Recently, an Internet game has become a new fashion among young office workers and students. People can “farm” on a piece of “l(fā)and” and “grow”, “sell” or even “steal” “vegetables”, “flowers” and “fruits” on the Net. They earn some e-money and buy more “seeds”, “pets” and even “houses”.
Joyce interviewed some young people. Here are their opinions.
Harold: I don’t quite understand why they are so mad about the childish game. Maybe they are just not confident enough to face the real world.
Allan: I enjoy putting some “bugs” (小蟲子) in my friends’’ gardens and we’ve become closer because of the game. Having fun together is the most exciting thing about it.
Laura: You know, people in the city are longing for the life in the countryside. It reduces my work pressure in the office; besides, it gives me the exciting feeling of being a “thief”.
Ivy: Well, it’s just a waste of time. Teenagers playing the game spend so many hours on it that they cannot pay more attention to their study.
小題1:By playing the game, people can ______.
A．make a lot of moneyB．make many friends
C．have great funD．better their life
小題2: The people “steal” someone else’s “vegetables” to ______.
A．live a more comfortable life
B．show their confidence in the reality
C．earn e-money to develop their own "farm"
D．enjoy the feelings of being children
小題3: Among the people interviewed, ______ doesn’t like the game at all.
A．LauraB．HaroldC．JoyceD．Allan
小題4: What can you learn about Laura from the passage?
A．She is a college student.B．She lives in a village.
C．She is an office worker.D．She wants to be a thief.
小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:C

小題1:本文主要是論述年輕人網(wǎng)上玩偷菜的問題，通過Allan 的回答我們可以看出他們只是為了娛樂�？梢詮倪@句話看出來Having fun together is the most exciting thing about it. A、B、D三個選項可排除，所以選C。
小題2:文章第一段最后一句說他們可以掙錢買更多的種子，寵物或者房子，所以他們偷了別人的菜賣了錢來經(jīng)營自己的農(nóng)場。所以選C。
小題3:通過對Harold的采訪我們可以看出，他不理解為什么人們對這個游戲著迷，可能是對現(xiàn)實(shí)世界缺乏足夠的信心。從而得知他不喜歡這個游戲。故選B
小題4:本題可從 Laura 的話“It reduces my work pressure in the office； ”可知她是一個辦公室工人。因此選C。
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The Loss of Innocence（純真）
Innocence is such a precious gift. It’s explained as freedom from guilt or wrong doing. Just imagine never having to worry about anything and having a guilt-free mind. Some people wish to save this kind of innocence from being lost from childhood to adulthood.
What would the world be like if innocence were never lost? One way it would benefit humanity is the lack of hatred （仇恨） among the world. During youth, there may be an occasional argument, even a little physical fight, but nothing like firing a handgun at a fellow human being. And children are blind towards the racial differences of others. A kid will hang out with any other kid. It is the lack of innocence and the ignorance we learn from adults that influence children otherwise. Another benefit is the constant desire for fun and adventure. With very little if any time at all for fun, the adventurous mind is lost in time with the responsibilities placed upon adults. If innocence were kept alive, these ambitions would never depart from our lives.
However, other people actually hate the idea of innocence lasting for ever. They feel that the lack of organization and mental power of those with innocence would cause extremely destructive consequences to society in general. A large number of individuals would never have the urge to learn, work, and act upon the necessary needs for humanity to survive. Without a proper education which is usually provided by those who no longer live in a world of innocence, people would not have the desire to succeed, get a good job in life, or provide income for their families, which would hurt the lives of children.
The lack of a good education and career would also harm the economy. As long as innocence is kept alive, no one would be terribly angry at the lack of effort people put out in the workplace, resulting in a strong decline（減少） in production and quality of needed goods.
Maybe it is wrong in wanting to save innocence. It sure is a nice thought, though. Perhaps innocence was meant to be lost. It was god's will to make things the way they are, and there is a good purpose for everything. All that remains to be said about innocence is to enjoy it while it lasts.
小題1:The author believes that the loss of innocence in adulthood should be______.
A．a(chǎn)voidedB．criticizedC．a(chǎn)cceptedD．encouraged
小題2:Lifelong innocence would be beneficial to society in that__________.
A．proper education would be provided
B．there would be no racial discrimination
C．there would be more happy families
D．people would realize their childhood dreams
小題3: According to the author, people with innocence can hurt the economy with their lack of____ .
