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Too often young people get themselves employed quite by accident, not knowing whether there will be opportunities for promotion (晋升), happiness and security. As a result, they are employed in doing jobs that afford them little or no satisfaction.
Our school leavers face so much competition that they seldom care what they do as long as they can earn a living. Some stay long at a job and learn to like it; others leave one for another looking for something to suit them. The young graduates leave the university with the dream of looking for jobs that offer a salary up to their expectation.
Very few go out into the world knowing exactly what they want and the limits of their own abilities. The cause behind all this confusion is that there has never been a proper vocational（职业的） guidance in our educational institutions. Nearly all the graduates feel their way in the dark. Their chief concern is the salary. They never bother to think whether they are suited for the job or, even more important, whether the job suits them. Having a job is more than merely providing one and one’ s dependants with daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment. It sets a pattern of life and, in many ways, determines a person ’s social status in life and selection of friends, leisure and interest.
In choosing a profession, one should first consider which type of work will suit his or her interest. Nothing is sadder than taking on a job in which one has no interest, for it will not only ruin one’ s talents but also discourage one’ s desire to succeed in life.
小题1:According to Paragraph l, why do many young people find their jobs unsatisfactory? (within 10 words)
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小题2:According to Paragraph 2, what do university graduates expect of their future jobs? ‘(within l0 words)
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小题3:What does the underlined word “dependants” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? (within 10 words)
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小题4:According to Paragraph 3, why are the .university graduates confused when they find jobs? (within 10 words)
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小题5:According to the author, what is the most important in choosing a job? (within 10 words)
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答案
小题1:Because they often find their jobs by chance.
小题2: They expected the job could offer them satisfactory salary.
小题3: People who depend on others for a living.
小题4:Because there has been no vocational guidance in the universities.
小题5:Finding the work that best suits one’s interests. |
解析
试题分析：本文主要讲述了现在很多的大学生却是就业方面的指导，导致他们对于自己究竟应该从事于何种工作很困惑。
小题1:Because they often find their jobs by chance.
细节题。根据文章第一句Too often young people get themselves employed quite by accident, not knowing whether there will be opportunities for promotion (晋升), happiness and security.说明他们取得工作都是很偶然的，没有考虑到很多别的方面的问题。
小题2: They expected the job could offer them satisfactory salary.
细节题。根据第二段3,4行The young graduates leave the university with the dream of looking for jobs that offer a salary up to their expectation.说明年轻的毕业生主要期待的就是工资，希望自己那个获得较高的工资来养活家人。
小题3: People who depend on others for a living.
推理题。根据下半句providing one and one’ s dependants with daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment.说明人们要努力挣钱来养活自己的家人，给他们提供食物和钱。故这些人是指依靠别人生活的人。
小题4:Because there has been no vocational guidance in the universities.
细节题。根据第二段6,7行说明却是就业方面的指导是最主要的问题。
小题5:Finding the work that best suits one’s interests.
细节题。根据文章最后一段第一句In choosing a profession, one should first consider which type of work will suit his or her interest.
点评：本文讲述的是却是就业指导的大学生所面临的困惑。本题侧重对学生把握文章中心段落和各段落的中心句的能力的考查，所以遇到这类题后，要注意把握好文章结构，了解文章中心意思，找到各段落中心句。不要让文中的一些生词影响了注意力。 |
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Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesn’t always come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.
The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They don’t keep them, since they’re not in the warehouse business. And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.
So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Unclaimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the store’s shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.
Each day, clerks bring out 7,000 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.
The store’s own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage, then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.
The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions（获得物） have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaoh"s tomb, and a medieval suit of armor.
Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.
