While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wan

While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wan

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While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a newspaper a teaching job wanted at a school about ten miles from where I   16  . Because I was in great need of   17  and wanted to do something useful, I applied(申请).
Three days later, a letter   18  . It asked me to see the   19  at Croydon. It proved to be an    20  journey—a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at   21  a quarter of a mile. It was clearly that the headmaster himself opened the door. He was   22  and round.
“The school” he said, “has a group of twenty-four boys   23  seven and thirteen.”
I should have to teach all the   24  except art,   45  he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into   26  groups and teach them at three different   27  , and I was not  28  at the thought of teaching maths—a subject which I didn’t do very well in at school. It was  29  that I had to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be   30   themselves at that time.
Before I had time to ask about my salary(薪水), he got up to his feet. “ Now,” he said. “ you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.
小题1:
A.lived
B.played
C.studied
D.worked
小题2:
A.help
B.money
C.rest
D.force
小题3:
A.arrived
B.received
C.returned
D.wrote
小题4:
A.editor
B.teacher
C.headmaster
D.student
小题5:
A.comfortable
B.difficult
C.unpleasant
D.short
小题6:
A.first
B.last
C.least
D.most
小题7:
A.bad
B.glad
C.short
D.smiling
小题8:
A.between
B.from
C.by
D.under
小题9:
A.people
B.subjects
C.boys
D.knowledge
小题10:
A.who
B.where
C.what
D.which
小题11:
A.two
B.three
C.four
D.five
小题12:
A.subjects
B.lessons
C.levels
D.regions
小题13:
A.glad
B.surprised
C.angry
D.sad
小题14: A. better
C. more exciting
C. worse
D. nicer
小题15:
A.enjoying
B.helping
C.studying
D.managing

答案

小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:C
小题1:C
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:B
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:C
小题1:A
解析

作者是一名即将入学的大学生,为生计他到一所小学去应聘。校长和他面谈时,交待了他所需要傲的复杂的教学工作。他在询问报酬时,校长却健不了主,因为学校是他夫人做主。
小题1:A。lived住。离作者所住的地方10里路。
小题1:B。作者是一位即将上大学的学生,没有钱. be short of money缺钱。
小题1:A。收到一封信。a fetter做主语,故不用received。
小题1:C。信上写着要作者到Croydon与学校校长见面。
小题1:C。据上下文,去见面要乘火车、公共汽车和步行。因此旅途根艰难。
小题1:C。at least至少。跑了至少四分之一里路。
小题1:C。short个子矮。他又矮又胖。
小题1:A。指一个班有24名7岁至13岁的男孩。
小题1:B。我将不得不教所有的课程(subjects)。
小题1:D。which引导非限定性定语从句,修饰art。
小题1:B。作者要教除艺术之外的所有功课,应该把全班分成三个组。
小题1:C。作者要按三种不同的水平进行教学。
小题1:A。想到要教自己上学时不太擅长的数学课,作者有点失望。
小题1:C。更糟的是(worse)星期六下午还得去教学生。
小题1:A。enjoy themselves指作者的朋友星期六下午都玩得快活,与自己形成对比。
举一反三
Traditional Chinese festivals are now getting their own logos(标识).Here’re logos for China’s seven important traditional festivals.

Chunjie, Spring Festival, China’s lunar new year, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. People usually get together, watch fireworks and the lion dance, eat dumplings and put on new clothes. They pay New Year calls to their relatives and friends. Children usually get red packets.

Yuanxiao, Lantern Festival is on the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese calendar. People watch lanterns and eat sweet dumplings.

Qixi, the Night of Sevens is on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese calendar. It’s Chinese version(版本)of Valentine’s Day(情人节).

Qingming, Tomb-Sweeping Festival is around April 5.People from home and abroad go to the graves(墓)of the dead in memory of(纪念)them.

Zhongqiu, Mid-Autumn Festival, is on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. Families enjoy moon cakes and tell the story of  Chang’e.

Duanwu, Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar. People eat rice dumplings and remember the poet Qu Yuan.

Chongyang, Double Ninth Festival is on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar. It’s the date to pay respect(尊敬)to the old.
 
小题1:Mid-Autumn Festival is ________ in the Chinese calendar.
A.on 15th of AugustB.on 7th of July
C.on 15th of JanuaryD.on 5th of May
小题2:What do Chinese people eat at Dragon Boat Festival?
A.Dumplings.B.Moon cakes.
C.Rice dumplings.D.Sweet dumplings.
小题3:Chinese version of Valentine’s Day is ________.
A.Lantern FestivalB.the Night of Sevens
C.Spring FestivalD.Tomb-Sweeping Festival
小题4:At Tomb-Sweeping Festival, people go to the graves in memory of ________.
A.Qu YuanB.the elderlyC.Chang’eD.the dead
小题5:At Double Ninth Festival, what do people usually do?
A.They watch lanterns.B.They pay respect to old people.
C.They visit their relatives.D.They get together to tell stories.

