In colleges around the country, most students are also workers.

The reality of college can be pretty different from the images presented in movies and television. Instead of the students who wake up late, party all the time, and study only before exams, many colleges are full of students with pressing schedules of not just classes and activities, but real jobs, too.

This isn’t a temporary phenomenon.The share of working students has been on the rise since the 1970s, and one-fifth of students work yearround. About one-quarter of those who work while attending school have both a full-courseload and a full-time job. The arrangement can help pay for tuition (学费) and living costs, obviously. And there’s value in it beyond the direct cause: such jobs can also be critical for developing important professional and social skills that make it easier to land a job after graduation. With many employers looking for students with already-developed skill sets, on-the-job training while in college can be the best way to ensure a job later on.

But it’s not all upside. Even full-time work may not completely cover the cost of tuition and living expenses. The study notes that if a student worked a full-time job at the federal minimum wage, they would earn just over $15,000 each year, certainly not enough to pay for tuition, room, and board at many colleges without some serious financial aid. That means that though they’re sacrificing time away from the classroom, many working students will still graduate with at least some debt. And working fulltime can reduce the chance that students will graduate at all, by cutting into the time available for studying and attending classes.

There is little reward for attending but not finishing college. Students who wind up leaving school because of difficulty in managing work and class are likely to find themselves stuck in some of the same jobs they might have gotten if they hadn’t gone at all. The difficulty of working too much while in school can create a cycle that pushes students further into debt without receiving any of the financial or career benefits.

63.According to the passage, the reality of college students is that ______.

A. they throw parties a lot                                  B. they stay up late every night                    

C. they pay no attention to exams                     D. they work besides attending classes

64.What is the indirect cause of an increasing number of working students?

A.The need of developing social networks.

B.The lack of summer jobs for young adults.

C.The chance of finding a job after graduation.             

D.The expenses of high tuition and living costs.

65.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. working students are more likely to finish college

B. students can cover their college expenses through working

C. students receive a huge reward for managing work and class

D. dropping out of college may not help students get career benefits

66.What is the best title for the passage?

A. The Difficulties of Landing a Job

B. The Struggle of Work-School Balance                

C. The Reward of Working While Studying

D. The Images of Working College Students

New data from NASA's Curiosity rover indicate Mars Crater once held an enormous lake. This discovery suggests that the red planet may have been much wetter than scientists thought and raises the possibility that the planet was once habitable.

“The size of the lake and the length of time and series that water was showing up implies that there may have been sufficient time for life to develop.” NASA's Mars Exploration Program scientist Dr. Michael Meyer told Reuters.

Curiosity collected the new data on its five-mile drive to Mount Sharp, the prime destination on its mission to study Mars' climate and geography. The rover landed in Gale Crater in August 2012.

After reaching Mount Sharp in September, the rover spent two months studying rocks at the base of the three-mile-high mountain, discovering fine layers of mudstone--which tend to collect at the bottom of lakes. This shows how a mountain inside a Mars' Gale Crater might have formed.

"If our assumption for Mount Sharp holds up, it challenges the idea that warm and wet conditions were passing, local, or only underground on Mars,” Dr. Ashwin Vasavada said in a written statement. “A more radical explanation is that Mars' ancient, thicker atmosphere raised temperatures above freezing globally, but so far we don't know how the atmosphere did that."

Vasavada said curiosity will continue to study changes in the rock formation as it climbs Mount Sharp in the next few months, which should test the team's hypothesis..

"We'll also look at the chemistry of the rocks to see if the water that was once present would've been of the kind that could support microbial life, if it ever was present," he said in a video released by NASA. "With only 30 vertical feet of the mountain behind us, we're sure there's a lot more to discover."

