1 . Club sports provide both a competitive and social sporting experience to any Purdue student. Whether you are looking to continue to be part of a sport you love or looking for new experiences, there is a club for you at every skill level.
The Purdue University Baseball Club
The Purdue University Baseball Club is a student-run organization that participates in intercollegiate(大学间的)athletic competition. We provide students an opportunity to continue their baseball career at a collegiate level.
President: Jack Fitzhugh
Email: jfitzhu@purdue.edu
The Purdue Gymnastics Club
The Purdue Gymnastics Club is a group of normal everyday students who, like yourself, want to stay active while at school. We practice during evening hours four times a week during the fall and spring semesters. We own and operate equipment for four women’s and six men’s events.
President: Maya MeDonald
Email: medon127@purdue.edu
The Purdue Triathlon Club
The Purdue Triathlon Club’s mission is to get together multi—sport athletes who want to train in a social environment and promote interest and participation in triathlons(铁人三项), duathlons(铁人两项), running, swimming and cycling events on the Purdue University campus. We encourage and support members while training together. We travel to races in the spring and summer together and host two races during the school year. We end our year at the Collegiate Nationals in April.
President: Katalin Kovach
Email: kovach 10@ purdue.edu
The Purdue Men’s Club
The Purdue Men’s Club Volleyball allows Purdue undergraduate and graduate students to play volleyball at a competitive, intercollegiate level. Tryouts are held at the beginning of each semester and teams are divided based on skill level. Players come from all over the country, not just the Midwest. The first and second teams travel to tournaments across the Midwest and to the NCVF National tournament each spring. The club is an NCVF and MIVA recognized program and consistently finishes in the top competitive divisions of the region and nation.
President: Ben Bednarczyk
Email: bbednarc@ purdue.edu
1. Who can you contact if you want to participate in a baseball game?| A．Maya MeDonald. | B．Katalin Kovach. | C．Jack Fitzhugh. | D．Ben Bednarczyk. |
| A．It operates equipment for 10 events. |
| B．It is open every day throughout the semester. |
| C．It includes both students and professional athletes. |
| D．It is a student-run organization. |
| A．It aims to popularize three sports. | B．It hosts races annually in April. |
| C．It divides members based on skill level. | D．It allows athletes to train in multiple sports. |
| A．The Purdue Triathlon Club. | B．The Purdue Gymnastics Club. |
| C．The Purdue Men’s Club Volleyball. | D．The Purdue University Baseball Club. |
| A．Students’ Textbooks. | B．School Magazines. |
| C．Travel Agencies. | D．Campus Network. |
2 . When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never invited us to play in his yard, but he was a very kind person. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving lives, he was planting trees. He owned a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why, he said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to make things difficult for them and pick out the weaker trees early on. He talked about how watering trees made for shallow (浅的）roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in search of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important. So he never watered his trees. He’d planted an oak and, instead of watering it every morning, he’d beat it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to get the tree’s attention.
Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. Every now and then, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about twenty-five years ago. They’re very big and strong now. I planted some trees a few years back and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blows in, they shake a lot.
Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I pray (祈祷) that their lives will be easy. But lately I’ve been thinking that it’s time to change my prayer. I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the brave heart, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we could face it strongly and won’t be beaten down.
1. We know from the reading, the doctor ______.| A．didn’t know how to plant trees at all |
| B．had his own ways of planting trees |
| C．wasn’t good at his own medical job |
| D．had nothing to do but plant trees |
| A．some weak trees would be easily found out at the beginning |
| B．he would choose the weak trees to water earlier |
| C．the weak trees would be sent to his patients later |
| D．he would not plant weak trees so early anymore |
| A．beat all his trees with a rolled-up newspaper |
| B．often water his trees |
| C．took too much care of his trees |
| D．didn’t have a large field |
| A．his trees will be stronger than Dr. Gibbs' |
| B．his trees will not be beaten down |
| C．his sons will be better at planting trees |
| D．his sons will be able to face difficulties |
| A．Watering Trees |
| B．Growing Roots |
| C．Doctor and his Neighbor |
| D．Father and his Children |
3 . How do you learn English? Are you trying to improve your speaking? Then aim for fluency and “standard” pronunciation. Do you want to get better at writing? You should practice vocabulary and grammar.
