1 . 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

My name is Luke Harris and I am a sports photographer. My first day at work wasn’t easy. I had to cover a local football team and I’d heard that there wasn’t much shelter at the ground and the wind was strong. The problem was more the rain, though,     1     was heavy and affected all my shots. So far I     2     (get) used to working in many conditions, even snow. You can always get a good photo if you try. There are so many similar photos out there and imagination is what     3     (require) to make yours stand out.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

East Buy, a subsidiary of Chinese private tutoring giant New Oriental, announced the     1    (remove) of Sun Dongxu from the positions of Executive Director and CEO on Saturday following a dispute involving popular live-streamer Dong Yuhui intensified this week,     2     has resulted in a significant drop in the company’s stock price.

New Oriental Chairman Yu Minhong will concurrently assume     3     position of CEO at East Buy. It represents a crucial step in New Oriental’s transformation into a live- streaming e-commerce company; however, during the past week, the dispute surrounding the company     4     (continue) to escalate (加剧).

It originated from East Buy staff     5     (respond) on social media, stating that the scripts used for live-broadcasts are collaboratively created by the hosts, copywriting team, filming team and editing team.

The reply has sparked discontent among the fans of the platform’s top-performing host Dong.

The former CEO’s subsequent response and apology not only failed to calm the storm     6     stirred up more frustration among netizens. In his response, Sun mentioned that Dong’s annual salary is more than     7     (ten) of millions of yuan and expressed a firm stance against the so-called “fan culture”.

The term “fan culture”     8     (rough) refers to an organized and spontaneous community of fans who support or promote their idols. Subsequently, Yu also publicly responded, acknowledging significant flaws in the company’s management and stating that the disclosure of Dong’s salary was     9     (appropriate). He also extended an apology to Dong for the situation.

On Saturday evening, Dong appeared in live-streaming together with Yu and confirmed his commitment     10     (stay) with East Buy. Yu announced that the company would soon initiate a major adjustment about the incomes of hosts, including Dong.

3 . Aside from a nursing degree, work experience and a desire to be a travel nurse, there are several must have “soft” skills that you need to be suitable for the job.

Adaptability is one of the most important skills needed to be a travel nurse.     1     Moving from place to place every few months and jumping into a new hospital while growing personally and professionally requires adaptability.

Being able to change in response to a situation is a key skill in being a good travel nurse. To be flexible, you need to be capable of quickly changing the way you work to best fit your boss’ needs.     2    

Joining a new team for a short time means you need to communicate effectively. Keeping important things to yourself and being too closed won’t win you any friends.     3     Ask yourself: Do I consider who I am speaking to, what he/she needs to know and how to best express that message before I speak?

Relationships play a big part in the success of your lives.     4     Developing relationships takes emotional intelligence. To develop relationships, you must be able to understand and negotiate with other people.

    5     Some nurses consider taking a travel assignment only for money. However, they are unhappy with moving around constantly. You need to love exploring new cities and seeing new things.

A．Not everyone can get used to it.

B．You need to communicate in a clear. friendly way.

C．Besides, a love of traveling is vital to being a travel nurse.

D．Soft skills enable you to get along with others and form relationships.

E．If you can adapt to a new environment quickly, you have an advantage.

F．People who can meet changing requirements are seen as valuable team players.

G．Developing relationships quickly and meaningfully will help your travel nursing career.

4 . Plato believed that men are divided into three classes: gold, silver and bronze. Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, argued that “ the vital few” contributed to most progress. Such viewpoints are taboo (禁忌) today in public life. Politicians avoid talking of a “leadership class” or “the vital few”. School recruitment turns away from picking winners. Universities welcome the masses: more people now teach at British universities than attended them in the1950s.

In the private sector things could hardly be more different. The world’s best companies struggle tirelessly to find and keep the vital few. They offer them fat pay packets, extra training, powerful instruction and more challenging assignments. Private-equity (私人股权) firms rely heavily on a few stars. Firms in emerging markets are desperate to find high-flyers who can cope with rapid growth and fast-changing environments.

Few people know more about how companies manage talent than Bill Conaty and RamCharan. Mr. Conaty led the human-resources department at General Electric (GE) for 14years. Mr. Charan has spent the past few decades presenting proposals to some celebrated entrepreneurs (企业家). Their recent book, The Talent Masters, provides. a nice mix of portraits of well-known talent factories, such as GE and Procter & Gamble (P&G).

