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     Faced with a tough job market, fresh graduates are dreaming of running their own businesses instead.
But a recent survey has showed that such ambitions lack the required support and remain just that-dreams.
The Shanghai Municipal Employment Promotion Centre poll of 1,276 graduates in several universities and colleges in the city, released last Friday, showed 59.78 percent of respondents considered the possibility
of setting up a company or at least a small store. "But they just stop at the 'thinking stage'," it stated.
     Respondents put the top reasons for not going it alone down to a shortage of investment and a lack of
business opportunity. They also listed lack of business experience and social networks, the need for
advanced study and objections from family members as factors that stood in their way.
     More than 90 percent of the interviewees said they would rather take up a job after graduating and then consider starting their own business two or three years down the road.
Guo Bin, a senior student in Shanghai International Studies University majoring in English, decided he
wanted to be his own boss last year. But he is looking for a job first. "If I fail to find a satisfying job, I
would like to establish a company in exhibition services," Guo said.
     The Shanghai native has some relatives working in a local printing plant. With their help, Guo hopes to produce exhibition brochures at a relatively low price. He is also confident that his English language skills
can help him do well in the industry.
     "Social networking is an important factor leading to business success," Guo said.
     Guo said that the shortage of graduate jobs is the main reason driving more university students to set up a business right after their graduation.
    Jiang said the university sets up a business guide team made of government officials and prof essionals.
They regularly give training courses to students who show an interest in having their own business. The
parents of university graduates are more willing to help their children start up alone. The survey showed "
Once you win the support of your family, you have won half the battle," Guo added.

1. Which of the following can be the best title?

A. A tough job market
B. Graduates can only dream of being boss
C. The ambitions of fresh graduates
D. The story of Guo Bin

2. Which of the following is NOT true about stopping fresh graduates realising their dreams of being boss?

A. The lack of business opportunity and investment.
B. The shortage of business experience.
C. Less skilled English language.
D. Their family members' objections.

3. In the view of Guo Bin, what is the key factor that makes fresh graduates dream of being boss soon
after graduation?

A. Their family don't support them.
B. Their social networking is not good.
C. There are not enough graduate jobs.
D. They want to achieve greater success.

4. Who is this article mostly intended for?

A. The parents whose child will graduate from university soon.
B. Those who will graduate from university.
C. Those who want to be boss.
D. The officials who work in the government.

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　　There was one thing that I found rather strange on my first day to work at Monk’s House．The floors in the house were very thin．The bathroom was directly above the kitchen, and when Mrs．Wolf was having her bath before breakfast, I could hear her talking to herself．On and on she went, talked, talked, talked, asking questions and giving herself the answers．I thought there must have been two or three people up there with her．Later Mrs．Woolf explained that Mrs．Woolf always said the sentences out loud what she had written during the night．She needed to know if they sounded right and the bath was a place for trying them out．

　　I was not allowed to make coffee at Monk’s House－Mr．and Mrs．Woolf came into the kitchen at eight o’clock every morning to make it．When we carried the breakfast trays to Mrs．Woolf’s room I noticed that there were pencils and paper beside her bed so that when she woke up she could work, and sometimes it seemed as though she had had very little sleep．

　　Mrs．Woolf’s bedroom was outside the house in the garden．I used to think how inconvenient it must be to have to go out in the rain to go to bed．Her bedroom had been added on to the back of the house; the door faced the garden and a window at the side opened out on to a field．Because the writing room was small．Mr．Woolf had had a large one built for her at the end of the garden against the church wall．

　　I can always remember her coming out of her writing room only for lunch each day．She used to walk down through the thin and very graceful, with large, deep set eyes．She wore long skirts in the fashion of the day, any silk jackets of the same color, which suited her well．I pressed her clothes and did any sewing that was necessary．

　　Her cigarettes were made from a special tobacco called My Mixture．Mr．Woolf bought it for her in London, and in the evenings, they used to sit by the fire and make these cigarettes themselves．

(1)

At the time of this passage, the writer might have been ________．
[　　]
A．	a friend of Mrs．Woolf
B．	the assistant of Mr．Woolf
C．	a reporter who was writing about Mrs．Woolf’s life
D．	the housekeeper at Monk’s House

(2)

What was particularly unusual about Monk’s House?
[　　]
A．	The floors were very thin．
B．	The bathroom was directly above the kitchen．
C．	Mrs．Woolf’s bedroom was outside the house in the garden．
D．	The house was next to a church．

(3)