小题1:Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because______.| A．they are forgetful | | B．the owners of some luggage can’t be identified | | C．they are in a hurry | | D．there is no lost and found office in many airports |
小题2:The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that ______.| A．they have to find the owners | | B．they have to keep the bags as long as possible | | C．some bags are expensive | | D．they are likely to make a profit on the bags on purpose |
小题3:The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very popular because______.| A．visitors may purchase something undervalued. | | B．all thethings there are very cheap. | | C．there"s a large variety of goods. | | D．visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there. |
小题4:What can we infer from the passage?| A．A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage. | | B．The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use. | | C．The percentage of passengers who lose their baggage for ever is small. | | D．People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store. |
小题5:What is the main purpose of the passage?| A．To introduce an attractive place to tourists. | | B．To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage. | | C．To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage. | | D．To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America. |
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When you’re an employee of a company, no matter the size, it’s common to see co-workers promoted, or transferred to a different department. But there is another way to move around—by creating a new position for yourself. I did this several years ago, though I wasn’t actively looking for a different job.
In 2007, I was hired at the Transamerica Life Insurance Company, as a customer service representative in the distributions services department. I processed requests for distributions from our annuity(养老金)policy holders around the country. Someone might have forgotten to sign a form, for example, or might have omitted security information. To solve the problem, I’d mail the person a letter.
The company had been through several combinations, so in our department alone we had a collection of about 140 templates(模板) for letters related to distributions. The longer I worked with the letters, the more I saw how they could be improved. Some had overlapping information and could be combined. Some had incorrect grammar or needed updating. I also noticed that industry terminology(专业术语) wasn’t standard across all the versions.
When I told my department supervisor about this in 2008, she agreed that the letters needed revamping. She said I should stop what I’d been doing and start the new work. In a relatively short time, I was able to make numerous improvements and reduce the number of letters to 70. It was an informal job change until a managers’ meeting several months later.
At that meeting, a vice president who was unaware of my new work mentioned that the division’s entire stock of 1,700 letters should be reviewed. My manager told her that she knew the perfect person for the job—me. The position was still considered temporary when I took on the extra tasks, but I was able to show that the work had value, and I was officially promoted and given a raise in November 2009.
小题1:According to Paragraph 1, which of the following statements is true? | A．The author admired those who got a promotion in his company. | | B．It is no surprise to see people around us change their positions. | | C．The author tried his best to get a promotion in his company | | D．The author was eager to seek another job. |
小题2:Which of the following problems with the letters is NOT mentioned in the passage?| A．Some information was overlooked. | | B．Some information needed to be united. | | C．Some had grammatical mistakes. | | D．Industry terminology didn’t meet the standard. |
小题3:The underlined word “revamping” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to .| A．repeating | B．rebuilding | C．improving | D．strengthening |
小题4:The author started to review the letters when .| A．he was hired by the company | | B．he was promoted | | C．he was recommended at a managers’ meeting | | D．his department supervisor agreed his idea |
小题5:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?| A．Where there is will, there is a way. | | B．Creating a position, and earning a promotion. | | C．Don’t let the chance go, when it comes. | | D．Ways to get a promotion. |
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It happened to me recently that I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father and how it had changed my views of the current US President. The person I was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his words, “a wonderfully written book.” However, he then proceeded to talk about Mr. Obama in a way that suggested he had no idea of his background at all. I sensed that I was talking to a book liar(说谎者)．
And it seems that he is not the only one. Clearly two thirds of people have lied about reading a book which they haven’t. In The World Book Day survey, Dreams From My Father is at number 9. The survey lists top ten books, and various authors, which people have lied about reading. As I’m not one to lie too often, I’ll admit here and now that I haven’t read the entire ten books. But I am pleased to say that I have read the book at number one, George Orwell’s 1984. I think it’s absolutely outstanding．
Asked why they lied, the most common reason was to impress someone they were speaking to. This could be difficult if the conversation became more in-depth!
The World Book Day survey also has some other interesting information in it. It shows that many people lie about having read classical works by Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens and so on. But when asked which authors they actually enjoy, they named JK Rowling, Jilly Cooper, and Stephen King. Forty-one percent of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before finishing the story．
So which books have you lied about reading —if any — and which is your favorite?