33. What does this text mainly talk about?

A. How scientists explored Mars.

B. The ways Curiosity used to explore Mount Sharp.

C. Some data about Gale Crater.

D. The discovery of Curiosity rover on Mars.

34. The discovery of the lake proves that _____.

A. early Mars was ripe and ready for life

B. the climate on early Mars was hot

C. life once existed on Mars

D. humans can live on Mars

35. Where does this text probably come from?

A. A science fiction.

B. A science report.

C. A news report on solar system

D. An official announcement.

                      Tayka Hotel de Sal

Where: Tahua, Bolivia

How much: About $ 95 a night

Why it's cool: You've stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That's

something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt-including

the beds (though you'll sleep on regular mattresses and blankets). The hotel sits

on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried-up lake which is the world's biggest

salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633-square-mile flat to make the bricks,

and glue them together with a paste (糊) of wet salt that hardens when it dries.

When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to

strengthen the bricks.

                   Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: About $ 240 a night

Why it's cool:  Taking a pulley(滑轮)-operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is

just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window-there is

no glass!  -you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy(罩篷). Later

you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the

main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don't even

have to come down for breakfast-the hotel will send it up on the pulley-drawn

“elevator" .

                     Dog Bark Park Inn B&B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $ 92 a night

Why it's cool: This doghouse isn't just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-

foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his

hind leg to enter the door in his side. You can relax in the main bedroom, go up

a few steps of the loft(阁楼) in Willy's head, or hang out inside his nose.

Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet

in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant(消防栓)  outside.

                    Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: Ayvali, Turkey

How much: Between $ 130 and $ 450 a night

Why it's cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago,

when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay

will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect

from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms

cool in summer. (Don't worry-there is heat in winter. )

24. What do we know about Tayka Hotel de Sal?

     A. It is located on a prehistoric lake.

    B. It should be protected against the rain.

      C.  Everything in the hotel is made of salt.

    D. You have to cross a rope bridge to the hotel.

25. How are the hotels similar?

   A. Expensive.                   B. Comfortable.

   C. Natural.                    D. Unique.

26. What do the underlined words “Sweet Willy" refer to?

    A. The name of the hotel.

     B. The name of the hotel owner.

     C. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

     D. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

27. Which of the hotels gives you a feeling of living in the far past?

     A. Tayka Hotel de Sal.

    B. Green Magic Nature Resort.

     C. Dog Bark Park Inn B&B.

    D. Gamirasu Cave Hotel.

--- Why didn’t you pay the accommodation rent?      

--- The rent? ________.

  A. It all depends.                 B. It’s up to you.  

C. You are crazy!                   D. That isn’t due yet.

My heart story started when I was 13 years old. My father died of a heart attack while on a golf course at the young age of 45. Heart disease   41   in my family. Like my father, I have extremely high lipid（脂质）levels and the good news is that today there are some   42   that can significantly reduce my lipid levels to   43   normal ranges.

In 2011, when I was 45 and my own son was 13, history   44   itself. While skating with my son, I began to   45   an “uncomfortable feeling”. I didn’t think it was heart-related. When we   46   my wife gave me aspirin and we decided to go and see my   47   the next day because my symptoms had   48   decreased. My doctor sent us straight   49   the hospital where I had my heart examined. Tests   50   that I had trouble with my heart. After nine days at the hospital and a surgery, I went home on my 46th birthday with a   51   life.

  52   there was no evidence of any heart damage at all. My doctor told me that I must have been doing   53   pretty good before my heart attack because patients didn’t usually   54   the kind of blockage（堵塞物）I had, or they met   55   damage to the heart. I told them that I had been   56   walking for seven years before my heart attack, walking up to 20 miles a week. Several people in the medical profession told me that walking   57   my life!

This October, I will be walking at the Heart and Stroke Walk in Tacoma. Every step is a   58   that life is fragile and can be taken from us at any moment. My   59   to you is very simple:   60   you have heart disease in your family, there is something you can do about it.

