Nowadays(如今) everyone has a practical goal for life. Do you have one? What’s it? Do you want to become a writer, singer or just become a rich person?

 A recent survey shows that in modern society, most people pick up practical goals, such as “earning money to buy a house and a car” , “to improve one’s life quality, “finding a good job”.

 Wang You worked in a small firm (商行) in Nanjing. The job was good and he didn’t have to work for extra hours. However he felt the work was not exciting at all and the life was boring. ① So he          ______   _______his job and went to Beijing in February, 2007. When he arrived in Beijing, he set his new goal as finding a good job.

 Nowadays more and more people want to live a better life. This fact shows that the society is making progress and people’s life goals have become more practical. One researcher says, “Everybody has his/her own life goal, which will be surely different from people to people. If one is poor, one’s life goal will be to earn more money; if one doesn’t have a diploma(文凭), studying hard to get a diploma will become his life goal; and if one doesn’t have love, his life goal will be to look for it. ②But if one has no life goal, he will idle away(虚度) his lifetime.”

1.回答下列问题：Why did Wang You go to Beijing though he had a good job in Nanjing?

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2.在①的空白处填入适当的单词使句意完整、上下文通顺：__________          

3.将②处翻译成汉语_________________________________________________________

4.找出文中与下列句子意思相近的句子：

He needn’t work in his spare time because of his good job.

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5.找出或写出文中最能表达短文主题的句子

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Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do   1 . Because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big problem.
Joy is 14 years old. One day her parents went away   2  business, so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be happy   3  her parents were not in. She could do everything   4  she liked. But it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt  5 . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she   6  know how to cook. At that moment, she missed her   7  very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and   8  some food to eat.
Many of teenagers are   9  as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves   10 . They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.

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If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others? Nowadays, more and more young people in America volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. Here are some of their plans.

1.Young people in the USA volunteer to spend ____ helping others.

2. What does Jim plan to do in summer?

3. From the passage, we know that Susan ____.

4.____ wants to be a teacher.

5.Which is the most possible title for this passage?

Nowadays more and more Chinese teenagers find life more difficult without their parents. They don’t know how to do 1.h        because their parents do almost everything for them at home. This is a big 2.p       .

Joy is 14 years old. Last month her parents went aboard on 3.b       , so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be 4.h        when her parents were not in. She could do everything that she liked. 5.B        when it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt 6.h       . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. 7.L        she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know how to cook. At that moment, she 8.m        her parents very much. At last she could only go to the supermarket and bought some food to9.e       .

Many teenagers are the same as Joy. So I think they should 10.l        some life skills, like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.

某学校提出“走路去上学”的倡议，请你就这一话题写一篇100词左右的英语发言稿。内容包括：

要求：100词左右，开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Boys and girls,

Nowadays more and more parents drive their children to school….