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1、课时达标(十七) Unit 2 Working the land 阅读理解A课标话题人与自我生活与学习体裁说明文词 数 336难度 A survey of university backgrounds of heads of major global companies found that Harvard in the United States was the most likely place that they have studied in.The Times Higher Education magazine ranked the universities attended by
2、chief executive officers(CEO) of Fortune Global 500 companies. There are four US. universities in the top 10, with three from France, two from Japan and one from South Korea. The highest ranked UK. university is Oxford in 21st place.This league table, described as the Alma Mater Index, shows which u
3、niversities around the world taught the bosses of some of the worlds biggest companies. One in twenty had a degree from a single institution, Harvard. This included MargaretC Whitman of HewlettPackard, Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric and Vittorio Colao of Vodafone.But the top 10 for producing
4、business leaders does not contain all the usual names that appear at the top of university rankings. Oxford and Cambridge are absent, but the University of Pennsylvania in the US. and Keio University in Japan are included, along with three French universities, headed by the cole Polytechnique.Across
5、 the top 100, universities from the US. dominate , followed by universities in China, Japan, France and Germany. There are more CEOs who went to university in Asia than in Europe. In terms of national comparisons, UK. universities produced the sixth highest number of global chief executives, with Ox
6、ford in 21st place and Cambridge in 45th place.But even though Harvard might have taught the biggest number of bosses from the top 500 companies, it was not attended by any of the heads of the biggest 10 companies, who were from a more diverse range of universities.Royal Dutch Shell is headed by a g
7、raduate of Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Walmart is headed by a student of Georgia Tech and Exxon Mobil has a chief executive from the University of Texas, Autin. Three of the leaders of these biggest companies went to university in China and the head of Volkswagen went to university in Stu
8、ttgart.语篇导读哪所大学培养的世界级公司的CEO多？Times Higher Education杂志给出了答案。1How many Asia universities are among the worlds top 10 universities for global CEOs?AOneBTwo.CThreeDFour.解析C细节理解题。根据第二段第二句可知，在这项调查中排名前10的大学中日本有2所，韩国有1所，即亚洲有3所，故选C项。2.What does the underlined word “dominate” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?ADec
9、reaseBAccelerate.CTake the leadDMake great progress.解析C词义猜测题。根据画线词后面的followed(紧随其后的)可知，画线词应该表达“领先”之意，故选C项。3What can we learn about the UK. universities?ACambridge University ranks highest among them.BNone of them are among the top 10 list of the survey.CThey performed better than French universities
10、 on the list.DThey produced the second highest number of global CEOs.解析B细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句可知，英国排名最高的是牛津大学，位居第21名，由此推知，英国没有一所大学在这项调查结果中位居世界前10名，故选B项。4Which of the following can be the best title for the text?AThe Rankings of the Famous Universities in the WorldBWhich Is Described as the Best University
11、in the World?CStudents Are Currently Entering Various Topclass UniversitiesDWhich University Tops the League Table of Where Bosses Studied?解析D标题归纳题。本文为一项调查报告的结果，综观全文，再结合每段第一句可知，本文重点介绍的是世界级公司的CEO曾经就读的、位居Times Higher Education杂志调查排行榜的大学，故选D项。B课标话题人与自我生活与学习体裁说明文词 数 306难度 Are the superrich more likely t
12、o be better educated? Or have they given up scholarship and dedicated themselves to the serious business of being seriously rich?According to a global census(统计) of dollar billionaires, almost twothirds have a university degree. In the UK., more than four out of five billionaires are in higher educa
13、tion.The census was produced by the Swiss banking group and a Singaporebased financial intelligence firm. It examines the wealth and background of more than 2,300 billionaires and the findings undermine the image of the wealthy as being selftaught selfstarters trained in the market.As well as being
14、much more likely to be graduates, a quarter have postgraduate degrees and more than one in 10 has a doctorate(博士学位)This map of wealth also shows that these dollar billionaires are likely to have attended some of the traditionally bestknown universities.The top 20 for universities producing billionai
15、res is dominated by famous US. institutions, which take 16 of the places. The University of Pennsylvania has produced more than any other institution followed by Harvard, Yale, the University of Southern California, Princeton, Cornell and Stanford.And the most likely way of making money is by dealin
16、g in money with billionaires mostly making their fortunes through finance, banking and investment.But there are also some indications that the geography of the superrich is changing. Reflecting Indias growing economy, the University of Mumbai is in ninth place in the league table. The only UK. university in this wea