41. A. affects              B. runs             C. joins                D. attacks

42. A. measures         B. ways             C. ideas                D. drugs

43. A. near             B. below                C. above                D. with

44. A. covers               B. repeats              C. remains          D. controls

45. A. express              B. avoid                C. experience           D. expand

46. A. set out              B. calmed down      C. got back         D. got away

47. A. doctor               B. friend               C. mother               D. son

48. A. probably         B. completely           C. considerably     D. practically

49. A. to                   B. for              C. in                   D. at

50. A. exposed              B. declared         C. implied          D. showed

51. A. special              B. common           C. colorful         D. new

52. A. Personally           B. Amazingly            C. Naturally            D. Eventually

53. A. nothing              B. something            C. everything           D. anything

54. A. survive              B. abandon          C. understand           D. suffer

55. A. permanent            B. slight               C. significant         D. minor

56. A. referring to         B. seeking for          C. insisting on         D. wondering at

57. A. saved                B. improved         C. treated              D. enriched

58. A. sign             B. reminder         C. dream                D. battle

59. A. plan             B. course               C. thought          D. message

60. A. unless               B. because          C. whether          D. if

 The Milan Expo 2015, ______ theme is “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”,

   is aimed at arousing awareness regarding global hunger.

    A. where        B. when         C. which        D. whose

—Have you been wasting time on computer games again?

— ________ . I’ve been studying a lot and I need a break.

A．No way        B．Not really       C．I don’t agree      D．I couldn’t

  The Winter Middle School Drama Club has recently given their annual Winter Shows. Over 80 students participated in the three shows presented this year. The performances included two 10-minute plays, Eighteen Ways to Annoy Your Teacher and Zippy. It was a fun and successful night for all, and the WMS Drama Club will compete later this year in the Massachusetts Middle School Drama Competition.

   It had taken the students two months to prepare. The clothes in the play were designed all by themselves. Some of the students made full use of their spare time, even breaks between classes to discuss the details about the play . Bruce Johnson, one of the play writers, had even revised the play Zippy six times.  

   “That experience taught me teamwork!” One of the participants, Stephen Tracy, considered the experience to be unforgettable, “Being in the show, I realized my ideas, and I felt great to work with other classmates.” Another student, Chris Haskell, who was glad to be a part of the show, said, “it was a little time-consuming to do all the work like designing, practicing, etc, but the show made me feel alive.”

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1. 以约30个词概括以上短文的内容；

2. 然后以约120个词就“参加集体活动”这一主题发表你的看法，内容包括：

（1）你对以上活动的感受；

（2）讲述一次你参加集体活动的经历；

（3）说说你从该活动中的获益。

—Airport, please. I have to be there by 11.

—           , but I will do my best.

       A．I can’t promise    B．No problem         C．All right               D．It’s impossible

 It was nine years ago, when I came to China for the first time ____ I began to

    learn Chinese.

A. where        B. how         C. that         D. which

 In the past decades, sea ice ____ in the Arctic as a result of global warming．

       A． had melted                                               B． has been melting   

       C． melted                                                     D． is melting

 – Are you still very busy?

   – Yes, I _________ the report for the manager and it won’t take long.

    A. am just finishing    B. have just finished   C. had just finished       D. am just going to finish

_________________ (一旦译成) Chinese, the book became very popular among Chinese teenagers. (translate)

 Today, we will begin ________we stopped yesterday so that no point will be left out.

A. when B. where       C. how   D. what

 If you plant watermelon seeds in the spring, you _____fresh watermelon in the summer.

  A. are always eating     B. will be eating     C. may have eaten    D. would eat

       On the ocean floor _____. However, to bring them to the surface requires expensive equipment and trained people.

       A. do some sunken ships lie                        B. some sunken ships do lie

       C. lie some sunken ships                                   D. some sunken ships lie

______ smiling and one day life will get tired of upsetting you.

A. To keep    B. Keeping   C. Keep        D. Having kept

最近银川一中高三（17）班同学开展了一场“司机醉驾是否应该处罚乘客”的讨论。请你根据下表提供的信息, 给报社写一封信, 介绍讨论的情况, 并发表你的看法。

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少数同学赞成处罚乘客	大多数同学反对处罚乘客
1. 减少交通事故,促进交通安全 2. 不乘坐醉酒司机的车,不仅是对自己负责, 也是对司机和路人负责	1.乘客难以判断司机是否醉酒 2. 即使乘客知道司机饮酒, 如果司机不听从乘客的劝诫, 处罚乘客是不公平的
你的看法：……

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Dear Editor，

     I’m writing to tell you about the discussion we’ve had about whether passengers who ride in a car driven by a drunken driver should be punished.

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Yours sincerely，

Li yan