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The sea has always interested man. From it he can get food, minerals and treasure. 1. But he couldn’t go far beneath its surface.
2. However, he isn’t a fish. Because he must breathe air, he can’t stay under the water’s surface for any length of time. To explore deep water, man faces even more dangers and problems.
A diver who wants to stay under water for more than a few minutes must breathe air or a special mixture of gases. 3. He can carry a tank of air on his back and breathe through a hose and a mouthpiece. Water weighs 800 times as much as air. Tons of water pushes against a diver deep in the sea. 4. .
When a diver is under great pressure, his blood takes in some of the gases he breathes. As he rises to the surface, the water pressure becomes less. If the diver rises too quickly, the gases in his blood form bubbles. The diver is then suffering from the bends（潜水员病）. The bends can cause a diver to double up in pain. 5.
A. His body is under great pressure.
B. Scientists are trying to find more about the sea.
C. For thousands years, he could sail on it
D. They can even kill him．
E. He can wear a diving suit and have air pumped to him from above.
F. The water pressure can cause a diver to breathe with difficulty.
G. Man wants to explore deep into the sea.
Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination and physical, cognitive (认知的), and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development. Play allows children to create and explore a world they can master, conquering their fears while practicing adult roles. Undirected play allows children to learn how to work in groups, to share, to negotiate, and to resolve conflicts.
Ideally, much of play involves adults, but when play is controlled by adults, children acquiesce (顺从) to adult rules and concerns and lose some of the benefits play offers them, particularly in developing creativity, leadership, and group skills. In contrast to passive entertainment, play builds active, healthy bodies. In fact, it has been suggested that encouraging unstructured play may be an exceptional way to increase physical activity levels in children, which is one important strategy in the resolution of the obesity problem.
Children’s development is critically influenced by appropriate, affective relationships with loving and consistent caregivers as they relate to children through play. When parents observe their children in play or join with them in child-driven play, they are given a unique opportunity to see the world from their children’s vantage point as the child navigates a world perfectly created just to fit his or her needs. The interactions that occur through play tell children that parents are fully paying attention to them and help to build enduring relationships. Parents who have the opportunity to look at their children’s world learn to communicate more effectively with their children and are given another setting to offer guidance. Less verbal children may be able to express their views, giving their parents an opportunity to gain a fuller understanding of their perspective. Quite simply, play offers parents a wonderful opportunity to engage fully with their children.
Play is essential to the academic environment. It ensures that the school setting attends to the social and emotional development of children as well as their cognitive development. It has been shown to help children adjust to the school setting and even to strengthen children’s learning willingness. Social-emotional learning is best integrated (融合) with academic learning; it is concerning if some of the forces that enhance children’s ability to learn are improved at the expense of others. Play and unscheduled time that allow for peer interactions are important components of social-emotional learning.
1.Compared with undirected play, play which is controlled by adults ________.
A. doesn’t benefit the children at all
B. doesn’t help develop leadership and group skills
C. makes children become more active
D. helps increase physical activity levels
2.The third paragraph mainly tells us that ________.
A. play offers parents a good chance to establish good relationships with children
B. children’s development is greatly influenced by relationships with parents
C. play helps children better express their views
D. play offers parents a unique opportunity to see the world from a different perspective
3.From the last paragraph, we know that ________.
A. play can’t help children become adapted to the school setting
B. play makes social-emotional learning and academic learning separated
C. play is beneficial to social-emotional learning as well as academic learning
D. it is necessary to strengthen children’s academic development at the expense of others
4.Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. Undirected play can help children develop team spirit.
B. Play can improve children’s willingness to learn.
C. Play helps adults gain a better understanding of the children’s thoughts.
D. Adults shouldn’t be involved in children’s play.
High childcare costs are putting British mothers off going out to work. It really is that simple. Eurostat figures show that 66 per cent of mothers in the UK work, less than France (72 per cent), Denmark (86 per cent), the Netherlands (78 per cent) or Germany (69 per cent). This not only damages Britain’s economic prosperity—it limits women’s careers and squeezes family incomes. It would be fine if this is the choice parents want to make, but it isn’t. Half of those surveyed want to go to work and the expense of childcare is one of the key reasons they couldn’t.
