<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">When you go to university to study for a degree, you have decided to study professionally, rather than as an amateur; so being a student is now your profession for at least the next four years.</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">This involves a change of attitude in many ways. Although the process has been going on since you went to middle school, the biggest change is going to take place. Now, instead of taking several subjects, you have chosen one major subject because you find it interesting and worth exploring further. The choice was yours. You also have the goal of getting a degree . The degree and the stages you have to pass through to achieve it give you motivation, even though it may become weak from time to time, and not all parts of the course will be exciting; a sure way to lose interest is to do too little work. It is a law of diminishing returns - the less work you do, the less interest you will have and the more bored you will become. So, regular work is needed to keep up your interest as well as to keep pace with new work.</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">Another change is in the relationship with teachers. This may well have changed during middle school and high school, but now the whole context is different. You are no longer forced to slay in school all day, and apart from your class time, you organize your own time and place for studying. You are there to study (an active process) rather than to be taught (passive). Your teachers may or may not urge you, but they do want you to share their interest in the subject and they want you to succeed.</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">Some activities, like discussing and reading, are basic to studying. Make sure that you are doing these efficiently.</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">Group discussions give you a chance to train yourself to speak and discuss more effectively.</span>
<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family: 宋体;font-size: 14px">They</span></span><span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">will fail in their purpose if you keep silent<span style="font-family:宋体">—</span><span style="font-family:calibri">and if you start off this way, the harder it will become to get out of the situation of being the non-speaking member of the group. In the future you are almost certainly going to have to be good at speaking, so get into the way of talking about your subject now. This is actually more fun than sitting being silently miserable because you are not saving anything. Nobody will think what you say is foolish. Everyone will be thankful not to face awkward silence.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">55. When does a person start to study professionally？</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">A<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">The time when he starts a profession.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">B<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">The time when he goes to university.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">C<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">The time when he knows how to study.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">D<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">The time when he goes to high school.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">56. Which of the following is not unique to university？</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">A<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">Students have to choose one major subject.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">B<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">The goal of study is to get a degree.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">C<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">Students need to work hard.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">D<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">Students organize their own time for studying.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">57. University teachers<span style="font-family:宋体">（）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">A<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">don</span></span><span style=";font-family:calibri;font-size:14px">’</span><span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">t care about students</span><span style=";font-family:calibri;font-size:14px">’</span><span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">performance</span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">B<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">hope students can share their interest in</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">C<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">force students to stay in school all day</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">D<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">know nothing about their students</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">58.Who does the underlined word</span><span style=";font-family:calibri;font-size:14px">”</span><span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">they</span><span style=";font-family:calibri;font-size:14px">”</span><span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">refer to<span style="font-family:宋体">？</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">A<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">University teachers.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">B<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">Group discussions.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">C<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">University students.</span></span>
<span style=";font-family:宋体;font-size:14px">D<span style="font-family:宋体">）</span><span style="font-family:calibri">The topics of discussions.</span></span>
Perhaps all criminals should be required to carry cards which read: Fragile; Handle with Care. It will never so, these days to go around referring to criminals as violent thugs. You must refer to them politely as "social misfits". The professional killer who wouldn't think twice about using his club or knife to batter some harmless old lady to death in order to rob her of her meager life-savings must never be given a dose of his own medicine. He is in need of "hospital treatment". According to his misguided defenders, society is to blame. A wicked society breeds evil-or so the argument goes. When you listen to this kind of talk, it makes you wonder why we aren't all criminals. We have done away with the absurdly harsh laws of the nineteenth century and this is only right. But surely enough is enough. The most senseless piece of criminal legislation in Britain and a number of other countries has been the suspension of capital punishment.
The violent criminal has become akin of hero-figure in our time. He is glorified on the screen; he is pursued by the press and paid vast sums of money for his "memoirs". Newspapers which specialize in crime reporting enjoy enormous circulations and the publishers of trashy cops and robbers stories or "murder mysteries" have never had it so good. When you read about the achievements of the great train robbers, it makes you wonder whether you are reading about the some glorious resistance movement. The hardened criminal is cuddled and cosseted by the sociologists on the one hand and adored as a hero by the masses on the other. It's no wonder he is a privileged person who expects and receives VIP treatment wherever he goes.
Capital punishment used to be a major deterrent. It made the violent robber think twice before pulling the trigger. It gave the cold-blooded poisoner something to ponder about while he was shaking up or serving his arsenic cocktail. It prevented unarmed policemen from being killed while pursuing their duty by killers armed with automatic weapons. Above all, it protected the most vulnerable members of society, young children, from brutal violence. It is horrifying to think that the criminal can literally get away with murder. We all know that "life sentence" does not mean what it says. After ten years or so of good comfortably, thank you, on the proceeds of his crime, of he will go on committing offences until he is caught again. People are always willing to hold liberal views at the expense of others. It's always fashionable to pose as the defender of under-dog, so long as you, personally, remain unaffected. Did the defenders of crime, one wonders, in their desire for fair-play, consult the victims before they suspended capital punishment？ Hardly. You see, they couldn't, because all the victims were dead.
What is the main idea of the text？
A．Society is to blame for the rising crime.
B．All the criminals arc to be sympathized.
C．Crime defenders have done a lot for criminals.
D．Severe punishment should be used to prevent crime.
