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Dogs may help save the day in the Philippines, as they use their noses to smell out survivors buried by Friday’s mudslide(泥石流). The team of dogs arrived in the Philippines from Spain, and this Tuesday they were just beginning their work. Search officials told CNN they hope the recent rain will wash away the smell of rescue teams so the dogs can do their job more accurately.
The dogs were brought in after sound equipment found sounds coming from deep inside the ruins, at a place where a school stood before the mudslide covered it. The sounds could mean people are still alive under all the mud or it could just be the earth resettling.
On Monday, rescue workers worked at the school site until three in the morning, trying to locate survivors, and they will begin digging again as soon as the dogs think they find someone.
Human teams from the US, Malaysia, and Australia are all trying to help, too. But so far they have yet to locate any survivors. Rescue workers told CNN that an earlier report that 50 survivors had been found was false.
How did all that mud bury the village in the first place? On Friday, 2,400-foot Mt Kanabag turned into a mudslide after two weeks of constant rain weakened it. The mountain crumbled and the mud fell onto the village Guinsaugon, burying the 1,800 people who lived there . Out of the 300 houses in the village, only 3 were not covered by the mud . The village is on a southern Philippine Island called Levte. Rescue efforts have been difficult because the village takes six hours to reach from the nearest airport. Hopefully, the dogs can help their human friends find survivors.
1.
According to the search officials’ words in the first paragraph, we can learn that_________
A.
the smell of rescue teams can disturb the dogs
B.
the dogs can follow the smell of rescue teams
C.
the gods can’t smell the rescue teams
D.
the dogs can tell the differences between people and rescue teams
2.
The main purpose of this passage is probably_______.
A.
to show the way to rescue the victims in the ruins
B.
to introduce the instruments to save victims in a disaster
C.
to tell readers that dogs can smell out victims buried in the ruins
D.
to show how to train dogs to save victims in a mudslide
3.
How many survivors were found by the dogs?
A.
50.
B.
Only a few.
C.
1,800.
D.
None.
4.
The reason why the rescue work wasn’t going smoothly was probably that_______.
A.
the rain was heavy
B.
so many people were buried
C.
it was difficult to reach the village
D.
these is little chance to save the survivors
5.
The underlined word “crumbled” in the last paragraph can be replaced by______.
A.
broke
B.
shook
C.
fell
D.
moved
On some level, I always knew that I wanted to be a doctor--at least from the age of eight or ten years old, anyway.
Although my father wasn’t a doctor, he made his own brand of “house calls. I followed him as he brought a plate of my mother’s home cooking to an elderly man named Frank on all major holidays and when Frank was sick. As far as I know, their only connection was that Frank was an occasional customer at Dad’s small gas station. Frank’s home was a two-room house on the rough side of town with an old front porch(门廊) where you could fall if you weren’t careful. Frank had no relatives and as far as I could tell, no other visitors either. Through his attitude of caring, my father was teaching me to be a doctor, although neither of us knew it at the time.
When I was 13, my father developed lung cancer. He brought home a diagram the doctor had drawn showing where his cancer was and told me that he was going to die. He asked me to take care of my mother when he was gone. I was an only child. He said he loved me on the night when he died.
When you’re 13 and your father dies, you have some choices to make. You can use the situation as an excuse for letting your actions and grades go down, or you can honor his memory and try to do something positive with yourself. I focused my energy on my schoolwork and my goal of becoming a doctor.
1.
What was the father’s“own brand of ‘house calls’”?
A.
His treatment for Frank’s serious illness.
B.
Being kind to Frank.
C.
His attitude towards the author.
D.
His wish that his son would be a doctor.
2.
The author did something to realize his dream to be a doctor when ________.
A.
Father helped Frank regularly
B.
Father developed lung cancer
C.
Father asked him / her to take care of Mother
D.
Father died
3.
What influence did his father’s death have on the author?
A.
The author began to think seriously about his career.
B.
The author was too sorrowful to go on studying.
C.
The author used the situation as an excuse to quit school.
D.
The author worked harder to achieve his goal of becoming a doctor.
4.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A.
Father taught the author how to be a doctor by making house calls on Frank.
B.
In return for Father's help, Frank usually came up at his gas station.
