warm-up stretches beforehand. It was also hard to tell my friends and classmates 44 I didn’t know what to say and they never knew how to 45 . But four years later, everything that I do, I do in 46 of my dad. I dedicated my first dance solo, “The Love Lives On” to him when I was nine.
I would have never 47 the experience without my mom. She 48 me when I was in grief and pain, and we wrote down all the memories I had with my dad in a special book. Now that I’m older, my mom and I do have each other’s trouble more often — for a while, my schedule was very busy and we were so stressed that our little miscommunications would rise into huge 49 . But after we attended counseling (咨询) and I started homeschooling, things got much better, and now my mom and I have more quality time to 50 together.
I’ve learned that talking and 51 are very important things to do in any relationship, and that definitely includes friendships, too! When I 52 with my friends, I try not to look at my phone. It’s so 53 when you’re sitting at a table with someone else and she’s 54 instead of talking to you. I think a good friend is kind, respectful, fair, and funny — and I’ll always try to be all of these things in person, not just on the 55 ! 36. A. controversial 37. A. future 38. A. even 39. A. rather than 40. A. win 41. A. meet with 42. A. hit 43. A. walked 44. A. because 45. A. disturb 46. A. search 47. A. got through 48. A. disciplined 49. A. concerns 50. A. spend 51. A. cooperating
B. professional B. career B. still B. more than B. fail B. stick with B. occur B. talked B. since B. respond B. favour B. ran across B. guaranteed B. arguments B. work B. competing
C. aggressive C. hobby C. ever C. other than C. beat C. play with C. prove C. danced C. when C. perform C. memory C. got over C. discriminated C. compromises C. count C. communicating
D. enthusiastic D. dream D. just D. less than D. save D. deal with D. tell D. studied D. though D. conduct D. praise D. ran through D. comforted D. agreements D. shift D. criticizing
52. A. check out 53. A. optimistic 54. A. eating 55. A. table
B. hang out B. sympathetic B. speaking B. food
C. leave out C. reluctant C. dancing C. phone
D. stand out D. awkward D. texting D. friend
第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分)
请阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
PROGRAM TITLE UNIVERSITY MINIMUM AGE LANGUAGE students, however, must have completed at least one semester of REQUIREMENT college-level Spanish.[来源:Z#xx#k.Com]Hispanic Studies Program Universitat de Barcelona 18 Open to all levels of Spanish speakers. Beginning level Student apartments, local host families, and residence halls (Additional fees. Only available during the fall semester). Host ACCOMMODATIONS family includes 2 meals per day and laundry service. All Barcelona housing includes internet access. G.P.A. REQUIREMENT 2.75 LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ACCEPTANCE TO U.S. UNIVERSITY REQUIRED September, 4, 2017 Fall 2017 —December 21, 2017DATES & PRICES Academic Year 17-18 Spring 2018 [来源:Zxxk.Com]OF Spanish, Catalán, and English No $11,680 网][来源学科 September 4, 2017 — April $23,380 28, 2018 Late January, 2018 — April $11,680 28, 2018 Barcelona is a city of contradictions: old and new combined, beautiful and industrial, traditional and modern. Bordered by France to the north and the Mediterranean Sea to the east, Barcelona is one of the most “European” of Spanish cities. Stroll Las Ramblas, one of the city’s most famous and busy avenue. Students taking a gap year in Barcelona will find it to be a very cosmopolitan city that combines the latest trends with the most typical Spanish traditions. Barcelona offers museums, cinemas, restaurants, the beach, the mountains, and people from all over the world. Although local people speak both Spanish and Catalán, the mixture of local residents and international visitors makes it an easy city to understand and makes yourself understood. Barcelona exposes students to several cultures, languages, and world views; but then again, what else could be expected from the complex city of Barcelona? 56. Which is one of the requirements for the students applying for the program?
A. They have to be Europeans. B. They have to be 18 or above.
C. They have received admission to an American university. D. They have learned Spanish at college at least for one semester.
