Instead of hitting the beach, fourteen high school students traded swimming suits for lab coats last summer and turned their attention to scientific experiments.
The High School Research Program offers high school students guidance with researchers in Texas A&M’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Jennifer Funkhouser, academic adviser for the Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management, directs this four-week summer program designed to increase understanding of research and its career potential.
Several considerations go into selecting students, including grades, school involvement and interest in science and agriculture. And many students come from poorer school districts, Funkhouser says. “This is their chance to learn techniques and do experiments they never would have a chance to do in high school.
Warner Ervin of Houston is interested in animal science and learned how to tell male from female mosquitoes. His adviser, Craig Coates, studies the genes of mosquitoes that allow them to fight against malaria and yellow fever. Coates thought this experience would be fun and helpful to the high school students.
The agricultural research at A&M differs from stereotypes. It’s molecular(分子)science on the cutting edge,” Funkhouser says. The program broadened students’ knowledge. Victor Garcia of Rio Grande City hopes to become a biology teacher and says he learned a lot about chemistry from the program.
At the end of the program, the students presented papers on their research. They’re also paid $600 for their work— another way this program differs from others, which often charge a fee.
Fourteen students got paid to learn that science is fun, that agriculture is a lot more than milking and plowing and that research can open many doors.
43. The research program is chiefly designed for ________ .
A. high school advisers from Houston
B. college students majoring in agriculture
C. high school students from different places
D. researchers at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
44. It can be inferred from the text that the students in poorer areas________.
A. had little chance to go to college
B. could often take part in the program
C. found the program useful to their future
D. showed much interest in their high school experiments
45. When the program was over, the students________.
A. entered that college B. wrote research reports
C. paid for their research D. found way to make money
46. What would be the best title for the text?
A. A Program for Agricultural Science Students
B. A Program for Animal Science Students
C. A Program for Medical Science Lovers
D. A Program for Future Science Lovers
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Mr Baker is always making _____comments instead of straightforward yes-or-no replies.
A.ambiguous | B.unconscious | C.amateur | D.punctual |
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完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白
处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
第二节完型填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)
It was New Year’s night, An aged man was standing at a window. He raised his mournful(悲哀的)eyes towards the deep 36 sky, where the stars were 37 like white lilies(百合花)on
the surface of a clear calm lake.Then he threw them on the earth.Where a few more 38 people than himself now moved towards their certain goal-the 39 ,He had already passed sixty of the 40 leading to it,and he had brought from his journey nothing but errors and regret.Now his health was poor,his mind 41 ,his heart sorrowful,and his old age short of 42.
The days of his youth appeared like dreams before him.and he recalled the 43 moment
when his father placed him at the 44 to the two roads-one leading to a 45 .sunny place.
covered with flowers,fruits and resounding with soft,sweet songs;the other 1eading to a deep,
dark cave.which was endless. 46 poison flowed instead of water and where deviIs(恶魔)and
poisonous snakes hissed and crawled.
He saw the 47 fading away in the darkness.and these were the days of his 48 life;He saw a star fall from the sky and disappeared,and this was the 49 of himself.His regret,which was like a sharparrow.Struck deeply into his heart.Then he remembered his friends in his
childhood.who entered on life together with him.But they had 50 to success and were now
honored and happy on this New Year’s night
The clock in the high church tow struck and the sound made him remember his parents’
early love for him.They had taught him and 51 to God for his good.But he chose the 52
way.With shame and grief he 53 no longer look towards that heaven where his father lived.
His darkened eyes were full of tears,and with a despairing 54 ,he burst out a cry;“Come back,my 55 days!Come back!”
36.A.grey B,blue C. black D. cloudy
37.A.floating B, flashing C hanging D shinning
38.A.purposeless B purposeful C hopeful D hopeless
39.A.house B tomb C church D birthplace
40.A.dreams B moments C incidents D stages
41.A.strange B pale C blank D shallow
42.A.allowances Bcomforts C experiences D memories
43.A.serious B awful C tough D desperate
44.A.end B entrance C origin D base
45.A. lonely B noisy C quiet D peaceful
46.A.which B that C whose D where
47.A.people B lights C stars D clouds
48.A.accustomed B rewarded C wasted D occupied
49.A.symbol B fate C future D outcome
50.A.lost their heart B devoted their attention
C.made their way D given their way
51.A.prayed B attached C adjusted D turned
52.A.ordinary B unfamiliar C wrong D difficult
53.A.would B could C should D dared
54.A.anxiety B effort C patience D attempt
55.A.early B good C old D shamdful
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Ⅱ.语言知识及应用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16—30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Everyone has experienced trying but failing to master a difficult book, which was begun with the hope of increasing one's understanding. When that happens, it is 16 to think that it was a mistake to try to read it, but that was not the mistake. The mistake was in 17 too much from the first reading of a(n) 18 book. If you read it in the right way, no book written for the 19 reader, no matter how difficult, need be a cause for despair (绝望).
What is the right method? The 20 is an important and helpful rule of reading that is either not known or often forgotten. That rule is simply this: when reading a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever 21 to think about the things that you do not understand immediately.
