Spending a term abroad can be one of the most...

Spending a term abroad can be one of the most thrilling experiences of your college career，but it’s challenging to adapt to a new culture，especially when you don’t speak the native language. The following are top tips of the experts on improving your time abroad.

Set specific goals.

“Set goals for yourself when going abroad so that you can bring experiences back home with you，”says Harrison，the Outreach Manager of Go Abroad. “Whether you want to learn to cook a traditional recipe from your host family or pack for the long-term，these lessons of daily life can translate back home. How you choose to learn from your experiences，or even apply them as transferable job skills，will make all the difference.”

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“Make at least one local friend，”says Matthew，co-founder of Students Gone Global. “Join a club，community service group，or a sports league — it will help you form a network and find people you click with. Go out of your way to talk to students in your classes.”

Sign up for classes that allow you to explore.

“Take classes that are interesting and related to the local culture.” says Matthew. “I highly recommend classes with field trips because your professor can show you a side of the country you never would have seen on your own.”

If you’re staying with a host family, do get to know them.

“When living with a host family, be mindful of their lifestyle and try your best to adapt to it，”says Lauren，a member of Go Abroad ’s　 Content ＆ Outreach Team, “Have a conversation about rules and customs right away to be sure you know what your host family expects of you. Join yourself in their way of life — try every meal that is offered to you at least once，and ask them to teach you how to play their favorite sport or game.”

1.Harrison advises overseas students to set specific goals to ______________.

A. bring experiences back home

B.1earn to cook a traditional recipe.

C. gain some job skills.

D. get along well with the host family

2.What may be the second tip given by experts?

A. Join a club.

B. Join a sports league.

C. Befriend the locals.

D. Talk to your classmates.

3.Which of the following is stressed by Lauren?

A. Showing respect to your host family.

B. Trying to know your host family.

C. Paying attention to table manners.

D. Being mindful when talking with your host family.

4.What’s the purpose of the writer writing this text?

A. To introduce some culture differences.

B. To advertise for some foreign universities.

C. To recommend some lessons to students.

D. To give some advice to overseas students.

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　Bananas are one of the world’s most important food crops. They are also one of the most valuable exports. Bananas do not grow from seeds. Instead, they grow from existing plants. Bananas are threatened by disease because all the plants on a farm are copies of each other. They all share the same genetic weaknesses. For example, the Cavendish banana is most popular in North American and European markets. However, some kinds of fungus organisms easily infect the Cavendish. Black Sigatoka disease affects the leaves of Cavendish banana plants. The disease is controlled on large farms by putting chemicals on the plants’ leaves. Farmers put anti-fungal chemicals on their crops up to once a week.

Another fungal disease is more serious. Panama disease attacks the roots of the banana plants. There is no chemical treatment for this disease. Infected plants must be destroyed. Panama disease has affected crops in Southeast Asia, Australia and South Africa. There is concern that it may spread to bananas grown in the Americas. This could threaten an important export product for Central and South America.

The International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain supports research on bananas. The group has headquarters in France and other offices in the major banana-growing areas of the world. The group says that more research must be done to develop improved kinds of bananas. The group says that fungal diseases mainly affect only one kind of banana. In fact, there are five hundred different kinds of bananas. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has said that the Cavendish banana represents only 10% of world production.

The U. N. agency says farmers should grow different kinds of bananas. This protects against diseases that affect only one kind. Experts warn that disease may cause the Cavendish banana to disappear. This happened earlier to another popular banana because of its genetic weakness against disease.

1.What does this passage mainly tell us?

A. Bananas are the world’s most important food crops.

B. The risk to a popular banana shows need to grow other kinds.

C. There are five hundred different kinds of bananas.

D. How to grow bananas in different countries.

2.Bananas are threatened by disease because　　.

A. they grow from seeds

B. they are one of the most valuable exports

C. the only way to prevent it is to put chemicals on their leaves

D. they have genetic weaknesses against disease

3. Panama disease　　.

A. doesn’t belong to fungal disease

B. affects the leaves of banana plants

C. destroys bananas more seriously than Black Sigatoka disease

D. has spread to bananas all over the world

4. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that　　.

