2004年3月 Questions 1-5
For the teenagers who cast off their daily lives and head off for South America, Africa and Asia, it may offer the time of their young lives. But research published yesterday shows that the so-called %university is not as beneficial as has been suggested. In five years the gap year has metamorphosed from a radical activity of a rebellious student generation into an obligation that must be fulfilled by ambitious future professionals. It has spawned in the process a lucrative commercial market providing tourist style trips.
Prince William's gap year venture to Chile in 2000 created institutional acceptability, and about 200,000 people a year between 18 and 25 now take 12 months out of study. \people with nothing better to do; now they were for hopeful professionals and future kings,\of Newcastle, who based her research on projects in South America and talked to hundreds of students on their return. http://tr.hjenglish.com/
\progression to employability, as necessary as your A-levels and as inevitable as your degree. As the gap year has been professionalised, So it has increasingly been marketed at future professionals, with an assumption that further education and successful employment are to follow.\
Ms Simpson said that without explaining how values such as \horizons\they have been promoted by people such as the foreign secretary, Jack Straw,
and the University College Admission Service (Ucas). Mr. Straw said: \society can only benefit from travel which promotes character, confidence [and] decision-making skills.\year out are now widely recognised by universities and colleges and cannot fail to stand you in good stead in later life.\
However, these statements did not always reflect the reality. Many of the 50 organisations providing package trips for gap year students this year designed them to be acceptable to parents and future employers, and had little concern for the communities the students were volunteering to help. One example was in Ecuador where students had been sent to \community.\been painted by the volunteers without prior consultation.
\building a bridge or school often without proper consultation with the local community and what they might want or need. They get a level of experience and decision-making which they would not get at home, but also doing things in other people's hospitals and schools they would never be allowed at home.\students had been involved in delivering babies, construction projects and teaching without prior training - something banned in Britain. http://tr.hjenglish.com/
A typical provider advertised: \a purpose, one that gives you experience beyond tourism and provides practical help to local communities.\Build futures.\outdated\
benefit from the introduction of large numbers of unskilled 18-year-olds. \such an approach may produce some valuable contributions, the risks are high. The gap year industry cannot rely on its good intentions to assure the quality of its work.\
The projects are often used to the benefit of the visiting students, as opposed to the residents. In many projects, the students practice being adults and professionals using local people as guinea pigs. \based on the exploitative and dehumanising relationships. I am sure that many students learn a great deal from their gap years, but they could gain so much more if they experiment with local people.\residents know in advance in which the local people participate and ask for what they want. \the true potential of the gap year could be realised,\1. The word \metamorphosed from a radical activity of a rebellious student generation into an obligation that must be fulfilled by ambitious future professionals.\best be replaced by _______.
(A) orientated (B) reversed (C) changed (D) downgraded
2. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true about the \year\
(A) It has been developed into a growing industry. (B) It has been officially accepted by more universities.
(C) It has been linked with students' academic study and future employment.
(D) It has met strong protest from local communities outside Britain. 3. The expression \students practice being adults and professionals using local people as guinea pigs.\ (A) beasts and brutes (B) subjects for experiments
(C) control groups in a study (D) dirty animals such as pigs
4. It can be concluded from the passage that according to Ms Simpson, _______.
(A) gap year activity should show more concern for locals as well (B) the activities of gap students are hated by most local people (C) the gap year industry will undergo a greater development
(D) gap students have made great contribution to the local communities 5. Which of the following can serve as the best title of the passage?
(A) Broad horizons and character building: targets for university students (B) Mind the gap: why student year out may do more harm than good (C) The booming gap year industry: good intentions provide no guarantee (D) Requirement for success: gap year equals A-levels and academic degree
Questions 6-10
A Black comedy by a first-time novelist with a past as colorful as his book has defied the bookies to win the ￡50,000 Man Booker prize, the most important honour in the British literary world. Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre, the nom de plume of 42-year-old Mexican- Australian Peter Finlay, was the
unanimous choice of the Booker judges, chaired by John Carey, who took less than an hour to decide. The novel tells the story of Vernon Gregory, a Texan teenager who is put on trial accused of a massacre at his high school. http://tr.hjenglish.com/
At the awards ceremony at the British Museum in London last night, Professor Carey described it as a \but also our fascination with modern America.\said: My mum is in the audience. I want to say she and the rest of my family planted the idea that I could do anything and I would just like to apologise for taking it literally.\Monica Ali which was the bookmakers' favourite and has been the biggest seller in the shops, and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, the only established author to make it to the final round of judging.
Martyn Goff, the director of the Man Booker prize, said he was \amazed\shortest debate in the prize's 35-year history. \the fifth [member of the jury] was not unhappy,\particularly convinced by the way the author was able to create such a strong sense of America. \American whereas we all know it wasn't,\
D B C Pierre' - the initials stand for Dirty But Clean—is a reformed drug addict and gambler who was bom into a wealthy family but lost virtually everything when the banks were nationalised in Mexico in 1982. Without his family money to fall back on, Finlay has admitted selling his best friend's home and keeping the proceeds as well as working up hundreds of thousands of
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