A program in our college helps you work part-time to ease your pressure from costs. If you need more money to cover all of your education-related costs, this program may be fit for you.

Advantages

Work experience: Last year, more than 1,400 positions were available across all departments. The jobs wary from one department to the next, and in most cases, participants find a position in their chosen field.

Money: During the regular academic year(September to April), you can work party-time and earn $3,200---sometimes more---while you take courses! During the summer time, you work full-time and can earn around $6,000 over 18 weeks.

Easy access: Applying for the program is easy. There is no need for face-to-face interview. All the forms you need are online; just fill in the forms and email us; we accept no letter or phone application!

Did you know?

At the University of Ottawa, it is not necessary to receive government assistance to qualify for our Work-Study Program. You simply need to demonstrate(證明)financial need.

You could have one of these great Work-Study jobs:

·Student ambassador

·Computing and network technician

·Marketing assistant

·Sports team manager

·Researcher/translator/Writer

And more!

The admission Section receives and evaluates applications to undergraduate programs, in addition to answering applicants’ questions.

Phone: 613-562-5315 Toll-free: 1-877-868-8292(#5315)

1. What will you benefit from the program if accepted?

A. You can make $ 3,200 in the academic year at least.

B. You will get $ 6,000 scholarship a year.

C. You can take courses free of charge.

D. You may get more academic scores.

2.What are you required to do to apply for the program?

A. Get some working experience.

B. Take a face-to face interview

C. Phone the Admission Section telling your needs.

D. Complete your application forms and email them.

3.To be admitted to the program, you need to___________.

A. get some government assistance.

B. show your financial need.

C. perform well in your studies.

D. posses computing techniques

Who needs guard dogs when you have wolves , right? That’s probably what Kazakh villagers in the Almaty region though when they decided to replace their dogs with the fierce forest dwelling beasts. According to local news reports, taming(馴化的) wolves is now the latest trend and a sort of hobby among rural Kazakhs.

Nurseit Zhylkyshybay, a farmer from the south-eastern Almaty region, told reporters that he purchased a wolf cub from hunters three years ago, and the animal is now perfectly tamed.

Kurtka, Nurseit’s pet wolf, lives in the family’s yard and takes long walks through the village with his master. “He’s never muzzled,” Nurseit insisted. “I rarely put him on a chain and do take him for regular walks around the village. Our family and neighbors aren’t scared of him at all.”

But wolf expert Almas Zhaparov said that the animals are ‘far too dangerous’ to keep at home. “A wolf is like a ticking bomb, it can go off at any moment,” he warned. “If nothing is done, the fashion could spread to the wealthy Kazakhs, who might try to keep wolves in the grounds of their houses, with possibly deadly consequences.” Social media users also expressed worry about the trend, accusing the government for failing to limit the practice.

Nevertheless, the wolves don’t seem to be posing an immediate threat. If visuals from news reports are anything to go by, the beasts look pretty happy with their new lifestyle, and appear quite fond of their new masters, not unlike dogs.

1.The writer uses the example of Kurtka to show that____________.

A. wolves can be tamed.

B. wolves are like ticking bombs

C. wolves like living with humans

D. keeping wolves at home is easy

2.The underlined word “muzzled” in Para 3 means___________.

A. puzzled B. beaten

C. got his mouth covered D. got changed

3.According to Almas Zhaparov, keeping wolves at home is___________.

A. a fashion B. a disaster

C. a necessity D. a hone

4.What can we learn from the text?

A. Wolves are easy to get tamed.

B. A pet wolf can become aggressive at any moment.

C. The government will prevent people taming wolves as pets.

D. Wolves are as loyal to their masters as dogs are.

The 115-year-old famous Oxford Dictionary will now include popular new Chinese terms like “shanzhai” “youtiao” and “fangnu”, as part of the modern Chinese language.