A. the center of the group is in the US

B. the Cavendish banana covers only a small part of the yield of bananas

C. the key to solving the disease is to research all kinds of bananas

D. each fungal disease affects five hundred different kinds of bananas

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

For Senior 3 students, choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time in their entire school lives. This is also true for an American girl 26  Melanie.

Melanie’s dad, James Porter, who is the chief of police for a Chicago suburb, wants Melanie to 27  nearby Northwestern University, where she’s 28  been accepted. But Melanie, 17, really wants to go to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C, where she’s been wait-listed.

When she gets an unexpected 29  from Georgetown University, she decides to 30 a road trip with a few 31 female friends. Melanie believes it is her first step 32 adulthood. But 33 the fact that this trip is “girls only”, James isn’t 34  with the prospect(期望) of his little princess 35  the world without him. He wants to protect her, so he joins the girls and hopes he can convince Melanie to go to Northwestern. 36  Melanie’s father only has the best of 37 , his presence 38 an endless series of comic encounters（遭遇）.

After following their faulty device 39  into the backwoods (偏远地区), James and Melanie 40  Melanie’s little brother and his pet pig have been hiding in the spare compartment (隔间). What should be a simple tyre change 41  the expensive car rolling down a mountain, forcing them to hike to a nearby hotel…. All these disasters add spice(额外的趣味) to their trip while along the way a father and a daughter 42  get the chance to really 43  each other.

All parents, 44  they have college students or not, can relate to the bittersweet realization that their kids are growing up. 45  what Melanie and James have done, we all can find the delicate (脆弱的) balance between staying connected and letting go.

高三英语完型填空困难题查看答案及解析

Being part of the team can be one of the most rewarding things a person can do.1. There's no single person who can carry the rest of the team themselves. And there's　 nothing like watching a team come together for a big victory.

A team sport includes any sport where individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win. Team members act together towards a shared objective.2.One of them is to set goals and solve problems in a supportive atmosphere in order to accomplish their objectives.

3.Some types of sports have different objectives or rules than “traditional” team sports. These types of team sports do not involve teammates facilitating(促使) the movement of a ball or a similar object according to a set of rules, in order to score points. For example, swimming, rolling, sailing, dragon boat racing, and track and field among others can also be considered team sports. In other types of team sports, there may not be an opposing team or points to score, for example, in mountaineering (登山运动).4.

Through the years, the popularity of team sports has continued to grow. 5.All over the world, the influence of team sports can be seen as professional athletes live out their dreams while serving as role models, youth athletes develop life skills and follow in the steps of their role models, and fans bond over the love of their teams while supporting their economies with their support.

A.Some sports can be hard on the body.

B.This can be done in a number of ways.

C.In team sports, team members have to work together to win the game.

D.One of the benefits of team sports is to help build many useful life skills.

E.The meaning of a “team sport” has been questioned in recent years.

F.The relative difficulty of the climb is the measure of the achievement.

G.It is positively influencing not just athletes, but also fans and local economies.

高三英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析

eXp Realty is one of the world's fastest-growing and most successful real estate （房地产） companies. It has become famous not for investing in actual real estate, but for focusing on

virtual reality offices that allow its agents and brokers （中间商）to interact and socialize from anywhere around the globe.

Glenn Sanford, eXp Realty's founder and CEO, founded the company a decade ago, soon after the real estate market collapse of 2007. He couldn't afford to buy or rent office space. What's more important, he figured that focusing on a system that allowed his team to work remotely would help the company avoid possible real estate crises in the future. So eXp Realty relied on services like Google Docs, project management solutions like Trello, and communications app Slack to help its workforce work together in virtual reality. "The virtual campus is a big part of our growth engine. If we were limited to actual offices, the growth we've had simply wouldn't be possible," Scott Petronis, chief technology officer of eXp Realty said.

Having a virtual campus in the virtual world rather than in the real one apparently has several major advantages. For the most important one, eXp Realty can hire whatever talent they like, no matter where they are. As long as they have Internet connection, they can interact with their colleagues and the company management like avatars （虚拟人）because they can walk around the campus, enter various virtual facilities, and interact with each other. While the main focus is on work and brainstorming, eXp Realty is constantly adding fun stuff as well, like riding on a virtual lake and enjoying a drink at the bar.

At the beginning of 2018, eXp Realty had around 6,500 brokers, but till today that number has increased to over 12,000. They are operating in 300 markets across the US and Canada. If that isn't enough to convince you, the company was recently listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with first-day market capitalization of over $1 billion. But it doesn't own or lease any more physical space than what is required by law.

