| A．To apply for a job. | B．To sell her something. | C．To reserve a seat. |
1. What are the two speakers talking about?
| A．Advice on having an interview. |
| B．Tips on choosing a job. |
| C．Ways of learning English. |
| A．Remember her answers in advance. |
| B．Be natural when she speaks. |
| C．Use as many English words as possible. |
| A．Not practical. | B．A bit confusing. | C．Quite valuable. |
1. What made the man interested in starting food business?
| A．His parents’ influence. |
| B．His part-time job in a cafe. |
| C．His consideration for students. |
| A．Drinks. | B．Meals. | C．Clothes. |
| A．10 years. | B．20 years. | C．40 years. |
1. What is the purpose of the project?
| A．To help students prepare for the real life. |
| B．To teach students to write application letters. |
| C．To let students know about some typical jobs. |
| A．Recommend jobs to students. |
| B．Ask the teacher to explain the project. |
| C．Announce the news of the project clearly. |
| A．A teacher. | B．The headmaster. | C．A member of the committee. |
| A．Gather students’ opinions. |
| B．Make a list of suitable jobs. |
| C．Ask students to take on responsibility. |
6 . For most of us, the world’s southern-most point seems like a pretty place, but for Hannah, Hannalore, Sophie and Julia, it’s home. Each year they spend five months living and working in Port welcoming visiting ships and, best of all, watching over the native colony of penguins（企鹅）.
They live on a tiny island the size of a football pitch, but share it with about 2000 gentoo penguins and their chicks, as well as other birds. Life here is different every day and depends on weather and ice conditions, as well as the visiting ships’ schedules. Port Lockroy is one of the most visited places in Antarctica, with one to three ships visiting a day. Between ship visits we have other duties to attend to. These include maintenance jobs, sending postcards from the post office, checking conditions on the historical items in the museum and monitoring the penguin colonies and other wildlife.
Hannah spends much time stamping people’s postcard, which makes her happy to think of the joy over 70,000 people per year get when they receive a postcard from Antarctica, and the most southerly post office in the world! For Sophie, the most amazing thing about my job is being able to live and work with my feathery friends, the penguins. Sophie says they have to make sure the penguins are not disturbed when they are resting or waddling their way back to their nests. They mark specific routes for visitors to walk on so that they don’t use the penguins’ highways. Part of their job is also to count the penguin colony when after they've laid their eggs, then again when the chicks are born and when the chicks are old enough to venture beyond the nest. The information collected will help scientists know if the breeding season has been a successful one or not.
1. What can we learn from the passage?| A．How to live and work in Antarctica. |
| B．What the real life is like in Antarctica. |
| C．What the four women do in Antarctica. |
| D．How to explore the beauty of Antarctica. |
| A．posting wildlife to people around the world. |
| B．changing the weather to preserve historical items. |
| C．recording the data of the ice conditions in Port Lockroy. |
| D．collecting information about the breeding season of penguins. |
| A．Postcards from Port Lockroy are free of charge. |
| B．Port Lockroy welcomes the most tourists in Antarctica. |
| C．Weather is a factor to consider if people are to visit Port Lockroy. |
| D．When visiting Port Lockroy, tourists can travel wherever as they like. |
| A．Book review. | B．People in the news. |
| C．Economics and business. | D．Sports and events. |
7 . During the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdowns and quarantines（封锁和隔离）. And remote work may have a long-lasting impact beyond COVID-19.
Many companies have asked employees to work from home. Remote work is enabled by technologies including virtual private networks（VPNs）, voice over internet protocols'（VoIPs）, virtual meetings, cloud technology, work collaboration tools and even facial recognition technologies that enable a person to appear before a virtual background to preserve the privacy of the home. In addition to preventing the spread of viruses, remote work also saves commute time and provides more flexibility.
Yet remote work also imposes challenges to employers and employees. Information security, privacy and timely tech support can be big issues. Remote work can also complicate labor law issues, such as those associated with providing a safe work environment and income tax issues. Employees may experience loneliness and lack of work-life balance. If remote work becomes more common after the COVID-19 pandemic, employers may decide to reduce rents and hire people from regions with cheaper labor costs.
Laws and regulations must be updated to accommodate remote work, and further psychological studies need to be conducted to understand the effect of remote work on people.
Further, not all jobs can be done from home, which creates disparity. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 25% of wage and salary workers worked from home at least occasionally from 2017 to 2018. Workers with college educations are at least five times more likely to have jobs that allow them to work from home compared with people with high school diplomas. Some professions, such as medical services and manufacturing, may not have the option at all. Policies with respect to data flows and taxation would need to be adjusted should the volume of cross-border digital services rise significantly.
