Below is adapted from an English dictionary.小题1:What does the phrase “green shoots mean in “Green shoots have begun to appear in different markets ? A．Change in policy.B．High prices.C．Environment 题目和参考答案——青夏教育精英家教网—

There is a wide and deep choice of a career. Whether he's a hand in construction or sitting behind the desk working on a computer, everyone has some ideas of what is an attractive career. However, making a career choice is not simply a matter of following a dream; for most people it means a lot of research and soul searching. Choosing the right career becomes one of the most important decisions of an individual's life.

It used to be that one followed in the footsteps of their father or grandfather or took over the family business when it came to making a career choice. These days, a career path can start anywhere and then veer off into something totally different.
Career choices must be realistic and well thought out. It is not uncommon for persons to start a career path and realize they have made a terrible mistake, feeling as if it may be too late to turn around. Not only does a career choice concern your strongest skills and interest, it is also something that you will be doing continuously to bring in income. This is why a career choice can be such a personal decision. Formerly it used to be unusual for someone to change occupations or careers more than once or twice in a lifetime; it is now even more unusual to keep the same career during someone's working life.
There are a great many measures in helping one choose the right profession. A number of websites offering tools such as career tests and information, educational resources, resume services and the kind can be found. It is important for one to research one's career in this changing economy situation, and choose the best from several related career choices.
小题1:According to the author choosing the right career ______.

A．is not difficult at all	B．needs a lot of dreams
C．is an interesting thing	D．needs a lot of thoughts

小题2:The underlined phrase "veer off" in the second paragraph probably means "______".

A．set out to do the same job	B．change the former course
C．compare two different things	D．dream of getting an easy job

小题3:Nowadays it is common for one to _____.

A．change his job often	B．do the same job all his life
C．find a few good jobs at a time	D．live without a job for many years

小题4:All of the following are the tools on profession offered by websites EXCEPT _____.

A．tests and information	B．training courses
C．employers' phone numbers	D．instructions on resume

In the Ituri forest of America live many tribes，one of which is Pygmy. Most of the Pygmies in the tribe are not taller than four feet. They weigh only about eighty pounds each.
In spite of their small size, they are the best hunters among all the jungle people. Even the great elephant can be caught by them.
Since they do not plant any crops, Pygmies are constantly moving around. They seldom sleep in one camp for more than a few days. In their camps there is not furniture at all except for some weapons such as spears, bows and arrows. There are no cooking pots either. Food is eaten uncooked or smoked over a lire. So when the tribe moves to a new camp there is nothing to carry except these weapons and babies too small to walk.
Pymies can move on the tree tops almost as skillfully as monkeys. Often they travel great distances through the branches without touching the ground.
One of the surprising facts about these small men and women is their great appetite（食欲）. A Pygmy can eat up sixty bananas at a single meal besides quantities of meat. After eating, they will lie on their hard earth bed and groan（呻吟）in all night. But in the morning, they are ready to eat the same amount of food or fight among themselves.
小题1:Pygmies are small in size, but they are brave in ______.

A．hunting

B．shooting

C．eating

D．fighting with their enemies

小题2:Pygmies are so skillful that _____.

A．they never walk on the ground	B．they can move on the top of trees
C．they always walk with sticks	D．they can hang from the branches

小题3:The writer wrote this article so as to ______

A．ask people to learn from Pygmies

B．help Pygmies go out of the forests

C．let us know the local condition and customs of the Pygmies

D．tell us the world is big and wide

小题4:Why do Pygmies move from place to place continuously? The main reason is that _____.

A．that want to look after wild animals	B．they always walk with sticks
C．they plant no crops	D．they don’t sleep in one camp

Mark Zukerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, an extremely popular social working website that started in the United States.
Now, millions of student users visit Facebook daily and the website is one of the top ten widely visited sites on the Internet worldwide. College and high school students use Facebook to communicate with friends and share both information and pictures for free. The company earns money through advertising.
Many other companies have been rumored(谣传）to be interested in buying Facebook. Just a few years after Mark started the company, he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo. Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning. He knows the value of the company could fall down; however, he is in this to build something unbelievable, not be bought out by another company.
Maybe he was smart. Now Facebook is rumored to be worth billions of dollars and bigger companies like Microsoft or Google want a share of the company. Some private firms are also interested. Facebook could sell 15billion dollars if Mark decides to sell it at all. Perhaps Mark will just keep working from his California office to continue his dream of building something cool.
小题1:.Facebook makes money from _____ .