Despite claims made by Labour (工党) about childcare, a forthcoming (即将到来的) report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) confirms the true legacy of their time in government. They left behind a childcare system with high costs to parents, variable quality and patchy (不均匀的) coverage, despite soaring government spending. British parents now face the highest childcare bills in the world after Switzerland.
In the Eighties and Nineties under Mrs Thatcher and John Major, the picture was very different. Mothers in England were more likely to go out to work than their Dutch or German counterparts. But the position has reversed, despite a huge rise in public spending.
So why does the British Government spend more on childcare than France or Germany, even though the costs given to parents are sky-high? As always, under the previous government, money was frittered away (浪费) without adequate focus on improving quality. Instead of clear and transparent funding, four separate funding streams were created, skewing (偏离) the market and confusing parents and providers alike. The majority of the money was given away in cash benefits; so much of it did not get through to the front line.
The IPPR report points out that continental systems, in countries such as Germany, France, Denmark and the Netherlands, manage to deliver better value for money. What all of these systems have in common is a focus on quality, with greater flexibility and autonomy given to local providers. They also see a much higher proportion of government money getting to the front line.
1.Which of the following doesn’t belong to the disadvantages caused by the mothers prevented from going to work?
A. Damaging Britain’s economic development.
B. Causing damage to women’s careers.
C. Decreasing the family incomes.
D. Causing childcare costs to go up.
2.According to the second paragraph, we can infer that the former government of the Labour Party _______.
A. was highly praised by British people
B. made British people face the highest childcare bills
C. left behind a childcare system full of problems
D. managed to decrease the government spending
3.We can learn from the passage that _______.
A. in the Eighties and Nineties, mothers in the UK were likely to work
B. there is a prejudice against mothers in the UK employment market
C. most of the mothers surveyed in the UK don’t want to work
D. the percentage of mothers who work in the UK is the lowest in the world
Help Wanted PAINTER
Must have at least 3 years painting experience. Commercial and new construction work. $ 10/hr. Immediate opening. Call 435-9201 with work history.
SECRETARY
Part-time position available in friendly, busy office. Good typing and general office skills. Some weekends required. High pay.
Various duties. Apply(申请) at East Side Management, 500 Park Drive, DeWitt, NY. 13214.
Help Wanted VETERINARIAN ASSISTANT(兽医助理)
Person needed for busy animal hospital. Some nights and weekends.
Apply in person to Johnson-Marks Animal Hospital, 404 Snow Road, Syracuse, NY. 13224.
After 4 p.m. only please.
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Full-time and part-time positions available for modern nursing home.
High pay. Call Mrs. Downes, R.N. at 534-7618.
Help Wanted COOK NEEDED
Immediately. Busy downtown restaurant. Must be good and dependable.
Experience preferred. Weekends required. Call 324-9817.
SALESPERSON
Experienced. Must have some knowledge of men’s clothing industry. Available to work evenings and some Saturdays. Send resume(个人简历) to: Martin’s Apparel, 237 Rockledge St. Syracuse, NY. 13224.
TEACHER
Small private school needs English and math teachers. Must have BS degree and at least 4 years teaching experience. Send resume to: Wales Charter School 19 South 8th St. NY. 13214.
Help Wanted HOTEL needs part-time FRONT DESK CLERK. No experience necessary. Excellent people and phone skills a must. Some computer skills helpful. $ 13/hr. Call: Mr Jones 357-2897.
1.If you want to get a job as a math teacher, send your resume to ________.
A. 237 Rockledge St. Syracuse, NY. 13224 B. 404 Snow Road, Syracuse, NY. 13224
C. 500 Park Drive, DeWitt, NY. 13214 D. 19 South 8th St. NY. 13214
2.If you dislike working on Sundays, being a ______ should be your best choice.
A. cook B. secretary C. salesperson D. veterinarian assistant
3.If you want to get a job at ________ you must have office skills.
A. Martin’s Apparel B. East Side Management
C. Wales Charter School D. Johnson Marks Animal Hospital
4.Which job do you think suitable for a beautiful lady, who just graduated from a university and without any work experience?
