1 .         I was ten when I first sat with my grandmother behind the cashier (收银台) in her general store.     1     I quickly learned the importance of treating customers politely and saying “thank you.”

At first I was paid in candy.     2     I worked every day after school, and during the summer and no weekends and holidays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. My father helped me set up a bank account.     3    

By the time I was 12, my grandmother thought I had done such a good job that she promoted me to selling cosmetics (化妆品). I developed the ability to look customers directly in the eye. Even though I was just a kid, women would ask me such things as “What color do you think I should wear?” I took a real interest in their questions and was able to translate what they wanted into makeup (化妆) ideas.     4    

The job taught me a valuable lesson: to be a successful salesperson, you didn’t need to be a rocket scientist—you needed to be a great listener.     5     Except they are no longer women purchasing cosmetics from me; instead, they are kids who tell me which toys they would like to see designed and developed.

A．Later I received 50 cents an hour.

B．Before long, she let me sit there by myself.

C．I ended up selling a record amount of cosmetics.

D．Today I still carry that lesson with me: I listen to customers.

E．My grandma’s trust taught me how to handle responsibility.

F．Soon I found myself looking more beautiful than ever before.

G．Watching my money grow was more rewarding than anything I could have bought.

2 . While you may think that being smart and talented would logically make someone successful in running a business, unfortunately, this is often not the case.

This problem starts back in school when the stressful “group projects” are first assigned. The smartest don’t want to risk their grade in the class by dividing the work equally and hoping that an average student does his part well. They just take over and do the whole project themselves.

And thus begins the smart-people work cycle. The smartest people do just about everything better than most everyone else until it comes to running a business. They are not better. A smart person who can’t stand someone else doing a job badly does everything himself. Then, he is stuck with the one-man band “job-business” and ends up not being able to grow. However, it is quite interesting and strange that some “slackers” ( a person who is lazy and avoids work) are better suited to be a business leader than the “smart” people.

Smart and talented people often have a gift for the unusual, complicated or different. They don’t like to follow the KISS principle (keep it simple, stupid), which is required to make a business succeed. Maybe you think the global presence of McDonald’s complex, but in reality, in the company, every single task is broken down into easy-to-follow steps and everything has been standardized. These successful companies have just a few smart enough people to run the majority of the tasks in a way that can’t be screwed up by their average employees. So, being smart or talented isn’t going to help you unless you can use those smarts to figure out a way to simplify those tasks that will make a business successful.

Another issue with the smart people starting businesses is that they often have the most to lose. The smarter you are, the more options you have available to you. You will be able to make a lot of money in various fields and have room in your career to become promoted. This means that when you start a business, you have a lot more to risk than those who are not equally smart. This is often referred to as the “golden handcuffs” dilemma.

So, don’t be surprised when the person “MOST Likely to Succeed” from high school ends up as an employee and it is one average student that finds success in his or her own business.

1. In group work, smart students often take over the whole project because they believe ____.

A．the work is not divided equally

B．they can perform better than others

C．the group projects are too stressful

D．average students are unwilling to participate

2. McDonald’s is used as an example to prove that ____.

A．a business calls for smart people’s talent

B．average employees can perform complex tasks

C．smart people are important for a successful business

D．simplified tasks are required for the success of a business

3. The underlined expression in Paragraph 5 refers to the situation where smart people ____.

A．have fewer options in a company

B．risk more when starting business

C．are unwilling to put money to a business

D．can have a good income in many different fields

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．Potentials for Success

B．Bases for Business

C．The Ordinary Achieve Bigger Success?

D．Talent Means Successful Business?

3 . 你堂兄建华在国外学习，你们经常用英文通信。他即将完成学业，不久前来信就是否回国工作征求你的意见。请根据下列提示回信：
1. 建议他回国；
2. 你的理由是：学有所用，就业容易；照顾父母。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 行文应连贯，内容应完整；
3. 开头语与落款已为你写好。
June 8^th
Dear Jianhua,
I’m very glad to have received the letter you sent me two weeks ago. ___________________________________________________________________
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Best wishes,                                                                             

Minghua

4 . 假定你是李华，计划寒假找份兼职工作。下面的招聘广告引起了你的注意，请根据要点（箭头所指内容）写一封申请信。

注意：
1. 词数100左右；
2. 可适当增加细节使行文连贯；
3. 开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Mr. Smith,

I’ve read your advertisement for an assistant teacher for a children’s winter camp.

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

5 . Shu Pulong has helped at least 1000 people bitten (咬) by snakes. “It was seeing people with snake bites (伤口) that led me to this career,” he said.

