Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there's a lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will get you a long-term hurt regardless of your skills or the job's pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas：

1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?

There are isolating(孤立的)jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.

2) How do you handle change?

Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don't happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.

3)Do you enjoy working with computers?

I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.

4)What type of work environment do you enjoy?

This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.

5)How do you like to get paid?

Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.

Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.

1.What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. You may ignore your skills when you select job.

B. Job skills are the most important things when you select job.

C. There are more important things than job skills when you select job.

D. Selecting job, you should assess your skills and match them with the position.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Isolating jobs usually drive people mad.

B. Interactive jobs make people shy easily.

C. Extreme people tend to work with others.

D. Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs.

3.Apart from skills, stability, motivation, and environment, what else area do you need to consider in a job search ?

A. Design B. Changes

C. Cooperation D. Hobbies

4.What is the best title for this passage?

A. Lifestyles and Job Pay B. Jobs and Environment

C. Job Skills and Abilities D. Personalities and Jobs

Polluted airborne particles(大气悬浮颗粒) kill 7 million people a year, reports the World Health Organization.

That news may not come as a surprise to anyone who has seen images of chimneys in Beijing, Delhi or Mexico. But those factories－or even the jammed roadways of modern cities－are not the biggest killer. Each year, some 4.3 million people die earlier than they should because of polluted air inside their homes, says the WHO.

What's causing the air inside people's homes to be so poisonous that it kills around 11,000 people a day? Stoves. “Having an open fire in your kitchen is like burning 400 cigarettes an hour.” says Kirk Smith, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, whose research suggests that household air pollution from cooking killed between 3.5 million and 4 million people in 2013.

Not all stoves cause this kind of harm. The ones Smith's talking about are those that the 3 billion people in the developing world use for heat and cooking, which burn solid fuels such as wood, coal, or crop waste instead of gas. The smoke from those fires produces harmful fine particles and carbon monoxide into homes. Poor ventilation then prevents that smoke from escaping, raising fine particle levels 100 times higher than the limits that the WHO considers acceptable.

Breathing this air day in day out eventually causes a lot of diseases: more than a third of the 4.3 million die of a stroke, while a quarter die of heart disease. And around one-third of annual lung disease deaths worldwide are due to waste from coal stoves.

Exposure tends to be extremely harmful for the people who spend the most time around the fire－usually women and young children. In fact, the WHO reports that household air pollution almost doubles the risk for childhood lung disease.

1.According to Kirk Smith's research,________.

A. factories are the biggest killer worldwide nowadays

B. burning 400 cigarettes an hour is extremely dangerous

C. household air pollution from cooking is surprisingly harmful

D. some 4.3 million people die earlier each year than they should

2.What should be the deadly killer in a household kitchen?

A. Solid fuels. B. Coal stoves.

C. Poor gas. D. Cooking smoke.

3. The underlined word “ventilation” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.

A. airing B. cooking C. burning D. cooling

4.The author intends to tell people ________.

A. how to avoid polluted air in their homes

B. to stop cooking in the household kitchen

C. to guard against household pollution from cooking

D. how to prevent childhood lung diseases in household

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Selfie

Social media and the mobile web have given rise to a strange phenomenon called the selfie. It refers to a picture of yourself, usually shared on any social networking website.

1. Some selfies are extreme close-ups, and others show part of an arm held straight outward. A few of them even feature the subject standing in front of a bathroom mirror.

Everyone takes selfies, but the younger crowd seems to be especially involved in the trend. 2. They are interested in staying connected to their friends. Social media, to some extent, is the driving force of their selfie activity.

There are also kinds of psychological factors driving people to take a selfie and upload it to a social networking site. 3. A quick and easy way to attract other's attention is to get “likes” and comments from friends. Secondly, it's human nature to show off your own great achievements. When you feel good about yourself or look good, it's far too easy to take out your phone and document it all through one or several selfies. 4. That's right. Sometimes people are bored at work, bored at school, bored at home and even bored on the toilet. Last but not least, social media is about being social! If that means uploading as many selfies as possible, then so be it. It's fun, and it's a cool way to sort of document your own life.

Finally, there are things to be mindful of when you're posting. It's easy to think you're sharing a photo with a few people. 5. So don't post anything online, selfie especially.

A. There are lots of selfie styles.

B. The rise of selfies has become universal.

C. Young people are relatively heavier digital users.

D. The desire to take, post and get “likes” on selfies goes back to a biological behavior.

E. But the whole world of social media is public and every individual can get access to it.

F. There are also people who will take selfies because they have nothing else better to do.

G. The leading factor is that people want to get attention from as many people as possible.

完形填空阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Run freely ——A lesson about Courage

One afternoon, many years ago，I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early so I ______ the car by the roadside and waited for her.

