)through my professional pond. I produced the HBO mini-series John Adams with an outline format I learned from a pipe-smoking historian, James Coovelis, whose lectures were interesting. Mary Lou Fitzgerald’s  “Studies  in Shakespeare” taught me how the five-act structures of Richard III, The Tempest, and Othello focused their themes.

In Herb Kennedy’s “Drama in Performance” I read plays like The Hot L Baltimore and Desire Under the Elms, then saw their productions. I got to see the plays he taught, through student rush tickets at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.2.I got an A.    Some hours I stayed in the huge library,    where I     first read the New York Times, frustrated by its lack of comics.

If Chabot’s library still has its collection of vinyl records (黑胶唱片), you will find my name repeatedly on the takeout slip of Jason Robards’s performance of the monologue of Eugene O’Neill.3.

Chabot College is still in Hayward, though Mr. Coovelis, Ms.  Fitzgerald  and  Mr.  Kennedy are no longer there. I drove past the campus a few years ago with one of my kids and summed up my two years there this way: “4.

A.I listened to it 20 times at least.

B.That place made me what I am today.

C.Community colleges have improved a lot these years.

D.Those plays filled my head with expanded dreams.

E.Of course, I enjoyed the pleasure of eating French fries between classes.

F.So I sent my test results to Chabot, a community college in nearby Hayward, California, which accepted everyone and was free.

 

1.F 2.D 3.A 4.B 【解析】 本文是一篇记叙文,讲述了在夏堡社区大学学习生活的两年造就了今天的我。 1.空前说高中毕业时,我的SAT成绩很差,我无论如何也付不起大学学费,此处承接上文,讲的是接下来发生的事情——申请一所免费的大学,故F项(所以我把我的考试结果寄给了查伯特,一所位于加利福尼亚州海沃德附近的社区大学,它接受了所有人,并且是免费的)符合语境。 2.空前说我通过旧金山美国音乐学院剧院和伯克利保留剧目剧院的学生快票,看到了他教的戏剧,此处承接上文,讲的是那些戏剧对我的影响,故D项(那些戏剧让我的脑子里充满了无限的梦想)符合语境。 3.空前说如果查伯特的图书馆还收藏着黑胶唱片,你会在杰森·罗巴兹表演的尤金·奥尼尔独白的外借单上多次发现我的名字,此处解释我的名字多次出现在单子上的原因,故A项(我至少听了20遍)符合语境。 4.空前说几年前,我和孩子开车经过校园时,这样总结我在那里的两年,此处总结上文,总结夏堡社区大学对自己的影响,故B项(那个地方造就了今天的我)符合语境。
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A.making more money for the donors

B.relieving debt of the poorest countries

C.solving the problem of poverty completely

D.collecting more money for future aid to other countries

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B.makes progress smoothly

C.still face some difficulties

D.will achieve its success in near future

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A.relieving the debt of poor countries

B.establishing a global financial market

C.distributing money more fairly in the world

D.preventing the possible financial crisis and terrorists to raise money through the system

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A.a country can never expect to reconstruct its debts

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    Villa d’Este, Tivoli (Italy) --- Official Site Useful Information

Call Center 199766166

Number to dial from all of Italy for pre-sales and reservations for: tickets, guided tours, school groups, instructional visits.

Bookings from abroad:

email: villadestetivoli@teleart.org fax: 0039 0412770747

Visiting Hours:

Opening 8.30 – closed one hour before sunset.

The ticket office closes one hour before the closing of the monument.

The hydraulic organ of the Organ Fountain is active daily, from 10.30 am, every two hours.

The Fontana della Civetta functions daily, from 10.00 am, every two hours.

Ticket Prices:

(from May 17 to October 20, 2015)

Full ticket (exhibition + villa and gardens, not divisible): €11.

Reduced ticket: €7.

These prices will be valid during the daytime openings of the Villa until the closure of the exhibition, due on the 20th of October, 2015 (From the 22nd of October, 2015)

Full ticket: €8 Reduced ticket €4

These fares may vary in conjunction with exhibitions set inside the Villa. The right to purchase reduced price tickets belongs to all citizens of the European Union between the ages of 18 and 24 as well as permanent teachers of state schools (upon presentation of identity documents).

School Visits:

Reservations are required. The management of Villa d’Este, in the aim of preserving the monument and better distributing the flow of students, has limited the number of students allowed into the Villa to 100 students per hour. Should any school group arrive at the Villa without having made a reservation, it will be admitted to the Villa according to space availability at a particular time and asked to wait until such space becomes available. Right of reservation cost: €1,00.

Notices:

Certain areas of the villa may be closed for restoration: for information inquire at the ticket office. Please pay particular attention to the areas marked with signs indicating danger (in Italian: pericolo).

1.How can a visiting Chinese professor of architecture in Rome make a booking?

A.By dialing 199766166.

B.By writing an email to villadestetivili@teleart.org.

C.By calling 0039 04127 19036.

D.By sending a fax to 0039 0412 770747

2.The receptionist at the ticket office may recommend you to see ______first, if you arrive at 10.25 am.

A.the exhibition inside the villa B.the Organ Fountain

C.the gardens D.the Fontana della Civetta

3.Why are reservations essential for school visits?

A.Reservations are more economical.

B.Reservations enable as many students as possible to visit the monument.

C.Reservations ensure a pleasant visit for students and a manageable one of the Villa.

D.Reservation fees can help preserve the site.

 

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1.Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the first paragraph?

A.An argument is examined and possible solutions given.

B.Two contrasting views are presented.

C.Research results concerning the quality of urban life are presented in order of time.

D.A detail description of the difference between urban and small-town life is given.

2.According to the passage, it was once a common belief that urban residents  .

A.could not develop long-standing relationships.

B.did not have the same interests as their neighbors.

C.tended to be associated with bad behavior.

D.usually had more friends.

3.One of the  consequences  of  urban  life  is  that  impersonal  relationships  among  neighbors  .

A.disrupt people’s natural relations.

B.make them worry about crime.

C.cause them no to show concern for one another.

D.cause them to be suspicious of each other.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that the bigger a community is____,

A.the better its quality of life

B.the more tolerant and open-minded it is.

C.the likelier it is to display psychological symptoms of stress.

D.the more similar its interests

 

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2.A.testing B.sharing C.changing D.setting

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4.A.take action B.calm down C.look forward D.pay attention

5.A.believe B.persevere C.vary D.persist

6.A.easy B.random C.formal D.similar

7.A.noble B.fresh C.reasonable D.superior

8.A.experience B.responsibility C.respect D.agreement

9.A.individualism B.materialism C.idealism D.socialism

10.A.resist B.enjoy C.evolve D.strengthen

11.A.unexpectedly B.terribly C.comparatively D.necessarily

12.A.inquiry B.instinct C.refusal D.shock

13.A.worsen B.manage C.judge D.feel

14.A.wrinkled B.depressed C.impressive D.serious

15.A.with high requirements B.in full circle C.without difficulty D.on a large scale

 

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