Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
American movies create myths about college life in the United States. These stories are entertaining, but they are not true. You have to look beyond Hollywood movies to understand what college is really like.
Thanks to the movies, many people believe that college students party and socialize more than they study. Movies almost never show students working hard in class or in the library. Instead, movies show them eating, talking, hanging out, or dancing to loud music at wild parties. While it is true that American students have the freedom to participate in activities, they also have academic responsibilities. In order to succeed, they have to attend classes and study hard.
Another movie myth is that athletics is the only important extracurricular activity. In fact, there is a wide variety of nonacademic activities on campus such as special clubs, service organizations, art, and theater programs. This variety allows students to choose what interests them. Even more important, after graduation, students’ résumés look better to employers if they list a few extracurricular activities.
Most students in the movies can easily afford higher education. If only this were true! While it is true that some American college students are wealthy, most are from families with moderate incomes. Up to 80% of them get some type of financial aid. Students from middle and lower-income families often work part-time throughout their college years. There is one thing that many college students have in common, but it is not something you will see in the movies. They have parents who think higher education is a priority, a necessary and important part of their children's lives.
Movies about college life usually have characters that are extreme in some way. super athletic, super intelligent, super wealthy, super glamorous, etc. Movies use these stereotypes, along with other myths of romance and adventure because audiences like going to movies that include these elements. Of course, real college students are not like movie characters at all.
So the next time you want a taste of the college experience, do not go to the movies. Look at some college websites or brochures instead. Take a walk around your local college campus. Visit a few classes. True, you may not be able to see the same people or exciting action you will see in the movies, but you can be sure that there are plenty of academic adventures going on all around you !
Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Learning is only part of students’ college life
B. There is a wide choice of extracurricular activities for college students
C. Extracurricular activities are of no importance to employers
D. Not all extracurricular activities are students’ academic responsibilities
1- It was (care)careless of you to leave your keys in the car.
2- These (conserve)conservation are ready to take part in that activity.
3- The students understood the lesson because the teacher explained it to them very (care)carefully.
4- To my (amaze)amazing, Neal got up and left without a word.
5- Driving carelessly can (danger)danger your life.
6- She can look back at her career with great (satisfy)sastisfied.
7- It’s too (convenience)convenient to call anyone at night.
8- He is an (act)actor student who has taken part in different charity programs.
9- (Sun)Solar energy can be stored for a number of days.
10- Scientists are looking for an (effect)effective way to (reduction)reduce energy (consume)consumption_.
11- (Environment)Environmental friendly energy sources include water and wind power.
12- The children always need their parents’ (courage)encourage.
13- Pompeii was completely (destruction)destroyed in AD 79 by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
14- Galileo is one of the first (science)sciencetist studying astronomy.
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1- It was (care)_______careless________ of you to leave your keys in the car.
2- These (conserve)______conservation____________ are ready to take part in that activity.
3- The students understood the lesson because the teacher explained it to them very (care)_____carefully__________.
4- To my (amaze)________amazed_________, Neal got up and left without a word.
5- Driving carelessly can (danger)___endangered__________ your life.
6- She can look back at her career with great (satisfy)_________satisfied__________.
7- It’s too (convenience)______inconvenient_____________ to call anyone at night.
8- He is an (act)______active______ student who has taken part in different charity programs.
9- (Sun)_____Solar______energy can be stored for a number of days.
10- Scientists are looking for an (effect)___effective____________way to (reduction)_______reduce______ energy (consume)_______comsuming_____.
11- (Environment)_______Environmental_____________friendly energy sources include water and wind power.
12- The children always need their parents’ (courage)___encouragements_______________.
13- Pompeii was completely (destruction)______destroyed________ in AD 79 by an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
14- Galileo is one of the first (science)_______scientists__________ studying astronomy