小题2:.Terry Semel was the CEO of _______.

小题3:.Which of the following words best describes Mark Zukerberg according to the passage?

LONDON: The Edinburgh Festival, the biggest arts festival of its kind in the world, got under way in the Scotland capital on Sunday with a concert that included Hector Berlionz's To Deum, under the direction of Christoph von Dohnanyi.
The festival, which runs until August 31 this year, includes as its high points Peter Stein’s staging of Wagner’s Parsifal, with Claudio Abbado directing the Gustav Mahler youth orchestra. The concert programme includes American pianist Richard Goode, bass baritone Thomas Quasthoff and violinist Christian Tetzlaff. New to the programmes this year will be 25 late evening classical music concerts.
Earlier this month, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest show-case in the world for performance art, officially got under way with theatre, dance, poetry and music presentations.
Many of the fringe artists, who can enter the fringe festival upon payment of a small fee, were inspired this year by the event of September 11.
Thousands of people flock to Edinburgh from around the world during the festival, which is over 50 years old. It aims to promote and encourage arts and to reflect international culture. It consists of various dance, music, opera, and theatre presentation taking place across the city during the three-week run.
小题1:Who will perform in the concert on Sunday?

A．Hector Berlionz	B．Christoph von Dohnanyi
C．Claudio Abbado	D．Christian Tetzlaff

小题2:When did the Edinburgh Festival begin?

A．August 10.	B．August 15.
C．August 31.	D．September 11.

小题3: What did the Edinburgh Festival never have before?

A．Youth orchestra’s performances.

B．Poetry and music presentations.

C．Late evening classical music concerts.

D．Performances of American pianists and violinists.

小题4:Which of the following statements about the Edinburgh Festival is true?

A．It is the only festival of its kind in the world.

B．The artists who want to take part in the festival have to pay a small amount of money.

C．People who attend the festival are all from Scotland.

D．It is actually a dance festival.

As we all know, language is always changing. In a society where life continues year after year with few changes, the language does not change either. The earliest known languages had difficult grammar but a small, limited vocabulary. Over the century, the grammar changed, and the vocabulary grew. For example, the English and Spanish people who came to America during the sixteenth century gave names to all the new plants and animals they found. In this way, hundreds of new words were introduced into English and Spanish vocabularies. Today life is changing very fast, and language is changing fast too.
There are several major(主要) language families in the world. Some scientists say there are nine main families, but other scientists divide them differently. The languages in each family are connected, and scientists think that they came from the same parent language. About 3 percent of the people in the world speak languages that are not in these major families.
小题1:The early language had ________.

A．a lot of problems

B．words and easy grammar

C．words but no grammar

D．grammar but not many words

小题2:In the next few hundred years we can expect language to _____.

A．stay exactly the same

B．change a great deal

C．change only a little

D．ask more words and drop some grammar

小题3:What this article shows is that _____.

A．languages change fast

B．languages really don't want to change

C．language really with changes in society

D．Spanish and English change

A new research has uncovered that culture is a determining factor when people interpret facial emotions (情感)．The study reveals that in cultures where emotional control is the standard，such as Japan，the focus is placed on the eyes to interpret emotions. Whereas in cultures where emotion is openly expressed，such as the United States，the focus is on the mouth to interpret emotions.
“These findings go against the popular theory that the facial expressions of basic emotions can be universally recognized，” said University of Alberta researcher Dr.Takahiko Masuda.” A person’s culture plays a very strong role in determining how he will read emotions and needs to be considered when interpreting the facial expressions.”
These cultural differences are even noticeable in computer emoticons(情感符号)，which are used to convey a writer’s emotions by email and text message. The Japanese emotions for happiness and sadness vary in terms of how the eyes are drawn ，while the American emotions vary with the direction of the mouth. In the United States the emoticons∶)and∶) show a happy face，whereas the emoticons∶(and∶(show a sad face. However，the Japanese tend to use the symbol (‘‘) to indicate a happy face，and (；；) to indicate a sad face.
“We think it is quite interesting and appropriate that culture tends to mask its emotions. The Japanese would focus on a person’s eyes when detecting his or her emotions，as eyes tend to be quite subtle(微妙的)，”said Masuda. “In the United States，where an open emotion is quite common，it makes sense to focus on the mouth，which is the most expressive feature on a person’s face.”
小题1:The text mainly tells us that ________.