A. FRONT DESK CLERK B. TEACHER C. SECRETARY D. PAINTER
For their nick-of-time acts, Toby, a 2-year-old dog, and Winnie, a cute cat, were named Dog and Cat of the Year by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
As Amy Paul choked(哽住) on a piece of apple at her home, her dog jumped up, landing hard on her chest and forcing the piece in her throat out. When the Keesling family of Indiana was about to be killed by carbon monoxide, their cat clawed at the wife Cathy’s hair until she woke up and called for help.
No one could explain their timely heroics.
Both pets were rescued by their owners in infancy—Toby as a 4-week-old thrown into a garbage bin to die, and Winnie as a week-old orphan hiding under a barn, so helpless that Cathy’s husband, Eric, had to feed her milk with an eyedropper.
As the Keeslings recalled it, a gas-driven pump being used broke down, spreading carbon monoxide through the house. By the time Winnie went to rescue, the couple’s 14-year-old son was already unconscious. “Winnie jumped on the bed and was clawing at me, with a kind of angry sound,” Cathy Keesling said. The state police responding to her 911 call said the family was only minutes from death, judging by the amount of poisonous gas in the house.
Amy Paul’s husband was at his job when she took a midday break from making jewelry and bit into an apple. “Normally I peel them, but I read in Good Housekeeping Magazine that the skin has all the nutrients, so I ate the skin, and that’s what caused me to choke,” she recalled. “I couldn’t breathe and I was in panic when Toby jumped on me. He never does that, but he did, and saved my life.”
Both Toby and Winnie accompanied their owners to the awards luncheon.
1.Why did Amy Paul choke on a piece of apple?
A. She was too young to care for herself.
B. She had a big bite.
C. The apple was too hard.
D. She didn’t peel the skin as usual.
2.Winnie saved the lives of its owner’s whole family in an accident by ________.
A. jumping onto its owner B. calling for help
C. clawing at Cathy’s hair D. making some strange noises
3.Which of the following has the similar meaning to the underlined word “infancy” in Paragraph 4?
A. middle age B. youth C. babyhood D. agedness
4.What would be the suitable title for the passage?
A. So Smart Animals Are
B. Dog and Cat Honored for Saving Their Masters
C. Unforgettable Experiences
D. Great Honors for Cat and Dog
I was assigned to take care of this patient a couple of weeks ago and began to grow closer to her. Communicating with her was because everything she wanted to say to me had to be written on a notepad. As a nursing graduate, I was able to her mind by observing even a slight in a patient's facial expression.
One day, when I was checking the patient, she me on the shoulder to show me a note, "Do you think I could be let go the hospital in a month to see my niece get married? Taking her hand in mine, I told her that I could not her，because I did not want to leave her a sense of hope. , I made her believe that I would be there with her every step of the way on her journey toward . Hearing that, the patient gave me a and a hug.
Day by day, I built her by walking around the floor with her. As I did this, I could see before my own eyes that her health was improving and able to walk more steadily. On her last day in hospital, just before her niece’s , she wrote me one last note, “I couldn’t have done this you; I love you.” After kissing goodbye, I had a strong sense of achievement. I realized that moments like this were I woke up early for in the hospital and spent long hours with her. I truly felt, and her confirmed, that I was an part of this woman’s recovery. My experience with this patient shows me that this career allows me to touch the of people in ways that people in other will never get to experience.
1.A. difficult B. funny C. simple D. interesting
2.A. see B. know C. read D. feel
3.A. worry B. change C. pain D. excitement
4.A. tapped B. hit C. knocked D. struck
5.A. of B. to C. in D. from
6.A. disappoint B. promise C. comfort D. trust
7.A. false B. strong C. right D. good
8.A. Therefore B. Besides C. However D. Furthermore
9.A. death B. success C. destination D. recovery
10.A. surprise B. stare C. smile D. whistle
11.A. future B. strength C. hope D. confidence
12.A. slowly B. completely C. rapidly D. finally
13.A. presence B. visit C. wedding D. presentation
14.A. without B. behind C. except D. beside
15.A. what B. why C. when D. how
16.A. work B. school C. office D. exercise
17.A. expression B. note C. feeling D. treatment
18.A. irrelevant B. insignificant C. instructive D. important
19.A. fortunes B. shoulders C. lives D. tears
20.A. hospitals B. areas C. lands D. Fields