What was Mr．Woolf’s attitude towards his wife according to this passage?
[　　]
A．	He lived a separate life from his wife．
B．	He found her strange and difficult to get along with．
C．	He helped with her writings although he didn’t understand much．
D．	He tried his best to satisfy her needs．

(4)

According to this passage, Mrs．Woolf ________．
[　　]
A．	spent most of her time on her own work
B．	didn’t have a good taste of clothes
C．	didn’t do any housework herself
D．	was attractive but cold to others

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　　For more than six million American children, coming home after school means coming home to an empty house．Some deal with the situation by watching TV．Some may hide．But all of them have something in common．They spend part of each day alone．They are called latchkey children．They’re children who look after themselves while their parents work．And their bad condition has become a subject of concern．

　　Lynette Long was once the headmaster of an elementary school．She said, “We had a school rule against wearing jewelry．A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys attached．I was constantly telling them to put them inside shirts．There were so many keys, it never came to my mind what they meant．” Slowly, she learned they were house keys．

　　She and her husband began talking to the children who had them．They learned of the impact(影响)working couples and single parents were having on their children．Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone．One in each three latchkey children the Longs talked to reported being scared．Many had nightmares and were worried about their own safety．

　　The most common way latchkey children deal with their fears is by hiding．It might be in a shower stall, under a bed in a closet．The second is TV．They’ll often play it at high volume．It’s hard to get statistics(情况，材料)on latchkey children, the Longs learned．Most parents are slow to admit they leave their children alone．

(1)

The main idea about “latchkey children” is that they ________．
[　　]
A．	are growing in numbers
B．	are also found in middle-class neighborhoods
C．	watch too much television during the day
D．	suffer problems from being left alone

(2)

Which sentence in the second paragraph is the topic sentence?
[　　]
A．	We had a school rule against wearing jewelry．
B．	A lot of kids had chains around their necks．
C．	I was constantly telling them to put inside their shirts．
D．	They were house keys．

(3)

The main feeling these children have when they are at home by themselves is ________．
[　　]
A．	tiredness
B．	freedom
C．	fear
D．	loneliness

(4)

We may draw a conclusion that ________．
[　　]
A．	latchkey children enjoy having such a large amount of time alone
B．	latchkey children try to hide their feeling
C．	it’s difficult to find out how many latchkey children there are
D．	latchkey children often watch TV with their parents

四、阅读理解（20小题；每小题2分，共40分）

Joanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5：30, and at 6：30 she was expected to be chairing a meeting of the tennis club. At last, the traffic was moving. She swung quickly racing to her house. As she opened the door, she nearly tripped over Sheba.

“Hey, Sheba” she said, “I’ve got no time for you now, but I’ll take you out as soon as I get back from tennis club.” Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking. Obviously, she could hardly breathe. Immediately Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet (兽医). When she got there, the vet was just about to close for the day. Seeing the state of Sheba, Dr. Sterne brought her quickly into his office.

“Listen, doctor, I’m really in a rush to get to a meeting. Can I leave her with you, and go and get changed? I’ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up, and then I’ll take her on to the meeting with me. Is that OK?”

“Sure.” said the doctor.

Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes. As she was once more entering the hallway, the phone by the door began to ring.

“This is Dr. Sterne,” said an anxious voice. “I want you to get out of that house immediately,” said the doctor’s voice. “I’m coming round soon, and the police will be there any time now. Wait outside!”

At that moment, a police car screeched to a stop outside the house. Two policemen got out and ran into the house. Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened. Then the doctor arrived.

“Where’s Sheba? Is she OK?” shouted Joanne.

“She’s fine, Joanne. I took out the thing which was choking her, and she’s OK now. ”

Just then, the two policemen reappeared from the house, half-carrying a white-faced man, who could hardly walk. There was blood all over him.

“My God,” said Joanne, “how did he get in there? And how did you know he was there?”

“I think he must be a burglar,” said the doctor. “I knew he was there because when I finally removed what was stuck in Sheba’s throat: it turned out to be three human fingers.”