Do not be stopped by what you can't understand. Read through the difficult 22 , and you’ll soon come to things that you do understand. Read these 23 . You will have a much better chance of understanding all of the book when you read it again, but that 24 you to have read the book through once 25 .
What you understand by reading the book through to the 26 will help you when you try later to read the places that you did not 27 in your first reading. Or if you never re-read the book, understanding half of it is much better than understanding nothing of it, which will happen if you allow yourself to be stopped by the first difficult part of the book.
Most of us were taught to 28 the things that we do not understand. We were told to find the 29 of unfamiliar words, and to try to find an explanation in another 30 for anything that we did not understand in the book that we were reading. But when these things are done before the proper time, they only harm our reading, instead of helping it.
16. A. necessary B. useful C. natural D. effective
17. A. learning B. hoping C. accepting D. expecting
18. A. easy B. difficult C. important D. correct
19. A. ordinary B. young C. serious D. sincere
20. A. method B. question C. answer D. problem
21. A. starting B. hesitating C. stopping D . repeating
22. A. words B. articles C. parts D. points
23. A. quickly B. immediately C. clearly D. carefully
24.A. requires B. causes C. advises D. allows
25.A. later B. after C. before D. again
26.A. top B. end C. bottom D. cover
27.A. see B. turn C. notice D. understand
28.A. put away B. put down C. think aloud D. think about
29.A. uses B. meanings C. spellings D. troubles
30.A. thinking B. reading C. book D. way
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第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)?
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Rest is critical to life and work and a positive attitude towards rest needs to be maintained. Enough rest is significant to our body and mind 36 a lack of adequate rest, as well as __37__ attitudes to rest, will do great harm to our health.
Rest is vital to our ability to 38 at our best. Recent news stories report that scientists are learning surprising things about the importance of sleep. There is enough __39_ suggesting that rest will refresh us, 40 our body and mind to work efficiently. Besides, rest is important for 41 that; it is helpful in setting 42 goals and deciding what goals to attain first. Those who are caught up in extremely busy lives 43 the time to think about what they are doing and to make objective 44 , which blocks the maximization of their 45 .
On the contrary, lack of adequate rest damages brain function, so much so that sleep experts have been able to 46 drops in IQ in patients who are 47 of sleep. Other studies have presented a negative effect on body movements in sleep-wanting subjects. It should not, therefore, be a 48 that the California Highway Patrol has stated that sleep-wanting drivers are as great a 49 to road safety as are drunken drivers.
However, rest is widely 50 by some people. Instead of sleep, they go to pubs and clubs 51 what they call social drinking or having a smoke with friends and they 52__ that this kind of entertaining is rest. Nowadays, the economy forces people to drink and gamble for the sake of the 53 one moves in. The truth is that rest means not using our _54 _ both physically and mentally, even spiritually. We need to rest correctly and 55 ; otherwise, tiredness and illness will occur.
36. A. when B. though C. until D. while
37. A. critical B. misleading C. puzzling D. ambiguous
38. A. survive B. create C. function D. advance
39. A. evidence B. theory C. belief D. information
40. A. encouraging B. enabling C. persuading D. concentrating
41. A. more than B. rather than C. other than D. less than
42. A. ideal B. appropriate C. professional D. high
43. A. afford B. expect C. lack D. waste
44. A. comments B. complaints C. attempts D. decisions
45. A. potential B. limit C. vision D. goal
46. A. predict B. evaluate C. measure D. assume
47. A. short B. afraid C. full D. tired
48. A. fact B. warning C. rule D. surprise
49. A. burden B. reminder C. threat D. blow
50. A. accepted B. valued C. abandoned D. misunderstood
51 A. with B. like C. as D. for
52. A. claim B. suggest C. announce D. promote
53. A. traps B. circles C. mysteries D. troubles
54. A. judgment B. time C. labor D. power
55. A. completely B. partly C. sufficiently D. permanently
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"Everything happens for the best." my mother said whenever I felt disappointed. " 36 , and one day something good will happen. Then you'll realize it wouldn't have happened 37 the disappointment you had experienced 38 ." Mother was right, 39 I discovered after graduating from college, I had decided to try for a job 40 radio, then 41 my way up to a sports announcer. I hitchhiked (搭免费车) to Chicago and tried every station, but got 42 . In one studio, a kind lady told me big stations couldn't risk hiring inexperienced persons. "Try your luck in the 43 " she said.
I hitchhiked home to Dixon, Illinois, where there was no radio-announcing jobs. My father said a store wanted a local 44 to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was 45 I had played high school football, I 46 . The job sounded just 47 for me. But l wasn't hired.
My disappointment 48 have shown. "Everything harem for the best." Mother 49 . Then I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer. As I left his office, my disappointment boiled 50 . I asked aloud. "How can a fellow become a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"
I was waiting for the 51 when I heard MacArthur calling, "What was that you said about sports? You know something about football?" Then he 52 me before a 53 and asked me to broadcast a(n) 54 game.
On my way home, as I have many times 55 , I thought of my mother's words.
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