International Studies (BA)

       Key features

       ● Recognizes the “global community”（国际社会）

       ● Has close connections with practical research

       ● Much of the teaching is done in small discussion groups

       About the course

       The course gives you chances to know great power polities between nation states. It will provide more space to study particular issues such as relationship among countries in the European Union, third world debt, local and international disagreement, and the work of such international bodies as the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, and the World Bank.

       The course puts theories into the working of the international system with close attention to particular countries. You will also have a better knowledge of methods of solving the international problems.

       Related courses

       BA (Hons) Community Management

       BA (Hons) Public Policy and Management

       Employment possibilities

       International organizations

       International business

Earth Science (BSc)

       Key features

       ● Based on key courses and the latest research findings

       ● Pays much attention to practical skills

       ● Offers chances for fieldwork（实地考察）

       About the course

       The demand for natural resources is becoming an increasingly serious problem for the future of mankind. Graduates in Earth Science will play an important role in meeting this demand, and in knowing the meaning of using the natural resources.

       The course covers geography and geology. You will carry out fieldwork in the UK and possibly overseas, and a research in an area of interest to you in the final year.

       Related courses

       BSc (Hons) Geograhpy

       BSc (Hons) Geology

       Employment possibilities

       Mineral, oil, water or other related engineering industries

International Studies is a course in ________.

       A. international polities       B. international business

       C. international systems        D. international bodies

After taking the course of International Studies, the students will _______.

       A. become practical and open-minded

       B. have a greater ability to discuss theories

       C. know how to settle international problems

       D. have good jobs in any international organizations

Earth Science, as described in the second text, ________.

       A. is attractive because of the chances for fieldwork

       B. pays more attention to practical skills than theories

       C. is built on important courses and the results of recent studies

       D. encourages students to play a role in using natural resources

It can be inferred that the above two texts are written for the students who _______.

       A. enjoy research work         B. plan to choose courses

       C. study in the UK               D. are interested in overseas fieldwork

The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928). After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous(灾难性的) fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”, almost certainly the source of Howard’s name for his later building plan of towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination（结合） of designs.

The nineteenth-century poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression(萧条) and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard’s idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard’s idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside; far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.

Garden cities would provide a central public open space, radial avenues and connecting industries. They would be surrounded by a much larger area of green belt, also owned by the company, containing not merely farms but also some industrial institutions. As more and more people moved in, the garden city would reach its planned limit-----Howard suggested 32,000 people; then, another would be started a short distance away. Thus, over time, there would develop a vast planned house collection, extending almost without limit; within it, each garden city would offer a wide rang of jobs and services, but each would also be connected to the others by a rapid transportation system, thus giving all the economic and social opportunities of a big city.

1.How did Howard get the name for his building plan of garden cities?

A．Through his observation of the country life.

B．Through the combination of different ideas.

C．By taking other people’s advice.

D．By using the nickname of the reconstructed Chicago.

2.The underlined phrase “drawing on ”in Paragraph 1 probably means______.

A．making use of                          B．making comments on

C．giving an explanation of                   D．giving a description of

3.According to Howard, garden cities should be built______.

A．as far as possible from existing cities

B．in the countryside where the land was cheap

C．in the countryside where agriculture was developed

D．near cities where employment opportunities already existed

4.What can we learn about garden cities from the last paragraph?

A．Their number would continue to rise

B．Each one would continue to become larger

C．People would live and work in the same place

D．Each one would contain a certain type of business

5.What could be the best title for the passage?

