Two years ago, I decided to study at the University of St. Edwards in the city of Austin, Texas. When I was on my research to find the perfect place to study in, I considered many aspects: a safe place, a city where there were companies devoted to marketing or technology, a place where speaking Spanish and English was an advantage and a school where I could learn about digital strategies (数字策略). After comparing and evaluating many cities and universities. I finally decided on Austin.
Since I arrived in Austin, Texas. I had been living inside the university where I had a private room and shared common areas with more students. University life was not very different from the life in Mexico and classes were semblable and the way of socializing too. However, in the United States, the classes were more practical and teachers encouraged you to be self-responsible and complete your tasks.
The classes that I was taking were related to social media, digital marketing and advertising. I was very excited to be able to study technology-related courses.
What I liked most about the experience was being able to live with students from many places, which allowed me to learn from other cultures and to share mine with other students. Also, international student services usually organized events and tours that helped me to get to know the city and the school.
I certainly think that studying abroad is a beneficial experience. It makes us capable of understanding cultural differences and accepting diversity. Personally, I would suggest that you first determine what your goals are by going abroad, research the opportunities and lifestyle, evaluate your universities, and finally decide on the one where you feel more comfortable, connecting with your values and way of seeing life.
1. Which of the following can best describe the author according to paragraph 1？| A．Casual. | B．Cautious. | C．Changeable. | D．Adventurous. |
| A．Worthwhile. | B．Practical. | C．Same. | D．Similar. |
| A．Speaking Spanish and English in Austin, Texas. |
| B．Working as a designer in a technology company. |
| C．Having a chance to learn about different cultures. |
| D．Organizing many events and tours independently. |
| A．Be careful to choose the university to study in. |
| B．Set no limits on their academic performances. |
| C．Study where they're familiar with everything. |
| D．Adjust personal lifestyles for the university. |
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【推荐1】Finally, I entered the university. Because of my careful savings, I did not have to work during the school year. Then, summer came and it was time to work harder than ever. I continued working as a waitress at night, instructed tennis camps several mornings a week and worked as a secretary for a few hours in the afternoons. I even decided to take a class at a community(社区) college. This class at the community college saved me $650. It was an extremely tiring summer and made me anxious to return to my relatively easy life at the university.
During my second and third years of undergraduate schooling, I decided to work about five hours per week in the campus admissions office answering phones. This provided a little spending money and kept me from drawing my savings out. I wanted to go to Israel to study for 3 weeks, but I hesitated in making this decision because it would cost me $1,600 more to get the credits(贷款) in Israel. About two weeks later my mom called to tell me that I had $1,600 in the bank that I had forgotten about! One of my concerns about this trip was not only the cost, but the loss of time to make money; however, I made as much that summer in the ten weeks when I was at home as I had made during the fourteen weeks when I was at home the summer before. The way everything worked together to make this trip possible was one of the most exciting things that have ever happened to me.
This experience has shaped me in many important ways. The first thing that I learned was the importance of a strong work ethic(伦理). Working long hours did a lot to develop my character and helped me learn the value of a dollar. It also made me learn how to search for creative ways to settle difficult situations.
1. Where did the writer probably work part-time before attending the university?| A．In a restaurant. | B．In the tennis camps. |
| C．In a company. | D．In the campus admissions office. |
| A．Because she wanted to save money. |
| B．Because life there was relatively easy. |
| C．Because summer time was tiring. |
| D．Because it was required by the university. |
| A．How the writer made money on the college campus. |
| B．How the writer managed to make full use of her vacation. |
| C．How the writer was forced to support herself by her mother. |
| D．How the writer was shaped by working part-time through college. |
【推荐2】“OK class. Count off by fives.”
Group projects also give you a chance to get to know kids you might not know or talk with — maybe the quiet kid in the third row, or the boy who lived down the street when you were in kindergarten.
| A．Few of us act alone in the real world. |
| B．Why is this type of project so popular in school? |
| C．With group work, you can actually learn more in less time. |
| D．Maybe your group will pick you to tell the whole class about your project. |
| E．Group projects are also a great way to practice skills you’re not so sure of. |
| F．When your teacher gives you that instruction, you know what’s coming next. |
| G．One key to a good meeting is having a leader who should help the group stay focused. |
Guide to Stockholm University Library
Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.
