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二、综合阅读 Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this country, you may want to know what you usually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your classmates, and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today. First, let’s talk about what your weekly timetable （时间表）will look like. No matter what your major（专业）may be, you must spend between four and six hours a week for each class going lectures （去听讲座）. Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses（课程）such as introduction to sociology（社会学）or economics（经济学）often have as many as two or three hundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it’s very important for you to take notes（作笔记）on what the professor says because the information of a lecture is often different from the information in your textbooks. Also, you can get some exam questions from the lectures. So it isn’t enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures as well. In a typical week you will also have a few hours of discussion for every class you take. The discussion time is a small group meeting usually with fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures, the reading and the homework. In large universities, graduate students（研究生）, called teaching assistants（助教）, usually help discussion time. If your major is chemistry, or physics, or another science, you’ll also have to spend several hours a week in the lab, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more time in the classroom than non-science majors（非理科）do. On the other hand, people who major in subjects like literature （文学）or history usually have to read and write more than science majors do. 1. The main idea of this text is . A. to help the students to learn about university life B. to persuade （劝说）the students to attend lectures（上课）. C. to encourage （鼓励）the students to take part in discussions D. to advise the students to choose right majors 2. We can learn from the text that university professors . A. spend about 5 hours on lectures each week B. must join the students in the discussion sections C. like to use textbooks in their lectures D. ask the students to read beyond the textbooks 3. A discussion time does NOT include . A. working under the guidance of university professors B. talking over what the students have read about the courses C. discussing the problems related to the students’ homework D. raising （提出）questions about what a professor has said in a lecture 4. According to the author, science majors . A. have to work harder than non-science majors B. spend less time on their studies than non-science majors C. consider experiments more important than discussions D. read and write less than non-science majors 5. The underline phraseIn the typical week means . A. In a special week. B. In a kind of week. C. In a whole week of learning. D. In a complete week. (责任编辑：admin) |