It’s common that the freshmen cannot ______ t...

It’s common that the freshmen cannot ______ the new environment in the first period of their life in the university.

A. adjust to　　　　　　　　 B. used to

C. accustomed to　　　　　　 D.be adjust to

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Some freshmen are finding it hard to ____ the new environment in the university.

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Some freshmen are finding it hard to ____ the new environment in the university.

A.adapt to             B. apply to    C. appeal to           D. attach to

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Many freshmen may get anxious at the thought of living at their new campus and making friends but 18-year-old Melanie Salazar already has someone older and wiser to show her the ropes: her 82-year-old grandfather. The story of Salazar and her grandpa, Rene Neira, is spreading after she showed a photo of her grandpa’s first day of class this term at Palo Alto College (PAC).

I’m so proud of my grandpa for finishing his first day at PAC this term! He is 82 years old and not giving up,” said Salazar then. The old man is now in his second term at the community college with just one class left before he gains his associate’s degree(副学士学位) in economics. Salazar, meanwhile, has just started her studies there. “Grandpa and I are very close,” Salazar said. “I like to say he’s my best friend.” She said that it’s nice to have her grandpa on campus, whether they’re walking to class together or having lunch.

Neira first went to college in the 1950s, but after getting married and starting a family he had to put his dream of getting a degree on hold to raise his family. He took classes throughout the years, but it’s only now that he’s finally close to reaching his goal. With plans to graduate soon, Neira won’t just stop with his associate’s degree. He hopes to attend the University of Texas at San Antonio to get his bachelor’s degree.

Salazar’s sweet social media post is inspiring dozens across the Internet, young and old. “My grandpa is very hard-working,” she said. “He will spend hours in the library studying in his own time because he’s very devoted to his education. It’s amazing that his story can inspire so many people in this way.”

1.What does the underlined part “show her the ropes” in Para.1 probably mean?

A. Show around the campus.　　 B. Tell her the secret behind success.

C. Teach her how to adapt to college.　　 D. Show her how to become popular.

2.What does Salazar think of going to college with her grandfather?

A. She has to face lots of challenges.　　 B. She is filled with pride and joy.

C. She is drawing much attention.　　 D. She is under a lot of stress.

3.What do we know about Neira?

A. He wants to stay in his college longer.

B. He’s never had college education before.

C. He aims to get the highest college degree.

D. He once gave up education to earn a living.

4.What can be inferred from Neira’s story?

A. Time and tide wait for no man.　　 B. It’s never too old to learn.

C. Practice makes perfect.　　 D. No pains, no gains.

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Bringing Art into Hospitals

The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play an important role in helping patients to get better.

As part of nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places,　some of the country’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.

These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s.He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society,　and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience(观众).

A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5 000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art!　Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out—patient’s waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975.Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist. Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.

The effect is striking. Now in the passages and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colours, playful images(形象)and restful courtyards.

The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.

1. Some best artists of Britain have been called in to__________.

2.After the improvement of the hospital environment,__________.

3.It can inferred from the passage that__________.

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Bringing art into hospitals

The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play a significant role in helping patients to get better.

As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of the country's best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2,500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.

These recent movements first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital in northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience(观众).

A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 500 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art? Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain's first hospital artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.

The effect is striking. Now in the corridors and waiting rooms the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colors, playful images(形象) and restful courtyards.

The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto gardens needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.

1.Some best artists of Britain have been called in to ________

A. set up new hospitals

B. make the corners of the hospital collect paintings

C. Bring art into hospitals

D. help patients recover form serious illnesses

2. After the improvement of the hospital environment, _________

A. patients no longer take drugs to kill their pains

B. patients don’t have to stay long in hospital

C. patients need fewer pain killers when they suffer from an illness

D. patients feel happy in hospital

3. It can be inferred from the passage that _________

A. the role of hospital environment is important

B. hospital artists have done more than doctors

C. exhibitions attract more　 audience in hospitals

D. the hospital is a better place for people

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The Plastic Bottle Village is just a great idea that might finally help people protect the environment. It’s a village in Panama that is going to be made of used plastic bottles.

The village will include about 120 homes of different sizes. The design begins with building structures of steel(钢铁)，which are then filled with these bottles. Once this step is complete，and electrical lines are put inside，the plastic walls are covered by concrete(混凝土)—both inside and outside. So no one will actually be able to tell that the walls are made of plastic. Besides，the material will keep the house 17 ℃ cooler than the temperature outside，which is the biggest advantage to people living inside.

The village is the work of Robert Bezeau with the purpose of setting up some environmental projects. Having started a recycling program in 2012，during which a number of plastic bottles were collected，he started to think how they could be put to use. Soon enough，he decided to use them to build houses.

Over 10，000 plastic bottles were used to build the first house，which was completed late last year. The bottles were gained from the same recycling project that Robert had set up. The next home is expected to be bigger，and will need more bottles. The special homes will be sold on request for anywhere between $149，000 and $300，000. The village will also feature its living environment，such as gardens，mini－parks，and more.

