【1】What is the speaker doing?

A.Reporting a study.B.Chairing a meeting.C.Teaching a class.

【2】What should you pay most attention to when taking notes?

A.Listening.B.Reading.C.Writing.

【3】What is an advantage of using symbols in note-taking?

A.It keeps information secret.

B.It leaves space for future use.

C.It makes key words noticeable.

【4】What will the speaker do next?

A.Ask a few questions.B.Show some notes.C.Make a summary.

【1】Why does Bill look troubled?

A.He is short of money.

B.He has made a big mistake.

C.He is facing a tough choice.

【2】What is Bill now?

A.A college student.B.An army officer.C.A computer engineer.

【3】What does the woman seem to suggest Bill do?

A.Learn to repair cars.B.Decline the job offer.C.Ask his uncle for advice.

【1】Why is Jack leaving early?

A.To avoid getting stuck in traffic.

B.To enjoy the scenery on the way.

C.To buy some gifts for his family.

【2】What does Judy often do at the railway station?

A.Read books.B.Call some friends.C.Look around the shops.

【3】What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A.What to do next year.

B.Where to go for vacations.

C.How to pass the waiting time.

A bright spot for me turned out to be reading. My love of the written word began early as my mother read to me every evening. 【2】 I started reading books on my own before age 5 and my mother took me to the public library once a week to borrow several books. I quickly graduated from typical children’s books to ones with fewer pictures and longer chapters. Reading opened new worlds to me. 【3】

My mother also encouraged me to make what I wanted. I tried making toy cars with cardboard boxes and constructing buildings from leftover cardboard and bits of wood my father gave me. When my mother saw my creations, she told me how creative my designs were. 【4】 I learned a lot about how to extend the life of objects and transform them into something new and useful. It was a trait(特点) others found helpful, and I soon had friends who wanted to make things with me.

【5】My parents made it a point for their two kids to spend time outside, no matter the weather or season. My brother, of course, raced off to be with his friends, while I had plenty to do myself. There was making leaf houses in autumn, ice skating in winter, and so much more. They’re all memories I treasure today.

A.I wasn't alone any longer.

B.I enjoyed reading stories aloud.

C.I was invited to play with another kid.

D.I loved the colorful photographs in the books.

E.Another habit I formed early was being outdoors.

F.Thus, I began my lifelong interest in making things.

G.My older brother couldn’t be bothered to play with me.

1. 申请岗位；

2. 个人优势；

3. 你的希望。

注意：

1. 词数 80 左右；

2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

参考词汇：干事 secretar

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In the US, the most popular soaps usually feature the lives of the rich, the charming and the beautiful. Their houses are always beautiful, big and well decorated. The characters lead exciting lives. Most of these characters are very ambitious. One of the most popular soaps is The bold and the Beautiful. The name says it all really! It is set in Los Angeles and centred on the attractive and wealthy Forrester family and their impossibly gorgeous fashion house business. It is probably the most watched soap in the world.

The British prefer to see ordinary characters rather than the gorgeous high-flyers of the US soaps. They prefer to view on TV what they have experienced personally and what they actually see around them. They believe that one should accept one’s station in life and not attempt to be more than one actually is.

Coronation Street, first shown in 1960, is the longest-running British TV soap opera. It is watched by about one-third of the British population, more often by women, by older people, and especially by people from lower socio-economic groups. EastEnders is another popular British show, though it appeals to a younger generation. Again the characters tend to be working class. In addition to women, young people and men are also given strong roles in order to reach a wider audience.

Thus the soaps can teach us a lot about the audience that they are intended for. The characters, settings and even the story lines can show us what appeals to British and American people.

【1】What’s the relationship between soaps and soap companies according to Paragraph 1?

A.Soap companies are named after soaps.

B.Soap companies support soaps financially.

C.Soap companies depend on soaps for promoting their products.

D.Soap companies make soaps appealing to the public.

【2】How does the author introduce US soaps in Paragraph 2?

A.By using examples.B.By making comparisons.

C.By analyzing causes.D.By describing processes.

【3】Which is the difference between British soaps and American soaps?

A.The audience they are intended for.B.Their popularity and influence.

C.The characters’ class and the settings.D.Their tradition and history.

【4】What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A.To show his love for soaps.

B.To remember some of the classic soaps.

C.To introduce American and British soaps.

D.To encourage audience to watch more soaps.

Much like humans, Ozmo, sitting on platforms hanging from the buildings, uses its arms and brushes to clean the dirt on the glass. A 3D map of the building’s surface programmed into its system allows the robot to skillfully deal with any obstacle it is likely to meet, as it moves up and down the buildings. The robot will self-correct and move around every obstacle that it might have met so as not to break a window.

Unlike present window washers, the robot cleaner does not require soap to clean the glass. Instead, it uses distilled (蒸馏的) water to do the job. Yaron Schwarcz, CEO of Skyline Robotics explains, “We are environmentally friendly.”

Ozmo is also expected to be much more efficient than its human counterparts. While it presently takes three cleaners 480 hours each to clean windows of a 40-storey glass building, the robot will be able to do it in 80 hours. However, unlike other robots, Ozmo will not replace human workers, and only make their jobs safer by making them supervisors, who will be controlling the operation from the safety of the ground.

Whether Ozmo, which is still being tested, does as good a job as humans remains to be seen. If things go well, its creators have much bigger ambitions for Ozmo. Schwarcz told Forbes Magazine, “Window cleaning is just the tip of the iceberg. We plan to replace all tasks that are dangerous and dirty.”

【1】Why is Ozmo friendly to our environment?

A.It uses less soap than other robots.

