【题目】Choosing a Career After High School

【1】 Start thinking early about what kind of work you may want to explore after high school, remembering that you can change careers several times throughout your work life. Your exact choice should take into consideration your interests, personality and personal goals. Read on for some general options to think about when you are choosing a career after high school.

1. Take a personality and interest test. 2 The Keirsey Temperament Sorter assumes that you have your own patterns of attitude and actions that are as unique to you as the build of your body. The Keirsey test gives you 71 multiple-choice questions to determine exactly how you interact with the world.

2. 3 Careers in the professions and most government work require a college education, with a minimum of a bachelor's degree. Other careers do not require a college education, but rather offer on-the-job training and start you out in an entry-level position from which you can grow.

3. Take vocational training courses. Vocational training prepares you for a specific job and can usually be completed in six months to one year. This may not be a very good option if you struggled with your grades in high school. Vocational training programs are usually modeled after academic training, but are much more hands-on as they allow you to actually do the work while you learn.

4. Join the military. 4 The military pays for your future university education and offers you an attractive enlistment(应征入伍) bons. You will be trained to learn a variety of skills, so be prepared for a highly structured environment that demands self-discipline and hard work.

5. Start a business. It is important that you enter a career that makes you want to devote yourself wholly to. 5 This option takes serious discipline and focus, and it requires you to learn basic business skills in addition to the skills of your particular kind of work.

A. Personality varies from person to person.

B. You become qualified to join at the age of 18.

C. Find out the educational requirements for your career choices.

D. Starting a business can be a great challenge for them.

E. There are many good online tests that will help you discover what kind of career suits your personality.

F. If you cannot find the right fit in an existing job, then you may be able to create your job through self-employment.

G. When you graduate from high school, you can either choose to continue your schooling or pursue a career, with all its seemingly endless choices.

【题目】Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman immediately finds it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes.

For a man, small problems may begin when the shop doesn't have what he wants. In that case, the salesman, tries to sell the customer something else. "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the colour you mentioned. "Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on."

However, a woman in almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need and she is only "having a look around". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her. She will try on any number of things. Most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one room to another, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

【1】The underlined part “sets great store by ” in paragraph 3 means___

A. has much information about B. knows nothing bout

C. believes in D. has her doubts about

【2What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?

A. They welcome suggestions from others.

B. They rarely consider buying cheap clothes.

C. They predict what they want to buy.

D. They listen to advice but never take it.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A. Men never buy what they don’t need

B. A man’s shopping is often based on need

C. A woman goes shopping in order to look for cheap things

D. A woman’s shopping is never based on need.

【题目】If you’re tired of the Mediterranean and don’t want to head to Disney again, perhaps it’s time for a summer holiday in space. Russia has declared plans for its first floating hotel, 217 miles above earth, and it is something of an offering with good service.

Hosting just seven guests in a four cabins, the accommodation will boast huge windows with views back to earth and tasty microwave meals will be served instead of the ones often used by astronauts.

Just getting there will be an adventure in itself—it will take two days aboard a Soyuz rocket—and it won’t exactly be a budget holiday: A five-day stay will cost you£100, 000 to£500, 000 for your journey. The hotel is due to open by 2016 and, according to those behind it, will be far more comfortable than the International Space Station (ISS) used by astronauts and cosmonauts.

In the weightlessness of space, visitors can choose to have beds that are either vertical or horizontal. Tourists, who will be accompanied by experienced crew, will dine on food prepared on Earth and sent up on the rocket, to be reheated in microwave ovens. Many kinds of delicacies will be available.

Iced tea, mineral water and fruit juices will be available, but alcohol will be strictly prohibited. Toilets will use flowing air instead of water to move waste through the system. Waste water will be recycled.

Sergei Kostenko, chief executive of Orbital Technologies which will construct the hotel, said: “Our planned module inside will not remind you of the International Space Station. A hotel should be comfortable inside, and it will be possible to look at the Earth. The hotel will be aimed at wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space.” The hotel can also be used as an emergency bolthole (避难处) for astronauts aboard the International Space Station if there is a crisis.

【1】Which can be the best title of the passage?

A. Russia declares the design for its first space hotel

B. The first space hotel is under construction now

C. The astronauts will have a second home in space

D. Russia has the advanced technology in exploring space

【2What does the underlined word “budget” in the 3rd paragraph mean?

A. expensive B. worthwhile

C. economic D. uncomfortable

【3What kind of accommodation will the guests have in the space hotel?

A. They will have the same food as the astronauts have.

B. Many kinds of drinks are available including alcohol.

C. Guests can have beds that are either vertical or horizontal.

D. Tourists are accompanied by the astronauts from the ISS.

【4Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The space hotel is built to remind you of the International Space Station.

B. The hotel is constructed with big windows so that tourists can see the earth.

C. The company, Orbital Technologies, has already begun to build the space hotel.

D. In the near future, a space trip for most of the people can be realized.

【题目】Robert Frost was one of America's best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came 1 in his life. He was forty 2 Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his 3 was set upit grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life. His success came from 4 traditional forms of poetry with American words 5 in a clearly American way.

Frost 6 the same speaker for many poemsso the 7 poems formed a larger unity. He created this speaker carefully. He felt that his readers would believe his poems if he put the words into the mouth of a 8 person who lived in the country, not the 9 .

Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In factthe speaker was 10 person. Frost, the 11 tried to become the imaginary person he 12 for his poetry.

Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States, the area called New England. 13 he came from the other side of the countrySan Francisco, California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early 14 .

This man who was born in the 15 and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet wa named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to 16 the general.

Someone once asked another American 17 , Ernest Hemingway how to become a writer. The 18 thinghe saidwas to have an 19 childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very 20 writer.

A. soon B. late C. quickly D. early

A. since B. until C. before D. after

A. fame B. name C. poem D. family

A. working B. using C. putting D. uniting

A. spoken B. made C. built D. formed

A. thought of B. practice C. use D. met

A. old B. separate C. famous D. excellent

A. common B. young C. wise D. grown-up

A. city B. village C. state D. continent

A. a famous B. a real C. an imaginary D. a historic

A. artist B. man C. lady D. officer

A. loved B. respected C. admired D. created

A. In this way B. Yet C. Though D. Therefore

A. childhood B. writings C. work D. paintings

A. East B. North C. West D. South

A. learn from B. know C. study D. honor

A. teacher B. writer C. painter D. leader

A. quickest B. worst C. best D. hardest

A. exciting B. interesting C. unlucky D. unhappy

A. good B. poor C. young D. gifted

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