A study suggests that although most students at UK universities are happy with their courses, dissatisfaction has grown as fees rise．The study highlights a big variation in teaching time, and lists different ideas about the value of getting university degrees．

Katharine Collins, a second-year college student

The course has been very interesting, but I was expecting a little more one-to-one time with my teacher．

We do about four assignments （作业） each term, each of which is about 3,000 words．However, sometimes they are not that helpful．We hope to be given the right to write feedback （反馈） after every assignment, but we had no feedback at all throughout the first year．We are given grades about three weeks after we hand the assignments in．There is no feedback on where we have gone wrong or how we might improve．

????????????? Lee Millington, a creative-writing student

I choose the courses because of its reputation．There is a lack of one-to-one teaching．I would like personalized feedback from an expert in my field of writing．Some of the lectures have been quite helpful but they try to use too many different styles of writing．For example, if you want to be a poet, you might find that the lectures focus too much on novels．

I think there is too much attention paid to sharing our work in workshops and giving each other feedback．I think there should be more time given to actual teaching, rather than to feedback from people who are at a similar level to me．

????????????? Reporters from Hounsdown Secondary School, Ella, 16

When I work independently, I feel I have more freedom to develop my ideas and come up with more original viewpoints．The price of university will still be worth it to get the qualifications （资格证书） necessary for better jobs．

Tyier, 16

????????????? Although the cost of university is very high now, I think university is required for gaining a good and well-paid job．

Agencies
1.We can learn from the beginning of the article that ????????? .

A. Most of the university students at UK are dissatisfied with their courses.

B. The higher and higher pay for their courses accounts for the rise of the UK students’ dissatisfaction.

C. All the students at UK universities hold a similar attitude towards the value of getting university degrees.

D. The student’s purpose is to highlight the importance of gaining a university diploma.

2.According to Katharine Collins in Paragraph 2, we can infer that ????????? .

A. She is content with the assignments given in each term.

B. She has never been given one-to-one time with her teacher before.

C. She didn’t think highly of the value of the assignments at the university.

D. She benefits from the assignments a lot because they are helpful.

3.Why does Lee Millington choose the course-- writing?

A. Because he wants to be a great writer in the future.

B. Because he is interested in it from his heart.

C．Because he hope to make a better living before long．

D．Because the course has a high reputation in society．

4.Who will most tend to be a professional novelist among the students mentioned in the passage?

A．Ella．????????????? B．Tyler．????????????? C．Lee．????????????? D．Katharine．

5.What does the author mainly tell us at UK in this passage?

A．The value for university degrees．?????????????

B．The higher pay for courses at university．

C．The terrible assignments at university． ?????????????

D．The puzzle of the students at university．

Twelve years ago, my mother gave birth to a little girl. We were a broken family with __56__ money. We were given the __57__ that this little girl, who was three and a half months premature(早产的), would have only 14 days on this earth. It’s hard to __58__ what kind of feeling you have when you find out you’re __59__ something that you don’t even know.

As time went on, the number of days kept __60__, which gave us hope. When they said we could take her home, we began to realize that we had to pay off the medical bills, but we had no __61__.

We’re from a small town with small hospitals, but __62__ you don’t have money, you just don’t have it. My mother tried for days to __63__ the money, but came up penniless each time. A case worker helps a particular(特定的) person or family in the community with special __64__. Cathy, who was a case worker, was doing her best to help us. It was __65__ that it almost felt like we had to buy a baby from the hospital.

One day the case worker walked into her boss’s office to try again. As she walked out, she got __66__ again. Out of nowhere a __67__ walked up to her. He __68__ her a handful of money and said, “Please give this to the lady in need, so she can take her daughter home.” She looked down at her __69__ with tears in her eyes. As she looked back up to __70__ him, he was gone. They __71__ all over the hospital and he was nowhere to be found.

Thanks to the guy that I will __72__ know, my mother took home that baby girl that was only given 14 days to __73__.