Successful companies make sure that senior managers are involved with “ talent development”. Jack Welch and A. G. Lafley, former bosses of GE and P&G, claimed that they spent 40% of their time on personnel. Andy Grove, who ra n Intel, a chipmaker, obliged all the senior people, including himself, to spend at least a week a year instructing high-flyers . Nitin Paranjpe, the boss of Hindustan Unilever, recruits people from campuses and regularly visits high-flyers in their offices.

Elitism (精英主义) has its drawbacks. In their rush to classify people, companies can miss potential stars. Those who are singled out for special treatment can become too full of themselves.

1. The change that occurred in British universities reflects that          .

A．more students enroll for schools

B．people of today are much cleverer

C．UK attaches importance to education

D．elitism in public organizations declines

2. Which people belong to   “high-flyers” based on the passage?

A．Potential clients.	B．Faithful employees.
C．Competent managers.	D．Celebrated politicians.

3. How is paragraph 4 mainly developed?

A．By listing examples.	B．By classification.
C．By analyzing causes.	D． By describing a process.

4. Which statement can be inferred from the passage?

A．Discrimination in workplaces will get more serious.

B．Famous companies’ elitism management is worth trying.

C．The Talent Masters offers advice to some leading bosses.

D．Elitism may get some potential talented people excluded.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Hikers at the Great Wall who come across Zhou Wenjun consider themselves lucky    1    him admirable. The 44-year-old is more than a security guard; he is a walking library on the manmade fortifications (防御工事).

Zhou replaces his knowledge of history every day so that he can field questions from visitors full of    2    (curious). Zhou's appreciation of the Great Wall    3    (inspire) by a surprising demand on the job years ago. The Simatai section is the only ancient architecture in China that preserves the original form of the Ming Dynasty fortifications. Ever since he took the job in 2018, he    4    (witness) increasing footfall of intensely curious tourists. “Visitors are no longer satisfied    5    what they see; they wonder about the history and culture of the place. Always    6    (ask) various questions, I read and learn so that I won't have difficulty dealing with them,” says Zhou.

Zhou has a range of official responsibilities including    7    (keep) visitors safe and protecting the Great Wall. He has to climb the Great Wall on    8    daily basis and walks back and forth the entire 5.7 kilometer stretch,    9    he must ensure no one wanders into the undeveloped sections of Simatai. With the principle of conservation first, the Simatai section has    10    (substantial) improved.

6 . Emma Rosen had one of the best and most sought-after jobs in the civil service in the UK. 20,000 candidates (候选人) applied, but fewer than 1,000 were offered jobs. But it turned out that she didn’t like sitting at a desk all day, and she struggled to see how what she was doing would make much difference to anything.

Instead of going to work every day and complaining about her job until she reached retirement age, Emma decided to find out what made her happy, what her skills were, and what sort of career would need them. She wrote a list of the jobs she had wanted to do since childhood and set about getting two-week placements (安排) in all of them over a year.

She was 24 years old, and she wanted o have tried out at least 25 different jobs before her 25th birthday. She spent the months before she quit her job saving up her year off, and. spent all her free time setting up the different jobs.

A year later, Emma said her favorites were the jobs that were more creative, relevant to travel or were outdoors. “Things like travel writing, archaeology, farming, working with the police, being a blogger, an explorer and an author,” she said.

“Considering that I am now working as a writer and speaker, communication skills in both verbal (口头的) and written form have been the most important. There were also plenty of more technical skills that I learned, like website design, social media management, building a commercial brand and conducting interviews.”

Emma added she also saw her softer people-focused skills improve. “I could be very adaptable, quickly build relationships and accept change—I could walk into a new team or situation and get on well with everyone. Finally, there were things like showing that I was active, an independent and creative thinker as well as an innovative problem solver—I could certainly show that I could think outside the box!”

1. What does the underlined word “sought-after” mean in the first paragraph?

A．Complicated.

B．Desirable.

C．Ordinary.

D．Traditional.

2. Why did Emma quit her job in the civil service?

A．The job made no difference to anything.

B．The job made her complain all day long.

