Walking across the campus of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon

Univers ity one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled

with young people chatting and enjoying the fine weather．Several

 had identical blue T-Shirts with 'Trilogy @CMU" written across them —Trilogy being an Austin,

Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting （招聘） our top students．I walked over to the table．"Are you guys here to recruit?" I asked．"No, absolutely not," they replied firmly．"We're not recruiters．We're just hanging out, playing a little Frisbee （飞盘） with our friends．" How interesting, I thought．They've come to campus on a workday, all the way from Austin, just to hang out with some new friends．

As I later learned, they were gifted students who had inked the highest-paying deal in the history of their department．

I asked one young man why he was going to a smaller city in Texas．"The company is excellent", he told me．"There are also terrific people and the work is challenging"．Though he had several good job offers from Pittsburgh's high-tech firms and knew the city well, he said he felt the city lacked the lifestyle options, cultural diversity, and tolerant attitude that would make it attractive to him．As he summed it up: "How would I fit in here?"

What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company．Today, apparently, it's the company trying to fit in with the students．

These young men and their lifestyle represent a lively new force in the economy and life of America．They are members of what I call the creative class: a fast-growing, highly educated, and well-paid part of the workforce on whose efforts corporate profits and economic growth increasingly depend．They do not consciously think of themselves as a class．Yet they share a common belief that values creativity, individuality, difference, and advantage．

59．What would be the best title for the passage?

       A．The rise of the creative class         B．New ideas about recruitment

       C．Changed working cultures                 D．A tale of two cities

60．Why were the young people on the university campus?

       A．To get recruited in Pittsburgh．

       B．To celebrate their successful recruitment．

       C．To relax themselves away from work．

       D．To meet their old schoolmates．

61．The underlined word "inked" in paragraph 2 probably means "____"．

       A．fulfilled             B．obtained              C．settled            D．signed

62．Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards the young people?

       A．Criticizing                                    B．Approving              

       C．Disappointing                                 D．Disgusting

63．From the passage we can infer that ____．

       A．the young people prefer to work in a small quiet city

       B．the high pay is the main attraction to the young people

       C．Pittsburgh has many advantages over Austin

       D．Pittsburgh doesn't have enough attractions to the young people

—Jenny, I’d like some coffee for a change.

— ______________. It’s in the cupboard.

   A. Help yourself     B. Never mind     C. With pleasure    D. Change it, please

It’s 10:30 p.m., and 11-year-old Brandon Blanco is sound asleep at home. Suddenly, a loud noise wakes him up. Naturally, Brandon reaches for his cell phone. He blinks twice, and the message on the screen becomes clear: “R U awake?”
But the late-night text does not annoy Brandon. He gets frequent messages and calls, even after bedtime. And he can’t imagine life without them. “If I didn’t have a cell phone, I wouldn’t be able to talk to my friends or family as often,” he told the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Brandon’s use of technology doesn’t stop there. He also has a computer, a TV and three video-game consoles（控制台）in his room. With so many devices, it is no surprise that when he is not at school, he spends nearly every waking minute using one or more of these devices. Brandon is hardly alone. According to a recent study by TFK, kids aged 8 to 18 are spending more time than ever before using electronic devices. How much time? More than seven and a half hours a day on average, the study found. That’s about an hour more than just five years ago.
The jump is the result of a huge explosion in mobile devices, says Victoria Rideout, the lead author of the study. “These devices have opened up many more opportunities for young people to use media, whether it’s on the bus, on the way to school or waiting in line at the pizza parlor,” says Rideout.
Often, kids multitask, or use more than one device at a time. “If you’ve got a chance to do something on your computer and take a phone call and have the TV on in the background, why not?” Media expert Cheryl Olson says. Most experts agree technology has much to offer kids. But some worry the kids could be missing out on other activities like playing outside or hanging out with friends. “It’s a matter of balance,” says Olson.
Multitasking while doing homework is another concern. Some kids listen to music, watch TV or use the phone while doing their homework. “It’s important to make sure that you can stop and concentrate on one thing deeply,” says Rideout.
With new and exciting devices hitting stores every year, keeping technology use in check is more important than ever. “Kids should try,” adds Rideout. “But parents might have to step in sometimes.”

1. 1.

   It can be learned from the text that _________.

   1. A.
      many teenagers lack friends in their middle school
   2. B.
      kids have too many electronic devices to choose from
   3. C.
      Brandon feels annoyed about his late-night message
   4. D.
      Olson is against teenagers’ using mobile phones
2. 2.

   Which of the following is an example of multitasking?

   1. A.
      Watching TV when using the computer.
   2. B.
      Talking on the phone when lying on the sofa.
   3. C.
      Playing video games after having lunch.
   4. D.
      Listening to loud music while relaxing.
3. 3.

   The underlined phrase “in check” in the last paragraph can be replaced by _________.

   1. A.
      in order
   2. B.
      in store
   3. C.
      in control
   4. D.
      in sight
4. 4.

   According to the text, Victoria Rideout would probably agree that kids should ______.

   1. A.
      do homework while watching TV
   2. B.
      have less homework
   3. C.
      spend more time on homework
   4. D.
      do homework in a place without disturbance

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题（请注意问题后的字数要求）。

[1] Many people spend a lot of time making money because they believe the money itself will make them happy, or will guard them against things that will make them unhappy．They make great efforts to achieve that perfect relationship, the perfect house, the beautiful body, the approval of others, all in an attempt to be happy.

[2] Sometimes these things make people happy; other times, people stress over not having reached the goals, or reach them and find they’re still unhappy．Other times, people focus on just one goal and don’t have time for other things that will make them truly happy.

[3] Some experts studying human happiness and the factors that contribute to it have identified several key areas of life that seem to be more related to personal happiness．Some of them are the things like money, friends, health and living conditions; others are things you may not think of in your daily life, such as your neighborhood and sense of meaning in life.

[4] So while setting your goals, remember all of the areas of life that are important to you and find a balanced lifestyle including social support, personal development, physical health and meaningful pursuits(追求) besides career success and financial security．_____________, your attitude about life and the things that happen to you each day can also have a great effect on your level of happiness and life satisfaction．In addition to being optimistic, happy people tend to believe they are the masters of their fate, rather than the victims of circumstance．

[5] Explore the state of your life, assess how truly happy you are, and find a direction to work toward that will likely bring more happiness．Reach your goals, set new ones and live a life that truly makes you happy.

What does the first paragraph mainly talk about? (Please answer within 15 words.)

Which sentence in the text is closest in meaning to the following one?

It’s impossible for those that stick to one thing only to experience happiness from other things.

Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words．(Please answer within 5 words.)

Do you think money could bring true happiness? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)

Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 into Chinese.

Instructions: Fill in the blanks with the CORRECT form of the word .

1.What happened to the Amber Room r__________ a mystery .

2. It’s really f ______to be caught in a heavy thunderstorm when you are alone in the open air.

3. She looked calm, but a_________ she was very nervous at the speech contest.

4. She p _________to stay at home rather than go out for a picnic with her friends last week.

5. Many factories in my hometown were in trouble in 2009 , and luckily they have s____ the economic crisis (危机)now.

6. On November 2008 Barack Obama was made P_______ of the United States of America

7. Your n__________ country or area is the country or area where you were born and brought up.

8. He shook his head , which meant that he d____________ with me.

9. Former Tai Wan leader ChenShui-Bian was s _______ to 11 years and 8years in jail by a TaiWan court . .

10.China is a country b________ to the third world.