C.
The author had no sisters or brothers.
D.
The author was deeply influenced by Father's doctor who treated his cancer.
5.
What's the best title for the passage?
A.
What Made Father Respectable
B.
What Led Me to Be a Doctor
C.
How to Help Strangers
D.
How to Deal with Death
The Wal-Mart in Cleburne, Texas, was crowded. People were waiting in long lines at checkout counters to pay for small things that would be next-morning treasures under someone’s Christmas tree.
The woman standing in cashier Jeffrey Kandt’s line seemed to be living on the edge of subsistence(生计). Her clothes were worn and her hands were those of a person who’d worked hard for what she had. She held a single item in her arms as she patiently waited to move to the front of the line — a Sony CD player. She had saved all year for this. With tax, the total would be close to $ 220.
As the woman got close to the cashier, she suddenly shouted, “Where’s my money? All of my money fro my son’s gift! Oh no!”
“Why my line?” Kandt thought as he watched the poor woman searching through her clothes. He was going to have to call his manager to avoid the sale but it would mean a long wait for the customers behind her. “I am going to go home late tonight,” Kandt thought.
Then an amazing thing happened. At the back of the line, a man took out his wallet, pulled out $100 and passed it forward. As the cash moved up the line, a twen5ty-dollar bill was added here, and a ten-dollar bill was added there. When the collection finally reached the registewr, Kandt counted $ 220.
Strangers had fulfilled a poor woman’s Christmas wish.
The poor in his line at the Wal-Mart in Cleburne, Texas, had come together on Christmas Eve, 2002.
1.
According to the passage, the woman’s Christmas wish was to ______.
A.
collect $ 220 for her family
B.
buy her son a CD player as a gift
C.
buy enough food for her family
D.
organize a big party for her son
2.
Which of the following statements is TRUE about Jeffrey Kandt when the woman couldn’t find her money?
A.
He was impatient and wanted to go home.
B.
He wanted to see whether the woman had money or not.
C.
He wanted the woman to stand in another line.
D.
He didn’t think about the customers waiting behind the woman.
3.
What does paragraph 5 mainly talk about?
A.
a description of a man standing in the line
B.
the cashier, Jeffery Kandt
C.
the collection of $ 220
D.
a reason why the strangers collected he money
4.
What can we learn from the passage?
A.
The woman collected money by herself.
B.
The woman seemed to be poor, but in fact had lots of money.
C.
Strangers in the line volunteered to help the woman.
D.
The woman had never ay money.
In 1995, Susan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition(试镜)for My Kind of People, a televised talent show popular in the UK. She was immediately rejected. She was nervous during the audition, and felt she didn’t perform well, but her brother said that she was rejected because of her plain looks. Susan was not discouraged and continued to sing at church and at the karaoke nights in a local pub.
Susan suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death, Susan put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother, Bridget Boyle. The mother and daughter often talked of Susan’s possible fame. Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competitions. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain’s Got Talent. We used to watch it together,” Susan later told reporters. “She thought I would win.”
In 1999, Susan used all of her savings to pay for a professional demo(样本唱片)tape, which she sent to record companies. In 2002, Susan began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O’Neil.
In 2007, her mother passed away at the age of 91. A neighbor reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn’t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone”. She lived alone with her cat, Pebbles. For over a year, she refused to sing. But in August of 2008, O’Neil urged her to try out for Britain’s Got Talent. Convinced that the performance would be an honor to her mother, Susan auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. She sang I Dreamed A Dream, a hit song from the musical Les Miserables(《悲惨世界》), in the first round of the show, which was aired on April 11, 2009.
The 47-year-old Scottish woman's plain looks provided a sharp contrast(对比)to her powerfully beautiful voice. The performance astonished the audience and the judges. Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week. Although she failed to win the final of Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular. Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies.
1.
Bridget Boyle’s attitude towards her daughter’s musical talent can be described as ___.
A.
critical
B.
doubtful
C.
indifferent
D.
confident
2.
From Paragraph 4, we can learn that Susan _____.
A.
was slightly discouraged by her voice coac
B.
entered Britain’s Got Talent to prove her ability
C.
decided to give up her singing career
D.
was deeply affected by her mother’s death
3.
