阅读理解Passage 3 My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room

阅读理解The challenges faced by all child protection caseworkers are obvious (1) is often not so obvious are the many rewards a caseworker career (2) People often ask (3) anybody in their right mind would want to be a child protection caseworker, habitually dealing (4) the most disadvantaged and troubled families in their community. Caseworkers routinely (5) disturbing cases of child abuse and neglect, and clients who are not cooperative. Being a caseworker means being an agent of positive change, (6) when the welfare sector is not just a job to you, (7) a professional vocation. Child protection is a difficult and (8) career path to follow, but the rewards do exist. Many of our caseworkers choose this career path out of a desire to (9) to the community. To be part of a process can (10) change a familys life, and caseworkers may (11) their intervention equip a young person so that his or her future (12) are improved. Of course, this does not (13) with every intervention. But when it happens, it is a(n) (14) experience. And if you are wondering whether this experience makes the job worthwhile, the answer is YES! A good indicator of how outside people (15) the caseworker career has been the feedback from university students. In 2006 there were 118 students on placements (实习) of caseworker career. Those students who completed their placements in child protection told us about the great (16) they have had to (17) theory to practice; the many chances of learning new skills and trying new tasks; the sound knowledge (18) through training; and how (19) becoming familiar with different welfare services was (20) their future career.

阅读理解Text 2 Chicagos Childrens Hospital is the lucky receiver of a surprise $18 million gift from Gladys Holm

阅读理解The word"moola"(line 4，Para 4)most probably means___________

阅读理解Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage

阅读理解Read the following passages carefully and choose one bestanswer for each question in Passage 1 2and 3, and answerthe questions in passage 4 based on your understanding ofthe passage.(2)“They treat us like mules. ” the guy installing my washertells me, his eyes narrowing as he wipes his hands, I hadjust complimented him and his partner on the speed andassurance of their work. He explains that it’ s rare thatcustomers speak to him this way. I know what he’ s talkingabout. My mother was a waitress all her life, in coffeeshops and fast-paced chain restaurants. It was hard work,but she liked it, liked “being among the public, ” as shewould say. But that work had its sting too the customerwho would treat her like a servant or, her biggestcomplaint, like she was not that bright.There’s a lesson here for this political season: thesubtle and not-so-subtle insults that blue-collar andservice workers endure as part of their working lives. Andthose insults often have to do with intelligence.We like to think of the United States as a classlesssociety. The belief in economic mobility is central to theAmerican Dream, and we pride ourselves on our spirit ofegalitarianism. But we also have a troubling streak ofaristocratic bias in our national temperament, and one wayit manifests itself is in the assumptions we make aboutpeople who work with their hands. Working people sensethis bias and react to it when they vote. The commonpolitical wisdom is that hot-button social issues havedriven blue-collar voters rightward. But there are othercultural dynamics at play as well. And Democrats can be asoblivious to these dynamics as Republicans-though theGrand Old Party did appeal to them in St. Paul.Let’ s go back to those two men installing my washer anddryer They do a lot of heavy lifting quickly mine was thefirst of 15 deliveries and efficiently, to avoid injury.Between them there is ongoing communication, verbal antinonverbal, to coordinate the lift, negotiate the tightfit, move in rhythm with each other. And all the while,they are weighing options, making decisions and solvingproblems as when my new dryer didn’ t match up with thegas outlet.Think about what a good waitress has to do in the busyrestaurant: remember orders and monitor them, attend to adynamic, quickly changing environment, prioritize tasksand manage the flow of work, make decisions on the flyThere’s the carpenter using a number of mathematicalconcepts symmetry, proportion. congruence, the propertiesof angles and visualizing these concepts while building acabinet, a flight of stairs, or a pitched roof.The hairstylist’s practice is a mix of technique,“knowledge about the biology of hair. aesthetic judgmentand communication skill. The mechanic, electrician, andplumber are troubleshooters and problem solvers Even theroutinized factory floor calls for working smarts When hasany of this made its way into our political speeches? Fromeither pasty. Even on Labor Day.Last week, the CDP masterfully invoked some old culturalsuspicions: country folk versus, city and east coastversus heartland education But these are symbolic populistgestures not the stuff of the engagement. Judgements aboutintelligence easy great weight in our society, and we havea tendency to make sweeping assessments of people’sintelligence based on the kind of work they do.Political tributes to labor over the next two months willrender the muscled arm, sleeve rolled tight againstbiceps. But few will also celebrate die thought brightbehind the eye, or offer an image that links hand andbrain. It would be fitting in a country with anegalitarian vision of itself to have a truer, richer senseof all that is involved in the wide range of work thatsurrounds and sustains us.Those politicians who can communicate that sense will tapa deep reserve of neglected feeling. And those who canhonor and use work in explaining and personalizing theirpolicies will find a welcome reception.

