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1、- 1 - 河北省秦皇岛市卢龙县2016 高考英语阅读理解含语法填空练习（2）Beginning college is exciting: new ideas to explore, new challenges to be met and many decisions to be made. Your future begins here. However, you will find college life is different from your previous school environment. Many of us can be easily overwhelmed(压垮
2、 ) by the details of running a well-balanced life. While some of us may have the know-how, I guess there are more of us who can benefit from learning about the experiences of other who have walked the college halls before you. The following you may find of use about life on campus. 1.Plan well. Ther
3、e are so many new things to do at a new college or university, social and academic( 学术的 ). Give yourself time to make new friends and become familiar with the campus, but dont forget why you are there. Give some time for social activities and manage your time wisely. 2.If you dont have a “system” fo
4、r planning your time now (like a day time, a computer date book), get one. Most of all, dont depend on your memory.3.Don t miss the guidelines, restrictions, rules and regulations of all kinds can usually be found in your student handbook. Consider them well-balanced food for thought. What dates are
5、 important? What pieces of paper need to be handed in? What can/can t you do in your student residence(住处 )? Who has authority for what? What do you need to complete to graduate? 4.Write the word “STUDY ” on the walls of our bedroom and bathroom, and maybe it will help to write it on a piece of pape
6、r and stick it on the telephone, TV and the kitchen table. Consider this you are paying thousands of dollars for courses. You pay every time you have to repeat or replace a course. 1. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To offer advice on college life. B. To explain why college life is excit
7、ing. C. To describe the importance of college life. D. To persuade you to go to college - 2 - 2. From the passage, we can know . A. one will have more freedom at college B. one will make more friends at college C. one prepares for ones future career and life at college D. professors at college will
8、provide you with many new ideas 3. What is the probable meaning of the underlined word “know -how ” (in Paragraph 2)?A. An understanding of how things are going at college. B. A practical knowledge about how to behave and what to do at college. C. College halls where rules and regulations are presen
9、ted. D. An environment completely different from the one youre used to.4. According to the passage, college students . A. needn t learn from those who went to college before them B. should spend as much time as possible on social activities C. should have a “system” for planning their timeD. are sup
10、posed to repeat or replace at least one course 【参考答案】14、 ACBC 阅读理解。A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has come up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct(不同的 ) species. The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard Universities wh
11、en they were examining the genetic relationship between the ancient woolly mammoth and mastodon to modern elephants the Asian elephant, African forest elephant, and African savanna elephant. Once they obtained DNA sequences ( 序列 )from two fossils ( 化石 ), mammoths and mastodons, the team compared the
12、m with DNA from modern elephants. They found to their amazement that modern forest and savanna elephants are as distinct from each other as Asian elephants and mammoths. The scientists used detailed genetic analysis to prove that the African savanna elephant and the African forest elephant have been
13、 distinct species for several million years. The divergence of the two species took place around the time of the divergence - 3 - of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths. This result amazed all the scientists. There has long been debate in the scientific community that the two might be separate speci
14、es, but this is the most convincing scientific evidence so far that they are indeed different species. Previously, many naturalists believed that African savanna elephants and African forest elephants were two populations of the same species, despite the elephants significant size differences. The s
15、avanna elephant has an average shoulder height of 3.5 metres while the forest elephant has an average shoulder height of 2.5 metres. The savanna elephant weighs between six and seven tons, roughly double the weight of the forest elephant. But the fact that they look so different does not necessarily
16、 mean they are different species. However the proof lay in the analysis of the DNA. Alfred Roca, assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at the University of Illinois, said, “We now have to treat the forest and savanna elephants as two different units for conservation purposes. Since 1950, all African elephants have been conserved as one species. Now that we know the forest and savanna elephants are two very distinctive animals, the forest el
