In America, many teenagers have a part-time job. A part-time job is one that you do a few hours each week to make money. Do you have a part-time job?
Teens can have many different kinds of part-time jobs. Some teens work in groceries (杂货). Others may work in other local business such as the clothes store. You may have friends who work in a fast food restaurant. They may make the food, or keep the restaurant clean. Many teens make money by looking after younger children in the neighborhood. Some teens even have their own business. They cut grass and take care of pets in their neighborhoods while other people are on vacation.
Most teens who have part-time jobs work only a few hours after school, maybe two or three times a week. They often have to work all day on Saturday.
Having a part-time job has many advantages. The job teaches you new skills that you can use as an adult. The job also teaches you responsibility (责任). The person who paid you for the job expects you to be there. The job also pays you money that you can use for many different things. Your family might need the money to help with the family budget (预算). If you're lucky, you could use the money to buy music and videos. You might want to save the money to buy a new bicycle or maybe even a car.
In some families, teens have part-time jobs to help make money to go to college. Going to college is very expensive. Many parents cannot pay for their child's education without help from the child. In some families, at least half of what a teen makes at a part-time job goes into a college savings account (账户). The teen can spend the rest of the money on what he or she needs or wants.
Many teenagers have part-time jobs and still have time for their friends and families. Many still belong to clubs at school and even have time to play sports. If you have a part-time job,you need to have a good plan to help you do everything you want and have to do. Do your homework and chores as soon as you can. Don't let the work wait and pile up (堆积). Make sure you get to your job on time. Do the things that are most important to you. Spend time with the people you care about most.
根据短文内容完成句子填空(每空限填一个单词)。From the second paragraph of the passage, we know the American teenagers do ____________ kinds of part-time jobs to___________ some extra money.
根据短文内容完成句子填空(每空限填一个单词)。
In some families, the parents____________ the money made by their child to ____________to send their child to college.根据短文内容回答问题。
According to the passage, what can the teenagers learn from doing part-time jobs?
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___________________________________________________________________________________根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子(限15个词以内)回答问题。
What is the main idea of the passage?
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请仔细阅读以下五个段落,然后从A到F六个选项中选出和每个段落对应的内容。其中有一项多余。
请阅读以下五个人的信息,然后为他们选择最适合的一处地方:Joe comes from Moscow. He has studied in Beijing for two years. So he misses his hometown very much. He hopes to go to a city where he can find the feeling of returning home.
Mary is an American girl. She likes going shopping. This year she’ll graduate from a famous Chinese college. So she is planning to travel to a city where she may find a job.
Henry is from Canada. He is interested in surfing and diving. But the city in which he is living is far from the sea. So he is expecting to get to a place where he can do these activities and taste bananas and pineapples.
Rosa comes from Britain. She cannot stand hot weather. And she thinks some Chinese cities have too much pollution. So she wants to go somewhere clean and peaceful.
Timmy comes from Japan. He has great interest in taking photos. He is looking forward to staying close to nature. He even wants to take a boat while taking photos. However, he doesn’t like hot food.
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City: Lhasa Temperature in July:15-17℃ Attractions: blue sky, fresh air and wonderful dances |
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City: Harbin Temperature in July: 24-30℃ Attractions: some old buildings in Russian style |
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City: Chongqing Temperature in July: 28-30℃ Attractions: tall mountains, hot food and friendly people. |
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City: Hong Kong Temperature in July: 29-30℃ Attractions: nice and cheap clothes, all kinds of tasty food and chances to find good jobs. |
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City: Guilin Temperature in July: 29-30℃ Attractions: fantastic hills, clean rivers and many other natural sights. |
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City: Sanya Temperature in July: 27-32℃ Attractions: exciting water sports, lovely beaches and great tropical fruit. |
Everyone has got two personalities(性格)-the one that is shown to the world and the other that is secret and real. You don’t show your secret personality when you’re awake because you can control your behavior, but when you’re asleep, your sleeping position shows the real you. In a normal night, of course, people frequently change their positions. The important position is the one that you go to sleep in.
If you go to sleep on your back, you’re a very open person. You normally trust people and you are easily influenced by fashion or new ideas. You don’t like to displease people. So you never express your real feelings. You’re quite shy and you aren’t quite sure of yourself.
If you sleep on your stomach, you are a rather secretive person. You worry a lot and you’re always easily upset. You always stick to your own opinions or judgment, but you don’t raise your hopes too much. You usually live for today not tomorrow. This means that you enjoy having a good time.
If you sleep curled up(蜷缩), you are probably a very nervous person. You have a low opinion of yourself and so you’re often defensive. You’re shy and you don’t normally like meeting people. You prefer to be on your own. You’re easily hurt.
If you sleep on your side, you have usually got a well—balanced(平衡的) personality. You know your strengths and weakness. You’re usually careful. You believe in yourself. You sometimes feel anxious, but you don’t often get sad. You always say what you think even if it makes people rather angryYou may find the passage in .
A. a science magazine B A guide book
C. a sports newspaper D. a story bookWhen does the sleeping position best show your secret personality?
A.In the daytime | B.At the beginning of sleep |
C.At night | D.During the deep sleep |
Tina hardly tells her secrets to her friends. She probably goes to sleep .
