2 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What is the speaker?

A．A teacher.

B．A student.

C．An editor.

2. What is necessary for a volunteer of The Voice?

A．Communication skills.

B．Good grades.

C．Experience.

3. What’s the best reason for taking the job?

A．To learn to write.

B．To make money.

C．To have fun.

4. When are students expected to ask for the job?

A．Right after the meeting.

B．Tomorrow morning.

C．Next week.

3 . Fiji has become the first country in the Pacific to recognize“waste pickers”,who collect, repurpose and sell rubbish, as environmental champions.

Who are “waste pickers”? These workers are usually women, children and migrants(移民)living in bad conditions. The job comes with many health risks, as workers are exposed to pollutants and poisonous materials,and those who work at open dumps(垃圾场)face risks caused by trucks, fires and surface falls.

They remove millions of tons of CO each year from landfills, yet they are often looked down on and treated poorly. Talking to ABC News, Tikitoro from Fiji said that her children are made fun of at school. “The students laugh and point at them” she shared.

How is Fiji responding? On July 20, 2022, in Lautoka, Fiji recognized the environmental benefits that these workers are providing. Thirty women who took part in informal waste picking were officially registered, given bank accounts and provided with protective gear to make their jobs safer.

A new name was also created for these workers: Collection Pillars of Recycling, The name came from a workshop organized with International Union for the Conservation of Nature, the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and the Pacific Recycling Foundation.

Amitesh Deo, founder of the Pacific Recycling Foundation, told the Fiji. Their workshop was about human rights，education,legal literacy and financial literacy. One of the key findings in that workshop was the stigma(污名)attached to waste picking, and one of the contributors to the stigma was the name ‘‘informal waste pickers’’.

With around 20 million people picking waste for a living around the world, it is important that they are treated with respect and recognized for the highly valuable work that they do.

1. What could be said about the work of picking waste?

A．It’s fruitless.	B．It’s not deserving.
C．It’s dangerous.	D．It’s meaningless.

2. How has Tikitoro’s work affected her?

A．She has been looked down on.

B．She has learned new life skills.

C．She has gained a sense of achievement.

D．She has developed a strong personality.

3. What does the underlined word “gear” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Experiment.

B．Effect.

C．Color.

D．Equipment.

4. What may Amitesh Deo say about the name “informal waste pickers”?

A．It takes years to form.	B．It needs to be forgotten.
C．It is popular nationwide.	D．It should be formally named.

4 . “天宫课堂”将再次开讲，中国航天中心(China Aerospace Centre)现面向广大青少年招募志愿者。届时志愿者们会在网络上向全世界的关注者实时播报并与之互动。请你为中心公众号写一则英文招募启事，内容包括：
1.招募目的；
2.招募要求；
3.期待加入。
注意：1.词数100左右
2.题目已给出，不计入总词数
3.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

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6 . In the United States, waiting at tables is more a profession than a job. Wages are not important and staff expect to live off their tips. The more professional the service given, the more massive the reward is. In Britain, the experience tells a different tale. Money and respect are handed out in more carefully guarded measures to those who serve food.

Yet lack of respect hasn’t stopped students from taking waiting jobs to make up for a steadily shrinking bank balance. Nicola Sizer is finishing a four-year teaching degree at college. A large debt at the end of her first year forced her into waitressing in a Greek restaurant in London. Most of her money comes from tips, but they’re variable. “Some nights, people don’t leave you anything.” she says. “People forget that the waitress isn’t there to have a good time.”

Dave Turn bull, district officer, admits there are particular problems with tipping. “It depends on what form the tips are in,” he says. “Also, there’s nothing in law to say that the service charge goes to the waiter.” But he admits that working at the right place can be financially very rewarding.

Jane Stocks is 34 and has been waitressing for five years. She’s been at the Chicago Pizza Pie Factory in central London for one year. Waitressing is her career choice — she enjoys the social aspect of the work and the fact that her opinion counts.

However, not everybody can handle waitressing. Jane Stocks agrees: “You’ve got to be able to take a lot of responsibility, a lot of stress and concentrate on a lot of things for a long time. You’ve also got to be all different things to all people.”

1. What does the writer say about waiters in the USA?

A．They receive low wages.

B．Their work needs less profession.

C．They are not given enough respect.

D．They make a living largely on wages.

2. Why did Nicola Sizer start waitressing according to the text?

A．To enjoy herself.

B．To pay back some money.

C．To try a different profession.

D．To work in a Greek environment.

3. Which problem does Dave Turn bull mention?

A．Waiters are generally poorly paid.

B．A law is needed to be made for waiters.

C．Some waiters earn much more money than others.

D．Waiters may not receive money intended for them.

4. What can we know from the last paragraph?

A．Waitressing is a relatively easy work.

B．Waitressing is a job with professional requirements.

C．Everyone can never handle the work of waitressing.

D．Waitressing only needs concentration on food order.