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【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
In many countries of the world, people do what is called housesitting.It means that if owners of the house are going away, they wantsomeone to come into their home and look after the house and maybe pets whilethey are away.
In Australia, many people travel.After peopleretire, they might buy a van and travel all over the country.
So if someone wants to travel or go away for some reason, theymight want someone in their home to care for it and keep the gardens tidy.House sittersmight have to care for pets.Also, quite afew people have swimming pools in their back yard and they need cleaning. . I feel it isa great way of seeing the country, because you go and stay in a new city, getto meet new people, and have time to go sightseeing in a new area.
. There arewebsites where you find the advertisements by people who want to travel, and byreplying to the advertisement, you can make arrangements to go and look aftertheir home.
There are some requirements to be a house sitter.You must be atrusted person, so that the home owner knows you will not steal anything.You must beable to go when the house owner wants you to go, so you need lots of free time. . You need to begood with pets, able to care for cats and dogs, or other pets they may have.
Some house sitting jobs are just for a few days or a couple ofweeks while the house owners have a short holiday.Sometimes itis for much longer.We have hadone house sit for six months, while the home owner travelled to Europe.
Then you can travel to many differentcountries and stay there.One of theimportant things to get is references from the home owners where you havestayed. A reference is a written letter to say that you are trustworthyand have looked after their home well.You can showthese letters to possible house sitting jobs and they know you will do a goodjob.
A.I have donehouse sitting many times.
B.Thousands ofpeople do this all the time.
C.It is alsopossible to do house sitting in other countries.
D.Generally youhave many opportunities to get a house sitting job.
E.You must takea little care over what your description says about you.
F.This is aninternational house sitting service for all city and country areas.
G.Youmust have a good car, so you can travel to different parts of the country.

【答案】D;G;F;C;B
【解析】本文主要介绍了当人们外出旅行时,经常会雇用一些人来照看自己的房子,本文也给出了看房人所必备的一些条件。(1)B本段主要介绍大量的人每年都外出旅行这个现象。空格前的manypeople travel与B项中的“thousands of”对应,故选B。(2)A下句是作者接受给别人看房的一些好处,故作者应是在介绍自己的经验。且空格前句“housesitter”与A项中的“house sitting”对应,故选A。(3)D根据空后的“advertisements,replying,lookafter their home”可知有很多网站发布人们招聘看房人的照片,且和D中的house-sitting job相照应,故可知选D。(4)G首先空格后的阐述,你可以去旅行,但还要照顾好主人的家,所以应有一辆好汽车,G项所表达的意思为到这个国家不同的地方去旅游,与本段主旨一致,故选G。 (5)C后句提到你可以到国外去,故可知本段应该是关于到国外寻找看房人这项工作的机会。且空格后的“differentcountries”与C项中的“other countries”对应,而C项所表达的意思也与空格后的内容相关联,故选C。

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【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
I was ten when I first sat with my grandmother behind the cashier(收银台)in her general storeI quickly learned the importance of treating customers politely and saying “thank you.”
At first I was paid in candyI worked every day after school, and during the summer and on weekends and holidays from 8 a.m.to 7 p.m.My father helped me set up a bank account. By the time I was 12, my grandmother thought I had done such a good job that she promoted meto selling cosmetics(化妆品)Ideveloped the ability to look customers directly in the eye.Eventhough I was just a kid, women would ask me such things as “What color do you think I should wear?” I took a real interest in their questions and was able to translate what they wanted into makeup(化妆)ideas.
The job taught me a valuable lesson: tobe a successful salesperson, you didn’t need to be a rocket scientist—you needed to be a great listenerExpect they are no longer women purchasing cosmetics from me; instead, they are kidswho tell me which toys they would like to see designed and developed.
A.Watching my money grow was morerewarding than anything I could have bought.
B.Soon I found myself looking morebeautiful than ever before.
C.Today I still carry that lesson with me:I listen to customers.
D.My grandma’s trust taught me how tohandle responsibility
E.I ended my selling a record amount ofcosmetics..
F.Before long, she let me sit there bymyself.
G.Later I received 50 cents an hour.

【题目】请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。

Goals are the guides all through our life. We all have goals that we are moving towards and making a great effort to achieve. This is a good thing. Or can it be bad? How many of us never reach our goals and yet we have tried so hard and really thought about nothing else? I believe the mistake most of us make is that we do not focus on our present situation.

Let me explain. Most of us see our present situation as a stepping stone that we use simply as a means of reaching our final destination. We don’t take time to truly appreciate where we are today and all the great things we already have in our lives. We should focus our attention on the journey and not on the destination, or we will miss the beautiful scenery along the way.

Let’s use our job as an example. Now most of us want a promotion. We have plans to become the manager or general manager in our companies. Unfortunately, most of us will never reach the goal, but will watch others achieve our goal instead.