In 1963, after his army service, Shu entered a medical school and later became a doctor of Chinese medicine. As part of his studies he had to work in the mountains. There he often heard of people who had their arms and legs cut off after a snake bite in order to save their lives.

“I was greatly upset by the story of an old farmer I met. It was a very hot afternoon. The old man was pulling grass in his fields when he felt a pain in his left hand. He at once realized he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. In no time he wrapped a cloth tightly around his arm to stop the poison spreading to his heart. Rushing home he shouted ‘Bring me the knife!’ Minutes later the man lost his arm forever.”

“The sad story touched me so much that I decided to devote myself to helping people bitten by snakes,” Shu said.

1. The best headline (标题) for this newspaper article is______ .

A．Astonishing Medicine	B．Farmer Loses Arm
C．Dangerous Bites	D．Snake Doctor

2. The farmer lost his arm because______.

A．the cloth was wrapped too tightly	B．he cut it off to save his life
C．Shu wasn’t there to help him	D．he was alone in the fields

3. Shu decided to devote himself to snake medicine because_____.

A．he wanted to save people’s arms and legs

B．he had studied it at a medical school

C．he had seen snakes biting people

D．his army service had finished

4. Why did Shu go into the mountains?

A．He wanted to study snake bites.

B．He wanted to help the farmers.

C．He was being trained to be a doctor.

D．He was expected to serve in the army.

5. Which of the following words can take the place of the word career in the first paragraph (段)?

A．conclusion	B．story
C．incident	D．job

6 . 完形填空
Charlotte Whitehead was born in England in 1843, and moved to Montreal, Canada at the age five with her family． While_______her ill elder sister throughout the years, Charlotte discovered she had a(an)_______in medicine． At 18 she married and_______a family． Several years later, Charlotte said she wanted to be a_______Her husband supported her decision．
_______, Canadian medical schools did not_______women students at the time． Therefore, Charlotte went to the United States to study_______at the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia． It took her five years to_______her medical degree． Upon graduation, Charlotte_______to Montreal and set up a private________． Three years later, she moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and there she was once again a________doctor． Many of her patients were from the nearby timber and railway camps． Charlotte________herself operating on damaged limbs and setting________bones, in addition to delivering all the babies in the area．
But Charlotte had been practicing without a license． She had________a doctor’s license in both Montreal and Winnipeg, but was________． The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons, an all-male board, wanted her to________her studies at a Canadian medical college! Charlotte refused to________her patients to spend time studying what she already knew． So in 1887, she appeared to the Manitoba Legislature to________a license to her but they, too, refused． Charlotte________to practice without a license until 1912． She died four years later at the age of 73．
In 1993, 77 years after her________, a medical license was issued to Charlotte． This decision was made by the Manitoba Legislature to honor “this courageous and pioneering woman．”1.

A．raising

B．teaching

C．nursing

D．missing

2.

A．habit

B．interest

C．opinion

D．voice

3.

A．invented

B．selected

C．offered

D．started

4.

A．doctor

B．musician

C．lawyer

D．physicist

5.

A．Besides

B．Unfortunately

C．Otherwise

D．Eventually

6.

A．hire

B．entertain

C．trust

D．accept

7.

A．history

B．physics

C．medicine

D．law

8.

A．improve

B．save

C．design

D．earn

9.

A．returned

B．escaped

C．spread

D．wandered

10.

A．school

B．museum

C．clinic

D．lab

11.

A．busy

B．wealthy

C．greedy

D．lucky

12.

A．helped

B．found

C．troubled

D．imagined

13.

A．harmful

B．tired

C．broken

D．weak

14.

A．put away

B．taken over

C．turned in

D．applied for

15.

A．punished

B．refused

C．blamed

D．fired

16.

A．display

B．change

C．preview

D．complete

17.

A．leave

B．charge

C．test

D．cure

18.

A．sell

B．donate

C．issue

D．show

19.

A．continued

B．promised

C．pretended

D．dreamed

20.

A．birth

B．death

C．wedding

D．graduation

7 . 文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（/）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Mr. Johnson is a hardworking teacher. Every day, he spends too much time with his work. With little sleep and hardly any break, so he works from morning till night. Hard work have made him very ill. “He has ruined his healthy. We are worried about him.” That is which other teachers say. Yesterday afternoon. I paid visit to Mr. Johnson. I was eager to see him, but outside her room I stopped. I had to calm myself down. Quietly I step into the room. I saw him lying in bed, looking at some of the picture we had taken together. I understood that he missed us just as many as we missed him.