SUPPORT WORKER

Do you have the ability to care for others? Can you understand how older people feel? Are you a good communicator? Do you have good listening skills? Can you work weekends?

If you have answered YES to the above, we would like to hear from you:

☆ Starting rate of ￡8.56 per hour

☆ Free uniform

☆ Excellent training

Careers@golden-care.com

WOWEE MAGAZINE

Writers Wanted

Wowee Magazine is looking for writers for its website. Pay is based on the number of people who read your articles.You may also receive free tickets to events and free products to test. This is a great opportunity to get valuable work experience.

We want people who are: chatty interesting passionate skilled

Contact us at info@wowee.com.

CALLING ALL MODELS

Think you could be a model? If so, we'd like to meet you!

Working as a successful fashion model isn't easy but it is very exciting and could be a great opportunity.

Girls should be over 16 with a minimum height of 172cm and boys should have a minimum height of 182cm. If you are under 16 and do not yet have the required height， we would still be interested in meeting you， but you must bring a parent.

Info@top-model-agency.uk

WORK FOR COFFEE BEANS

Join Britain's number one cafe at Coffee Beans, where every cafe has the same aims: to create family-like teams and to give excellent customer service.

Many different kinds of people come and work with us, so start your career at Coffee Beans today:

☆ Choose the hours you work

☆ Get management experience

☆ Share your love of coffee

Join us as a Team Member, Assistant Manager of Cafe Manager, depending on your skills and experience.

Email us at jobs@coffeebeans.co.uk.

1. Which address should you email at if you want to be a support worker？

A．careers@golden-care.com	B．info@wowee.com
C．info@top-model-agency.uk	D．jobs@coffeebeans.co.uk

2. A writer working for Wowee Magazine can ______ .

A．bring a parent

B．get a free uniform

C．choose working hours

D．receive free tickets to events

3. What can we learn about the jobs from the job postings？

A．The model opportunity is only meant for adults.

B．There is no need to be trained as a support worker.

C．Employees at Coffee Beans have few management opportunities.

D．Applicants to Wowee Magazine should be sociable and enthusiastic.

On the night of August 24，2001，I lost most of my right leg. At the hospital，I just kept telling myself to hold on. Weeks later I made a deal with the hospital staff that once I could roll onto my side，I could be discharged（准许离开）.I am proud to say that just one short week later，was going home. The day I left the hospital，I made a promise to myself to never give up.

In February of 2013, my life was forever changed when a sweet lady asked me why I did not wear a prosthesis(假肢). My simple answer was "I don't have sixty thousand dollars. "The next morning I was in tears as I learned that Alisson, Jeff Hoffman, founder of Priceline, and a dozen other people, had bought a prosthesis for me. From the first step, it was apparent to me just how much this would mean to me.

For a year I tried to adjust to the leg and settle into everyday life, until one day I realized I was making a life but not living one. After almost 13 years of thinking that I was confident, I had an unfamiliar feeling sweep over me. For the first time in my life. I was confident! I desired to help those around me, to have them experience this unbelievable feeling for themselves.

In April of 2014, I started modeling. My dream is that one day a little girl will see me on a poster at her favorite clothing store and say, "Wow, she is amazing, and she only has one leg.

4. What do we know about the author from paragraph 1?

A．She was humorous and outgoing	B．She was determined and optimistic
C．She was smart and hardworking	D．She was generous and friendly.

5. Why was the authors life changed forever in 2013?

A．She got a precious gift.	B．She met some famous people.
C．She had sixty thousand dollars	D．She started modeling

6. What did the prosthesis mean for the author?

A．It helped her make a living	B．It helped her get rid of sadness
C．It helped her gain real confidence	D．It helped her become a famous model

7. How will the author help those around her?

A．By inspiring them	B．By pleasing them
C．By doing voluntary work	D．By giving them money

I'll never forget the day when Mary came into my office and said, I am too old to learn how to use a computer. I shook my head. Here was a woman who had raised 6 children and who had made great progress in her career telling me that she was too old to learn something new. I told her that I always believed people were never too old to learn.

Mary followed my advice and did learn how to use the computer. Now, she is retired and leading a very active life volunteering in her community( 社区 ),using her computer skills and helping anyone that needs help.

When she was in her sixties, one day she called me and said she had played the piano for others all her life, and now she was going to make a CD of her own. My mind flashed back to the day when she told me she was too old to learn. You can imagine my surprise and delight.

To produce the CD, she had a lot of things to learn. It was not just sitting at the piano and playing. She had to research the songs, learn about copyright(版权),and learn about marketing. It was pretty amazing for someone who once said she was too old to learn. And finally she made it. Now she has her own CD-Mixed Blessings.

Most of you probably have heard about some people who have gone back to university in their seventies and have also graduated. They are on their way again to charging themselves with a new skill and a new attitude towards life. The point is you are unable to learn anything at any age if you believe you are too old. On the contrary, you can achieve anything at any age if you believe you can.

