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Making lists is relaxing. It dictates the shape of the immediate future; it calms you down (it’s OK, it’s on a list somewhere) and it makes you feel good when you cross something off List-making is standard practice in therapy for depression). It might even help you to get things done too. The more you have to do, the more you need a list and few people with high-powered jobs get by without them. Women always think they’re better at lists than men. Men tend to have tasks which they assemble ’into Action Plans whereas women just have lists of Things To Do.
James Oliver, psychologist, has created his own “time management matrix (模式)”. He writes a list of things to do and then organizes them into categories: things that have to be done straight away, other things that it would be good to do today, things that are important but haven’t got to be done immediately and things that are less urgent but that he doesn’t want to forget. “Using categories to order the world is the way the human mind works,” he says. “After that, you should divide things into levels of importance.” But he also warns, “If people get too absorbed in making lists, it doesn’t work. They have too many categories and lose their ability to decide which is the most important.”
It’s all a question of what works best for you, whether it’s a tidy notebook, a packet of Post-it notes or the back of your hand. Having tried all these, student Kate Rollins relies on a computerized list, which is printed out each morning. “My electronic organizer has changed my life,” she says. “Up to now, I’ve always relied on my good memory, but now that I’m working and studying, I find I’ve got too much to keep in my head.”
So what are you waiting for? No, you’re not too busy to make today the first day of your upgraded time-managed life. In fact, there’s no better time than the present to begin to take increased control of your work and life. So, get out your pencil and pen and make a list.
The main purpose of making lists is to .

A．help map out one’s future	B．divide things into levels of importance
C．treat certain diseases such as depression	D．organize one’s work and life reasonably

We can learn from the passage that.

A．good memory helps in list making	B．too much listing might be misleading
C．women usually make a lot more lists than men	D．people with high-powered jobs make lists most

In this passage the author intends to.

A．suggest a way of raising one’s living standard	B．introduce some ways of business management
C．urge people to develop the habit of listing	D．warn people not to rely on their memory

The oldest and hardest cow beef may be made as tender and tasty as young and choice met. ”This declaration was made by the French physicist Denis Papin in book published in 1681, which described his “New Digester” or pressure cooker. It was a cast iron pot with an air-tight lid, which allowed liquids to boil at a higher temperature than usual, and so it cooked food in a quarter of the time. The food was cooked by pressurized steam being forced through it at about 121℃. All pressure cookers were made of cast iron until 1905, when the first aluminum model was made in America. In 1938, Alfred Vischer, a man from Chicago, U. S. A., designed a simple interlocking pan and lid, and an improved pressure-tight seal（密封）—a replaceable rubber sealing ring. When Vischer’s patent（专利）expired in 1954, many companies entered the field, and the rapid pressure cooker became popular with people with people who had little time to cook or had to supply food for unexpected guests.
From the passage we can learn pressure cooker made of cast iron lasted at least ____years.

A．300

B．200

C．90

D．60

Which of the following shows the correct order?
a.Denis Papin called his invention “New Digester”.
b.It began to be widely used by common families.
c.Instead of cast iron, it was first made of aluminum.
d.The first pressure cooker was invented in France.
e.Alfred Vischer greatly improved its design.
f.Vischer’s patent came to an end.
g. Many other companies began to produce it.

A．d, a, e, c, g, f, b	B．a, d, c, b, e, f, g
C．d, a, c, e, f, g, b	D．g, e, a, e, d, f, b

In the writer’s opinion, the best advantage of a pressure cooker is that_______.

A．the oldest and hardest cow beef can be made tender and tasty

B．it allows liquids to boil at a higher temperature than usual

C．it can help people to supply food for unexpected guests

D．it helps people to spend much less time in cooking

The best title of this passage may possibly be _______.

A．New Digester

B．Pressure Cooker

C．Favorite Cook

D．The History of Cooker

Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer（扫盲志愿者）. The training I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however. When I began to discover what other people’s lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.
My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three. In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule. She told me it would not help because she could not read it. She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket, because she couldn’t always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list. Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted.
As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie’s self-confidence, which encouraged her to continue in her studies. She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket. After this successful trip, she reported how self-confident she felt. At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy first grader, with his reading. She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories. When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read, pride was written all over her face, and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off. As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as well. I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before.
As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others. In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did.
What did the author do last summer?

A．She worked in the supermarket.

B．She helped someone to learn to read.

C．She gave single mothers the help they needed.

D．She went to a training program to help a literacy volunteer.

Why didn’t Marie go to the supermarket by bus at first?

A．Because she liked to walk to the supermarket.	B．Because she lived far away from the bus stop.
C．Because she couldn’t afford the bus ticket.	D．Because she couldn’t find the right bus.