22，000 plastic bottles are thrown away around the world per second. While all these bottles clearly cannot be reused into homes，the project hopes to raise the attention of the waste. The village will also create an education center that will teach people from the world how to reuse plastic bottles as building materials.

1.What is so special about the homes in the village?

A.They can stop people from being cold.

B.They are built out of plastic bottles.

C.They are being built by famous artists.

D.They are sold for anyone from anywhere.

2.The biggest advantage for the people living in the special houses lies in ________.

A.the cool temperature

B.environmental protection

C.cutting down the cost

D.different sizes

3.We can infer from Paragraph 3 that Robert Bezeau is________.

A.honest B.kind

C.serious D.creative

4.According to the passage，the village________.

A.is made up of 120 homes of the same size

B.will start another recycling program in the future

C.is introducing modern science to the villagers

D.will offer the villagers good living environment

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It’s common knowledge that there are many benefits to being fit, but one large new study found that skipping out on the gym is practically the worst thing you can do for your health. In fact, the study claims not exercising might be more harmful to your health than smoking.

New findings, published Friday in the journal JAMA Network Open, detail how researchers at the Cleveland Clinic studied 122,007 patients from 1991 to 2014, putting them under treadmill (跑步机) testing and later recording death rates. Researchers found a clear connection between a longer, healthier life and high levels of exercise. The report calls for health care professionals to encourage patients to achieve and continue a strong and healthy fitness routine.

Although it is widely understood that an active lifestyle can lead to a healthy life, the study concludes that a lifestyle which involves much sitting but little activity is equal to having a major disease and the simplest cure is exercise.

Dr Wael Jaber, co-author of the study, called the results totally surprising. “Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis (病情预断), as far as death, than being a smoker or suffering from high blood pressure,” Jaber told CNN. “We’ve never seen something as noticeable as this and as objective as this.”

The study also took a look at the risk of being overactive and found that extreme exercisers do not face higher risk of death: the research found that the more a person exercises the lower their death rates.

1.Which of the following best explains “skipping out on” in paragraph 1?

A. keeping away from B. running in

C. jumping out of D. smoking inside

2.What do we know from the new findings?

A. An active lifestyle can lead to a healthy life.

B. The simplest cure for a major disease is exercise.

C. A person unfit on a treadmill is less likely to die.

D. One’s life span is related to the level of exercise.

3.What does Jaber think of the research results?

A. Impossible. B. Amusing.

C. Unbelievable. D. Uncertain.

4.What conclusion can we draw from the last paragraph?

A. Too much exercise will be no good.

B. A low death rate depends on an active lifestyle.

C. Extreme exercise is more harmful for health.

D. The rise of death rate is related to exercise.

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People living in the country enjoy several advantages that people living in the city cannot enjoy.

1. They make friends with trees and stones. They breathe fresh air. They fight with strong winds. 2.

This contact (接触) with nature is good for health. There are many diseases that are common in the city, but are not to be found in the country. For example, near-sightedness is almost unknown to country people.

Because there are less cars, one can walk more freely in the country than in the city.3.. People living in the country can easily get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fresh milk, Are they get them at lower prices than in the city.

4.There are practically no temptations to waste money.

5.They say what they mean, and make and keep promises with sincerity（诚意）. They do not put on air (摆架子). They do not pretend to have those ridiculous manners which are necessary in what we call polite society.

A. They listen to the song of birds.

B. Country people are mostly honest.

C. They are in close contact with nature.

D. Country people are far from town life.

E. Country life is economical (节约的) in other ways, too.

F. Country life provides much more enjoyment.

G. There are no rules of the road nor traffic signs to obey

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People living in the country enjoy several advantages that people living in the city cannot enjoy.

They are in close contact with nature. They make friends with trees and stones. They breathe fresh air. They fight with strong winds. They listen to the song of birds.

This contact with nature is good for health. There are many diseases that are common in the city, but are not to be found in the country, For example, near-sightedness is almost unknown to country people.

Because of the absence of cars, one can walk more freely in the country than in the city, There are no rules of the road nor traffic signs to obey.

People living in the country can easily get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fresh milk, Are they get them at lower prices than in the city.

Country life is economical in other ways, too. There are practically no temptations to waste money.

Country people are mostly honest. They say what they mean, and make and keep promises with sincerity. They do not put on air (摆架子). They do not pretend to have those ridiculous manners which are necessary in what we call polite society.

1.What CAN’T country people often enjoy?

A. Musical concerts.          B. Fresh air.

C. Song of birds.             D. Close contact with nature.

2.What is probably more expensive in the country than in the city?

A. Vegetables.          B. Beer.          C. Milk.           D. Fruit.

3.What is NOT true of country life?

A. The traffic accident rate is very high in the country.

B. Living in the country saves one a lot of money.

C. Country people enjoy better health than the city people.

D. Country people are honest.

4.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. People living in the country enjoy no advantages.

B. People living in the city are in close contact with nature.

C. People living in the country suffer from more diseases than those living in

the city.

D. The prices of farm products are lower in the country than in the city.

5.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. The Disadvantages of Living in the Country.

B. The Expenses of Living in the Country.

C. Country Life.

D. Healthy Country People.

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