As China plays a more and more important role in the world economy, the Chinese language is forever developing, attracting more attention from people who want to understand this ancient yet powerful language．

For instance, the word “shanzhai” is used to describe the countless knockoffs（名牌仿制品）.Another new term in the new edition is the word “fangnu”, a term used to describe the phenomenon in large cities where well-educated youth complain of a miserable existence due to the heavy burden of a home mortgage(按揭貸款).All these new or often fashionable terms can be found in the new Oxford English –Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary. that was unveiled(公布于眾的)in the recently concluded Beijing International Book Fair last week．

This dictionary is the largest single volume English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary and contains 670,000 words and phrases after five years of preparation. Sixty editors from the Oxford University Press and its partner in China—the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press worked together on the project. According to Julie Kleeman, the dictionary’s chief editor, most of the firm’s editors were Chinese, while about one fourth were native-English speakers．

“We don’t want to make it florid（絢麗的）, we want it to be modern and conversational. Many of the words in the present dictionary are no longer in use.” said Kleeman. “The need for studying Chinese by foreigners today is totally different from decades ago. Precise, native and practical—that is our main advantage,” she said. She added the dictionary also has a sidebar section that explains words which contain too much cultural information, like “hutong”, a traditional architecture style of Beijing. Another would be “youtian” the popular Chinese breakfast choice usually eaten with soybean milk.

Kleeman said in the future newer updated versions will be only available online as language often changes too quickly for book versions to keep up with. The online version will also offer a Chinese pronunciation guide．

The online version, allowing access via different platforms from the PC to the iPhones, will be ready “as soon as possible”, Kleeman said.

1.Why will Oxford Dictionary include popular new Chinese terms?

A. To attract those who want to get a better understanding of Chinese.

B. To develop the international working language, English.

C. To keep up with the development of the world economy.

D. To interest people and sell at a higher price.

2.We can use the following words to describe this new dictionary EXCEPT__________.

A. accurate B. flowery

C. practical D. native

3.The newer updated versions will be only available online because______.

A. book versions are too expensive to buy

B. book versions can’t offer a Chinese pronunciation guide

C. they can keep up with the quickly changing language

D. they will allow access in different languages

4.What can we learn from the text?

A. Oxford Dictionary has a history of more than 100 decades.

B. the word “shanzhai” can be only found in online versions.

C. Most of the dictionary’s editors are native English speakers.

D. Oxford Dictionary will be modern, practical and multifunctional

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

Indoor air pollution belongs to one of the top five environmental health risks. It is a fact that air pollutants in your home may be containing harmful particles(顆粒) for our health. It is a wise way to control it. 1.

What are the pollutants that come in indoor air pollution?

2. Those particulate matters include dust, smoke and other particles which are generated from the combustion(燃燒)appliances such as cooking stoves. It can also contain tiny organism such as viruses, bacteria, dust mites.

___3. Building material can also bring pollutants such as paints, cleaning products, pesticides(殺蟲(chóng)劑) and so on. How to deal with indoor air pollution?

There are some ways you can do to deal with your indoor air pollution. 4. However, if the contaminants come to the outdoor environment, you have to find an alternative. This cleaning device(裝置)can be a good option for your problem.

Air cleaning device is designed to be able to remove virtually all the pollutants contained in the indoor environment. There are basically two types of air cleaning device, whole house air and portable air cleaning device. Portable air cleaner is ideal for small room or specific area. 5.

A. Generally, indoor air pollution contains pollutants, such as particulate matters and gaseous pollutants.

B. However, it is better to know the harmful particles that come in the air in your home.

C. The gaseous pollutants are mostly generated from the process of combustion including vehicle exhaust, gas cooking stoves, and also tobacco smoke.

D. The first thing you can do is to give ventilation(通風(fēng)) for your home with clean outdoor air.

E. Indoor air pollution contains many harmful chemical matters.

F. Meanwhile, whole house air cleaner can cover larger area in your home.

G. On the contrary, large air cleaner can get rid of all the pollutants.

短文改錯(cuò)

假定英語(yǔ)課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請(qǐng)你修改你同桌寫(xiě)的以下作文。文中共有10處語(yǔ)言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯(cuò)誤涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)(∧)，并在其下面寫(xiě)出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線( \ )劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在該詞下面寫(xiě)出修改后的詞。

注意：1.每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2.只允許修改10處，多者(從第11處起)不計(jì)分。

After a couple of year away from my hometown, I find it has changed a lot. The old fish shop across the street has gone. There exist now a park that has a small river run through. The factory on Friendship Street has been moved out the city and a sports center is now in their place. The market at corner of Xinhua Road has been given way to a supermarket. Besides the bookstore next to my middle school was still there.

