【推荐1】Just when you thought you figured out Millennials (those who reached young adulthood around the year 2000), Generation Z is now entering the workforce. A massive 72.8 million individuals are included in this group born between the mid - 1990s and the early 2000s.

Are you ready?

While we have learned how to create a culture where Millennials can do well, what Generation Z needs can be quite different:

Millennials	Generation Z
Don’t just work for a paycheck, they want a purpose.	Money and job security are their top motivators. They want to make a difference but surviving an developing are more important.
They aren’t pursuing job satisfaction, they are pursuing their own development.	They want to gather rewarding experiences. Gen Z tend towards being impatient and often experience FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), so instant feedback and satisfaction are key.
They don’t want bosses, they want coaches.	They want to be guided in an environment where they can advance quickly. They want to look their leaders in the eye and experience honesty and transparency.
They don’t want annual reviews, they want ongoing conversations.	They don’t want an annual work assessment, they want to be advised and given feedback on an ongoing frequent (daily) basis.
They don’t want to fix their weaknesses, they want to develop their strengths.	They believe that there are winners and losers - and more people fall into the losing category. They want to have the tools to win, either through developing weaknesses or strengths.
They have a cooperative way of thinking where everyone joins in and works together.	72% of Gen Z said they are competitive with doing the same job. They are independent and want to be judged on their own value and showcase their individual talents.
It’s not just their job, it’s their life.	Salary and benefits and how they can advance are central. They are a DIY generation and they feel that other generations have over complicated the workplace.

1. According to the passage, Millennials and Gen Z share the same point of view on _______.

A．job satisfaction	B．work assessment
C．weaknesses and strengths	D．salary and benefits

2. Which of the following is true of Gen Z’s way of thinking?

A．They prefer to be team leaders, not members.

B．They enjoy working together with others.

C．They don’t want to cooperate, they compete.

D．They have talents and don’t want to be judged.

3. Who among the following are most probably the target readers of this passage?

A．Millennials.	B．Generation Z.
C．Recruiters.	D．FOMO patients.

【推荐1】Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office. He’s been a doctor for ten years.

Dr. Petrels gives his patients good medical advice. But he doesn’t just tell his patients what to do. He also sings to them on television! Dr. Petrels has his own TV show. The show is in Italian, English and French. The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice. He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language. After that, he sings another song.

Dr. Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week. The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing. His dream is to perform (表演) in Las Vegas. His favorite songs are love songs, and he has a compact disk (光盘) of love songs that he wrote. Dr. Petrels says, “I always loved to sing. All my problems are gone when I sing.” But when Dr. Petrels was young, his father didn’t want him to be a singer, so he went to medical school.

Some people tell Dr. Petrels he can help people more as a doctor. But Dr. Petrels says he helps people when he sings, too. “I like to make people smile. Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile. Medicine and entertainment both try to do the same thing. They try to make people feel good.”

1. Dr. Petrels works 60 hours a week, because he _______.

A．gives his patients medical advice	B．takes care of 159 patients a week
C．sings on television	D．has his own TV show

2. Dr. Petrels _______, so he is called a singing doctor.

A．has been a doctor for ten years	B．always loved to sing
C．is popular with his patients	D．also sings to his patients on TV

3. In his TV show, Dr. Petrels _______.

A．sings and gives medical advice	B．sings about different diseases
C．starts to explain diseases with a song	D．sings love songs he wrote

4. Dr. Petrels’ show is popular _______.

A．in Las Vegas	B．at medical school
C．with people who like his singing	D．with patients in Montreal

【推荐2】My first reaction was annoyance. It was Friday afternoon, and I was within an hour of finishing my work for the week. As I was leaving, a nurse brought ne one more patient message. The statement read: "Mrs. Jones called to say that she has had blurred vision(视觉模糊)ever since her medical test this morning." I smiled. Suddenly our tests were causing eye problems.

This week my patients had questioned everything. My patient with high blood pressure had stopped coming to her treatment on the advice of an Internet chat room. A woman who had a mental problem was substituting St. John's word for her medication. Now Mrs. Jones was imagining problems. I rolled my eyes.

My second reaction was worry. As I looked through her record, I tried to figure out why she would have blurred vision, but nothing in her record explained the new problem. She's probably just anxious, I thought. Still, she wouldn't have called if she had been all right. I picked up the phone.

What I next felt can only be described as delight. Before I made the call, the nurse ran in Mrs, Jones called. Her vision is fine. Turns out she picked up the wrong glasses when she left the office. The X-ray technician has been having the same problem. I let out a laugh. Mrs. Jones had been right. Her vision had been blurred. Now we know why.

Finally I felt shame. I came to realize what Mrs. Jones had taught me. I had first known she was wrong that her anxiety had clouded her judgment. Instead, my medical training had clouded mine. Now I feel thankful that Mrs. Jones figured it out before 1 made a mistake about our relationship. Patients come to me for my help. They pay me to listen, diagnose, treat and talk. That suggests trust; I must remember that, and trust them too.

