2020年高三英语上学期 25分钟限时阅读天天练—第2天

2020;2020年高三英语上学期25分钟限时阅读天天练第2天阅读理解AHeres this weeks list of five open jobs throughout the local areaWhether youre unemployed and need a job or you are just sick of the one you have, Roswell Patch wants to help. We know new jobs can be hard to come by these days, which is why well try to post a selection of jobs weve found in the area on the site each week. Happy hunting!Part-time Spanish Instructor-World Language Institute, Inc. Roswell.World Language Institute, Inc. in Roswell is currently hiring a part-time, native-speaking Spanish instructor. Applicants must be able to pass a back groundcheck and drive a 15-passenger bus to pick up students from several schools, from 2 p. m. 6 p. m. Monday-Friday. The position pays $ 10 per hour. More information about the job is available online.Experienced Servers Chills AlpharettaChilis in Alpharetta is seeking experienced servers to add to its team. Qualifications will include being clean and neat and having great attitude and customer service skills. The pay is $ 2.13, plus tips. Stop by the store to fill out an application. More information about this position is available online.Registered Nurese-North Fulton Regional Hospital-RoswellNorth Fulton Regional Hospital is looking for a RN/Registered Nurse to fill a 12-hour night shift. Applicants must be registered and previous hospital experience is preferred. More information about the position is available online.Software Engineer-ControlScan-AlpharettaControlScan in Alpharetta is hiring a software engineer. Applicants should have five or more years of relevant experience, as well as advanced knowledge of computer technology. Pay is commensurate（相称）with experience. More information about the position can be found online.1Where can we most probably rend the passage?AIn a newspaperBOn a website.CIn a magazine DIn a textbook.2What does the underlined word sick mean?AIll BAbsent CBored DUnfamiliar3World Language Institute, Incis looking for_Aa school bus driver. Ba full-time teacherCa Spanish teacher D a Spanish manager4Who will mainly work at night?AJane, hired by North Fulton Regional HospitalBJohn, hired by World Language InstituteIncCRobert, hired by ControlScanDSally, hired by ChilisBSome years ago I took on an assignment in a southern county to work with people on public welfare. What I wanted to do was show that everybody has the capacity to be self-sufficient（自给自足的）, and all we have to do is to activate them. I asked the county to pick a group of people who were on public welfare, people from different racial groups and different family constellations. I would then see them as a group for three hours every Friday.The first thing I said after I shook hands with everybody was, “I would like to know what your dreams are.” Everyone looked at me in surprise“Dreams? We dont have dreams.”I said, “Well, when you were a kid what happened? Wasnt there something you wanted to do?”I began to ask other people about their dreams. One woman shared that she always wanted to be a secretary. I said, “Well, what stands in your way?” (Thats always my next question.)She said, “I have six kids, and I dont have anyone to take care of them while Im away.”“Lets find out,” I said.“Is there anybody in this group who would take care of six kids for a day or two a week while this woman gets some training here at the community college?”One woman said, “I got kids, too, but I could do that.”“Lets do it,” I said. A plan was created and the woman went to school.Everyone found something. The woman who looked after the children became a licensed babysitter. In 12 weeks I had all these people off public welfare. Ive not only done that once, Ive done it many time.5It can be inferred that people on public welfare .Adont have dreamsBdont have homes Care well-educatedDare unemployed6By talking with these people, the writer .Aaccepted themBchanged themCsurprised themDunited them7Before going to school, the woman with six children .Atook a part-time a jobBwas a housewifeCworked as a secretaryDwas divorced8From the passage, we can conclude that .Aeach can realize a dreamBwe should live in a dream worldCa good plan helps us succeedDwe can help ourselves by helping othersCDozens of Chicago teenagers on Monday told a small group of elected officials about their need for summer jobs to save for college, pay for food and, in some cases, avoid homelessness.This summer, Illinois is facing the loss of 18,000 jobs for teenagers. The loss comes as teen unemployment in the state has reached a record-high rate of 27.5 percent.Experts say that the slow recovery and the high unemployment rate have forced older workers to take positions for younger workers.Jim Zeckhauser, the manager of a Chicago social service agency for troubled teens, said he used to be able to place dozens of teens in jobs before the financial crisis. This year, he has been able to place only about seven of the 34 teenagers he guides in summer jobs. “Its a struggle to find firms,” he said.Brent Weiss, owner of Uncle Dans, an outdoor-gear retailer with locations in Chicago, Evanston and Highland Park, said he is more selective about the workers that he hires, acknowledging that he is more likely to hire college students than teens, and like many other small business he is doing more with fewer workers.Chicage-area small business say they are taking a wait-and-see approach to expanding their businesses and hiring more workers. They blame increasing gasoline prices and a lack of consumer confidence.Nationwide, teens ago 16 to 19 have seenthe biggest drop in employment during the past decade. In 2020;2020, the employment rate for that age group was 26 percent, the lowest since Workld war II, according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University In 2000, employment rate for the same group was 45 percent.If the trend continues, only one in four teenagers will hold a job this summer, according to the report. Many of the unemployed will likely be black males living in low-income communities.9According to the passage, why do some Chicago teenagers want to take a job?ATo know more about the society.Bto get some career experience.CTo buy some new clothes.DTo support their education.10Teen workers face competition from .Aadult workers and foreign studentsBolder workers and college studentsCyounger workers and college studentsDforeign workers and high students11According to the passage, which of the following is not the cause of the low teen employment rate?AHigh gasoline price.BThe financial crisis.CA lack of teenager confidence.DThe slow economic recovery.12It can be inferred that workers in Chicago-area small businesses .Aare busierBare paid higherChave more free timeDreceived higher educationDIt was an exciting day when Thomas Finger looked inside the nose of a small black mouse. Finger had borrowed the animal from another scientist. It was not your average mouse. The mouses genes had been changed so that the taste buds(味蕾) on its tongue turned green when you shined light on them like a secret message written in secret ink.But no one had ever looked inside its nose. When Finger finally did look there with a microscope, he saw thousands of green cells. “It was like looking at little green stars at night,” says Finger,Seeing that green starry sky was Fingers first glimpse of a new world. If he and other scientists are right, we dont taste things just on our tongues. Other parts of our body can also taste things our nose, our stomach, even our lungs!You might think of taste as something that you experience when you put chocolate in your mouth or chicken soup, or salt. But for you to taste chocolate or chicken soup, special cells on your tongue have to tell the brain that they detected chemicals that are in the food. We have at least five kinds of these chemical-detecting cells (commonly called taste cells) on our tongues: cells that detect salt, sweet compounds(混合物), sour things, bitter things and savory(香的) things like meat or broth.Its these chemical-sensing cells that scientists are now finding all over the body. “Ill bet you that in terms of total number of cells,” says Finger, “there are more taste cells outside the mouth than inside