A.on curled up | B.on her stomach | C.on her back | D.on her side |
What does the word “defensive” mean in the passage?
A.易怒的 | B.攻击性的 | C.外向的 | D.有戒心的 |
What does the passage tell us?
Sleeping on your side is the best way of sleeping
Changing positions will cause sleeping problems.
Sleeping positions show people’s secret personalities.
Enough sleep makes people look better and healthier.
Jerry Green went to spend a year at the South Pole Station (南极站)as the only doctor in 1998 when she 47. While working at the station that March. she discovered that there was a hard lump (肿块) in her stomach. She knew it was cancer, but she wasn’t able to go to a doctor for help. She couldn’t leave the station for the next seven until the snow thawed. Dr. Green didn’t wait for the death. But decided to fight against the cancer. She tried to about the lump to a hospital in the United States. The doctors said it was cancer. Without the proper wouldn’t live for long. Soon a USA airplane came to provide her with some help. She started her own treatments(治疗)after getting instructions from American doctors. She finally spent the long winter there before she returned home that October .Since then, she had become a incubus in support of cancer charities. She also wrote a best-selling book called Ice Bound.
Sadly, Dr. Green’s cancer finally returned. She died on June 23.2009.Jerry Green discovered that she bad a bard lump in her stomach in .
A. March.1998 B. May. 1998 CJune.2009 D. July,2009What does the underlined word" thawed "mean in Chinese?
A.形成 | B.堆积 | C.融化 | D.覆盖 |
When did she start her own treatments?
A.After searching the Internet. |
B.After getting instructions from A merit an doctors. |
C.After hearing from her paw law |
D.After becoming a member in support of cancer charities. |
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A.Dr. Green decided to give up the treatments. |
B.She sent the information about the lump to a hospital in the United Stales. |
C.She wrote a book called Ice Bound. |
D.Dr Green died of cancer. |
What does the writer feel about Dr. Green’s death?
A. exciting B. Happy. C Sad D. Pleased
Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless." he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England’s rural Devonshire.
It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon.
The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlantic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway’s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man’s cold-water exploits (成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North Pole expeditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the Pole aren’t the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn’t say, ’You are completely crazy,’" Saunders says.
In 2001, after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter (遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit.
Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he’s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. His old playmates would not believe the transformation.
This October, Saunders, 27, heads south to explore from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, an 1800-mile journey that has never been completed on skis.The turning point in Saunders’ life came when ________.
A.he started to play ball games |
B.he got a mountain bike at age 15 |
C.he ran his first marathon at age 18 |
D.he started to receive Ridgway’s training |
We can learn from the text that Ridgway ________.
A.dismissed Saunders’ dream as fantasy |
B.built up his body together with Saunders |
C.hired Saunders for his cold-water experience |
D.won his fame for his voyage across the Atlantic |
What do we know about Saunders?
A.He once worked at a school in Scotland. |
B.He followed Ridgway to explore the North Pole. |
C.He was chosen for the school sports team as a kid. |
D.He was the first Briton to ski alone to the North Pole. |
The underlined word "Intrigued" in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A.Excited | B.Convinced | C.Delighted | D.Fascinated |
It can be inferred that Saunders’ journey to the North Pole ________.
A.was accompanied by his old playmates |
B.set a record in the North Pole expedition |
C.was supported by other Arctic explorers |
D.made him well-known in the 1960s |
Biodiversity(生物多样性), or biological diversity, is a wide-ranging concept that covers all the different kinds of plant and animal species present on earth. Environmentalists believe that many millions of species exist. As all these living organisms are dependent on each other in some way, biodiversity is desirable. Any loss to the planet is actually a loss for mankind as well, and it is our responsibility to try and save Earth’s biodiversity.
Biodiversity has a vital role to play in the evolution(演变)of species. Species become extinct, but new species evolve, and this is how a balance is maintained. This may sound pretty simple, but it takes millions of years for changes to take place.
Biodiversity is also very important to the stability of food webs. Damage to them can mean disaster for an entire ecosystem. The extinction of a single animal species can put huge pressure on the numerous other species dependent on it.
Biodiversity also has an important role to play in human society. Apart from being the most intelligent species on earth, human beings are also the most dependent. We depend on nature to meet our basic needs. When we change the balance of nature to create our cities and bring about our technical advances, we knowing or unknowing cause great damage to the ecosystem. This must be understood, and the damages must be reversed(颠倒)in any way they can to ensure that the balance of the ecosystem is maintained. We learn from the first paragraph that_________.
A biodiversity can be seen
B all living species are found on earth.
C people everywhere are aware of the importance of biodiversity
D the loss of any species can affect humansWhy can change in food webs lead to disaster?
A Because it can make people suffer from disease
B Because it can put huge pressure on some species
C Because it takes a long time for such changes to take place
D Because it will damage ninety-nine percent of speciesWhat does the underlined word probably mean?
A 画线 B Peace C Strength D VarietyWe learn from the last paragraph that __________.
A humans are as independent as they are intelligent
B the balance of the ecosystem is easily maintained
C nature has given us a lot
D nature is taking revenge on usWhich of the following may be the best title for this passage?
A Food Webs are Closely Related to Biodiversity.
B Biodiversity Plays a Very Important Role in Evolution
C How Biodiversity Affects Human Society.
D Understanding Biodiversity and Its Importance.