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Thank you for choosing Yale University housing. The following information should answer questions you may have about housing services.

Housing office

There is a housing office in the New Residence Hall and is open seven days a week, 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., for check-in and check-out. You can call the assistants there for any questions about housing. Telephone: 436-4119. Or if you are moving in, you can call Housekeeping at 436-4108 and ask to have your rooms cleaned.

Common Room and Meeting Rooms

The building has a common room (BO77) for the use of guests for studying and gathering. Do not leave personal things in the common room. Close any windows you open when you leave the room. The meeting rooms 223 (for 10 people) and 323 (for 18 people) each have a television and a VCR. You don’t need to reserve(预定) the common room and for reservation of meeting rooms, please call the Housing Office.

Computer Rooms

There are two computer rooms (221 &421) in the building. They offer Macintoshes, Windows computers, and printing to guests. These computers are maintained(维护) by Yale University’s Computing Assistants (www.yale.edu/cas Tel:436-5990). If you have any problems, for example, if there’s no printer paper, please report it to the housing office.

Telephone Service

Each room is equipped with a telephone. Your telephone number is 436-4 followed by your room number (for example, Room 112, tel.436-4112). To call a university number, press the last five numbers only. To make a call outside the university, press 9 first and then the number.

1. When you want to book a room in the New Residence Hall, you should call　　 .

A. 436-4119　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. 436-5990

C. 436-4112　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. 436-4108

2. If you can’t find any printer paper in the computer room, which number should you dial?

A. 436-4119　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. 436-5990

C. 436-4112　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. 436-4108

3. You should go to Room ______when you’re giving a birthday party for 11 people.

A. BO77　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. 323

C. 221　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. 119

4.How would you make the call when you want to call a friend at 738-9087 while staying in Room188?

A. Press9, then 738-9087　　　　　　　　　　 B. Dial 9 first, then 8908

C. Press 89087　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Ring 9087

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WELCOME AND ARRIVAL INFORMATION

Welcome to Harvard University Housing and thank you for choosing to live with us. To help you make a smooth transition, please read the information below on planning your arrival.

Pets

Dogs living with you in your pet-friendly apartment must be vaccinated for rabies and licensed with the City of Cambridge every year.

International Students

Consider unlocking your phone prior to leaving your home country. This will enable you to use a SIM card from a company such as campus SIMS or US Mobile in your phone after you arrive. Those sim cards may be available at the Property Management Office.

Driving

If you plan on bringing a moving van or truck it will not fit under the overpasses on Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive. Plan your route in advance to avoid a risky and costly problem.

Parking arrangements for trucks and vans must be made in advance as well. Visit your property page for information about parking your car.

Furniture and Lighting

Most HUH units have no furniture—the unit is empty except for a stove and a refrigerator. You need to bring, buy, or rent a bed, other furniture, and household items. In many HUH units, rooms do not have overhead lights, so you also may need table or floor lamps.

If you want to stock up on groceries and some household items as soon as you arrive, please find information about “Grocery Shopping” by selecting it from the drop-down menu.

1.Suppose a French boy chooses to live in HUH units with a dog and a moving van, he should________.

A.make sure his dog is vaccinated and licensed in France

B.unlock his phone before leaving France

C.buy a phone with a SIM card at the Property Management Office

D.park his van under the overpasses

2.What are most HUH units furnished with?

A.Table or floor lamps. B.A bed and a table.

C.A stove and a refrigerator. D.Bowls and plates.

3.Where is this text most likely from?

A.A website. B.A guidebook.

C.A magazine. D.A recipe.

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WELCOME AND ARRIVAL INFORMATION

Welcome to Harvard University Housing and thank you for choosing to live with us. To help you make a smooth transition please read the information below on panning your arrival.

Pets

Dogs living with you in your pet-friendly apartment must be vaccinated(接种疫苗) for rabies and licensed with the City of Cambridge every year.

International Students

Consider unlocking your phone prior to leaving your home county. This will enable you to use a SIM card from a company such as campus SIMS or US Mobile in your phone after you arrive. Those SIM cards may be available at the Property Management Office.