C．She was struggling to do the current job.

D．She was eager to realize her self-worth.

3. Which of the following best describes Emma’s favorite jobs?

A．They are care-free and popular ones in civil service.

B．They are only the ones needing communication skills.

C．They are where creativity and skills were badly needed.

D．They have nothing to do with travel or outdoors.

4. What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A．Emma benefited much from experiencing a variety of jobs.

B．Emma acquired technical skills to build a commercial brand.

C．Emma was flexible enough to change situations to her favor.

D．Emma thought independently to be a creative problem solver.

7 . 听下面一段对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who does the man want to talk to?

A．Peter Griffin.

B．Jane Solomon.

C．Maria Fernandez.

2. What does the man need?

A．A phone number.

B．After-sales service.

C．Project information.

3. What does the man do in the end?

A．Have lunch with the woman.

B．Give the woman his email address.

C．Arrange a meeting with the woman.

8 . The number of the best

How big should a business team be? It is an enormously important issue for companies. Teams that are too small may _________ the skills required to get the job done; teams that are too big may be impossible to co-ordinate.

Similar trade-offs may apply when it comes to firms as a whole. Start-ups are often short of staff. The founders must play a host of different _________, from obtaining finance to product development and marketing, for which they may not be equally suited. But the _________ is that they can have highly collaborative working environments.

People who have worked for start-ups say the culture changes when the company reaches a certain _________. Patty McCord, formerly of Netflix, referred to the “stand-on-a-chair number”—the biggest group that can easily hear the boss _________ them.

Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist (人类学家) at Oxford University, has done a lot of work on primate groups. His argument is that the size of the group is linked to the size of the brain. With their large brains, humans can cope with larger bands. A larger social group has many advantages, _________ greater protection and specialisation.

Whereas 150 is sometimes referred to as the “Dunbar number”, the academic himself in fact refers to a range of _________. He observes that humans tend to have five intimate friends, 15 or so good friends, around 50 social friends and 150-odd acquaintances.

Running a larger network can be difficult. So much time is needed to maintain relationships that their quality inevitably _________. The armed forces have spent millennia experimenting with unit size. A Roman centurion (百人队长) oversaw 100. The modern American army company has 180 members. Britain’s equivalent numbers 120.

These are rough estimates, rather than rigid figures. But it is striking that many group activities seem to be _________ a Dunbar number. The Special Air Service, Britain’s elite fighting unit, has four-man patrols; when your life depends on it, you need to have absolute ____________ in your colleagues. As a result, such groups are limited in size.

Sports-team sizes ____________ the playing area. There are five players in a basketball side and six in ice hockey; outdoors there are 11 players in football and cricket teams, and 7-15 in the various forms of rugby. Perhaps this is the optimal size for coaching purposes, or perhaps crowds would ____________ to distinguish individual players if teams were larger.

Small work teams may also tend towards these two size ranges. “If you want a committee to ____________ something, limit it to four to five people,” says Mr Dunbar. “But to brainstorm in a meeting, you need 12-15.” Many companies use “agile” teams which draw employees from across the company; they tend to have between five and nine members.

The modern company may settle on a ____________ with a small group of “core” workers and a larger group of contract workers. The result may be more ____________ within the core staff but the non-core staff may be less well treated. The small core teams may work effectively. The big question will be the effect on morale of those outside those teams.

1.

A．demand

B．lack

C．cultivate

D．sharpen

2.

A．roles

B．games

C．cards

D．missions

3.

A．truth

B．point

C．upside

D．goal

4.

A．height

B．level

C．size

D．degree

5.

A．phone

B．contact

C．criticize

D．address

6.

A．calling for

B．allowing for

C．hoping for

D．paying for

7.

A．records

B．networks

C．circles

D．figures

8.

A．suffers

B．thrives

C．denied

D．functions

9.

A．similar with

B．close to

C．interested in

D．equal to

10.

A．trust

B．will

C．right

D．advance

11.

A．result in

B．relate to

C．arise from

D．contribute to

12.

A．rush

B．compete

C．struggle

D．refuse

13.

A．discuss

B．decide

C．judge

D．facilitate

14.

A．shape

B．scale

C．level

D．construction

15.

