1 . More than 80 colleges are creating a website where students will be able to apply to dozens of them. Some of the top names in higher education are joining the effort under a group called the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success, whose goal is to simplify the application process, especially for low-income students.
The website not only gives students one place to send their applications, but also gives them tools to get started years in advance. On the site, students will be able to request advice from college admissions offices and they can create digital portfolios(文件夹) with the help of their teachers and instructors.
Members of the coalition(联盟) include private universities such as Harvard and Stanford and public counterparts such as the University of Virginia, University of Florida and Ohio State University. The colleges came together to fix a problem: Complex admissions processes deter students from applying and those who come from low-income families can’t afford the instructors and classes within reach of their wealthier peers. High schools, for example, can already buy software to help instructors track their students through the application process, but many can’t afford it.
More than 600 colleges now accept the standardized Common Application. Unlike the Common Application, which aims to create a uniform application process among schools, the new website aims to help students dive deeper into many distinct applications. It will give them a place to store their checklists and essays and invite anyone to provide feedback and edit.
Each college will have its own portal(入口) where students can submit applications, but they’ll all be accessible through the same site. The portfolio tool will let students add any extra information they want. Artists can include samples of their work and musicians can link to performance videos.
1. What is the aim of the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success?| A．To make applying for college easier. |
| B．To give students more choices of subjects. |
| C．To donate money for low-income students. |
| D．To increase the quality of higher education. |
| A．It is the founder of the website. | B．It is the most famous among them. |
| C．It is a public counterpart. | D．It is a private university. |
| A．Assist. | B．Prevent. | C．Protect. | D．Separate. |
| A．It is hard to use. | B．It is very practical. |
| C．It is very effective. | D．It is very expensive. |
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4 . PeerUp is pairing up and helping out students who are looking to improve their mental health. It serves as a space for students to speak anonymously (匿名地) about their mental health journeys with peer (同龄人) supporters. As a bridge between the student body and UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services, PeerUp addresses the barriers many students face in accessing mental health resources, said co-founder and third-year psychology student Carrie Lee.
Peer supporters on the site complete mental health leadership training with the Resilience In Your Student Experience Center to learn how to address emotional issues like interpersonal problems. Lee said in a 20- to 40-minute video or text conversation, a student can talk to a peer who may have experienced similar struggles.
PeerUp offers support in both English and Chinese to serve the campus community of international students. Lee said PeerUp is devoted to ensuring students who speak Chinese can speak anonymously in their native language whenever needed. “Students are much more comfortable reaching out to people they know come from a similar culture,” she said. “I think it is really important to offer services to the different communities we have at UCLA.”
PeerUp co-founder and peer supporter Yutong Feng said the most rewarding part of her work was students’ willingness to talk with PeerUp, including the five students who connected with supporters in the first week.
In terms of future growth and accessibility, Lee said the PeerUp team hopes to expand the number of languages offered, make appointments for students who cannot make it to drop-in hours and use different platforms for voice calls and messaging. She said UCLA, as the first university to do a full test run, is providing a model for other schools to launch their own PeerUp programs and ensure students are taking care of their mental health.
1. Why is PeerUp considered as a bridge?| A．It connects consultants with students. |
| B．It helps students overcome the fear of going to a psychologist. |
| C．It is supported by students who experienced similar struggles. |
| D．It offers students a space to improve their communication skills. |
| A．Asian students ask for that. | B．Some peer supporters are from China. |
| C．It can improve students’ language skills. | D．Students speaking Chinese would feel more relaxed. |
| A．Students placed great trust in PeerUp. |
| B．Students got better after talking with PeerUp. |
| C．Students wanted to be accepted as peer supporters. |
| D．Students rushed to PeerUp for help in the first week. |
| A．Expanding the number of peer supporters. | B．Inviting students for drop-in conversations. |
| C．Introducing more means of communication. | D．Helping more schools launch PeerUp programs. |
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6 . The Power of Small: How Smaller Organizations Can Make a Difference in the Environment
Corporate social responsibility initiatives are in the consciousness of most large, medium-sized or small organizations.
