Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

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　　If you are attending a local college, especially one without residence halls, you’ll probably live at home and commute to classes. This arrangement has a lot of (26) _____. It’s cheaper. It provides a comfortable and familiar setting, and it means you’ll get the kind of home cooking you’re used to instead of the monotony (单调) that (27) _____ even the best institutional food.

　　However, commuting students need to (28) _____ to become involved in the life of their college and to take special steps to meet their fellow students. Often, this means a certain amount of initiative on your part in (29) _____ and talking to people in your classes whom you think you might like.

　　One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parents’ unwillingness to recognize that they’re adults. The (30)_____ from high school to college is a big one, and if you live at home you need to develop the same kind of independence you’d have if you were living away. Home rules that might have been (31) _____ when you were in high school don’t apply. If your parents are (32) _____ to renegotiate, you can speed the process along by letting your behavior show that you have the responsibility that goes with maturity. Parents are more willing to (33) _____ their children as adults when they behave like adults. If, however, there’s so much friction at home that it (34) _____ your academic work, you might want to consider sharing an apartment with one or more friends. Sometimes this is a happy solution when family (35) _____ make everyone miserable.

　　Part III Reading Comprehension (40minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

　　Children are natural-born scientists. They have (36) _____minds, and they aren’t afraid to admit they don’t know something. Most of them, (37) _____ lose this as they get older. They become self-confidence and don’t want to appear stupid. Instead of finding things out for themselves they make (38) _____ that often turn out to be wrong.

　　So it’s not a case of getting kids interested in science. You just have to avoid killing the (39)_____ for learning that they were born with. It’s no coincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalized. Child naturally have a blurred approach to (40) _____ knowledge. They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same act-it’s all learning. It’s only become of the practicalities of education that you have to start breaking down. The curriculum into specialize subjects. You need to have specialist teachers who (41) _____ what they know. Thus once they enter school, children begin to define subject and erect boundaries that needn’t otherwise exist.

　　Dividing subject into science math, English, etc., is something we do for (42) _____. In the end it’s all learning. But many children today (43) _____themselves from a scientific form a scientific education. They think science is for scientists, not for them.

　　Of course we need to specialize (44) _____. Each of us has only so much time on Earth, so we can’t study everything. At 5 years old, our filed of knowledge and (45) _____ is broad, covering anything from learning to walk to learning to count. Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are 45, it might be one tiny little corner within science.

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　　A. accidentally B. acquiring C. assumptions D. convenience

　　E. eventually F. exclude G. exertion H. exploration

　　I. formulas J. ignite K. impart L. inquiring

　　M. passion N. provoking O. unfortunately