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The Aborigines (澳洲土著) have lived in Australia for about 60,000 years. They painted pictures inside caves, and these are the rock paintings that have given us so much information about Aboriginal life. For example, some of the paintings that are about 10,000 years old show men with boomerangs. From this we know that the Aborigines started using boomerangs for hunting at that time. Other pictures show kangaroos, so we know that there were kangaroos at that time.
The Aborigines believed that spirits made people, animals and plants, and that these spirits still live in the earth. For Aborigines, no one can own the earth—the earth belongs to the spirits.
In 1700, there were many Aboriginal groups with a population of 750,000 all over Australia, and there were probably more than 240 different Aboriginal languages. The groups did not have a leader. Instead, things were decided by the older men in a group. People from different groups often travelled hundreds of miles to meet each other.
Aboriginal life changed when an English boat arrived in Australia in 1770. Many Aborigines were killed in the wars that they had with the English. More Europeans came, and they started taking land from the Aborigines. The Europeans also brought new illnesses that killed the Aborigines. The result is that today there are only about 300,000 Aborigines in Australia.
小题1:The Aborigines painted pictures       .
A.on animals’ fur B.on the land
C.on the treeD.on the rock
小题2:What do you think the Aborigines used boomerangs to do?
A.To paint.B.To hunt.C.To fight.D.To play.
小题3:The Aborigines thought        were the most important on the earth.
A.people B.animals C.spiritsD.plants
小题4:In an Aboriginal group        decided things.
A.the older menB.the leader
C.the EnglishD.the Europeans
小题5:The number of the Aborigines is small today       .
A.because their living condition was very bad
B.because the English killed a lot of them in the wars
C.because of the new illnesses the Europeans brought them
D.because of the wars and the new illnesses

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“I believe you’re the right person to write an advice column (专栏) for the students called Dear Amy!” Jenny, editor of the school newspaper, said to Andy, who finally agreed to accept the job if Jenny promised not to tell it to anyone else.
At first it wasn’t too bad. Most of the letters he received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then came a letter from a person named Joe.
“Dear Amy,” it began, “I’m in real trouble. I’ve wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents won’t even let me take music lessons. I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play. I’ve tried explaining, but they won’t listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home? Maybe that will make my parents agree.” The letter signed “Joe”.
Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should he advise someone to run away from home? Probably not. But didn’t Joe have a right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard, but couldn’t think out a good answer. Andy couldn’t sleep. He just worried about poor Joe.
At a bar a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy’s math class, sat down next to him and asked, “ What’s wrong with you? You look a little worried.”
“I guess I do,” said Andy.
“If you got an problem, why don’t you try writing to Dear Amy about it?” asked Eleanor.
Andy sighed; but she continued, “in fact, I guess Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn’t answered the phony letter I wrote her last week. You’d better read it – it may even make the most hard-hearted person cry! It was supposed to be from a songwriter named Joe.”
小题1:

小题2:It’s clear “Dear Amy” ______.
A.helps students who want to run away from homeB.answers letters from the students
C.writes songs for the studentsD.meets readers at a bar
小题3:

小题4:

小题5:The underlined word “ phony ” perhaps means ______.
A.unrealB.boyishC.popularD.favourite

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In the past, large numbers of American people liked to use tomorrow’s money. However, since the economic depression(经济萧条), many have learnt to live  16 . Here is a true story about an American girl, Anna. After graduation, she began to live in Los Angeles on her own. She  17  a job in a publishing house(出版社) and earned  18  $30,000 a year. Her parents thought Anna’s life would be  19 , but Anna was able to live on her money and still  20  $5000 in the first year. How could she do so in  21  expensive city?
Cheap living always starts with keeping the  22  cost small. For people, that  23  housing. So Anna chose to share a flat with three other friends. Her next biggest cost was  24 . When she ate  25 , she went to cheap restaurants.  26  she bought a $9.99 whole chicken at a local restaurant. She then took the chicken bones home and made soup out of them. Today young people often  27  a lot of money on entertainment. But Anna loved going to museums and parks as the  28  for these places were free. Did Anna feel poor by cheap living? Not really. She even  29  to take two trips, one to the Netherlands,  30  to Portland.
“Don’t think of saving money as something hard. It’s a kind of game,” said Anna.
小题1:
A.happilyB.luckilyC.hopefullyD.cheaply
小题2:
A.foundB.getsC.looked forD.makes
小题3:
A.more thanB.less thanC.moreD.less
小题4:
A.dangerousB.hardC.easyD.comfortable
小题5:
A.madeB.gaveC.tookD.saved
小题6:
A.so anB.such anC.soD.such
小题7:
A.expensiveB.muchC.bigD.heavy
小题8:
A.doesB.becomesC.helpsD.means
小题9:
A.foodB.clothesC.studyingD.traveling
小题10:
A.awayB.out C.upD.inside
小题11:
A.SoonB.FinallyC.OnceD.Again
小题12:
A.payB.spendC.costD.take
小题13:
A.ticketsB.seatsC.exhibitionD.tea
小题14:
A.triedB.hadC.neededD.managed
小题15:
A.anotherB.the otherC.otherD.other

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An American friend has invited you to visit his family. You’ve never been to an American’s home before, and you’re not sure what to do. Should you take a gift? How should you dress? What time should you arrive? What should you do when you get there? Glad you asked. When you’re the guest, you should just make yourself at home. That’s what hospitality(款待) is all about: making people feel at home when they’re not. 
The question of whether or not to bring a gift often makes guests squirm(难为情). Giving your host a gift is not just a social manner in some cultures-it’s expected. But in American culture, a guest is not necessary to bring a present. Of course, some people do bring a small present to their host to show their thanks. The right gifts for the host might be flowers, candy, and you can bring toys if the family has small children. If you choose not to bring a gift, dont worry. No one will even notice.
小题1:The passage talks about ______.
A.where to find a friend in needB.what to do while visiting your friends
C.how to make friendsD.when to visit your friend
小题2:The underlined word “manner” means ________ in Chinese.
A.弊端B.礼节C.趋势D.挑战
小题3:You can _______ if you want to bring a gift to your friend according to the passage.
A.bring a bundle of beer
B.bring him some beautiful clothes
C.bring delicious food
D.buy a bunch of fowlers
小题4: The underlined sentence wants to tell us _______.
A.you are impolite if you don’t bring a gift
B.how to pick out a gift for our friend
C.the host won’t care if you don’t bring a gift
D.bringing a gift is very necessary

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