and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She
firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie"s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a
story, which is what every writer should be doing. "If you aren"t telling a story, you"re a very dead writer indeed," she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain (让人愉快), Mollie is indeed an entertainer. "I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language," she says. "
This love goes back to early childhood. I"ve told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very
good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said "Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you"ll be a writer." So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good
teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer."
This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the
third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollie"s ambition (理想)
and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably(不可避免地) brought
thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows(草地) and strawberry fields-sadly now covered with modern houses. "I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had
lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I"ll never go back,"she said. "Never.""When I set one of my books
in Scotland,"she said,"I can recall my romantic (浪漫的) feelings as a child playing in those fields, or
watching the village blacksmith at work. And that"s important, because children now know so much so
early that romance can"t exist for them, as it did for us."
B. Being short of writing skills.
C. The weakness of description.
D. The absence of a story.
B. She didn"t enjoy writing stories.
C. She didn"t have any particular ambitions.
D. She didn"t respect her teacher"s views.
B. better informed(见多识广的)
C. less eager to learn
D. less interested in reality
B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter"s books.
C. To introduce Mollie Hunter"s work to a wider audience.
D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter"s existing readers
Every summer, hundreds of thousands of students travel to other countries looking for work and
adventure. Most of the opportunities are in 1 work. The pay is usually poor, but most people work
2 for the thrill of travel. You can pick grapes in France, entertain kids on American summer camps,
and, of course,
there are always 3 in hotels and restaurants.
But it is not as easy as it used to be to find work. Unless you speak the language of the country well,
there will be very 4 openings. For example, when you arrive to wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris,
the owner will 5 you to speak French. British students only have a language 6 for jobs in the USA
and Australia.
Not every one 7 the experience. Sarah James was once responsible for forty American children
in Europe. During the 8 , one child lost his passport; four children were lost in Madrid for a whole day;
the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 9 they made. Sarah says, "It really was
a 24-hour-a-day job since the kids never 10 ! And the pay was awful. It wasn"t worth it."
The trouble is that 11 expect to have an easy time of it. After all, they see it as a 12 . In practice,
though, they have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual work, and jobs are 13
only when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. But students have few employment 14 .
As soon as the holiday season finishes, companies will get rid of them. And if their employer doesn"t like
them, they"ll be 15 , too.
( )2. A. hard
( )3. A. customers
( )4. A. good
( )5. A. teach
( )6. A. program
( )7. A. has
( )8. A. trip
( )9. A. promise
( )10. A. cried
( )11. A. children
( )12. A. job
( )13. A. countless
( )14. A. experiences
( )15. A. dismissed
B. voluntarily
B. visitors
B. new
B. expect
B. lesson
B. enjoys
B. flight
B. progress
B. studied
B. students
B. lesson
B. available
B. rules
B. charged
C. abroad
C. jobs
C. attractive
C. allow
C. advantage
C. forgets
C. discussion
C. complaint
C. slept
C. employers
C. holiday
C. interesting
C. plans
C. fined
D. continuously
D. parties
D. few
D. forbid
D. exam
D. remembers
D. ceremony
D. noise
D. helped
D. parents
D. shame
D. boring
D. rights
D. punished
sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world"s wealthy nations,according to a study
published on Monday.
The average French person sleeps almost nine hours every night,more than an hour longer
than Japanese and Korean,who sleep the least in a survey of 18 members of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).Despite their siesta(午睡)habit,Spaniards
rank only third in the poll after Americans,who sleep more than 8.5 hours.
And while more and more French people grab a bite at fast-food chains these days or,wolf
down a sandwich at their desk,they still spend more than two hour"s a day eating.
That means their meals are twice as long as those of the average Mexican,who dedicates just
over an hour a day to food,the OECD"s "Society at a Glance" report on work,health and leisure
in Asia,Europe and North and South America found. The Japanese,scrimping (吝啬) on sleep
and burdened with long working hours,still manage to spend close to two hours a day eating and
drinking,placing them third behind New Zealanders.
Despite the limited amount of time Americans spend eating each day-about an hour and a
quarter-U.S. obesity肥胖) rates are the highest in the 30 members of OECD.
The Japanese like to spend what remains of their rare free time watching television or listening
to the radio. This takes up 47 percent of leisure time in Japan. Norwegians spend the most time at
leisure,just over a quarter of their day,while at the low end,Mexicans spend just 16 percent of their
time having fun.
The OECD has 30 members. The survey covers only the countries for which appropriate figures
were available.
B. Americans.
C. The French.
D. Japanese
B. The French > The Japanese > New Zealanders > Mexicans
C. Mexicans> The Japanese > New Zealanders > The French
D. New Zealanders > The Japanese >Mexicans> The French
B. sleeping time
C. eating time
D. obesity-rates
B. The Japanese spend 47﹪of leisure time watching TV or listening to the radio.
C. Mexicans spend most of their time having fun.
D. Spaniards who sleep more than 8.5 hours,rank only third after Americans.
B. to show which country spends the least time on sleeping
C. to show a survey about the time of leisure,sleeping,eating in some countries
D. to make a comparison to find out the best living styles of OECD countries
homes. At the same time about 1,300 American teenagers will go to other countries to learn new
languages and learn the rest of the world.