小题1:The main reason why people lie about reading is to __________. | A．make fun of the listener | B．impress the listener | | C．please the listener | D．interest the listener |
小题2:The underlined word “proceeded” in the passage probably means“___________”.| A．wanted | B．happened | C．continued | D．stopped |
小题3:What is the best title for the passage?| A．Are You A Book Liar? | B．Readers Are All Liars | | C．World Book Day | D．Dreams From My Father |
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Silence is unnatural to man．He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness．In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else．Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence．If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蜡塑人像）.
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito （蚊子）.But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people"s ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
小题1:According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.| A．in the hope of learning something new | | B．in the hope of getting on well | | C．about whatever they want to | | D．about whatever they have prepared |
小题2:According to the author, people make conversation to______.| A．achieve success in life | | B．overcome their fear of silence | | C．exchange ideas | | D．prove their value |
小题3:What is the author"s purpose in writing the passage?| A．To persuade people to stop making noises． | | B．To explain why people keep talking． | | C．To discuss why people like talking about weather． | | D．To encourage people to join in conversations． |
小题4:By "the buzzing of a fly"(Para.1), the author means"_____".| A．the voice of a chatterbox | | B．meaningless talk sound | | C．a low whispering | | D．the noise of an insect |
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A recent survey shows that the alarming rate of child suicide(自***) in Hong Kong, raising levels of stress and anxiety among young people, increasing conflicts between children and teachers, and children’s complaints that their parents do not understand their problems—all point to a drop in “emotional quotient” (EQ) (情商), the ability to handle relationships.
EQ is defined as the ability to deal with oneself and others effectively. High EQ, psychologists say, is easy to spot. Some of the greatest humanitarian (人道主义的) leaders have high EQ, along with successful managers and inspirational and respected teachers. The problem is not how to spot high EQ but to improve on low EQ, so society as a whole can benefit.
In the United States, declining EQ among young people is seen as one of the factors behind rising young people’s crime because youths fail to understand others’ feelings—one of the key components of EQ. While the situation in Hong Kong is not so bad, there are warning signs that the levels of anxiety among youth may become critical. Declining EQ among Hong Kong teenagers has been acknowledged by several studies including a key study by the education concern group, the Learning-Teacher Association, which found a high degree of anxiety among students over the future and also that young people lacked confidence in dealing with problems. Parents and teachers will also need to develop their own EQ skills in order to deal with them effectively.
Daniel Goleman cites a number of basic elements of high EQ: first, awareness of your feelings as you experience them which is very important to making good decisions in life; second, feeling or awareness of what others are feeling. “90% of emotional information is expressed non-verbally and people vary in their ability to pick it up,” Dr. Goleman says in his book.
Dr. Goleman argues that without high EQ even highly-educated, highly-intelligent people will not find success in life. Or those with low EQ, even though they may be brilliant, tend to lack feeling and impulse control. They fail easily, and they are easily intolerant and often aggressive in interpersonal relations. Some educational psychologists believe work on EQ may be important in Hong Kong with its high rate of suicide among school children. EQ test may be able to help predict those most at risk, and those least able to deal with their own emotions or unable to deal with others, including parents and teachers.
小题1:According to the passage, children in Hong Kong commit suicide at an alarming rate as a result of _______.| A．parents not understanding their children | | B．the rising levels of stress and anxiety among young people | | C．the inability of dealing with relationships | | D．increasing conflict between children and teachers |
小题2:We can infer from the passage that people with low emotional quotient _______.| A．are least likely to become good leaders | | B．can deal with oneself and others effectively | | C．are beneficial to society | | D．are more likely to be respected |
小题3:The word “its” in the last paragraph refers to ________.| A．the work on EQ | | B．Hong Kong | | C．EQ | | D．China |
小题4:Daniel Goleman believes that _______.| A．one can be just as successful without having a high EQ | | B．only people with both high EQ and high IQ will be successful in life | | C．people with low intelligence will not get a successful life | | D．people not having high EQ may not be successful in life despite being extremely intelligent |
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