What’s your dream job? A pilot or a dancer? Do you know about your dream job? Here are three kinds of jobs. Are they your dream jobs?

    Dancer: Dancers express ideas, stories and sounds with their bodies. Dancers work in musical shows. There is usually dancing in operas, TV programs, movies and music videos. Many dancers need to sing, act and dance at the same time. When they have no musical shows, they spend most of their time on training and the training is really hard.

    Pilot: Pilots fly airplanes and helicopters（直升飞机） to do many kinds of work. Most pilots fly people and things from one place to another. Some pilots test new planes, do police work, or help people who are in danger. It’s a dangerous job but it’s many young boys’ dream job.

    Reporter: Reporters get different information and write news or stories. The news and stories usually appear in newspapers or magazines. Some reporters appear on TV or radio. To get information, reporters often go out to meet and talk with different people. It’s a really interesting job.

（   ）1. How many kinds of jobs are mentioned in this passage?

A．1                       B．2                         C．3                         D．4

（   ）2. What do the dancers do ?

A．They work for TV stations.

B．They tell stories and make sounds.

C．They express ideas, stories and sounds with their bodies.

D．They often talk with different people.

（   ）3. When do dancers have the dancing training?

A．When they dance in operas.

B．When they have no musical shows.

C．When they have time.

D．When they express ideas.

（   ）4. Which statement is Not true?

A．Many young boys want to be pilots when they are older.

B．Many dancers need to sing, act and dance at the same time.

C．Being a pilot is a dangerous job.

D．People can’t see or listen to reporters on TV or radio.

（   ）5. From the passage we know that ________.

A．People can read only news in newspapers or magazines.

B．Being a reporter is the most dangerous.

C．For dancers, the training is really interesting.

D．Some pilots can do police work and help people who are in danger.

The year was 1932, Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small one-engine airplane. At midnight, several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather. To make things worse, her altimeter failed to work. (The altimeter shows the height of the plane above the ground.) At night, and in a storm, a pilot is in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged into the Atlantic Ocean. Just before daylight, there was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames coming from the engine. Would she be able to reach land? There was nothing to do except to keep going and to hope.

　 Amelia Earhart did reach Ireland, and for the courage she had shown, she was warmly welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she was honored by President Hoover at a special dinner in the White House. From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.

　 What was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean alone, and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes.

40. Amelia was ____________.

　A. an American　 　B. an Englishwoman　　 C. a European　　 D. living near the Atlantic

41. She ran into bad weather. Here "ran into" means ____________.

　 A. rushed into　　 　B. raced into　　　　　　　 　 C. met into　　　　　 　 D. met

42. Amelia's successful flight has proved that ______________.

　 A. women can do everything　　　

　 B. women can do things, as men have done

　 C. men and women are equal now　

　 D. women pilots are more successful than men pilots

43. The title for this passage would be ____________.

　 A. Amelia Earhart　　 　B. A Pilot　　　　 C. A Flight　　　　　　　 D. A Woman

In some countries, the most common unlucky number is thirteen. People don’t like to live in a house that is number 13. People don’t like to have parties with thirteen people. People don’t like to do important things on the thirteenth of the month. Also, when you add the Japanese unlucky numbers together---nine and four ---they make thirteen.

There aren’t many business meetings on the thirteenth of the month especially when the thirteenth is on a Friday. Friday is always unlucky. Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden (伊甸园) on a Friday. Jesus Christ died on a Friday. There were thirteen people at his last supper. In Europe, they kill criminals(罪犯) on Fridays.

For some people, unlucky numbers do the opposite things. My elder brother was born on the thirteenth. He passed his exams on the thirteenth. He married on the thirteenth. He became a pilot on the thirteenth. It was always a lucky number for him.

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。

1.What is the unlucky number in Japanese?

2.Generally speaking, how many days are there in a year on which people don’t want to hold business meetings?

3.Which of the following is NOT used to prove that Friday or thirteen is unlucky?

4.When did Europeans kill criminals?

5.Which of the following is NOT true?

补全对话

A: What are you going to be     1    ?       

B: I think I’m going to be a pilot.

A:     2    . How are you going to do that?

B:      3    .

A: When are you going to start?

B: Well,      4    . What about you? 

A:　     5    .