Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
The reflective towers of New York City, which is on the Atlantic migrating(迁徙的) route, can be deadly for birds.“We live in an age of glass,”said Ms. Laurel,an architect. (76) “It can be a perfect mirror in certain lights, and the larger the glass, the more dangerous it is.”About 90,000 birds are killed by flying into buildings in the city each year. Often, they strike the lower levels of glass towers after searching for food in nearby parks. Such crashes are the second-leading cause of death for migrating birds, after habitat (栖息地) loss, with an estimated number of death ranging up to a billion a year.
(77) As glass office and apartment towers have increased in the last decade, so, too have calls to makethem less deadly to birds. San Francisco adopted bird-safety standards for new buildings in July. The United States Green Building Council, a nonprofit industry group that encourages the creation of environmentally conscious buildings, will introduce a bird-safety credit this fall as part of its environmental certification process.
There are no easy fixes, however. A few researchers are exploring glass designs that use ultraviolet (紫外线的) signals, but they are still in their infancy. Covers, dot patterns, shades and nets are the main options available.
Often, only one section of a building needs to be changed. "You don't necessarily have to treat every window," Ms. Laurel said. "It would be too expensive to do the whole building." The Jacob IC Javits Convention Center, which has been undergoing alterations, is the most recent building to voluntarily correct the problem of bird crashes. The architects used less reflective glass and dot patterns.
1、What is the main idea of the passage?
A New York is a city of glass towers.
B Glass towers are dangerous for migrating birds.
C New York adopted new safety standards for buildings.
D Glass towers are a new trend in the United States.
答案解析：
题目:这篇文章的主旨是什么?
A:纽约是一座玻璃塔之城。
B:玻璃塔对候鸟来说是危险的。
C:纽约采用了新的建筑安全标准。
D:玻璃塔在美国是一种新趋势。
2、What is the number one cause of death for migrating birds?
A Climate change.
B Habitat loss.
C Lack of food.
D Crashing into buildings.
答案解析：
题目:候鸟的头号死因是什么?
A:气候变化。
B:栖息地的丧失。
C:缺乏食物。
D:撞到建筑物。
3、What does the word“fixes”in the third paragraph probably mean?
A Choices.
B Explanations.
C Solutions.
D Developments.
4、are used in the alteration of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
A Dot patterns
B Shades
C Nets
D Covers
答案解析：
题目:用于更改Jacob K. Javits会议中心。
A:点模式
B:阴影
C:网
D:涵盖了
5、Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A In many cases, the whole building needs to be altered to prevent bird crashes.
B The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center is the first building to deal with the problem of bird crashes.
C About 90,000 birds are killed due to habitat loss in New York City each year.
D Unfortunately, glass designs that use ultraviolet signals are still in their early stages.
答案解析：
题目:根据短文，下列哪个陈述是正确的?
A:在很多情况下，整个建筑需要进行改造，以防止鸟类坠落。
B:雅各布·k·贾维茨(Jacob K. Javits)会议中心是第一个处理鸟类坠毁问题的建筑。
C:纽约市每年约有9万只鸟类因栖息地丧失而死亡。
D:不幸的是，使用紫外线信号的玻璃设计仍处于早期阶段。
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
Today's students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F. D. R., and they live in a world where amazing innovations (革新) are common. The current 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having grown up digital (数字的), they are impatient to get on with life.
The easiest way to fred kids like these is to check in on entrepreneurship (企业家才能 ) education, in which colleges and universities try to prepare their students to recognize opportunities and seize them.
A report published last year by the Kauffman Foundation, which finances programs to promote innovation on campuses, noted that more than 5,000 entrepreneurship programs are offered on two- and four-year campuses-up fromjust 250 courses in 1985. Lesa Mitchell, a Kauffman vice president, says that the foundation is extending the reach of its academic influence, which used to be found only inbusiness schools. Now, the concept of entrepreneurship is blooming in engineering programs and medical schools, and even in the liberal arts. “Our interest is inall the programs,” she says.“We need to spread out from the business school.”
Either as class projects or on their own_, students in a variety of majors are coming up with ideas, writing business plans and seeing them through to prototype and, often, market. In their spare time, students in agricultural economics at Purdue invent new uses for bean; industrial design majors at Syracuse, in a special laboratory, create wearable technologies.
(78) The entrepreneurship movement has its critics' especially among those who see college as a time for extensive academic exploration. “I just don't think that entrepreneurship ranks so high in terms of national: need,”says Daniel S. Greenberg, author of Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards and Delusions of Campus Capitalism.
Leonard A. Schlesinger, Babson College's president, says that the question of whether innovation can really be taught is“an age-old argument.”
6、When Google and Facebook were established, the founders were still__ .
A in high school
B in the army
C in primary school
D at college
答案解析：
题目:当谷歌和Facebook成立时，创始人还在。
A:在高中的时候
B:在军队
C:在小学
D:在大学
7、According to the passage, what is the main purpose of entrepreneurship education?
A To prepare students for future academic life.
B To prepare students to fred oppommities and seize them.
C To prepare students for overseas career.
D To prepare students to develop interpersonal skills.
答案解析：
题目:根据文章，创业教育的主要目的是什么?
