Problem: OPTIONS:
- They don't adjust their studying methods in time.
- They are lacking in motivation to achieve success.
- They are too young and mostly come from poor families.
- They haven't got necessary support from the UK universities.
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: For Yali Liu, the hardest thing about UK higher education is having to go to the pub. "It's how much you need to invest socially with other students," she says. "I don't like going to a pub or club, but people just keep going out and I feel the pressure to go out too." This is because, unlike in China, she says, there is so much emphasis during the course on teamwork and group projects, so socialising with other students - especially British people, is crucial. Liu, 23, who is in her final year of a BSc in business administration at the University of Bath, is one of more than 80,000 Chinese students studying in UK universities. They are responsible for a large proportion of the more than PS10bn a year that international students contribute to the UK economy. However, research shows that where their academic attainment is concerned, the picture is not satisfactory. While nearly 58% of all students - and 45% of overseas students graduated with a first-class degree last year, this was true of only 35% of students from China. To find an explanation, Zhiqi Wang and Ian Crawford, lecturers at the University of Bath, compared the performance of Chinese and British undergraduates in each year of their degree. Taking a sample of 100 British and Chinese students and comparing their average marks and final degree classification, they found a dramatic drop in performance among the Chinese students between year one, when they performed better than their UK counterparts, and year two, when they performed worse. They believe the drop results from two factors. First, Chinese students fail to adapt their approaches to learning and so their performance declines in the later years when the complexity of the work increases. Second, many young people in China enroll in higher education due to pressure from family rather than their own motivation. Professor Sedghi thinks part of the problem may be the changing socio-economic background of Chinese undergraduates. While 85% of Chinese students at British universities before 2000... Question: Which of the following is NOT a possible factor for Chinese students' unsatisfactory attainment? Answer:
Answer: They are too young and mostly come from poor families.
Problem: OPTIONS:
- He wants to make animals become our sisters and brothers.
- He wants to inspire more people to treat animals as friends.
- He wants to warn people against having more food or pets.
- He wants to make readers know the elephants and the cat.
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Are animal brains too simple for thoughts and choices? Stories about animal kindness have really changed my point of view. In fact, some stories are amazing, especially when animals are meeting with people. Here are two stories that interest me. James, a wildlife writer, told a story that an African woman had placed her baby in the shade of a tree while she was working. An elephant group walked by and saw the baby. Several elephants pulled leafy branches from the tree covered the sleeping baby. Flies can be a problem in Africa and the branches protected the baby from the flies. The elephants were so gentle and quiet that they did not even wake up the baby. Then the elephants walked away. An English magazine offers another story. Bill, a cat, stayed at home while its master was away on a trip, but the man was injured in a railway accident and died a few days later in a hospital. At the funeral, the Man's brother was surprised to see that Bill was there. The faithful cat had traveled a long way to the hospital, looked at the coffin , and then sadly returned home. Humans are only one part of the earth. The beautiful flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horses and the great eagles, these are our brothers. The sky and mountains, the cows and men, all belong to the same family. These stories, I hope, will inspire more people to treat animals as our friends rather than pets or our next meal. Question: Why does the author write this passage? Answer:
Answer: He wants to inspire more people to treat animals as friends.
Problem: OPTIONS:
- Fathers can't possibly know it.
- The daughter should understand it.
- Online game players may know it.
- "Super Girl" shouldn't h
Q: Read the following article and answer the question. Article: Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Interact forum asking what "PK" meant. "My family has been watching the 'Super Girl' singing competition TV program.My little daughter asked me what 'PK' meant,but I had no idea,"explained the puzzled father. To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online,it is impossible not to know this term.In such Internet games,"PK" is short for "Player Kill",in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other. In the case of the "Super Girl" singing competition."PK" was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition ranking. Like this father,Chinese teachers at high schools have also been finding their students' compositions using Internet which are difficult to understand.A high school teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write compositions with simple language,but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn't understand. "My 'GG' came back this summer from college.He told me I've grown up to be a 'PLMM'.I loved to 'FB' with him together;he always took me to the 'KPM',"went one composition. "GG" means Ge Ge(Chinese pinyin for brother)."PLMM" refers to Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl)."FB" means Fu Bai (corruption)."KPM" is short for KFC.Pizza Hut and McDonald's. Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long(dinosaur,referring to an ugly looking female) ora Qing wa (frog,referring to an ugly looking male)is,you will possibly be regarded as a CaiNiao! Question: What does the writer think about the term "PK"? Answer:
Answer:
Online game players may know it.