1 . Please read the information given below and write a summary in not fewer than 90 words.
DJ: Hello. A lot of you have probably just got your A-levels and you’re looking forward to going to university. But more and more young people are deciding to take a gap year before they start their degrees. Today I’m talking to a group of young people who’ve all decided to take a year out before they go to university. What are they going to do? Rosie? What are your plans?
Rosie: I’m going to work in a department store.
DJ: Why do you want to do that?
Rosie: Two reasons really. I’m going to study Management at university and this will give me the chance to find out what it’s like to work in a big organization. And I’ll also be able to earn some money.
DJ: What about you, Christopher?
Christopher: I’m going to do community work with a conservation group. I think it’ll be good to do something really useful. And I’ll meet a lot of interesting people, I’m sure.
DJ: Will you get paid for it?
Christopher: Well, we won’t get rich doing it, but we’ll be all right. We’ll get about £20 a week plus food and accommodation.
DJ: Helen, what are you going to do?
Helen: I’m going to travel around Europe.
DJ: Are you going to work there?
Helen: I hope so, or I’ll have to come home again. I might try and get a job—you know—in a hotel or something like that.
DJ: Why do you want to do it?
Helen: Well, mainly because it’ll be a change. After all, I’ve been at school for 13 years. I just want to do something different. It’ll give me new experiences and I’ll need to be more independent.
Note: A-levels英国普通中等教育证书考试高级水平课程, 也是英国学生的大学入学考试。
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3 . The Covid-19 pandemic has forced millions of us to participate in one of the biggest social experiments of our time: what would happen if office workers largely abandoned their workplaces and began working from home?    1    

One thing seems clear: more people working remotely has brought some benefits for the environment. Wildlife has be enable to reclaim urban spaces while people have been tapping away at their home keyboards, with less commuter (通勤者) traffic.

    2    The major benefits of home working include people having more flexibility to do jobs around their family, and balance exercise and leisure time, thus being able to wear whatever they like, controlling their own heating and lighting and not having to commute.

Many people have also been able to get more done while working remotely.    3     “There used to be a lot of resistance to working from home because managers thought employees would just go of off and watch soap operas, but there’s a lot more trust now,” says Sue Williamson at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia.

    4    Many people forced to work from home have reported feeling isolated and finding it harder to switch off due to the unclear boundary between work and home life.    5    This is probably because it’s hard to get those accidental conversations between people that spark ideas when everyone is physically separated.

As vaccines help to control Covid-19, many organizations are hoping to reap the best of both worlds by letting employees work from home on some days and travel to the office on others.

A．But what about the benefits to people?

B．More than 2 years in, it is time to reflect.

C．After a severe period, there is no turning back.

D．However, the experiment hasn’t been all positive.

E．It is time to reset and rethink how we actually work.

F．Many managers have also reported declines in innovation.

G．The productivity level is found to rise as they work from home.

4 . 请阅读下面的篇章，用以下三种形式中的一种填空：①根据上下文填空;②用所给单词的正确形式填空;③根据单词所给的字母填空。每空一词。

If you have to work to support yourself through your studies, you needn’t think all student jobs have to     1     low-paid, dead-end positions. Opportunities do exist for young people to make some cash during their university years while building up impressive skills and experience to add to their CVs.

Som    2     it’s not even necessary to look further than your own campus to find a worthwhile part-time job. Many universities, for example, use their own students for     3     (contact) alumni—past students—for the purposes of fundraising, newsletters and such like. Working in the alumni office might improve your telephone communication skills, and it might also be     4     excellent networking opportunity. Who knows what useful contacts you could make in the business world?

If you prefer dealing     5     people face-to-face, how about offering your services as a campus guide for prospective students and their families? Fulfilling this role will demonstrate your maturity and trustworthiness and may help you to win a permanent marketing or PR position in the future. Don’t forget, also, that student unions, shops and sports facilities all need staff, so if you’re     6     (interest) in working in administration or the leisure industry, you could make a start in your chosen field within walking distance of your lectures.

Those with specialist skills could find a place for them on campus, too. If you’re a computer talent, you could be extremely useful to your university’s IT support team,     7     may know less about programming and building websites than you! Working for a college newspaper is always a good idea for would-be writers, alt    8     this tends to be voluntary work. Whatever your subject is, if you have a particular talent for it you may be able to find work as a private tutor with your     9     (young) or less able students.

Even traditional student     10     (job) like waiting tables and bar work can help you to establish a career for yourself, depending on how you present them on your CV. Think about the skills you have gained or improved by serving food and drinks, such as teamwork and cash handling.

5 . It is one thing to visit a zoo as an ordinary member of the public but quite another to own a zoo and live in the middle of it; this at times can be a mixed thing. It certainly forces you to rush out at any time of the day or night to watch your charges (收费), but it also means that you are on duty 24 hours of the day and you can find that a fine little dinner party breaks up because some animal has broken its leg, or because the heaters in the snake house have failed. Winter, of course, is your least busy period and sometimes days pass without a single visitor.

But in the summer season the days are so full and the visitors so many that you can hardly seem to notice the passing of time and you forget how much you have in the bank.

1. From the passage we understand that the writer        .

A．is always visiting zoos	B．lives in a cage in the zoo
C．is the owner of the zoo	D．can’t tell animals from people

2. If you live in a zoo, the writer says        .

A．you have to look after the animals every hour

B．you never have any free time

C．you only work at night

D．you are always having fine dinners

3. From the passage it is clear that in the winter        .

A．only one person visits zoo	B．the zoo is closed
C．nobody visit the zoo	D．very few people visit the zoo

4. Why does the writer find it difficult to have a dinner party in the zoo?

A．The animals eat all he food.	B．It’s too hot in the snake house.
C．Something always goes wrong.	D．The animals break your legs.

5. At the zoo in summer the writer says        .

A．there are too many visitors visiting the snakes

B．you don’t remember how much you have in the bank

C．time passes very slowly

D．you don’t know how to pass the time

6 . 假定你是李华，得知当地美术馆要举办国内外名画展，请写一封信申请做志愿者。
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