But this way of learning, though necessary, misses one big thing: people from different places may speak English differently. For example, people from the US and the UK speak very differently. If a British friend invited me to eat lunch at his apartment, he might say: “Come over to mine round 1 p.m.” But if I invited him over, I might say: “Be at my place a little after 1 p.m.” “My place” is more commonly used in the US; “mine” is more frequently used in the UK—both are informal ways of saying “my house” or “my apartment”.
Even people in different parts of the US speak very differently. For example, imagine that you are talking to a group of people and want to address them all at once. What pronoun do you use? “You”, you should reply—that’s the correct pronoun whether you’re addressing one person or a group. But using “you” to address many people feels strange in a conversation. The most common choice around the US is to say “you guys”. But working class natives of my hometown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, say “yinz”. In eastern Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, some people say “youse”. In the southern US, people say “y’all”.
The point is that there’s a lot more to languages than what’s standard and proper. So take a tour around the US, y’all. Yinz will be glad that youse do it.
1. What is the passage mainly about?| A．The reason why we need to practice pronunciation. |
| B．How to understand the native English speakers. |
| C．How to practice vocabulary and grammar effectively. |
| D．The different ways native speakers use the language. |
| A．My place. | B．Mine. |
| C．My apartment. | D．My flat. |
| A．write to | B．come to |
| C．speak to | D．turn to |
| A．2. | B．3. |
| C．4. | D．5. |
| A．the southern US | B．Pennsylvania |
| C．New York | D．New Jersey |
4 . Audio digital (有声数字化) books are becoming more and more popular these years. One of the reasons for this is that audio digital books can be “read” in many places comfortably.
The first favourite place for many people is in bed, before going to sleep. There are nights when a person would want to do nothing but lie in bed going over what has happened in the day. Many people like to just lie in bed in the dark before they fall asleep at night. This would be the perfect time to listen to an audio digital book. If you read an ordinary book, the lights have to be turned on and you have to turn the pages with your hand. An audio book can just be listened to while a person stays comfortably in bed.
The next favourite place to listen to audio digital books would be in the kitchen. For some people kitchen work is boring. Audio digital books provide good entertainment, and people don’t need to turn pages.
An audio digital book is a favourite while a person is gardening. They can help take a person’s mind off job at hand. It can be fun and exciting to do gardening with the help of these books.
Another great place would be while exercising. It allows the mind to be free while the legs, body and arms are kept busy. This would be a great place to listen to these books.
The next favourite place would be while we are on the road to and from work on buses, trains or even on long flights. Audio digital books have become good companions and help us relaxed.
1. The second paragraph mainly tells us ______.| A．you can listen to an audio digital book comfortably at home |
| B．a favourite place to listen to audio digital books is in bed |
| C．it’s perfect time to listen to an audio digital book at noon |
| D．you have to keep the lights on while reading ordinary books |
| A．they can sing to the music |
| B．it can save power |
| C．it can help them avoid boredom |
| D．the kitchen is the best place to do this |
| A．relax his mind |
| B．keep his body busy |
| C．lose weight easily |
| D．reduce pain quickly |
| A．What is an audio digital book? |
| B．How many kinds of audio digital books are there? |
| C．When were audio digital books invented? |
| D．Where do people like to “read” audio digital books? |
| A．An announcement. |
| B．A book review. |
| C．A science magazine. |
| D．A guidebook. |
5 . One of my earliest memories was walking up to the smell of camp smoke and my mother’s hot chocolate. My parents were poor, and we lived in the countryside in Portland. Dad had two jobs and Mom was disabled, but that didn’t stop them from heading into the Cascade Mountains several times a year.
Our clothes were old and worn and our food was usually cheap and simple. However, we were always satisfied with our hot chocolate, which was made in a traditional way handed down from my grandmother to my mother.
There was no store to buy anything we needed. We just had powdered cocoa in our camp.
Mom would set the smoke-blackened coffee pot at the side of the fire and slowly warm the milk, adding chocolate and sugar, and stirring (搅拌) until the contents became thick and rich brown. The wonderful smell of chocolate filled the camp. More than once, I could remember people that we had just met hours before stepping into our camp to enjoy mother’s creation.
Once we were trapped in our tent for days because of a terrible rainstorm. Every morning I was woken up by the attractive smell of Mom’s hot chocolate.
Now, many years have passed, when we head for the mountains, I still use that worn coffee pot. And we always bring extra cups for the neighbours who will certainly turn up.
I have told my family a lot about Mom, and it seems that nothing brings back those warm memories better than sitting around the fire at night and tasting sweet hot chocolate.