A．motivational will
B．mental ability
C．a(chǎn)dventurous ambitions
D．needed goods
小題4:Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

CP：Central Point           P：Point            Sp:（次要點(diǎn)）C：Conclusion

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There are four types of persons who go to work part-time. These include retirees who want a bit more income or socialization, parents who want to spend more time with their children, college and high school students and temporary agency workers who want more experience. Many people enjoy the advantages of working part-time, but benefits are rarely offered to part-time employees.
Most people are hoping for health insurance and retirement benefits when taking a job. Traditionally, companies only offer benefits to employees who work 30 hours or more a week. This is only a 25% reduction in hours, so it doesn’t free up a lot of time for the employee who needs part-time hours. Even when a part-timer is offered health benefits, he is rarely offered paid time off and retirement benefits. Dental benefits are almost never offered to part-time employees.
Many businesses hire part-time employees for the simple reason of saving money. If they work less than a certain number of hours, the employers don’t need to pay for benefits. There are companies, however, that are beginning to offer benefits to part-time employees. This includes benefits for health, paid time off and retirement plans. Some companies have begun to offer this in order to take in high quality, trained professionals who just want part-time hours. If a company wants a qualified employee, it will have to compete with other companies. People who may only want to work part-time may be forced to take a full-time job to get the benefits. Companies who offer benefits to part-timers have an advantage by offering more choices to their employees in terms of hours.
Conducting an Internet search is probably the quickest way to find companies that provide benefits for part-time employees. Many large corporations like Starbucks, Barnes & Noble and Whole Foods offer benefits to part-time employees among other things. Look for companies that offer a team approach to their employees. Employees are given choices and part of decision-making in the business. Businesses that allow employee input are more likely to offer benefits to part-timers.
小題1:People prefer to work part-time mainly because they __________.
A．don’t want to spend more time on work
B．have so many household and social affairs
C．hope to have more money, time and experience
D．only expect to make more friends
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A．can enjoy as many benefits as full-timers
B．prefer retirement benefits to health insurance
C．often retire without enjoying any benefit
D．often enjoy fewer benefits than full-timers
小題3:What’s the advantage of hiring part-time employees?
A．They don’t need the insurance.
B．They can save employers some money.
C．They have no choice but to work hard.
D．They can be also changed into full-timers.
小題4:We can infer from the last paragraph that _________.
A．it’s easy to find companies providing benefits
B．companies not allowing employee input don’t offer any benefit to part-timers
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But 22 all the cattle in the kingdom were killed there   23  not be enough hide to get the work done. Evidently it was a stupid  24 . As it was an imperial order people could do nothing but shake their heads and 25 . At this juncture a clever servant in the palace  26  to make a suggestion. "Your Majesty, why don't take an easier way? You don't have to mobilize（調(diào)動）so many people, to have so many oxen killed, nor so much money  27 . What you have to do is simply to cover each of your feet with a piece of hide." Surprised and 28 , the king immediately changed his mind and adopted the 29 .
This is said to be the origin of using  30 to make shoes. Though it sounds  31 and strange, it inspires us to think. It is much easier to change oneself than to change the world.  32 it will be much better for one to change oneself before one   33  an attempt to change the outer world. Why don't try to put yourself on the   34 of the person you deal with? You will find it easier to solve a problem  35 you change your way of thinking.
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A．much B．near C．far D．a(chǎn) lot
小題2:
A．smoothB．rough C．long D．busy
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A．body B．a(chǎn)rms C．feet D．legs
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A．crowded B．filled C．covered D．put
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A．othersB．himself C．them D．themselves
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A．walking B．swimming C．singingD．shopping
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A．a(chǎn)s well B．even if C．a(chǎn)s long as D．when
小題8:
A．would B．should C．must D．may
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A．comment B．chance C．a(chǎn)ttempt D．opinion
小題10:
A．sigh B．sign C．cheerD．weep
小題11:
A．wanted B．ventured C．planned D．hoped
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A．wasted B．borrowed C．saved D．loaned
小題13:
A．moved B．excited C．pleased D．bored
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A．decision B．plan C．suggestion D．measure
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A．leatherB．silkC．plasticD．cloth
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A．odd B．funny C．a(chǎn)musing D．surprising
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A．Or B．ButC．So D．However
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Yang works for a software company in Zhongguancun. He dreams of such a life, away from poverty, and that hope has kept him in Beijing for three years since he graduated from university.
Soon Yang squeezes his way off the bus to the reality of his life: his home—a 10-square-metre room that costs 550 yuan(81 US dollars) or about one-fifth of his salary in rent every month. It’s very cold inside the house as it has no central heating system. He has to stand the long and cold winter. Determined to achieve his dream, Yang says he has changed jobs “numerous” times in the past three years and is considering quitting his present job.
