One of the most diffiicult problems a young person faces is deciding what to do. Some people,however, from the time they are six years old“know”that they want to be doctors or teachers or firefighters,but most of us do not get around to making a decision about a job until someone or something forces us to face the problem.

　　Choosing a job takes time,and there are a lot of things you have to think about as you try to decide what you would like to do. You may find that you will have to take special courses for a particular kind of work,or you may find out that you will need to get enough knowledge for a particular job.

　　Fortunately,there are a lot of people you can turn to for advice and help in making your decision. At most schools,there are teachers to give you information about jobs. And you can talk over your ideas with family members and friends who are always ready to listen and to offer suggestions.

　　1．In the first paragraph“get round to”means________.

　　A．consider

　　B．go all the way

　　C．arrive at

　　D．remain the same

　　2．In the third paragraph“turn to”means________.

　　A．turn your face around

　　B．change into

　　C．go to someone for help

　　D．give advice

　　3．The best title of this passage is________.

　　A．Getting a Job

　　B．Kind People to Help You

　　C．Choosing a Job

　　D．Difficulties Facing Young people

　　4．The passage tells you that________for a particular job.

　　A．you should have ideas whan you are a child

　　B．it’s impossible for you to get enough knowledge

　　C．you have to face the problem

　　D．you may enter a class to study

　　5．Making a decision about your job________.

　　A．needs friends

　　B．needs time

　　C．costs money

　　D．costs your ability

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　　One of the most diffiicult problems a young person faces is deciding what to do. Some people,however, from the time they are six years old“know”that they want to be doctors or teachers or firefighters,but most of us do not get around to making a decision about a job until someone or something forces us to face the problem.

　　Choosing a job takes time,and there are a lot of things you have to think about as you try to decide what you would like to do. You may find that you will have to take special courses for a particular kind of work,or you may find out that you will need to get enough knowledge for a particular job.

　　Fortunately,there are a lot of people you can turn to for advice and help in making your decision. At most schools,there are teachers to give you information about jobs. And you can talk over your ideas with family members and friends who are always ready to listen and to offer suggestions.

　　1．In the first paragraph“get round to”means________.

　　A．consider

　　B．go all the way

　　C．arrive at

　　D．remain the same

　　2．In the third paragraph“turn to”means________.

　　A．turn your face around

　　B．change into

　　C．go to someone for help

　　D．give advice

　　3．The best title of this passage is________.

　　A．Getting a Job

　　B．Kind People to Help You

　　C．Choosing a Job

　　D．Difficulties Facing Young people

　　4．The passage tells you that________for a particular job.

　　A．you should have ideas whan you are a child

　　B．it’s impossible for you to get enough knowledge

　　C．you have to face the problem

　　D．you may enter a class to study

　　5．Making a decision about your job________.

　　A．needs friends

　　B．needs time

　　C．costs money

　　D．costs your ability

It’s a man’s world, and many women don’t like it.

The women say they are treated like second-class citizens and therefore feel that their anger is justified. Women everywhere, they say, earn less money than men for the same kind of work. Women have less power in their communities than men, and in most cities and towns the political decisions are made by men. There are few women mayors or city officials. The same thing is true in labor unions, and religious groups. Even in unions where the members are almost all women, the heads of the unions are men. The presidents of almost all the big corporations in the country are men. There are few women ministers and no women priests.

Many women have been aware of these inequalities for a long time. Only recently, however, a drive for women’s rights made many more women and men, too, interested in fair treatment for women. Groups have formed to demand equal pay for equal work, changes in abortion laws, and round-the-clock day-care centers for children. Women have even started their own newspapers to fight for their cause. They have written books and marched in parades protesting their second-class place in society.

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

A. Women want to make more money.

B. Women hate the man’s world.

C. Women are organizing to demand their rights.

D. Women’s liberation.

2. What is the important problem explained in this passage?

A. Women have joined protest groups.　　

B. The heads of most unions are men.

C. Women are treated unfairly in their work, communities, and religious groups.

D. Women don’t like men.

3. What is the purpose of this passage?

A. To persuade women to join women’s rights groups.

B. To explain why a drive for women’s rights has started.

C. To explain how it feels to be a woman in a man’s world.

D. To help more women get equal treatment with men.

4. In this passage the words “second-class citizens” mean _______.

A. people who are treated as foreigners

B. people who are not citizens

C. people who are not treated fairly in their life and work　　　

D. people who don’t want to be first-class citizens

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. Women don’t like to be treated as second-class citizens.

