题目内容
The Most Unusual Jobs
Pet Food Tester .
Yes, it's a thing and yes it's totally gross(恶心的). But Mark Gooley ---the owner of a pet food company, eats dog food for a living. He eats everything from doggie treats and chewy bones to liver mixture.
Teddy Bear repair Engineer
When your favorite toy loses an arm, or suffers a bad injury, it is upsetting. But now you can get help in the Build-A-Bear Workshops, the teddy bear repair engineers repair your favorite teddy bears and get them back to themselves.
Water slide Tester
Monday morning surely seems more enjoyable if you spend your working week slipping down water slides in a theme park, especially in summer.
You might also spend your lunch break on a roller coaster, eating a hot dog for lunch.
Working holiday, am I right?
Paint Watcher
You may have heard some people say they'd "rather watch paint dry" than do something they don't want to do. Well, if they really mean it, the chance is there---- studying the drying time and effects(效果)of paint as a full-time job for a paint company.
【小题1】What is Mark Gooley's job?
| A． A paint watcher |
| B．A water slide tester. |
| C． A pet food tester. |
| D． A teddy bear repair engineer |
| A．In a theme park |
| B．In a paint company |
| C．In a pet food company |
| D．In a Build-A-Bear Workshop. |
| A．He paints the wall. |
| B．He repairs the water slide. |
| C．He studies the effects of paint. |
| D．He watches others repair the wall. |
【小题1】C
【小题2】D
【小题3】C
解析试题分析：这里介绍的是四项不同寻常的工作。每个段落介绍了不同寻常的工作中的详细信息，例如：宠物食品测试员，玩具熊维修工程师，滑水道游戏检测员，涂料观察者。
【小题1】细节理解题。第一段“宠物食品测试者”说的是，Mark cooley --宠物食品公司的主人，以吃狗食谋生，他吃来自于狗食和狗咀嚼的骨头和内脏混合物的所有东西。A paint watcher一个涂料观察者， A water slide tester一个滑水道游戏测试者，A pet food tester一个宠物食品测试者， A teddy bear repair engineer一个玩具熊维修工程师。根据题目要求和细节理解故选C.
【小题2】细节理解题。“玩具熊维修工程师”一段说的是：当你的最喜爱的玩具失去一只胳膊的时候，或者遭受很大的伤害的时候，那会是令人心烦的。但是你现在可以在小熊制作工作室得到帮助。玩具熊维修工程师维修你的最喜爱的玩具熊并且让他们恢复到原来的样子。In a theme park在一个主题公园； In a paint company在一个涂料公司； In a pet food company在一个宠物食品公司； In a Build-A-Bear Workshop在一个小熊制作工作室。根据题目要求和细节理解故选D。
【小题3】细节理解题。“涂料观察者”一段说的是：你也许已经听说过有些人说：“宁愿看涂料晾干，也不愿意做不想做的事情。”那么，如果他们真的是那意思的话，机会就有了----把为涂料公司研究涂料晾干的时间和涂料的效果作为一项全职的工作。He paints the wall.他为墙粉刷涂料； He repairs the water slide.他修理滑水道； He studies the effects of paint. 他研究涂料效果； He watches others repair the wall.他看着其他人修墙。根据细节理解和题目要求故选C
考点：教育类短文。
全能测控期末小状元系列答案During all this time I never stopped thinking about escape. When I traveled across to the other side of the island, I could see the other islands, and I said to myself, “Perhaps I can get there with a boat. Perhaps I can get back to England one day.” 
So I decided to make myself a boat. I cut down a big tree, and then began to make a long hole in it. It was hard work, but about six months later, I had a very fine canoe (独木舟). Next, I had to get it down to the sea. How silly I was! Why didn’t I think before I began work? Of course, the canoe was too heavy. I couldn’t move it! I pulled and pushed and tried everything, but it didn’t move. I was very unhappy for a long time after that.
That happened in my fourth year on the island. In my sixth year I did make myself a smaller canoe, but I did not try to escape in it. The boat was too small for a long journey, and I did not want to die at sea. The island was my home now, not my prison, and I was just happy to be alive. A year or two later, I made myself a second canoe on the other side of the island. I also built myself a second house there, and so I had two homes.
My life was still busy from morning to night. There were always things to do or to make. I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals. They looked very strange, it is true, but they kept me dry in the rain.
I kept food and tools at both my houses, and also wild goats. There were many goats on the island, and I made fields with high fences to keep them in. They learnt to take food from me, and soon I had goats’ milk to drink every day. I also worked hard in my corn fields. And so many years went by.
【小题1】The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.
| A．escape in it |
| B．get to the other side of the island[ |
| C．use it for food |
| D．go around the island |
| A．kept goats for milk |
| B．made clothes from animal skins |
| C．worked in the cornfields |
| D．did all the above |
| A．Because it was too small for a long journey. |
| B．Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea. |
| C．Because there was something wrong with it. |
| D．Because the writer was busy building a second house. |
| A．the writer tried to make his stay comfortable on the island |
| B．the writer had nothing to do on the wild island |
| C．the writer tried to escape in the second canoe, but failed |
| D．the writer was in prison on the island, losing his freedom |
Many people say that they are working too many hours. They don't have enough time to have a rest or to stay with their family.
Work hours are different from one country to another. In France, people spend about 1,646 hours a year at work. In Japan, however, people work about 2,159 hours a year. That means a Japanese worker works 513 more hours a year than a French worker.
Why do people work so many hours? Some people work extra hours because they want to make more money. However, many companies don't pay overtime. Their workers don't get more pay for more work. Some people think it's their duty (责任) to work more hours. Some are afraid of losing their jobs if they don't work more hours.