1. The writer smiled while reading that patient message because he knew___________.

A．Mrs. Jones would ask for more tests

B．the patient was being unreasonable

C．the nurse was joking with him

D．Mrs. Jones would call him

2. What has caused Mrs. Jones' eye problem?

A．Wrong glasses.	B．Medical checkup
C．Her own imagination.	D．Chatting on the Internet

3. The underlined words "clouded her judgment" in the last paragraph probably mean__________.

A．made her less trustful toward the doctor

B．put her in control of her own feelings

C．mode bet less able to think clearly

D．put her in a dangerous situation

4. Which of following is the emotional development of the author?

A．angry-happy-worried-ashamed

B．ashamed-angry-happy-worried

C．worried-angry-ashamed-happy

D．angry-worried-happy-ashamed

【推荐3】Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.

At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (细菌) caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate — refined white rice(精炼米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery — that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins. The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food.

Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills.

1. The underlined word “cure” in Paragragh 1 probably means ______.

A．a medical treatment	B．a kind of vitamin
C．a kind of germ	D．a kind of rice

2. Why did Christian Eijkman raise some chickens?

A．To eat them.	B．To carry out his experiments.
C．To give the Javanese a surprise.	D．To make money by selling them.

3. We can learn from the passage that ______.

A．beri-beri was caused by chickens

B．the Javanese didn’t like vitamins

C．Christian Eijkman’s experiment was successful

D．the Javanese’s disease was caused by a kind of germ

【推荐1】There was a story many years ago of a school teacher--- Mrs. Thompson. She told the children on the first day that she loved them all the same. But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didn’t play well with the other children and he always needed a bath. She did not like him.
Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother. Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself. She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present too. It was his mother’s perfume(香水)。
Teddy said, “Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to.” After the children left she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children.
Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy. The boy’s mind seemed to come alive. The more she encourage him, the faster he improved. By the end of the sixth grade, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class.
Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school, third in his class, and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole lift. He went to college. Mrs. Thompson got two more letters from him with the last one signed, Theodore F. Stoddard, M. D.(医学博士).
The story doesn’t end there. On his wedding day, Dr. Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson’s ear, “Thank you, Mrs. Thompson, for believing in me. You made me feel important and showed me that I could make a difference.”
Mrs. Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back, “Teddy, you have it all wrong. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn’t know how to teach until I met you.”
1. What did Mrs. Thompson do on the first day of school?

A．She made Teddy feel ashamed.	B．She asked the children to play with Teddy.
C．She changed Teddy’s seat to the front row.	D．She told the class something untrue about herself.

2. What did Mrs. Thompson find out about Teddy?

A．He often told lies.	B．He was good at math.
C．He needed motherly care.	D．He enjoyed playing with others.

3. In what way did Mrs. Thompson change?

A．She taught fewer school subjects.	B．She became stricter with her students.
C．She no longer liked her job as a teacher.	D．She cared more about educating students.

4. Why did Teddy thank Mrs. Thompson at his wedding?

A．She had kept in touch with him.	B．She had given him encouragement.
C．She had sent him Christmas presents.	D．She had taught him how to judge people.

【推荐2】When my family moved to America in 2010 from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect (尊敬) elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States.

I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive (敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description “old”. I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry. In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience.

However, in the United States, people think “growing old” is a problem since “old” shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn’t want to hear.

After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don’t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don’t show my feelings through words.

1. Jack brought the couple their food very fast because ______.

A．the manager asked him to do so	B．he respected the elderly
C．the couple wanted him to do so	D．he wanted more pay

2. When Jack called the couple “elderly”, they became ______.

A．Nervous

B．satisfied

C．unhappy

D．excited

3. In Jack’s hometown, ______．

A．people dislike being called “old”	B．people are proud of being old
C．many people reach the age of seventy or eighty	D．the elderly are the first to get food in restaurants

4. After this experience, Jack ______.

A．lost his job in the restaurant	B．made friends with the couple
C．no longer respected the elderly	D．changed his way with older people

【推荐3】It was a very hot day in late summer. I was a young dad working in a local wood mill. It was dangerous, back-breaking work that paid very little. In the year I had worked there only four other people hadn't quit and been replaced with new faces. Those of us who stayed did so only because there was no other work to find to support our families.

On this day the fans weren't working and all of us were covered in sweat and sawdust. When I looked around every face I saw looked angry and frustrated. Suddenly,a voice called out:“Hey! There's a deer in here.” A lost little doe had wandered through the open loading bay doors and was now cowering(蜷缩）in between the huge stacks of wood. All of us stopped working and went looking for her as she ran about looking for a way out.

Now most people where I live hunt deer for meat in the fall, but also treat them with great kindness the rest of the year. Many will even buy 50lb bags of corn to help feed them during the harsh winter months. It was no surprise then that all of us were soon quickly working together to free this little doe. By blocking off all the other routes we were able to guide her panic search back to the open bay doors. We watched as she jumped out of the building and back into the woods. Then we walked back in to work. I noticed something, though. On every face there was a joyful smile. It was as if this one single act of kindness had energized us again and reminded us of what life is all about.

1. Why were few people willing to work in the wood mill?

A．They wanted more freedom.

B．They didn't like the boss.

C．The pay and conditions were bad.

D．They wanted more pleasure.

2. What can be inferred from paragraph 2?

A．The workers often saw a deer there.

B．The deer was a light to the dull work.

C．The deer was trapped in a big well.

D．All the workers wanted to catch the deer.

3. How did the men free the deer in the end?

A．By opening one route.

B．By dropping some food.

C．By using familiar signals.

D．By imitating another deer.

4. Which of the following best describes the workers?

A．Bad-tempered but patient.

B．Hard-working and loving.

C．Cautious and courageous.

D．Bad-tempered and demanding.