A．City and Countryside                     B．The Invention of the Garden City

C．A New City in Chicago                    D．A Famous Garden City in England

根据文章内容，从方框A-F选项中，选出每一段的小题或能概括主题思想的最佳选项，选项中有一项为多余选项。
A. The Introduction of Paris
B. The Culture of Paris
C. The Population Growth in Paris
D. The Production of Paris
E. The Education in Paris
F. The Industries in Paris
【小题1】______________________
Paris, the capital and the largest city of the country, is in north central France. The Paris metropolitan area has nearly 20% of the nation’s population and is the economic, cultural, and political center of France. The French government have historically favored the city as the site for all decision making, thus powerfully attracting nearly all of the nation’s activities.
【小题2】____________________
Paris has grown steadily since it was chosen as the national capital in the late 10th century. With the introduction of the Industrial Revolution, a great number of people moved to the city from the country during the 19th century. The migration was especially stimulated by the construction of railroads, which provided easy access to the capital. After World War II more and more immigrants arrived.
【小题3】____________________
The city is the centralized（中央集权） control point of most national radio and television broadcasting. It is a place of publication of the most prestigious(有威望的)newspapers and magazines and an international book publishing center. With more than 100 museums, Paris has truly one of the greatest concentrations of art treasures in the world. The Louvre, opened as a museum in 1793, is one of the largest museums in the world.
【小题4】___________________
In the late 1980s about 4.1 million pupils annually attended about 47,000 elementary schools. In addition, about 5.4 million students attended some 11,200 secondary schools. Approximately 1.2 million students were enrolled（录取） annually at universities and colleges in France in the late 1980s. French centers of learning have served as academic models throughout the world.
【小题5】___________________
Paris is the leading industrial center of France, with about one quarter of the nation’s manufacturing concentrated in the metropolitan area. Industries of consumers goods have always been drawn to Paris by the enormous market of the big population; and modern, high-technology industries also have become numerous since World War II. Chief manufactures are machinery, automobiles, chemicals and electrical equipment.

Have you listened to music on an iPod? Used a computer at home? Those are just two of the ways your life was touched by the work of Steve Jobs.

Jobs, one founder of Apple Computers, died on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at the age of 56. He had been fighting with cancer since 2004.

Steven Jobs was born in Los Altos, California. He and his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak, designed and built the first Apple computer in his parents’ garage in the 1970s. The Apple II, built when Jobs was just 21 years old, was the first personal computer to be widely sold to the public.

Steven Jobs didn’t stop there. He went on to invent more devices (设备) that allowed people to bring their own creativity to computing: the Macintosh, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. People found his products beautiful and easy to use.

Jobs also changed the music and film industries. He started Pixar, a film production company in 1986. Toy Story was the world’s first computer-animated feature film (电脑动画电影).

“Steve was among the greatest of American innovators — brave enough to think differently, confident enough to believe he could change the world, and clever enough to do it,” said President Barack Obama. “By making computers personal and putting the Internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only easy to reach, but fun ... And there may be no greater praise to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his death on a device he invented.”

All around the world, people are talking about the effects that Jobs’ creations have had. By creating products that surprised people, he changed the way people worked and lived their everyday lives.

1.Which of the following about Steve Jobs is NOT true?

A．He was born in California in 1955.

B．He built the Apple II in 1970.

C．He set up a film production company at 31.

D．He was found to suffer from cancer at 49.

2.The underlined word “innovators” in Paragraph 6 could best be replaced by _____.

A．inventors         B．businessmen       C．producers         D．founders

3.According to Barack Obama, the highest praise for Steve Jobs is that _____.

A．his products are widely used all over the world

B．his products are thought to be beautiful and easy to use

C．people all over the world are sad at his death

D．people learned about his death from his products

4.Jobs changed the way we work and live by _____.

A．building the first personal computer

B．making computer-animated feature films

C．developing the music industry

D．creating surprising products

根据汉语注释，在下列句子的空白处写出各单词的正确形式，每空一词。

1.I started getting better. My friends noticed a change in my ____________(态度).

2.The buildings in the exhibit include the World Trade Center in New York that was ____________(毁坏) in the terrorist attacks.

3.I like to stay up until ____________(午夜) or even later on my natural clock.

4.It was not possible to travel ____________(直通的；直接地) through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter.

5.She often spoke about the problems of women trying to ____________(成功)in a world mainly controlled by men.

6.Experts say the best way to prevent the diseases carried by mosquitoes is not to be ____________(叮咬) by one.

7.He was a member of the ____________(设计) team and became chief engineer of the building project in eighteen sixty-seven.E:\ZuJuan\WCFUpload\Upload\Program Files\Youdao\Dict\5.3.40.8020\resultui\queryresult.html

8.Both of those industries ____________(雇佣) high percentages of women.

9.The conference centered on three main problems to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and poor ____________(素质) education.

10.But this is a ____________(精选; 大选) group of people that can handle or process or engage in these types of activity.