Zones
The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.
Computers
You can use your own computer to connect to the wi-fi specially prepared for notebook computers, you can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.
Group-study places
If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2-3 people and others can hold up to 6-8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps.
There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.
Storage of Study Material
The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits(学分), you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a year’s rental period.
Rules to be Followed
Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.
Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.
1. The library’s upper floor is mainly for students to .
| A．read in a quiet place |
| B．have group discussions |
| C．take comfortable seats |
| D．get their computers fixed |
| A．help students with their field experiments |
| B．are for those who want to access the wi-fi |
| C．contain software necessary for schoolwork |
| D．are mostly used for filling out application forms |
| A．Group must consist of 8 people. |
| B．One should have an active University account. |
| C．Three-hour use per day is the minimum. |
| D．Applicants must mark the room on the map. |
| A．has earned the required credits |
| B．attends certain course |
| C．has nowhere to put his books |
| D．can afford the rental fee |
| A．Mobile phones. | B．Orange juice. |
| C．Candy. | D．Sandwiches. |
【推荐1】It’s nearly exam time again. How to prepare well for an exam? Suggestions run as long as the history of the exam. Besides those long-accepted traditional methods, many better learning strategies have long been scientifically explored, tested and recommended.
According to the current scientific research, some study methods popular with students aren’t actually very effective. Although highlighting text is one of the top tips, students are easy to get so absorbed in the highlighting that it’s not certain they are learning anything useful. “You need to do more than just highlight information with your favorite highlighters and colours. You need to go back and make flashcards of all the important concepts and test yourself on them.” That’s a point made by John Dunlosky, Professor of Psychology at Kent State University in the US. By repeatedly testing yourself on something over a period of time, say, weeks or months, students strengthen the pathways between neurons - or nerve cells - in the brain. And the more often they do this distributed practice, the easier it becomes to strengthen information.
Some prefer the cramming method - trying and learning lots of information in a short period of time. However, Dunlovsky commented that it doesn’t work on some subjects, such as language learning. It’s far more effective to join a conversation class and practise speaking every week than to practise for hours in front of the mirror the night before the oral exam!
Whatever the method is, making different types of associations with what you’re trying to learn is meant to be effective. Professor Dunlovsky recommends visual associations. Students are encouraged to develop a more vivid mental picture of what they’re reading. That’ll help quite a bit for some kinds of studies - maybe history and language and so on. As for spelling difficult words, students can try putting the first letters of a sentence together, like big elephants cause accidents under small elephants spells “because”.
1. What does the writer mean in the first paragraph?| A．Tradition methods are out of date. |
| B．Long suggestions often work very well. |
| C．Modern methods are more widely accepted. |
| D．Advice on preparations for exams has never been stopped. |
| A．Repeated test can help remember better. |
| B．Creating mind map is very effective. |
| C．Highlighting is important to learn anything useful. |
| D．Practising before the night of the exam is of great use. |
| A．By borrowing words from experts. | B．By introducing the ideas of an expert. |
| C．By giving some typical examples. | D．By criticizing some ineffective practice. |
| A．Survival Skills in the Exams! | B．Preparations? The Earlier, the Better! |
| C．Various Methods? Effectiveness Speaks! | D．The Expert Guides You to Pass Exams! |
【推荐2】It’s been said by some people that men are better at math and science than women. And taking a look at the figures from college departments, it could be difficult to argue with that. However, one famous British university is trying to put an end to this theory.
At Oxford University, math and computer science are two subjects that have big gaps in terms of grades between men and women. For example, just 21.2 percent of women taking math graduated with first-class degrees in 2017, compared to 45.5 percent of men, reported The Times.
The university believes that female students are more likely to be affected by “time pressure”. So to solve this problem, female students at Oxford were given 15 minutes more than male students to finish their math and computer science exams in the summer of 2017.
