The next time you get caught jumping on your bed you can tell your parents with a straight face that you are not playing, simply getting ready got a promising career in “Mattress Jumping . Believe it 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

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The next time you get caught jumping on your bed you can tell your parents with a straight face that you are not playing, simply getting ready got a promising career in “Mattress Jumping”. Believe it or not, there are some people who actually get paid to do that! According to Reuben Reynoso, a professional mattress tester at San Francisco’s McRoskey Mattress Factory that still makes every mattress by hand, it is real work and needs some training. For a start, it’s not all about jumping to new heights or doing tricks like professional athletes, but rather about feeling each area of the mattress carefully to detect the filling. In order to do it right, every bit of the mattress has to be tested slowly and deliberately.

Over the years, Reynoso has figured out the perfect routine. He begins by placing a protective mat over the mattress so that it doesn’t get dirty or absorb the smell from his feet. Then begins the fun---he steps to the middle of an edge and then takes five steps back and five steps forward. In this way, he slowly but surely, covers the entire surface. The key according to him is to find the perfect number of jumps---Too many and he will end up destroying the mattress completely. Too few And it will not fit into the giant machine for that final sewing! Who knew a job that sounds so simple could have so many skills!

While Reuben will not reveal how he got into this profession, he will admit that it is more fun than being a carpenter, roofer, construction worker and railroad engineer---all jobs he has tried previous to finding his true profession!

1.We learn from the text that the McRoskey Mattress Factory ______.

A. is the world’s oldest mattress factory

B. make mattresses for sports

C. produces mattresses by hand

D. hires athletes as mattress testers

2.The protective mat is used to ______.

A. prevent the tester getting hurt

B. keep the mattress as clean as possible

C. protect the mattress from being destroyed

D. make the mattress fit into the sewing machine

3.According to Reynoso, the most important thing in his work is ______.

A. the timing of his jumps B. the height of his jumps

C. the number of his jumps D. the frequency of his jumps

4.We can learn from the text that Reynoso ______.

A. has been injured several times in his work

B. liked mattress jumping in his childhood

C. didn’t choose mattress testing as his first job

D. dreamt about becoming a jumping athlete

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1．用约30个单词概括上文的主要内容；

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2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

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内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。

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1.look down upon

2.by chance

3.care about

4.in search of

5.would rather

6.badly off

7.come to life

8.turn one's back to

9.more than

10.in advance

With the help of the foreign experts, they produced ___ washing machines in 2003 as the year before.

A. as twice many B. as twice as many

C. as many as twice D. twice as many

1.Barcelona is the second largest city of Spain and is s________(位于)on the northeast coast.

2.It o__________(想到)to me that we could go there more often.

3.Young as he is, his s_______(力量，力气)is great.

4.Boys and girls are e__________(平等的), and thus they should be treated fairly.

5.We must use our l________________(有限的)time to finish this task.

6.If it is c____________(方便的)to you, please buy me some stamps on your way home.

7.Climate v_______________(变化)from region to region.

8.After g_____________(毕业),he set up his own computer company.

9.It was meaningless to f_____________(禁止)children to play in the park.

10.They c_________________(声称)the noise from the new airport disturbed their lives.

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This is how I _______with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store ______to me, I step in and make the suggestion to the ______. If an accident takes place, the ______of which I think the local police could use, I ______him up and tell him about it, though I am not in ______here. One discovery I made about this world is to give _______getting something back, though the 30 often comes in an unexpected form.

One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important_______letter to my home, though it was ______to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of________.More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was______. I was told at the window that there were______boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long ______list . As I was about to _____, the postmaster appeared in the______. “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering a special delivery to your home” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office _____we make one for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get _____but complaints(投诉).”

1.A. decision B. research C. speech D. discovery

2.A. earn B. lack C. spend D. steal

3.A. experienced B. connected C. combined D. agreed

4.A. happens B. flashes C. sticks D. leads

5.A. postmaster B. headmaster C. storekeeper D. policeman

6.A. story B. damage C. challenge D. material

7.A. call B. hold C. break D. pick

8.A. need B. trouble C. common D. charge

9.A. within B. without C. for D. before

10.A. process B. goal C. return D. concern

11.A. curious B. immediate C. special D. heavy

12.A. realized B. addressed C. forgotten D. brought

13.A. invitation B. apology C. instruction D. appreciation

14.A. dealing B. providing C. operating D. starting

15.A. enough B. some C. no D. more

16.A. admitting B. relating C. examining D. waiting

17.A. leave B. shout C. guess D. conduct

18.A. window B. doorway C. library D. yard

19.A. in case B. now that C. even if D. as if

20.A. anything B. everything C. nothing D. something

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下短文。短文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last summer,I got a part-time job like a waiter.I worked hardly and was very helpful.Everyone in the restaurant including some regular customer liked me.One day,a foreign couple,which were in their fifties,entered the restaurant. I was happy to have a chance to practice my speaking English.I went up to greet them warmly.After I took their order,I told them their food will be served quickly because us Chinese respect the elderly.Hearing my words,a look of displeasure was appeared on the wife's face.Seeing my confused look,her husband explained to me the westerners disliked the description "old".I made a apology to them,keeping in mind the lesson cultural differences should never be ignored.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

When I was young, I didn’t get along well with my classmates, that made me lonely. Therefore, Lucy was an exception, who was outgoing and enthusiastic. Without doubt all of them liked her very much.

One day, I was about to search my math book while I found it was gone. I was very worry. At last, it was under the help of Lucy that my math book was found. As the time went by, a deep friendship was formed between us. Lucy always encourages me to practice oral English, which she thought was vital for me. I learned from her that whatever difficulty we have in our study or life, we should never giving up.

In 1971 a young man who grew up very poor was traveling across the country, trying to make a new start for himself. Along the way he had completely run out of（用光了...） money and was forced to spend the night in his car. This continued until one morning, after a week of sleeping in his car, he walked nervously into a restaurant and ordered a big breakfast.

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On the way out of town, he began to understand what the owner did. Maybe nobody dropped the money at all.“Maybe that fellow just knew I was in trouble and he helped me in a way that didn’t embarrass(使尴尬)me. So I just made a promise to help other people if I can.”

Later, he worked very hard and became a rich man. Now he lives near Kansas City. Each year he gives away thousands of dollars. He is known as the “Secret Santa” because at Christmas time each year, he personally hands money out to those on the street and at restaurants. Last year, he gave more than $50,000 away in Kansas City.

1.The young man was traveling across the country in 1971 to ______

A. look for a good restaurant B. improve his life

C. show his new car to others D. hand out dollars

2.The underline sentence means that the young man got to know that____

A. It was very lucky of him to get his lost money back.

B. It was very honest of the owner to return his money

C. the owner helped him in a way that didn’t hurt his feeling

D. another person who had breakfast in the restaurant lost the money

3.From the end of the passage we can learn that_______

A. the man did carry out his promise

B. the man was not successful in the end

C. the owner was paid back the money

D. Santa give the man money each year

4.The message of the story is“_______”

A. One good turn deserves another

B. Where there is a will，there is a way

C. He who travels far knows much

D. Give love wings(翅膀) and it may fly higher

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