1 . To apply for any course at our school you need to use UCAS’ online system. You can choose up to five courses. There’s no preference order and your chosen universities/colleges won’t see where else you’ve applied until after you reply to any offers you get. If you’re applying to medicine, dentistry, or veterinary science, you can only apply to a maximum of four courses in any one of these subjects.

You can only apply once in a cycle (周期). If you’ve applied in previous cycles and want to apply again, you’ll have to submit a new application.

★Personal statement

Your personal statement is a really important part of your application where you can express why you want to study your chosen course and why you’d make a difference to our school.

For advice and guidance on what to include, please see advice on the UCAS website about how to write a personal statement.

★Application fee

UCAS charges a flat fee of £27.50, however many courses you are applying for.

If you’re applying via your school or college, they will let you know whether and when you should pay them, so that they can pay UCAS on your behalf.

★Deadlines

18:00 on 16 October 2023 for medicine courses

18:00 on 31 January 2024 for all other courses

1. What should be noticed when using UCAS’ online system?

A．Preference order.

B．Privacy protection.

C．A new application for each new cycle.

D．Choosing no more than 4 courses.

2. What service can you get from UCAS?

A．Discounts on flat fees.	B．Offline course instructions.
C．Specially-made career planning.	D．Tips on personal statement writing.

3. Which is a suitable time to hand in an application for medicine courses?

A．July15, 2024.	B．August 16, 2023.
C．January 31, 2024.	D．October 18, 2023.

2 . Virtual Postgraduate Open Days 2023

Our events offer a great opportunity to find out more about the Cambridge University’s 300+ postgraduate courses, the application process, student life, and a range of funding opportunities, as well as to get an idea of what it’s like to study here. Attend our virtual open days to learn all about postgraduate study at Cambridge:

Week 1: Subject sessions (23 to 27 October)

Join us live for online sessions where you can:

● Find out more about our courses and explore your subject

● Chat with academics, current students and other staff

Week 2: Pastoral, ICE, College and Finance sessions (30 October to 3 November)

During this second week of live online sessions you can:

● Explore more about the Colleges

● Find out about funding opportunities

● Discover what pastoral support is available at Cambridge

● Learn about our Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

● Watch recordings of the subject sessions from Week 1

On-demand content

Everyone who books a place at the Postgraduate Open Days will receive access to on-demand video content, including recordings of the subject sessions from Week 1 (to be uploaded by 30 October).

Visit us

If you can’t come to our Postgraduate Open Day, there are other ways to visit:

● Check department websites for subject-specific events or contact the department directly to arrange an appointment to visit facilities and talk to a member of staff.

● Many of the Cambridge Colleges are open to the public at during term time. Contact them in advance to arrange a time to visit and to meet with current students or staff.

1. What do we know about the recordings of subject sessions from Week 1?

A．It is available to everyone.	B．It offers funding opportunities.
C．It can be replayed during Week 2.	D．It will be uploaded before 27 October.

2. What can you do if you can’t come to the Postgraduate Open Day?

A．Visit the department website.	B．Organize a subject-specific event.
C．Visit the school during the holiday.	D．Ask current students to arrange an appointment.

3. Who will be most interested in Cambridge Virtual Postgraduate Open Days?

A．Its founder.

B．Its sponsors.

C．Its working staff.

D．Its potential students.

3 . Everyone feels a little jealous (妒忌的) once in a while. But when the feeling begins to ruin your relationship and cause you stress, it’s probably time to start looking for ways to get rid of it. Here are some tips to help you along the way.

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        Sometimes there are deeper underlying (潜在的) issues that fuel jealousy. Once you admit that you’re struggling with jealousy, it’s time to start looking into why you’re feeling that way.     2    . When you feel like you’re falling behind everyone else, it’s easy to become jealous when you see other people’s success.
Use your jealousy to motivate yourself

    3    . While people often view jealousy as a bad thing, being jealous can actually provide you with a valuable learning opportunity. When you’re jealous, it’s usually because you’ve found something you want but you don’t have. So instead of stewing (担忧) in these jealous feelings, make an effort to go out and get whatever you want.

Focus on your positive qualities

Sometimes jealousy is rooted in feelings of insecurity and a lack of self-confidence.     4    . When you start feeling those tell-tale signs of jealousy, remind yourself of all the things that make you amazing, such as your relationships, your job, or how much you’ve grown in the past few years. All of these help to beat your feelings of jealousy.

Stop comparing yourself to others

Constantly comparing yourself to others can fuel feelings of insecurity. It can be tempting to compare yourself to others and want to compete against them. However, constantly setting yourself up against others can just make your jealousy and feelings of insecurity worse. Stop doing that.     5    .

A．Find the root of your jealousy

B．Engage yourself in meaningful activities

C．Focus on yourself and how you’re doing instead

D．They are able to help you with increasing your confidence

E．However, it’s important to find your own unique strengths

F．For example, low self-confidence is often a cause of jealousy

G．Your jealousy might be just what you need to seek what you want

4 . 假如你是李华，明日你班英语课课前3分钟自由表达的主题是“如何高效学习”。请你以“How to Study Effectively”为题，用英语写一篇短文，谈谈你对高效学习的看法。内容包括：
1. 你对高效学习的理解；
2. 你的建议。
注意:
1. 写作词数应为80左右；
2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 请在答题卡的相应位置作答。

How to Study Effectively

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5 . An unpublished novel by the late literary giant Gabriel Garcia Marquez will arrive on bookstore shelves next year. The novel called En Agosto Nos Vemos—roughly translated from Spanish as See You In August—will be published by Penguin Random House.

