第 1 页 共 14 页四川省成都石室中学高三四川省成都石室中学高三第二次第二次模拟考试模拟考试英语英语试题试题 if so, get that material down. In addition, look for points of emphasis-from the profs verbal language, body language, or careful reading of his notes. If you still feel youre missing the main points, try showing your notes to a classmate or the prof.TRYLeaving lots of space between ideas.WHY?Because you want lots of room to continue to add notes in your own words; this will help you learn the material on a deeper level by integrating it with what you already know. Also, the extra space will make it easier for you to find material when you are studying.TRYGoing over new notes-10 minutes for each class-within 24 hoursWHY?Because you lose 5080% of the material if you dont. TRYSetting your notes up so you can study effectively from them.HOW?Leave wide left margins (页边空白):here you will write questions from which to study your notes. Leave the back of the page blank, so you can fold the page, cover the notes, and answer the questions when studying.第 6 页 共 14 页25._During a listening lesson .A.the students might lose interest after 20 minutesB.most students might be absent-mindedC.students prefer to talk to each otherD.students don5t have to pay attention to the last part of the lesson26.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A.Pre-reading what you read might help you understand the material better.B.Taking notes in class can help you master the main idea better.C.The writer of the passage is not quite satisfied with high school education.D.One should learn to go over ones lessons within 24 hours.27.The article is probably written for.A. high school studentsB. grown-upsC. university studentsD. teachers of EnglishCOlaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations, broken up by long “dark ages” in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? Thats much more difficult.When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply cant think of.So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.第 7 页 共 14 页Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set you imagination free when you think about the future.28.A particular mention made of Stapledons book in the opening paragraph .A. serves as a description of human historyB. serves an introduction to the discussionC. shows a disagreement of viewsD. shows the popularity of the book29.The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order toshow that _.A.human history is extremely longB.life has changed a great dealC.it is useless to plan for the next 50 yearsD.it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future30.Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to.A. tools used in farmingB. ideas about modern lifeC. unknown things in the futureD. hunting skills in the Stone Age31.According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will .A.serve the interests of the present and future generationsB.enable us to better understand human historyC.help us to improve farmingD.make life worth livingD Every year, thousands of new high school graduates pack their bags, move to new cities, and sign papers accepting loans, the money borrowed from a bank or lenders etc., which they might not be able to pay back. Without proper education on personal finance, especially as it relates to 5/10paying for college, young adults are guided into improper loan plans that result in years of debt after graduation. In order to set students up to succeed financially, it is important to educate students and parents on their financial optio