The decision came not long after the university’s history department allowed its female students to take exams at home in 2017, reported The Independent. The aim of that plan was also to close the gap between men and women in the subject’s exam results.
These changes were welcomed by some people, who saw them as a positive sign.
However, others criticized the decisions, saying they suggest that females are the weaker sex.
Indeed, research from the US Department of Education suggested that girls are as good at math-based subjects as boys are, reported news website Quartz in January. However, they’re prevented from cultivating an interest in math and science because of the bias (偏见) that women aren’t good at those subjects, a 2012 report by Forbes said.
But according to Quartz, there are better ways to equalize education between the sexes, such as giving more resources to girls to help them fall in love with math and science.
And for girls who think they’re bad at these subjects, it could all just be in their imagination. “The truth is, you probably are a math person, and by thinking otherwise, you are possibly hamstringing (破坏)your own career,” wrote The Atlantic.
1. We can know from Paragraph 1 that________.| A．There is a gap between the math abilities of males and females. |
| B．According to some college departments, females got better grades than males in math. |
| C．It is difficult to know whether males or females are more skilled in math. |
| D．A British university doesn’t believe females are the weaker in math and is trying to help solve the problem. |
| A．Who is more excellent in terms of grades in math and computer science. |
| B．Whether Oxford University’s measures are effective. |
| C．What Oxford University did to improve females’ math grades. |
| D．What we should do to equalize education between sexes. |
| A．Females need more time during the math exams. |
| B．Due to the bias that women aren’t good at math, females performed badly in math-based subjects. |
| C．If developing an interest in math, females may be no worse than males. |
| D．The more resources are given to females, the better grades they will get in the math exams. |
【推荐3】Studying history provides you with more rounded skills and an improved ability to think critically—something you can take into the rest of your education.
Connect events together.
When studying significant changes in a country, it's important to know what key events contributed to this.
One popular method for doing this involves making connections to develop the full picture. Note down the important events, facts and people. Then create a mind map with them, using colors and symbols to establish a pattern containing a large amount of easily digestible information.
While history usually focuses on the larger picture rather than just a number of dates or facts, it is worthwhile adopting memory techniques to ensure that you can reach for specific information when necessary.
Flashcards are an excellent way to do this. Find some cards and write down brief facts or statements.
Soak up (吸收) books and films.
History is packed with real-life stories — many of which are told to a new generation in the form of novels and films. When you have finished studying your textbooks, films and books offer a lighter, but still useful way to learn about history.
| A．History is full of stories. |
| B．Display key information. |
| C．Stick them around your room. |
| D．Just be sure to choose the right titles. |
| E．But history is not about memorizing a list of facts or dates. |
| F．But through history we can become more creative thinkers. |
| G．It can lead to a discouraging list of times, dates and people to learn. |
【推荐1】How long will it take you to read this article? On average, adults read about 240 words a minute, but I always take longer. I should probably feel embarrassed-but instead, I take joy in it.
I got the habit of reading for pleasure from my mum. Reading is what I do first thing in the morning and last thing at night. But it’s always taken me a long time. When I started reviewing books, I was averaging 20 pages an hour. I have improved to about 30 pages, but that’s still slow, according to some literary critics.
Book reviewers aren’t the only ones under pressure to read quickly. Pictures of “all the books I read this month” are all over social media. And reading has become a way of keeping up with the world. It is understandable that we try to make sense of events, but it can also fuel the idea that reading is a chore (苦差事), which it absolutely is not.
Why would pleasure be equal to pace? My slow reading seems to be down to a combination of slower processing speeds, and “subvocalising” — sounding out words as I read them. But especially when it comes to the latter, I wouldn’t want to train myself to go faster. It was news to me that not everyone subvocalises, because one of my favourite things about reading is hearing the language in my mind. Without subvocalising, I wouldn’t have caught the music of those words.
Recently, I finished a book of poetry. For two years, I read the poems each morning in the four minutes it took my coffee to be ready. It was a wonderful reminder that reading is never about quantity and always about the quality of time you spend with a text.