1. Where did the author live when she was a child?| A．In a village. | B．In a big city. |
| C．In a hotel. | D．In a palace. |
| A．Saved. | B．Stuck. |
| C．Surrounded. | D．Suffered. |
| A．Generous. | B．Friendly. |
| C．Disabled. | D．Serious. |
| A．Her parents were poor. |
| B．Her mom had two jobs. |
| C．Her mom was a boss of Coffee House. |
| D．Her dad stopped them from camping. |
| A．Camp Smoke |
| B．Mom’s Hot Chocolate |
| C．My Neighbours |
| D．Grandmother’s Creation |
6 . I lost my sight when I was four years old in an illness. Now I am thirty, and I can still
Life, I believe, needs a lot of adjustments (调整) to reality. The more ready a person is to
The hardest
Up to now I still remember
All my life I have set many goals and
| A．remember | B．forget | C．cover | D．notice |
| A．destroy | B．use | C．refuse | D．make |
| A．little | B．less | C．more | D．few |
| A．process | B．exercise | C．game | D．invention |
| A．text | B．lecture | C．lesson | D．rule |
| A．used | B．took | C．cost | D．spent |
| A．that | B．where | C．which | D．what |
| A．At least | B．At last | C．At first | D．At most |
| A．satisfied | B．hurt | C．calm | D．surprised |
| A．roll | B．turn | C．show | D．walk |
| A．In | B．On | C．For | D．By |
| A．unhappy | B．impolite | C．impossible | D．unnecessary |
| A．found | B．named | C．said | D．played |
| A．then | B．now | C．so | D．thus |
| A．date | B．sight | C．breath | D．reach |
7 . In some places, people collect honey from wild bees. This is common in many parts of the world, especially South Asia. Honey hunting is a local tradition in southern India but it is not an undemanding job. The bees in southern India can grow up to the size of the smallest adult human finger. And these giant honey bees build their hives (蜂窝) on the sides of mountains!
It takes many years for a honey hunter to learn to collect honey from these hives. From a young age the honey hunter learns everything about bees. He practices climbing hundreds of meters above the ground. Before the honey season, the honey hunter prepares for many days.
When the day of the honey hunt season arrives, the honey hunter goes to the edge of the mountain early in the morning. He climbs down with a rope and lights some dry branches (树枝) on fire. The smoke makes the bees leave the hive. With the bees flying around the honey hunter, he uses a long sharp stick to gently get pieces of the wax (蜜蜡) filled with honey. He then takes them back to the village in a box made of bamboo.
Usually the hunter takes some honey and leaves some of the hive on the mountainside. He does not take the part of the hive with the baby bees in it since he does not want to destroy the home of the bees. When the honey hunter returns, the village celebrates!
“They have been hunting honey in this way for more than 2,000 years. Honey was and still is an important part of their diet, cooking and medicine,” Simone Gie from the organization Slow Food International, said.
1. The underlined word “undemanding” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by “________”．| A．regular | B．boring | C．easy | D．difficult |
| A．has a short history |
| B．needs careful preparation |
| C．makes some villages rich |
| D．is often done by a young man |
| A．Bamboo. | B．Branches. | C．A rope. | D．A stick. |
| A．how to protect baby bees |
| B．the importance of honey |
| C．the new use for honey |
| D．how honey is hunted |
| A．Honey hunters |
| B．The honey season |
| C．Bees in Southern India |
| D．Honey hunting celebrations |
8 . There are almost limitless things to do at the seaside. For an enjoyable summer day or night, some that are the most fun can be simple, inexpensive or absolutely free.
Frolic: Summer at the seaside is for as many activities as you can stand in the sand. Play frisbee (飞盘), sand volleyball or any beach-free sport. Jog or run while you feel the soft sand each step. If it’s nice and windy, go fly a kite!
Picnic: If you’re a bit lazy as you sun and relax on the beach, you can buy take-out from nearby shops. If you’re there with a big family outing, you may prefer to pack and bring baskets of your favorite foods and drinks.
Sand castles: For anyone who wishes they were still kids, building castles in the sand is fun at the seashore. If you’re feeling really creative, add fishes, frogs and whatever else your modeling skills can construct.
Explore: If there are hiking or biking trails along the shore or nearby, take an action to discover what’s around to be collected. Seashells and washed-up ocean flora (植物群) are fun to hunt, although finding a valuable diamond ring in the sand is much more satisfying.