Driving

If you plan on bringing a moving van or truck it will not fit under the overpasses(天桥) on Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive. Plan your route in advance to avoid a risky and costly problem.

Parking arrangements for trucks and vans must be made in advance as well. Visit your property page for information about parking your car.

Furniture and Lighting

Most HUH units have no furniture-the unit is empty except for a stove and a refrigerator. You need to bring, buy, or rent a bed, other furniture, and household items. In many HUH units, rooms do not have overhead lights, so you also may need table or floor lamps.

If you want to stock up on groceries and some household items as soon as you arrive, please find information about“Grocery Shopping” by clicking the drop-down menu.

1.Suppose a French boy chooses to live in HUH units with a dog and a moving van, he should______.

A.make sure his dog is vaccinated and licensed in France.

B.unlock his phone after leaving France.

C.buy a phone with a SIM card at the Property Management Office.

D.avoid driving on Soldiers Field Road.

2.What are a majority of HUH units furnished with?

A.Table or floor lamps. B.Nothing at all

C.A stove and a refrigerator D.A bed and a table.

3.Where is this text most likely from?

A.A guidebook. B.A website.

C.A magazine. D.A notice board.

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Choosing the right university for you is a big decision with many factors to consider. The institution that you choose will not only be the one that ensures your academic goals, but it will also be where you will live, learn, play sports, socialize and work for several years. Therefore, before you start filling out those university application forms, take a step back and consider the many variables that affect the “fit” of a university to your unique personality and educational goals. Take a look at the following factors, and decide which ones mean the most to you.

Consider your educational goals. You will discover that different schools are more recognized or progressive in your chosen field of study than others. For this reason, talk to advisors, professionals in your field, or go to clubs organized by the alumni（校友）. When you check out school ranking for your major, you may find that your first choice is not really a match, while another fits perfectly.

Consider costs. It will be no surprise to you at this point that not all schools cost the same. Some of the more famous schools are so because they are difficult to get into and difficult to pay for. Don’t let this necessarily stop you. Just keep this consideration in mind as you narrow your list of potential schools.

Choosing a university should not be done only on reputation, but also take the academic programs and overall environment into consideration. Be aware that reputations are sometimes out of date or overstated, so first-hand experience is often beneficial.

Once you’ve identified the factors that are most important to you, you’ve taken the first steps towards making a successful choice. Make sure you pick a university that will serve your needs throughout your university career.

1.What does the passage mainly talk about?(No more than 10 words.)

2.How many factors do you need to consider before choosing a university according to the passage? And list at least three of them.(No more than 15 words.)

3.According to the passage, what kind of university is it best for you to choose?(No more than15 words.)

________

4.What does the underlined word variables means in Paragraph One?(Only one word.)

________

5.In your opinion, what other things do we need to take into consideration before choosing a university besides the things mentioned in the passage? (No more than 20 words.)

________

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At Yale University, enrollment in basic Chinese in 2005 grew rapidly, and for the first time professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of the Chinese language to start in second- or third-year Chinese language class, rather than basic Chinese.

The American interest in China is not just at the university level. In the 2006 school year, high-school students will be offered an Advanced Placement test, which is one of the national exams American students take for university admission, in Chinese. This is the first time Chinese is offered in the Advanced Placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subjects that high school students take.

What is surprising is that earlier last year, an organization that tracks university students surveyed high schools throughout America, asking if they planned to offer the language courses that prepare students for the language Advanced Placement test. They expected that only a hundred high schools, mostly in California, New York, and a few other places with large immigrant populations, would show interest in each of the new language programs. Although that was true for the courses in Italian, Russian and Japanese, it was not true for the Chinese language course. There were thousands of American high schools that indicated that they planned to build their Chinese programs to levels where students could take the Advanced Placement exam for Chinese language. The demand for courses in Chinese is rising so rapidly that it is rapidly overtaking all other foreign languages except Spanish.

