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After studying English, maths and geography for two years, 17-year-old Henry is about to face his final A-level (Advanced level) exams. They will start at the end of  26  and continue into June. Everyone has said they are the  27  exams he'll ever have to take .

He's been  28  a place to study geography at Manchester University — if he gets an A and two Bs. If he doesn't get the grades , he will go to his second   29  in London, which has _30_  asked for a B and two Cs.

About five months before, he visited lots of universities and  31  six to apply to. His teachers sent these universities his grades  32  on his mock exams (模拟考试), and a report of his _33_ . He wrote a 500-word  _34  statement saying why he should be  35  to each place. Two universities called him in for an  36 . Three others offered him a place straight away. And two refused him. He  37  chose his two top places.

A few months after his exams, Henry's  38  arrive. He hasn't  39  well. He got three Cs and neither of his two choices  40_ him.

All is not lost,  41  . He gets on the phone and calls every  42  he can think of. _43_ they have any spare places, he  44  them to give him a place. Finally, he is offered a place to study computing in Wales. It wasn't what he planned to study,  _45_  where he had wanted to go. But he doesn't care. He has achieved his goal — he is going to university.

26.   A. February      B. March         C. May       D. April

27.   A. longest         B. shortest    C. easiest         D. hardest

28.   A. ordered        B. offered         C. taken            D. longing for

29.   A. school     B. club         C. department       D. choice

30.   A. only         B. hardly             C. nearly          D. almost

31.   A. chose       B. made       C. attended    D. prepared

32.   A. based       B. depended     C. fixed          D. checked

33.   A. grades    B. school       C. manners   D. character

34.   A. secret   B. important         C. personal  D. immediate

35.   A. applied         B. accepted   C. admitted D. received

36.   A. exam        B. agreement        C. education       D. interview

37.   A. strangely       B. curiously        C. finally         D. regretfully

38.   A. letters    B. answers       C. invitations D. results

39.   A. studied          B. got            C. done     D. taken

40.   A. took          B. might take        C. will take  D. had taken

41.   A. therefore       B. finally     C. after all         D. however

42.   A. teacher          B. friend         C. university D. school

43.   A. While     B. As      C. If              D. Though

44.   A. tells          B. begs           C. requires          D. advises

45.   A. nor           B. but      C. and             D. either

26. C。从下文的continue into June可判断应该是五月份。

27. D。从下文Henry考试的情况以及上文的A-level (Advanced level) exams可判断。

28. B。注意这里是被动语态,只有offer才符合语境。如果是主动语态,D项成立。

29. D。这是大学入学报名,A、B、C三项显然不对。D项“选择”当然可以是大学的选择。

30. A。his second choice的要求相对低些,“仅仅”是一个B两个C。

31. A。根据语境,这里应是“挑选”。

32. A。老师给大学的成绩是以平时的模拟考试为基础的,“base ... on”符合语境。

33. D。分数以外当然是他的品德(character)报告书。

34. C;35. B。考生本人写的当然是“个人的(personal)”报告书,里面是请求被“主观上(接受)”的理由。

36. D。interview(面试)符合语境。

37. C。这是他“最后”的选择。

38. D。根据语境,这里当然是考试“结果”。

39. C。do well:成功,干得出色。从下文可知道,Henry得到3个C显然是不算成功。

40. C。will表示意愿,其他选项与上下文的时态不合。

41. D。从下文可知,Henry终于在Wales找到一个学习computing的位置,副词however表示转折关系符合语境。

42. C。Henry所填的志愿落空之后给可能想起的“大学”打电话。

43. C。用If引导条件状语从句.

44. B。这里当然是“恳请”哪所大学能给他一席之地。

45. A。Henry最后的结果是既没有得到如愿的学习专业,也未能到自己如愿的学校。

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As nanny(保姆), cook, cleaner, shopper, driver, and gardener, she has one of the most demanding jobs in Britain today. And paying someone else to do the chores(家务活) which take the average housewife 71 hours a week would cost ?349.
At over ?18,000 a year that’s more than the earnings of 70 percent of the population, including train drivers, firemen, prison officers, and social worker. Looking after a baby less than a year old takes a housewife into a even higher pay league. According to a stud, she earns ?457 a week – at nearly ?24,000 a year, the same as teachers, engineers, and chemists.
Researchers put a price on each chore, then tried to find out how long the average person takes doing them. They found housewives spend an average 70.7 hours a week on housework – with looking after the children (17.9hours) and cooking and cleaning (12.9 hours each) the most time-consuming(费时).
A wife with a part-time job still works and average of 59 hours a week at home. Those in full-time employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. The good news is that these hours sharply as children get older. While the average mother with child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to 80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten.
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【小题2】 We lean from the text that looking after children ______.
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B.means more duties than being a teacher
C.requires the mother to be well-educated
D.prevents the mother from working outside
【小题3】According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work _____.
A.66 hours a weekB.71 hours a week
C.80 hours a weekD.90 hours a week
【小题4】By mentioning her husband, Karen Williams wants to show that ______.
A.housework is no easy job
B.her husband has no time to clean the kitchen
C.a housewife needs to be paid for cleaning
D.the kitchen is hard to clean

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“That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday owning a horse ranch. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings,the stables and the track.”

“The next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was a large red F with a note that read, ‘See me after class.’”

“The boy went to see the teacher after class and asked,‘Why did I receive an F?’”

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