Which of the following is TRUE about Susan Boyle?
A.
Her international fame grew rapidly in 2008.
B.
Her audition for My Kind of People failed.
C.
She has never stopped singing since 1995.
D.
She was the winner of Britain’s Got Talent.
4.
We can infer from the passage that ______.
A.
Susan Boyle was convinced by her brother that her plain looks were disadvantageous to her success
B.
It was at the age of forty that Susan Boyle established a student-teacher relationship with O’Neil.
C.
Susan Boyle was so struck by her father’s death that she shut herself out from the neighborhood.
D.
The online views of Les Miserables numbered over 40 million within a week in 2009.
5.
In writing this passage, the author mainly intends to ______.
A.
tell us how Susan’s dream come true
B.
let us know more about Susan’s personal life
C.
show how Susan was influenced by her family
D.
explain how to enter and win a talent show
If you need extra employment support because of a disability, your local job center put you in touch with one of their Disability Employment Advisers(DEA). Disability Employment Advisers can give you help and support regardless of your situation. They can help you find work or gain new skills even if you have been out of work for a long time, or if you have little or no working experience.
Referral service
Your DEA can offer you an employment assessment to identify what type of work or training suits you best and also offer you a work program designed to help disabled people, like the Job Introduction Scheme, WORKSTEP or Access to Work. The DEA can let you know about jobs that match your experience and skills and offer you more work information.
Employment assessments
An important employment assessment can help you identify your abilities. Your employment assessment will usually take place at your local Job centre. You will have an interview with your DEA, which is an opportunity for you to talk about your skills and abilities and any previous working experience you may have. As part of the assessment, you may be asked to carry out some practical tasks and written work. These tasks will be similar to common tasks involved in various types of work. The assessment may take half a day or longer, depending on your individual needs. The DEA will discuss the length of your assessment with you beforehand.
After the assessment
You and your DEA will talk about your assessment and agree on an action plan to help you achieve your job goals. Your action plan may include training or taking part in the “Work Preparation” program.
An employment assessment does not affect your benefits. You can claim travel expenses for attending an assessment.
1.
DEA will help you find a job even if you ______.
A.
don’t like your former work at all
B.
have been seriously ill for a long time
C.
are disabled and have no working experience
D.
are a normal man without knowledge
2.
The program “Access to Work” aims at ______.
A.
exchanging working experience
B.
helping the disabled people
C.
offering more work information
D.
advertising some products
3.
From the passage we can learn that ______.
A.
the employment assessment is not necessary
B.
the employment assessment takes place in a company
C.
the employment assessment is carried out by employers
D.
the time of the employment assessment is up to you
4.
Before you take your job you need ______.
A.
training or preparation
B.
some travel expenses
C.
paying DEA some money
D.
very excellent skills
5.
According to the ad, which of the following is TRUE?
A.
An employment assessment can be done in every Job centre.
B.
DEA is a job agency only for disabled people.
C.
DEA can help the disabled a lot in finding a job.
D.
An employment assessment can value a job seeker in every aspect.
Children start out as natural scientists, eager to look into the world around them. Helping them enjoy science can be easy; there’s no need for a lot of scientific terms or expensive lab equipment. You only have to share your children’s curiosity(好奇). Firstly, listen to their questions. I once visited a classroom of seven-year-olds to talk about science as a job. The children asked me “textbook questions” about schooling, salary(薪水) and whether I liked my job. When I finished answering, we sat facing one another in silence. Finally I said, “Now that we’re finished with your lists, do you have questions of your own about science?”
After a long pause, a boy raised his hand, “Have you ever seen a grasshopper(蚱蜢) eat? When I try eating leaves like that, I get a stomachache. Why?”
This began a set of questions that lasted nearly two hours.
Secondly, give them time to think. Studies over the past 30 years have shown that, after asking a question, adults typically wait only one second or less for an answer, no time for a child to think. When adults increase their “wait time” to three seconds or more, children give more logical(符合逻辑的), complete and creative answers.
Thirdly, watch your language. Once you have a child involved in a science discussion, don’t jump in with “That’s right” or “Very good”. These words work well when it comes to encouraging good behavior(行为). But in talking about science, quick praise can signal that discussion is over. Instead, keep things going by saying “That’s interesting” or “I’d never thought of it that way before”, or coming up with more questions or ideas.
