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Oxford graduates sell faces to pay £50,000 university debts![]()
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Business is growing for two graduates who decided to pay off ( 偿清) their university debts by selling advertising space on their faces .Ross Harper and Ed Moyse, both from Oxford , are selling advertising space for hundreds of pounds a day and have earned more than £25,000 since setting up business last October.
Anyone can buy the advertising space , from businesses to individuals or groups, on a day-to-day basis, through the pair’s website, buymyface .co. uk. The logo (标识) is then seen by people as they go about their daily business. The pair sold their first face ads to friends and family for just £ 1 a day, but as need has increased, so has the daily price , which has reached an amazing £400 by now, the end of May. So far , the main customers have been Paddy Power , the online betting agency ( 网络博彩企业), and accountancy firm ( 会计事务所)Earnest & Young , which is now the website ‘s official sponsor ( 赞助商).
Moyse and Harper said , “ It’s our special way of paying off our student debts. We’ve seen so many students unsuccessfully applying for jobs , only to find one that they never really wanted. It’s just something a bit different and has taken off quite nicely.” ( 236 words)
【小题1】Why do the two Oxford graduates sell advertising space on their faces?
| A.To raise money for their friends. |
| B.To earn money for their family. |
| C.To pay off their university debts . |
| D.To pay for their online betting |
| A.At Oxford University. |
| B.At the website buymyface. co.uk. |
| C.At the accountancy firm. |
| D.At the online betting agency. |
| A.Just £1 . | B.About£100 . | C.Over £400. | D.Up to£500. |
| A.are satisfied with their special job |
| B.have paid off their debts already |
| C.are ready to apply for another job |
| D.never really wanted to do face ads |
The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is most surprising is that it was not ___1__ earlier, although the great inventor Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and also for flying machines and some other things. Those things were not produced___2___ long after he died.
A person riding a bicycle uses ___3___ energy to make the bicycle move, and there is no pollution at all when you are riding. Even so, in developed ____4___, most people don’t travel to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel___5____ if they ride to work. It’s because __6___ cars on the roads becomes larger. It certainly becomes ___7___ to ride a bicycle. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work ___8___ their cars , and in this way, the situation is made more serious.___9___ the best way to make riding safer and more popular is to create paths (开设通道) only for bicycles, and to make ___10___ so difficult and expensive for drivers to take their cars into the city that they will go back to use their bicycles.
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Americans use many expressions with the word dog. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well.
Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs. They say if a person wants to be successful he has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.
Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks(手艺). They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.
Dog expressions are also used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rain in summer may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.
1.If a person without lots of money wants to buy a car, he or she has to ______.
A.treat the dog well B.live with lots of dogs
C.work like a dog D.become sick as a dog
2.The saying you can never teach an old dog new tricks tells us older people ______.
A.have more ways to do things B.do things more slowly
C.dislike to learn new things D.know wonderful tricks
3.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?
A.Many dogs are loved and treated well by people in America.
B.“Every dog has its day” means dogs are the most successful animal.
C.“It rains cats and dogs” has the same meaning as “It rains heavily”.
D.There are many expressions with the word dog in English.
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What does a policeman usually do? It is not an easy job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in one. A policeman often has to control (控制) traffic, either on foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. In Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend most of his time driving up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to keep peace, too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, the police can come and restore order. And they often have to deal with situation at great risk(冒险) to their own safety.
We expect the police to solve crime, of course, so an ordinary policeman, even if he is not a detective (侦探), will have to help look for the criminals at times.
And who do we call when there is an emergency (紧急情况)---an crash, a fire, a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. So a policeman has to be prepared to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the modern world.
The police do an necessary job, they do it very well and I support them, but I do not think that I could ever do the job of a policeman.
Different Roles of the Police
| Different situations | ◆ An ordinary policeman needs to do several____76____. |
| About traffic | ◆ A policeman has to ____77____ or drive around the whole city to watch the traffic on the roads. For example, a ___78____ policeman spends most time___79___ on the road. |
| About order | ◆ The police are ___80____ to restore order to try to make the public even ____81____ although they may be in danger. |
| About crime | ◆ ____82____, a policeman will act as a detective to search for the criminal. |
| About ___83____ | ◆ In case of a fire, a crash or an accident, ____84____the police to deal with them becomes people’s first choice. |
| Final comments (评论) | ◆ The police do lots of small things we think in our daily life, but we should thank them. We may meet a lot of trouble ____85____ them. |
English is a language spoken all round the world.There are more than 42 _56___ where most of people speak English. Most native speakers of English are found in the United Kingdom,the United States of American ,Canada, Australia, South Afiran, Ireland and New Zealand. In total,for more than 375 million people. English is their __57__language.These people will perhaps speak the language of their own country_58____with their family, but the language of the government ,shool, newspapers and TV is English. We find this situation in countries,_59__ India,Pakistan,Nigeria and the Philippines.
Howerer ,a lot of of people learn English as a foreign __60__.They are more than 750 million, Everywhere in the world children go to school __61___English.Most people learn English for five or six years at high schools. In China students learn English at school _62__a foreign language.
In only fifty years English has developed into the language _63____spoken and used in the world. English is the _64__language of the most international organizations(组织),international trade( 贸易 ) and tourism. Business and tourists often come to China_65__being able to speak Chinese. English is also the language of global(全球的) culture,such as popular music and Internet.
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