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answers the call of nature and gets proper exercise. They often walk more than one dog at a time. Some
walkers work for dogwalking services, especially when starting out. Others have their own businesses,
and build by word of mouth and advertising. Dog walkers often work parttime, and some provide other
services like pet sitting or transporting.
In New York, dog walkers usually earn about $25 an hour. If you work for a dogwalking business,
you may earn less; if you are on your own dealing with several dogs at the same time, it may be more.
What do you have to do to be a dog walker?
First, have a real love of dogs, and have a good knowledge of how to get on with dogs. Try calling
dogwalking services to find out about openings. If you"re on your own, you"ll need to network and market yourself. You might advertise your services in pet offices, grooming businesses, or neighborhood papers.
You will need business cards and a mobile phone, and have good references and a clean background.
You"ll also have to deal with taxes and insurance. You should be physically fit, friendly, neatly dressed
and extremely dependable. Many dog walkers are bonded(被担保的)and insured, and this is a definite
selling point to clients.
Of course, you will be cleaning up dog waste! You will also be outside in all kinds of weather. You
may have to deal with dogs that don"t like each other, and difficult owners. It"s also an upanddown kind
of business-clients can come and go.
For pet lovers, spending the workday with dogs instead of navigating office politics is its own reward! You are your own boss-you can dress casually, your doggy clients will love you unconditionally, and
you"ll get some great exercise!
B. enrich your knowledge about pets
C. advertise for a business
D. tell you more about life in New York
C. get prepared D. make more money
B. keep a good pet dog
C. make money in his daily spare time
D. be a parttime office worker
B. why dogwalking is worth trying
C. the unknown part of dogwalking
D. the bad side of dogwalking
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试题【阅读理解 Dog walkers provide a 20 to 60minute daily walk for a client"s(客户)dog, 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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subjects than others. These may show strengths that you can use in your work. A boy who is good at
mathematics can use that in an engineering career. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good
at office work. So it is important to do well at school. On the other hand, you may not have any specially
strong or weak subjects but your records show a general satisfactory standard. Although not all subjects
can be used directly in a job, they may have indirect value. Knowledge of history is not required for most
jobs but if history is one of your good subjects you will have learned to remember facts and details. This
is an ability that can be useful in many jobs.
Your school may have taught you skills, such as typing or technical drawing, which you can use in
your work. You may be good at metal work or cookery (烹饪术) and look for a job where you can
improve these skills.
If you have had a part-time job on Saturdays or in the summer, think what you gained from it. If
nothing else, you may have learned how to get to work on time, to follow instructions and to get on with
older workers. You may have learned to give correct change in a shop, for example. Just as important,
you may become interested in a particular industry or career you see from the inside in a part-time job.
Facing your weak points is also part of knowing yourself. You may be all thumbs when you handle
(运用) tools; perhaps you are a poor speller or cannot add up a column of figures. It is better to face
any weaknesses than to pretend they do not exist. Your school record, for instance, may not be too
good, yet it is an important part of your background. You should not be apologetic about it but instead
recognize that you will have a chance of a fresh start at work.
B. Using school performance to help to choose a career.
C. The importance of being good at all subjects.
D. The indirect value of schoolwork.
B. useful for his future work
C. a good way to earn extra money
D. a good way to find out his weak points
B. will not be able to find a suitable job
C. will regret not having worked harder at school
D. may do well in his future work
B. English.
C. Technical drawing.
D. History.
B. acquiring knowledge by working hard at school
C. finding one"s strong and weak points
D. developing one"s abilities useful in school work
A mobile phone service which makes your handset scream when it"s been stolen has been started,
with its makers claiming it could put an end to mobile theft altogether.
The Remote XT system uses software to link customers" mobile phones directly to a secure remote
server, which stores all their data from phone numbers to text messages and e-mails. If the owner"s phone
is lost or stolen, they can dial a 24-hour call centre and have it registered. The handset is then disabled,
and cannot even be used if a new SIM card is put in. At the same time, the system sets off an alarm
sounding like a high-pitched(尖声的) scream, which can only be stopped by removing the battery.
Existing data is also wiped off the phone but, because the information has been stored centrally,
as soon as the victim gets a news phone, the system designers said.
"By making mobiles unusable to anyone but the rightful owner the phones become worthless and we
will see the market for stolen handsets stopped once and for all," said Mark Whiteman, managing
director of Remote XT. For the moment the system is aimed at business customers and comes with a
fee of 9.99 pounds per month, possibly available to the majority of average users within two years as
mobile technology advances.
According to the latest UK government statistics, mobile phone theft has risen 190 percent in recent
years, with one third of all UK robberies now solely involving mobile phones.
1. What is the best title for the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
With a phone lost or stolen, the phone"s user can call a service centre at any time, having his/ her case
recorded.
3. Please fill in the blank in Paragraph 3 with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please
answer within 10 words.)
4. Do you believe the security system can put an end to phone theft? Try to give your reasons. (Please
answer within 30 words.)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese.
relationships, and be __1__. However, when we"re __2__, we want to go back to being young and
we __3__ the days when we didn"t have to worry about complex love affairs, __4__ pressure, and
money problems.
Young people believe adulthood __15__ freedom from parents and schoolwork. When they get
older, they feel that __6__ is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To __7__ this
feeling, people say, “The grass is always __8__ on the other side of the fence.”
As __9__, we like to be like adults, but as young adults, we __10__ to be young again. We think
about staying out late and __11__ our own money to spend. Suddenly, they see that love can result in
__12__ hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for __13__ the next morning. They find out
that adult life is not as __14__ as they thought it would be and suddenly, __15__ becomes very scary.