Never push a child to “Think”. It doesn’t make sense, children are always thinking, without your telling them to. What’s more, this can turn a conversation into a performance. The child will try to find the answer you want, in as few words as possible, so that he will be a smaller target(目标) for your disagreement.
Lastly, show; don’t tell. Real-life impressions of nature are far more impressive than any lesson children can learn from a book or a television program. Let children look at their fingertips through a magnifying glass(放大镜), and they’ll understand why you want them to wash before dinner. Rather than saying that water evaporates(蒸发), set a pot of water to boil and let them watch the water level drop.
1.
According to the passage, children are natural scientists, and to raise their interest, the most important thing for adults to do is _______.
A.
to let them see the world around
B.
to share the children’s curiosity
C.
to explain difficult phrases about science
D.
to supply the children with lab equipment
2.
In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the word “lists” could best be replaced by ______.
A.
any questions
B.
any problems
C.
questions from textbooks
D.
any number of questions
3.
According to the passage, children can answer questions in a more logical, complete and creative way if adults ________.
A.
ask them to answer quickly
B.
wait for one or two seconds after a question
C.
tell them to answer the next day
D.
wait at least for three seconds after a question
4.
In which of the following paragraph(s) does the author tell us what to say to encourage children in a science discussion?
A.
The second and third.
B.
The fourth and fifth.
C.
The fifth and sixth.
D.
The seventh.
5.
The author mentions all of the following techniques for adults to share with their children’s curiosity except that adults should ________.
A.
tell their children stories instead of reciting(背诵) facts
B.
offer their children chances to see things for themselves
C.
be patient enough when their children answer questions
D.
encourage their children to ask questions of their own
To become a doctor in the United States, students usually attend four years of medical school after they complete college. Then these young doctors work in hospitals for several years to complete a training program called a residency(住院医生实习期).
These medical residents provide hospitals with needed services in return for not much pay. They work under the supervision(管理) of medical professors and more experienced doctors. Medical residents treat patients . they carry out tests. They perform operations. They complete records. In hospitals with few nurses, residents also do work formerly done by nurses. Some medical residents work one-hundred or more hours in a single week.
They often work for more than thirty-six hours at a time before they can rest.
Critics (批评家) of this system say medical residents work too long and do not get enough res. They say these young doctors may be too tired to perform their medical duties effectively. Now, the government will limit the number of hours of work that residents can work. Most doctors in training will be limited to eighty-four hours of work each week. They will have work periods of no more than twenty-four hours at one time. They will have ten hours of rest between work periods.
Medical residents will have one day each week when they do not have to work. Any work they accept outside their hospitals will be limited.Experienced doctors and medical professors will closely supervise the residents to make sure they are not too tired to work.
Many medical residents welcomed the work limits. Others, however, said the new policy may interfere with patient care and their own medical education.
1.
If a first –year college student in America wants to be a doctor, he has to wait for ___.
A.
4 years
B.
8 years
C.
at least 10 years
D.
more than 20 years
2.
Medical residents are not responsible for ____.
A.
supervising students
B.
treating patients
C.
carrying patients
D.
doing operations
3.
The underlined sentence in the 2
nd
paragraph means that they have to ____.
A.
work 36 hours every week
B.
rest for 36 hours before they can go to work
C.
work continuously for 36 hours
D.
take a rest every 36 hours
4.
Why does the government limit the number of hours that residents work?
A.
medical residents get too much money.
B.
Medical residents should go back to school to study
C.
There are not enough work for nurses
D.
medical residents may make mistakes if they work too long.
5.
The underlined word “Others” in the last paragraph refers to ___.
A.
some critics
B.
some medical professors
C.
some experienced doctors
D.
some medical students
Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, “Mr. Briggs, I have been looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous(宽厚的)conditions? You’ll ruin our company if you go on like that.”
“Oh, no, sir,” answered Mr. Briggs at once, “Before I started work, I looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country during the past ten years, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”
1.
Before he worked in an insurance company, what was Mr. Briggs?______.
A.
He was a worker.
B.
He was an official.
C.
He was a student.
D.
He was a businessman.
