Twenty years ago almost all nurses were womenand almost all pilots were menToday women fly planesand men care for patientsThe jobs are the samebut no both men and women are working as nurses and pilots

There are many other example of changing job roles for men and womenForty years ago there were no women news reporters on television

Now women report the newsthe weather and even men’s sportsWomen are reporting games and interviewing athletesFifty years ago there were almost no women lawyers or doctorsbut today over half of all medical students are womenToday men teach very young childrenMen work as librarians and secretariesSome men stay at home to take care of the house and childrenThey are called“house husbands”or“stay -at -home dads”Howevermany women still work as homemakers

Jobs are changingToday men and women are working in every field

1According to the passagewhat is true today about women?

      AWomen like to be secretaries         BAll doctors are now women

      CWomen report news and sports       DThere are no homemakers today

   2What is the percentage of women students in today’s medical schools?

      AAbout forty percent                 BOver fifty percent

      CAbout twenty percent               DLess than fifty percent

   3What is said about men in the passage?

      AOnly men are sports reporters

      BAll lawyers are men

      CMen never take care of the home

      DSome men stay at home with the children

   4Which of the following is true about men and women today?

      AMen like their jobsbut women don’t

      BWomen don’t like sportsbut men do

      CThere are no women pilots

DBoth men and women take care of children

5What is the main idea of this passage?

AJobs of today are changing

BWomen are leaders of the world today

CPeople change their jobs for fun

DMen and women are never equal

On the first day of schoolRoni’s foreign students fill out forms and give information about themselves

Name: Claude Anseri

Country: France

Native Language: Arabic/French

Time in US: 10 months

Please tell me a little about yourself

Family: I live with my wife and a 2-year-old daughter

Work: I was an art school student in FranceNow I’m working as a cook

Interests: I love to cook (and eat)I also like to go mountain climbing

Name: Su Chengwang

Country: Taiwan (China)

Native Language: Chinese

Tim in US: 4 years

Please tell me a little about yourself

Family : I have 3 sons and 2 daughtersThey’re all attending school hereMy husband is a businessman & lives in Taiwan

Work: I was a maths teacher but now I’m a housewife

Interests: I like indoor activities: reading, listening to music, drawing.

 

Name: Norma Ruiz

Country: Cruatemala

Native Language: Spanish

Time in US.:2 years

Please tell me a little about yourself

Family: My family—my mother and 4 brothers live in CruatemalaI’m here by myself

Work: I worked as a nurse in my countryHere I’m a tailor

Interests: I like to go to the movies and buy videosI love to study

 

1Su Chengwang has         children

Atwo             Bthree           Cfour             Dfive

2Who has lived in America for the shortest time?

AClaude Ansari   BNorma’s mother   CSu Chengwang    DNorma Ruiz

3          worked in a hospital a few years ago

AClaude Ansari                     BSu Chenwang

CNorma Ruiz                       DSu chengwang’s husband

4Su Chengwang’s children are attending school in     

AFrance          Bthe U. S         CTaiwan          DCruatemala

5These three people may         together

Ago mountain climbing          Blisten to music

Cgo to movies                 Dstudy in the same class

Learning English for 2008 Beijing Olympics

Yang Zhenhua has been a taxi driver for yearsHe knows every comer of the cityHis work usually wins him thanks except when he meets foreignersfor Yang doesn’t know any English

“Now I study English in my free time”said Yang in his 40sHe pulls an English textbook from the toolbox“I study English to help with Beijing Olympics”he said proudlyYang is just one of the millions of common people in Beijing who started to learn English when Beijing became the host city of the 2008 Olympic GamesLearning and speaking is hot among the people of this 3,000 - year - old cityFrom schools to factoriesmen and womenold and young are studying their“ABC”Books teaching useful expressions for everyday communication are the most popular

Some peoplesuch as taxi driversbus conductors and the policemenare asked to learn basic EnglishNearly 3,000 students from 50 universities in Beijing went to the streets last August as volunteers to teach English to the people of this cityThey taught common and useful sentences such as greetings and asking and answering simple questionsOfficial figures show that about 15% of Beijing citizens can speak EnglishIt is said that it will rise to 70% or 80% during the following yearsBesidesthe government encourages the use of English in many placesThe city underground railways give messages by radio in both English and ChineseEnglishnot Chinese is used as the most important working language for the Olympic CommitteeNearly all the committee members can speak English freelyMany are good at the language

1Yang zhenhua can hardly win himself thanks from foreigners because      

Ahe isn’t polite to them at all         Bhe is a common taxi driver

Che can’t speak English             Dhe doesn’t know the city well

2According to the passagethe English beginners in Beijing like to learn        best

Athe letters AB and C            Beveryday English

CEnglish texts                      DEnglish news

3Nearly 3,000 students from 50 universities in Beijing went to the streets last August to     

      Apractice their spoken English         Bshow their love of Beijing

      Ctell people the importance of English   Dteach the Beijing citizens English

4Which of the following is TRUE?

      AAll the people in Beijing are asked to speak English

      BBeijing citizens are encouraged to use as much English as possible

      CAll the taxi drivers in Beijing must speak English

      DBeijingers study English to take part in the Beijing Olympics

5The passage is about                  

Athe importance of English

Bhow to learn English well

Cthe Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Dmore and more people are learning English in Beijing

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