Here is a 2-way student exchange in action. Fred,19, spent last year in Germany with George"s
family. In turn, George"s son Mike spent a year in Fred"s home in America.
Fred, a lively young man, knew little German when he arrived. But after 2 months of studying,
the language became easy for him. School was completely different from what he had expected
and it was much harder. Students rose respectfully when the teacher entered the room. They took
14 subjects instead of 6 that were usually taken in the US.
Family life, too, was different. The father"s word was the law. All the activities were done with
the family rather than individually. Fred found the food to be too simple at first. He also missed
having a car.
"Back home, you pick up some friends in a car and go out to have a good time.In Germany,
you walk but you soon learn to like it ."
At the same time, in America, Mike,a friendly German boy, was also forming his own ideas.
"I suppose I should criticize American schools" he says, "It is far too easy for our level but I have
to say that I like it a lot. In Germany, we do nothing but study. Here we take part in many other
activities. I think that maybe American schools are better in training their citizens. There ought to
be some middle ground between the two."
1 between American school life and German school life
officials in rural areas to both improve rural administration and ease the city"s employment problems.
The government plans to recruit 3,000 university graduates this year, 1,000 more than last year, to
work as assistants to village heads or Party secretaries in suburban areas.
People interested in jobs in Beijing"s rural villages and townships can submit applications to the
Beijing Municipal Personnel Bureau or online at www. Bjbys.com from February 1 through March 15.
"We hope university graduates will seize this opportunity to use their knowledge in rural villages and
to start their careers," Sun Zhenyu, deputy director of Beijing Personnel Bureau, told Xinhua News
Agency.
The government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan( $ 250) in the
first year, 2,500 yuan ($ 320) the second year and 3,000 yuan ($ 385) the third year, provided their
performance is up to the required standards, Sun said.
Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University last year, was one of the first graduates
to find work in the city"s countryside. After majoring in industrial and commercial administration, Wang
served as the assistant to the village head of Ertiaojie Village in suburban Beijings Pinggu District. For
one project, Wang contacted people at the Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sciences and arranged for
the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting. Her efforts paid off. The village had a plentiful
harvest of organic strawberries earlier this year.
Nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according
to figures provided by the Ministry of Education.
The ministry predicts that 4. 95 million students will graduate from universities across the country this
year, 820,000 more than last year. About 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate.
In Beijing, a record 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year. Less than half
of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to the personnel bureau.
B. force
C. encourage
D. train
B. the government guarantee a relatively high salary for the successful candidates
C. working as junior officials is easy but very meaningful
D. the competition for the job as junior officials is very fierce
B. local farmers can get big harvests if they learn more knowledge.
C. university graduates can also realize their value in rural areas.
D. Wang had great difficulty in helping villagers planting organic strawberries.
B. the universities should not have so many students
C. there are more and more graduates in recent years
D. it is not easy for graduates to find jobs nowadays
B. A good Job Choice for University Graduates
C. What Is the Best Career?
D. Difficulty for University Graduates
the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an "education" through games
and other entertainment.
A cartoon man dressed in old time pilot clothing greets visitors to Admongo. "Call me Haiz",
he says upon arrival in a rocket ship that opens up with a crazy world inside it. Spacey dance
music plays in the background as Haiz tells visitors that they need to learn about advertising.
Its inventors say eight to twelve years old is the age kids d evelop their critical thinking
abilities. Kids that age are also a big market for advertisers.
The idea behind Admongo is to teach children three things: To identify the advertiser. To
know what the advertiser is really saying. And to know what the advertisement is trying to get
the child to do.
Children learn these things through a video game. They create their own game character. They
can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes. Then they begin a trip through
ad-land, where there are ads on buses and billboards. The players have to find all the marketing in
the neighborhood before they can move on to the next level.
The Admongo game takes players inside a home, to the advertising studio and everywhere else
ads can be found. It is a complete exploration of the world of marketing.
One such area is food marketing. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says it is a big business.
The FTC estimates that food, drink and fast-food restaurants spent more than one and a half billion
dollars on advertising to young people in 2009.
The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence
parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future adult buyers of the products.
A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value.
First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for
children.
B. An education website for children
C. A popular online video game
D. A website aimed at children
B. To sell the products of its company.
C. To help children know about advertising.
D. To advertise the video game for children.
A. Choose hair styles for their character.
B. Travel to a supermarket.
C. Eat in a fast-food restaurant.
D. Play video games during the trip.
B. the most potential buyers
C. easily influenced by ads
D. easily affected by poor products
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