B.It depends on solar energy.

C.It makes our ecosystem more balanced.

D.It consumes nothing made from chemicals.

【2】What can we infer from the passage?

A.Like cleaning windows, a well-paid job is usually dangerous.

B.Without humans supervising, Ozmo could have performed better.

C.Ozmo can save 400 hours per building compared to a human cleaner.

D.Ozmo can’t be stopped by obstacles with its advanced system.

【3】What does the underlined part “the tip of the iceberg” mean?

A.A small part of a big plan.

B.As cool as the iceberg.

C.The most advanced technology.

D.The leading role in the modern world.

【4】What is the best title for the text？

A.Robots make a difference.

B.Meet Ozmo, the window cleaning robot.

C.Supervise Ozmo, human safe.

D.Intelligent Ozmo becomes known worldwide.

Every new year of the last decade I set a personal challenge. My goal was 【1】 (grow) in new ways outside my day-to-day work running Facebook. These 【2】 (lead) me to learn Mandarin, code an AI assistant for my home, read more books, run a lot more, and get 【3】 (comfortable) with public speaking.

When I started these challenges, my life was almost all about building the Facebook website. Now there’s so much more to learn. At Facebook, we’re building lots of different apps and technology and we’re handling a lot more social 【4】 (responsible). And outside Facebook, I’m a father now and I love spending time with my family, working on our charity and improving at the sports and hobbies I 【5】 (pick) up over the past years.

This decade I’m going to take 【6】 longer term focus. Rather than having year-to-year challenges, I’ve tried to think about 【7】 the world and my life will be like in 2030 so I can make sure I’m focusing 【8】 those things. By then, if things go well, my daughter Max will be in high school. We’ll have the technology to feel 【9】 (true) present with another person no matter where they are, and scientific research will have helped cure 【10】 prevent enough diseases to increase our average life expectancy(平均寿命) by another 2.5 years.

Review one of The guardian children’s fiction prize 2019 longlisted books as an individual or a school book group and be in with a chance of winning books, gift cards and an invitation to the award ceremony in November!

If you are aged 18 or under on 18 November 2019, attend a school in the UK or are home educated in the UK and love reading, then you should enter The Guardian’s young critics competition — and here’s how?

All you need to do is submit a review (no more than 500 words) on one of the books (click here for more information) longlisted for The Guardian children’s fiction prize 2019. Make sure your review reaches us by 30 October 2019. 10 winning individual entries and one winning school entry will be selected. When picking the winners, the judges will be looking for the most interesting, entertaining and thought-provoking (发人深省的) book reviews.

There are two ways to enter:

1.You can enter on your own by filling out the form (click here to download the form) including your review of a longlisted book.

2. You can enter as part of a school group if you and at least three other students from your school all submit reviews.

The prizes:

The 10 individual winners will each receive a complete set of eight longlisted books, plus a￡20 gift card and an invitation to attend the award ceremony at The Guardian on 19 November 2019.

The winning school will be invited to spend a day at The Guardian Education Centre: up to 30 students from the winning school will have the chance to edit and print the day’s news at The Guardian Education Centre in London. In addition, the winning school will receive 10 complete sets of the eight longlisted books, a ￡150 gift card as well as an invitation for up to 20 pupils to attend the ceremony in London on 19 November.

Good luck!

If you have any questions about the competition or how to enter, please email childrensfictionprize@theguardian.com.

【1】Which requirement should one meet if he or she wants to take part in the competition?

A.Being under 18 years old.B.Being educated in the UK.

C.Being part of a school book group.D.Being a winner of the fiction prize.

【2】What’s the deadline for the entries?

A.30 October 2019.B.31 October 2019.

C.18 November 2019.D.19 November 2019.

【3】What prize will group winners get?

A.A ￡150 card for each student.

B.Eight copies of the longlisted books.

C.The chance to produce the newspaper.

D.An invitation for 30 students to attend the ceremony.

Google replied to the study with the following statement, “There are a number of different ways that Google may use location to improve people’s experience, including Location History, Web and App Activity, and through device-level Location Services. We provide clear descriptions of these tools, and strong controls so people can turn them on or off, and delete their histories at any time.”

That isn’t true. Even with Location History paused, some Google apps automatically store time-stamped location data without asking. The Associated Press has used location data from an Android smartphone with Location History turned off to design a map of the movements of Princeton researcher Gunes Acar. The news agency was able to track his movements and identify visited locations, including his home address.

“The privacy issue affects some two billion users of devices that run Google’s Android operating software and hundreds of millions of worldwide iPhone users who rely on Google for maps or search.” continues the Associated Press. Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton researcher and former chief technologist with the FCC remarked that location history data should be deleted when the users switch off the Location History. “If you’re going to allow users to turn off something called Location History, then all the places where you keep location history should be turned off.” Mayer said, “That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.”

【1】What is the Associated Press really concerned about?

A.Google fails to improve users’ experience.

B.Google is able to record users’ location history.

C.Users can’t prevent their location data from being recorded.

D.Users are not informed of how to delete their location history.

【2】How does the Associated Press prove that Google is lying?

A.By designing a map of Gunes Acar’s home.B.By tracking the movement of Gunes Acar.

C.By checking Google’s operating software.D.By comparing Google’s location history data.

【3】The purpose of writing the passage is to .

A.encourage the improvement of Google apps

B.warn the public of their over dependence on Google apps

C.raise public concern over privacy issue caused by Google apps

D.appreciate the Associated Press’s contributions to scientific research

【4】Which section of a newspaper is the text probably from?

A.Culture.B.Entertainment.C.Finance.D.Technology.