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高三英语学生讲义161231
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Extensive Reading
综合填空
1. await _____________ 3. accuse _______________ 5. fake _______________
2. allegation _______________ 4. controversy _______________ 6. highlight _______________ 8. phenomenally _______________ 10. trigger _______________
7. imitation _______________ 9. reprimand ______________
11. unanimous _______________ 12. visual impact ______________
TV Food Mania Challenged
The long _______________ second season of “A Bite of China”, a _______________ popular documentary in 2012, has returned to the airwaves. Unlike the first season which earns _______________ praises, this time, the show _______________ lots of _______________ after the first episode is aired. It has been _______________ of stealing ideas from a BBC documentary, the Yangtze Evening Post reported on Wednesday.
In the first episode of \Bite of China II,\scenes of a man in Tibet's Nyingchi Prefecture climbing up a tree to get honey from a beehive have been _______________ for copying a similar scene in the BBC documentary \Central African Republic to get honey.
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Netizens uploaded screenshots of the two scenes together to _______________ their similarities: both have scenes of climbing, looking up and picking honey.
Some netizens said the local people in Nyingchi Prefecture have no tradition of climbing trees to get honey, so the plot (情节) is _______________ and designed to create a _______________.
Chen Xiaoqing, director of the documentary, denied the plagiarism (剽窃) _______________, saying \our documentary is different. I don't think it is plagiary or _______________.\
II. Grammar
(A)
The Problem with Top-Schools Lists
There are around 4,000 accredited universities and other higher education institutions in the United States. They offer an immense range of educational experiences, (25)_______ large research universities to small, friendly liberal arts colleges. This helps explain (26)_______ the United States attracts more international students than any other country, says Allan E. Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education, (27)_______ non-profit group promoting student exchanges to and from America.
“While elite(精英) U.S. programs are among the top ten in the world,” Goodman says, “the unique strength of the U.S. higher education system is diversity.”
There is no official ranking system to indicate which institutions are better than others, (28)_______ several unofficial rankings are listed by magazines and associations. However, educators urge caution in using a ranking table and emphasize that (29)_______ (good) choice for one student may be very different for another.
Institutions of all types (30)_______ (spread) across the United States. Some students want a campus that will give them the excitement and rich cultural life of a big city such as New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. (31)_______ value the peace and beauty of a rural setting, whether the quiet forests and snowy winters of the Northeast, subtropical Florida, the dry expanses of the West, or the Pacific coast with its seashore and nearby mountains.
Many institutions have particular strengths in certain academic areas, (32)_______(make) them a good choice for students interested in those fields.
(B)
An evolving game
Asia has already become a center of the women’s professional game, and much of the growth in participation across the world is coming from women’s golf.
Family-friendly facilities (33)_______(develop) for a new golfing demographic(人群) in the following years, (34)_______ more women are playing the game and men and women are increasingly spending their leisure time together.
Children’s engagement with the game will increase. In China, golf is recognized as a game (35)_______ teaches children important life principles. Free golf training is offered to kinder-gartners and some parents are now prepared to spend up to 300,000 yuan ($43,940) a year on lessons for their children.
“Asia will play an increasingly vital role in the future development of golf,” say top players past and present.
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More top events will be added to the schedule in China and other places in Asia, (36)_______ the game is becoming more popular. Back-to-back Open Champion Padraig Harrington agrees: “You only (37)_______ _______ look at the European Tour’s schedule and see how many tournaments are now being hosted by Asia, whether in the Middle East or Far East,” he says.
“Change is the price of survival,” says golf legend Gary Player, one of a handful of players (38)_______(achieve) the Career Grand Slam(大满贯). “With the eyes of the sport now firmly (39)_______(focus) on Asia, I can see several of the world’s Top 10 coming from Asia and several more global tournaments hosted there by 2020.”
The game will also become more technologically engaged. Advances in digital technology will change the face of (40)_______(coach) with “smart clubs” which memorize golfers’ grip and swing, allowing them to analyze their performance and learn from their mistakes.
III. Cloze
(A) A. analyze B. relevant C. indicating D. restricted E. transform F. primarily G. disciplining H. reputations I. pioneered J. establishment K. necessarily Before the 1850’s, the United States had a number of small colleges, most of them dating from colonial days. They were small, church connected institutions whose primary concern was to shape the moral character of their students.
Throughout Europe, institutions of higher learning had developed, bearing the ancient name of university. The German university was concerned __41_____ with creating and spreading knowledge, not morals. Between mid-century and the end of the 1800’s, more than nine thousand young Americans, dissatisfied with their training at home, went to Germany for advanced study. Some of them return to become presidents of colleges of high __42_____ --Harvard, Yale, Columbia--and __43______ them into modern universities. The new presidents broke all ties with the churches and brought in a new kind of faculty. Professors were hired for their knowledge of a subject, not because they were of the proper faith and had a strong arm for __44_____ students. The new principle was that a university was to create knowledge as well as pass it on, and this called for a faculty composed of teacher-scholars. Drilling and learning by rote were replaced by the German method of lecturing, in which the professor’s own research was presented in class. Graduate training leading to the Ph.D., an ancient German degree __45_____ the highest level of advanced scholarly achievement, was introduced. With the __46_____of the seminar system, graduate student learned to question, __47_____, and conduct their own research.
At the same time, the new university greatly expanded in size and course offerings, breaking completely out of the old, __48_____ curriculum(课程) of mathematics, classics, rhetoric, and music. The president of Harvard ___49___ the elective system, by which students were able to choose their own course of study. The notion of major fields of study emerged. The new goal was to make the university ___50_____ to the real pursuits of the world. Paying close attention to the practical needs of society, the new universities trained men and women to work at its tasks. Students were also trained as economists, architects, agriculturalists, social welfare workers, and teachers.
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