So when you read, don’t stick a number on it ---- resolve to read for pleasure, not as a chore.
1. Why does the author like slow reading?| A．It wins her fame online. | B．It is a delightful practice. |
| C．It comes from her mom. | D．It helps her reach goals. |
| A．Quantity. | B．Quality. | C．Content. | D．Sound. |
| A．Slower processing speeds. |
| B．Learning language. |
| C．Combining speeds and sounds. |
| D．Reading words out. |
| A．Reading is a demanding task. |
| B．Pace equals reading pleasure. |
| C．Beauty of words needs tasting. |
| D．Poetry takes no effort to digest. |
【推荐2】A good teacher is many things to many people. In my own experience, the people I respect the most and think about the most are the teachers who demanded the most discipline from their students.
I miss one teacher in particular that I had in high school. I think she was a good teacher because she was a very strict person. I remember very clearly a sign over her classroom door. It was a simple sign that said, “Laboratory — in this room the first of the word was emphasized, not the last seven.” In other words, I guess, labor for her was more important than oratory, which means making speeches.
She prepared her work very carefully and asked us to do the same. We got lots of homework from her. Once she had broken her arm, and everybody in the class thought that maybe the homework load would be reduced, but it continued just the same. She checked our work by stamping her name at the bottom of the papers to show that she had read them.
I think sometimes teachers who demand the most are liked the least. But as time goes by, this discipline really seems to be good for the students.
1. What does the underlined word “demanded” in paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Required. | B．Handed. | C．Praised. | D．Revised. |
| A．to remind the students that this room was a laboratory |
| B．to advise the students to follow the disciplines |
| C．to warn the students not to be careless |
| D．to ask the students to work hard in the classroom |
| A．asked her students to check the homework themselves |
| B．gave her students less homework |
| C．gave her students the usual amount of homework |
| D．gave her students more homework |
| A．It makes the students dislike their teachers. | B．It does good to the students in the long run. |
| C．It’s too much for young children. | D．It does more harm than good to the students. |
【推荐3】Two of the saddest words in the English language are “if only”. I live my life with the goal of never having to say those words, because they convey regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and disappointment.
My father is famous in our family for saying, “Take the extra minute to do it right.” I always try to live by the “extra minute” rule. When my children were young and likely to cause accidents, I always thought about what I could do to avoid an “if only” moment, whether it was something minor like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding (衬垫) onto the sharp corners of a glass coffee table.
I don’t only avoid those “if only” moments when it comes to safety. It’s equally important to avoid “if only” in our personal relationships. We all know people who lost a loved one and regretted that they had foregone an opportunity to say “I love you” or “I forgive you.” When my father announced he was going to the eye doctor across from my office on Good Friday, I told him that it was a holiday for my company and I wouldn’t be here. But then I thought about the fact that he’s 84 years old and I realized that I shouldn’t give up an opportunity to see him. I called him and told him I had decided to go to work on my day off after all.
I know there will still be occasions when I have to say “if only” about something, but my life is definitely better because of my policy of doing everything possible to avoid that eventuality (不测的事). And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to make a personal connection, I know that I’m doing the right thing. I’m buying myself peace of mind and that’s the best kind of insurance for my emotional well-being.
1. Which of the following is an example of the “extra minute” rule?| A．Start the car the moment everyone is seated. |
| B．Leave the room for a minute with the iron working. |
| C．Wait for an extra minute so that the steak tastes better. |
| D．Move an object out of the way before it trips someone. |
| A．finish her work on time | B．keep her appointment with the eye doctor |
| C．meet her father who was already an old man | D．join in the holiday celebration of the company |
| A．Avoiding “if only” can make the author comfortable. |
| B．We should buy insurance to make our life better. |
| C．The author must have a good relationship with her children. |
| D．It is the most important thing to avoid “if only” in our daily life. |
| A．The Emotional Well-being | B．The Two Saddest Words |
| C．The Most Useful Rule | D．The Peace of Mind |