Yesterday, we celebrated her __74__ birthday. I’m grateful to this man and feel that his act of __75__ should be shared with everyone.

56.A. enough                    B. much                      C. little                       D. some

57. A. plan                        B. news                      C. condition                D. award

58. A. repeat                    B. remember              C. doubt                     D. understand

59. A. accepting               B. losing                     C. throwing                 D. receiving

60. A. growing                  B. holding                   C. reducing                D. waiting

61. A. purpose                  B. experience             C. money                    D. opportunity

62. A. as if                        B. when                      C. even though          D. although

63. A. charge                    B. receive                   C. save                       D. get

64. A. needs                     B. events                    C. interest                  D. education

65.A. reliable                    B. separate                C. sad                        D. reasonable

66. A. disappointed          B. moved                    C. honored                 D. concerned

67.A. classmate                B. stranger                 C. relative                   D. neighbor

68.A. handed                    B. lent                         C. cost                        D. paid

69. A. way                         B. bag                        C. feet                        D. hand

70. A. ask                         B. choose                   C. thank                     D. recognize

71. A. visited                     B. surrounded            C. shouted                 D. searched

72. A. always                    B. never                     C. even                      D. also

73. A. live                         B. spare                     C. demand                 D. know

74. A. last                         B. first                         C. twelfth                    D. twentieth

75. A. braveness              B. politeness              C. honesty                  D. kindness

Twist was the name of an old champion racing horse. He was past thirty years old, but the heart of the true  36   still beat with the great spirit. However, I knew little about the   37   that the old horse’s spirit would have on my daughter.

My daughter Stacy had ever had a   38   experience with a runaway horse. She was just eight at the time, and a terrifying   39   accompanied the disaster. Although she broke no bones, her   40   , love for horses and the desire to learn to ride were   41  . No matter how my wife and I tried, we had no   42   in curing the damage caused that day. But when she was thirteen, a turning point came. One day as I saw Stacy look into the eye of the   43   fellow in the stall(牲口棚), I knew this was going to be the beginning of a   44   relationship.

         Fortunately, Stacy’s accident had not weakened her love for   45   in general, and this small opening was all that Twist needed to create an unusual bond(纽带). In the following weeks, Stacy began to express daily   46  in coming to the stall with me. She   47   spent time with him, feeding, brushing and combing him, all the  48   talking to him about her life.

Then one day   49   I was readying one horse for a ride, I noticed the old guy’s   50  expression and desire to be included, too. So I asked Stacy if she wanted to take Twist out for a ride. In   51  , Stacy looked once again into the old man’s eye. That moment, their two spirits   52   and completed the bond that had been forming over a couple of months. Continuing to look deep into his eyes, Stacy didn’t   53   . She only nodded yes. Moments later, I saw them riding   54   together, Stacy winning renewed confidence and desire, and Twist winning his medal of a child’s  55  .

1.A. owner                                    B. winner                    C. jumper                    D. member

2.A. wish                               B. idea                                   C. effect                                D. ability

3.A. new                               B. bad                                    C. rich                                   D. strange

4.A. fall                                 B. task                                   C. shake                                D. attack

5.A. pride                             B. skill                                    C. luck                                   D. confidence

6.A. ignored                         B. reformed                         C. destroyed                        D. overlooked

7.A. aim                                B. need                                 C. surprise                            D. success

8.A. poor                              B. old                                     C. brave                   D. strong  

9.A. serious                          B. similar                     C. special                     D. formal

10.A. animals                       B. parents                   C. friends                    D. fields

11.A. thanks                         B. interest                          C. opinions                D. sympathy

12.A. endlessly                            B. roughly                 C. unwillingly             D. actively

13.A. best                             B. way                                   C. same                                 D. time

14.A. as                                 B. so                             C. although                           D. because

15.A. angry                                    B. sad                                    C. eager                                D. anxious

16.A. brief                                     B. response                          C. return                     D. addition