1. What was Joanne supposed to do at 6:30？

A. To walk her dog. B. To see her doctor.

C. To attend a club meeting. D. To play tennis with her friends.

2. Joanne wanted to get back to her home again .

A. to phone the police station B. to dress up for the meeting

C. to catch the badly hurt burglar D. to wait for her dog to be cured

3. From the passage, we can infer that .

A. Sheba fought against the burglar

B. the police found the burglar had broken in

C. Joanne had planned to take her dog to the meeting

D. the doctor performed a difficult operation on the dog

4. In this passage, the writer intends to tell us that the dog is .

A. clever B. friendly C. frightening D. devoted

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     Faced with a life-changing tragedy, it would be easy for Martha Clements to focus on the negative.
But that's not her way. Five years after losing her vision, Clements is back doing what she loves.
     "It is long, Kathy," Clements says, running her hands down the length of her client's hair. Kathy Braga
is letting it grow. It now hangs below her shoulders and down her back, and all she wants is a trim(修剪), so she asks Clements to show her how much an inch would be. Clements pulls a ruler from a drawer and
holds it up to Braga's hair in front near her face. "Right here. An inch will be right here at your chin."
     Clements was in this career for about 10 years before losing her vision. Now, when she begins cutting,
it's easy to forget that Clements is completely blind. She carefully compares the length of each strand of
hair. Though confident of her sense of touch, she at times asks her client to be her eyes and check her
work.
     After a careful inspection, Braga gives her approval. And after Clements blows her hair dry, she
remarks, "You made me younger. I love it."
     Clements had been doing Braga's hair for years before she became blind. Braga is proud to say she
was Clements' first customer after she lost her vision.
     "She sat me in the kitchen. It was dark, and she said ,' Are you ready?' I said, 'I'm ready.' And that is
when she took this thing, and she said, ' Look and see if there is hair on the ground,' and I said ,' Yes,
there is .' And she said, 'Okay, I have the right end of the thing."
     Clements was 42 years old when she suffered a pulmonary embolism (肺栓塞) that cost her sight.
"I was dead for 20 minutes first and then half an hour, and the lack of oxygen killed my optical(视觉的)
nerve." The last thing Clements remembered that day was the ambulance coming to get her. "I couldn't
breathe.   The next thing I remembered was waking up three days later, blind, in the hospital."
     Her ribs(肋骨)had been broken, when they treated her. Her shoulder was dislocated. She had to
undergo nine months of physical treatment.
     "It was the hardest time in my life," she says. "Everything changed in my life: distance, smell, and
sound. My kids didn't sound the same. My husband didn't sound the same too. I didn't know my home.
It took me three months to find the coffee table."
     Once a month, a teacher from the Virginia Center for the Blind came to her home in Woodbridge,
about 40 kilometers from Washington. But Clements was eager to learn more. So in 2008, she left her
husband and sons, to go to the Virginia School for the Blind in Richmond for a nine-month program. "My
plan was to be able to do for my family again, to do what I like to do, cook, clean, make phone calls."
     She learned basic skills like how to walk with a cane, how to listen and how to eat different foods.
There were classes in Braille, computer skills and using different gadgets designed for the blind.
Graduates of the program are expected to leave with not only life skills, but a marketable skill as well.
     "My teacher asked me why I wouldn't do hair. I said, ' Hello. Blind. No, no, no.' I was scared  to
think I could even do it."
     But gradually, Clements gained confidence and by the time she graduated, had styled 100 heads of
hair at the school. "People from headquarters came, people from the library, students, secretaries,
teachers, and friends came. Everybody came and let me do their hair," Clements says.
     Three days a week she leaves home to volunteer at the House of Mercy, a Catholic service
organization that provides clothing, food and other support to the poor.
     Kellie Ross, executive director of the House of Mercy, remembered when Clements first showed up
with her friend, Kathy Braga, to offer her help.
     At first, she had no idea Clements was blind. "As she started to walk I realized she couldn't see, "
Ross recalls. "She could have taken that tragic experience of losing her sight and gone inward, but
instead she used that experience to help other people who are suffering."
     Clements says she feels blessed to day, five years after her brush with death. "I thank the Lord every
day for my blindness, because I'm alive," she says. "I could have been dead. I'm alive. I'm healthy, and
that is what matters."

1. What was Clements before she lost her sight?

A. A teacher.
B. A hairstylist.
C. An engineer.
D. A volunteer.

2. To judge the length of the hair of her clients, Clements mainly depends on _______.

A. some handy tools
B. their detailed descriptions
C. her sense of touch
D. Kathy Braga's guidance

3. What can we learn about Kathy Braga?

A. She used to be a regular client of Clements.
B. She follows Clements to do volunteering work every week.
C. She was the first to encourage Clements to try hairstyling.
D. She always pretends to be satisfied with Clements' skill.

4. When she lost her sight, Clements found that _________.

A. her family became hopeless and discouraged
B. her other senses had also been affected
C. her kids and husband began to treat her differently
D. she lost interest in speaking to her family members

5. What would be the best title of the passage?

A. Brave woman expresses her gratitude for life.
B. After going blind, hairstylist returns to work.
C. Programs for the blind give them new hope for life.
D. Blind hairstylist finds pleasure in volunteering work.

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