阅读理解 Since many of you are planning to study at a college or university in this

阅读理解

Since many of you are planning to studyat a college or university in this country, you may be curious to know what youusually do in a typical week, how you can get along with your fellow students,and so on. These are the questions I want to discuss with you today.

First, let’s talk about what your weeklyschedule will look like. No matter what your major may be, you can expect tospend between four and six hours a week for each class attending lectures.Lectures are usually in very large rooms because some courses such asintroduction to sociology or economics often have as many as two or threehundred students, especially at large universities. In lectures, it’s veryimportant for you to take notes on what the professor says because theinformation in a lecture is often different from the information in yourtextbooks. Also, you can expect to have exam questions based on the lectures.So it isn’t enough to just read your textbooks; you have to attend lectures aswell. In a typical week you will also have a couple of hours of discussion forevery class you take. The discussion section is a small group meeting usuallywith fewer than thirty students where you can ask questions about the lectures,the reading, and the homework. In large universities, graduate students, calledteaching assistants, usually direct discussion sections.

If your major is chemistry, or physics,or another science, you’ll also have to spend several hours a week in the laborlaboratory, doing experiments. This means that science majors spend more timein the classroom than non-science majors do. On the other hand, people whomajor in subjects like literature or history usually have to read and writemore than science majors do.

1.The main purpose of this textis__________.

A.to help the students to learn aboutuniversity life

B.to persuade the students to attendlectures

C.to encourage the students to take partin discussions

D.to advise the students to choose propermajors

2.We can learn from the passage thatuniversity professors__________.

A.spend about 5 hours on lectures eachweek

B.must join the students in thediscussion sections

C.prefer to use textbooks in theirlectures

D.require the students to read beyond thetextbooks

3.A discussion section does NOTinclude__________.

A.working under the guidance ofuniversity professors

B.talking over what the students haveread about the courses

C.discussing the problems related to thestudents’ homework

D.raising questions about what aprofessor has said in a lecture

4.According to the author, sciencemajors__________.

A.have to work harder than non-sciencemajors

B.spend less time on their studies thannon science majors

C.consider experiments more importantthan discussions

D.read and write less than non-sciencemajors

试题答案

答案：1A2D3A4D