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时文阅读训练一 Connect to your career FOR high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find an internship (实习). In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far between. Research shows that if high schools provide career-related courses, students are likely to get higher earnings (收入) in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education. In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people get the education they need for future employment. But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education School professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place all graduates directly on the four-year college track (轨迹). Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the countrys most vulnerable (易受影响的) kids with no jobs and no skills. Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teaching them valuable (珍贵的) practical skills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example, encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job experience in those fields while theyre still at high school. However, even for teens _ schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting (令人畏惧的). In the US, unemployment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row. “The risk is that if , they become part of this lost generation of teens _never had a chance to get a foothold (立足之地) to take that first step on that career ladder,” said Michael Saltsman, a researcher at the Employment Policies Institute in the US.1. The author believes that American high school leavers _.A. dont have enough internship opportunities B. need more career advice from their schoolsC. perform better in exams than German students D. should be given more career choices2. Which of the following statements might Robert Schwartz agree with?A. If you go to university, you will definitely earn more money in later life.B. Students should get contact with the working world as early as possible.C. Students should learn particular skills in college.D. US education reform should focus on the most vulnerable kids.3. We can infer from the article that _.A. unemployment rates for US teenagers keep rising at the momentB. students from high schools with career-based courses never have any problems finding a jobC. US companies are now working with schools to prepare young people for future employmentD. high school leavers with no practical skills are quite unlikely to find a job4. What is the main point of the article?A. The lack of career-based courses for high school students in the US.B. How can high school leavers survive in the daunting US job market?C. Arguments about recent US education reform.D. Advice for American high school leavers.I wanna eat like. The common touch is the ability to get on with ordinary people. Some politicians have it, while others dont. US Vice President Joe Biden has got it. Last month, Biden won hearts and minds when he had lunch at a popular Beijing eatery (餐馆). He ordered five local dishes including noodles with soybean paste (炸酱面), steamed stuffed buns (包子) and mashed cucumber (拍黄瓜). The bill was 79 yuan. Biden, 68, paid with a 100 yuan note, insisting the restaurant keep the change as a tip. After lunch he had his photo taken with every restaurant employee. Bidens visit to the restaurant has been described as “noodle diplomacy (外交)”, an attempt (尝试) to bring him closer to ordinary Chinese people. Bidens boss, President Barack Obama, is already known as a man of the people. In June he was photographed having lunch at a diner in Ohio. The menu Hotdogs. The message was: your president is a normal guy who eats the same food as you. But not every politicians attempt to appear ordinary works. Take British Prime Minister David Cameron for example. Cameron likes to present himself as an ordinary guy. He rides a mountain bike (at least he did before he became Prime Minister). He says he enjoys rock music. But when he told a youth “Call me Dave”, he was laughed at for his clumsy (笨拙的) attempt. Cameron is the son of a stockbroker (股票经纪人). He went to Eton, a top private school in the UK. It costs 31,000 pounds (322,614 yuan) a year, _ is much more than the average British wage . So why do politicians attempt the common touch when it is so obviously false? It is because no matter how powerful they are, every four years they have to stand before the people and ask the people to choose them. Its known as re-election. And in order to win votes from the common people, you have to at least appear to have the common touch.1. Which of the following best sums up the main idea of the article?A. Tips for politicians who want to be popular with common people.B. Many politicians try to present themselves as men of the people.C. What makes American politicians different from British ones.D. Politicians have to learn to be good actors.2. President Barack Obama is mentioned in order to _.A. show that he has unique ways of getting close to the common peopleB. give another example of a politician with the common touchC. prove that he is even more skillful at connecting with people than BidenD. prove that hotdogs are one of the favorite foods of ordinary American people3. Which of the following statements about Cameron is TRUE?A. He doesnt understand the lives of ordinary people.B. He actually doesnt like riding a mountain bike.C. He succeeded in becoming more popular among young people.D. His educational background means he cannot be called an “ordinary” person.4. It can be concluded from the last paragraph that politicians _.A. have common interests with ordinary peopleB. who lack the common touch will not be re-electedC. count on ordinary peoples votes for re-electionD. sincerely hope to be