Socialize: Meet all kinds of people. If kids are with you, they’re natural socializers, and will easily join others in games and other fun things to do together. Set up a volleyball net on the beach, and soon others will join the game.
Nothing: For some people the top activity at the seaside is inactivity. That means doing absolutely nothing. After all, you’ve come to the beach to relax on the warm sand, and nowhere in the world is there a more comfortable place for it.
1. In the first paragraph the author ________.| A．advertises a scenic spot |
| B．describes the beautiful seaside |
| C．shows visitors can do many things at the seaside |
| D．introduces the things that can be brought to the seaside |
| A．Tips on safety. | B．Full preparation. |
| C．Famous players. | D．Lively and enjoyable activity. |
| A．Having a picnic with your family. |
| B．Making friends with all kinds of people. |
| C．Playing many kinds of games at the beach. |
| D．Searching for valuable jewelry in the sand. |
| A．you can still relax yourself |
| B．you might feel uncomfortable |
| C．you miss a chance to enjoy yourself |
| D．you are not advised to go to the seaside again |
| A．a diary | B．a report | C．a textbook | D．a guidebook |
9 . Some people express themselves through beautiful art; others are masters of the page and speak silently through writing. I, on the other hand, express myself with the greatest instrument I have, my voice.
Nothing gives me more satisfaction than public speaking. At age eight I started giving speeches in local competitions. Soon I was able to participate in (参加) state competitions. During March of eighth grade, I had the best opportunity ever to practice my speaking skills. I was chosen, out of all the students entered in New Hampshire, to write and read a four-minute speech on national television. My job was to introduce Elizabeth Dole, who at the time was interested in running for president.
I was notified the day before the event and so had only one night to write and memorize my speech. When I arrived the next morning in Belford, New Hampshire, I was greeted by photographers and newspaper reporters! Soon it was time for my speech. I had a feeling of complete excitement flowing through my body. When I finished, everyone stood up and clapped. Mrs. Dole surprised me by giving me a great hug and thanking me for my comments (评论) on the importance of education. But even after she finished speaking, the excitement was far from over.
Since then I have participated in different competition and events. My favorite by far was Young Chatqua, a wonderful summer program. In Chatqua I gave a speech on the life of Margaret Bourke-White, a pioneer photographer, in a 12-minute speech that took a month to research, prepare, and memorize. It was the most amazing experience of my life.
After Chatqua, I participated in my first play, Everybody’s Crazy, and I am now organizing a debate (辩论) team. I plan to continue competitions, do volunteer work, go to Chatqua next summer, and hopefully participate in the American Legion’s Oratorical Contest next year.
1. The author’s speech on TV ________.| A．was about students in New Hampshire |
| B．was her most amazing experience |
| C．happened when she was eight |
| D．proved to be successful |
| A．prepared | B．told | C．tricked | D．refused |
| A．Nervous. | B．Worried. | C．Excited. | D．Frightened. |
| A．the speech-giving experience on TV increased the author’s confidence |
| B．the 12-minutes speech about Margaret Bourke-White was the hardest |
| C．the author will probably give up Chataqua in the future |
| D．the author felt uncertain about her future life |
| A．her unusual school life |
| B．her dream in childhood |
| C．her public speaking skills |
| D．her interest in public speaking |
10 . Thanks to my child, I believe that Santa sends out gifts every year. And I once played Santa’s
One year, our son Jay
On Christmas Eve, we
Then we moved Jay from our bed to his—he was afraid that Santa might think he wasn’t home and would
A few days passed, and Jay asked me a
After that, the real fun began. Jay got to be Santa when we gave presents to a needy family—he just
| A．player | B．helper | C．driver | D．visitor |
| A．prepared for | B．shopped for | C．asked for | D．looked for |
| A．because | B．though | C．but | D．so |
| A．discussed | B．placed | C．expected | D．ate |
| A．on the sofa | B．in my arms | C．in our bed | D．on my back |
| A．wake | B．leave | C．prevent | D．interest |
| A．decide | B．forget | C．choose | D．wait |
| A．found | B．bought | C．finished | D．picked |
| A．tree | B．house | C．fire | D．deer |
| A．surprising | B．boring | C．funny | D．difficult |
| A．old | B．special | C．clear | D．clever |
| A．hopefully | B．closely | C．angrily | D．certainly |
| A．down | B．in | C．up | D．back |
| A．shocked | B．nervous | C．delighted | D．annoyed |
| A．needed | B．meant | C．controlled | D．loved |