8. When Mary said she was too old to learn, the author________.

A．did not agree with her

B．felt sad and decided to help her

C．became disappointed with her

D．thought what she had said was true

9. Why did Mary call the author one day in her sixties?

A．To ask him for some help.	B．To tell him about her plan
C．To ask him to make a CD.	D．To talk about her new CD

10. The author thought it________ for Mary to make a CD.

A．impossible	B．interesting
C．unnecessary	D．difficult

11. What does the text mainly tell us?

A．We should always learn new skills.

B．We're never too old to learn.

C．Interest is the best teacher.

D．Some people succeed for a reason

Working on a farm and taking care of crops can be difficult. Engineers have long wanted to build robots to lighten the load. But it has proved a difficult task. Robots that walk or roll along the ground can step on the easily damaged plants heavily. And they have to stop working when it rains. “Tarzan”, however, could deal with some of those challenges.

Jonathan Rogers is a robotics expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. When it comes to a farm environment, he realized robots would face many problems. “Many robots tend to get stuck,” he says, “It's very hard to leave them out for long periods without a human helping them.”

What if the robot could move above the crops? Jonathan Rogers says. Then his team set out to design a robot that could swing hand to hand along wires hung above the field. He named their invention Tarzan after the jungle-swinging character in a movie.

Mark Spong, a robotics researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas says that he admires Tarzan for its using swinging movement to save energy and the idea of building a wire structure to move around above crops.

Rogers first predicted that Tarzan could help farmers monitor crops with sensors and cameras. But he also said future robots might take water to a particularly thirsty plant. And adding a third “hand” could allow such a robot to harvest fruits and vegetables. Finally the robot could move off the farm and into the city, helping deal with the traffic and security.

12. What worried the engineers when they built the farm robots?

A．They took up too much space.	B．They made the farming process slow.
C．They had difficulty exploring in fields.	D．They caused certain damage to crops.

13. What does Jonathan Rogers think about most farm robots?

A．They take much time to make.	B．They get out of date more easily.
C．They depend too much on people.	D．They get used to the environment slowly.

14. What attracts Mark Spong most about Tarzan?

A．Its strong wings.	B．Its low cost.
C．Its creative design.	D．Its powerful engine.

15. How did Jonathan Rogers feel about Tarzan’s future?

A．It could be found everywhere.	B．It could be put into more practical uses.
C．It could be used to do all the farm work.	D．It could be popular with working people in cities.

How to protect your ears

You and your friends are leaving a concert on a Friday night. When you get outside, your ears are ringing. You have to shout to be heard.     16     So no harm done…right?

Not quite. Temporary buzzing may be easy to ignore, but repeated exposure to loud noise will eventually cause serious--- and irreversible(无法治愈的)--- hearing loss. A new study conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston shows that one in five people between the ages of 12 and 19 are experiencing slight hearing loss, and one in 20 have mild hearing loss.     17    But the good news is that there plenty of ways you can protect your ears from further damage — and still listen to the music you love:

Ask around. Put your earbuds in or your headphones on, and then ask a friend next to you whether or not he or she can hear what you’re listening to.     18    Turn it down.

Buy noise-canceling headphones. A pair of earbuds or headphones that fits comfortably will limit outside noise so that you can hear your music better at lower volumes.

Take breaks.       19     So when listening to music, take your headphones off for 15 or 20 minutes and let your ears enjoy the quiet.

    20    You can buy a cheap pair at any drugstore as an easy way to lower volume at concerts — or while playing or practicing your own music — without changing the quality of the sound.

A．Use earplugs.

B．Keep the volume below 70 percent.

C．If the answer is yes, your music is too loud.

D．But by morning, your hearing is totally back to normal.

E．Like every other part of your body, your ears need rest.

F．Unfortunately, there’s no way to get back hearing you’ve already lost.

G．The exposure to noise is louder and longer than in any previous generation.

46. 假定你是李华，你打算寒假去上海旅游，请给你的美国朋友Jerry发邮件，邀请他与你同游，内容包括：
1.邀请Jerry与你同游；2.你的旅游计划；3.期待回复
注意：80词左右；适当增加细节，以使行文连贯：开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：外滩 the bund；东方明珠 the Oriental Pearl Tower；迪士尼乐园 the Disneyland
Dear Jerry,

How are you?

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Yours,

Li Hua

47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。续写的词数应为150词左右。

A man came home from work late, tired and impatient, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.

“Daddy, may I ask you a question?”

“Sure, what is it?” replied the man.

“Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

“That’s none of your business. Why do you ask？”the man said angrily.

“I just want to know. Please tell me.” pleaded(恳求)the little boy.

“If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”

“Oh,”the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he said,“Daddy, may I borrow $10?”

The father was angry, “If the only reason you asked is that you can borrow some money to buy some silly toys,then go back to your room and think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard every day for such childish(幼稚的)behavior.” The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. “How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?”he thought to himself. After about an hour, the man calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.

“Are you asleep, son？”he asked.

“No, daddy, I’m awake,” replied the boy.

“I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier,”said the man. “It has been a long day and I took out my anger on you. Here’s the $10 you asked for.”

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. “Oh. Thank you, daddy!”he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled bills（皱巴巴的钞票）.

Paragraph 1：

The man, seeing that the boy already had money started to get angry again.

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Paragraph 2:

Not knowing what his son meant, the father just stood there, waiting for his boy to explain.

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