There are many ways to find a job. It can be as easy as walking into a neighborhood store to look at its announcement board . Local stores often have areas where people can put small signs telling what kind of service they need or can provide. Such services include caring for children or cleaning houses.

Or,job searchers can look in the newspaper. Local newspapers have employment announcements placed by companies seeking workers.

Another popular tool for finding jobs is the Internet. For example, people in four hundred and fifty cities around the world can use the Craigslist Web site to buy objects,meet people or find a job. Craigslist says that it receives two million new job listings each month.

Another useful way to find a job is through a college or university. For example,students at the University of Texas in Austin can go to the Career Exploration Center to get help in finding a job. Of course,looking for a job requires knowing what kind of work you want to do. For example,there is a book called "What Color is Your Parachute(降落伞)?”by Richard Bolles. This book has been helping people choose a career(职业)since it was first published in 1970.

Some experts also help people find jobs. Susan W.Miller owns a company called California Career Services in Los Angeles.She says her company helps people find jobs by first helping them understand their strengths, goals and interests. Then she provides them with methods and resources to help them find the right job.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. Finding a job.

B. College students' part-time jobs.

C. Craigslist Web site.

D. The relation between study and work

2.By logging on the Craigslist Web site,you can

A. sell your old things

B. do some shopping online

C. create your own announcement board

D. get useful information about 450 cities

3.“What Color is Your Parachute?”is a book which gives tips to those who want to .

A. work on the airplane B. buy a parachute

C. publish a book D. find a suitable job

4.How many ways of finding a job are mentioned in the passage?

A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.

Eating at a slow speed may help reduce hunger, the U.S. researchers said on Monday. Previous research suggests that the ability to control energy intake may be affected by the speed at which we eat, and a high eating rate may damage the relationship between the sensory signals and processes that control how much we eat.

In order to learn more about the link between eating speed and energy intake, researchers examined how eating speed affects calories consumed during a meal in both normal-weight subjects as well as overweight or obese subjects.

In the new study, a group of normal-weight subjects and a group of overweight or obese subjects were asked to consume two meals in a controlled environment. All subjects ate one meal slowly, took small bites, chewed thoroughly, and paused and put the spoon down between bites, and ate a second meal quickly, took large bites, chewed quickly, and did not pause and put the spoon down.

At the conclusion of the study, the researchers found only normal-weight subjects had a statistically significant reduction in caloric consumption by eating slowly. “A lack of statistical significance in the overweight and obese group may be partly due to the fact that they consumed less food during both eating conditions compared to the normal-weight subjects,” Professor Meena Shah said, “it is possible that the overweight and obese subjects felt more self-conscious, and thus ate less during the study.”

Despite the differences in caloric consumption between the normal-weight and overweight and obese subjects, the study found some similarities. Both groups felt less hungry later on after the slow meal than after the fast meal, which indicates that greater hunger suppression(抑制)among both groups could be expected from a meal consumed more slowly. Also, both the normal-weight and overweight or obese groups consumed more water during the slow meal. “The higher water intake during the slow eating condition may have affected food consumption,” said Shah. According to Shah, slowing the speed of eating may help suppress hunger levels and “may even improve the enjoyment of a meal”.

The findings were published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

1.What does the previous study have in common with the new one?

A. There is a link between eating speed and energy intake.

B. Eating at a slow speed may help feel hungry.

C. Eating too fast may damage your stomach.

D. Eating rate may affect processes controlling how much we eat.

2.What should the subjects do during the research?

A. Both groups could totally eat the meals at any speed as they liked.

B. Both groups had to consume one meal in controlled eating conditions.

C. Both groups were asked to eat one meal slowly while the other quickly.

D. One group should eat slowly while the other one quickly.

3.What caused the lack of statistically significant reduction in the overweight and obese group?

A. They were told not to eat a lot.

B. In the study they had no appetite to eat.

C. They lost consciousness in the study.

D. They ate less food on purpose.

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. New research findings about how to control eating rate.

B. A study about the link between eating speed and energy intake.

C. One may feel less hungry later on after the slow meal than after the fast meal.

D. Water intake may have affected food consumption.

第二节 读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分)

阅读下面短文,然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

A researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says that cooking emissions(排放物) is a main pollutant in the atmospheric pollution. According to the researcher, cooking emission occupies 15% to 20% in the whole PM2.5 pollution sources in the urban area in Beijing during the summer time.

Authorities in Kunming, Yunnan province, have banned restaurants from using firewood to cook a popular chicken dish in order to reduce the air pollution. The Environmental Protection Bureau of Kunming has stopped approving new restaurants that serve Chaihuoji, or firewood chicken, and asked the existing ones to replace firewood with clean fuel. Dozens of firewood chicken restaurants that opened in the past six months will need to switch to the environment-friendly fuel.

