Question

Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

First, let's talk about what your weekly schedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect to spend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such as introduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it's very important for you to take notes on what the professor says because the information a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures. So it isn't enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, called teaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you'll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, or laboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non science majors do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do.

1.The main purpose of this text is ______.

A. to persuade the students to attend lectures

B. to help the students to learn about university life

C. to encourage the students to take part in discussions

D. to advise the students to choose proper majors

2. We can learn from the passage that university professors ______.

A. spend about 5 hours on lectures each week

B. must join the students in the discussion sections

C. prefer to use textbooks in their lectures

D. require the students to read beyond the textbooks

3.A discussion section does NOT include ______.

A. discussing the problems related to the students' homework

B. talking over what the students have read about the courses

C. working under the guidance of university professors

D. raising questions about what a professor has said in a lecture

4.According to the author, science majors ______.

A. have to work harder than non science majors

B. spend less time on their studies than non science majors

C. consider experiments more important than discussions

D. read and write less than non science majors

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.D

【解析】

试题分析：本文是说明文。这篇短文向读者介绍了大学生活，并且重点介绍了大学课堂。

1.】B主旨大意题:根据第一段you may be curious to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students, and so on.（你或许会好奇地想知道你通常在一个典型的一周里做什么，如何与你的同学相处如何,等等）知此处选B。

2.2】D.细节理解题。根据第二段the information a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures（课堂上老师讲授的与书本不同，同时，考试中的问题也是基于此），可知此处选D。

3.3】D.细节理解题：根据第二段 The discussion section is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures（讨论部分是一次小组会议，通常只有不到三十个学生,你可以问关于讲座的问题），可知working under the guidance of university professors（在讲师的领导下进行）是错的，故选C。

4.4】D.细节理解提：根据第三段因为他们要花更多的时间花在实验之类的，这就意味着理工科专业的学生要比非此专业学生花更多时间在课堂上，故选D。

考点：考查学科类阅读。