The Colombian author behind One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera died in 2014, leaving behind an unfinished manuscript. At the time, Garcia Marquez’s family hadn’t decided whether to publish the novel posthumously. But now his two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, have concluded that the book should be read by an eager public.

“En Agosto Nos Vemos was the fruit of a final effort to continue creating against all odds,” they said. “Reading it once again almost 10 years after his death, we discovered that the text had many and very enjoyable merits and nothing to prevent us from enjoying the outstanding aspects of Gabo’s work: his capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of the human being and his affection for his experiences and misfortunes, but most especially, the love, possibly the main theme of all his work,” they added, using a common nickname for Garcia Marquez.

According to the publishing industry trade publication The Bookseller, Viking will publish the novel in hardback, e-book and audio versions, and Penguin Random House Spain will publish it in all Spanish-speaking countries except Mexico.

Viking editorial director Isabel Wall told the website it was “exceptionally privileged to be bringing this re-discovered masterpiece into the world” 10 years after Garcia Marquez’s death.

1. What do we know about Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

A．He refused to publish his unfinished novel.

B．He is highly influential in the literary circle.

C．He was not satisfied with his unfinished work.

D．He becomes a household name due to See You In August.

2. What impresses the readers of En Agosto Nos Vemos more deeply?

A．The core theme.	B．The unique language.
C．The writing style.	D．The professional ability.

3. What does the underlined word “privileged” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Practical.

B．Concerned.

C．Honored.

D．Profitable.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．García Márquez’s representative work will come out next year

B．An unfinished novel by García Márquez will become a hit soon

C．Readers call on the publication of García Márquez’s masterpiece

D．An unpublished novel by García Márquez is set for release next year

8 . Heathfield Day Summer Camp

It’s for girls aged 7 to 15. Heathfield started its own Summer Camp for local girls so they could enjoy the high quality activities and sports that we were already offering to overseas students on our International Summer School (ISS). Over the years more than a thousand girls have attended the camp, many returning year after year and bringing sisters and friends with them. Returning students receive a 10% discount from their second year. Day girls arrive between 08:45 and 09:15 when activities start. An Early Morning option with Breakfast is available at 08:00. At 5:30 girls are collected and signed out by parents or can take our Late Stay option until 6:30.

Heathfield’s teachers offer the girls a fun-packed and educational daily program, balancing creative, artistic and sporting skills. Campers are grouped together according to age and move together between activities. There’re different programs for junior and senior groups.

Girls enjoy the opportunity to spend time as a day girl and as a boarder. They can stay from one day to four weeks. But residential stays are for a minimum of one week. Each Thursday afternoon we invite parents to an exhibition or show to see what the girls are doing. The exhibitions include cookery, art, craft and photography in weeks 1 and 3, and in weeks 2 and 4, music, dance and drama shows take place. Two or three afternoons a week girls mix with the students from the ISS and take part in sports and games.

There’s an hour’s lunch break. Our dining-room service offers a great range of hot and cold dishes.

1. What do we know about Heathfield Day Summer Camp?

A．Its arrangements are flexible.

B．It offers participants 10% off.

C．Its programs are the same for groups.

D．It limits the number of participants.

2. What does Heathfield do to the camper?

A．Advise them to stay as boarders.

B．Forbid them to go out on weekdays.

C．Call on them to be independent.

D．Divide them into different groups.

3. What may Tina’s parents do at Heathfield on Thursday of Week 2?

A．Pay a visit to the ISS.

B．Have dinner with her.

C．See her dancing.

D．Take physical exercise.

9 . Every Christmas, we get “The Box” from my uncle, who owns a local sporting goods store. He _______ uniforms to the sports teams and does T-shirt printing for parties. Every Christmas, instead of _______, he sends us the rejects(废品)from his shop.

One year, we got caps that sported a company’s misspelled _______. It was “Lovie’s Mower Service” _______ “Louie’s Mower Service”

Another year, we got a birthday party T shirt for a woman’s ninety sixth birthday when _______ to be her ninety seventh birthday. And another time we all got green football socks that weren’t exactly the _______ color for the football team that had _______ them.

You never know what you’re going to get out of “The Box”, so we play a _______ with it on Christmas Eve. My father _______ one item at a time, and each of us has the ________ to keep it or not. It goes around the whole ________, and if someone wants it, he ________ it, if no one wants it, it goes in the pile to charity.

We have had a million ________ over the years, with family reunion shirts, baseball pants, and different minor league baseball teams’ clothes with colorful names. “The Box” never ________ us.

I’m not sure what we will do if my uncle runs out of things to send us! It’s a ________ , if a bit wacky (古怪), Christmas tradition.

1.

A．supplies

B．designs

C．transports

D．counts

2.

A．celebrations

B．presents

C．blessings

D．impressions

3.

A．place

B．time

C．name

D．form

4.

A．but for

B．other than

C．compared to

D．instead of

5.

A．supposed

B．allowed

C．forced

D．encouraged

6.

A．ordinary

B．special

C．right

D．green

7.

A．seen

B．ordered

C．found

D．placed

8.

A．song

B．joke

C．sport

D．game

9.

A．sets up

B．brings back

C．draws out

D．gets in

10.

A．clue

B．chance

C．ability

D．dream

11.

A．area

B．week

C．day

D．circle

12.

A．buys

B．takes

C．refuses

D．throws

13.

A．laughs

B．protests

C．attempts

D．images

14.

A．excites

B．reminds

C．disappoints

D．threats

15.

A．beloved

B．legal

C．native

D．calm