The city follows the example of Chongqing in its attempt to control smog by asking restaurants to change the way they cook some of the traditional dishes, though it remains to be seen whether the move can reduce the air pollution level. Earlier this year, Chongqing said no to smoked bacon, open-air barbecue and chicken cooked by burning firewood.

[写作内容]

1.以约30个词概括上文的主要内容。

2.以约120个词就“空气污染”这个话题谈谈你的看法,内容包括:

(1) 你对昆明“禁止燃烧柴火”举措的评价;

(2) 简述你所在地存在的空气污染现象;

(3) 作为中学生,谈谈你如何为防治空气污染作贡献。

[写作要求]

1.作文中可以使用亲身经历或虚构的故事,也可以参照阅读材料的内容,但不得直接引用原文中的句子。

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

[评分标准]

概括准确,语言规范,内容合适,语篇连贯。

It’s not often a tomato that is described as so sweet “whenever people see it they just want to hug”-but this was no ordinary piece of fruit.

The heart-shaped tomato was grown by the retired worker, Rod Matless, who said he was surprised when he noticed it in his field. Mr. Matless, 69, who had a heart attack a few years ago, was so taken aback by the fruit that he decided to sell it and donate the money to the British Heart Foundation. The 64 g tomato was bought for$16 on eBay by woman from Wales - who said she planned to give it to someone special.

Mr. Matless, of Wymondham, near Norwich, said:“I spent a couple of days thinking about what to do with it and I wasn’t really sure, but this seems like a good use. I hope it will do someone somewhere a bit of good.” He added:“It’s very sweet - whenever people see it they just want to hug it.” But with the tomato’s freshness a key factor, Mr. Matless was up against the clock to send it to its new owner before it went bad. He said:“I didn’t want to send someone something horrible. I probably could have raised a bit more money with more time but I was worried about it.”

“It will certainly make a nice present for a loved one. I hope that they like it and I’m glad I got to help. It’s all been very good fun and I’ve really enjoyed growing this very special tomato.”

1.We can learn from the text that the tomato grown by Rod Matless ______.

A.is very big B.is very tough

C.is very special D.is good for health

2.The underlined part “taken aback by” in Paragraph 2 means ______.

A.satisfied with B.nervous about

C.surprised by D.frightened by

3.According to the text, the main problem for Rod Matless was ______.

A.how to advertise the tomato

B.how to keep the tomato fresh

C.how to get a good price for the tomato

D.how to find a good owner for the tomato

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was a cold Saturday morning.An old man walked slowly into the ____.With shoulders bent forward,he leaned on his trusty stick with each ___step.

His shabby clothes and warm personality made him ___out from the usual breakfast crowd.Unforgettable were his eyes that shone like diamonds and thin lips _____in a steady smile.

A young waitress named Mary_____him drag toward a table by the window.She ran over to him,and said,“Here,sir.Let me give you a ___with that chair.”

Without saying a word,he smiled and _____.She pulled the chair away from the table.Steadying him with one arm,she helped him get comfortably_____.Then she moved the table up close to him,and leaned his ___against the table where he could reach it.

In a soft,clear voice,he said,“Thank you for your__1___.”

“You’re welcome,sir.” She replied_____.“And my name is Mary.I’ll be back in a moment,and ____you need anything at all in the meantime,just wave at me!”

After he had finished his breakfast,Mary brought him the change from his ticket.Then she ___him out from behind the table.She handed him his stick,and walked ____him to the front door.Holding the door open for him,she said,“Come back and see us,sir!”

He turned with his whole body and nodded with a ____smile.“You are very kind,” he said softly.

When Mary went to clean his table,she was ____to find that under his plate there was a business card and a note on a napkin(餐巾纸).Under the napkin was a one hundred dollar bill!

The note on the napkin _____,“Dear Mary,I respect you very much,and you respect yourself too.It shows by the way you ____others.You have found the secret of happiness.Your kind gestures will _____through those who meet you.”

The next day she was told that the man she had ____on was the owner of the restaurant where she was working.

1.A.restaurant B.shop C.hospital D.bank

2.A.big B.quick C.urgent D.unhurried

3.A.get B.look C.stand D.keep

4.A.held B.made C.remained D.put

5.A.felt B.noticed C.discovered D.realized

6.A.table B.cushion C.place D.hand

7.A.nodded B.obeyed C.sat D.hesitated

8.A.moved B.stayed C.seated D.rested

9.A.chair B.spoon C.stick D.plate

10.A.quickness B.kindness C.cleverness D.politeness

11.A.happily B.sadly C.nervously D.angrily

12.A.until B.though C.because D.if

13.A.called B.helped C.took D.made

14.A.in B.around C.with D.towards

15.A.confident B.grateful C.relieved D.delicate

16.A.embarrassed B.satisfied C.disappointed D.astonished

17.A.read B.told C.wrote D.showed

18.A.please B.admire C.follow D.treat

19.A.pass B.shine C.go D.pull

20.A.depended B.served C.waited D.agreed

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