There are many ways to find a job. Local stores often have areas where people can put small signs telling what kind of service they need or can provide. Such services include caring for children or cleaning houses.

       Or, job searchers can look in the newspaper. Local newspapers have employment announcements placed by companies seeking workers.

       Another popular tool for finding jobs is the Internet. For example, people in four hundred and fifty cities around the world can use the Craigslist Web site to buy objects, meet people or find a job. Craigslist says that it receives two million new job listings each month.

       Another useful way to find a job is through a college or university. For example, students at the University of Texas can go to the Career Exploration Center to get help in finding a job. Of course, looking for a job requires knowing what kind of work you want to do. For example, there is a book called “What Color is Your Parachute (降落伞)?” by Richard Bolles. This book has been helping people choose a career (职业) since it was first published in nineteen seventy.

       Some experts also help people find jobs. Susan W. Miller owns a company called California Career Services in Los Angeles. She says her company helps people find jobs by first helping them understand their advantages, goals and interests. Then she provides them with methods and resources to help them find the right job.

1. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Finding a job.                            B. College students’ part-time jobs.

C. Craigslist Web site.                        D. The relation between study and work.

2. By logging on the Craigslist Web site, you can ______.

A. sell your old things                       B. do some shopping online

C. create your own announcement board        D. get useful information about 450 cities3. “What Color is Your Parachute?” is a book which gives tips to those who want to _____.

A. work on the airplane       B. buy a parachute   C. publish a book   D. find a suitable job

4. It can be learned from the passage that ______.

A. companies often put job information in local shops

B. the Internet is the most popular tool for job hunters in the USA

C. Susan W. Miller’s company is helping people choose careers

D. California Career Services mainly serves university students

5. How many ways of finding a job are mentioned in the passage?

A. Three.               B. Four.           C. Five.                  D. Six.

     Have you seen Jurassic Park? In this film, scientists use DNA kept for tens of millions of years to clone dinosaurs. They find trouble, however, when they realize that the cloned creatures are smarter and more dangerous than expected. That’s nothing more than a fiction.

     But could we really clone endangered animals?

     To date, the most successful attempt to do so was the cloning of a gaur, a rare ox-like animal from southeast Asia. Scientists used a cow to bring the cloned baby gaur, named Noah. Two days after birth, however, Noah died from a common bacterial infection. Other endangered species that may be cloned include the African bongo antelope (邦戈羚羊), the Sumatran tiger, the cheetah (猎豹), and the giant panda.     Next, could we really clone extinct animals?

     In theory? Yes. To do this, you need a well-kept source of DNA from the extinct animals such as wool mammoth (毛象), Tasmanian tiger, or even dinosaur, and a closely related species, still living, which could serve as a surrogate mother.

     In reality? Probably not. On the one hand, it’s not likely that extinct animals’ DNA could survive undamaged for such a long time. Cloning extinct animals as wool mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, or dinosaur is much more difficult due to the lack of properly well-preserved DNA. On the other hand, for example, a gaur can have a cow as a surrogate mother, definitely not a monkey. But what about an extinct animals as unique as the panda? What species could possibly serve as a surrogate mother?

     Cloning presents many exciting possibilities. However, even if extinct animals are brought back, they could not survive in today’s world. Not only do most extinct animals have no habitat to love in, but the other plants and animals they depended on for food may also be gone as well.

1. It can be learned from the text that ________.

A. scientists have cloned the African bongo antelope

B. both the cheetah and the giant panda live in Asia

C. the gaur lives in Asia and is endangered 

D. the gaur is an extinct species

2. The underlined words “a surrogate mother” probably refer to a female who -----

A. contributes its eggs to another female   B. gives birth to a baby for another female

C. gives birth to a baby of its own        D. cannot give birth to a baby

3. The difficulty in cloning an extinct species is the lack of ______.

  A. both the well-preserved DNA and plants to live on

  B. both the habitat to live in and the well-preserved DNA

  C. both habitat to live in and plants to live on

  D. both the well-preserved DNA and a surrogate mother

4. In the author’s opinion, it is possible that ______.

  A. some extinct species may be cloned, but not survive

  B. extinct species may be cloned and easily survive

  C. a gaur can have a monkey as a surrogate mother

  D. all the extinct species may be cloned

5.Today , have scientists  cloned  dinosaus?

A .Yes    B .No    C .A lot  D.Only one.

第二部分       阅读理解(共两节,满分50分)  

第一节    阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)

Mickey’s Goal

Last night was the last game for my eight-year-old son’s soccer team. It was the final quarter. The score was two to one, my son’s team in the lead. Parents surrounded the playground, offering encouragement.

       With less than ten seconds remaining, the ball suddenly rolled in front of my son’s teammate, Mickey O’ Donnel. With shouts of “Kick it!” echoing(回响)across the playground, Mickey

turned around and gave it everything he had. All around me the crowd erupted (沸腾). O’ Donnel

had scored!m

       Then there was silence. Mickey had scored all right, but in the wrong goal, ending the game in a tie. For a moment there was a total hush. You see, Mickey has Down syndrome(综合症)and for him there is no such thing as a wrong goal. All goals were celebrated by a joyous hug from Mickey. He had even been known to hug the opposing players when they scored.

       The silence was finally broken when Mickey, his face filled with joy, hugged my son tightly and shouted, “I scored! I scored. Everybody won! Everybody won!” For a moment I held my breath, not sure how my son would react. I need not have worried. I watched, through tears, as my son threw up his hand in the classic high-five salute and started chanting, “Way to go Mickey! Way to go Mickey!” Within moments both teams surrounded Mickey, joining in the chant and congratulating him on his goal

       Later that night, when my daughter asked who had won, I smiled as I replied, “It was a tie. Everybody won.

 1.What was the score of the soccer matchm

       A.Two to two, equal to both the teams.        

B.Three to one in Mickey’s team’s favor.

       C.Two to one in the opposite team’s favor. 

D.Everybody won because of Mickey’s goal.

2.What did the author worry about when Mickey scored and hugged his son?

       A.The result of the match would fail his son. 

B.His son would shout at Mickey for his goal.

       C.Mickey would again hug the opposing players.

       D.His son would understand Mickey’s wrong goal.

3.It can be inferred from the passage that________.

       A.both teams liked and respected Mickey. 

B.both teams were thankful to Mickey for his goal.

       C.Mickey didn’t mind though his goal was wrong

       D.Mickey was a kind-hearted boy and hoped everybody won.

4.The purpose of the author in writing the passage is _______.

       A.to tell a joke to make readers laugh.  

B.to suggest we should not mind losing .

       C.to show enjoying a game is more than winning a game

       D.to present his son’s fine qualities of understanding others

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