What we should be doing is focusing on the job we are currently in now. Forget where we want to get to and just focus on the present. You see, what we can control is our performance in our current job. We can decide to be the best we possibly can in our current job. Now this may mean further education to have the skills we currently do not have. It may mean working harder to produce better results than our colleagues. It could simply be a change of attitude, such as stopping complaining and becoming a more devoted and supportive employee. By doing our current job to the best of our abilities, we in fact give ourselves the best chance of promotion.

So the best thing for all of us to do to achieve our goals is to just focus on what we have and where we are now. Do the best and be the best we possibly can in our current situations, and we will give ourselves the very best chance of reaching our goals in the future. We have heard the old sayings and they are true: “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”, “Patience is a virtue”, and so on.

Have patience, have appreciation of what we already have, and take time to help ourselves be the very best we can. Do these things and we will all reach our goals, but more importantly, we will enjoy our life every day.

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Focus on the present

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To reach our goals, we should focus on what we have and where we are now.

Common

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◆We do not focus on our present situations.

◆Most of us see our present situations as a stepping stone to our destination.

◆We do not spend the time truly 3 where we are today and what we already have in our lives.

Example—our job

◆Forget the thought of getting 4. What we should do is 5our best to do our current job.

◆To be the best in our current job, we should get further education, work harder than 6, stop complaining and 7 ourselves to our job.

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If we are 9, grateful for what we have, and take time to help ourselves be the very best we can, we can not only10in the future, but also enjoy our life every day.

【题目】根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
All around the world, people are working hard to make theircites safer and more pleasant for pedestrians (行人). Cities havepainted crosswalks on their streets, made streets narrower, put in trafficlights and speed bumps (减速带) and madeplans to help more kids walk or bike to school.
Many people have learned from a man from Brisbane, Australia,named David Engwicht. His book Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns has a simplemessage . Kids playedthere, and neighbors stopped there to talk.
But now, streets are just for cars and trucks. People stayinside to get away from the noise and dangerous traffic, and we lose contactwith our neighbors . People needto take back their streets. Engwicht travels around the world, helping peoplethink differently about pedestrians, streets, and neighborhoods. . He has workedin neighborhoods from Honolulu to Scotland.
While Engwicht was writing his book, he learned how neighbors inthe city of Delft, in the Netherlands, stopped dangerous traffic on theirstreet. They put old couches, tables, and planters in the street. . When thepolice arrived, they saw how these illegal actions made the streets safer. Sooncity officials started planning ways to make cars slow down, and“calm”thetraffic.
Engwicht says we should think about streets as our “outdoorliving room”.
In the future, streets will be safe places for children again,and our neighbors will become our friends.
a.Cars andpedestrians crowded the street.
b.Calming thetraffic is just the beginning.
c.Cars couldstill pass, but they had to drive slowly.
d.He says thatin the past, streets belonged to everybody.
e.Itshard to take measures to solve the traffic problems.
f.Besides hisbooks and articles, he gives many speeches.
g. Engwicht says that weshould use streets for more than just transportation.

【题目】阅读理解。

Even if trees cannot walk, they are still on the move.

In parts of the Arctic, entire forests are moving northward. Across the Arctic, temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else in the world. As that happens, the tree line that marks where forests stop and the treeless tundra (冻原) starts has been shifting northward. Trees growing along the tree line must protect themselves from the cold wind. To do this,_plants tend to grow horizontal (水平的) branches low to the ground. The energy it takes for trees to grow this way means they don't have enough energy to make seeds.

But as Earth's climate has been warming, trees no longer have to just grow horizontally. Many can instead grow up toward the sky. This takes less energy. And with all that leftover energy, these trees have started producing more seeds. This happens especially in places where white spruce (白云杉) grows.

White spruce, which is a North American tree, is quite able to produce a lot of seeds, which can move long distances in the wind. When windblown seeds end up on the tundra beyond the tree line, they eventually can sprout(发芽) new trees. This explains how a forest can move. Of course, the process would work only if the tundra were warm enough. But in recent years, the whole planet has been warming.

New trees will provide shelters for some snow. Keeping the sun's rays from making the white surface disappear. Instead, the trees absorb the sun's heat. This warms the surrounding air. The extra wrmth encourages even more trees to produce seeds. That further boosts a forest's ability to expand. In addition, more trees will trap more snow, preventing much of it from being blown away. Snow can trap heat in the soil below, which encourages trees to grow. The recent rise of temperatures has helped more trees grow past the tree line. People worry about impacts on the animals that depend on frozen conditions for food and shelter.

【1】What is the main cause of the trees in the Arctic moving northward?

A.The shrinking of northern tundra.

B.The rising temperature.

C.The fierce and cold wind.

D.The abundant resources in the north.

【2】What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.To produce more seeds.

B.To move northward.

C.To respond to the climate change.

D.To protect themselves from the cold wind.

【3】What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A.New trees can trap the snow, which may make the soil colder.

B.The trapped snow prevents new trees from producing more seeds.

C.New trees can make the surrounding air warmer.

D.New trees can bring more food and shelter to local animals.

【4】The passage is most probably taken from ________.

A.a science report B.a health report

C.a fashion magazine D.a children's magazine

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