Life is __16__. It gives us time to __17__ but also requires us to work. The time will come when
we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we __18__ being young a bit longer. That time
will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the __19__ is that to be happy is to
appreciate what we have. That is the first step to grow up. __20__ life becomes more complex, we will
not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.
| ( )1. A. comfortable ( )2. A. older ( )3. A. like ( )4. A. sleep ( )5. A. creates ( )6. A. childhood ( )7. A. reduce ( )8. A. greener ( )9. A. researchers ( )10. A. wish ( )11. A. making ( )12. A. healthy ( )13. A. breakfast ( )14. A. rich ( )15. A. life ( )16. A. long ( )17. A. study ( )18. A. stopped ( )19. A. reason ( )20. A. If | B. dependent B. defeated B. forget B. job B. shows B. adulthood B. describe B. thinner B. teenagers B. decide B. having B. ambitious B. school B. busy B. love B. short B. think B. enjoyed B. result B. When | C. independent C. married C. regret C. age C. means C. parenthood C. experience C. yellow C. adults C. return C. worrying about C. broken C. exercise C. free C. career C. fair C. play C. imagined C. dream C. Unless | D. polite D. confident D. miss D. time D. limits D. romanticism D. understand D. colorful D. elders D. stop D. showing off D. excited D. work D. easy D. future D. beautiful D. live D. tried D. truth D. Before |
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| This is a time of year when we think about giving and receiving presents. Can you find a little extra to give? On this page we suggest a few organizations you might like to help. Littleton Children"s Home We DON"T want your money, but children"s toys, books and clothes IN GOOD CONDITION would be very welcome. Also, we are looking for friendly families who would take our children into their homes for a few hours or days as guests. You have so much?will you share it? Phone Sister Thomas on 55671 Children"s Hospice We look after a small number of very sick children. This important work needs skill and love. We cannot continue without gifts or money to pay for more nursing staff. We also need storybooks and toys suitable for quiet games. Please contact the Secretary, Little Children"s Hospice, Newby Road. Street Food In the winter weather, it"s no fun being homeless. It"s even worse if you"re hungry. We give hot food to at least fifty people every night. It"s hard work, but necessary. Can you come and help? If not, can you offer a little money? We use a very old kitchen, and we need some new saucepans(平底锅). Money for new ones would be most welcome indeed. Contact Street Food, c/o Mary"s House, Elming Way. Littleton Phone 27713 Littleton Youth Club Have you got an unwanted chair??a record-player??a pot of paint ? Because we can use them! We want to get to work on our meeting room! Please phone 66231 and we"ll be happy to collect anything you can give us. Thank you! The Night Shelter We offer a warm bed for the night to anyone who has nowhere to go. We rent the former Commercial Hotel on Green Street. Although it is not expensive, we never seem to have quite enough money. Can you let us have a few pounds? Any amount, however small, will be such a help. Send it to us at 15, Green St, Littleton. Please make check payable to Night Shelter. | |||
| 1. What kind of people are these organizations designed for? | |||
| A. Homeless and sick children B. Less fortunate members of our society C. Hungry people who have no beds to sleep in D. Friendly members of our society to help others | |||
| 2. If you like children and you could offer a happy family to a homeless child, you may contact _____. | |||
| A. Street Food B. The Night Shelter C. Littleton Children"s Home D. Children"s Hospice | |||
| 3. What can be concluded from the passage? | |||
| A. There are too many social problems in this society. B. People are very poor during the time of giving. C. To offer help is just an excuse for these organizations to collect money. D. There are many organizations trying to solve social problems. | |||
| 4. What kind of things would Littleton Youth Club like to collect? | |||
| A. Old furniture and second-hand electrical equipment. B. An apartment and some saucepans. C. Hot food and storybooks. D. A sum of money and children"s toys. | |||
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| How Many Lies Do the Children Tell You? Mothers who feel their children don" t appreciate them can add another grievance to the list: half the time, their children are lying to them．A study designed to expose the truth about lying shows that undergraduates lie to their mothers in 46% of their conversations．Still, mums should feel better than total strangers, who are told lies an astonishing 77 % of the time． Bella Depaulo and a team of psychologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, asked 77 undergraduates to keep a record of all their conversations for a week, and write down whethe r they lied at any time．DePaulo named lying broadly, as "when you intentionally try to mislead someone", so she would catch the smallest of lies. The students told an average of two lies a day．They said they had been studying when they had been out drinking．One told his parents that a textbook cost $50 rather than $20 so that they would send him extra money．Female students constantly told their plain-looking roommates that they were pretty．"They are everyday lies," says DePaulo. DePaulo and her colleagues conclude that people tend to tell fewer lies to those they feel closest to． College students lied to their best friends 28% of the time but lied to acquaintances 48% of the time． In close relationships, people were more likely to tell "kind-hearted" lies, designed to protect feelings, rather than self-serving lies. Romantic partners are somewhere between close friends and acquaintances．Students lied to romantic partners about a third of the time. DePaulo thinks that unmarried lovers can expect less honesty than best friends because of the insecurity that comes with romance. Mothers can take heart from one other finding. They may have been lied to, but at least their children talked to them．The students were recorded telling few lies to their fathers because they had little interaction with them. | |||
| 1. According to the passage, college students felt closest to ______. | |||
| A. mothers B. best friends C. acquaintance D. romantic partners | |||
| 2. Female students lied to their roommates to . | |||
| A. get money from them B. offer them the services C. gain more security D. make them happy | |||
| 3. What is the purpose of this article? | |||
| A. To present a fact. B. To argue an idea. C. To tell a story. D. To explain a theory. |