A:为学生将来的学术生活做准备。
B:让学生对弗雷德的反对做好准备并抓住它们。
C:为学生的海外职业生涯做准备。
D:培养学生的人际交往能力。
8、Theword“prototype” in the fourth paragraph is most likely to mean __________
A model
B strategy
C method
D stage
9、What does Daniel S. Greenberg think of entrepreneurship education?
A Entrepreneurship, or at least certain elements of it, can be taught.
B An entrepreneurship program can help students find what they really like and entrepreneurship isn't all about business.
C Entrepreneurship should be spread across different fields.
D Colleges shouldn't put too much emphasis on entrepreneurship programs.
答案解析：
题目:丹尼尔·s·格林伯格如何看待创业教育?
A:企业家精神，或者至少是其中的某些元素，是可以传授的。
B:创业项目可以帮助学生找到他们真正喜欢的东西，而创业并不仅仅是商业。
C:企业家精神应该传播到不同的领域。
D:大学不应该过分强调创业项目。
10、What is the main ideaof the passage?
A Entrepreneurship courses in business schools.
B Qualities of an entrepreneur.
C Entrepreneurship education in colleges.
D Kids in the information age.
答案解析：
题目:这篇文章的主旨是什么?
A:商学院的创业课程。
B:企业家的品质。
C:高校创业教育。
D:信息时代的孩子。
Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based onthe following passage:
Regret is as common an emotion as love or fear, and it can be nearly as powerful. So, in a new paper, two researchers set about trying to find out what the typical American regrets most. In telephone surveys, Neal Roese, a psychologist and professor of marketing at the School ofmanagement at Northwestern UniverSity, and Mike Morrison, a doctoral candidate in psychology at University of Illinois, asked 370 Americans, aged 19 to 103, to talk about their most notable regret. Participants were asked what the regret was, when it happened, whether it was a result of something they did or didn't do, and whether it was something that could still be fixed.
The most commonly mentioned regrets involved romance (浪漫的事) (18%)——lost loves or unfulfilled relationships. Family regrets came in second (16%), with people still feeling badly about being unkind to their brothers or sisters in childhood. Other frequently reported regrets involved career (13%), education (12%), money (10%) and parenting (9%).
Roese and Morrison's study, which is to be published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, is significant in that it surveyed a wide range of the American public, including people of all ages and socio-economic and educational backgrounds. Previous studies on regret have focused largely on college students, who predictably tend to have education-focused regrets, like wishing they had studied harder or a different major. The new survey shows that in the larger population, a person's "life circumstances accomplishments, shortcomings, situation in life- inject considerable fuel into the fires of regret," the authors write.
(79) People with less education, for instance, were more likely to report education regrets. People with higher levels of education had the most career regrets. And those with no romantic parmer tended to hold regrets regarding love.
Broken down (分解、细分) by sex, more women (44%) than men (19%) had regrets about love and family not surprising, since women "value social relationships more than men," the authors write. In contrast, men (34%) weremore likely than women (27%) to mention work-related regrets, wishing they'd chosen a different career path, for instance, or followed their passion. (80) Many participants also reported wishing they had worked less to spend more time with their children.
There was an even split between regrets about inaction (not doing something) and action (doing something you wish you didn't). But, like previous studies, the current research found that some regrets are more likely than others to persist over time: people tend to hang on longer to the regret of inaction; meanwhile, regrets of action tend to be more recent.
11、In the second paragraph, the author shows__ .
A the researchers' findings
B the importance of family
C the importance of money
D the importance of career
答案解析：
题目:在第二段，作者展示了。
A:研究人员的发现
B:家庭的重要性
C:金钱的重要性
D:职业的重要性
12、According to the passage, college student participants mainly had regrets about their__ .
A family and childhood
B study and major
C career and job
D romance and fear
答案解析：
题目:根据这篇文章，大学生参与者主要对他们的行为感到后悔。
A:家庭和童年
B:研究和主要
C:职业和工作
D:浪漫和恐惧
13、The word "notable" in the first paragraph is closest in meaning to __ .
A common
B capable
C wonderful
D remarkable
答案解析：
题目:第一段中“值得注意的”一词的意思最接近。
A:常见的
B:有能力
C:美妙的
D:非凡的
14、Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A The less education he or she has, the more regrets she or he would have.
B The more education he or she has, the less regrets she or he would have.
C More women than men had regrets about love and family.
D The regret of action seems to last longer than that of inaction.
答案解析：
题目:下列哪个陈述是正确的?
A:他或她受的教育越少，她或他就会越后悔。
B:他(她)受的教育越多，他(她)就会越少后悔。
C:对爱情和家庭感到遗憾的女性多于男性。
D:行动的后悔似乎比不行动的后悔持续得更久。
15、What is the main idea of this passage?
A How regret is understood by a typical American.
B Common regrets Americans have.
C Why regret is more important than love and hate.
D How regret has shaped Americans.
答案解析：
题目:这篇文章的主旨是什么?
A:一个典型的美国人是如何理解后悔的。
B:美国人有共同的遗憾。
C:为什么后悔比爱和恨更重要。
D:悔恨是如何塑造了美国人。
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