阅读理解Passage B One of the most important things to consider before buying any property is the location, because it is where you plan to spend a large part of your life or the rest of your life in some circumstances

阅读理解Questions 32 to 35 are based on the following passage

阅读理解Team Work in Sports ①Teams that win in team sports are often those that work well together

阅读理解Task 1Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 questions or unfinished statements (No.46 to No.50). For each question or statement there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the correct choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. Strange things happen to time when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four time zones, one hour apart. You can have days with more or fewer than twenty-four hours, and weeks with more or fewer than seven days. If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean, your ship enters a different time zone every day, As you enter each zone, the time changes one hour. Traveling west, you set  clock back; traveling east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours. If you travel by ship across the Pacific, you cross the International Date Line. By agreement, this is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change your calendar one full day, backward or forward. Traveling east, today becomes yesterday; traveling west, it is tomorrow. Strange things happen to time when you travel because _______ 

阅读理解Passage One Questions 31 and 35 are based on the following passage

阅读理解At the International Snow Sculpture Championships in Colorado on January 21, people will carve the white stuff into art. Planning begins months before the first snow falls. Teams submit applications and sketches of their sculptures in July. Then, a panel of judges chooses 14 teams for the championship. The rules are simple: Electric tools are not allowed. Teams carve snow with everything but the results are not entirely in the sculptors'' hands. "If it is extremely sunny and warm," De Wall, the competition''s director of public relations, explained. "We will erect old sails from sailboats into the air to block the sun from melting the sculptures." "If is snows," she continued, "teams have to work extra hard to scrape (刮掉) the new snow off their work." The judges look for creativity, technical skill, and overall impact on the viewer. The winner does not receive any money. "There is no cash prize because the event began with the concept of global camaraderie (情谊) ," De Wall explained. "Instead of focusing on money," she continued. "Winners revel (纵情) in the friendship, the art, and the work."

阅读理解 Our understanding of cities in anything more than casual terms usually starts with observations of their spatial form and structure at some point or cross-section in time. This is the easiest way to begin, for it is hard to assemble data on how cities change through time, and, in any case, our perceptions often betray us into thinking of spatial structures as being resilient and long lasting. Even where physical change is very rapid, this only has an impact on us when we visit such places infrequently, after years away. Most of our urban theory, whether it emanates from the social sciences or engineering is structured around the notion that spatial and social structures change slowly and are sufficiently inert for us to infer resonable explanations from cross-sectional studies. In recent years, these assumptions have come to be challenged and in previous editorials I have argued the need for a more temporal emphasis to theories and models, where the emphasis is no longer on equilibrium but on the intrinsic dynamics of urban change. Even these views, however, imply a conventional wisdom where the real focus of urban studies is on processes that lead to comparatively slow changes in urban organization, where the functions determining such change are very largely routine, accomplished over months or years, rather than any lesser cycle of time. There is a tacit assumption that longer term change subsumes routine change on a day-to-day or hour-by-hour basis, which is seen as simply supporting the fixed spatial infrastructures that we perceive cities to be built around. Transportation modeling, for example, is fashioned from this standpoint in that routine trip-making behavior is the focus of study, its explanation being central to the notion that spatial structures are inert and long lasting.