1. According to the passage many freshmen at Yale University today ________.

2. For university entrance, the American high-school students ________.

3. We can learn from the passage that ________.

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阅读表达,阅读下面的短文，请根据短文后的要求答题。

Choosing the right university for you is a big decision with many factors to consider. The institution that you choose will not only be the one that ensures your academic goals, but it will also be where you will live, learn, play sports, socialize and work for several years. Therefore, before you start filling out those university application forms, take a step back and consider the many variables that affect the “fit” of a university to your unique personality and educational goals. Take a look at the following factors, and decide which ones mean the most to you.

Consider your educational goals. You will discover that different schools are　 more recognized or progressive in your chosen field of study than others. For this reason, talk to advisors, professionals in your field, or go to clubs organized by the alumni(校友). When you check out school ranking for your major, you may find that your first choice is not really a match, while another fits perfectly.

Consider costs. It will be no surprise to you at this point that not all schools cost the same. Some of the more famous schools are so because they are difficult to get into and difficult to pay for. Don’t let this necessarily stop you. Just keep this consideration in mind as you narrow your list of potential schools.

Choosing a university should not be done only on reputation, but also take the academic programs and overall environment into consideration. Be aware that reputations are sometimes out of date or overstated, so first-hand experience is often beneficial.

Once you’ve identified the factors that are most important to you, you’ve taken the first steps towards making a successful choice. Make sure you pick a university that will serve your needs throughout your university career.

1.What does the passage mainly talk about? (No more than 10 words.)

____________________________________________________________________________

2.There are many factors you need to consider before choosing a university according to the passage, Can you list at least three of them? (No more than 15 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

3.According to the passage, what kind of university is the best for you to choose? (No more than 15words. )

____________________________________________________________________________

4.What does the underlined word “variables” mean in Paragraph 1? (Only one word.)

____________________________________________________________________________

5.In your opinion, what other things do we need to take into consideration before choosing a university besides the things mentioned in the passage? (No more than 20 words.)

____________________________________________________________________________

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Teaching and research are supported by the University’s extensive collections—the Yale University Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Collection of Musical Instruments. All the collections are open to the public.

Yale University Art Gallery

The Yale University Art Gallery, founded in 1832, today houses a collection that has grown to rank with those of the major public art museums in the United States. Its two connected buildings house ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art, Near and Far Eastern art, archaeological material from the University’s excavations (古迹), Pre-Columbian and African art, works of European and American masters from actually every period, and a rich collection of modern art. Across the street, the Yale Center for British Art, which was opened in 1977, holds the largest collection of British art and illustrated books anywhere outside the United Kingdom.

Peabody Museum of Natural History

Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, founded in 1866, contains one of the great scientific collections in North America. Among its holdings are the University’s comprehensive mineralogical and ornithological collections, the second-largest repository of dinosaur artifacts in the United States, and the largest undamaged Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus 雷龙) in the world. The Peabody is truly a working museum, where public exhibition, research, conservation, teaching, and learning intersect (贯穿).

Yale Center for British Art

Institutions like the Art Gallery, the Center for British Art, and the Peabody Museum hold only a portion of the treasures in the University’s collections. From paintings by Picasso, to pterodactyl (翼龙) remains, to a 1689 tenor viol in the Collection of Musical Instruments, Yale’s possessions are meant to be accessible to the communities they enrich.

Collection of Musical Instruments

Exhibitions are also frequently mounted (裱贴) at the following venues on campus: Art + Architecture Gallery (School of Architecture), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Green Hall Gallery (School of Art), and Sterling Memorial Library, including the Arts of the Book Collection.

1. Which of the following cannot be found in the Yale University Art Gallery?

A. Near and Far Eastern art.

B. Pre-Columbian and African art

C. British art and illustrated books.

D. Works of European and American masters.

2.Where will you go if you want to enjoy dinosaur artifacts?

A. Peabody Museum of Natural History.

B. Collection of Musical Instruments.

C. Yale University Art Gallery.

D. Yale Center for British Art.

3. Which of the following has the longest history according to the passage?

A. Yale Center for British Art.

B. Yale University Art Gallery.

C. Peabody Museum of Natural History.

D. A musical instrument named tenor viol.

4.We can learn from the passage that in Yale, ______.

