Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
American movies create myths about college life in the United States. These stories are entertaining, but they are not true. You have to look beyond Hollywood movies to understand what college is really like.
Thanks to the movies, many people believe that college students party and socialize more than they study. Movies almost never show students working hard in class or in the library. Instead, movies show them eating, talking, hanging out, or dancing to loud music at wild parties. While it is true that American students have the freedom to participate in activities, they also have academic responsibilities. In order to succeed, they have to attend classes and study hard.
Another movie myth is that athletics is the only important extracurricular activity. In fact, there is a wide variety of nonacademic activities on campus such as special clubs, service organizations, art, and theater programs. This variety allows students to choose what interests them. Even more important, after graduation, students’ résumés look better to employers if they list a few extracurricular activities.
Most students in the movies can easily afford higher education. If only this were true! While it is true that some American college students are wealthy, most are from families with moderate incomes. Up to 80% of them get some type of financial aid. Students from middle and lower-income families often work part-time throughout their college years. There is one thing that many college students have in common, but it is not something you will see in the movies. They have parents who think higher education is a priority, a necessary and important part of their children's lives.
Movies about college life usually have characters that are extreme in some way. super athletic, super intelligent, super wealthy, super glamorous, etc. Movies use these stereotypes, along with other myths of romance and adventure because audiences like going to movies that include these elements. Of course, real college students are not like movie characters at all.
So the next time you want a taste of the college experience, do not go to the movies. Look at some college websites or brochures instead. Take a walk around your local college campus. Visit a few classes. True, you may not be able to see the same people or exciting action you will see in the movies, but you can be sure that there are plenty of academic adventures going on all around you !
Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Learning is only part of students’ college life
B. There is a wide choice of extracurricular activities for college students
C. Extracurricular activities are of no importance to employers
D. Not all extracurricular activities are students’ academic responsibilities
These days, there are many students who do not attend physical schools but instead, stay home, where they are homeschooled. While these students (21)__________study at their homes, they sometimes visit their local schools. One reason for this concerns athletics. In many American states, homeschooled students are permitted to play on their local school’s athletic teams. This is good news for the schools because a lot of homeschoolers are(22)__________athletes. The students who attend actual schools are mostly accepting of the homeschoolers. They usually have no problems with them and are often simply(23)__________about what it is like not to go to school. So they tend to bombard the homeschoolers with numerous questions. The homeschoolers(24)__________by mingling with the students at school. Some of them rarely spend time (25)__________, so it helps them develop their social skills if they can hang out and play sports with other kids.
21. A. primarily B. solely C. relatively D. cautiously
22. A. exception B. exceptions C.exceptional D exceptionally
23. A. upset B. curious C. worried D. hostile
24. A. benefit B. benefited C. benefiting D. will have benefited
25. A. for individuals of their age B. of the individuals who have aged
C. with other individual’s at their age D. by individuals that age