Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次） are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”
So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”
The hours she’s chosen to work meant that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.
Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”
The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself——and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”
41. Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______
A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
42. Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.
A. they never clean their offices              B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully          D. they always make a mess in their offices
43. When at work, Margaret feels _______.
A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers     B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload           D. bored because time passed slowly
44. The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______．
A. help care for her children             B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her               D. feel disappointed in her

Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.

She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次）are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”

So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”

The hours she’s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.

Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”

The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself—and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”

Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret. “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”

Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______.

A. she wanted to earn more money to support her family

B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure

C. she felt tired of taking care of patients

D. she needed the right time to look after her children

Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.

A. they never clean their offices                        B. they look down upon cleaners

C. they always make a mess in their offices       D. they never do their work carefully                 

When at work, Margaret feels _______.

A. light-hearted because of her fellow workers    B. happy because the building is fully lit

C. tired because of the heavy workload          D. bored because time passes slowly

The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______.

A. help care for her children                           B. regret what they had said

C. show sympathy for her                                  D. feel disappointed in her

Like all other mothers who have small children, I, too, have to steal time-from my own children at home and from the children who know me as their teacher-just to put a few words down on paper. Many times I've wanted to write for myself, for other women, for my parents, for my husband, and especially for my children. I would have liked to leave a legacy (遗产) of words explaining what it has meant to have twins. One reason that there is not a great deal written about being a mother of a new baby is that there is seldom a moment to think of anything else but the baby's needs.

    With twins, I did not have a spare hand to write with.

    Before my twins were born, my days were long and I had nothing to write about. After the twins' birth I did have something to write about, but I found myself facing not a pen and paper but milk bottles.

    Some nights, friends would visit. They would leave at 11 p.m., heading for bed, and for us the night was only just beginning. With twins, there is really no night. Each feeding lasts a long time. At 1:00 a.m., each of them would begin crying from hunger. At 4:00am, when I finally put them down, I felt exhausted.

    Two years have passed since then and we've managed to live through it all. My days are still very full and even now there isn't one evening when I put the twins down for the night that I don't have a break. At last a little time for myself.

1.When did the writer have time but she didn't feel like writing anything?

A. Before the birth of her twins.          

B. When she faced bottles of milk.

C. After her friends visited her home. 

D. When she had to think about the babies' needs.

2.What does the writer mainly write about?

A. Her role as a wife.                          B. Her work as a writer.

C. Her experience as a mother.                  D. Her feeling as a woman.

3.Why did the writer say the night was just beginning (in the 4th paragraph)?

A. Because her friends left her house too late.

B. Because she started to take care of the twins even at night.

C. Because her babies often cried and she woke up.

D. Because she could not sleep till four in the morning.

4. This passage is probably from a(n) _________.

A. blog         B. newspaper        C. guidebook        D. advertisement

5. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The writer was unhappy because of no time for writing.      

B. The writer cared about her babies more than her own interests.

C. The writer hated to be a mother of twins.

D. The writer could steal a little time at night.

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。

It' s six o' clock on a cold Saturday morning．Liu Zifan reluctantly gets out of the warm bed．

"I wish I could sleep  36   more," says Liu．

The 12-year-old seventh grader from Beijing Guangqumen   37   School must take an - hour - ride to get to the school for the   38  curriculums that occupy her whole Saturday morning．  39 Sunday afternoon, she has music lessons from 3 p．m．to 7 p．m．．

During weekdays, Liu has to get up around five in the morning, and  40  home by six．

       " My teacher  41  us to eat an apple in the morning so that we won' t feel  42  " , she says．

In primary school, Liu  43 taking the New Concept English class every Saturday morning, and Chinese, English and Olympic maths classes in the afternoon．On Sunday morning, she had to do  44 at home．In the afternoon, she took Cambridge English class．

"I didn't have time to rest,   45  on Friday night," Liu recalls．

The family has a monthly  46  of about 1,700 yuan．Liu Zifan' s  47  classes cost 2, 000 yuan each term．

" I think it' s   48  the money," Liu' s father says．" We do everything we can to provide her with good education,   49   she will get a good job in the future．"

Chinese children face   50  pressures on study．Some parents make their children study 51    First graders start to take classes for second graders, and so on, therefore they can get an   52 in exams．Most Chinese   53  believe high academic credentials （成绩） mean a better school, a brighter future．So they   54   their children to extracurricular classes like music, English and maths to develop a special   55  , which later might be a stepping stone to a good school．  

36．A．any                B．some               C．even               D．far

37．A．Secondary          B．Training            C．Language  D．Primary

38．A．super              B．extra               C．huge               D．usual

39．A．In                 B．For                C．At                 D．On

40．A．get                B．stay                C．leave D．drive

41   A．orders              B．recommends         C．persuades      D．suggests

42．A．sleepy          B．tired      C．cold        D．thirsty

43．A．stopped    B．finished  C．enjoyed    D．started

44．A．housework      B．washing         C．homework           D．writing

45．A．besides         B．including        C．since           D．except

46．A．pay         B．cost   C．income     D． money                                  

47．A．weekend        B．Sunday          C．everyday   D．Saturday

48．A．wasteful       B．worth       C．valuable    D．worthy

49．A．so that      B．since    C．now that   D．while

50．A．challenging   B．increasing C．developing          D．changing

51．A．ahead           B．hard            C．late       D．away

52   A．average  B．achievement    C．advance       D．advantage

53．A．teachers   B．students         C．friends        D．parents

54．A．send          B．hope  C．take   D．wish

55．A．strength             B．interest    C．talent    D．skill

When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on. " Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.

The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her morn," I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.

Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says. " I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease. "

But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow u p ---again---and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.

Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me?' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be. "

1.Why did Mary feel regretful?

A．She didn't achieve her ambition.            B．She didn't take care of her mother.

C．She didn't complete her high school.         D．She didn't follow her mother's advice.

2.When Mary received the life-changing news, she         .

A．lost control of herself                    B．began a balanced diet

C．need to get a treatment                   D．behaved in an adult way

3.What can we know from the last paragraph?

A．Mary feels pity for herself.

B．Mary has recovered from her disease.

C．Mary wants to help others as much as possible.

D．Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.