A. collections are partly open to the public

B. there are many venues just for exhibitions

C. collections are from art museums in the US

D. exhibitions are frequently mounted on campus

5.What is the text mainly about?

A. Introduction to Yale University.             B. Introduction to collections in Yale.

C. Introduction to venues in Yale.              D. Introduction to art works in Yale.

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Residence Inn Milford

Within 15 minutes from historic Yale University and New Haven, the Residence Inn Milford offers great facilities and first-class service for business or leisure travel. Our all-suites hotel near New Haven is 1 hour from Bradley International Airport and 10 minutes from a Metro North train station that can get you to NYC in under an hour and a half. At our Milford, CT hotel, enjoy spacious studio, suites that are 50 percent larger than traditional hotel rooms.

Our suites offer hot breakfast buffet and a nightly social hour (Monday – Wednesday), on-site exercise room and outdoor swimming pool.

Price: $ 119 per night Pet Policy: Pets allowed Check in time: 3 pm

Marriott Detroit Southfield

Newly renovated (翻新), the Marriott Detroit Southfield Hotel is one of Detroit’s most desirable hotel destinations. With excellent public areas, enhanced meeting spaces and carefully redesigned guest rooms, the Marriott Detroit Southfield Hotel meets the needs of business, leisure and group guests travelling to the Detroit area. This suburban Detroit hotel has a prime location that allows for easy access to the Detroit Zoo, Henry Ford Museum, Comerica Park, Ford Field and many of the other local activities in the area. It is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Price :$ 75 per nightCheck in time : 4 pm

Comfort Suites Kodak

100 percent smoke free and pet free hotel conveniently located at the main gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains off Interstate 40 at exit 407, close to all the fun and excitement in Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, and Knoxville, including Dollywood, Dixie Stampede, Smokies Park, Sevierville Events Center, Tanger Outlet Mall, University of Tennessee and more. Guests enjoy waking up in our well-appointed guest suites featuring contemporary furnishings and LCD flat screen televisions, starting their day with our free breakfast, and relaxing in our indoor pool and exercise room.

Price: $55 per night　　 Check in time: 3 pm

The Swinton Hotel

Located in the very heart of the centre of London, the Swinton Hotel is one of the leading Kings Cross hotels offering free breakfast. It allows easy access to all tourist attractions, shopping areas and transport connections; you have come to the right place if you are looking for brilliant Kings Cross Hotels. Whatever reason you are looking for cheap hotels in London and whether you are visiting on business, as a tourist or to enjoy the vast varieties of entertainment and nightlife, we will be more than happy to provide you with a safe and comfortable environment. The Swinton Hotel is situated in an ideal location for those travelling to or from London by rail.

Price :$45 per night Check in time: 3 pm

1.What do we know about Marriott Detroit Southfield?

A. It’s designed specially for businessmen.

B. It has well-developed traffic to other cities.

C. It is quite easy to get to local attractions.

D. It is the cheapest of the four hotels.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the four advertisements?

A. Smoking is allowed in Comfort Suites Kodak.

B. The Swinton Hotel is located in south of London.

C. Marriott Detroit Southfield is built inside a park.

D. You may bring pets into Residence Inn Milford.

3.What do the four hotels have in common?

A. They are all near the airports.

B. They all offer guests breakfast.

C. People can enjoy free outdoor pools.

D. People should check in before 3 pm.

4.If you want to go climbing, you may choose ____.

A. Comfort Suites Kodak

B. Marriott Detroit Southfield

C. Residence Inn Milford

D. The Swinton Hotel

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New research at Yale University has provided the strongest evidence that humans are evolving（进化）- and suggests that women of the future will be shorter, heavier, and healthier, and will have children for longer.

As medicine has allowed people who would previously have died young to live to childbearing age and beyond, many have assumed that natural selection no longer works on our species. But Prof Stephen Stearns, the evolutionary biologist at Yale University behind the study, says: "That's just plain false." While survival to reproductive age（生育年龄） is no longer such a barrier（障碍） for humans, other evolutionary pressures – including sexual selection and reproductive fitness – are still working away in full force. If the trends the research detected are representative and continue for another 10 generations, Prof Stearns says that the average woman in 2409AD will be 2cm shorter and 1kg  heavier, will bear her first child five months earlier.