1. Why is remote work especially important during COVID-19?| A．It saves time. | B．It blocks viruses. |
| C．It saves money. | D．It preserves privacy. |
| A．To emphasize importance. |
| B．To sadden employers and employees. |
| C．To demonstrate challenges. |
| D．To compare benefits and drawbacks. |
| A．gaps | B．challenges |
| C．options | D．prejudices |
| A．Critical. | B．Objective. |
| C．Subjective. | D．Suspicious. |
1. What's the probable relationship between the speakers?
| A．Colleagues. | B．Friends. | C．Classmates. |
| A．Her desk in it isn't big enough. |
| B．She doesn't like it at all. |
| C．Mr.Smith doesn't allow her to. |
| A．Put a small desk in Sharon's office. |
| B．Help Sharon with the mail himself. |
| C．Ask Miss Green to help Sharon. |
| A．Attend the meeting |
| B．Finish her work on her own |
| C．Clean up her office by herself |
9 . While traditional wisdom tells us that we should eagerly catch every opportunity that comes our way, playing a little hard to get has its advantages. Studies have shown that opportunities are seen to be more valuable as they become less available, according to Robert Cialdini, a leading expert on influence, who said “What the scarcity principle says is that people are more attracted to rare opportunities.”
Appearing available can work against you, according to Jeremy Nicholson, a social psychologist. If you're excited about a work opportunity, it indicates that you are in low demand.
“Making something harder to get,” Dr. Nicholson said, “tends to increase at least the perception of value.” If you are meeting with hiring managers or potential clients, Dr. Nicholson recommends that responding in a way that respects their interest without being too eager. Dr. Nicholson advises, with responses like: “I do have a couple of other projects to deal with. However, I could do this for you if you want.”
“It's easy to become excited when an opportunity presents itself,” Ms. Ryan, founder of Human Workplace, said, “but remember that your power in any negotiation is related to your ability to walk away. Don't accept an offer before fully considering the opportunity.” Once you have interest, turn that into diligence. Ms. Ryan recommends reading up on the organization from third-party perspectives, and checking out job-search websites to see what employees and ex-employees say about it. Keep in mind: The goal is to approach any negotiation cautiously and with a clear head.
Appearing less available isn't about limiting our enthusiasm, but about trusting in our own self-worth so we can be proactive, experts say. This means mindfully transforming our excitement into strategy. “Emphasizing the uniqueness of your resources and your cooperative approach can help you more quickly advance your goals,” said Shirli Kopelman, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
1. Why is it necessary for us to appear scarce when we face opportunities?| A．Because we should strictly follow the principle about scarcity. |
| B．Because we should eagerly grasp opportunities coming our way. |
| C．Because we should value opportunities in the competitive society. |
| D．Because we should show rare opportunities to increase our advantages. |
| A．Accessible. | B．Strategic. | C．Enthusiastic. | D．Limited. |
| A．Being eager enough and ready. | B．Being cautious and clear headed. |
| C．Being confident and interested. | D．Being skillful and accomplished. |
| A．Not being too hard on our career. | B．Noting controlling our enthusiasm. |
| C．Applying excitement to negotiations. | D．Stressing scarcity and cooperation ways. |
10 . My husband jokes with me that my midlife crisis was having my now 11-year-old daughter in my 40s.
I started my career as Associate Editor at Woman’s World magazine in the late 1990s. Then I was a magazine editor-in-chief for five national consumer publications and also contributed to magazines like Longevity and New Woman.
Four years after getting married in 2005, I eventually gave birth to my daughter, Crystal. As I wrote on Parenting.com: “As the doctor checked her vital organs and my husband counted her 10 perfect fingers and toes, I realized that my body had produced a wonder.”
While my peers were dealing with the stresses of kids in school, I focused my creative energy on carving out my new identity. I was excited when I was offered a “Mom’s Talk” column where I wrote about toys, breastfeeding, and my ongoing(追求) for “baby-free” time.
When Crystal was 3 years old, I wrote an essay about watching her dance at a toddler(学步的小孩) reading group at the library, instead of sitting down with the other children. I expected her performance to annoy people, but her joyful dancing attracted them and made me consider my own possibilities.
“Had I ever been that way, I wondered. If so, could I be like that again? Could I become as free as a child with her whole life ahead of her, ready and willing to be the star of her own production?”
As my daughter transformed from a toddler into a young girl, she continued to be my inspiration. I wrote about the new rules for babysitting and shared research showing that fathers who participated in housework had a positive impact on their daughter’s future success on The Washington Post.
I focused on providing Crystal with resilience-building(韧性) when she neared her teens. I wrote about powerful phrases for The Week, like “no one is the judge of your self-worth”.
As my daughter continues to grow during this messy time, there is one certainty: I will continue to tell my stories, through the eyes of my midlife wisdom. I can’t wait to see her next chapter----and for you to read mine.
1. How did the author feel when giving birth to her daughter?| A．Frightened. | B．Pleased. |
| C．Puzzled. | D．Disappointed. |
| A．she had to deal with more stress from being a mom |
| B．she left all the babysitting work to her husband |
| C．she combined the new identity with her career |
| D．she adopted a creative method of raising her baby |
| A．Living the same free life as her daughter’s. |
| B．Giving performance in front of a crowd |
| C．Her previous life before having the baby. |
| D．Pure pleasure during “baby-free” time. |
| A．Crystal has inspired her to take a writing career. |
| B．She has started writing in the tone of Crystal. |
| C．Her writing keeps developing as Crystal grows. |
| D．Many of her stories are centered on her daughter. |
