For Yali Liu, the hardest thing about UK higher education is having to go to the pub. “It’s how much you need to invest socially with other students,”she says。“I don’t like going to a pub or club, but people just keep going out and I feel the pressure to go out too.”This is because, unlike in China, she says, there is so much emphasis during the course on teamwork and group projects, so socializing with other students –especially British people, is crucial.
Liu, 23, who is in her final year in business administration at the University of Bath, is one of more than 80,000 Chinese students studying in UK universities. They are responsible for a large proportion of the more than F10bn a year that international students contribute to the UK economy. However, research shows that where their academic attainment(成就)is concerned, the picture is not satisfactory. While nearly 58% of all students- and 45% of overseas students graduated with a first-class degree last year, this was true of only 35% of students from China.
To find an explanation, Zhiql Wang and Ian Graford, lecturers at the University of Bath, compared the performance of Chinese and British undergraduates in each year of their degree. Taking a sample of 100 British and Chinese students and comparing their average marks and final degree year one, when they performed better than their UK counterparts, and year two, when they performed worse.
They believe the drop results from two factors. First, Chinese students fail to adapt their approaches to learning and so their performance declines in the later years when the complexity of the work increases. Second, many young people in China enroll in higher education due to pressure from family rather than their own motivation.
Professor Sedghi thinks part of the problem may be the changing socio-economic background of Chinese undergraduates. While 85% of Chinese students at British universities before 2000 were mature students, often funded by the government, since 2004, however, they have been younger, most funded by their families.
Maybe UK institutions need to work harder to take into account what a big challenge it is for young people from a radically different culture and linguistic background to adapt to life in the UK.“We need to do more, contacting students before their arrival, assigning them tutors, encouraging peer-assisted learning, for example,”says Sedghi.
28.What can be inferred about Yali Liu from the passage?
A.She is not good at socializing with local students
B.She is bored with the teamwork and group projects
C.Her family can’t afford her education in the UK
D.The university won’t award her a first-class degree
29.Which of the following is NOT a possible factor for Chinese students’ unsatisfactory attainment?
A.They don’t adjust their studying methods in time
B.They are lacking in motivation to achieve success
C.They are too young and mostly come from poor families
D.They haven’t got necessary support from the UK universities
30.The passage mainly talks about in UK universities.
A.the great pressure Chinese students are suffering
B.cultural differences between the east and the west
C.main reasons for Chinese students’ poor performance
D.possible solutions to the problems facing Chinese students
31.What can we infer from the underlined sentence?
A.Universities in UK prepare to take measures to cope with the present situations
B.Universities in UK hesitate to handle the problem
C.Educational organizations in UK have already settled the problem
D.Schools in UK don’t have to consider the challenges faced by students
ACCA
政治经济类文章的概念:
要做好这类阅读,平时就要注意了解国内外发生的政治经济大事,掌握一定背景知识,对这类文章的叙述特点及内容安排有一定了解,还要扩展这方面的词汇。阅读这类文章,要抓住文章的核心,即文章整体和各段主要在说什么,也要注意段落之间的逻辑关系。
如何备考政治经济类阅读理解题:
【题型说明】政治经济类阅读文章是高考常选材料之一。该类文章时代气息浓郁,语言鲜活,但熟字新义词、超纲词及专业词语多,长句、难句多。政治类文章大多数是同学们感性趣的内容,读起来倒有似曾相识的感觉,经济类文章读起来就像是雾里看花,文章看完,一头雾水。再加之这类文章的命题侧重于词义猜测、推理判断和文章主旨,同学们对这类题材是望而生畏。
【备考策略】建立心理优势。针对不同体裁的文章,我们要采取相应的阅读方法和技巧。政治类文章多采用记叙文形式,我们可采取“顺读法”,以便抓关键语句,领会文章主旨;而经济类文章则多采用说明文形式,我们则可以采取“逆读法”,先读试题,再从文章中查找有用信息。若遇到的确难读的材料。千万不用着急,因为你觉得难,其他人也一定是同感。在高考前,我们就要有这种心理准备,高考试卷肯定有一、两篇难以阅读的材料。不过,我们平时可以有意识地从报刊杂志上找一些较难的阅读材料来阅读,以培养自己迎难而上的心理素质。
【答题方法】
1、寻找主干:
根据英语中五种基本句型结构,把句子中的主语、谓语、宾语、表语等主要成分找出来,其他成分如定语、状语、补语等则易于理解。找到了句子主干,句子的意思至少明白了一半。
2、剔除从句:
在一个长句中可能会出现若干个从句,在理解时,如果把各个从句剔除出来单独理解,然后把大意拼凑起来,整个长句的意思就会明白六、七分。
3、辨别分句:
一个长句如果是由几个并列、转折、递进、对比关系的分句组成,句中往往有表示这些分句关系的连接词,只要能弄清楚分句和分句之间的逻辑关系,再把各层分句的意思加以连贯,整个长句的句意基本上能跃然脑中。
4、寻找关键词:
如果一个句子看完,一点句意的感觉也没有,下下策就是抓住句中的关键词,通过关键词大体弄懂这个长句的意思。
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