2011年高三英语上学期 25分钟限时阅读天天练—第11天

用心 爱心 专心 1 20112011 年高三英语上学期年高三英语上学期 2525 分钟限时阅读天天练分钟限时阅读天天练 第第 1111 天天 阅读理解阅读理解 A Less than a month from graduation day Theresa Casebeer of Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois had yet to find the right job The career placement center referred her to JOBTRAK an internet site listing 45 ooo positions Casebeer selected four keywords Chicago business marketing and full time Immediately she found 45 jobs meeting her criteria 标准 including one as an assistant to an administrator at the university of Chicago s business school Four weeks later she was hired at a starting salary of 32 000 I had no training says Casebeer but the Internet was extremely easy to use I d never have known about this job without it Casebeer is one American who clicked her way into a job Steven Toole is another Toole came across an employment site named Career Builder He had just been promoted to director of marketing for a company and wasn t looking for a job But curiously he decided to give it a try Toole filled out a profile with the key words marketing manager and entered his electronic mail address Within a week his computer s mailbox was filling up with available positions Two interviews later he jumped to a new job The Internet is like hiring a personal assistant says Toole Effortlessly you can become aware of opportunities that may promote you career Most major newspapers and trade publications have online versions of their classified listings enabling jobseekers to scan for work available across town in another states or around the world All 50 states plus Washington D C and Guam have their local job banks available online too The Internet is a wonderful place to explore especially when combined with traditional job search methods notes Richard Nelson author of What Color Is Your parachute 1 Theresa Casebeer found her job through A the career placement center B Northwestern University C an Internet site D University of Chicago 2 When Casebeer says I had no training Para 3 she means she has never been trained A on how to use the Internet B as an assistant to an administrator C on how to hunt a job D to work in a business school 3 Toole attempted to get a job from Career Builder because he A wanted to be a promoted B wanted to jump to a new job C didn t have a job at the time D was eager to know more about Career Builder 4 What is the best title of this passage A How to find a job on the Internet B The Internet a wonderful job search medium C How Casebeer and Toole found their jobs D Computer and job openings 职位空缺 B It is not unusual at all for teens to answer their parents with one word answers Where are you going Places When will you be back Sometime Who 用心 爱心 专心 2 will you be with People That means that the days of your children bounding 跳跃着跑 in the front door with the details of their day are over They are breaking away from you so that they will be able to stand on their own as a young adult Some parents feel sad about his loss of their children s closeness Of course you miss those conversations and friendly talks Once your children move out after high school and establish themselves confidently as a young adult they will come back for easy conversations and even ask for advice But in order to determine who they are right now they need to separate from you Your job however is to keep them safe and that requires knowing where they are and who they are with Let them know clearly that it s not because you want to dominate 支配 their life and control them it s because it s a safety issue for family members to keep track of one another When they are home and sit down to eat a meal sit down with them You need to open up to them about your life Tell them of an interesting incident at the office let them in on a family gossip 闲谈 discuss a piece of news with them They are glad that you see them as old enough to be in on a few experiences of your life By letting a teen in on your life they just may let you in on theirs 5 It can be inferred from the passage that A the generation gap is becoming wider and wider B teens quarrel a lot with their parents C teens don t want to live with other family members D some parents feel distant from their teenage children 6 The author believes that teens one word answers show A their awareness of independence B their physical and mental changes C their wishes for keeping silent D an unpleasant parent child relationship 7 What s the main idea of the last paragraph A Parents should understand their children B Parents should keep their children safe C Parents should open their hearts to their children D Parents should give their children enough freedom 8 What s the author s purpose in writing the passage A To give advice B To direct teenagers C To present findings D To comfort parents C I had an experience once which taught me something about the ways people made a bad situation worse by blaming themselves One January I officiated 主持 at two funerals for two elderly women Both died a natural death At the first home the son of the deceased 已故 woman said If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow she would be alive today It s my fault that she died At the second home the son said If only I had not insisted her going to Florida she would be alive today That long airplane ride was more than she could take It is 用心 爱心 专心 3 my fault When things don t turn out as we would like them to we tend to assume that had we done things differently the story would have had a happier ending Any time there is a death the survivors will feel guilty Because the course of action they took turned out bad they believe that the opposite course for example keeping mother at home would have turned out better After all how could it have turned out any worse There seem to be elements involved in our readiness to feel guilty The first lies in our belief that the world makes sense there is a reason for everything that happens The second is the thought that we are the cause of what happens especially the bad things that happen The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs and that he makes everything happen in it He wakes up in the morning and calls the rest of the world to its tasks He cries and someone comes to attend to him When he is hungry people feed him and when he is wet people change him Very often we do not completely abandon that childish thought that our wishes cause things to happen 9 What is true about the two deceased elderly women A They both died of old age B They died from hard work C They were t accustomed to the change in life D They died due to lack of care by family members 10 People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because A they cannot find a better way to express their sorrow B they believe that they are re