chocolate consultant, you can still work with chocolate as a pastry chef.
LEGO __55__
Who hasn’t at some point in their life sat down in front of a box of Lego and __56__ building (or helping someone else to build) a fantastic creation in multi-coloured blocks? For some people this becomes more than just something you did as a kid. Lego has a number of __57__ who work with the company to create sets and build models for them. They work against fairly tight budgets and thematic restrictions, and are based in Legoland Discovery Centres around the world. However, competition for the jobs is __58__, with estimates varying as to exactly how many there are in the world—from 9 to 30. The latest one to get a job was 23-year-old Andrew Johnson, and then competed in a tough three-round build-off, __59__ 45 other competitors. If you love childhood toys but don’t fancy building them, why not consider working in a toy shop?
Shark tank cleaner
Window cleaning is probably not the most fun of professions. However, add in the requirement to share your job with a lot of sharks while simultaneously (同时地)__60__ by a crowd of people, all of whom are no doubt secretly hoping at least one of the sharks is feeling a little hungry, and suddenly the __61__ levels rise up a level or two. However, if you want to work with fish, perhaps the job would be a good choice.
Professional sleeper
__62__ you’re addicted to your alarm o’clock or spend all day at your desk yawning and drinking cups of coffee to stay awake, then maybe you should consider turning your comments into a profitable career. Believe it or not, you can actually get paid to wear the pajamas. __63__, these professional sleepers participate in a lot of university studies on sleep or dreams, etc. to decide whetherthe beds are comfortable or not. In 2009 during an art show at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, women were paid to sleep as part of a ―living art‖ exhibition, so you never know __64__ you could be asked to rest your head next. If you enjoy your sleep, you probably want to __65__ jobs that lead to sleep withdrawal.
51. A. greatest B. blind C. smallest D. intense 52. A. worried B. curious C. scared D. passionate 53. A. lost B. frustrated C. enthusiastic D. inferior 54. A. particular B. biggest C. sweet D. bitter 55. A. examiner B. seller C. competitor D. builder 56. A. taken up B. set about C. given off D. got in 57. A. professionals B.bosses C. purchasers D. competitors 58. A. fierce B. open C. fair D. international 59. A. cooperating with B. beating C. discussing with D. encouraging 60. A. warned B. helped C. watched D. admired 61. A. difficulty B. interest C. income D. profit 62. A. Although B. Because C. If D. Unless 63. A. Rarely B. Contrarily C. Consequently D. Typically 64. A. why B. how long C. where D. how often 65. A. avoid B. accept C. create D. offer Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose
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the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
We are all attracted by magicians, who seem to be able to perform impossible acts, such as pulling white rabbits out of hats and cutting a woman in half. Like all performances, though, a magician’s real secret is in practicing thoroughly before showing anyone their tricks.
Magic Matchsticks
You will need
? several matchsticks
? a handkerchief with hems(折缝)along the edges
What to do
1. Show the audience a matchstick.
2. Take a clean cotton handkerchief from your pocket, and shake it out, showing both sides to prove you are not hiding anything.
3. Wrap the matchstick in the handkerchief.
4. Ask one of the audience members to feel the matchstick inside the handkerchief, and break it. 5. Shake the handkerchief, allowing the unbroken matchstick to fall onto the floor!
The secret
Before you begin the performance, slip a matchstick into the hemof the handkerchief. When you ask someone to break the wrapped-up matchstick, make sure that they break the one hidden in the hem (when they feel it, they will think it is the one they saw you wrap into the handkerchief).
It’s a good idea to have two or three handkerchiefs with matchsticks already secretly in the hems, as your audience is sure to be shocked and ask you to do the trick again. But don’t let them realise that you are changing handkerchiefs, or they may become suspicious!
66. If a magician wants to succeed on the stage, he or she must __________. A. practice the magic completely B. have some magical matchsticks C. recite the process thoroughly D. keep the secret unknown forever
67. Which of the following pictures shows the step 3?
A B C D
68. One of the secrets of ―Magic matchsticks‖ is to __________. A. make the hidden matchstick broken in the hem
B. keep audience from being suspicious during the magic C. invite one of the audience to break the matchstick
D. confuse the two different matchsticks in the handkerchief
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(B)
A visit to the village of Kitaisa, Uganda
There are not many visitors to Kitaisa, and not much that would bring them there unless they know someone living there. Most of the villagers live a distance from the main road and where they live are paths that are difficult to travel, especially during the rainy seasons.
