______ I believe , and you will find Tom is very outgoing.

A．Having a talk with the student	B．One talk with the student
C．Given a talk with the student	D．If you have a talk with the student

 

Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there’s whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job's pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas:
1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?
There are isolating (使孤立) jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.
2) How do you handle change?
Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don't happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.
3) Do you enjoy working with computers?
I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.
4) What type of work environment do you enjoy? 
This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.
5) How do you like to get paid?  
Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.
Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.
【小题1】This passage mainly talks about the importance of __________.

A．different jobs

B．personalities

C．personal skills

D．job’s pay

【小题2】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Isolating jobs usually drive people mad.

B．Interactive jobs make people shy easily.

C．Extreme people tend to work with others.

D．Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs.

【小题3】What is the missing word about a job search in the following chart?

A．Design

B．Skills

C．Cooperation

D．Hobbies

【小题4】What is the best title for this passage?

A．Lifestyles and Job Pay

B．Jobs and Environment

C．Job Skills and Abilities

D．Personalities and Jobs

It s just a small, white envelope stuck among the branches of our Christmas tree．It has been there for the past 10 years or so．It all began because my husband Mike hated Christmas—the commercial aspects of Christmas-overspending．Knowing he felt this way, I decided one year to avoid the usual presents．The idea came in an unusual way．

         Our son Kevin, who was 12 that year, was wrestling at the junior level at the school he attended; and shortly before Christmas, there was a match against a team sponsored by a church．These youngsters, dressed in ragged clothes, presenting a sharp contrast to our boys in their beautiful dresses and shoes．As the match began, I was alarmed to see that the other team was wrestling without headgear, a kind of light helmet designed to protect a wrestler's ears．It was a luxury that the poor team obviously could not afford．Well, we ended up defeating them．Mike, seated beside me, shook his head sadly, "I wish just one of them could have won," he said．"They have a lot of potential, but losing like this could take the heart right out of them．" That's when the idea for his present came．That afternoon, I went to a local sporting goods store and bought wrestling headgear and shoes for the youngsters and sent them anonymously （匿名地） to the church．On Christmas Eve? I placed the envelope on the tree, the note inside telling Mike what I had done and that this was his gift from me．His smile was the brightest thing about Christmas that year and in the following years．

         For each Christmas, I followed the tradition．The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas．It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning and our children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed expectation as their dad lifted the envelope from the tree to show its contents．As the children grew, they joined．

         May we all remember the reason for Christmas, and the true Christmas spirit this year and always．God bless梡ass this along to your friends and loved ones．

1.The author avoids usual Christmas presents because her husband _____．

         A．likes cheap Christmas presents

         B．likes expensive Christmas presents

         C．dislikes spending much on large Christmas presents

         D．dislikes spending much on unmeaningful Christmas gifts

2.The underlined word "luxury" in Paragraph 2 means "_____"．

         A．something of poor quality                       B．something abundant

         C．something strange                                    D．something expensive

3.From the passage we can infer that in character the husband is _____．

         A．modest and mature                                 B．kind and practical

         C．strong-willed and vain                          D．optimistic and outgoing

4.What is the most exciting thing for the family at Christmas?

         A．Preparing gifts．                                   B．Exchanging gifts．

         C．Opening the envelope．                              D．Writing Christmas cards．

 

阅读表达。(共5小题；每小题2分，共10分。)

[1]Compared to people with bad attitudes，people         are less likely to suffer from

colds．It’s possible that being positive helps the body fight il1nesses.

[2]In a previous study，people who tended to be cheerful and lively were least likely to

develop coughs and other cold symptoms．People who showed positive feelings were also less likely to mention symptoms to their doctors，even when medical tests detected those symptoms．

[3]Those findings were interesting，but they didn’t prove that a person’s attitude affects

whether he or she gets sick．Instead，it was still possible that a person’s underlying personality is what matters．

[4]Evidence suggests，for instance，that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing

and optimistic，with high self-esteem and a sense of control over life．This would mean that who we are，not how we feel，ultimately decides our chances of catching colds.

[5]To figure out which mattered more，personality or emotions，the researchers interviewed

193 healthy adults．The results showed that everyone in the study was equally likely to get infected．Their symptoms，however，differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the previous fortnight．

[6]Among those who reported good moods and had been infected with the flu virus，for example, 28 percent developed coughs and stuffy noses．On the other hand，those symptoms struck 41 percent of people who had been less positive．

[7]Scientists argue about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger effect on how healthy we are．For now，it can’t hurt to look on the bright side more often than not !

1.What’s the main idea of the passage?（Please answer within 10 words）

2.Fill in the blank with proper words in first paragraph.（Please answer within 10 words）

3.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

But，their symptoms were closely related to the emotions they had claimed to have in the last two weeks.

4.Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into proper Chinese．

5.Suppose one of your friends had got infected with the H1N1 flu，give him／her at least

three pieces of advice．（Please answer within 30 words）

                                                                 

                                                                 

                                                                 

 

There was a woman, about 30 years old, married with two children. She had grown up in a home where she was constantly criticized and often treated unfairly by her parents. As a result, she was negative and fearful, and had no confidence at all.
One day, she was hit by a car. When she awoke, she found herself in a hospital. She could still speak, but had no recollection of any part of her past life. She was a total amnesiac! Her husband and children visited her daily, but she did not know them.
Determined to understand what had happened to her, she began reading medical textbooks and studying in the specialized area of amnesia and memory loss. She met and discussed with specialists in this field. Eventually she wrote a paper on her condition. Not long afterward, she was invited to address a medical conference to deliver her paper, answer questions about her amnesia, and share her experiences and ideas. During this period, something amazing happened. She became a genuinely positive, confident, outgoing woman, well informed, and very much in demand as a speaker and authority in the medical profession. All memory of her negative childhood had been wiped out. She changed her thinking and changed her life.
Each person comes into the world with no thoughts or ideas at all, and everything that a person thinks and feels is learned from babyhood onward. The adult becomes the sum total of everything he or she learns, feels, and experiences while growing up.
Everyone is born with no self-concept at all. Every idea, opinion, feeling, attitude, or value you have as an adult is the result of an idea or impression you took in and accepted as true. When you believe something to be true, it becomes true for you, whatever the fact may be. You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.
【小题1】What happened to the woman after the accident?

A．She believed she was not talented.

B．She didn't love her husband any more.

C．She refused to recall her past life.

D．She was in complete memory loss.

【小题2】Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

【小题3】Which statement agrees with the last paragraph?

A．Great minds think alike.

B．Thinking is to man what water is to fish.

C．Confidence in you is the first step on the road to success.

D．You are not what you believe, but what others believe you are.