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c1eaner, cleaning offices in a bigbuilding.
She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elderchild became seriously ill. "I would have
liked to go back to it, butthe shifts(工作班次)are all wrong for me, as I have to be home toget the
children up and off to school."
So she works as a cleaner instead,from 9 am till 6 am fivenights a week for just£90 before tax and
insilrance. "It"s betterthan it was last year , but I still think that people who work " unsocialhours" should
get a bit extra."
The hours she"s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of thechildren,but very little of her husband.
However, she doesn"t thinkfhat puts any pressure on their re1ationship.
Her work isn"t physically very hard, but it"s not exactlypleasant, either."I do get angry with people who
leave their officeslike a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have todo it,perhaps they"d
be a bit more careful. "
The fact that she"s working all night doesn"t worry Margaret atail.Unlike some dark buildings at night,
the building where sheworks is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. "Since I"vegot to be here,
I try to enjoy myself-and I usually do,because of theother girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time
never drags."
Another challenge Margaret has to face is the !reaction of otherpeople when she tells them what she
does for a living.They thinkyou"re a cleaner because you don"t know how to read and write, "said
Margarit. "I used to think what my parents would say if theyknew what I"d been doing, but I don"t think
that way any more. I don"t dislike the work though I can"t say I"m mad about it."
B. she had suffered a lot of mental pressure
C. she needed the right time to look after her children
D. she felt tired of taking care of patients
B. they look down upon cleaners
C. they never do their work carefully
D. they always make a mess in their offices
B. happy because the building is fully lit
C. tired because of the heavy workload
D. bored because time passes slowly
B. regret what they had said
C. show sympathy for her
D. feel disappointed in her
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试题【阅读理解 Margaret , married with two small children , has been working for the 1】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Fa11,1959,the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin, "Who" .
I asked a senior, "is Mrs McNamara, my l0th grade English teacher?" He just__1_and said something
about my being in _2_. Soon,l understood what he meant. Mrs McNamara had a pattem of __3_that she
repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for_4_.The next day, when we came
to class, there would be two or three topics on the blackboard_5__ to the homework reading. We were
_6_ to write an in-class essay about one of the topics. The following day , she would _7_ the corrected
and graded essays andeach person would be called_8_to stand in front of the class and to _9_ his/her
essay. The class were required to criticize(评论) that essay ,__10__ the grade of everyone in class
would be reduced.
The first time that I _11 her read-write-criticize method . I had not _12_ to do the homework and had
written something without knowing what it meant._13_the extreme embarrassment I sufferred,standing
before my classmates , _14_ myself. No one laughed
at me;no one would be _15_ enough ,or foolish enough ,to do that in Mrs McNamara"s class. The
embarrassment came from_16_and along with it came a strong_17_not to let it happen again.
Mrs McNamara kept all of our written work in files;it was easy to see the_18_ in writing that had
occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place, at least for me.
What Mrs McNamara_19 me to do was to see myself as others see me and, having done that.l could
improve myself. And I_20__. Thank you,Mrs McNamara.
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For a while, my neighbourhood was taken over by an army of joggers(慢跑者 ) . They were there all the time : early mornings, noons,and evenings. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. "Come on !" My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. " You"ll feel great. " Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighbourhood jogging army,l"m not alone in my opinion. First of all ,jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet take a real pounding (重击) running down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot,leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn"t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses,jogging will surely bring them out , as they did with me. Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn" t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, " I love being out there with just my thoughts. " Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt. And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn"t just the first week : it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn"t fun. What a cruel way to do it ! So many other exercises , including walking , lead to almost the same results painlessly , so why jog? I don"t jog any more , and I don"t think I ever will. I"m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I"m getting exercise, and I"m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging,and I"ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape. | |||||||||||||||||
1. From the first paragraph, we learn that in the writer"s neighbourhood ___________. | |||||||||||||||||
A. jogging became very popular B. people jogged only during the daytime C. Alex organized an army of joggers D. jogging provided a chance to get together | |||||||||||||||||
2. The underlined word "them" ( Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _________. | |||||||||||||||||
A. heart attacks B. back problems C. famous joggers D. physical weaknesses | |||||||||||||||||
3. What was the writer"s attitude towards jogging in the beginning? | |||||||||||||||||
A. He felt it was worth a try. B. He was very fond of it. C. He was strongly against it. D. He thought it must be painful. | |||||||||||||||||
4. Why did the writer give up jogging two months later? | |||||||||||||||||
A. He disliked doing exercise outside. B. He found it neither healthy nor interesting. C. He was afraid of having a heart attack. D. He was worried about being left alone. | |||||||||||||||||
5. F"rom the writer"s experience,we can conclude that________. | |||||||||||||||||
A. not everyone enjoys jogging B. he is the only person who hates jogging C. nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit D. jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport | |||||||||||||||||
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Terry was a middle-aged leather trader whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man, often___1___that he had been cheated by others. One day he told his wife he was so___2___ with the city that he had to leave. So his family moved to another city. It was the evening of a weekend,when Terry and his wife were busily __3___ in tidying up their new home, the light suddenly ___4___. Terry was regretful to have forgotten bringing along ___5___ and had to wait __6__ in a low mood. Just then he heard light and hesitant __7__ on his door that were clear in the ___8___night. "Who" s it?" he wondered. Terry had no __9___ in the new city, and this was the moment he especially hated to be __10___. So he went to the door and opened it __11___ . At the door was a little girl, shyly asking, " Sir, do you have candles? I"m your neighbor. " " No, " answered Terry in anger and shut the door__12___ . " What a nuisance(讨厌) ! " he complained over it with his wife. " No sooner had we settled down than the neighbor came to___13____ things. " After a while, the door was knocked again. He opened it and found the same girl outside___14____this time she was___15____ two candles, saying, " My grandma told me the new neighbor downstairs might need candles. She ___16____ me here to give you these. " Terry was ___17____ dumb by what he saw. At that moment he suddenly realized what caused his __18___ in life. It was his ___19____ and harshness with other people. The person who had cheated him in life was __20___ nobody else but himself, for his eyes had been blurred(蒙蔽) by his unsympathetic mind. | |||||||||||||||||
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