| A．She wore the latest fashion designs. |
| B．She was fond of hand-painted clothing. |
| C．She began to make clothes on her own. |
| D．She made clothes for fashion week models. |
| A．To create basic designs in high school. |
| B．To gain experience by working in a studio. |
| C．To touch and feel as many clothes as possible. |
| D．To learn about all the basics of fashion design. |
| A．Costing people a lot of money. | B．Bringing people great success. |
| C．Improving people’s tastes. | D．Increasing people’s confidence |
2 . Criticism of Big Tech is intensifying. At Congressional hearings last week, politicians from across the aisle gave a rough ride to executives of some of the world's most valuable companies. Amid the hubbub(喧哗), the resignation of Google's Meredith Whittaker was less noticed, but significant. Ms Whittaker, a Google artificial intelligence researcher, was a leader of protests insider the company last year. In an internal note to fellow employees, she warned that developers have a “short window in which to act" to stop increasingly dangerous uses of artificial intelligence.
Ms Whittaker' s resignation reflects a growing tendency for tech companies' own staff to try to serve as the moral compass and conscience of their businesses. In companies whose value relies so much on human and intellectual capital ---and in being able to attract the sharpest minds ---employees have considerable potential impact, especially collectively.
The Google Walkouts of which Ms Whittaker was a leader began in response to the search group's treatment of sexual harassment complaints. They snowballed to include broader issues around the company’s technologies. Ms Whittaker’s decision now to resign suggests many Big Tech companies are still not doing enough to attend to employees' concerns over corporate culture. Yet responding to internal calls to action should be an obvious choice. Threats of strikes or resignations by the talented staff who build systems risk undermining technology companies' competitiveness. Employee action can act to strengthen measures by regulators who are increasingly proactive in dealing with the excesses of Big Tech.
The rise of collective action for social good is encouraging. Traditional labour focuses ----such as workers' rights around pay and hours ----- remain important in a sector which still also makes heavy uses of cheap and poorly-skilled workers. Attempts to pressure companies into behaving ethically have more often been driven by single employees. Avenues are needed to ensure that workers can discuss potentially unethical practices without risking revenge.
Ms Whittaker’s proposal for unionisation is part of a broader chorus demanding greater employee oversight. Alphabet, Google’s parent, has already faced calls from union-sponsored pension funds to add a non-executive employee representative to its board. While not successful this year, the move showed that stakeholders such as investors are pressing for culture change within Big Tech companies.
Workers outside the tech sector, too, are forcing companies to try to solve international problems. A global climate strike is planned for September，encouraging workers to join the thousands of school students who have protested over the past year. In the advertising industry, workers at over 20 agencies refused to work on fossil fuel briefs in solidarity, inspired by the Extinction Rebellion protests. Big Tech, facing ever more open criticism should see the message is clear. To regain trust, it will have to engage not just with regulators, but with its own employees and stakeholders.
1. We can learn from the first paragraph that Ms Whittaker _________| A．drew much criticism from politicians. |
| B．opposed Google's risky uses of AL. |
| C．disagreed with her colleagues on the future of AI. |
| D．resigned because her talent in AI was not recognized. |
| A．can serve as the moral models for traditional labour. |
| B．should keep sharpening their minds. |
| C．can pressure companies into behaving ethically. |
| D．should improve internal collaboration. |
| A．damage a company's reputation. |
| B．threaten a company's competitiveness. |
| C．impair a company' s corporate culture. |
| D．strengthen a company 's management system. |
| A．Employees Can Help to Make Big Tech Moral |
| B．Big Tech Staff Are Different from Traditional Labour |
| C．The Tech Sector Is Facing Ever More Criticism |
| D．The Tech Sector Is in a Wave of Resignations |
你校学生会正开展主题为“The first job I want to take”的英语征文比赛，请你撰文参加（文中请不要出现真实的校名和人名）。你的征文内容需包括：
1.离开校园、步入社会后，你想从事的第一份职业是什么；
2.你想从事这份职业的原因（可从个人特点、职业价值等方面进行阐述）。
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| A．Accountant. | B．Secretary. | C．Mechanic. | D．Manager. |
5 . There's no feeling quite like walking alongside the river.
It's the last light in the valley, and the sound of rushing water drowned out all others. I walk the river's edge with my dog, Mosi, whose inability to hear over the waterfall makes him nervous. Despite his impressive size, he runs sheepishly at my feet. At first glance, we walk to fish, but actually we move at the urging of naturalists long since passed—of John Burroughs and of Loren Eiseley—and of my parents, Norman and Paula, who are still alive today but live far from this Kenya valley. Walk in the woods, their voices advise, along the banks of a river where, in the blue end of a day, you may find the rhythms that fascinate you. There, among the fish and the flowers and the forces that bind them, you might make peace with your worried mind.
