文档介绍：Exercises: Content Awareness
Part II Answer the following questions.
exam were the students going to take?
The students were going to take their last exam at college.
2. How did the students feel about this exam before they took it?
They were confident and felt ready for the exam.
3. Did the questions turn out to be easy or difficult? How do you know?
They turned out to be difficult, because none of the questions could be answered by students.
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4. What did the professor say about the result of the exam? Were the students able to pass the course?
The professor said the result was what she had expected, but the students would be allowed to pass the course any way.
did the professor set such a test paper?
Because she wanted to make her students realize that even though they pleted four years of college study, there was still much to learn and their education had just begun.
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Part III Fill in the blanks with words or phrases from the passage.
It was the last day of final examinations in a large Eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors huddled, 1___ the exam 2___ begin in a few minutes. On their faces was 3___. This was their last exam before they went on to 4___.
Some 5___ jobs they already had; others of jobs they would get. With all this assurance of four years of college study, they 6___ conquer the world.
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The approaching exam, they knew, would be a snap. The professor had said they could 7___ or notes they wanted, requesting 8___ they did not talk to each other during the test.
Jubilantly, they 9___ the classroom. The professor passed out the papers. And 10___ as the students noted there were only five essay-type questions.
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Answers:
1. discussing, 2. due to begin, 3. confidence,
4. commencement and jobs, 5. talked of,
6. felt ready and able to, 7. bring any books,
8. only that, 9. filed into,
10. their smiles broadened
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Exercises: Language Focus
Part IV Fill in the blanks with th