Most people graduate from school and then get a job. Everyone wants a job that pays well. How much money can you make? Ask yourself these questions: What can I do? What skills do I have? Also ask yourself: How much education do I have? For most jobs, the higher your education, the higher your earning power.
In the United States, high school graduates make about $18,600 a year. If you do not finish high school, you make only $10,800 a year. You can make $7,800 more each year by staying in high school!
If you stay in school, then you can make more money. A person with a high school degree makes about $18,600 a year. If that person goes to college and gets a bachelor’s degree (学士学位), he can make $42,000. With a master’s degree (硕士学位), he can make about $53,000. If the person gets a PhD (博士学位), he can make almost $79,000 or more a year.
We can learn a very important thing from this information. If you want to work and make more money, get a good education.
【小题1】The passage mainly talks about ___________.

A．how education and pay are connected

B．high paying jobs

C．jobs for high school students

D．good schools

【小题2】According to the passage, “earning power” means the ability to ___________ money.

A．save

B．spend

C．pay

D．make

【小题3】Each year a person with a PhD can make ___________ more than a person who does not finish high school.

A．$37,000

B．$68,200

C．$60,400

D．$26,000

阅读下面的短文，然后根据汉语或英语首字母提示写出所缺英语单词的正确形式。（共10个小题，每小题1分）
Dear grandma，
How's it going? I hope that grandpa is well now, I was sorry to 【小题1】h  that he had a cold last week I hope you are in good 【小题2】h  .
Things are fine here, I【小题3】 f  my end-of-year exams last week and got my report 【小题4】c  today. I always get 【小题5】紧张  when I see me envelope from school in the mail. put luckily I did OK this time. I had a hard time with science this semester and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher She said I was 【小题6】懒惰. which isn't true it's just that I find science really difficult. 【小题7】另一个disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do 【小题8】更好 The good news is that my 【小题9】数学  teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good
Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Mom and I 【小题10】 D    send theirlove
Love
Alan

 阅读下面的短文，然后根据汉语或英语首字母提示写出所缺英语单词的正确形式。（共10个小题，每小题1分）

Dear grandma，

    How's it going? I hope that grandpa is well now, I was sorry to 1.h   that he had a cold last week I hope you are in good  2.h   .

    Things are fine here, I3. f   my end-of-year exams last week and got my report 4.c   today. I always get 5. 紧张  when I see me envelope from school in the mail. put luckily I did OK this time. I had a hard time with science this semester and I wasn't surprised to find that my worst report was from my science teacher She said I was 6. 懒惰. which isn't true it's just that I find science really difficult. 7. 另一个disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do 8. 更好 The good news is that my 9.数学   teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good

    Well, that's about all the news I have for now. Mom and I  10. D    send their love

                                                 Love

                                                     Alan

 

Dear grandma,

How’s it going? I hope that grandpa is well now. I was sorry to hear that he had a    21  last week. I hope you are in    22  health.

Things are fine here. I finished my end-of-year  23  last week, and got my report card today. I always    24  nervous when I see the envelope   25  school in the mail, but luckily I did OK this time. I   26  a really hard time with science this semester , and I wasn’t surprised to find that my    27  report was from my science teacher. She said I was lazy, which isn’t true .It’s just that I find   28  really difficult. Another disappointing result was in history. My history teacher said I could do better. The good news is that  29  math teacher said I was hard-working. And my Spanish teacher said my listening was good. Well, that’s about all the news I have for now. Mom and Dad    30  their love.

Love,

Alan

1.A. cold    B. lesson   C. picnic

2.A. pity    B. good C. bad

3.A. exercise    B. homework C. exams

4.A. get B. do   C. take

5.A. on  B. from C. about

6.A. made    B. had  C. put

7.A. longest B. easiest  C. worst

8.A. Chinese B. science  C. P.E

9.A. his B. your C. my

10.A. send   B. bring    C. start

 

短文填空（每题1分，共10分）
阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。（注意：①每个单词只能用一次。②其中有两个多余选项。）

line,  cigarette,  man,  smoke,  annoy,  anything,  careful,  cough,  wait,  polite,  because,  what

I went to the doctor’s yesterday ①____________ I had a bad could. I have ②____________ for three days, so I had a sore throat. When I got there,m there were many people ③____________ inline. I had to join the line at the end. But the man who was in front of me was ④____________ there. The smoke made me sick. I wanted to stop him but I was afraid he would get ⑤____________. But I really couldn’t stand it. So I told him ⑥____________, “Would you mind smoking outside?” After hearing what I said, the man threw the ⑦____________ on the ground and said to me, “Sorry.” I thought it was bad to do so, but I said ⑧____________ and picked up the cigarette. Seeing what I was doing, the ⑨____________ face turned red and felt very sorry about ⑩____________ he did. He turned to me and said, “You are a good girl. I won’t do that again.”