Regular and concrete feedback is important when ______ with a worker who is not performing up to her potential.A. to dealB. dealingC. dealt

The Spring Festival is coming．I'm looking forward to______home．（ ）A. returnB. returningC. be returnedD. be returning

To achieve greater ___ in the research, the scientist spent much time conducting experiments and analyzing the data. (precise)

When students arrive on campus with their parents, both parties often assume that the school will function in loco parentis, watching over its young charges, providing assistance when needed. Colleges and universities present themselves as supportive learning communities―as extended families, in a way. And indeed, for many students they become a home away from home. This is why graduates often use another Latin term, alma mater , meaning “nourishing mother”. Ideally, the school nurtures its students, guiding them toward adulthood. Lifelong friendships are formed, teachers become mentors (导师), and the academic experience is complemented by rich social interaction. For some students, however, the picture is less rosy. For a significant number, the challenges can become overwhelming. In reality, administrators at American colleges and universities are often obliged to focus as much on the generation of revenue as on the new generation of students. A troubled or even severely disturbed student can easily fall through the cracks. Public institutions in particular are often faced with tough choices about which student support services to fund, and how to manage such things as soaring health-care costs for faculty and staff. Private schools are feeling the pinch as well. Ironically, although tuition and fees can increase as much as 6.6 percent in a single year, as they did in 2007, the high cost of doing business at public and private institutions means that students are not necessarily receiving more support in return for increased tuition and fees. To compound the problem, students may be reluctant to seek help even when they desperately need it. Unfortunately, higher education is sometimes more of an information delivery system than a responsive, collaborative process. Just as colleges are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges being posed by today’s students, so students themselves are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges posed by college life. Although they arrive on campus with high expectations, some students struggle with chronic shyness, learning disabilities, addiction, or eating disorders. Still others suffer from acute loneliness, mental illness, or even rage. We have created cities of youth in which students can pass through unnoticed, their voices rarely heard, their faces rarely seen. As class size grows in response to budget cuts, it becomes even less likely that troubled students, or even severely disturbed students, will be noticed. When they’re not, the results can be tragic. 1 How do many students feel about colleges and universities? A Admiring. B Disappointed. C Indifferent. D Affectionate. 2 What’s the ideal image of colleges and universities? A They are places where academic requirements are loose. B They are places where students can have colourful social experience. C They nurture students and guide them to grow into adults. D They teach students how to spend their youth time best. 3 Why do American colleges and universities often neglect troubled or even severely disturbed students? A They view academic management as their only task. B They don’t have so much energy or money to focus on the needs of students. C They don’t care about the students’ psychological health. D They focus mainly on improving the salaries for faculty and staff. 4 Which of the following information can be got from the third paragraph? A Private schools in America never feel that they are short of money. B American students receive more support as tuition and fees increase. C American colleges and universities fail to respond to and help students in time sometimes. D American college students seek help only when they suffer from serious psychological illness. 5 What’s the author’s attitude towards American higher education? A Critical. B Neutral. C Praising. D Uninterested.

Say what you mean in _ few words _ possible.A. as...as...B. so...that...C. such...as...

_ foster a creative culture, it is important to find the right employees during the recruitment process and bring them into the company. A. With the purpose of B. In order that C. In order to

Banked cloze5 Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words from the word bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.A annoyances F endows K offsetsB cognitive G immerse L positivityC console H loosen M recipeD denoting I luncheon N trivialE embracing J nuances O tropicalThe benefits of travel go beyond making memories and meeting new people. Staying away from the 1)____ things of daily life and exploring a new place can have a remarkably positive impact on your emotional well-being and your 2)____ powers.Travel can improve your emotional well-being in two aspects. First, changing your daily routine, for example, taking a trip to a nearby town on a weekend day, can help 3)____ your mind and deal with the daily 4)____.Second, physical exercise is known to improve emotional well-being and travel offers plenty of opportunities to get active. Getting to know a new destination by 5)____ the great outdoors can boost energy levels and improve your mood.Travel can also improve your cognitive powers due to the exposure to different cultures. Whether you venture abroad or simply to the next town over, a trip away from home can help enhance your 6)____ and reveal a world of possibilities beyond your daily perspective. Something as simple as learning a new 7)____ or changing the way you spend your downtime can have a dramatic effect on your well-being. It's been proven that new experiences - particularly ones that allow you to 8)____ yourself in a different culture - improve the performance of your brain, 9)____ the restrictions, and increase creativity.<|im_end|>Banked cloze5 Fill in the blanks by selecting suitable words from the word bank. You may not use any of the words more than once.A annoyances F endows K offsetsB cognitive G immerse L positivityC console H loosen M recipeD denoting I luncheon N trivialE embracing J nuances O tropical

