大学英语四级-120
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Thoughts of suicide haunted Anita Rutnam long before she arrived at Syracu University. She had a history of mental illness and had even attempted to kill herlf. During her junior year of college, she tried again. On a February morning in 1998, just days after a campus counlor recommended she be hospitalized for her suicidal tendencies, Rutnam threw herlf off the eighth floor of a Syracu dormitory.
Miraculously, she survived. But three years later, Rutnam still feels the effects of that day. She has not been able to finish college and is suing her former school for malpractice. Her suit asrts that, given the campus counlor"s advice, school officials should have done more to prevent her suicide attempt.
This incident and others have thrown a spotlight on an issue that is causing growing concer
n in dorm rooms and students center. Are colleges providing adequate care for students who may be struggling with a range of mental illness? In the Syracu ca, a spokesman for the school contends, "The University tried repeatedly to help Anita, and we felt that they acted appropriately." But lawyers are busy there and elwhere.
After accidents, suicide is the cond biggest killer of kids in college. And while the number of students who kill themlves on campus is no higher than that of 18-to-24-year-olds In the general population, a ries of nsational incidents has raid the question of whether troubled students are getting proper attention.
So what are the schools" responsibilities to at-risk students, particularly tho who may be geneticallypredispod(易患……病的) to mental illness? College can be a breeding ground for psychiatric problems. Poor eating habits and irregular sleeping patterns—**bined with the academic stress of college life—may all play roles in triggering mental problems. Additionally, many of the major psychiatric illness including depression often do not manifest themlves until the late teens or early 20s.
1. Anita Rutnam couldn"t finish college most probably becau ______.
A. she couldn"t get enough concern from Syracu University
B. she wasn"t physically healthy enough to continue schooling
C. she still kept thinking about killing herlf whenever at school
D. she has been troubled by the memory of the incident very often
2. What does the author want us to know through Anita Rutnam"s story?
A. The universities are not responsible for their students.
B. Suicides are popular on college campus and should be handled properly.
C. Why **mitted suicide is still a mystery.
D. Universities should get prepared in ca their students sue them.
3. What does Anita accu her former school of?
A. Ignorance of her abnormal behaviors.
B. Lack of safeguard against her suicidal intention.
C. Failure to give her proper academic instructions.
D. Indifference to her physical dia.
4. How does Syracu University defend itlf against Anita"s suit?
A. It has given her due attention as well as help.
B. Adult students should be able to control their own behavior.
C. It is more than the school"s responsibility to supervi the students.
D. Colleges can be a breeding ground for psychiatric problems.
5. All the following problems are implied as possible caus of campus suicide incidents EXCEPT ______.
A. poor academic results
B. failing to get proper sleep
C. lack of family concern
D. family history of mental illness
It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protected by the tting up of adowry(彩礼) or decimum. Admittedly, the purpo of this was to protect her against the risk of dertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The decimum was the wife"s right to receive a tenth of all her husband"s property. The wife had the right to withhold connt, in all transactions the husband would make, and more than just a right: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision equal to that of her husband. In no ca did the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal status of husband and wife.
The wife shared in the management of her husband"s personal property, but the opposite was not always true. Women emed perfectly prepared to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights, and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A ca in point is that of Maria Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to ll a field she had inherited for the needs of the houhold, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to thescribe(法学家) to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro"s personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, "for the sake of peace." Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herlf, with the context of the family, a powerful economic position.
