I started looking after these planes whose host went out to have a holiday（)

e honest, this promotion came as quite a surprise to me. I’d like to think it’s mainly the contribution of the whole team. I’d like to thank all my colleagues in the company for their support and hard work. Due to their efforts, we’ve started some overseas projects successfully. Looking to the future, I’d still like to maintain contact with everyone, even though I’ll be working at the management level.

听力原文： My first semester of college was the worst I've been through. I had made plans during the summer to share an apartment with two of my close friends from high school. But before we moved in，problems started developing.

One of the two girls I was to share an apartment with was going to work instead of going to college。 However，a week before we were to move in，she found out that she didn't get the job. She is forced to live at home and look for work. The rest two of us lasted for a month and then agreed that we couldn't make it with the higher monthly rent payments. I started looking around.

I found another apartment and the rent wasn't bad. The place was noisy，but it was the best I could afford for the time. However，one day when I returned，I saw smoke coming from the back of the house. The cottage had caught fire，and my room was a burned mess。I was once more out of a place to stay.

I finally gave up looking around and moved home. I had to drive forty miles to school every day，so I almost spent as much on gas as I would have on lodging. I was very bored I almost lost the will to study. It had been really a bad semester!

(33)

A．To look for two of her close friends.

B．To stay at home and study.

C．To share an apartment with friends.

D．To move out and live alone.

All the money ______, Frederick started looking for work.

A. having spent

B. has been spent

C. having been spent

D. had been spent

fice？

Lester: Well, we can move in any time after July first, but moving in and actually getting started are two different things.

Wendy: Good point．Anyway, I have our new marketing manager, Helen Parker, helping us set up.

Lester: What is she doing？

Wendy: She's overseeing the purchase of equipment and so forth.

Lcster: Does she have a background in that sort of thing？

Wendy: As a matter of fact, it turns out she practically ran her last company , from marketing to finance.

Lester: I'm looking forward to meeting her.

Wendy: Have you begun to investigate factories？ I'm so glad we aren't going to try to run our own factory at first.

Lester: Yes, I've started．And I've found some good people for R and D, too．Then there are the art people designing our logos.

Wendy: Oh, no ! Millions of details: logos, slogans, letterhead, name cards…

Lester: You thought setting up a company was going to be easy？

A. Having been spent all the money

B. All the money having been spent

C. We spent all the money

D. All the money was spent

The volunteers started looking after other children（)parents died of AIDS last year.

A. whose

B. that

C. which

D. who

阅读理解：根据文章内容，判断正误。

MY VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE

My volunteer work helps me grow up. It has made me more aware of the difficulties other people go through and made me appreciate the simple things we have in life. It enables me, as an adult, to become more confident and to realize the difference I can make.

I now have new career aspirations and the confidence to take forward these new ideas, since I started mentoring at the Open University and gained experience of working with young students. I'll go on to do a teaching assistant course and looking to go into volunteering teaching or youth work in the future.

My research project will be to build a spatial web application. It was inspired by the volunteering I do for another not-for-profit organization.

My volunteering at an animal shelter is neither connected to my studies nor to my career interests. I do it purely for pleasure, satisfaction and the feeling that I can help somebody. It's made me a happier person, and I wouldn't have got this far at university without it.

