These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a “gap year”between their graduation from school and their university studies. This means they can take a year off to do something else, before they start their studies.
For most students, spending time in foreign countries is the favorite activity --- and Australia is the favorite place to go.
Many parents, teachers and business people agree that travelling can teach important values.
“After a year of travelling, I felt I’d grown up. I had learnt the importance of relationships with people, on all kinds of levels.”
There are many companies around the world that welcome these students on their projects---helping people in poorer countries, or even in your home country. Although you don’t get paid for your work, this kind of work can teach important skills---decision making and finding answers to problems, for example---that will help many students in a job one day.
Finally, getting some knowledge and experience in an area you hope to study or work in one day will always be very useful.
If several university graduates are applying(申请) for the same job, gar year work experience allows you to say,
“ I’ve already had some experience of this kind of work.” And that can get your job.
1.More and more students in the UK are taking a “gap year” .
A.before they graduate from school
B.before they graduate from university
C.after they graduate from university
D.Before they go to university after graduating from school
2.is their favorite activity for most students in the UK.
A.Spending time in Australia
B.Spending time in the UK
C.Spending time with their teachers
D.Spending time with their parents
3.What can’t students get in gap year work in the writer’s opinion?
A.Values B.Skills C.Knowledge and experience D.money
4.Chances for the same job will be given to the students .
A.who study well in school
B.who have some experience in this kind of work
C.who don’t apple for the job
D.who are rich enough
5.The best title(题目) of the passage can be .
A.Work for the Poor B.Take a Year off
C.Apply for a job D.Travel
You must think a computer is the best thing in the world, right? You must think it works at a super speed and can do everything? Well, it’s not! In fact, the brain is much more powerful than any super computer! Think about when a glass is just about to fall off the table. Your brain controls everything that you need to do to save that glass from falling. First your eyes check out what’s going on, then tell your brain, and your brain decides how quickly you need to react(反应), and then your muscles(肌肉) go into action. That is just from your brain. No computer could ever come close to that!
The brain weighs just 3 pounds, but it controls everything you do from thinking, learning, feeling even to breathing and your heart beating. Even though the brain is just 2% of your body weight, it uses around 20% of all your energy in your body. That is a lot for such a small organ(器官). There are about 100 billion tiny, tiny little cells(细胞) in your brain. There are so many that it would take you over 3,000 years to count them all!
Your brain stops growing when you’re 18, but it actually keeps on developing and learning new things. So your parents are really super smart! You won’t be able to fool them! Believe it or not, your brain NEVER stops working. Even during sleeping, the brain works for long-term memory establishment(建立). It is realized that the brain is the second organ in the body as the heart that never stops during human lives.
So everyone should be proud of such a gift of nature.
1.In Paragraph 1, the writer wants to tell us .
A. eyes and muscles react quickly
B. the brain controls everything in your body
C. the computer is the best thing in the world
D. the brain is more powerful than any computer
2.In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “That” refers to(指的是) .
A. the body weight B. 2% of the body weight
C. all energy in the body D. around 20% of the energy in the body
3.Which is RIGHT according to the passage?
A. The brain doesn’t work during sleeping
B. The brain is the only organ that never stops
C. The brain keeps growing during human lives
D. The brain keeps on developing during human lives
4.Which word can best describe the brain according to the passage?
A. Magic B. Quick C. Light D. Developing
5.In which magazine can the passage be found most probably?
A. Business Weekly B. Medicine C. Science D. Sports
I ________in this small mountain village when I was a child.
A.use to live B.used to living C.used to live D.use to living
I like ball games very much, ____________ football, basketball and baseball.
A.such as B.for example C.such D.as
I can’t find my ticket. I think I have lost _________.
A.it B.one C.this D.them
—Hurry up! The movie is beginning.
—Don’t worry. There is still ______ time left
A.little B.a little C.a few D.few