close to ordinary people Smile youre on camera LONDON is one of the most watched cities on the planet. Like Denver and Colorado in the United States, London has closed circuit television (CCTV, 闭路电视监控) cameras all over the city. These cameras recorded many of the riots (骚乱) that broke out in early August. After the riots, the police could look through 30 pictures per second from the CCTV system. They singled out people who they believed had started the riots. The pictures were then put on the Internet, television and in the newspaper. Many rioters were caught in this way. Researchers at Kingston University have recently developed a smart CCTV system. One person holding a gun can be followed by a series of cameras. These cameras “learn” to recognize unusual public behavior. For example, when a riot or crime (犯罪行为) happens, people often move quickly and in crowds. If somebody pulls out a gun, people will run in different directions. All of these movements can be picked up by a computer connected to the camera, according to Professor James Orwell of Kingston University. The computer software collects all the videos from before and after the crime. This means police can build a full history of one persons movements. “If a window was smashed (砸碎) and shop looted (抢劫) in a town center street, the technology would trace back to see who smashed the window and then follow his steps to see when and where he entered the town center, ” Orwell told the BBC. “The technology would also trace (追踪) where the man had gone after he left the shop. ” Some people are afraid that the system might be used by the government to follow political protesters (抗议者) or even ordinary people in day-to-day life. They think it is a serious violation (侵犯) of privacy (隐私). But the developers of this technology and the police promise that it will only focus on law breakers. A key part of the system is that the computer deletes video data automatically (自动的). This means it works more efficiently, and images of innocent (无辜的) people are removed.阅读短文并根据article内容回答问题,注意答案不要超过题目要求的词数。1. What does the underlined expression “single out” in Paragraph 2 probably mean? (No more than 3 words)2. Name at least three features of the smart CCTV system developed by researchers at Kingston University. (No more than 30 words)3. Translate the following sentence into Chinese:If a window was smashed and shop looted in a town center street, the technology would trace back to see who smashed the window and then follow his steps to see when and where he entered the town center.4. What are people concerned about regarding the smart CCTV system? (No more than 10 words)5. Do you think it would be a good idea to place CCTV cameras in classrooms? Why? (No more than 25 words) Life after terror A DECADE after terror struck America, we are starting to move forward.It has been 10 years.In those awful (可怕的) days right after 9/11, I asked my colleague, Dave Barry, if he thought he would ever write jokes again. He was then the humor columnist (专栏作家) for the Miami Herald.“For the last week,” he told me, “I havent even tried to write anything funny, and for a while I thought maybe I never would, or should.”He had it; we all had it that feeling of being stuck, unable to find your way back to the life you had lived before. I wrote 10 columns in a row about _I had seen, the planes crashing, the lives lost. Finally, I had to force myself to write a column about something _ was not terror (恐怖). That lasted one column. Then I went right back to what was now normal. Terror was normal.That was a decade ago. Todays terrors become tomorrows memories. News becomes history.And I find myself remembering _I used to kill ants when I was a child. The thing that struck me was that they always came back. Even if you destroy their world a hundred times, they build it a hundred and one times.There is something of that in people. It may be one of the best things about us. We always fight the cruel things in life, bury our dead, rebuild, and find a way to move forward. We did it when fire burned down Chicago, after the earthquake in San Francisco, and after the floods in New Orleans.And we did it on September 11.It is true that we have changed in ways that are not all good. We are at war on three fronts. We are running a strange prison on Cuba. The government may not let you fly and will not tell you why.Osama bin Laden is dead. Experts tell us the terror group he led is weakened. However, terrorism remains alive in American political thought, _is becoming more extreme.There is reason to be worried about these changes. But I am still grateful that we moved away from the 9/11 nightmare (噩梦) at all.It felt as if we might never go forward from that moment. But we did1. Which phrase can be used to describe Dave Barrys feelings just after 9/11?A. heartbroken and hopeless B. frightened but hopefulC. unable to care or focus D. sad but confident2. From Paragraph 5, we can conclude that _.A. the author was so shaken that he stopped writing completelyB. there was no terrorism in America before 9/11C. for some time Americans found it difficult to think about anything other than terrorD. no one ever feels safe anymore3. With the example of ants, the author aims to show that _.A. he misses his happy childhood B. people can rebuild and recover, just like antsC. he is sorry that he killed the ants D. rebuilding is more important than sadness4. According to the last part of the article, the authors main point is that _.A. terrorism has influenced the government too much B. people should look on the bright sideC. terrorism will continue to exist D. no changes are ever completely good 阅读下列各小题，根据句子情境或者题目给出的提示，例如括号内的汉语提示以及（或者）括号内的英语单词完成句子。1. But dont you think you _ (本应当努力尝试) in the first place?2. Germa