書(shū)面表達(dá)

假設(shè)你是李華，在Twitter 網(wǎng)上看到一名叫Kobe的美國(guó)中學(xué)生發(fā)帖求助學(xué)漢語(yǔ)，并且聲明他可以教對(duì)方英語(yǔ)作為回報(bào)。請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下提示用英語(yǔ)給他寫(xiě)一封電子郵件。

1．愿意提供幫助；2．說(shuō)明理由；3．學(xué)好漢語(yǔ)的幾點(diǎn)建議。

注意：

1．詞數(shù)100左右； 2．可以適當(dāng)增加細(xì)節(jié)，以使行文連貫；3．文中不得透漏個(gè)人姓名和學(xué)校名稱(chēng)。

Hi Kobe,

This is Li Hua. I’ve learned from your post that you want to learn Chinese. __________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Yours truly,

Li Hua

In 1959, when Jean Harper was in the third grade, her teacher gave the class an assignment to write a report on what they wanted to be when they grew up. She poured her heart into her report and expressed her dream of becoming an airline pilot. Her paper came back with an "F" on it. The teacher told her it was a "fairy tale". Jean was heartbroken and ashamed. As the years went by, Jean was beaten down by the discouragement and negativity she encountered whenever she talked about her dream. "Girls can't become airline pilots; never have, never will. You're crazy. That's impossible. "Finally Jean gave up.

In her senior year of high school, her English teacher was a Mrs. Dorothy Slaton, a demanding teacher with high standards. One day Mrs. Slaton asked this question: "If you had unlimited finances, unlimited access to the finest schools, unlimited talents and abilities, what would you do?" Jean felt a rush of the old enthusiasm, and with excitement she wrote down the very old dream.

The next thing that Mrs. Slaton said changed the course of Jean's life. The teacher leaned forward over her desk and said, "I have a little secret for you. You do have unlimited abilities and talents. When you leave school, if you don't go for your dreams, no one will do it for you. You can have what you want if you want it enough."

The hurt and fear of years of discouragement disappeared all of a sudden. Jean felt thrilled and told her about her dream of becoming a pilot. Mrs. Slaton slapped the desk top. "Then do it!" she said.

So Jean did. It didn't happen overnight. In her l0 years of hard work, even facing varieties of laugh, frustration and opposition, she never gave up her dream. Instead, she went on doing everything her third-grade teacher said was fairy-tale.

Eventually, Jean Harper became a Boeing 737 captain for the United Airline Company.

1.Jean’s third-grade teacher thought her dream to be ____________.

A. great B. impossible

C. challenging D. reasonable

2.Mrs. Slaton may hold the view that _____________.

A. only some of her students have great potential

B. her students are good enough to be admitted to the best schools

C. belief contributes to realizing a dream

D. Jean was to have her dream realized

3.According to the passage, we can infer that___________.

A. Jean’s dream was always in her deep heart

B. Jean owed her success to all her teachers

C. most people around Jean approved of her dream

D. Jean achieved her dream with ease

4.Which is the best title of the passage?

A. A Respectable Teacher B. How to Realize a Dream

C. Hard Work Pays off D. Reach for the Sky

Do you suffer from cybersickness？

The rise of mobile phones has been blamed for a number of social ills, but your smart phone may also be making you physically sick as well. Scientists have identified a condition called “cybersickness”, which they say is the digital version of motion sickness. The phenomenon, which affects up to 80 percent of the population who own smart phones or tablets, leads to feelings of sickness and unsteadiness. It is caused by seeing fast motion on a screen, which covers anything from a car chase in a film to scrolling through web pages on your phone.

The more realistic the visual content appears to you, the higher your chances of getting cybersickness are . The condition was identified in a piece in the New York Times in which British and US experts said that it needed solving. Motion sickness leaves sufferers feeling ill because they feel movement in your muscles and your inner ear but do not see it. The mismatch in digital sickness is the opposite—you see movement on the screen but do not feel it. The effect is the same and the symptoms include a headache, wanting to throw up, confusion and the need to sit down. Often cybersickness shows itself in a subtle way and sufferers put it down to stress or eyestrain.