17.A. met                             B. rose                                  C. fought                     D. recovered

18.A. act                               B. think                                 C. speak                                D. smile

19.A. on                                B. back                                  C. down                                D. off

20.A. heart                                    B. spirit                                 C. agreement             D. dependence

Education from My Father
My memories of my father are slim because he was so sick in the last years of his life. But there are   32  that I am often reminded of and which may have had some bearing on my love of   33 .
When I was small I was somewhat   34  of lightning and thunder. My father explained it. The explanation was in   35  that a child could understand but was basically correct. I gained a better   36  later, but I didn’t have to unlearn anything.
What he said was that there was electricity in the clouds   37  it traveled to the ground like a spark. When it traveled   38  the air it made the air so hot that it   39 . Then there was nothing where the air had been and the air all around rushed in to   40  the space. He clapped his hands together very loud,   41  to be the air rushing in, and said that makes the thunder. When I hear thunder, I can still hear that   42 .
He explained why if it was cloudy in the winter the night was warmer than if it was   43 . It was one of those nights when the sky was full of stars: no moon, no town lights. But there were more stars than you could   44  and they had color too. He said that if there were no clouds, we had no blankets and were   45  to the universe. Our warmth was going to   46  the whole universe. When there were clouds, they were like blankets and we were not exposed to the universe. I   47  feel on the edge of space on a very clear night.
I am sure there were many other lessons that I   48  but no longer remember. What I did 49 , in general, was that there were explanations and that the more I understood them, the more    comfortable the world was to live in. I was not taught that there were   50  but that there was understanding if you looked for it. This may be why I have always been   51  in science.

Last Friday my brother and I were driving home and had a fun conversation. So absorbed in our talk, my brother took a wrong turn.

    Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a  31  , and we had no way to turn  32  . __33  my brother paid the bridge fee and drove on. He was greatly  34  by his mistake and the needless   35   of $4.

    We eventually reached an exit, and as we took it, my brother noticed a young fellow  36  over to the side. He came out of his car and tried to  37  someone. I was busy trying to   38  which way we would go next, but my brother stopped and asked the guy if he needed any  39  And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a tool to get it off.

My brother gave him a wrench（扳手）, and then helped him  40  the flat. The young man said that this had been a  41  week for him: earlier he had gotten into a minor car  42  , and now this tire was flat on his way home from work. But he called us “a breath of fresh air’’ and kept   43   us because he really would have been   44   if we hadn’t come along.

    After we had finished the job, he thanked us again and pulled out $20 to give us. “No,” my brother said. “We were never  45  to even get on that bridge. We took a wrong turn. But now we know  46   we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into a（n）  47  to serve.”

What I loved most was  48  my brother throughout this process. He was able to turn his mistake into  49  energy to help others even in a negative situation, which could only come from a calm mind and an open  50  .

1.A. bridge         B. freeway      C. wall         D. river

2.A. away           B. down         C. over         D. back

3.A. Amazedly       B. Worriedly    C. Unwillingly D. Happily

4.A. attacked       B. annoyed      C. survived     D. suspected

5.A. charge         B. price        C. value        D. waste

6.A. left           B. moved        C. pushed       D. pulled

7.A. find           B. complain    C. phone        D. scold

8.A. put forward    B. figure out   C. get across   D. set aside

9.A. advice         B. help         C. money        D. oil

10.A. change            B. check        C. repair       D. carry

11.A. pleasant      B. terrible    C. memorable    D. busy

12.A. accident      B. debate       C. sale         D. show

13.A. encouraging  B. teaching    C. thanking     D. troubling

14.A. damaged       B. defeated    C. neglected    D. stuck

15.A. allowed       B. forced       C. supposed     D. welcomed

16.A. that          B. what         C. how          D. why

17.A. business      B. failure      C. opportunity D. success

18.A. watching      B. helping      C. asking       D. thanking

19.A. usual         B. natural      C. positive     D. special

20.A. head          B. heart        C. stage        D. view