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It’s every student’s dream to do well in the national college entrance examination and enter a good university. In the eyes of students and parents, a good university should have a high ranking, and the employment rate of its graduates should be high. But be careful! The employment rate they tell you might not always be true.

Recently, people created a Chinese phrase “bei jiuye”, which has become popular on the Internet almost overnight across China. The word “bei” has a grammatical use in Chinese: it has a function similar to the passive voice in English. But now people often use it to express their doubts about something. Here, the phrase “bei jiuye” has the literal meaning of “to be hired”, but people understand that it really means “to be hired without one’s knowledge” or “be hired for jobs that may not exist at all”.

The story of “bei jiuye” goes like this. Zhao Dongdong, a graduate of a university in Shanxi province, was surprised to find that he got a job from a company he never applied to, which he wasn’t even sure was a real place. On his last day of graduation ceremonies, he was surprised to come across the employment contract.

“God! At that time, I had not landed a job yet, but they gave me an employment contract! I wondered who on earth signed the contract with the company.” When Zhao made a phone call to the company to check it out, no one answered. He was not the only one in his college who was “hired” for a job that did not exist. One of his classmates signed a contract with a company called Xi’an Beilin Industrial Corporation, which could not be found on the Internet either. In the end, it turned out that the college had faked the contract to make it seem like the employment rate for new graduates was higher than that. By doing this, the college could build up a “good” reputation that could help it attract new students. “Bei jiuye” is just one of many hot “bei” words on the Internet. See some of them in “Bonus”. The use of “bei” is a satirical (讽刺的) way for the public to express its helplessness and criticize abuses of power, some people say. People also use “bei” words to bring attention to social problems, hoping they will be noticed by authorities.

Standards of students’ and parents’ good university	Having a high  1
Having a high graduate employment  2
3  of the phrase “ bei jiuye”	To be hired  4
To be hired with no knowledge or for no  5  jobs
6  of the appearance of the phrase “ Bei jiuye”	Seemingly to  7  employment rate for new graduates
To form a good  8
9  to the hot phrase “Bei jiuye”on the Internet	A way of expressing helplessness and  10  power abuses A way of paying attention to social problems and being noticed by authorities

 

Ever since I was little, my favorite season was winter. I loved to play in the snow and enjoy the hot chocolate.

____36_____, winter never gave me the special gift of snow on my birthday. I would ask my grandmother ____37____ it didn’t snow on my birthday. She would laugh and tell me I asked too many questions. ___38____one day, she promised that she would make it snow on my next birthday.

That year, ____39____ my birthday, my grandmother died.  I was sad but angry because she had promised to make it snow. The day of my sixth birthday, I woke up and ran to the window, hoping to see just one snowflake. But there was no snow. I felt mad at my grandmother. She had broken a promise.

But my sixteenth birthday, I had lost all hope of getting my snow, even though I still wished for ___40____. During my party, I stayed with my friends and family and was truly happy. I ___41___ the best time ever! Then I saw the white snow ____42___down all around. I was so excited that I ran around screaming and laughing. My friends all laughed ____43___me, but I didn’t care.

When I ___44____home, my grandpa said he had a gift for me. I was ___45___ because he had given me a gift. It was a small white box, which looked old. I opened it. There was a crystal snowflake(水晶雪花) with a card that said, “Happy Birthday.”

How could this be? My grandpa said it was my grandmother’s final ___46____ on my “sweet sixteenth”. I cried.

I was ___47_____ that my smiling grandmother angel was and had been watching over me.

1.                A．Certainly        B．Unfortunately    C．Importantly    D．Luckily

 

2.                A．when          B．how           C．whether  D．why

 

3.                A．But            B．Or             C．Then D．So

 

4.                A．on            B．after           C．before   D．in

 

5.                A．it             B．her            C．him  D．me

 

6.                A．had            B．was            C．played   D．feared

 

7.                A．fell            B．to fall          C．fallen D．falling

 

8.                A．with           B．at             C．from D．off

 

9.                A．arrived at       B．remained       C．got  D．entered

 

10.               A．excited         B．confused       C．pleased   D．frustrated

 

11.               A．order          B．mistake         C．wish  D．decision

 

12.               A．certain         B．angry          C．sad   D．anxious

 

 

______ in March,  that so many people had on their light wears.

   A. So hot became the weather     B. So became the hot weather

   C. The hot weather became so     D. So hot did the weather become

 

—How much do you know about the 3D film technology?

—A little. Not until _______the hot movie Avatar _______ some about it.

A. did I see; did I begin to learn      B. I saw; I began to learn

C. I saw; did I begin to learn          D. did I see; I began to learn

 

No one knows yet the accurate number of lives which have been lost in this terrible fire .But reports suggest that it is more than one hundred .

A wall of flames fifty feet high and at least one hundred and fifty miles wide is now racing towards the forests and rich farmlands of southern Victoria . Towns less than one hundred miles from Melbourne will be in danger unless the wind changes . People are rushing excitedly into the streets . The police have warned them not to see the fire but many people are doing so .

The cause of the fire is unknown . No rain has fallen in this part of Australia for three months , and the hot , north-west wind from the great central desert is blowing at more than thirty miles an hour .

The firefighters are travelling to the fire by road , rail and air . But it is not easy to get there . Flames and fallen trees have cut off or blocked roads and railway lines . The thick smoke often prevents them from finding the air strips (飞机跑道).

It is said that the fire has brought the greater danger to the country since the Second World War .

1.By the time the article was written , the fire        .

    A．had just broken out      B．had been put out

    C．was spreading violently D．was coming to an end

2.The writer wrote this article mainly to tell people        .

    A．the fire was terrible and dangerous

    B．it was impossible to put out the fire

    C．more than one hundred people died of the fire

    D．to join in the fight against the fire

3.In the 4th paragraph , the writer suggested that        .

    A．the fire would soon be controlled by the firefighters

    B．it would be very difficult to put out the fire

    C．the government was paying great attention to the fire

    D．the fire had caused great losses and the airport was in ganger

4.The underlined word “ accurate” in the first sentence has the same meaning as        .

    A．recent   B．whole    C．rough         D．exact