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. For each of them there are four choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 2It is easy to miss amid the day-to-day headlines of global economic recession, but there is a less conspicuous kind of social upheaval underway that is fast altering both the face of the planet and the way human beings live. That change is the rapid acceleration of urbanization. In 2008, for the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population was living in towns and cities. And as a recently published paper shows, the process of urbanization will only accelerate in the decades to come—with an enormous impact on biodiversity and potentially on climate change.As Karen Seto, the led author of the paper, points out, the wave of urbanization isn’t just about the migration of people into urban environments, but about the environments themselves becoming bigger to accommodate all those people. The rapid expansion of urban areas will have a huge impact on biodiversity hotspots and on carbon emissions in those urban areas.Humans are the ultimate invasive species—when they move into new territory, they often displace the wildlife that was already living there. And as land is cleared for those new cities—especially in the dense tropical forests—carbon will be released into the atmosphere as well. It’s true that as people in developing nations move from the countryside to the city, the shift may reduce the pressure on land, which could in turn be good for the environment. This is especially so in desperately poor countries, where residents in the countryside slash and burn forests each growing season to clear space for farming. But the real difference is that in developing nations, the move from rural areas to cities often leads to an accompanying increase in income—and that increase leads to an increase in the consumption of food and energy, which in turn causes a rise in carbon emissions. Getting enough to eat and enjoying the safety and comfort of living fully on the grid is certainly a good thing—but it does carry an environmental price.The urbanization wave can’t be stopped—and it shouldn’t be. But Seto’s paper does underscore the importance of managing that transition. If we do it the right way, we can reduce urbanization’s impact on the environment. “There’s an enormous opportunity here, and a lot of pressure and responsibility to think about how we urbanize,” says Seto. “One thing that’s clear is that we can’t build cities the way we have over the last couple of hundred years. The scale of this transition won’t allow that.” We’re headed towards an urban planet no matter what, but whether it becomes heaven or hell is up to us.

阅读理解 Cyberspace, data superhighways, multi media—for those who have seen the future, the linking of computers, television and telephones will change our lives forever. Yet for all the talk of a forthcoming technological utopia, little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor. As with all new high technology, while the West concerns itself with the 'how', the question of 'for whom' is put aside once again. Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communications revolution has affected the world economy. Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transnational corporations take full advantage of it. Terms of trade, exchange and interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods. The electronic economy made possible by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets—with destructive impact on the have-nots. For them the result is instability. Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine. As 'futures' are traded on computer screens, developing countries simply have less and less control of their destinies. So what are the options for regaining control? One alternative is for developing countries to buy in the latest computers and telecommunications themselves—so called 'development communications' modernization. Yet this leads to long-term dependency and perhaps permanent constraints on developing countries' economies. Communications technology is generally exported from the U.S., Europe or Japan; the patents, skills and ability to manufacture remain in the hands of a few industrialized countries. It is also expensive, and imported products and services must therefore be bought on credit—credit usually provided by the very countries whose companies stand to gain. Furthermore, when new technology is introduced there is often too low a level of expertise to exploit it for native development. This means that while local elites, foreign communities and subsidiaries of transnational corporations may benefit, those whose lives depend on access to the information are denied it.

阅读理解Questions 31-33 IN APRIL Kumon, a Japanese firm opened a tuition centre in Small Heath, a poor district of Birmingham

阅读理解Text 3 Clothes play a critical part in the conclusions we reach by providing clues to who people are, who they are not, and who they would like to be

阅读理解Passage 3school diploma or a college degree. Many adults are not interested in going to college. They are interested in other kinds of learning. For them, learning does not end with a diploma、 their own field or to learn about a new field. It also gives them a chance to improve their old skills or to learn new ones. Scientists, mechanics and barbers can take classes to improve their work skills. If they know more or learn more, they can get a better job or earn more money. Continuing education classes give more adults the chances to learn new skills. There is usually a large variety of classes to choose from: typing, foreign cooking, photography, auto repair, furniture repair, or swimming. These are only some of the classes available.Some adults take classes for fun or because the class will be useful for them. Other adults take continuing education classes to improve their own lives because they want to feel better about themselves. Almost any community college or public school system has a continuing education program. There are classes in schools, community buildings or churches. Most classes are in the evening, so working people can attend The classes are usually small, and they are inexpensive. The new idea about education in the U.S. is that__________. 

阅读理解Why are you advised to consult a website and take its test?.

阅读理解Sandy ________ be out of hermind to have spent that much money on an old car