题目内容
Determined to make school more related to the workplace, Roosevelt High School in Portland, Oregon, developed a school-to-work program．In their first year, students are offered some job pathways in natural resources, human services, health care, business, arts and communication．The following year, each student chooses one of the pathways and examines it in depth, spending three hours a week watching someone on the job．Such a program is also in practice in some other states．
The school-to-work program is built around a partnership．For example, Eastman Kodak, a major employer in Colorado, introduces students to business by helping them construct a model city using small pieces of wood．“The children use the models to decide on the best place to set up schools,” says Lucille Mantelli, director for Eastman Kodak in Colorado．Kodak introduces math by teaching fifth graders to use their pocket money properly．They also provide one-on-one job watching experiences and offer chances of practice for high school juniors and seniors．“Students come to the workplace two or three hours a week,” explains Mantelli．“They do the job for us．We pay them and they get school credits （学分）．We also give them our views on their performance and developmental opportunities．”
In these partnerships, everybody wins．The students tend to take more difficult courses than students in schools that don’t offer such programs．Business benefits by having a better prepared workforce needed in future years．“It’s a way for us to work with the school systems to develop the type of workforce we’ll need in future years,” Mantelli continued．“We need employees who understand the basics of reading and writing．We need them to be good at math and to be comfortable working on a team．”
“Our theory is that they can learn as much outside the classroom as in．All students have the ability to change the world, not just to live in it．To do that, they have to know how to solve problems and use critical thinking skills．We need to encourage them to dream about jobs that go beyond what they see today,” concludes a school-to-work program organizer．
1．Using the example of Eastman Kodak in Colorado, the writer shows us ____．
A．what the school decides to do
B．why the students get paid for their jobs
C．where the students have their math class
D．what role the business plays in the program
2．The main purpose of the school-to-work program is to _____．
A．offer students more difficult courses
B．introduce new job opportunities to schools
C．improve relations between students and teachers
D．make what students learn in school related to the workplace
3．According to the text, Lucille Mantelli is ____．
A．a math teacher
B．a school designer
C．a company manager
D．a program organizer
4．What does the writer mean by saying “…everybody wins．” （Paragraph 3）?
A．Students get school credits by taking examinations．
B．Both students and business benefit from the program．
C．The working conditions of the company have improved greatly．
D．Every teacher and student gets paid for working outside the school．
DDCB
I came to study in the United States a year ago .Yet I did not know the real American society until I was injured in a car accident because after the accident I had to see a doctor and go to court.
After the accident .my roommate called a doctor for me. I was very grateful and determined to repay him one day. But the next day, he asked me to pay him $200 for what he had done. I was astonished. He had good reason to charge me, he said. And if I wanted to collect money from the person who was responsible for my injury, I’d have to have a good lawyer. And only a good doctor can help me get a good lawyer .Now that he had helped me find a good doctor, it was only fair that I should pay him.
But every day I went to see the doctor, I had to wait about 50 minutes. He would see two or three patients at the same time, and often stop treating one so as to see another. Yet he charged me $115 each time .The final examination report was made up of ten lines, and it cost me $215.
My lawyer was all smiles the first time we met. But after that he avoided seeing me at all. He knew very well the other party was responsible for the accident, yet he hardly did anything. He simply waited to collect his money. He was so irresponsible that I decided to dismiss(解雇) him. And he made me pay him $770.
Now I had to act as my own lawyer. Due to my inexperience, I told the insurance company（保险公司） the date I was leaving America. Knowing that, they played for time…and I left without getting a cent.
【小题1】A good doctor is necessary and important for the author to __________.
| A．be properly treated |
| B．talk with the person responsible for the accident |
| C．recover before he leaves America |
| D．eventually get the responsible party to pay for his injury |
| A．be responsible | B．accuse | C．ask as a price | D．claim |
| A．friendly | B．selfish | C．professional | D．busy |
| A．Going to court is something very common in America. |
| B．One must be very careful while driving a car. |
| C．There are more bad sides in America than good sides. |
| D．Money is more important than other things in the US. |
Vitamin D helps bones and muscles grow strong and healthy. Low levels of vitamin D can lead to diseases such as rickets (佝偻病), mainly found in children. The thinning of bone is a common problem as people, especially women, get older.
But more and more research is suggesting that vitamin D might also help prevent many diseases. The easiest way to get vitamin D is from sunlight. The sun’s ultraviolet (紫外线的) rays react with skin cells to produce vitamin D. But many people worry about getting skin cancer and skin damage from the sun. As a result they stay out of the sun. Also, darker-skinned people produce less vitamin D than lighter-skinned people. The amount also decreases in older people and those living in northern areas that get less sunlight.
Not many foods naturally contain vitamin D. Foods high in this vitamin include oily fish and fish liveroils (鱼肝油). Farmed fish have only about one-fourth as much vitamin D as wild fish. Small amounts of vitamin D are found in beef liver, cheese and egg yolks. But most of the vitamin D in the American diet comes from foods such as milk.
Research in the last several years has shown that low levels of vitamin D may increase the risk of heart attacks in men and deaths from some cancers. More doctors are now having their patients tested for their vitamin D levels. But as research continues, some experts worry that if people take too much vitamin D, it might act as a poison. Also, skin doctors warn people to be careful with sun exposure because of the risk of skin cancer.
【小题1】The first paragraph is mainly about .
| A．the muscle diseases | B．the sources of vitamins |
| C．the importance of health | D．the functions of vitamin D |
| A．Elderly darker-skinned people. | B．Young lighter-skinned people. |
| C．Elderly lighter-skinned people. | D．Young darker-skinned people. |
| A．beef liver | B．cheese | C．wild fish | D．farmed fish |
A. Being exposed to sunlight is the safest way to get vitamin D.
B. Lack of vitamin D can make people age quickly.
C. Proper vitamin D levels people need are still not determined now.
D. The vitamin D level is higher in men than in women.
Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference.
Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
“Dollars buy status, and status makes people feel better,” conclude some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways－scientists or actors, for example－may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.
In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desire－not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health－rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap(差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income.” Says Michalos.
Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad. “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?” asks Professor Laura Carstensen.
In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotions questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people, but negative emotions much less often.
Why are old people happier? Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their goals, only setting ones that they know they can achieve. But Carstensen thinks that with time running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t.
“People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”
【小题1】According to the passage, the feeling of happiness __________.
| A．has little to do with wealth | B．increases gradually with age |
| C．is determined partly by genes | D．is measured by desires |
| A．make them feel much better | B．improve their social position |
| C．provide chances to make friends | D．satisfy their professional interests |
| A．optimistic | B．successful | C．practical | D．emotional |
| A．the gap between reality and desire is bigger |
| B．they have a stronger desire for friendship |
| C．their income is below their expectation |
| D．the hope for good health is greater |