2020年高三英语上学期 25分钟限时阅读天天练—第11天

2020;2020年高三英语上学期25分钟限时阅读天天练第11天阅读理解ALess 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 Chicagos 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. Id 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 wasnt 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 computers 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 UniversityC. an Internet site D. University of Chicago2. 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 administratorC. on how to hunt a job D. to work in a business school3. Toole attempted to get a job from Career-Builder because he_.A. wanted to be a promoted B. wanted to jump to a new jobC. didnt have a job at the time D. was eager to know more about Career-Builder4. What is the best title of this passage?A. How to find a job on the InternetB. The Internet, a wonderful job-search mediumC. How Casebeer and Toole found their jobsD. Computer and job openings (职位空缺)BIt 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 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 childrens 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 its not because you want to dominate(支配) their life and control them; its because its 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 widerB. teens quarrel a lot with their parentsC. teens dont want to live with other family membersD. some parents feel distant from their teenage children6. The author believes that teens one-word answers show _.A. their awareness of independenceB. their physical and mental changesC. their wishes for keeping silentD. an unpleasant parent-child relationship7. Whats 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. Whats the authors purpose in writing the passage?A. To give advice.B. To direct teenagers.C. To present findingsD. To comfort parents.CI 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. Its 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 my fault.”When things dont 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 weret 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