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At a garage, the mechanic promised our Mercury Sable would be repaired by the next week.Meanwhile, John tried to find us a rental car.After many phone calls, John finally found a car.Luckily, our auto club would pick up the tab.We ended up arriving there three hours behind schedule.We tried every ride and met Mickey.
At the end of the long weekend we called the garage to check on our car.It turned out that the mechanic hadn"t even looked at it yet! John got on the phone again.He found it would cost more than $ l, 100 to rent a car to drive home.That plus a plane ticket for him to go pick up our own car and we"d be out over $2,000!
I wailed(痛哭) and asked John, "What are we going to do?" He said, "It"ll work out." John encouraged me not to lose heart and he insisted on trying to find a way out.Amazingly, John found a car transport company that had a car we could drive home, paying only for gas! But all the way home I couldn"t stop thinking about the money we"d still need for John"s trip back to the garage and another long driving home.
When we got home, the high school student who had fed our cats asked how our trip was.I gave him the rundown, "Things worked out okay except that our car"s still stuck in Georgia." "No problem," he said."I"m heading to Florida for a spring break with my parents.We"ll be glad to stop in Georgia on the way back and pick up your car."
We ended up spending only $50 more than we"d budgeted.The next week, our car was back, and I had a new understanding of dealing with trouble.Whatever happens, if you never give up, a good solution will come out at last.
小题1:From the passage we can learn that .
A.Disney World is located in Georgia |
B.Mercury Sable is the name of the mechanic |
C.the couple budgeted for their trip carefully |
D.repairing their car needed a lot of money |
A.pay the expense of renting a car |
B.find a taxi for the club members |
C.give somebody a lift on the way |
D.take someone home free of charge |
A.They didn"t have enough money to rent a car to go home. |
B.They spent $2,000 more than they had budgeted. |
C.They didn"t enjoy themselves in Disney World. |
D.They found their car hadn"t been repaired at all. |
A.the car transport company usually had its cars rented |
B.the couple had to drive the company"s car to an appointed place |
C.the car transport company charged the couple some money |
D.a student helped the couple return the car to the company . |
答案
小题1:C
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:B
解析
核心考点
试题【For years my husband, John, and I had dreamed of taking our three kids to Disney】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently --- one who works for you. In fact, he’s one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.
Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume(简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues(问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. I’m sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility you’ve given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.
So why is he looking for a way out?
He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.
The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.
He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what he’s doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. That’s what you want for him, too, isn’t it?
So your reporter has set me thinking.
Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists --- everyone --- is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can’t do it, they’ll find someone who can.
小题1:What does the writer think of the reporter?
A.Optimistic. | B.Imaginative. | C.Ambitious. | D.Proud. |
A.Finding the news value of his stories. | B.Giving him financial support. |
C.Helping him to find issues. | D.Improving his good ideas. |
A.An editor. | B.An artist. | C.A reporter. | D.A reader. |
A.keep their best reporters at all costs |
B.give more freedom to their reporters |
C.be aware of their reporters’ professional development |
D.appreciate their reporters’ working styles and attitudes |
Any owner will tell you how much joy a pet brings. For some, an animal provides more comfort than a husband/wife. A 2002 study by Karen Allen of the State University of New York measured stress (紧张) levels and blood pressure in people ---half of them pet owners ---while they performed 5 minutes of mental arithmetic (算术) or held a hand in ice water. Subjects completed the tasks alone, with a husband/wife, a close friend or with a pet. People with pets did it best. Those tested with their animal friends had smaller change in blood pressure and returned most quickly to baseline heart rates. With pets in the room, people also made fewer math mistakes than when doing in front of other companions. It seems people feel more relaxed (放松)around pets, says Allen, who thinks it may be because pets don’t judge.
A study reported last fall suggests that having a pet dog not only raises your spirits but may also have an effect on your eating habits. Researchers at Northwestern Memorial Hospital spent a year studying 36 fat people and their equally fat dogs on diet-and-exercise programs; a separate group of 56 people without pets were put on a diet program. On average, people lost about I1 pounds, or 5% of their body weight. Their dogs did even better, losing an average of 12 pounds, more than 15% of their body weight. Dog owners didn’t lose any more weight than those without dogs but, say researchers, got more exercise overall---mostly with their dogs --- and found it worth doing.
小题1:What does the text mainly discuss?
A.What pets bring to their owners. |
B.How pets help people calm down. |
C.People’s opinions of keeping pets. |
D.Pet’s value in medical research. |
A.he has a pet companion |
B.he has less stress of work |
C.he often does mental arithmetic |
D.he is taken care of by his family |
A.They have lower blood pressure. |
B.They become more patient. |
C.They are less nervous. |
D.They are in higher spirits. |
The Colorado River slowly cut down through stone to make the Grand Canyon(大峡谷).