Yang’s frustration over his life as a migrant(移民) is shared by many other graduates that have moved into big cities. Together they have come to be called the “ant tribe”, a term created by Chinese sociologists to describe the struggles of young migrants, who, armed with their diplomas, flood to big cities in hopes of a better life only to put up with low-paying jobs and poor living conditions. They share every similarity with ants. They live in colonies in crowded areas. They’re intelligent and hardworking, yet unknown and underpaid. The term, sociologists have said, also reflects their helplessness in a world governed by the law of the concrete jungle—only the strongest survive.
A survey in Ant TribeⅡ found nearly 30 percent of the “ants” are graduates of famous key universities—almost three times the percentage of 2009. Most have degrees in popular majors, such as medicine, engineering, economics and management. In addition, 7.2 percent of the “ants” have at least a master’s degree compared to 1.6 percent in 2009. Most said the economic recovery did not really improve their financial situations, and 66 percent said their incomes fell short of their expectations, the survey also found.
For two years, Lian Si, a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese and Global Affairs of Peking University, who has studied the phenomenon, led a team of more than 100 graduate students to follow the groups in university towns like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Xi’an. Lian evaluates the total population of the “ant community” in major cities at one million across China, with about 100,000 found in Beijing alone. Lian predicts that an increasingly challenging job market will see the ant tribe growing further in number. Another 6.3 million graduates are expected to join migrant workers and other job hunters in what promises to be a fierce labour competition.
The ant tribe’s embarrassing living situations have become a serious social issue, and the government should develop “second-and-third-tier cities” to attract more graduates from big cities. However, “ants” expect more study and training opportunities in big cities, which keeps them in positive mindsets despite their situations. As in the case of Yang, he is optimistic about getting a new job soon, having received eight interview offers in a week after sending out his resume. The prospect of landing a higher-paying job keeps him hopeful of moving out of the slum district(貧民區(qū)) soon. The sooner the better.
小題1:. Yang has worked in Beijing since graduation from university ______.
A．to live in a beautiful villa of European style
B．to have more opportunities to be promoted
C．to struggle for a better-off life in a big city
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A．It refers to the group of low-income graduates living in embarrassing conditions.
B．It refers to the people who work hard like ants but are paid little.
C．It refers to the sociologists and scholars researching into some social phenomena.
D．It refers to some well-educated people who can’t survive in society.
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A．“Ant tribe” has become too serious a social problem to solve.
B．It is the government’s duty to solve the problem of “ant tribe”.
C．Both the government and the graduates have the responsibility.
D．The existence of “ant tribe” has little influence on job markets.
小題4:. The passage is mainly about ______.
A．a(chǎn) new urban life style—“ant tribe” B．a(chǎn) recent survey about the “ant tribe”
C．the “ant tribe’s” living conditionsD．the “ant tribe’s” dream and reality

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Children of America are getting fatter every time. 13% of the children at the age of 6 to 11 are overweight(too fat).
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A．parents also have weight problem as their children
B．children drink too many Cokes
C．schools are more interested in sports teams
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小題2:The writer wants to tell parents that_______.
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C．family members can help overweight children a lot
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A．"family weight control" will be successful
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C．their children will not eat better
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Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail. “If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gas. And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza.”
Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers. Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year. “We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerce as a global trend,” says Merrill Lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity.”
You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t available on the Internet. Consider: books, health care, movie tickets, construction materials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, music, electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs of famous people, wine and airline tickets. And even after you’ve moved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those you love can’t keep in touch. A company called FinalThoughts.com offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to Heaven with the help of a “guardian angel”.
Kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures the United States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable(能預(yù)測的) future. Nearly all children in families with incomes of more than $75,000 a year have home computers, according to a study by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Youngsters from ages 2 to 17 at all income levels have computers, with 52% of those connected to the Internet. Most kids use computers to play games (some for 30 hours or more a week), and many teenage girls think nothing of rushing home from school to have e-mail chats with friends they have just left.
What’s clear is that, whether we like it or not, the Internet is an ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back. “The Internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer Jake Winebaum. “The last 80% is happening now.”
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A．Today’s cars and airplanes are extremely overpriced.
B．Information technology is developing at an amazing speed.
C．Information technology has reached the point where improvement is difficult.
D．There’s more competition in information technology industry than in car industry.