2.
The word “ruin” in the second paragraph means
.
A.
lose
B.
break
C.
leave
D.
destroy
3.
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A.
Mr. Briggs had studied the figures for deaths for several years.
B.
Mr. Briggs began to look at the figures after he started work.
C.
A great number of very old people die every year.
D.
The number of the very old people who died every year is small.
An important question about eating outside is who pays for the meal. If a friend of yours asks you to have lunch with him, you may say something like this, “I’m afraid of it,I’ll have to be some place cheap, because I have very little money .”The other person may say, “ OK, I’ll meet you at McDonald’s.” This means that these two persons agree to “go Dutch”, that is, each person pays for himself. He may also say, “Oh, no. I want to take you to lunch at Smith’s,” or “I want you to try the Chinese dumplings there. They’re great.” This means the person wants to pay for both of you. If you feel friendly towards this person, you can go with him and you needn’t pay for the meal. You may just say, “Thank you.” That would be very nice.
American customs(风俗) about who pays for dates(约会) are much the same as in other parts of the world. In the old days, American women wanted men to pay for all the meals. But, today, a university girl or a woman in business world will usually pay her way during the day. If a man asks her for a dance outside the working hours, it means “Come, as my guest(客人).” So as you can see, it is a polite thing to make the question clear at the very beginning
( )
1.
The passage tells us_______________ .
A.
how to eat outside
B.
where to eat outside
C.
what to eat outside
D.
who pays for the meal
( )
2.
If you have little money, ___________________.
A.
you’ll have a cheap meal
B.
you’ll borrow some from others
C.
you’ll ask your friend to pay for your meal
D.
you won’t want your friends to ask you to dinner
( )
3.
“Go Dutch" in this passage means______________ .
A.
去饭馆
B.
就餐
C.
订餐
D.
各自付款
( )
4.
Sometimes your friend takes you to lunch. It means_______________ .
A.
He’s going to lend some money to you
B.
He’s going to pay for your meal,too
C.
He’ll be angry with you
D.
He can’t understand you
( )
5.
In America, some girls and women now______________ .
A.
Ask men to pay for their meals
B.
Try to pay for the men’s meals
C.
Try to pay for their own meals
D.
Never have anything outside
Today’s drivers may feel shocked by the high price of petrol when they drive to the gas station. However, the car industry has the technology to solve
the problem
. It’s the hybrid car(混合动力汽车).
What is a hybrid car? Any car that uses two or more sources of power is a hybrid car. Most hybrid cars on the road right now are petrol-electric hybrids. The petrol-electric hybrid car is just what it sounds like — a cross between a petrol-powered car and an electric car.
A gas-powered car has a fuel tank(油箱), which supplies petrol to the engine. An electric car, on the other hand, has a set of batteries that provides electricity for the car.
To be useful to you or me, a car should be able to run at least 300 miles (483 km) before refueling, be capable of(能够) being refueled quickly and easily and fast enough to keep up with the other traffic on the road.
A petrol car meets these requirements(要求)but produces a large amount of pollution. An electric car, however, produces almost no pollution, but can only go 50 to 100 miles (80 to 161 km) between recharging(充电). And the problem has been that the electric car is very slow and inconvenient to recharge.
A petrol-electric car combines the advantages of the two power sources into one system that uses both gas power and electric power. Some experts believe that the hybrid car is “the next generation of smart cars”. A hybrid car can go up to 50% further than a traditional car can on the same amount of gas! It saves driver’s money on gas and cuts air pollution!
1.
What do the underlined words “the problem” in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A.
The price of petrol goes up and down.
B.
The gas-powered car is sold at a high price.
C.
The gas-powered car causes air pollution.
D.
The price of petrol keeps going up.
2.
How many sources of power do most hybrid cars use?
A.
Two.
B.
Three.
C.
Four.
D.
It depends.
3.
The author thinks that electric cars _____.
A.
are smart vehicles
B.
are popular vehicle
C.
are not practical
D.
are not slow
4.
Some experts believe that the hybrid car will have a large market in future because _____.
A.
it is just powered by renewable energy
B.
it saves money and is eco-friendly
C.
it goes further than a traditional car
D.
it is safe, cheap and produces no air pollution
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