1快速阅读练习（1）
Part IIReading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the paage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.
For questions 1-7, mark
Y (for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the paage; N (for NO)if the statement contradicts the information given in the paage; NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the paage.
For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the paage.Harvard University
A Brief Introduction
Harvard University, private, coeducational institution of higher education, the oldest in the United States, in Cambridge, Maachusetts.
In 1636 a college was founded in Cambridge by the Great and General Court of the Maachusetts Bay Colony.It was opened for instruction two years later and named in 1639 for English clergyman John Harvard, its first benefactor.The college at first lacked substantial endowments and existed on gifts from individuals and the General Court.Harvard gradually acquired considerable autonomy and private financial support, becoming a chartered university in 1780.Today it has the largest private endowment of any university in the world.
Sponsored by Henry Rosovsky, former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences (1973-1984), the undergraduate elective system, or General Education Program, was replaced in 1979 by a Core Curriculum intended to prepare well-educated men and women for the challenges of modern life.Students are now required to take courses for the equivalent of an academic year in each of five areas: literature and arts, history, social analysis and moral reasoning, science, and foreign cultures.In addition to the new curriculum, students must spend roughly the equivalent of two years on courses in a field of concentration and one year on elective courses.Students must also demonstrate competence in writing, mathematics, and a foreign language.
From its earliest days Harvard established and maintained a tradition of academic excellence and the training of citizens for national public service.Among many notable alumni are the religious leaders Increase Mather and Cotton Mather; the philosopher and psychologist William James; and men of letters such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, James Ruell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Robert Frost, and T.S.Eliot.More U.S.presidents have attended Harvard than any other college: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin
D.Roosevelt, and John F.Kennedy.A sixth, Rutherford B.Hayes, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, which also counts the jurists Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Felix Frankfurter among its alumni.
Undergraduate Activities
During their freshman year, students live in halls within Harvard Yard, a walled enclosure containing several structures from the early 18th century now used as dormitories, dining facilities, libraries, and clarooms.Sophomores, juniors, and seniors live in the 12 residences known as houses.Named in honor of a distinguished alumnus or administrator, each house accommodates approximately 350 students and a group of faculty members who provide individual instruction as
tutors, fostering social and intellectual exchange between students and teachers.Each house also has a library and sponsors cultural activities and intramural athletics.Undergraduate life has the additional attraction of proximity to Boston.
Graduate and Profeional Faculties
Harvard\'s graduate and profeional facilities, founded over the last 200 years, include schools of arts and sciences, busine administration, dental medicine, design, divinity, education, law, medicine, public administration (now the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government), and public health.Special studies programs are also provided at the Harvard-Yenching Institute; the John K.Fairbank Center for East Asian Research; the Kathryn W.and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Ruian Studies; and at the centers for Middle Eastern Studies, International Affairs, International Legal Studies, Energy and International Policy, and Health Policy Management.Special Facilities
The Harvard campus is also the site of several renowned museums and collections, among them the Fogg Museum, distinguished for its European and American paintings, sculptures, and prints; the Botanical Museum; and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Harvard’s library system is the oldest in the United States.The central library collection, used for advanced scholarly research, is housed in the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library.Augmented by the Houghton Library of rare books and manuscripts, the undergraduate Lamont, Cabot, and Hilles libraries, and the separate house and departmental libraries, as well as by the graduate schools-collections, the Harvard library complex forms the world’s largest university library system.It currently contains more than 13 million volumes, manuscripts, and microfilms.Harvard University also maintains the Arnold Arboretum, in Boston; the Harvard College Observatory, based in Cambridge; the research center for Byzantine and Early Christian studies at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C.; and Villa I Tatti in Settignano, Italy, formerly the home and library of art critic Bernard Berenson and now a center for art history research.
Home games of the Harvard Crimson football team and other athletic events take place at Harvard Stadium, which has a seating capacity of more than 38,000.Yale University is Harvard’s traditional rival in sports.
Publications
Undergraduate publications include the Harvard Crimson, a daily newspaper founded in 1873; the Harvard Advocate, a literary review; and a nationally known humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon.Among journals iued by Harvard’s graduate schools and affiliated groups are the Harvard Busine Review, Harvard Educational Review, and Harvard Law Review.Harvard University Pre, founded in 1913, publishes books of scholarly as well as general interest and medical and scientific works.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答；8-10题在答题卡1上。
1.The article gives readers a general view of Harvard University.
2.Harvard University is a public, coeducational institution of higher education in Cambridge.U.S.
3.According to the new curriculum, students must spend the equal time on both courses in a field of concentration and elective courses.
4.The freshmen live in halls within Harvard Yard which provides tutors.
5.Special studies programs are also provided at the Harvard-Yenching Institute for East Asian Research; the Kathryn W.and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Ruian Studies.
6.Harvard’s library system is the world’s oldest university library system.
7.Harvard University Pre, established in 1913, publishes works of many kinds.
8.Harvard became a chartered university in 1780 by acquiring considerable autonomy and ________________________.
9.The central library collection of Harvard library system is mainly for ____________________.
10.Harvard’s traditional rival in sports is________________________.
1.Y.从文章各个副标题可以总结出文章的大概轮廓。副标题包括哈佛大学简介、本科教育、
研究生教育、教学设施和大学出版业等，读者看过这几方面的介绍，对哈佛大学就会有初步的了解。因此选Y.
2.N.根据public, coeducational 等词语可以将本题定位在文章第一句话，“Harvard University,
private, coeducational institution of higher education, the oldest in the United States, in Cambridge, Maachusetts.” 但是原文是private 而不是 public, 因此选N.
3.N.根据curriculum, concentration and elective courses等短语，通过查读迅速定位于第二段
倒数第二句“In addition to the new curriculum, students must spend roughly the equivalent of two years on courses in a field of concentration and one year on elective courses.” 然而，在原文中“concentration”方面是两年，在“elective courses”方面是一年，因此并不相等，选N.
4.NG.文章中关于住宿部分只是谈到新生住在“Harvard Yard”，并没有谈到是否有导师
“tutor”，因此选NG.
5.N.本题相对简单，根据若干专有名词可以将题目定位于第三副标题的内容，因此可以轻
松找到进行东亚研究的应该是the John K.Fairbank Center，因此选N.
6.N.本题关于library, 可以通过查读定位于special faculty 部分，而通过university library
system 我们定位到这部分的第二段倒数第二句，我们发现the Harvard library complex forms the world’s largest university library system.而不是oldest 因此选N.
7.Y.本题是本文最后一句话的大意概括，很显然选Y.
8.private financial support.根据charted university, considerable autonomy，可以通过浏览阅读
和查读将本题迅速定位在开头第二段的最后一句“Harvard gradually acquired considerable autonomy and private financial support, becoming a chartered university in 1780.” 因此，可以寻找空白处所缺部分，为private financial support。
9.advanced scholarly research.通过central library可以将本题定位于第四副标题的第四部分，
在第二句话找到正确答案
10.Yale University.首先，看到sports，我们可以基本定位于第四副标题最后一部分，通过查
读我们发现和traditional rival对应的是本段最后一句，因此答案很简单，应为Yale University.