Many people say that their vacations are too short. In France, people get five weeks of paid vacation a year. In Germany, they get four to six weeks, and in the USA, two weeks. One study shows fewer than half of workers used all their vacation days. In Great Britain, there is a saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull (迟钝的) boy." If that is true, there must be a lot of dull people in the world.
【小题1】A Japanese worker works ________ more hours a year than a French one.
| A．513 | B．1,646 |
| C．2,159 | D．3,805 |
| A．正常的 | B．额外的 |
| C．有用的 | D．少量的 |
| A．France | B．Germany |
| C．the USA | D．Great Britain |
| A．No companies offer vacations to their workers. |
| B．Many people say they have enough time to have a rest. |
| C．Not all companies pay their workers for more work. |
| D．More than half of workers use all their vacation days. |
| A．Many workers have to work long hours. |
| B．Many people have vacations long enough. |
| C．Work hours are the same around the world. |
| D．There are a lot of dull people in the world. |
According to a recent survey, British teenagers are damaging（伤害） their health by not getting enough sleep because they are prevented from doing so by electronic gadgets (电子设备) in their bedrooms.
According to the Sleep Council, "junk sleep" could compete with eating unhealthy junk food as a main worrying lifestyle for parents of teenage children.
Among the l, 000 students aged 12 t0 16 who were tested in the survey, 30 percent just slept for 4 to 7 hours a day. Almost a quarter said they fell asleep, more than once a week, while watching TV, listening to music or using other electronic gadgets.
"This is a quite worrying trend（潮流）”， said Dr Chris Idzikowski of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre. "What we are seeing is the appearance of terrible junk sleep - sleep that is of neither the length（长度） nor the quality it should be."
Nearly each of the teenagers had a phone, music system or TV in his or her bedroom, with around two-thirds owning all three. Almost one in five of the teenage boys said the quality of their sleep had been influenced by leaving their TVs or computers on. The survey also found that 40 percent of youngsters felt tired each day, with girls aged 15 to 16 feeling the worst.
"Teenagers need to wake up to the fact that to perform（表现） well. They need to do something about their sleep. I'm shocked（震惊） that so few teenagers have noticed the close connection," said Idzikowski.
【小题1】Among the students tested in the survey, about_______ of them fell asleep while using their electronic gadgets.
| A．200 | B．250 | C．300 | D．400 |
| A．A long sleep of good quality. |
| B．A short but good sleep. |
| C．A sleep with many dreams. |
| D．A short sleep of low quality. |
| A．hard work and good performance |
| B．good feelings and good performance |
| C．good sleep and good performance |
| D．good sleep and good looks |
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.
It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.【小题1】Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ________.
| A．want to be as rich as their neighbours |
| B．want others to know or to think that they are rich |
| C．don’t want others to know they are rich |
| D．want to be happy |
【小题2】It can be inferred (推断) from the story that rich people like to ________.| A．live outside New York City |
| B．live in New York City |
| C．live in apartments |
| D．have many neighbours |
【小题3】Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is ________.| A．an important name |
| B．a popular name in the United States |
| C．his neighbour’s name |
| D．not a good name |
【小题4】If a person who keeps up with the Joneses, he would _________.| A．do as the poor persons around him do |
| B．do everything he likes to do |
| C．do as his neighbours do |
| D．do as the rich people around him do |
Some countries have a large number of earthquakes. Japan is one of them, while others do not have many, for example, there are few earthquakes in Britain.
There is often a great noise during an earthquake. The ground vibrates (颤动).Houses fall down. Railways are broken, which causes trains to turn over. Sometimes thousands of people are killed in different ways. About 60,000 were killed in 1783 in the south of Italy. Some people say that earthquakes often happen near volcanoes(火山), but it is not true. The centres of some earthquakes are under the sea. The bottom of the sea suddenly moves. The powerful forces inside the earth break the rocks. The coast is shaken and great waves appear. These waves travel long distances and rush over the land when they reach it, breaking down houses and other buildings. Sometimes they break more buildings than the earthquake itself.
A terrible earthquake happened in Assam, India, in 1986.The land near Shillong suddenly moved 1.5 feet to one side, and then back again. It continued to act like this 20 times a minute.Few buildings could stand what was happening and the great stones flew four feet up into the air. What kind of building stays up best in an earthquake? The Americans carefully studied the results of the earthquake at San Francisco(1906) and believed it best for buildings to be made with concrete(混凝土) walls together by steel frames. Such are the buildings that can't burn or fall easily.
【小题1】The best title of this passage should be .
| A．The Centres of Earthquakes |
| B．Earthquakes |
| C．The Loss(损失) Caused by Earthquakes |
| D．Buildings and Earthquakes |
| A．Trains' turning over is directly caused by the earthquakes. |
| B．Some earthquakes have their centres under the sea. |
| C．It isn't certain that earthquakes happen near volcanoes. |
| D．Buildings with concrete walls are better against earth quakes. |
| A．near volcanoes | B．in Japan |
| C．in Britain | D．Both A and B |
| A．Nothing |
| B．Volcanoes |
| C．Forces inside the earth |
| D．Terrible waves by the earthquake |
| A．trains | B．thousands of people |
| C．a great noise | D．the powerful forces |
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【小题1】When is the show?| A．Saturday | B．Friday | C．Monday | D．Sunday |
【小题2】Where can we see the live(现场的) show?| A．In Children’s Center. |
| B．In Smith’s house. |
| C．In the TV station hall . |
| D．We don’t know. |
【小题3】If Jane wants to be a teacher, she doesn’t need to be good at _______.| A．music | B．drawing |
| C．math | D．sports |