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, it may explain at least one of their shared beliefs: Men and women can’t be real friends. Many may point to the jealousy that plagues many rational people when a significant other befriends someone of the opposite sex. Boil it down to the inherent differences between the sexes. It just can’t be done. Is it right Wrong, say relationship experts. "The belief that men and women can’t be friends comes from another era in which women were at home and men were in the workplace, and the only way they could get together was for romance," explains Linda Sapadin, Ph. [D], a psychologist in private practice in Valley Stream, New York. "Now they work together and have sports interests together and socialize together." This cultural shift is encouraging psychologists, sociologists and communications experts to put forth a new message: though it may be tricky, men and women can successfully become close friends. What’s more, there are good reasons for them to do so. Society has long singled out romance as the prototypical male-female relationship because it spawns babies and keeps the life cycle going; cross-sex friendship, as researchers call it, has been either ignored or trivialized. We have rules for how to act in romantic relationships (flirt, date, get married, have kids) and even same-sex friendships (boys relate by doing activities together, girls by talking and sharing). But there are so few platonic male-female friendships on display in our culture that we’re at a loss even to define these relationships. A certain 1989 film starring Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal convinced a nation of moviegoers that romance always comes between men and women, making true friendship impossible. "When Harry Met Sally set the potential for male-female friendship back about 25 years," says Michael Monsour, Ph. D., assistant professor of communications at the University of Colorado at Denver and author of Women and Men as Friends: Relationships across the Life Span in the 21st Century. "Almost every time you see a male-female friendship, it winds up turning into romance." In 1989, Don O’Meara, Ph. D., a sociology professor at the University of Cincinnati-Raymond Walters College, published a landmark study in the journal Sex Roles on the top impediments to cross-sex friendship. Among several challenges he pointed out in his research, society may not be entirely ready for friendships between men and women that have no sexual subtext. People with close friends of the opposite sex are often barraged with nudging, winking and skepticism: "Are you really just friends" This is especially true, says O’Meara, of older adults, who grew up when men and women were off-limits to each other until marriage.What do some relationship experts think about male-female friendships(). A.They can only be friends in the workplace. B.Their friendships would finally turn into romances. C.It is totally possible that friendships exist between males and females. D.Men and women can’t be real friends.

第二大题词汇与结构（单选题）5.The meaning of “communication” goes a lot_ than people often think.A. moreB. higherC. deeper

Directions:In this section,you will read 10 incomplete sentences.You are required to-|||-complete each sentence with a word or expression given in the word bank.-|||-Change the form where necessary.-|||-alike|apart from | at any rate be up to |community-|||-considerable|contribute |devour|dumb|fade | humiliate-|||-impact|interference |keep sb.in suspense know better than-|||-mobile|repeatedly |prompt|set aside welfare-|||-1.Why do you always have to __ me in front of your friends?-|||-2.They __ us __ for over two hours before they-|||-revealed the result.-|||-3.It is important to ensure __ delivery of goods that customers order.-|||-4.We didn't see anyone all day, __ a couple of kids on the beach.-|||-5.Davis __ denied that he had ever taken drugs.-|||-6.She was struck __ with terror.-|||-7.A(n) __ amount of research was done here by our science department.-|||-8.After the tennis match the boys __ the sandwiches in seconds.-|||-9.He knew Bailey __ something.But what?-|||-10.We need to assess the __ on climate change.