Steven Rauch, a professor of otolaryngology（耳鼻喉科學(xué)） at Harvard Medical School, said: “Your sense of balance is different from other senses in that it has lots of inputs. When those inputs don’t agree, that’s when you feel dizziness and sickness. ”

Some studies that have been carried out into cybersickness found that women are more susceptible than men, the New York Times reported. Those who have Type A’ personalities—meaning they are confident and determined—are more likely to suffer from cybersickness as well. Among those who have reported experiencing the condition have been video gamers who spend hours playing fast paced games. Engineers at Oculus VR, the virtual headset manufacturer, have admitted that digital motion sickness is one of their biggest problems.

1.From the text, we know that cybersickness ______.

A. is completely equal to motion sickness

B. affects up to 80% of the population.

C. leads to people’s feelings of sickness and unsteadiness

D. is caused by seeing fast moving objects around

2.What’s the difference between motion sickness and digital sickness?

A. Digital sickness means sufferers see movement but do not feel it.

B. Digital sickness means sufferers feel movement but do not see it.

C. Motion sickness means sufferers see movement but do not feel it.

D. Motion sickness means sufferers don’t see or feel movement

3.What does the underlined word “susceptible” in the last paragraph mean?

A. likely to accept B. likely to be affected

C. likely to suspect D. likely to be cured

4.This passage is most probably ____________.

A. a science fiction B. a newspaper ad

C. a book review D. a science news report

完形填空

閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A, B, C, D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

If you ever have a chance to go to Finland, you’ll probably be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.

Take the taxi drivers for example．You can go ___ ___ on a journey, tell the driver to ______ you at any place, say that you have some business to ___ ___, and that you will pay the taxi driver later. He will agree without any ______ but just accept your words in good ______.

The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their ______, but also provide food for outside ______．Hotel guests have their meals free , so they _____ go to the free dining rooms to have their meals, and the ______ they would do to show their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter．With such ______ check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends to wine and dine free of ______.

Finnish workers are paid by the hour．If you work in Finland and have ______ the boss on the hourly rate, then you just say how many hours you have worked and you’ll be paid ______.

With so many loop holes in every day life, surely Finland must be a good country to those who ______ to take “petty advantages”．But the ______ thing is, all the taxi passengers always come back to pay their _____ after they have attended to their business; not a ______ outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms; workers always give the exact hours they have ______．．．As the Finns always act on good faith and always have a (an) ______ of “right is right” and “wrong is wrong” in every thing they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”.

What we regarded as “foolish” is ______ the Finnish people’s way of life．

1.A. somewhere B. anywhere C. sometime D. anytime

2.A. stop B. pass C. drop D. pick

3.A. attend to B. take care C. take up D. appeal to

4.A. guarantee B. anxiety C. passenger D. money

5.A. smile B. place C. seat D. faith

6.A. meals B. visitors C. guests D. cards

7.A. waiters B. diners C. drivers D. workers

8.A. naturally B. respectively C. secretly D. contently

9.A. best B. worst C. most D. least

10.A. strict B. complete C. troublesome D. loose

11.A. registration B. care C. charge D. noise

12.A. paid for B. debated with C. talked about D. agreed with

13.A. accordingly B. reluctantly C. separately D. automatically

14.A. hesitate B. hate C. love D. refuse

15.A. strange B. confusing C. complex D. imaginative

16.A. business B. trip C. fine D. fare

17.A. single B. faithful C. familiar D. usual

18.A. worked on B. put in C. spent on D. run out

19.A. religion B. law C. idiom D. attitude

20.A. eventually B. accidentally C. actually D. temporarily

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。

The Chinese government has decided to end its one-child per family policy and let families have two children. A statement gives the reasons for the change, ___1.___ (say) it is meant to balance population development, stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the country’s work force.

China ___2.__ (carry)out the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted a small number of __3.___ (couple) to have two children. For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children if the first-born was a girl. In 2013, the government permitted other families to have two if one parent was __4.__ only child.

A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explains how Chinese families will react __5._ the policy. “Many young people in the cities are ___6.___ (probable) not interested in having a second child,” he says. “People in rural villages may be __7.__ (much) interested, but some of them are already allowed to have two children.”

At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people, a total of 800 million of __8.___ are employed. But that job market population is expected ___9.___(drop) by 2050. With the two-child policy, the labo10.__ (short) will be relieved, starting in 20 years.