A．cultural differences are expressed in emotions

B．culture is a key to interpreting facial emotions

C．different emoticons are preferred in different cultures

D．people from different cultures express emotions differently

小题2:Which emoticon is used by Americans to show a happy face?

A．(；；)	B．∶)
C．∶(	D．∶(

小题3:If a Japanese wants to detect whether a smile is true or false，he will probably________.

A．read the whole face	B．focus on the mouth
C．look into the eyes	D．judge by the voice

小题4:The computer emoticons used by Americans show that________.

A．they express their feelings openly

B．they tend to control their emotions

C．they are good at conveying their emotions

D．they use simpler emotions to show their feelings

It was the summer of 1965. DeLuca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plans for the future. “I’m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” Deluca recalls saying. “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’ ”
That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. DeLuca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn’t cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.
But business didn’t go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn’t know how badly, because we didn’t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.
DeLuca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They’d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘ We are so successful, we are opening a second store.’” And they did — in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.
But the partners’ learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn’t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” DeLuca says.
And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” DeLuca adds.
DeLuca ended up founding Subway Sandwich, the multi-million-dollar restaurant chain.
小题1:Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to _________________________.

A．support his family	B．pay for his college education
C．help his partner expand business	D．do some research

小题2:Which of the following is true of Buck?

A．He put money into the sandwich business.

B．He was a professor of business administration (管理).

C．He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.

D．He rented a storefront for DeLuca.

小题3:What can we learn about their first shop?

A．It stood at an unfavorable place.

B．It lowered the prices to promote sales.

C．It made no profits due to poor management.

D．It lacked control over the quality of sandwiches.

小题4:They decided to open a second store because they ______________________.

A．had enough money to do it

B．had succeeded in their business

C．wished to meet the increasing demand of customers

D．wanted to make believe that they were successful

小题5:What contributes most to their success according to the author?

A．Learning by trial and error.	B．Making friends with suppliers.
C．Finding a good partner.	D．Opening chain stores.

LONDON: What could possibly be wrong with planting trees? The advantages are obvious; they firm the soil, soak up (摄取) extra water and take carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) out of the atmosphere.
However, it now turns out that planting trees could add to global warming.
Tree roots do a great job of keeping soil firmly on the ground and out of the wind’s power. The problem is that some of those dust clouds play an important part in soaking up carbon dioxide.
Huge dust storms blow out over the oceans from dry parts of North Africa and central Asia. Tons of dust are lifted and left as a thin film over the ocean surface. The dust fuels oceanic life.
Dust from China is carried east and left in the Pacific Ocean. If a tree-planting programme there is successful and the dust supply reduced, the net result may be that less carbon dioxide gets locked away in the ocean.
Andy Ridgwell, an environmental scientist from the University of East Anglia, has spent the past few years studying dust and says his work “shows clearly the complexity of the system and the importance of not tinkering(粗劣地修补) with it without understanding the results. For this reason there is the need to focus(集中) on cutting carbon dioxide giving off rather than monkeying (瞎弄) about with the land surface.”
An American scientist, Robert Jackson, has shown that when native grassland areas are invaded(侵入) by trees, carbon is lost from the soil. “We are studying why the soil carbon disappears, but one theory is that trees do a lot more of their growing above ground compared to grasses, so less carbon goes directly into the soil from trees, ” says Jackson.
In wet areas of the world, the gain from trees absorbing carbon dioxide above ground seems to be outweighed(超过) by the loss of carbon from the soil below ground. Countries that plan to combat global warming by planting trees may have to think again. Solutions(解决办法) to environmental problems are often more complex than they first appear, and understanding the Earth’s climate is a very great challenge.
小题1:People usually hold the opinion that

A．huge dust storms can destroy carbon dioxide

B．huge dust storms can destroy the oceans on the earth

C．huge dust storms can’t do anything beneficial for man

D．planting trees is the only way to control huge dust storms

小题2:Andy Ridgwell, the environmental scientist, believes that

A．dust plays a more important part than trees

B．trees shouldn’t have been planted in dry places

C．carbon dioxide is harmful to everything on the earth

D．environmental problems are more complex than expected

小题3:Robert Jackson’s experiment proves that

A．grassland areas should be covered by forests

B．trees hold more carbon than grass

C．carbon can turn grass into dust

D．less carbon can make trees grow faster

小题4:The underlined word “combat” in the last paragraph means

A．shooting the breeze	B．shooting yourself in the foot
C．shooting your mouth off	D．shooting questions at somebody

A．Change in policy.	B．High prices.
C．Environmental protection.	D．Signs of recovery.

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