As I looked ______ the car window, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around one and a half to two years old, ______ freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short______.The boy had a big smile on his face ______ he had just been set free from a ______ .The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, and without ______ or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again ,still with a ______ on his face, as if nothing had happened.

Kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure. ______ , they treat it as a learning experience. They feel compelled to try and try again until they ______ .

Not only was I impressed by the boy’s courage, but I was ______ touched by the manner in which he ran. With each attempt, he looked so ______ ,so natural, without signs of fear, nervousness, or of being disappointed. His only ______ was to run freely and to do it effectively as he could. He was just being a______ ,just being himself. He was not looking for ______ or worrying about whether ______ was watching. He wasn’t concerned about being judged. He didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that maybe someone would see him ______ and that it would be ______ if he did fall. No, all that ______ to him was to accomplish the task of activity at hand to the best of his ability, feeling the experience of running fully and freely.

I learned a lot from that observation and ______ , and have successfully brought that lesson with me in life.

1.A. left B. started C. stopped D. drove

2.A. outside B. down C. toward D. over

3.A. playing B. smiling C. rolling D. running

4.A. sight B. length C. time D. distance

5.A. even if B. so long asC. as though D. now that

6.A. prison B. house C. parkD. castle

7.A. attention B. hesitation C. question D. application

8.A. puzzleB. smile C. pleasure D. surprise

9.A. However B. Instead C. Still D. Anyhow

10.A. stopB. win C. achieve D. succeed

11.A. luckily B. apparently C. actually D. equally

12.A. confident B. joyful C. quiet D. proud

13.A. worry B. talent C. concernD. conclusion

14.A. student B. child C. player D. winner

15.A. chance B. fortune C. approval D. trouble

16.A. someone B. none C. everyone D. one

17.A. try B. runC. cry D. fall

18.A. embarrassing B. disappointingC. frighteningD. exciting

19.A. happened B. cared C. matteredD. related

20.A. experimentB. experienceC. expression D. Expectation

阅读下面材料，用不多于3个单词的正确形式填空。

shanghai Disney Resort is intended to open in the summer of 2016, and will offer discounted tickets to 1. (vary) groups of visitors, according to the city’s tourism administration.

Tickets prices will be set according to Disney’s international practice and the project’s 2. (operate). Therefore, children, seniors and special groups usually enjoy a good discount. While the major construction work is expected 3. (complete) in May 2016, the current focus has been 4. combining operations with ongoing construction. 5. number of projects to improve the environment and manage traffic are being processed along with the theme park.

Shanghai Disney Resort, of 6. the theme park is a part, is a joint venture(合作企业) between the state-owned Shanghai Shendi Group and Disney. The park 7. (intend) to open in 2015, but a decision to invest a further $800 million rescheduled 8. (it) opening. The extra money covers the increase in the park’s size and is expected to attract 30% more visitors 9. it was originally forecast.

Upon completion, the world-class destination will be the first Disney park on the Chinese mainland and the 10. (five) around the world.

短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。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。

My sister saw a lovely cup when we are shopping the other day. She liked it at once. Then she bent down and picked up to look at a price on it. As she did this, lots of tea splashed on his T­shirt！I had to try hardly not to laugh at her shocking face！My sister wanted get out of the shop as fast as she could when a shop assistant came over to us. It was turned out to be her own cup，that she'd left on the shelf by mistake. The assistant was clearly as embarrassed as my sister，for I just thought it was funny!

书面表达

最近，某中学生英文报开设了“After ­class Activities”的栏目。请你根据以下提示，为该栏目写一篇英文稿件，并鼓励同学们积极参加课外活动。

1.你校开展课外活动的情况；

2.你参加过的课外活动及给你带来的益处；

3.为同学选择课外活动提出建议；

4.为学校开展课外活动提出建议；

注意：

1.词数100左右；

2.文中不得提及人名、校名及地名；

3.稿件的开头已为你写好(不计入总词数)。

After class Activities

Nowadays，after class activities are becoming more and more popular in high schools.

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Some years ago, writing in my diary used to be a usual activity. I would return from school and spend the expected half hour recording the day's events, feelings, and impressions in my little blue diary. I did not really need to express my emotions by way of words, but I gained a certain satisfaction from seeing my experiences forever recorded on paper. After all, isn't accumulating memories a way of preserving the past?

