题目内容
Working means money, of course teens want jobs
Out of all the teens I interviewed all either wanted a job or already had one. Nowadays, jobs are needed more than ever. Everything costs money, and we are starting to understand that. Most of us get jobs just for "pocket change", so that we can just go out and get that outfit that we've always wanted, for a burger at McDonald's, for our hair, CDs, tapes, shoes, jewelry, and tons more material items. But some of us get jobs because we need to pay for our books or transportation. Many teens have to pay for their phone bills and lunches.
Choosy describes a lot of teenagers' attitudes towards the kind of job they would and wouldn't get. "Something in an attractive place with nice facilities, well paying, work that's not stressful, and a place where there are people that I know that work there," Mark, 16, said about the kind of job ___________. His personal requirements may seem as if they should be mandatory, but if you really want a job your own requirements should be limited. If you are looking for a job it's important that it fits you in a decent manner.
Teens normally don't take jobs that require a lot of thinking, skill, or physical requirements. Most teens see jobs as something on the side. We don't go around constantly talking about our jobs. We are there simply for that paycheck. Some of us do look at it as a learning experience. Tennille, 16-years-old and who works at a cleaning store, said, "Yes, it's helping me with my customer service skills."
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Can you give a title for this passage?
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Which sentence in this passage can be replaced by the following one?
Many young people look on their jobs as secret things.
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Please fill the blank in the second paragraph.
Mark, 16, said about the kind of job________________.
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What’re your attitudes towards the teens to do jobs outside? Why?
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Please translate the underlined sentence in the passage.
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2. Most teens see jobs as something on the side
3. he would take/he wants
4. In my opinion, it’s good for them. Because it can make them get a lot of experience for making their living in the future
5. 我采访的所有青少年,他们或者想得到一份工作或者已经有了一份。
When you’re lying on the white sands of the Mexican Rivera, the stresses (压力) of the world seem a million miles away. Hey, stop! This is no vacation—you have to finish something.
Here lies the problem for travel writer and food critic (评论家) Edie Jarolim. “I always loved traveling and always liked to eat, but it never occurred to me that I could make money doing both of those things,” Jarolim said. Now you can read her travel advice everywhere--- in Arts and Antiques, in Brides, or in one of her three books, The Complete Idiot Travel Guide to Mexican Beach Resorts.
Her job in travel writing began some eight years ago. After getting a PhD in English in Canada, she took a test for Frommer’s travel guides, passed it, and got the job. After working at Frommer’s, Jarolim worked for a while at Rough Guides in London, then Fodor’s where she fell so in love with a description of the Southwest of the U.S. that she moved there.
Now as a travel writer, she spends one-third of her year on the road. The rest of the time is spent completing her tasks and writing reviews of restaurants at home in Tucson, Arizona.
As adventurous as the job sounds, the hard part is fact-checking all the information. Sure, it’s great to write about a tourist attraction, but you’d better get the local museum hours correct or you could really ruin someone’s vacation.
【小题1】What is most difficult for Jarolim?
| A.Working in different places to collect information. |
| B.Checking all the facts to be written in the guides. |
| C.Finishing her work as soon as possible. |
| D.Passing a test to write travel guides. |
| A.She is successful in her job. |
| B.She finds her life full of stresses. |
| C.She spends half of her time traveling. |
| D.She is especially interested in museums. |
| A.Adventures in Travel Writing | B.Working as a Food Critic |
| C.Travel Guides on the Market | D.Vacationing for a Living |
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she sat me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school — walking on my own!
When the Great Depression (大萧条) hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel (汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world — Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
【小题1】What Kemmons’ mom often told him during his childhood was ______.
| A.caring | B.moving | C.encouraging | D.interesting |
| A.Doctors. | B.Nurses. | C.Friends. | D.Mom. |
| A.His terrible experience in the hotel. |
| B.His previous business success of various levels. |
| C.His mom’s support. |
| D.His wife’s suggestion. |
| A.Modest, helpful, and hard-working. |
| B.Loving, supportive and strong-willed. |
| C.Careful, helpful and beautiful. |
| D.Strict, sensitive and supportive. |
| A.Self-confidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family. |
| B.Mom’s encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work. |
| C.Clear goals, mom’s encouragement, a poor family and higher education. |
| D.Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities. |