1.What do we know about eXp Realty?

A.It relies much on technology.

B.It was founded by accident.

C.It's famous for its large offices.

D.It's a branch company of Google.

2.What mainly inspired Glenn Sanford to adopt virtual offices?

A.He could work closely with famous online services.

B.He is quite professional in the field of information technology.

C.Virtual offices can enable him to avoid potential real estate crises.

D.The starting base for the virtual real estate market was low at that time.

3.What's the biggest advantage of having a virtual campus?

A.Agents and brokers can communicate timely.

B.It helps attract talents regardless of their location.

C.Companies can cooperate with high-tech avatars.

D.Employees can have a relaxing work environment.

4.We can infer from the last paragraph that eXp .

A.is really a success

B.has some illegal businesses

C.is expanding its business worldwide

D.has poor performance in the stock market

5.What might be the best title of the passage?

A.Why Does Real Estate Industry Grow So Quickly?

B.Billion Dollar Real Estate Company一eXp Realty

C.Virtual Reality Office Vs. Physical Office Space

D.What Can Virtual Reality Do to Our Business?

高三英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

One of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the “best seller” lists with a sale of up to 100,000 copies, but a popular TV show might have 70

million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight.

This is the principle behind “quiz” or “game” shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the show’s producers, who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didn’t like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. The result of this cheating was a huge scandal(丑闻). Based on the show off, a movie titled “Quiz Show” is on 40 years later.

Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they aren’t taken seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliating(羞辱) them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.

1.What is the most important thing as to television?

A. How many viewers they can attract       B. Becoming the best seller on the list

C. How much money can be given away    D. The number of people attending shows

2.What does the underlined part “pulling the strings” probably mean?

A. Planning the shows with effort          B. Drawing the curtain on the stage

C. Controlling the result secretly          D. Playing “quiz” or “game” openly

3.Charles Van Doren stopped his career as a television personality because ________.

A. he had earned enough wealth and fame.

B. one of the participants had told the truth

C. the film “Quiz Show” was being shown

D. his frequent appearance had bored the audience

4. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. TV Game Shows are more popular than before.

B. the scandal was not made known until 40 years later

C. getting money is the only purpose of people taking part in shows

D. people can make themselves famous by taking part in shows

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

If you’ve ever had to chop an onion，you probably know that it’s one of the most annoying cooking experiences．It just fills your eyes with tears．Scientists and farmers have been working on a solution to this problem for decades，and they’ve apparently come up with a tearless onion．

Called the“Sunion”，this new vegetable is the result of a natural cross-breeding program that’s been going on farms in Nevada and Washington since the 1980s．It’s supposedly a sweet，mild-tasting onion that doesn’t leave that strong，pungent aftertaste，but what really sets it apart from most other onion varieties is that it doesn’t cause teary eyes when it’s chopped．

When you cut into a normal onion，it releases a compound called lachrymatory-factor synthase，and’when that hits your eyes，your body produces tears．Now，the interesting thing about regular onions is that the amounts of lachrymatory-factor synthase increase the longer the vegetables are stored，so the older they，the more you cry．In Sunions，on the other hand，the levels of that annoying compound drop the more time goes by，until it no longer has any effect on your eyes when you cut it．

That’s what Sunion growers are claiming anyway，but reports from those lucky enough to have tried them seem to confirm these claims．The Huffington Post had three of its reporters chop some Sunions，and apparently，none of them shed a single tear．According to the Washington Post，they don’t have the pungency of regular onions and are so sweet that you can eat them“like popcorn”．

So the good news is that tearless onions are now a real thing．The bad news is that they are currently only grown in Washington and Nevada，and even though they are sold nationwide，they are still in relatively short supply．The first Sunion batches hit the shelves of grocery stores in December，but we’11 probably start seeing them in most grocery shops and supermarkets in the next few years，as more people learn about them．

1.What is special about the Sunion?

A. It’s easily chopped．　　 B. It’s sweet and tastes strong．

C. It’s tearless and mild．　　 D. It’s grown nationwide in the USA．

2.How does the author introduce the Sunion in Paragraph 3 ?

