阅读理解 Passage 4 The Myth of College Many of you young persons out there are seriously thinking about going to college. (That is, of course, a lie. The only things you young persons think seriously about are loud music and sex. Trust me: these are closely related to college). College is basically a bunch of rooms where you sit for roughly two thousand hours and try to memorize things. The two thousand hours are spread out over four years; you spend the rest of the time sleeping and trying to get dates. Basically, you learn two kinds of things in college: Things you need to know later in life (two hours). These include how to make collect telephone calls and get beer and crepe-paper stains out of your pajamas. Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours). These are the things you learn in classes whose names end in -ology, -osophy, -istry, -ics, and so on. The idea is you memorize these things, then write them down in little exam books, then forget them. If you fail to forget them, you become a professor and have to stay in college for the rest of your life. It's very difficult to forget everything. For example, when I was in college, I had to memorize - don't ask me why - the names of the metaphysical poets other than John Donne. I have managed to forget one of them, but I still remember that the other two were named Vaughan and Crashaw. Sometimes, when I'm trying to remember something important, like whether my wife told me to get tuna packed in oil or tuna packed in water, Vaughan and Crashaw just pop up in my mind, right there in the supermarket. It's a terrible waste of brain cells. After you've been in college for a year or so, you're supposed to choose a major, which is the subject you intend to memorize and forget the most things about. Here is a very important piece of advice: be sure to choose a major that does not involve Known Facts and Right Answers. This means that you must not major in mathematics, physics, biology or chemistry, because these subjects involve actual facts. If, for example, you major in mathematics, you're going to wander into class one day and the professor will say: "Define the cosine integer of the quadrant of the rhomboid binary axis, and extrapolate your result to five significant vertices." If you don't come up with exactly the answer the professor has in mind, you fail. The same is true of chemistry: if you write in your exam book that carbon and hydrogen combine to form oak, your professor will flunk you. He wants you to come up with the same answer he and all the other chemists have agreed on. Scientists are extremely snotty about this.
单选题 When should the college students choose a major?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节事实题。根据题干关键词choose a major为原文第七段首句重现,对答案进行定位。题干中的should与原文第七段首句中的are supposed to对应,故原句前半部分的after引导的时间状语即为答案,与选项C为重现。故答案为C。
单选题 The word ”flunk“ in the last paragraph means ?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 语义题。根据题干信息定位到原文尾段的第四句。注意本句中的主语The same,这说明上一句所说的情况与本句类似。对比两句的内容,尾段第三句的don"t...exactly the answer the professor has in mind与第四句中的you write...carbon and hydrogen...to form oak情况类似,所以第三句中的fail应该与第四句中的flunk意思相近。故答案为B。
单选题 What is the beat title for the passage?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。阅读全文,考生可以发现文章介绍了college里密不可分的事loud music and sex,大学里可以learn two kinds of things以及大学如何选专业。选项B和C是本文主题的一部分,而选项D并没有提及,本文就是向没有进入大学的人解开神秘的面纱。故答案为A(大学的传说)。
单选题 According to the author, what are closely related to college?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节事实题。根据题干关键词closely related to college定位到原文首段括号内。原文中的music and sex与选项C重现。故答案为C。
单选题 According to the author, what should the college students learn two kinds of thing?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节事实题。根据题干关键词learn two kinds of things定位到原文第二段。接着第三段和第四段分别阐述了Things you need to know later in life (two hours)和Things you will not need to know in later life (1,998 hours)。选项B是对这两句的概括。故答案为B。