B. Women make the same amount of money as men for the same kind of work.

C. Men make political decisions in most places in U. S. A.

D. Women started their own newspapers and wrote books to fight for their equal rights.

"Regardless of social class, race and age, men say they hate to shop." says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop. Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say, "Well, that's not shopping. That's research. "

In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are different.

Women will wander through several 1,000-aquare-meter stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a special task or a game to be won.

"Men are frequently shopping to win," says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the latest one and if they do that it makes them happy. "When women shop, "They're doing it in a way that they want everybody to be very happy." says Ann. "They're kind of shopping for love."

"Teenage girls learn to shop from their moms and older sisters, but they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen, "City University Zukin says." And although men's magazines such as GQ and Esquire have long had shopping articles, it's TV that has the eye of young male shoppers, "say Ann and Zukin.

"Television shows are used by young men in the same way Seventeen magazine or Lucky is used by girls," says Zukin, "to help make clothing and toiletry choices."

"Of course, there are men who love to shop and are proud of it." Loyola's Ann says. And that is important no matter whether you buy a car or a frying pan. All men love to buy but don't want to get cheated. Ann adds, "There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home-----they become kind of girl magnets. Women like it."

1.From the first paragraph we can find that _____.

A．men are all dishonest

B．men are all book-lovers

C．men hate to shop actually

D．men like to shop in fact

2.Compared to women, men usually treat shopping _____.

A．honestly          B．seriously          C．frequently         D．foolishly

3.As is shown in this passage, teenage girls go shopping _____.

A．only with their moms

B．only with their sisters

C．often following magazines

D．often following TV shows

4.The underlined word "magnets" in the last paragraph means _____.

A．magazines that attract young women

B．persons that have a powerful attraction

C．tools that can help housewives much

D．vegetables that make women beautiful

Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D．, so commuting（经常往返） to class isn’t the problem. But he doesn’t like lectures much, isn’t a morning person, and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles.

So Steele, a full-time senior business major, has been taking as many classes as he can from the South Dakota State system’s online offerings. He gets better grades and learns more, he says, and insists he isn’t missing out on the college experience.

“I still know a lot of people from my first two years living on campus, and I still meet a lot of people,” he says. But now, he sets his own schedule.

At least 2.3 million people took some kind of online courses, according to a recent survey by The Sloan Consortium, an online education group, and two-thirds of colleges offering “face-to-face” courses also offer online ones. But what were once two different types of classes are looking more and more alike and often falling into the same pool of students.

At some schools, online courses originally intended for non-traditional students living far from campus have proved surprisingly popular with on-campus students. A recent study found 42 percent of the students enrolled（登记） in its distance education courses were located on campus at the university that was hosting the online courses.

Numbers vary depending on the policies of particular colleges, but other schools also have students mixing and matching online and “face-to-face” credits. Motives range from lifestyle to adapting a job schedule to getting into high--demand courses.

Washington State had about 325 on-campus undergraduates taking one or more distance courses last year. As many as 9,000 students took both distance and in-person classes at Arizona State last year.

“Business is really about providing choices to their customers, and that’s really what we want to do,” said Sheila Asker, extended services coordinator （协调人） at Black Hills State.

Many schools, such as Washington State and Arizona State, let departments and academic units decide who can take an online course. They say students with legitimate academic needs a conflict with another class, a course they need to graduate that is full--often get permission, though they still must take some key classes in person.

1．What is the purpose of the passage?

      A．To introduce Steele to us, who prefers online courses.

      B．To tell us about the development of campus courses.

      C．To show the differences between campus courses and online courses.

      D．To show more on-campus students are taking online courses.

2．We can learn from the passage that Andy Steele _______.

      A．lives far from the campus

       B．knows none of his classmates

       C．wants to have his own lifestyle

       D．doesn’t get good marks

3．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

       A．The undergraduates attend the online courses for different purposes.

       B．It is expected that distance education is popular with on- campus students.

       C．About 325 on-campus undergraduates took online courses in Washington last year.

      D．Different colleges have different policies about online courses.

4．From what Sheila Asker said in the passage, we can tell _______.

       A．business is the most popular major in universities

      B．colleges should provide more majors for students

       C．where the similarity between business and colleges lies

       D．why colleges offer online courses to on-campus students