A. By comparison．　　 B. By telling a story．

C. By giving examples．　　 D. By asking questions．

3.What does the underlined word“pungency”in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Round shape．　　 B. Strong smell．

C. Special character．　　 D. Medical function．

4.What can we conclude from the last paragraph?

A. The Sunion has been largely on the market．

B. The Sunion is still on trial at present．

C. The Sunion will soon be grown worldwide．

D. The author is confident about the future of the Sunion．

高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

One of the most popular activities enjoyed by Americans is spending time in forests and walking along paths through the country.This activity，called hiking，has led to the creation of paths throughout the United States.

One of the longest is the Appalachian National Scenic Trail.The trail is the first completed part of the National Trails System.The trails system was established by Congress and the president in 1968.The Appalachian Trail is more　 than 3,400 kilometers long.It starts in the northeastern state of Maine and ends in the southeastern state of Georgia.The trail goes through 14 states.They are Maine，New Hampshire，Vermont，Massachusetts，Connecticut，New York，New Jersey，Pennsylvania，Maryland，West Virginia，Virginia，Tennessee，North Carolina，and Georgia.

The path takes walkers through the Appalachian Mountains.They extend from the Canadian province of Quebec to the southern American state of Alabama.

The Appalachian Mountains are among the oldest on Earth.They first began forming about one thousand million years ago.During the millions of years since then，the mountains were changed and reformed by the forces of water and wind.Ice also changed the mountains，making many of them smaller and digging valleys and lakes among them.Many different kinds of trees grow along the trail.And many different kinds of animals live in the forests along the trail.

Lands along the trail are protected by the federal government and by state governments.Some parts are not protected by the government directly.Instead，they are protected by legal agreements with private owners willing to permit people to walk across their property.

Walkers on the Appalachian Trail pass through some of the great valley systems of the mountains.They can look down into these beautiful valleys and see farms and forests stretching across the land for many kilometers.Farmland in the valleys is rich and productive.And some of the great events in American history took place in the valleys.For example，one of the great battles of the American Civil War was fought in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

1.The Appalachian Trail________.

A．is more than four thousand three hundred kilometers long

B．starts in the northern state of Maine

C．goes through more than fourteen states

D．ends in the southeastern state of Georgia

2. The Appalachian Mountains________.

A．are the first completed part of the National Trails System

B．began forming one million years ago

C．were changed by natural forces like water，wind and ice

D．were around by valleys and rivers and famous for its scenery

3. The lands along the trail________.

A．are protected entirely by either the federal government or state governments

B．are mainly protected by legal agreements with private owners

C．can be visited by travelers freely only under the permission of owners

D．are protected by both the federal government and state governments

4.What is mainly described in the last paragraph?

A．The Appalachian Mountains have some great valley systems.

B．Farms and grasslands stretch across the valleys for many kilometers.

C．One of the American independence battles was fought in the Shenandoah Valley.

D．Lakes in the Appalachian Mountains are one of the most beautiful sights.

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The couple are spending their holiday on _____is described as one of the most beautiful islands.

A．that              B．what             C．which            D．where

高三英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

Being able to communicate effectively with others is one of the most important skills a person can have. From talking with family and friends to sharing your ideas at work, communication is absolutely fundamental. 1., there are some strategies you can use to improve them.

2.. However, it doesn’t have to be. There are some simple ways for you to start communicating with someone, even if you don’t know the person very well. For example, you can focus on the weather or some other aspects of your surroundings.

Besides, you should consider what topics are appropriate for the situation. In some cases, sticking with small talk and interesting topics might be best, but sometimes, you may consider developing into a deeper conversation. 3..

Talk about things that interest the other party. If you want to become a better communicator, your focus has to be less on yourself and more on the person you re talking with.4., you shouldn’t go on all night about yours. Find connection points that allow you to get the other person talking.

The conversation will come to an end at some point.5.. Maybe you need to move on with your day. To end a conversation politely, pay attention to the other person’s reaction and then say something to officially close the conversation.

A. If you want to make an apology to the other party

B. This may be because of running out of things to discuss

C. If he doesn't share his hobbies and interests

D. it's not appropriate to transform the conversation into a deeper one

E. If you feel like your communication skills fall short of your expectations

F. Consider the situation to determine what kind of topics might be appropriate

G. Starting a conversation can be the hardest part of communication for some people

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