甘肃省兰州第一中学2015届高三上学期期中考试英语试题
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Do you want to get home from work knowing you have made a real difference in someone?s life? If yes, don?t care about sex or age! Come and join us, then you?ll make it! Position: Volunteer Social Care Assistant (No Pay with Free Meals) Place: Manchester Hours: Part Time
We are now looking for volunteers to support people with learning disabilities to live active lives! Only 4 days left. Don?t miss the chance of lending your warm hands to help others!
Role:
You will provide people with learning disabilities with all aspects of their daily lives. You will help them to develop new skills. You will help them to protect their rights and their safety. But your primary concern is to let them know they are valued.
Skills and Experience Required:
You will have the right values and great listening skills. You will be honest and patient. You will have the ability to drive a car and to communicate in fluent written and spoken English since you?ll have to help those people with different learning disabilities. Previous care-related experience will be a great advantage for you. 1. The text is meant to ________. A. leave a note
B. send an invitation C. carry an advertisement D. present a document
2. What does the underlined part mean?
A. You?ll arrive home just in time from this job.
B. You?ll make others? lives more meaningful with this job. C. You?ll earn a good salary from this job. D. You?ll succeed in getting this job.
3. The volunteers? primary responsibility is to help people with learning disabilities ________. A. to get some financial support B. to properly protect themselves C. to realize their own importance D. to learn some new living skills
4. Which of the following can first be chosen as a volunteer? A. The one who has done similar work before. B. The one who can drive a car.
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C. The one who has patience to listen to others. D. The one who can use English to communicate.
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Wealth starts with a goal saving a dollar at a time. Call it the piggy bank strategy(策略). There are lessons in that time-honored coin-saving container.
Any huge task seems easier when reduced to baby steps. I f you wished to climb a 12,000-foot mountain, and could do it a day at a time, you would only have to climb 33 feet daily to reach the top in a year. If you want to take a really nice trip in 10 years for a special occasion, to collect the $15,000 cost, you have to save $3.93 a day. If you drop that into a piggy bank and then once a year put $1,434 in a savings account at 1% interest rate after-tax, you will have your trip money.
When I was a child, my parents gave me a piggy bank to teach me that, if I wanted something, I should save money to buy it. We associate piggy banks with children, but in many countries, the little containers are also popular with adults. Europeans see a piggy bank as a sign of good fortune and wealth. Around the world, many believe a gift of a piggy bank on New Year?s Day brings good luck and financial success. Ah, but you have to put something in it.
Why is a pig used as a symbol of saving? Why not an elephant bank, which is bigger and holds more coins? In the Middle Ages, before modern banking and credit instruments, people saved money at home, a few coins at a time dropped into a jar or dish. Potters(制陶工) made these inexpensive containers from an orange-colored clay(黏土) called “pygg,” and folks saved coins in pygg jars.The Middle English word for pig was “pigge”. While the Saxons pronounced pygg, referring to the clay, as “pug”, eventually the two words changed into the same pronunciation, sounding the “i” as in pig or piggy. As the word became less associated with the orange clay and more with the animal, a clever potter fashioned a pygg jar in the shape of a pig, delighting children and adults. The piggy bank was born.
Originally you had to break the bank to get to the money, bringing in a sense of seriousness into savings. While piggy banks teach children the wisdom of saving, adults often need to relearn childhood lessons. Think about the things in life that require large amounts of money--- college education, weddings, cars, medical care, starting a business, buying a home, and fun stuff like great trips. So when you have money, take off the top 10%, put it aside, save and invest wisely. 5. What is the piggy bank strategy?
A. Paying 1% income tax at a time.
B. Setting a goal before making a travel plan.
C. Putting aside a little money regularly for future use. D. Aiming high even when doing small things.
6. Why did the writer?s parents give him a piggy bank as a gift?
A. To delight him with the latest fashion. B. To encourage him to climb mountains. C. To teach him English pronunciation. D. To help him form the habit of saving. 7. The piggy bank originally was ________.
A. a cheap clay container B. a potter?s instrument C. an animal-shaped dish D. a pig-like toy for children 8. The last paragraph talks about ________.
A. the seriousness of educating children B. the enjoyment of taking a great trip C. the difficulty of starting a business D. the importance of managing money
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The behaviour of a building?s users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放）by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zero-carbon by
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