题目
To squeeze the most out of each shining hour we have shortened the opera, quickened the pace of the movie and put culture in pocket-sized packages. We make the busy bee look like a lazy creature, the ant like a sluggard. We live sixty-mile-minute and the great efficiency smiles.
We wish we could return to that pleasant day when we considered time a friend instead of an enemy; when we did things willingly and because we wanted to, rather than because our timetable called for it, But that of course would not be efficiency; and we Americans must be efficient.
The phrase that best expresses the main idea of this passage is ______. ()
A.the modern pace
B.our interest in shortened operas
C.how to make the best use of leisure time
D.planning our time scientifically
第1题
In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage of mindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughter Rebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her stories into a writing contest, a competition she won last yes.
As a writer I know about winning contest, and about losing them. I know what it is like to work hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressures of trying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contest again? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashed hopes can surface.
What do we learn from the first paragraph?
A) Children do find lots of fun in many mindless activities.
B) Rebecca is much too occupied to enjoy her leisure time.
C) Rebecca draws on a lot of online materials for her writing.
D) A lot of distractions compete for children’s time nowadays.
第2题
完形填空Ahhh, summer. Time to relax. You cannot have complete rest if you ___1___it too seriously. But taking vacations seriously is exactly___2___we Americans seem to do. In the same way our kids' free time is now packed with activities, we adults have turned vacations into "active leisure." Anytime you try very hard to relax, that's active leisure. Our vacations___3___with an agenda, a purpose. We're visiting family, attending weddings, going camping, and making sure we ride that roller coaster-no matter how long the line is. We Americans are so active in our leisure___4___we commonly complain we need a vacation from our vacations. We leave home___5___; we come back exhausted. That's why many of us have decided not to go. Americans are___6___a few vacation days (14 days, on average) compared with other developed countries, but ironically, we don't even use them. The average American will leave four vacation days on the table this year, which adds up to a total 574 million days of___7___vacation. Our relationship to relaxation seems contradictory. We spend more money than anyone else in the world on leisure-fully one-___8___of our income-and yet at the same time we are No. 1 in the world at not taking vacations. One of the top reasons given for not taking a vacation is that it's too much extra work. We have to get___9___of our work in order to leave, and then we have to catch up on our work upon our return. The longer the vacation we take, the bigger the stumbling blocks appear. So only 14% of Americans will take a vacation two weeks or longer this summer. Bottom linE、it's simply become too stressful to relax. We Americans take our time off so seriously that you can now get a Ph.D. in leisure studies at Penn State and 17 other famous universities. That's right-a doctorate, not just a bachelor's. It's such an up-and-coming field in academe that there is an actual shortage of___10___educators. We don't have enough people to teach leisure. I am tempted to make a joke about this, but I don't want to get the wrath of the leisure scientists. They'll beat me up with chairs.
1)
A、take
B、make
C、bake
D、cake
2)
A、this
B、that
C、what
D、which
3)
A、go
B、arrive
C、leave
D、come
4)
A、these
B、that
C、those
D、this
5)
A、tired
B、tire
C、tiring
D、tires
6)
A、give
B、giving
C、gave
D、given
7)
A、take
B、taken
C、untaken
D、took
8)
A、three
B、third
C、thirds
D、thirty
9)
A、ahead
B、out
C、rid
D、clear
10)
A、qualify
B、qualification
C、qualifies
D、qualified
第3题
B.Why do you want to work for this organization?
C.Why should we employ you?
D.If we hire you, how long will you stay with us?
E.How do you spend your leisure time?
F.What are your greatest strengths?
第4题
A.concentrate
B.cost
C.spend
D.make
第6题
A.Establish
our priorities. B.Increase
our proficiency.
C.Try
to focus on what we do.
D.Make
every minute count .
第7题
We can infer from the passage that______.
A.in order to keep fit, we should spend as little time and money as possible on food
B.nibbling between meals is a bad habit that will throw our body out of condition
C.if other members of our family get fat quite easily, we probably will too
D.we can eat as much as we want and leave it to our body to select what it needs
第8题
A.They are wealthier than they were in the past.
B.They are misled by the advertising.
第9题
A. taking exercise
B. take exercise
C. have taken exercise
D. do taking exercise
第10题
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