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| Dear Disney, Last weekend, the four members of my family spent an enjoyable holiday at the Magic Kingdom - Disneyland. And one event made our visit seem truly magical. We got to the front of the line at Space Mountain, only to find out that our little daughter Gloria couldn't take her ice-cream on the ride. We were so excited that we all forgot ice-cream was not allowed on the ride.  Gloria broke into tears and we all had no idea what to do. Then Murphy, one of the staff(员工) members, came over. She bent down and told Gloria that she would hold the ice-cream for her and give it to her when she finished the ride. Gloria said, "Promise?" Then she gave Murphy her ice-cream, and she completely enjoyed the ride. Sure enough, as we walked out the exit, there was Gloria's new friend with "her" ice-cream. Now you and I both know what happened, because we know that an ice-cream won't last twenty minutes on a summer afternoon in Florida. Murphy knew' what time we would get off the ride; she went to the nearest shop and bought a brand-new ice-cream thirty seconds before we walked out the exit. Gloria said, "Thank you," but I'm sure she thought it was the same ice-cream. We know that someone tried hard to make our visit special. Thanks so much for going above and beyond! Your fan, Carmen Rivera |
| A．helpful - | B．awful | C．frightening | D．amazing |
| A．she couldn't find her parents in the line |
| B．she was too little to take the ride |
| C．she couldn't take her ice-cream on the ride |
| D．she had to wait for twenty minutes |
| A．in the ice-cream shop | B．at the exit |
| C．in the front of the line | D．at the entrance |
| A．took Gloria to the nearest shop |
| B．asked her new friend to help Gloria |
| C．helped Gloria get off the ride |
| D．bought a new ice-cream for Gloria |
| A．Murphy | B．Disney | C．Gloria | D．Carmen |
| A．order ice-creams | B．promise to visit again |
| C．express her thanks | D．give some suggestions |
When I was a child I never said, "When I grow up, I want to be a CEO," but here I am. When I look back on my career, I realize the road to becoming a CEO isn't a straight, clear path. In fact, no two paths are the same. But whether you want to be a boss one day or not, there's a lot to learn from how leaders rise to the top of successful companies.
As this series of stories shows, the paths to becoming a CEO may be different, but the people in that position(位置) share the qualities of commitment（义务）, work ethic（道德） and a strong desire for building something new. And every CEO take risks along the way—putting your life savings on the line to start a software company or leaving a big business to be one of the first employees at a startup.
I grew up in Minnesota, and learned how to be an entrepreneur（企业家）from my father, who has run a small business for almost 30 years. I went to Georgetown University and tried a lot of business activities in college with success. And I always had a dream job pattern(模式): to walk to work, work for myself and build something for consumers(顾客).
I'm only 29, so it's been a quick ride to CEO. Out of college, I worked for AOL as a product manager, then moved to Revolution Health and ran the consumer product team. In mid-2007 I left Revolution Health and started LivingSocial with several other workmates, where I became a CEO.
Career advice: Don't figure out where you want to work, or even what industry you'd like to work at. Figure out what makes you do so. What gives you a really big rush? Answer why you like things, not what you like doing. . . and then apply it to your work life. Also, just because you're graduating, don't stop learning. Read more books than you did in college. If you do, and they're not, you're really well-positioned to succeed in whatever you do.
【小题1】What can we know from the first paragraph?
| A．The writer hasn't achieved his childhood ambition. |
| B．The writer thinks there is some easy way to become a CEO. |
| C．The writer had an ambition of becoming a CEO in his childhood. |
| D．The writer believes success stories of CEOs can be beneficial(有益的) to everybody. |
| A．try not to take risks | B．stay in the same business |
| C．have a strong sense of creativity | D．save every possible penny |
| A．He started LivingSocial when he was still a student of Georgetown University. |
| B．He used to run the consumer product team for AOL. |
| C．His business activities at college ended up in more failure than success. |
| D．His father had far-reaching influence on him. |
| A．断定 | B．弄清 | C．理解 | D．领会 |
| A．Well begun is half done. |
| B．Everything comes to him who waits. |
| C．Time and tide wait for no man. |
| D．One is never too old to learn. |
Driving a car at a high speed along a highway seems to be fun. You need only to follow the bright traffic signs beside the highways and it will take you to where you wish. But to a London taxi driver, driving is not an easy job. A taxi driver has to have not only skills but also a good knowledge of the city of London, from the smaller road to the most popular bar around. He has to be at service of all kinds of passengers at all times.
A certain London taxi driver told of his job as follows.
During the night it is quite usual for him to stop two or three times for some refreshments (提神). He said, “I never drink when I’m working --- I would lose my license.”
He usually goes home between 2 and 3 o’clock in the night. There are times he has to stay longer and try to make more runs. He said, “That’s the worst thing about working for yourself. If you don’t make any money, no one is going to give it to you.”
