国际学校备考上海光华学院剑桥国际中心(上）

新学期开学已半月有余，沪上顶级Alevel学校领科，光华，上实已陆续放出招生信息。对于已经报考的学生，箭在弦上，还有不到一个月的时间，面对初三繁重的课业压力和国际学校的备考挑战，我们该如何备战。上篇文章小编助力大家分析了领科考试，今天我们揭幕光华。

学校介绍

上海光华学院剑桥国际中心（简称：光华剑桥），原名上海光华学院剑桥国际中心（复旦附中校区），隶属于光华教育集团。以管理严格著称，开设Alevel（CIE）课程体系并有着惊人的升学数据：2019届209位学生最终入读，牛津大学6人，剑桥大学3人，帝国理工大学18人，伦敦政治经济学院11人，伦敦大学学院42人。接下来小编带大家详细分析光华入学考试，给正在备考光华学生专业的建议。

考试时间 

光华每年考试分3批次，第一批春季班考试一般在11月中旬，第二批在次年3-5月，第三批考试时间在5-6月。今年官网公布春招考试时间在11月17日。

考试科目 

春招：英语+数学

秋招：英语+数学+面试

英文试题

阅读 

考试共有3篇文章，每篇字数在800-1000字左右，题型均为选择题。第一篇10道题，话题为电路负荷相关。后两篇都是5道题，第二篇的主题是讲有机农场。参考文章如下：

范文1

By the turn of the century, the middle-class home in North American had been transformed “The flow of industry has passed and left idle the loom in the attic, the soap kettle in the shed”, Ellen Richards wrote in 1908. The urban middle class was now able to buy a wide array of food products and clothing-baked goods, canned goods, suits, shirts, shoes, and dresses. Not only had household production waned, but technological improvements were rapidly changing the rest of domestic work. Middle-class homes had indoor running water and furnaces, run on oil, coal, or gas, that produced hot water. Stoves were fueled by gas, and delivery services provided ice for refrigerators. Electric power was available for lamps, sewing machines, irons, and even vacuum cleaners. No domestic task was unaffected. Commercial laundries, for instance, had been doing the wash for urban families for decades; by the early 1900s the first electric washing machines were on the market.

One impact of the new household technology was to draw sharp dividing lines between women of different classes and regions. Technological advances always affected the homes of the wealthy first, filtering downward into the urban middle class. But women who lived on farms were not yet affected by household improvements. Throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, rural homes lacked running water and electric power. Farm women had to haul large quantities of water into the house from wells or pumps for every purpose. Doing the family laundry, in large vats heated over stoves, continued to be a full day's work, just as canning and preserving continued to be seasonal necessities. Heat was provided by wood or coal stoves. In addition, rural women continued to produce most of their families clothing. The urban poor, similarly, reaped few benefits from household improvements. Urban slums such as Chicago’s nineteenth ward often had no sewers, garbage collection, or gas or electric lines; and tenements lacked both running water and central heating. At the turn of the century, variations in the nature of women’s domestic work were probably more marked than at anytime before.

范文2

Matching the influx of foreign immigrants into the larger cities of the United States during the late nineteenth century was a domestic migration, from town and farm to city, within the United States. The country had been overwhelmingly rural at the beginning of the century, with less than 5 percent of Americans living in large towns or cities. The proportion of urban population began to grow remarkably after 1840, increasing from 11 percent that year to 28 percent by 1880 and to 46 percent by 1900. A country with only 6 cities boasting a population of more than 8,000 in 1800 had become one with 545 such cities in 1900. Of these, 26 had a population of more than 100,000 including 3 that held more than a million people. Much of them igration producing an urban society came from smaller towns within the United States, but the combination of new immigrants and old American"settlers" on America’s "urban frontier " in the late nineteenth century proved extra ordinary.

The growth of cities and the process of industrialization fed on each other. The agricultural revolution stimulated many in the countryside to seek a new life in the city and made it possible for fewer farmers to feed the large concentrations of people needed to provide aworkforce for growing numbers of factories. Cities also provided ready and convenient markets for the products of industry, and huge contracts in transportation and construction-as well as the expanded market in consumer goods -allowed continued growth of the urban sector of the overall economy of the Untied States.

Technological developments further stimulated the process of urbanization. One example is the Bessemer converter (an industrial process for manufacturing steel), which provided steel girders for the construction of skyscrapers. The refining of crude oil into kerosene, and later the development of electric lighting as well as of the telephone,  brought additional comforts to urban areas that were unavailable to rural Americans and helped attract many of them from the farms into the cities. In every era the lure of the city included a major psychological element for country people the bustle and social interaction of urban life seemed particularly intriguing to those raised in rural isolation.

听力 

光华剑桥的听力有两种题型，一种是一段音频只对应一道题目，另一种是一段音频要对应好几道题目。听力一共20题左右，语速接近雅思听力。

例题：

1. 一段音频对应一道题

What did the principal like best about the band?

(A) The students wrote their own music.

(B) The band played several kinds ofmusic.

(C) The band played during the wholefestival.

(D) The students played many different instruments.

Narrator Listen to a school principal talking to a group of students.

Woman I wasvery pleased by your band’s performance at the holiday festival. I don't often see students playing their own music. Student bands usually play something traditional, but you actually composed something original. That's really impressive.

Narrator What did the principal like best about the band?

2. 一段音频对应多道题

Where is the conversation probably taking place?

(A) Near the entrance to the city library

(B) At a table in the cafeteria

(C) On a sidewalk at school

(D) Inside the art building

What did the boy lose?

(A) A watch

(B) A book bag

(C) A library book

(D) His homework assignment

According to the conversation. What has not been decided yet?

(A) Who is going to study for the test

(B) Where a group is going to meet to study

(C) What topic the girl will choose for herart project

(D) When the boy will go to the cafeteria

Narrator Questions 11 through 13. Listen to a conversation between two students atschool. Girl Hi, Tommy, are you on your way to the cafeteria?

Boy No, I was on my way to the library to return a book, but now I'm looking for my watch. It must have fallen off somewhere here in the grass. It was a gift from my father, so I really want to find it.

Girl Hum.I’d like to help you look for it, but I'm heading to the art building. I madean appointment with my art teacher to talk about the homework assignment and I don't want to keep him waiting.

Boy That's okay. The watch has got to be here somewhere. Oh, there it is. Hey, by the way,do you want to study for tomorrows history test with me and some other people from our class after school? We haven't decided where we are going to meet yet,probably at the city library.

Girl That sounds like a good idea. I'd like to join you.

Boy I’m having lunch with the others, so we will know where to meet by the time we have science class.

Girl All right. I will see you then.

国际学校备考上海光华学院剑桥国际中心(下)