How did Marie use to find the goods she wanted in the supermarket?

A．She knew where the goods were in the supermarket.	B．She asked others to take her to the right place.
C．She managed to find the goods by their looks.	D．She remembered the names of the goods.

Which of the following statements is true about Marie?

A．Marie could do things she had not been able to do before.

B．Marie was able to read stories with the help of her son.

C．Marie decided to continue her studies in school

D．Marie paid for her own lessons.

Every year landslides (滑坡) cause 25 to 50 deaths and $1.5 billion in damage in the United States. They account for 15 percent of the deaths from natural disasters in Europe. And in December, a single event killed more than 200 people in the Philippines. Sending workers to stabilize (加固) mountainsides using steel bars and cement (水泥) can help prevent disaster, but it introduces new difficulties. Shaking drills produce harmful dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris (岩屑). "It's quite a risky job," says Giorgio Pezzuto of D'Appolonia, an engineering company in Italy.
D'Appolonia, working with eight other companies, may have an answer: a three-ton robot called Roboclimber. "The idea is to operate a machine far away that can drill without a human being on board," says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by the European Commission. Engineers claim that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor. The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged mechanical spider, has cost at least $2 million so far. The final product should be able to climb unstable mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement, and collect data on the slope's stability. Testing should begin in May.
The underlined word "event"(in Paragraph 1) refers to _____.

A．landslide

B．machine

C．earthquake

D．flood

The purpose in writing this text is _____.

A．to tell people how serious the damage caused by landslides is

B．to tell people that sending workers to stabilize mountainsides is a risky job

C．to introduce a product that can be used to stabilize mountainsides

D．to show people how to use a new product

What does the robot look like?

A．A human being.

B．A spider.

C．A truck.

D．A drill.

The biggest advantage of this product is that _____.

A．it will be faster and cheaper than manual labor

B．it can climb mountainsides, drill holes, insert bars and cement

C．it can collect data on the slope's stability

D．it can drill without a human being on board

If you were to come up with a list of organizations whose failures had done the most damage to the American economy in recent years, you would probably have to start with the Wall Street firms that brought us the financial crisis. From there, you might move on to the automakers in Detroit.
But I would suggest that the list should also include a less obvious nominee: public education.
At its top level, the American system of higher education may be the best in the world. Yet in terms of its core mission---turning teenagers into educated college graduates--- much of the system is failing.
The United States does a good job enrolling (招生) teenagers in college, but only half of the students who enroll end up with a bachelor’s degree.
So identifying the causes of the college dropout crisis in the world’s largest economy matters enormously, and a new book called “Crossing the Finish Line” tries to do precisely that. Its authors are economists William Bowen and Michael McPherson, and a doctoral candidate Matthew Chingos. The first problem they diagnose is something they call under-matching. It refers to students who choose not to attend the best college they can get into. They instead go to a less selective one, perhaps one that is closer to home or less expensive. About half of the low-income students with a grade-point average of at least 3.5 in high school and an SAT score of at least 1,200 do not attend the best college they could have. “I was really astonished by the degree to which well-qualified students from poor families under-matched,” said Mr. Bowen.
In fact, well-off students attend the colleges that do the best job of producing graduates. Meanwhile, lower-income students -–even when they are better qualified—often go to colleges that excel（擅长）in producing drop-outs. “It’s really a waste,” Mr. Bowen said, “and a big problem for the country.” As the authors point out, the only way to lift the college graduation rate significantly is to lift it among poor and working-class students. Instead, it appears to have fallen.
What can be done? Money is clearly part of the answer.
Which of the following would people first think of as a factor responsible for the American financial crisis according to this passage?

A．The government.	B．Public education
C．The Detroit automakers.	D．The Wall Street firms.

What is a big problem with American higher education?

A．It is hard to enroll enough students into college.

B．Many colleges are experiencing low rate of graduation.

C．Many college students stay away from classes.

D．It is hard for many colleges to get financial aid from the government.

The title of the book Crossing the Finish Line probably means______.

A．running to the end of the line	B．going to college
C．finishing college education	D．working hard in college

Why do some students under--match ?

A．Because they have financial difficulty.	B．Because they face ambition crisis.
C．Because they lack confidence.	D．Because they can’t get guidance.

The passage is mainly about _______.

A．problems with secondary American education and possible solutions

B．America’s financial crisis, its cause and influence

C．low rate of American college graduation, its cause and its influence

D．relationship between American education and its economy

A．To keep close to the beach．	B．To dive into unknown waters.
C．To use floating toys on the water.	D．To swim soon after lunch．

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