Prof Stearns and his team studied the medical histories of 14,000 residents of the Massachusetts town of Framingham, using medical data from a study going back to 1948 and spanning three generations. It looked at 2,238 women past reproductive age – so that they had had all the children they were going to – and tested their height, weight, cholesterol（胆固醇）, blood pressure, and other traits, to see if there was a correlation with the number of children they had borne. It found that shorter, heavier women had more children than lighter, taller ones. Women with lower blood pressure and cholesterol were also more likely to have large families. Women who gave birth early or had a late menopause were likely to have more children as well. More importantly, however, these traits were then passed on to their daughters, who also, on average, had more children.

The study has not determined why these factors are linked to reproductive success, but it is likely that they indicate genetic, rather than environmental, effects. Prof Stearns’ team controlled for other factors, including social and cultural change.

Research suggesting humans are evolving has been carried out before, but this is believed to be the first that directly compares reproductive success of individuals with physiological changes（生理变化）.

72. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Natural selection no longer works on our species, especially the woman.

B. Woman of the future will be shorter, heavier, and healthier, and will have children for longer

C. Some genetic, rather than environmental effects has more influence on the evolvement of the humans.

D. Evolutionary pressures are still working in full force on the evolvement of the humans.

73. Which of the following statements is False about the women’s evolvement according to the research?

A. women will shorter

B. women will be fatter

C. The time for the women to have baby will be longer

D. women will be cleverer

74. Which factor is the most promising related to reproductive success?

A. Genetic        B. Social         C. Environmental        D. Cultural

75. This passage may most likely be taken from           .

A. a geography magazine

B. a medicine and technology research journal

C. a daily newspaper

D. an entertainment book

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Three Yale University professors agreed in a discussion that the automobile was what one of them called “Public Health Enemy No. 1 in this century”. Besides polluting the air and overcrowding the cities, cars are involved in more than half the disastrous accidents, and they contribute to heart disease “because we won’t walk anywhere any more,” said Richard Weeinaman, professor of medicine and public health.

Speaking of many of those man-made dangers of the automobile, Arthur W. Galson, professor of biology, said it was possible to make a kerosene-burning turbine car that would “lessen smog by a very large factor”. But he expressed doubt whether Americans were willing to give up moving about the countryside at 90 miles per hour in a large vehicle. “America seems wedded to the motor car—every family has to have at least two, and one has to be a convertible (敞篷汽车) with 300 horsepower,” professor Galson continued. “Is this the way of life that we choose because we treasure these values?”

For professor Sears, part of the blame lies with “a society that regards profit as a supreme value, under the illusion that anything that’s technically possible is, therefore, morally justified”. Professor Sears also called the country’s dependence on its modern automobiles “terrible economics” because of the large horsepower used simply “moving one individual to work”. But he admitted that Americans have painted themselves into a corner by allowing the national economy to become so dependent on the automobile industry.

“The solution,” Dr Weeinerman said, “is not finding a less dangerous fuel but a different system of inner city transportation. Because of the increasing use of cars, public transportation has been allowed to wither (衰弱) and grow worse, so that if you can’t walk to where you want to go, you have to have a car in most cities,” he declared. This, in turn, Dr Weeinerman contended, is responsible for the “arteriosclerosis (动脉硬化)” of public roads, for the pollution of the inner city and for the middle-class movement to the suburbs.

1.The main idea of the passage is that 　　　　　 .

A. Americans are used to travelling by cars

B. American public transportation is growing worse

C. American car industry caused disastrous road accidents

D. American people’s health is threatened by automobiles

2.It can be inferred from the passage that 　　　　 .

A. Americans prefer cars to anything else

B. Americans are interested in fast automobiles

C. kerosene-burning engines cause more problems

D. kerosene-burning engines are green transportation

3.In Paragraph 3, Professor Sears implies that 　　　　　 .

A. technology is always good for people

B. technology is a sword with two sides

C. more attention should be paid to social effects

D. US doesn’t care about the environment at all

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