There are a few shops selling oil, sugar, tea, flour, candles. There is no petrol station, but one will find a school and a small government hospital. But there are no doctors, just a few nurses and medically trained staff.
It is still early and most people are outside cooking their meals over firewood. Children in uniform and without shoes are going to school, making their way through muddy paths from the night’s rain.
You can see some adults picking beans, or cultivating the ground around corn plants. Some children are carrying water from the nearby river. People are sitting outside having breakfast. Children will have porridge, the family will eat leftover posho, or plantain bananas called matoke. Meat is not often eaten, protein comes mostly from beans.
Here life is tough, there is simply a lack of everything. Some chickens are running around and I am told that they are basically for eggs, though one was caught and given to me for later. Life here is very simple. There is no library here, no newspapers. There was a little restaurant with some outside chairs, a beauty shop, and about eight places where food and other supplies were sold.
People in villages don’t live long for the most part, since there is no infrastructure here. There are no ambulances, and if you do get sick there is no money to pay for treatment. The nearest hospital is 15 kilometres away in Busunju, but even that larger town lacks facilities, though a medical clinic is there with a doctor, unlike the small facility in Kitaisa which has few things.
Other obvious problems are with water and sanitation. Water taken from creeks should be boiled and treated. It is not and because it has to be carried from a distance it is used sparingly. Children become ill with diseases that could be prevented through the use of soap and water.
There are no jobs in the village, except cultivating your garden. You can try selling food along the road, but there is no way to make money. You learn to live on little and to make every shilling count. Some support comes from relatives and if you visit someone in the village, you bring those things that they do not have and when you leave you leave them some cash.
Village people in Uganda are friendly and hospitable. They are kind and show their graceful ways to outsiders. Kids hover, adults greet you like they have known you forever.
69. What is the most likely reason for people to Kitaisa?
A. To visit some relatives or friends. B. To enjoy the beautiful scenery. C. To know more about Uganda.
D. To help people away from diseases.
70. Whichof the following words can NOT be used to describe the life in Kitaisa?
A. Hard. B. Peaceful. C.Boring . D. Ideal. 71. The word ―infrastructure‖ (paragraph6) is closest in meaning to ―_____‖.
A.enough nutrition B. systemic transportation
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C. basic services D. high-quality education
72. Thepassage mainly talks about the author’s __________.
A. expectation of the under-developing village B.experience and feelings of the visit to the village C. suggestions on the development of the village D. description of the beautiful scenery of the village
(C)
There was a time when we thoughthumans were special in so many ways. Now we know better. We are not the only species that feels emotions, or follows a moral code. Neither are we the only ones with personalities, cultures and the ability to design and use tools. Yet we all agree that one thing, at least, makes us unique: we alone have the abilityof language.
It turns out that we are not so special in this aspect either. Key to the revolutionary reassessment of our talent for communication is the way we think about language itself. Where once it was seen as an unusual object, today scientists find it is more productive to think of language as a group of abilities. Viewed this way, it becomes apparent that the component parts of language are not as unique as the whole.
Take gesture, arguably the starting point for language. Until recently, it was considered uniquely human—but not any more. Mike Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and others have collected a list of gestures observed in monkeys and some other animals, which reveals that gestures play a large role in their communication. Ape (猿) gestures can involve touch, vocalising or eye movement, and individuals wait until they have another ape’s attention before making visual or auditory gestures. If their gestures go unacknowledged, they will often repeat them.
In an experiment carried out in 2006 by Erica Cartmill and Richard Byrne from the University of St Andrews in the UK, they got a person to sit on a chair with some highly desirable food such as banana to one side of apes and some undesirable food such as vegetablesto the other. The apes, who could see the person and the food from their enclosures, gestured at their human partners to encourage them to push the desirable food their way. If the person showed incomprehension and offered the vegetables, the animals would change their gestures—just as humans would in a similar situation. If the human seemed to understand while being somewhat confused, giving only half the preferred food, the apes would repeat and exaggerate their gestures—again in exactly the same way a human would.Such findings highlight the fact that the gestures of the animals are not merely inborn but are learned, flexible and under voluntary control—all characteristics that are considered preconditions for human-like communication. 73. Compared with all the other animals, we agree that humans alone __________.
A. own the ability to show their personalities B. are capable of using language to communicate C. have moral standards and follow them in society
D. are intelligent enough to release and control emotions
74. According to the passage, humans are not so special in language ability because language __________.
A. involves some abilitiesthat can bemastered by animals B. is a talentimpossibly owned by other animals
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