When I was thirteen years old, I went on a long journey on foot in a great valley, well equipped with pens, a diary, and a camera. During the trip, I was busy recording every incident, name and place I came across. I felt proud to be spending my time productively, dutifully preserving for future generations a detailed description of my travels. On my last night there, I wandered out of my tent, diary in hand. The sky was clear and lit by the glare of the moon, and the walls of the valley looked threatening behind their screen of shadows. I automatically took out my pen...

At that point, I understood that nothing I wrote could ever match or replace the few seconds I allowed myself to experience the dramatic beauty of the valley. All I remembered of the previous few days were the dull characterizations I had set down in my diary.

Now, I only write in my diary when I need to write down a special thought or feeling. I still love to record ideas and quotations that strike me in books, or observations that are particularly meaningful. I take pictures, but not very often only of objects I find really beautiful. I'm no longer blindly satisfied with having something to remember when I grow old. I realize that life will simply pass me by if I stay behind the camera, busy preserving the present so as to live it in the future.

I don't want to wake up one day and have nothing but a pile of pictures and notes. Maybe I won't have as many exact representations of people and places; maybe I'll forget certain facts, but at least the experiences will always remain inside me. I don't live to make memories--I just live, and the memories form themselves.

1.Before the age of thirteen, the author regarded keeping a diary as a way of ________.

A. observing her school routine

B. expressing her satisfaction

C. impressing her classmates

D. preserving her history

2.What caused a change in the author's understanding of keeping a diary?

A. A dull night on the journey.

B. The beauty of the great valley.

C. A striking quotation from a book.

D. Her concerns for future generations.

3.What does the author put in her diary now?

A. Notes and beautiful pictures.

B. Special thoughts and feelings.

C. Detailed accounts of daily activities.

D. Descriptions of unforgettable events.

4.The author comes to realize that to live a meaningful life is ________.

A. to experience it

B. to live the present in the future

C. to make memories

D. to give accurate representations of it

If you live in a big city, there are many things to drive you crazy on your daily route, and it’s not just overcrowded subway trains.

Vicky Zhao is a mainlander working in Hong Kong. For her, one thing she can’t put up with is people standing on the wrong side of the escalator（自动扶梯）in subway stations. “Escalators help us move faster and save time. It isn’t a place to rest,” the 24-year-old says. “I often see tourists block the way with their suitcases or chatting on the escalators during rush hours. It annoys me to no end.”

Admitting she is not the patient type, Zhao says things are much better in Hong Kong than in cities on the mainland where “stand right, walk left” signs are often ignored.

The logic behind the “stand right, walk left” escalator etiquette（礼仪）seems obvious. Even though you may want to catch your breath while you’re transported up or down, you should still consider others and leave enough space for people in a hurry, so that they can run and catch the train.

Many cities’ escalators, including London’s and Beijing’s, use the “stand right, walk left” system to speed up the flow of people.（Australia is an exception and you should stand on the left side instead.）But some cities discourage people from moving on escalators out of safety reasons. In Hong Kong’s subway stations there are regular announcements asking people to “stand still” on escalators. Even so, most people in this fast-paced city observe the “stand right, walk left” etiquette.

But the people who stand on escalators defend themselves by telling the walkers not to be so impatient. The BBC quotes one stander as saying：“If the person is in such a rush, why not just take the stairs? Even when the escalator is packed and there’s nowhere to move, I see these same people complaining about not being able to pass.

Whatever the escalator etiquette is in the place you live or visit, do what most people are doing and always be mindful of others: leave enough space between each other, don’t stay at the end of the escalator, and if someone is blocking your way, a simple “excuse me” is enough.

1.In the second paragraph, the underlined word It refers __________.

A．the author’s living in the big city of Hong Kong

B．being crowded on the subway trains m rush hours

C．people’s blocking the way or chat on the escalators

D．people’s standing on the right side resting

2.When on the escalator, a majority of local people in Hong Kong __________.

A．stand still as the railway stations require

B．ignore the “stand right, walk left” signs

C．use the stairs instead of escalators

D．follow the “stand right, walk left” etiquette

3.What can be inferred from the 6th paragraph?

A．Not everyone follows the “stand right, walk left” etiquette.

B．The BBC is against the “stand right, walk left” etiquette.

C．People should be patient and take the stairs if possible.

D．People shouldn’t complain about the crowded escalators.

4.Which of the following statements is the writer’s opinion?

A．People should stand right no matter where they are.

B．People should do as the Romans do and consider others.

C．People should do as they like on the escalators.

D．People should be seriously criticized when they block the way.