There’s no one reason why women return to school. Going back to school provides private and public benefits. College graduates, generally enjoy higher salaries,1.(employ) more consistently, and work in nicer conditions. College-educated people vote more, give more to charity, and rely2.(little) on government support.
Making the switch from3.(support) to supporting oneself can be a challenge,4.often a necessary one. “Financial5.(dependent) for women is key,” says Nancy Schlossberg, a professor at University of Maryland. “I think6.important for women to make some direct achievement, because chances are that women will live alone in later life, either divorced7.never married.”
To Schlossberg, education is critical in the long run. She says, “You are going to do much better than before8.you have a good education; you are going to be happier than before on condition that you have9.education that enables you to do what you have to do in life. The question is10.you are ready at this time to go for it.
The world always makes way for the dreamer
When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Zigler. I remember sitting in that dark hall listening to Mr. Zigler______everyone’s spirits up to the ceiling. I______there feeling like l could do anything. When we got to the car, I turned to my father and said, "Dad, I want to______people feel like that." My father asked me______I meant. "I want to be a motivational speaker just like Mr. Zigler." I replied. A(An)______was born.
Recently, I began seeking my dream of motivating others.______a four-year relationship with Fortune 100 Company______as a sales-trainer and ending as a regional(地区的) sales manager, I left the company at the height of my______. Many people were______that I would leave after earning a six-figure income. And they wondered______I would risk everything for a dream.
I made my______to start my own company and leave my worryingless position after______a regional sales meeting. The vice-president of our company made a______that changed my life. He asked us, "If a god would offer you three wishes, what would they be?" After giving us a(an)______to write down the three wishes, he then asked us, "Why do you need a______?" I would never forget the power I felt at that moment. I realize that______I had accomplished in the past had prepared me for this moment. I was ready and didn't need a god's help to become a motivational speaker. A motivational speaker was______.
Having made that decision, I was immediately______. One week after I gave notice, my husband was laid off from his job, and now we had no______. But I held fast to my dream. The wonder really began to happen. In a short time my husband found a better job. And I was able to book several______engagements with new customers. I discovered the incredible power of dreams.
1.A. rise B. do C. put D. raise
2.A. left B. came C. arrived D. reached
3.A. get B. hope C. make D. cheer
4.A. that B. what C. which D. if
5.A. dream B. idea C. girl D. speaker
6.A. After B. Before C. Because D. While
7.A. beginning B. working C. acting D. regarding
8.A. life B. love C. money D. career
9.A. disappointed B. moved C. surprised D. delighted
10.A. when B. why C. if D. how
11.A. plan B. promise C. decision D. mind
12.A. attending B. joining C. entering D. holding
13.A. newspaper B. book C. report D. speech
14.A. day B. instance C. week D. moment
15.A. love B. worker C. god D. company
16.A. everything B. anything C. nothing D. something
17.A. alive B. dead C. missing D. born
18.A. examined B. searched C. found D. tested
19.A. help B. harm C. income D. money
20.A. selling B. speaking C. writing D. listening
Why doesn’t the conductor face the audience?1.As the only person with his back to the audience, the conductor is a figure who is bathed in the spotlight, but his complex work requires a high degree of musical skill, as well as an ability to extract what he desires out of the group of artists he leads--his orchestra.
2.A person may become a conductor without graduating from the conducting department of a music school or studying in any kind of conductor’s training program. However, becoming the conductor of a famous orchestra requires a great deal more than what is needed merely to join an orchestra.
3.These naturally examine a conductor’s technique and musical interpretation while he conducts an orchestra through a prepared piece of music, but they also involve a sight-reading element.4.The conductor then has to sit in a room and memorize the piece before coming out and leading the orchestra through the piece by memory. Not only does the conductor have to make his arm and hand motion properly, and signal all the entrances of each instrument, he has to point out intentional mistakes made by the orchestra members on the spot.
The least capabilities a conductor must have are: The ability to memorize an entire score. A good ear for distinguishing correct notes among the music of the entire orchestra.5.
Of the conductors that meet these requirements, those with better musical insight and a higher level of charisma(魅力) will succeed.
A. The need for a common musical standard becomes necessary
B. The ability to lead a group of professional musicians
C. There are many conducting competitions
D. For this, the score of music is given to the conductor on site
E. This is how the role of the conductor came to be established
F. The role of the conductor is in fact not well understood
G. There are no examinations for becoming a conductor
In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believeing that it is responsible for social progress and prosperity. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth relied on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: "I may have lost, but it doesn't matter because I really didn't try." What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one's self-respect relies on how well one performs in comparison with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear begins to dissolve can we discover a new meaning in competition.
