沈阳新东方高中英语-阅读教材-7选5-30篇

May the first is an important date in the college admission process in the United States. This is the last day for high school seniors to accept or reject offers of admission in the fall. But according to a recent report, there is a great change. Acceptance rates at the top colleges this year were lower than ever. 71

These days, college applicants are applying to more colleges because online and common applications make the process easier. 72 On the other hand, deciding students for top colleges to accept can be difficult because it takes much time. Students may not like being put on waiting lists. Also, common colleges work more to get the students they accept to accept them. Some colleges hold visiting days that offer a chance to attend classes and stay overnight. Some universities send gifts. 73

For many families, the most important thing colleges can do is to show them the money, and especially this year; the weak economy makes parents nervous. 74 The recent problems that sprea d from the housing market to credit markets have even affected student‘s loans. So lately, top schools have to spare lots of money to increase their financial aid for students.

75 The Education Department expects the number of high school graduates to start to go down. This will happen as the last of the children of the baby boom generation finish high schools. The number is not expected to start rising again until 2015.

A. Besides, top colleges are facing changes in the population.

B. What contributes to it?

C. But a mistake can be costly if it happens.

D. But top colleges ignore them.

E. They have international students who know English.

F. It can mean several acceptances to choose from.

G. They cannot afford college as planned.

Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago. 71

The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses. 72 So they are called ―diseases of civilization‖. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are exampl es of such diseases.

Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none. 73 However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.

Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. 74 We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C．

75 But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way as our ancestors did, cutting the amount of fatty ,salty and sweet food.

A．These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.

B．People today probably do not want to live the way people thousands of years ago did.

C．Ancient people also lived in large groups.

D．But today, we eat a lot of these.

E．Ancient people also got a great deal of physical exercise.

F．In that case, they would live much healthier.

G．People today probably live the same life as people thousands of years ago.