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A．it saves companies huge amounts of moneyB．it speeds up profit making
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A．there are some genius ideas on the InternetB．a(chǎn)lmost anything is available on the Internet
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A．There is a link between income and computer ownership.
B．Many American children don’t put computers to good use.
C．Studies show that boys are more computer literate than girls.
D．The U.S. will stay ahead in the information technology in years.
小題5:Which sentence has the phrase that possesses the same meaning as the one underlined in the fifth paragraph?
A．Some can tell you that he has changed their lives, while others think nothing of him.
B．Think nothing of it. It was my pleasure.
C．He thinks nothing of staying up all night in the Café bar.
D．He thinks nothing of the pain in his back for the moment.
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A．The Internet is going to get firm hold of our lives some day.
B．The Internet is going to influence our lives even more greatly.
C．We should have a positive attitude towards the changes the Internet brings.
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With a £4 million ITV contract（合同） in her pocket and an engagement （婚約） to her England footballer boyfriend, it's been a good year for Christine Bleakley．Perhaps it's no wonder, as the TV presenter is 31, the age at which women are the most attractive, according to a survey．
While the average British woman of 31 may be married with a child, the survey noted they are at a wonderful age because they have not only youthful beauty but also more confidence and a better sense of style than flesh-faced teenagers．
Some 70 percent of more than 2,000 men and women surveyed considered confidence as a key factor in making a woman attractive, ahead of the 67 percent who included physical beauty and 47 percent who looked for a sense of style．Almost two thirds of the women agreed with the opinion "With age, comes beauty", and over half said that as they age they do away with their insecurities and feel more beautiful, while 55 percent felt they knew the best make-up to wear．
Self-confidence varied widely across the country in the survey: London women emerged as the most confident about their looks, with 37 percent describing themselves as beautiful, compared with just 28 percent of Welsh women．Meanwhile, East Midlands women spend the most on beauty programs —£129．69 monthly—compared with a national average of £105．50．
The research was carried on for TV shopping channel QVC to mark the launch of its "Beauty Month"．QVC marketing director Sue Leeson said: "This research shows what many have always suspected — real beauty is about more than just good looks but a combination of confidence, style and personality, too．”
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A．Being famous and independent．B．Having self-confidence．
C．Looking young and stylish．D．Wearing proper make-up．
小題2:In the survey_______________ think attractive women should possess a sense of style．
A．nearly 1,000 womenB．more than 1,000 women
C．nearly half the participantsD．55 percent of the women
小題3:Which fact shows that a woman is confident?
A．Paying little attention to style．
B．Wearing expensive make-up．
C．Considering herself as beautiful．
D．Spending much on beauty programs．

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As the global financial crisis hits the economy, it’s tough finding a job — especially if you’re competing with thousands of other hopeful students. Sometimes you get the interview, but don’t quite seem to land the job because you don’t have related experience. Don’t despair! Here are a few tips that might give you an edge.
1. Get connected to your network and try to expand it. Talk to friends, family and acquaintances. Let everyone know you are looking for a job.
2. Prepare your resume (個人簡歷) carefully and be sure it’s perfect. Have someone else read it over for typos (打字錯誤) and grammatical errors. Get professional help. It’s worth the money to present yourself well. If money is tight, read books on resume writing from your public library or search for free help on the Internet.
3. When you apply for a job, be sure you have the skills listed on the posting. If you get an interview, be sure to describe those skills thoroughly. Just having the skills is not enough. Expressing your abilities well can make all the difference in getting the job.
4. Research typical interview questions and practice interviewing. Be well prepared for every interview.
5. Don’t be afraid to accept a position for which you are overqualified — if there’s room for advancements. Many great job advancements come from first doing well at an entry-level position. If you have the right skills and attitude, it won’t be long before you’re in the job you want.
6. Volunteer for a few weeks in your field of study to gain experience if you feel your resume needs an improvement.
7. When deciding what to wear for an interview, think about the position level and the dress code of the organization.
8. Use every tool available to you. For example, this site has many job links for your use.
Good luck!
小題1:What’s the author’s advice on preparing a resume?
A．To read it over several times by yourself.
B．To get professional help even if it costs money.
C．To copy something from books.
D．To publish it on the Internet.
小題2: If you lack related experience you can ____.
A．make up some in your resume
B．read books to get second-hand experience
C．do some related voluntary work
D．get some training at schools
小題3: The purpose of the text is to ____.
A．show how to prepare for an interview
B．wish people good luck
C．encourage people not to despair
D．give advice on how to find a job

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