Long ago, ice sheets cut Yosemite Valley and the Great Lakes, and glaciers(冰川) are still on the move in Alaska.
Wind and rain storm hit the land from time to time. Fires sometimes burn down forests and destroy the homes of wild animals. This happened in Yellowstone Park in 1988.
Dead volcanic mountains such as Haleakala on Maui and Carter Lakein Oregon are beautiful to look at. But there are several active volcanoes in the US, especially along the Pacific Coast. There are also many earthquakes in this area. Scientists can do nothing to control earthquakes or volcanoes. This was shown clearly on May 18, 1980. At 8:32 that morning, Mount St Helens in Washington state broke out. The top of the mountain was blown off.
Over 60 people –campers, scientists, journalists, forest workers—were killed. Hundreds of square miles of forests were knocked down. In towns over 100 miles away, day suddenly became night. An ash cloud hid the sun for many hours. Towns and fields in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho were covered with dirty gray ash.
Scientists knew that Mt St Helens might erupt(爆发) soon. But no one could say when. And no one expected the terrible strength of the eruption. Many people were surprised and unready. Harry R. Truman, 84, owned a small hotel in Mt St Helens. Scientists had asked people to move away because the volcano was becoming dangerous.
But Harry Truman would not leave his home. Now it is covered with many feet of dirty ash. A small cross stands above the place where Harry probably died. Perhaps it is better that he did not see the destruction of Mt St Helens, the once beautiful lake, and the forests.
But slowly, life is returning to the dead area around the mountain. Grass and small plants are beginning to grow again. Deer and birds have been seen. The land will never be the same as it once was. Perhaps Mt St Helens will erupt again. But this is all part of nature’s pattern of change, and man has little power to control it.
小题1:Choose the best title for this passage.
A.Wind, water, fire and ice |
B.Volcano’s beauty and danger |
C.The power of nature |
D.Natural force shape beautiful land of America |
A.The smoke | B.The clouds. | C.The fog. | D.The ash. |
A.The body of old Harry |
B.The location of Harry’s home |
C.The opening on top of Mt St Helens |
D.The place where Harry probably died |
A.Washington and Oregon are neighboring states |
B.Colorado River runs through Yosemite Valley |
C.The eruption of Mt St Helens also caused trouble with the Yellowstone Park |
D.Scientists never knew Mt St Helens was active |
Job sharing differs from conventional(常规的) part-time work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and professional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commitment.
Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people. Job sharing by contrast, is not designed to address the growing number of unemployed people. Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemployment problems; its focus, rather is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities.
As would be expected, most job sharers are women. A survey carried out in 1988 by Britain’s Equal Opportunities Commission showed that 78 per cent of sharers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age. Subsequent studies have come up with similar results. Many of these women were re-entering the job market after having had children, but they chose not to seek part-time work because it would have meant lower status. Job sharing also offered an acceptable shift back into full-time work after a long absence.
The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventional one-position jobs. However, to ensure a greater chance that the partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position. Moreover, there must be a fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones. In sum, for a position to be job-shared well, the two individuals must be well matched and must treat each other as equals.
小题1:In what way is work sharing different from job sharing?
A.Work sharing requires more working hours. |
B.Work sharing is aimed at creating more jobs. |
C.Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary. |
D.Work sharing depends on the employer’s decision. |
A.they sought higher social status |
B.they were over ideal working ages |
C.they had difficulty finding full-time jobs |
D.they had to take care of both work and family |
A.enjoy equal social status |
B.have similar work experience |
C.keep in touch with each other |
D.know each other very well |
Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters; others are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality(准时)for meals. In general, the controls imposed(强加的)represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community(社区)as much as the child’s own happiness.
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”. If they are not sincere and do not practice what they preach(说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled.
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment.
小题1:Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills _____.
A.should be avoided |
B.is universal among parents |
C.sets up dangerous states of worry in the child |
D.will make him lose interest in learning new things |
A.achieve a balance between pushing them too hard and leaving them on their own |
B.not expect too much of them |
C.encourage them to read before they know the meaning of the words they read |
D.create as many learning opportunities as possible |
A.parental restrictions vary, and are not always enforced for the benefit of the children alone |
B.parental controls satisfy only the needs of the parents and the values of the community |
C.parents should be strict with their children |
D.parents vary in their strictness towards their children according to the situation |
A.idea | B.punishment | C.instruction | D.behaviour |
A.satisfy their children’s needs |
B.be aware of the marked difference between adults and children |
C.forbid things which have no foundation in morality |
D.observe(遵守,奉行) the rules themselves |
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