London taxi drivers not only “take” but also “give”. Every summer hundreds of children from London will go for a day at the sea --- by taxi! Their rides are paid by the taxi drivers, and these all go to the “London Taxi for Underprivileged Children”. At the sea, they are met by the mayor (市长), and a lunch party is also held in honor of the taxi drivers and the children. After a happy day running around the sea beaches and visiting the markets, the children go home again --- by taxi, and free of charge (支出), of course!
1.From the first paragraph, we can see that________.
A．highways are developing very fast and there are more and more taxis.
B．it is easy to get to any place of the country now
C．it is fun to travel everywhere in a car
D．the writer wants to tell us that a London taxi driver has many difficulties in his driving
2.It is not easy to be a taxi driver in London because ________.
A．he has to know all the places in the city and serve all kinds of passengers at all the time
B．there is much traffic in London and people there like traveling by taxi
C．he has to follow the bright traffic sighs
D．although he works hard he earns little money
3.The underlined phrase “Underprivileged Children” in the last paragraph is about the children ________.
A. who have little knowledge B. whose families are poor
C. who will go to sea C. who like taking a taxi
4.What is the passage about?
A．Traffic in London. B．London taxi for children
C．Taxi divers’ job in London. D．Drivers disliking taxis in London
Carmen Arace Middle School is situated in the pastoral
town of Bloomfield, Conn., but four years ago it fac
ed many of the same problems as inner-city
schools in nearby Hartford: low scores on standardized tests and dropping
enrollment（入学注册）. Then the school’s hard-driving
headmaster, Delores Bolton, persuaded her board to shake up the place by buying
a laptop computer for each student and teacher to use, in school and at home.
What’s more, the board provided wireless Internet access at school. Total cost:
$2.5 million.
Now, an hour before classes start, every seat in the library is taken by students who cannot wait for getting online. Fifth-grade teacher Jen Friday talks about different kinds of birds as students view them at a colorful website. After school, students on buses pull laptops from backpacks to get started on homework. Since the computer arrived, enrollment is up 20%. Scores on state tests are up 35%.
Indeed, school systems in rural Maine and New York City also hope to follow Arace Middle School’s example. Governor Angus King had planned using $50 million to buy a laptop for all of Maine’s 17,000 seventh-graders – and for new seventh-graders each fall.
In the same spirit, the New York City board of education voted on April 12 to create a school Internet portal（入口）, which would make money by selling ads and licensing public school students. Profits（盈利）will also provide e-mail service for the city’s 1.1 million public school students. Profits will be used to buy laptops for each of the school system’s 87,000 fourth-graders. Within nine years, all students in grades 4 and higher will have their own computers.
Back in Bloomfield, in the meantime, most of the kinks have been worked out. Some students were using their computers to visit unauthorized（非法的）websites. But teachers have the ability to keep an eye on where students have been on the Web and to stop them. “That is the worst when they disable you,” says eighth-grade honors student Jamie Bassell. The habit is rubbing off on parents. “I taught my mom to use e-mail,” says another eighth-grader, Katherine Hypolite. “And now she’s taking computer classes. I’m so proud of her!”
1.The example of Carmen Arace Middle School in the passage is used to ______.
A. show the problems schools are faced with today
B. prove that a school without high enrollment can do well
C. express the importance of computers in modern education
D. tell that laptops can help improve students’ school performance
2.According to the writer, students in New York City’s public schools will ______.
A. enjoy e-mail servi
ce
in the near future
B. make money by selling ads on websites
C. all have their own laptops within nine years
D. become more interested in their studies with laptops
3.The underlined word “kinks” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.
A. plans B. projects C. problems D. products
4.From the passage we learn that ______.
A. a school Internet portal is the key to a laptop program
B. the laptop program also has a good influence on parents
C. students slowly accept the fact their online activities controlled
D. the laptop program in public school is mainly for the eighth-graders
I know what you’re thinking: pizza? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a. m. if you want to.
I know lots of women who skip (跳过) breakfast, and they have a lot of different excuses for doing it. Some say they don’t have time. Others think they’re “saving” calories, still others just don’t like breakfast food.
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight. “Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking, R, D, who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded（装填） with vegetables, and you just eat one small piece.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating (吃得过多) later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of getting weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers — it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow.” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it…you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body get the fat-burning effects.
【小题1】The word “leftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means_______.
| A．food left after a meal | B．things left undone |
| C．meals made of vegetables | D．pizza topped with fruit |
| A．Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry. |
| B．Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast. |
| C．There are some easy ways of losing weight. |
| D．Eating vegetables helps save energy. |
| A．be careful about what you eat | B．eat calorie-controlled food |
| C．heat up food before eating it | D．eat something for breakfast |
| A．who want to lose weight | B．who go to work early |
| C．who stay up late | D．who eat before sleep |
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