I began to venture into the highlands of central Kenya in 2013 with the hope that its rivers might throw their
Fly-fishing seemed a cure of the pain of photographing people's suffering, as I'd done so often in recent years. I hadn't cast a fishing line since the age of 10 or so, when I used bait to fish the Atlantic waters that surrounded the places I lived at a child, first along the coast of New Jersey and later in Massachusetts. My mother's friend at that time taught me the basics. He was a large, athletic man who'd been in the U. S. Army Special Forces, an experience that left him with his own scars. At dusk by the river, his hand resting comfortably on the rod, he seemed at ease.
Between assignments I began to drive around. The slow-flowing river drifts through protected forests, where a network of paths, used by humans, elephants and lions, cuts through thick vegetation. I came to realize that the river had given me more than I'd asked—I regained the peace inside me, and it seemed that I'd gone back to my childhood when sand sharks and puffer fish made my heart beat with curiosity.
1. Which of the following statements is true according to the first two paragraphs?| A．The author came to the valley to fish as well as to make peace with his worried mind. |
| B．The deafening sound of the waterfall made the author and his dog quite scared. |
| C．The author's parents advised him to discover nature in the depths of the valley. |
| D．The valley environment is said to have a healing power upon one's heart. |
| A．rushing. | B．shaking. | C．transforming. | D．encouraging. |
| A．His occupation as a cameraman added to his inner frustration. |
| B．He got to make friends with his mother's friend because of fly-fishing. |
| C．In his spare time, he often walked through the vegetation along the paths. |
| D．Finally he was cured by his childhood experience with sand sharks and puffer fish. |
| A．My Job in Photography Led Me to a Valley. | B．A River Heals the Scar Left by a Camera. |
| C．The Call of Naturalists Pushed Me to Explore. | D．The Fishing Rod Links Nature With My Heart. |
6 . MEGHAN YOUNG is a professional Instagram star. She gets paid to climb beautiful mountains, photograph their glittering (闪闪发光的) summits and post about her adventures to her fans.
Young graduated from Seattle University’s school of Law in 2015. But she decided she didn’t want to become a lawyer. Her parents were shocked by the decision. “They were worried about what I was going to do,” Young says. “How was I going to find career stability?”
But her legal skills haven’t gone to waste. Once companies express an interest in working with her, there’s the tough task of negotiating the terms (条款) of the deal. And the work is still unfinished even after she’s done take the photos. When Young returns from her adventures, she carefully edits the images and writes captions to go along with them. Once the posts are public, businesses sometimes don’t pay on time. That's when she needs to follow up. Her least favorite problem is when she discovers that a company has used her photos in a way that violates the terms of the contract.That usually leads to time-consuming email exchanges.
Social media influencing is not as effortless as it seems. The stress it creates even has its own name: creator burnout (精疲力竭) . Young used to obsessively check her post’s performance, which she says will “drive you crazy”, so she stopped. But if she doesn’t reply, people will stop commenting.Without that engagement on her posts, brands won’t want to keep paying her. Therefore, she had to accept the fact that she’ll be tethered (拴住) to her phone as long as she’s in this line of work.
Beyond the day-to- day headaches of a career online, social media’s inherent (固有的) uncertainly also poses problems for creators. There are times when Young is staring at the calendar without another project in the works. In the long term, it can be risky to focus a career on a single platform, or even on social media itself.
Yet Young says it’s all been worth it, because the sponsorship allow her to spend much of her life in the mountains. Her ideal day starts with unzipping her tent at dawn so she can take pictures of the sunrise reflecting on snowy summits around her. Few jobs in the world would allow her to do that so consistently (一贯地) .
1. What is paragraph 3 mainly about?| A．The main work involved in being an Instagram influencer. |
| B．The difficulties that every Instagram star will meet. |
| C．How to deal with dishonest companies. |
| D．How Meghan Young’s legal skills help her work. |
| A．there are a lot of tough tasks when dealing with sponsors. |
| B．the work of photo-taking and image-editing is difficult to handle. |
| C．it is stressful to check one’s phone and to interact with fans all the time. |
| D．the income is unstable and the career prospects are uncertain. |
| A．Bored. | B．Worried. |
| C．Satisfied | D．Confident. |
| A．Meghan Young’s decision to be a full-time influencer was supported by her parents. |
| B．It happens frequently that Meghan Young doesn’t get paid on time. |
| C．It is impossible for Instagram influencers to put down their phones. |
| D．In order to increase their influence, creators have to keep a good relationship with fans. |
| A．Because she has been underpaid. |
| B．Because her work is not appreciated. |
| C．Because the job is not challenging enough. |
| D．Because she has been doing this job for too long. |
| A．Her new responsibilities in the company. |
| B．What her job prospects are. |
| C．What the customers’ feedback is. |
| D．The director’s opinion of her work. |
最近，对于工作和生活，有人提出996的工作模式（即从早上9点工作到晚上9点，每周工作六天），他们认为年轻人不付出超越别人的努力和时间，就不能够实现自己想要的成功。
你们班将召开班会，对此观点进行讨论。请写一篇发言稿，你的发言稿必须包括以下内容：
1.提出你觉得这个观点中需要进行改进的地方和改进意见
2.阐述你的具体理由
| A．A big travel agency. | B．A job opportunity. |
| C．An inexperienced salesman. | D．A position as general manager. |