操作提示：正确选T，错误选F。

1. Volunteer work makes me become more confident.{T; F}

2. I work with other young volunteers in the Open University.{T; F}

3. My research is related with volunteering I do for another not-for-profit organization.{T; F}

4. My volunteering at an animal shelter enables me to feel satisfactory.{T; F}

5. Without the volunteering work, I wouldn't have my new career as a teacher.{T; F}

填空：Nowadays, is it possible to tell a person's class just by looking at him？ Physical details __1__ tell us about health, diet and type of work done. A hundred years ago the working class very often lookd unhealthy, small and were either too thin or too fat. The upper classes were often __2__, sporting types who were used to a good diet and looked healthy. Today living and working conditions have improved, and such __3__ would no longer be so true.The clothes people choose to wear, however, do provide information about their __4__. The most obvious way in which is for the amount of money spent on them. Expensive clothes look expensive and show their wearer had money. Clothes can provide other __5__ as well. The upper classes __6__ to be less interested in fashion and wear good quality clothes in non-bright colours, made of natural material like wool, leather or cotton. Lower working class people often choose clothes in bright colours, made of man-made material. A sociological explanation for this would be that color and interest are mssing from their lives, and therefore any opportunity to introduce this is __7__.Clothes are __8__ at a price within most people's reach. New clothes make the wearer feel good, and show some __9__ of wealth to the outside world. Today some new fashions are started by the lower working class people who want to look __10__ and feel important. They want people to look at them.

A) available

B) background

C) different

D) tall

E) totally

F) taken

G) descriptions

H) degree

I) clues

J) alone

K) appear

L) consider

M) full

N) hobby

O)fetched

ot about foot pain. But unlike most of her colleagues(同事),she turned her pain into money: Today she is the boss of Taryn Rose International, a $528 million company that makes nice and comfortable shoes.

At the beginning, Rose realized the only thing that could stop her was fear of ,failure. "I couldhear my friends and family saying, 'Why did you leave a good job？' If I failed, would I be okay facing them？ And: t thought, 'So what？ I can go back for further study in medicine.' I started to accept that it would be okay to say, 'I failed, but I tried.' Once I was comfortable with that th6fight, the fear came to an end. I realized I feared regret more than failure. And after you turn to the path you choose, there is nothing acceptable but Success"

Now, Rose has no regrets about leaving medicine. "What I'm doing is not all that different from: what I Was doing as a doctor. The goal is the same: to relieve (减轻) pain. A former professor told me: 'You're helping hundreds of thousands of women with your shoes. As a doctor, you would have helped only the few who went to your office. You're having a much greater effect.'

Looking back, Rose admits she caught a couple of lucky breaks. "To me, luck is about being prepared for those opportunities (机会) that come knocking. You have to have an open mind, the right skilis and all your senses working 'to see what opportunities present themselves. Luck can open the door, but you still have to walk through it."

36. Before starting:her shoe business, Taryn Rose was a _

A. nurse B. worker C. doctor D. boss

ns are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.

Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties. But while young and old mostly agree on what constitutes the finish line of a fulfilling life, they offer strikingly different paths for reaching it. Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.

From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of American life, from consumer preferences to housing patterns to politics. Young and old converge on one key point: Overwhelming majorities of both groups said they believe it is harder for young people today to get started in life than it was for earlier generations.

While younger people are somewhat more optimistic than their elders about the prospects for those starting out today, big majorities in both groups believe those “just getting started in life” face a tougher a good-paying job, starting a family, managing debt, and finding affordable housing.

Pete Schneider considers the climb tougher today. Schneider, a 27-yaear-old auto technician from the Chicago suburbs says he struggled to find a job after graduating from college. Even now that he is working steadily, he said.” I can’t afford to pay ma monthly mortgage payments on my own, so I have to rent rooms out to people to mark that happen.” Looking back, he is struck that his parents could provide a comfortable life for their？children even though neither had completed college when he was young. “I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn’t have college degrees,” Schneider said. “I don’t think people are capable of that anymore.”

One cross-generation mark of a successful life is_____.

A.trying out different lifestyles

B.having a family with children

C.working beyond retirement age

D.setting up a profitable business

It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that young people tend to____.A.favor a slower life pace

B.hold an occupation longer

C.attach importance to pre-marital finance

D.give priority to childcare outside the home

The priorities and expectations defined by the young will____.A.become increasingly clear

B.focus on materialistic issues

C.depend largely on political preferences

D.reach almost all aspects of American life

Which of the following is true about Schneider？A.He found a dream job after graduating from college.

B.His parents believe working steadily is a must for success.

C.His parents’ good life has little to do with a college degree.

D.He thinks his job as a technician quite challenging.

Both young and old agree that____.A.good-paying jobs are less available

B.the old made more life achievements

C.housing loans today are easy to obtain

D.getting established is harder for the young

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