第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A lot of management training each year for Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our course is the retention(保护力) of quality employees-a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale(标准)in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the participants(参加者), “What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?” Some time back a new manager took the question and slowly, with her voice almost breaking, said, “It was a $19 baseball glove.”
Cynthia told the group that she originally took a Circle K clerk job as an interim(临时的) position while she looked for something better. On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check would have to go for paying bills. Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check. When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.
Patricia handed her a box. “I overheard you talking to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is, even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can’t pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we do care, and I want you to know you are important to us.”
The thoughtfulness, empathy and love of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer cares than how much the employer pays. An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove.
1.Among many of the problems in the service industry, what is talked about in this passage, is_______.
A.how to ensure his employees’ high pay
B.how to attract more customers
C.how to look carefully after the employees
D.how to keep the good employees from leaving
2.Although a new manager, Cynthia would do her job well in keeping quality employees because she________.
A.had mastered all the courses for the manager
B.had already formed good relationship with the employees
C.know the way how to deal with her employees
D.had her own personal experience
3.This passage shows us that to run a business well it is necessary for managers to let their employees know________.
A.how much they can get for their job.
B.what good positions they can get later
C.they are very necessary to the business
D.they are nice as well as useful
4.The story told in this passage tells us that employees care about___________.
A.only how large a pay they can get
B.love from the managing people rather than only money
C.if their children could be properly taken care of
D.what position they can be offered
第二节 :完形填空(共20小题,每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项.
I would like to suggest that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening all television broadcasting in the United States be forbidden by law.
Let us take a 36 , reasonable look at what the results might be if such a(an) 37 were accepted; families might use the time for a real family hour. Without the distraction of TV, they might 38 together after dinner and actually talk to one another. It is well known that many of our 39 —everything in fact, from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of 40 illness —are caused at least in part by 41 to communicate. By using the quiet family hour to 42 our problems, we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.
On evenings when such talk is 43 , families could discover more active pastimes(消遣,娱乐. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a 44 together to watch the sunset 45 they might take a walk together. 46 free time and no TV, children and adults might discover reading. There is more entertainment in 47 than in a TV program. 48 report that the generation growing up with television can hardly write an English sentence, 49 at the college level. 50 is often learned from reading. A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour.
A different 51 of reading might also be done as it was in the past: reading aloud. The quiet hour could become the story hour. When the 52 ends, the TV net works might be forced to 53 with better shows in order to get us back from our newly discovered activities.
At first glance, this idea seems radical(激进的. How will we spend the time then? The fact is: it has been only twenty-five years 54 television came to control American free time. Those of us thirty-five and older can 55 childhoods without television. It wasn’t that difficult.
36.A.valuable B.pleasant C.quick D.serious
37.A.advice B.suggestion C.opinion D.offer
38.A.get around B.stand still C.meet D.sit around
39.A.problems B.trouble C.affairs D.misfortune
40.A.physical B.common C.mental D.familiar
41.A.attempt B.failure C.ability D.permission
42.A.discuss B.talk C.make sure D.see to
43.A.impossible B.unnecessary C.funny D.unpleasant
44.A.walk B.look C.ride D.rest
45.A.and B.or C.but D.while
46.A.At B.In C.For D.With
47.A.a fine poem B.a good book C.a quiet hour D.a composition
48.A.Professors B.Scientists C.Parents D.Educators
49.A.yet B.still C.even D.just
50.A.Writing B.Skill C.Speaking D.Listening
51.A.form B.kind C.method D.step
52.A.reading B.quiet hour C.activity D.programme
53.A.come across B.come about C.come up D.broadcast
54.A.before B.since C.until D.after
55.A.remind B.remember C.recognize D.know
.After they were given several terrible blows, the enemy did not _____ out after dark.
A. dared to come B. dared come C. dare to come D. dare coming
I thought it a pity __________ him to the tea party.
A. being not invited B. not to have invited
C. to not have invited D. not to have been invited
.A reward of 1,000 dollars will be given ________ can find the lost child.
A. whomever B. whoever that C. to whomever D. to whoever
.So often ______ in recent years that it has almost become a rule.
A. has this happened B. this has happened
C. is this happening D. for this to happen