第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

阅读下列短文,从A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项.

About a year ago, I went to stay at a Detroit hotel. I didn’t want to carry too much money with me, so I asked the desk clerk(服务员) to put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe(保险箱) for me.

The next morning, however, the clerk said he knew nothing about my money. I didn’t have any proof that I had given the man the money. There was nothing I could do but go to the nearest lawyer.

The lawyer advised me to return to the hotel with him and give another hundred-dollar bill to the clerk. This I did. An hour later, I went back to the desk and asked for my money. Since I had the lawyer as an eyewitness(证人) to the second hundred-dollar bill, the clerk could not say he knew nothing about it.

Another hour later, I put the second part of the lawyer’s plan into action. This time both the lawyer and I went to the hotel. I asked for the hundred-dollar bill once again, and when the clerk insisted he had already given it to me, I didn’t admit it. The lawyer said to him, “I saw this gentleman give you a hundred dollars. If you don’t hand it over immediately, I’ll be forced to call the police.”

The clerk realized he had been tricked, so he gave me back the first hundred-dollar bill.

“I don’t know how to thank you enough for getting my money back,” I said to the lawyer. And what do you suppose he answered?

He said, “Oh, don’t thank me. That will be a hundred dollars, please.”

1. The writer went to a Detroit hotel one day in order to_______.

A. get his money back                         B. stay for the night

C. ask the lawyer for help                           D. put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe

2. The hotel clerk at last returned the first hundred-dollar bill to the writer because _______.

A. he was afraid of the writer very much

B. he found the lawyer tricking him

C. he didn’t want to get into trouble with the police

D. he wanted to give the writer a surprise

3. It is clear that the hotel clerk was________.

A. dishonest                                          B. helpful 

C. careless                                      D. foolish

4. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. The writer didn’t get his 200 dollars back..

B. The lawyer asked for 100 dollars as his pay.

C. The writer was so grateful as to offer the lawyer some money.

D. The lawyer was disappointed that the writer got both his bills back.

      We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.

    Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed—no examination is perfect—but to have to tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in school or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher.

     Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them—a form of favourtism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defend of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child form a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.

    The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.

1. The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that________.

  A. bright children also need certificates go get satisfying jobs.

  B. children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs

  C. poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets

  D. children attending ordinary schools achieve great success

2. What would happen if examinations were taken away according to the author?

 A. Schools for bright children would lose their reputation.

 B. There would be more opportunities and excellence.

 C. Children from poor families would be able to change their schools.

 D. Children’s job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation.

3. The opponents of the examination system will agree that _________.

 A. jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection

 B. computers should be selected to take over many jobs

 C. special classed are necessary to keep the school standards

 D. schools with academic subjects should be done away with

4. The passage mainly focuses on ___________.

 A. schools and certificates                B. examination and equality

 C. opportunity and employment         D. standards and reputation

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押题:对大学生就业的看法

在全球性的金融危机影响下,我国大学生就业仍面临很大的压力,还有就是大学生对工作的选择看法不一,有的人认为应该优先选择自己喜欢的工作,而不是自己擅长的;另一部分人相反。你班学生就此事进行讨论,请客观地介绍情况并谈谈你的看法。

    观点和理由:

 ○ 一部分人 喜欢比擅长重要。 兴趣是最好的老师,精通与擅长的可能性会大大增加等。

○ 另一部分 擅长比喜欢重要。 擅长更容易成功,后天努力培养兴趣。

○ 你的观点 ……

  注意:1. 短文须包括所有要点, 可适度发挥。

        2. 开头已为你写好, 但不计人总词数。

        3. 词数:120左右。

Recently the students in our class have discussed the following topic: which is more important for college graduates to choose jobs, being interested in it or being good at it?_________________________________________________

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