单选题   For London-based Michelle Brideau, 10 years in the travel industry felt like an eternity. What started as low pay and high stress—but great perks—had evolved into low pay, high stress, no perks and lots of competition from the internet.
    Brideau was ready for a change. She considered running a mobile coffee cart for commuters in her neighbourhood, but the idea of London winters spent outside quickly nixed those plans. She decided on a career in technology. The problem: no experience.
    At some point in almost everyone's career comes the desire to change fields and try something completely different. But one of the most common stumbling blocks to making a dramatic career change is a lack of experience in the new field. Gaining that experience often means taking what can be felt like a giant step backwards in your career, whether it's by re-entering the students' world or signing on for an internship. Choices like these can be financially draining in the short term, but the long-term hope is that they will pay off before too long.
    Brideau needed to learn to code if she was going to launch a career in technology. But she'd been under the impression it would take years of schoolwork to learn what she needed in order to make the switch, she said in an email. Then she heard about the Makers Academy, a highly selective coding program in London that teaches web development. The intensive 10-week program, (it now costs £7200 and is three months long) meant Brideau was studying code whenever she 'wasn't eating or sleeping.'
    With the coding experience under her belt, Brideau spent two months looking for the right job or internship. 'I made sure to get out into the developer community as much as possible: meet ups, events, conferences, job fairs and such,' she said. 'I also went to interviews, was invited to do code exercises as part of the job application process, and I continued to study at home.'
    Eventually, through the connections she made, Brideau landed a six-month paid code-writing internship at London-based Enternships, which placed students and recent graduates in positions with starts ups and small businesses. Once her internship is over, she hopes to find a position as a junior coder. 'The hardest part was taking the leap to doing something so completely different than I have ever done previously,' said Brideau. She likened it to the move she had made from Canada to the UK. 'You keep moving forward with a lot of unanswered questions not knowing how it will all turn out until one day you find yourself at home in your new surroundings.'
单选题     Which of the following words has a similar meaning with 'nixed'(Line 3, Para.2)?______
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】语义题。根据题干中的单词nixed可以定位到文中的She considered running a mobile coffee cart for commuters in her neighbourhood, but the idea of London winters spent outside quickly nixed those plans. She decided on a career in technology,这句话的意思是她打算在自己家周围开一个移动咖啡售卖车卖给乘车上班的人,但是想到伦敦冬天那么冷还要在外卖东西,她取消了这个计划。她决定从事科技行业。很明显伦敦的冬天使她弃放了咖啡车的计划,所以nixed的意思是使停止的意思。C项符合。因此,正确答案是C。
单选题     According to the passage what prevent people from making a change in their careers?______
 
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】细节题。本题考查的是阻止人们换职业的原因。可以定位到文中的At some point in almost everyone's career comes the desire to change fields and try something completely different. But one of the most common stumbling blocks to making a dramatic career change is a lack of experience in the new field,从这里可以看出最主要的问题没有经验。B项符合文意。A、C、D项的内容文中没有直接提及。因此,正确答案是B。
单选题     Which of the following is not true about the Makers Academy?______
 
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】细节题。根据题干中的Makers Academy可以定位到文中的Then she heard about the Makers Academy, a highly selective coding program in London that teaches web development. The intensive 10-week program, (it now costs £7,200 and is three months long) meant Brideau was studying code whenever she 'wasn't eating or sleeping.”从这里可以看出这是一个高度专业的项目,位于伦敦,向学员提供集中训练。所以A、B、C项是真的。D项讲那里提供食宿是错误的,文中说除了吃饭睡觉都得学习编码,是指学习强度很大,很密集,不是讲可以在那里吃饭睡觉。因此,正确答案是D。
单选题     Why Brideau compared the change to the move from Canada to the UK?______
 
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】推断题。本题考查的是她把这个变化比作从加拿大搬到英国的原因,可以定位到文中的She likened it to the move she had made from Canada to the UK. 'You keep moving forward with a lot of unanswered questions not knowing how it will all turn out until one day you find yourself at home in your new surroundings.'从这里可以看出主要原因是二者都包含许多未解的问题和不可预料的结果。所以A项符合。B、D不是直接原因。C项在文中没有直接提及。因此,正确答案是A。
单选题     We can learn from the passage that Brideau ______.
 
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】推断题。本题考查的是对于卜丽渡女士的了解。本文主要讲述了卜丽渡女士换职业的经历,以及她是如何克服没有经验的问题,学习编码的过程,还提到她从加拿大搬到英国,从此可以看出她很勇敢,敢于尝试新事物,不怕困难。A、B、D项在文中没有直接提及,C项讲她是一位勇敢的,敢于尝试新事物的女性,符合原文。因此,正确答案是C。