A．agreement

B．innovation

C．influence

D．cohesion

9 . Scientists agree that predicting (预测) when and where an earthquake will occur and how big it will be is not yet possible. Therefore, much research has focused on coming up with ways to reduce the damage from earthquakes, rather than trying to predict when they will occur. Specifically, finding more information about the place under the surface helps developers and others make safer choices when constructing a building. This is where Navakanesh M Batmanathan is putting his efforts.

Batmanathan is an earthquake geologist at the National University of Malaysia. He is actively engaged in mapping the areas surrounding earthquakes in Borneo. Faults (断层) are places in the Earth’s crust (地壳) that are weak to sudden movement between masses of rock, resulting in occasional earthquakes. Batmanathan is working to map the faults, as well as the infrastructure (基础设施) in the area of the faults, to hopefully reduce the potential damage that can be caused by an earthquake. Developers and engineers can use this knowledge to plan where it is safest to build and where earthquake-resistant structures are needed.

Batmanathan is using a variety of tools to map faults. Working on the ground to map the area is just one of the methods he employs. He also uses images from satellites and ground-penetrating radar (GPR). GPR is a technology that creates an underground image without digging. It has many applications, from finding the water level to understand soil and rock types for construction projects. Batmanathan and others are using this technology to map faults, and the areas around faults, to gain a clearer picture of potential earthquake damage.

It might not ever be possible to know exactly when or where an earthquake will happen, but Batmanathan hopes that his work will help educate people and better prepare them for earthquakes.

1. What is the function of paragraph 1?

A．Providing evidence.	B．Giving suggestions.
C．Introducing the topic.	D．Drawing a conclusion.

2. What is Batmanathan actively working on in Borneo?

A．Studying volcanoes.	B．Recording rivers.
C．Predicting earthquakes.	D．Studying faults.

3. What do we know about GPR from paragraph 3?

A．It can predict where an earthquake will happen.

B．It can be applied in mapping faults.

C．It can predict the time of earthquakes.

D．It can test the quality of the soil.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．Mapping Faults for Safer Construction

B．Challenges in Predicting Earthquakes

C．The Future of Earthquake Prediction

D．Technology for Reducing Earthquakes

10 . Every summer vacation, I work as an assistant to my dad in his plumbing (管道) business. My job often causes physical and mental ________ and it demands an attitude of toughness that I frequently ________ to adopt. Nevertheless, I choose to go on.

Each morning, I started the day by ________ a pair of old jeans that most teenagers of my age would ________ to wear in public. During my work, I ________ jump over a jungle of tools and extension cords (线). There are pipe paint ________ on my pants. As I observe the chaos around me, a sense of ________ sweeps over me. Nothing I see is beautiful or tidy. I feel ________.

From time to time, I cannot help ________ why I have to bear the dust and sweat when I could be in my air-conditioned house. I could even find another job, a(n) ________ one that more closely resembles the work of my peers.

Yet, I hate myself for being so easily ________ by things as small as the mess of plumbing. ________, the world is built by people willing to get their hands dirty. ________ the uncertainties of my teenage brain are far more complex than any extension cord, I keep trying hard to sort them out.

Life is a process of accepting the messes and cleaning them up, and plumbing work is quite ________. Each time when customers express ________ for our work, I understand that the unpleasant feelings caused by plumbing are worth it.

1.

A．discomfort

B．development

C．relaxation

D．instruction

2.

A．long

B．offer

C．pretend

D．struggle

3.

A．turning in

B．pulling on

C．setting aside

D．picking out

4.

A．refuse

B．wait

C．prefer

D．tend

5.

A．regularly

B．constantly

C．naturally

D．particularly

6.

A．doubts

B．spots

C．circuits

D．errors

7.

A．responsibility

B．neatness

C．confusion

D．belonging

8.

A．powerless

B．ridiculous

C．tough

D．jobless

9.

A．determining

B．explaining

C．understanding

D．questioning

10.

A．stable

B．challenging

C．normal

D．important

11.

A．characterized

B．annoyed

C．attracted

D．distinguished

12.

A．As usual

B．In Brief

C．After all

D．In addition

13.

A．While

B．If

C．Because

D．Since

14.

A．flexible

B．simple

C．similar

D．promising

15.

A．prejudice

B．sympathy

C．concern

D．appreciation