1.What does this passage mainly talk about?
A. Competition helps to set up self-respect
B. Opinions about competition are different among people
C. Competition is harmful to personal quality development
D. Failures are necessary experience in competition
2.The underlined phrase "the most vocal" in Paragraph 3 means .
A. those who try their best to win
B. those who value competition most highly
C. those who are against competition most strongly
D. those who rely on others most for success
3.What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a "desire to fail"?
A. One's worth lies in his performance compared with others
B. One's success in competition needs great efforts
C. One's achievement is determined by his particular skills
D. One's success is based on how hard he has tried
4.Which point of view may the author agree to?
A. Every effort should be paid back
B. Competition should be encouraged
C. Winning should be a life-and-death matter
D. Fear of failure should be removed in competition
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You view websites in 30 seconds through the “Surf Ads” page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you’ll either get a green tick sign or a red “x”. The green tick sign means you’ve earned $0.01and the “x” means you have not earned money for the visit. You’ll get red x’s when you have more than one websites from the “Surf Ads” page open. When this happens, you get no credit.
Earnings example
You click 10 ads per day =$0.10
20 referrals(转送) click 10 ads per day =$2.00
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Your weekly earnings =$14.70
Your monthly earnings =$63.00
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1.What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A. To tell an interesting story
B. To introduce a surprising way to earn money
C. To solve a puzzling problem
D. To present an exciting research
2.You can earn money by .
A. chatting online
B. advertising some products
C. clicking on advertisement
D. choosing green ticks or x’s
3.What can we know from the passage?
A. You’ll earn $0.10 if you click 1 ad
B. You’ll get many green ticks if you have many websites open
C. You can get your payments through AlertPay
D. Your AlertPay account is not for free
“Now I just don’t believe that.” Surely all of us, at some point, have watched a movie and thought: It’s simply badly researched, or, the makers must think we’re fools.
If movies were completely scientifically accurate, they’d probably be as interesting as a Physics 101 lecture. In real life, there are no explosions in space, gas usually doesn’t explode from a lit cigarette, and Bruce Willis/Jackie Chan/Will Smith would most likely be in a coma(昏迷) after getting kicked in the head.
Recently, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph ran a humorous piece on unconvincing tech moments from some top movies. Let’s see what they are all about.
Telegraph writer Tom Chivers’ first example from the end-of-the-world movie Independence Day, in which a character comes up with a virus capable of destroying Windows, the computer system the alien(外星人) spacecraft uses. “It's a good thing they didn't have Norton antivirus,” jokes Chivers.
It's just one case of a movie that takes a lot of license with its science. Another one Chivers mentions is from Star Wars, where glowing beams of light raveling through space look very impressive. The problem is that in space there are no air particles(颗粒) for the light to reflect off. In reality, they'd not be seen, which wouldn’t look so cool on the big screen.
Chivers’ second piece of Star Wars nonsense is the sound the fighters make in the movies: “the bellow(咆哮) of an elephant mixed with a car driving on a wet road”. But sound needs a medium to travel through, like air. In space, there wouldn’t actually be any sound at all.
Few people would deny that the mind-bending Matrix films make for great viewing, but for Chivers, the science in the movies is a little silly.
And finally, as Chivers points out, DNA is not replaceable. But this bit of elementary genetics passed the makers of the 2002 Bond film Die another Day by. In the film the villain(坏人) has “gene therapy” to change his appearance and his DNA, which is completely impossible.
1.What does the text mainly deal with?
A. Plots of some famous movies B. Characters in space movies
C. Popularity of space movies D. Mistakes made in some movies
2.From the first two paragraphs we can know that some movie makers .
A. went against general knowledge of science
B. didn’t pay attention to the viewers’ real demand
C. overestimated viewers’ appreciation of movies
D. didn’t try their best to improve the quality of the movies
3.What does the underlines word “they” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. The newspapers
B. Unconvincing tech moments
C. Some top movies
D. Heroes in the movies
4.We can learn from Paragraph 7 that .
A. most people like Matrix films
B. the truth of matrix films remains in doubt
C. few people think Matrix films silly
D. Chivers thinks science is unacceptable