57. Which of the following is TRUE about Barcelona?
A. The local people speak English besides Spanish. B. It owns the most famous avenue and museum in Spain. C. There is a conflict between modern and traditional cultures. D. It can prepare students for global awareness and involvement.
B
Earlier this month, the University of Glasgow in Scotland launched a course entitled: D’oh! The Simpsons Introduce Philosophy (哲学). The course’s aim is to ease students into the typically heavy topic by relating it to the popular cartoon family.
“The Simpsons is one of the modern world’s greatest cultural artifacts (制造物), partly because it is so full of philosophy,” John Donaldson, creator of the course, told the BBC. “Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Camus and many other great thinkers’ ideas are represented in what is arguably the purest of philosophical forms
— the comic cartoon.”
While this may seem like an unusual way to attract pupils to a traditionally dull topic, this class isn’t the first of its kind. In 2009, Liverpool Hope University in the UK began offering a master’s degree on the music of world-famous 60’s group The Beatles, which still runs today. The following year, the UK’s Durham University gave students the chance to enroll on a Harry Potter-themed module, covering contents such as “Gryffindor and Slytherin: prejudice and intolerance in the classroom,” and “muggles and magic”.
To some, these courses may seem like a waste of a valuable education, but Donaldson believes that packaging certain topics into something more easy to relate to will enhance the learning experience, without distracting from the main subject. “Firstly, scholars want to be taken seriously by other scholars and ideas like this can be seen as not serious,” he tells iNews. “There are definitely ways to incorporate popular culture into academic subjects that still remains substantial and doesn’t take away from the quality of the ideas.”
Already booked full, Donaldson’s Simpsons class isn’t meant to be taken as seriously, however. The lecturer says that his one-day course, which will pose philosophical questions around morality, free will, and religion by relating them to scenarios from The Simpsons, aims to introduce students to his area of expertise greatly while having a bit of fun. 58. From Paragraph 2, we can learn that ________.
A. many great thinkers appear in The Simpsons B. The Simpsons contains many philosophical ideas C. John Donaldson creates the cartoon The Simpsons D. the main reason for The Simpsons’ success is its philosophy
59. The third paragraph is developed mainly ________.
A. by comparison
B. by time
C. by example
D. by process
60. What does the underlined word “scenarios” in the last paragraph mean?
61. The passage mainly talks about ________.
A. a creative philosophy course C. a reform of traditional subjects
B. a popular comic cartoon D. an enterprising lecturer
A. characters.
B. settings.
C. plots.
D. twists.
C
Children feel like they get more out of their relationships with their pets than they do with their brothers and sisters, a new study suggests.
This research only factored in 77 children in the
UK, so
we can’t read too much into it just yet, but it adds to the growing body of evidence for the crucial role that pets play in our well-being and happiness.
First off, no one is suggesting that pets can replace the valuable role that siblings play in people’s lives. Instead, the researchers were looking to find out more about how having pets in the family can influence kids’ well-being and development as they grow up.
“Anyone who has loved a childhood pet knows that we turn to them for companionship and disclosure, just like relationships between people,” said lead researcher Matt Cassells from the University of Cambridge in the UK. “We wanted to know how strong these relationships are with pets relative to other close family ties.”
To figure this out, the team surveyed 77 12-year-olds from different families in the UK. The participants included a mix of girls and boys, but all the kids had at least one pet at home, and one or more siblings.
To get an understanding of how well the children related to their pets, the researchers adopted something called the Network of Relationships Inventory — a well-established psychological tool that measures the quality of people’s relationships.
They found that children reported having stronger relationships with their pets than their siblings, as well as lower levels of conflict — these results were particularly seen in kids with dogs.
This test is by no means objective — as children, we often fight with our siblings, and at times feel like they barely understand us. So asking a 12-year-old how much satisfaction they get from their sibling relationships is filled with complications.
But at this early stage in the research, the team wasn’t looking for a definitive answer on the importance of relationships — instead they wanted to know how valuable kids felt their pets were to them. And the results suggest they play a big role in their lives.
The team also showed that girls reported having closer relationships with their pets than boys did — although both sexes were equally satisfied with their animals.