In addition to other environmental initiatives, businesses can also foster environmentally sustainable work practices to contribute to the environment actively and consciously. This is something that businesses of any size, small or big, can adopt.
While smaller organizations face different challenges both from business, as well as operations point of view, efforts for ecological conservation or preserving environmental health don’t have to be restricted to larger firms only.
Helping the environment does not have to be expensive, even if it is done on a corporate scale! While larger organizations do their bit for environment conservation, small businesses need not be far behind. Each one can promote healthy environmental practices and suggest improvements in the workplace while fostering an attitude that understands climate change, its impacts, and actively works towards eradicating them.
Programmes that help the environment, which small businesses could partake in, could range from even something as small to understanding basic waste and garbage, to actively participating in cleaning drives.
| A．EcoMatcher is one such organization that encourages companies to promote corporate tree planting and promote tree gifting as rewards. |
| B．Regardless of the service or product offered by an organization, they can adopt sustainable development goals and targets. |
| C．Adopt-a-tree programmes are growing in popularity as the world becomes increasingly cognizant of the ill effects of rapidly increasing climate change. |
| D．Businesses can make a positive environmental impact in many ways. |
| E．No gesture is too small to help the environment; it is by the combination of many such small gestures that a significant impact is made. |
| F．This practice not only creates a positive environment but makes it easier for employees engaged in the job of waste segregation to feel involved. |
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8 . UNICEF, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, is a special
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For example, UNICEF promotes girls’ education — ensuring that they complete primary education as a
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10 . When the parcel arrives, the remote-controlled car inside is broken. That could easily result in an unhappy child — but not this time.
The package has come from a British start-up that hopes to equip the nation’s youngsters with an endangered skill: the ability to fix gadgets when they fail. The aim is to encourage 10 to 14-year-olds to try fixing electronic devices and learn how they work, by sending them faulty toys that they have to take apart and repair themselves. The company, Team Repair, has been founded by five engineering graduates from Imperial College London. Having begun as a university project, its ultimate goal is to steer children into careers in science and to nurture (培养) a new generation of engineers and inventors.
“Every month, we’ll send children an electronic gadget with a carefully planned fault,” said Patrick McGuckian, 22, the chief operating officer. “The idea is that they learn key repair skills, and that they also learn the science and technology behind how the components inside it work.”
It is estimated that two million tonnes of electrical and electronic items are thrown away in the UK each year. “Meanwhile, the UK has a Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths] skills shortage costing£1.5 billion a year,” McGuckian said. “We wanted to help solve those two problems.”
The service — currently in a testing phase — will cost £28 a month, with each kit designed to keep a child occupied for several hours. Once a gadget has been mended, you post it back so it can be broken again for somebody else to fix. There is also an app to provide instructions on how to perform the repair, and also mini science lessons. “As a society we’ve been tuned to replace rather than repair,” McGuckian said. “We want to encourage a different mindset in the next generation — and on top of that, we want them to be creative, to be engineers, to be inventors that solve the biggest problems.”
1. Why does the author mention the remote-controlled car in the first paragraph?| A．To introduce the topic. | B．To present a fact. |
| C．To make a comparison. | D．To explain a point. |
| A．To provide children with faulty toys. | B．To reduce the use of electronic items. |
| C．To help children learn Stem skills for free. | D．To equip children with the ability to repair. |
| A．The gadget after being repaired. | B．Face-to-face guidance to mend. |
| C．Some mini science lessons online. | D．A faulty electronic gadget weekly. |
| A．Broken Toys Have a Good Place to Go | B．Team Repair for Young People was Set Up |
| C．The Ability to Fix Gadgets is to be Improved | D．Broken Toys Offer Neat Fix for Skills Shortage |
