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ATake Action for a Better World: Volunteers Needed Six months’ preparation in Denmark: Africa studies, team work combined with social work with risk group teenagers. Six months’ community work in Malawi in People to People Projects: Child Aid, HIV / AIDS. Fights and Teacher Training. Qualifications: 18 years, hard working and social engagement. Please contact us by e-mail: takeaction@ betterworld.com.Part-time work with Exchange Students YOUTH International is a non-profit high school foreign exchange students organization. We welcome teenagers from over 80 countries worldwide and provide host families. The community Representative(社区代表) is a part-time position designed for people with a strong desire to do something rewarding in the community and earn some extra money.7Applicants best suited for this work should enjoy teenagers, have a strong interest in cross-cultural communication and feel comfortable networking. Full training and support will be provided through branch offices throughout the US. Positions available in most states. If interested, please email staff@ youth. org or call 888—123—9872.International Summer Job Hi, I’m an ESL student in China. I’m 20, quiet and polite, and I speak reasonable English. I’m looking for a summer job in an English-speaking country. I can teach Chinese or do house and garden work and cook Chinese dishes. Can anybody offer me a job? I don’t need to earn much, just enough in two months ( July --- August) to pay for my return ticket to China. My goal is to improve my English and see a bit more of the world. My email is: ram3462@ hotmail.com.Call for Native Speaker of English I am looking for native speakers of English to join in an experiment. This experiment is carried out over the Internet. You don’t need any specific knowledge other than understanding and speaking English at a native level. The first task will take you around 15 minutes. After this task, you can decide whether you want to continue the experiment. The tasks involve reading texts and designing questions and answers. If you are willing to help me, then please email us: club3864@ hotmail.com56. Who is suitable to work as a Community Representative in YOUTH International? A. One who enjoys working with teenagers from different countries. B. One who hopes to take action in fighting against diseases. C. One who has a strong desire to improve his or her English. D. One who wants to earn some pocket money in the program. 57. Where will Jack, a volunteer, receive the training before he is sent to work in Malawi? A. In some local offices in the US. C. In a preparation program in Demark. in Africa. 58. If Mrs. Black in the US hopes to learn some Chinese at home, she may contact8B. In an ESL organization in China. D. In an exchange student center_______. A. takeaction@betterworld.com C. club3864@hotmail.com B. ram3462@hotmail.com D. staff@youth.org59. What are volunteers for an experiment over the Internet supposed to do? A. To interview people online. C. To offer advice on Child Aid B. To do some house work. D. To provide language exercises.B In times of economic crisis, Americans turn to their families for support. We may see fewer couples broke up during the Great Depression. But this won't necessarily represent an increase in happy marriages. In the long run, the Depression weakened American families, and the current crisis will probably do the same. We tend to think of the Depression as a time when families stayed together to survive huge job losses. By 1932, when nearly one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, the divorce rate had declined by around 25% from 1929. But this doesn't mean people were suddenly happier with their marriages. Rather, with incomes decreasing and insecure jobs, unhappy couples often couldn't afford to divorce. They feared neither of them could manage alone. Today, considering the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate families. After financial disasters family members also tend to do whatever they can to help each other and their communities. A 1940 book, TheUnemployed Man and His Family, described a family in which the husband initiallyreacted to losing his job “with tireless search for work.” He was always active, looking for part-time jobs to do. For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together. The divorce rate rose again during the rest of the decade as the recovery took hold. Millions of American families may now be in the initial stage of their responses to the current crisis, working together and supporting one another through the early months of unemployment. Today's economic crisis could well lead to a similar number of couples whose9relationships have been irreparably （不能挽回的） ruined. So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created. 60. The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be best replaced with __________. A. breaking down B. breaking up C. breaking out D. breaking away61. In the initial stage, the current economic crisis is likely to __________. A. cause many troubled families to separate family ties C. cause a lot of conflicts in the family divorce rate 62. In the Great Depression many unhappy couples chose to stay together because __________. A. starting a new family would be hard better C. living separately would be too costly their kids 63. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. The economic recovery will see a higher divorce rate B. Few couples can stand the test of economic hardships C. A stable family is the best protection against poverty. D. Money is the foundation of many a happy marriage D. they wanted to better protect B. they expected things would turn D. bring about a drop in the B. contribute to strongerC Today, we complete our story about the influential English writer William Shakespeare. He wrote plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which remain very popular today. During earlier times, people would probably have learned several ancient Roman and Greek plays. It was not unusual for writers to produce more current versions of these works. For example, in Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient Roman writer Plautus. For his play Macbeth,10Shakespeare most likely used a work on Scottish history by Raphael Holinshed for information. Shakespeare might have borrowed from other writers, but the intensity （强度）of his imagination and language made the plays his own. While many plays by other writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art live on. Shakespeare was also influenced by the world around him. He described the sights and sounds of London in his plays. His works include observations about political struggles, the fear of diseases, and the popular language of the city’s tradesmen. Shakespeare's knowledge of the English countryside is also clear. His works include descriptions of deep forests, local flowers, and the ancient popular traditions of rural people. It would be impossible to list all of the ways in which Shakespeare’s works have influenced the world culture. But the first and greatest example would be his great influence on the English language. During his time, the English language was changing. Many new words from other languages were being added. Shakespeare used his sharp mind and poetic inventiveness to create hundreds of new words and rework old ones. For example, he created the noun forms of“critic”, “mountaineer” and “eyeball”. Many common expressions in English come from his plays, including “pomp and circumstance （装腔作势） ” from Othello, “full circle （绕圈子地） ” from King Lear, etc. The list of cultural creations influenced by Shakespeare is almost endless. From paintings to television to music and dance, Shakespeare was well represented. Shakespeare's plays have been translated into every major language in the world. Shakespeare became a well-known writer during a golden age of theater. His years of hard work paid off. 64.What can we infer from the passage？ A. Many of Shakespeare's works were influenced by earlier writings. B. Shakespeare was hardworking when he was a student. C. The experience of living in London helped a lot with Shakespeare's works. D. Shakespeare became rich later because of the popularity of his works. 65. Shakespeare might have learnt some information from ancient Roman works in .11A. King LearB. The Comedy of Errors .C. MacbethD. Othello66. The passage is mainly aboutA. an introduction to Shakespeare’s life and his works B. the main features and styles of Shakespeare's plays C. how culture influenced Shakespeare and he influenced culture. D. Shakespeare’s greatest influence on the world culture.D Attitude is an internal（内在的）state that influences the choices of personal action made by the individual. Some researchers consider that attitudes come from differences between beliefs and ideas: others believe that attitudes come from emotional states. Here, we focus on the effects of attitudes upon behavior, that is, upon the choices of action made by the individual. The kinds of actions taken by human beings are obviously influenced greatly by attitude. Whether one listens to classical music or rock, whether one obeys the speed limit while driving, whether one encourages one's husband or wife to express his or her own ideas－all are influenced by attitudes. These internal states are acquired throughout life from situations one is faced with in the home, in the streets, and in the school. Of course, the course of action chosen by an individual in any situation will be largely determined by the particulars of that situation. An individual who has a strong attitude of obeying laws may drive too fast when he is in a hurry and no police cars in sight. A child who has a strong attitude of honesty may steal a penny when she thinks no one will notice. But the internal state which remains unchanged over a period of time, and which makes the individual behave regularly in a variety of situations, is what is meant by an attitude. Attitudes are learned in a variety of ways. They can result from single incidents, as when an attitude toward snakes is acquired by an experience in childhood at the sudden movement of a snake. They can result from the individual's experiences of success and pleasure, as when someone acquires a positive attitude toward doing12crossword puzzles by being able to complete some of them, and frequently, they are learned by copying other people's behavior, as when a child learns how to behave toward foreigners by observing the actions of his parents. Regardless of these differences, there is something in common in the learning and modification(修正) of attitudes. 67. According to the passage, attitudes __________. A. come from different situations in one's life B. are largely affected by one's behavior C. remain unchanged in one's daily life D. could be chosen according to one's will 68. The author uses the examples in Paragraph 3 to show ______. A. people often make mistakes when they are not noticed B. people with good attitudes may sometimes do bad deeds C. particulars of a situation may influence an individual's action D. an individual may change his or her attitude fairly easily 69. Which of the following is TURE about the learning of attitudes? A. Attitudes are only learned through one's success. B. Attitudes learned in danger will last longer. C. Copying others behavior is not a good idea. D. Attitudes can be learned from one's parents. 70. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Differences of Attitudes C. Choices of Attitudes. B. Nature of Attitude. D. Modification of Attitude.第 II 卷 （共 35 分） 第五部分 任务型阅读 （共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。