长沙理工大学英语报刊阅读样卷3.docVIP

长沙理工大学课程考核试卷 （B卷） 2013――2014学年第1学期 命题教师签名: 审核教师签名： 课号：0502000055 课名：英语报刊选读 考试考查：考试 此卷选为：期中考试 （ ）、期终考试 （√）、重考（ ）试卷 年级 专业 学号 姓名 得分 题项 I II III IV Total 得分 Part I. Reading Comprehension Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice Passage One University’s Boot Camp Gives Freshmen Fighting Chanc RENO, Nev. -- Welcome to boot camp, you maggots. Stand up straight, suck in that gut and recite the periodic table. What did you say? I can’t hear you! Drop and give me 20. When the University of Nevada, Reno holds its first academic boot camp Aug. 16-20, there wont be any snarling drill instructors ordering freshmen to scrub the latrines with toothbrushes, but it won’t be easy, either. They will spend five days, from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., attending classes, working in study groups and taking exams. Just as basic training prepares soldiers for combat, the goal of UNR’s new boot camp, called Biofit, is to help freshmen majoring in certain scientific fields improve their chances of surviving that fragile first semester of college. “Students of all levels of preparation come here, and some of them struggle that first semester,”said Jeff Thompson, dean of UNR’s College of Science. “And studies show that if students struggle that first semester, it’s very hard for them to overcome.” Struggling students also are at risk of dropping out, and UNR is on a mission to improve its graduation rate. Last year, slightly more than half of the freshmen who entered UNR in 2006 graduated. The graduation rate in 2012 for UNR students who earned a diploma in six years was 54 percent. Thats 2 points below the national six-year graduation rate of 56 percent. Another hopeful indicator is UNR’s retention rate: 79 percent of the freshmen who came on campus in 2011