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To reach the world"s richest country, you needn"t set out for the Middle East, but for the South Pacific, to a
tiny dot just south of the equator, called Nauru. Only 8.2 square miles in size, the whole of this country can be
seen from the air as the plane comes into land. The blue South Pacific reaches for thousands of miles in all
directions, the nearest piece of land being Ocean Island 200 miles to the east.
Nauro is so small that the plane lands in what is best regarded as the capital"s main street. The seaward
side of the runway has traffic lights at each end to stop cars when planes are landing. The tiny bus station
outside the airport is crowded with well-fed and brightly clothed Naurans with their modern cars.
With Naurans now getting an average(平均) of $44,500 a year, the island"s 60,000 people seem to have little
to worry about. A trip to the island"s central hump(隆峰) tells a slightly different story.
The hump with a great deal of phosphate (磷酸盐) round is Nauru"s wealth. When Nauru gained freedom
from the British government in 1908, about 40 million tons of the earliest 100 million tons of phosphate were
left. Since it has taken out another 10 million tons, which leaves enough only for another 20-25 years.
B. The most beautiful country in the world
C. A small island surrounded by the Pacific
D. A small but rich island country
B. Nauru is not large enough to build the runway of the plane the
C. Naurans are not rich enough to build a runway of the plane
D. no cars run on the main street
A. why Naurans are so rich
B. something more about Nauru
C. something for Naurans to worry about
D. how the British robbed Nauru of their wealth
B. 2,800,000 to 3,500,000 tons
C. 1,200,000 to 1,500,000 tons
D. 400,000 to 500,000 tons
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You"re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need; let"s assume you once actually
completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn"t it tempting to lie
just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra
couple of years back at State University?
More and more people are turning to final trick like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers,
for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a
good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a
well-known university. Registrars at most well known colleges say they deal with deceitful like these at the
rate of about one per week.
Personnel officers do check up degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is
lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them"impostors (骗子)"; Another refers to them as"special cases" one well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most
delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by"no such people."
To avoid total lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attended" or "were associated with" a college or
university. After carefully checking, a personal officer may discover that"attending" means being dismissed
after one semester. It may be that"being associated with" a college means that the job seeker visited his
younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claim says that the practice
dates back at least to the turn of the century-that"s when they began keeping records, anyhow.
If you don"t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony (假的)
diploma. One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma
from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from
" Smoot State University." The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the"University of Purdue." As there
is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather
high for one sheet of paper.
B. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C. college degrees can now be purchased easily
D. employers are no longer interested in college degrees
B. students never attended a school they listed on their application
C. students buy false degrees from commercial firms
D. students attended a famous school
B. experience is the best teacher
C. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
D. a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
B. personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
C. most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
D. society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American
society in many ways - education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very
different society - one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior is suitable at various
ages.
A person"s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position, marriage or health. There"s no
longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The
social clock that keeps us on time and tells us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn"t as strong
as it used to be. It doesn"t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.
Many people say,"I am much younger than my mother-or my father-was at my age. "No one says Act your
age" any more. We"ve stopped looking with surprising at older people who act in youthful ways."
B. has changed people"s social position
C. has changed people"s understanding of age
D. has slowed down the country"s social development
B. America
C. a place
D. population
B. do the right things at the right age
C. show respect for their parents young or old
D. take more physical exercise suitable to their age
would most probably consider it _______.
B. wonderful
C. unbelievable
D. unreasonable
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-Aged less than 22.
-At least high school graduate.
-Good-looking; men at least 1.72 meters tall and women at least 1.60 meters tall.
-Those knowing foreign languages preferred.
-Salary 1,600-2,200 Yuan per month.
B. One Secretary
-Aged less than 30.
-Female preferred.
-Good at writing and skilled at computer. C. Accountant
-Aged between 25 and 40.
-With an experience of at least two years.
-With a degree and an accountant certificate.
-Salary 3,000-4,000 Yuan monthly.
-With a practical knowledge of computer.
D. Salesclerk
-Basic education of 12 years or more.
-Good at computer.
-Salary 1,800-2,200 Yuan monthly.
E. English Teacher
-Aged between 35 and 45.
-With a master degree and a certificate in normal university.
-With an experience abroad preferred. F. Senior Lawyer
-Aged between 45 and 50.
-With doctor degree of law.
-With an experience of senior lawyer for at least three years.
-Those knowing English preferred.
1. Ann has been a senior lawyer with a doctor degree in the USA for five years. She returned to China last
week. She wants to have the same job in Beijing.
2. Lisa, a l.7-meter-tall pretty girl, has just graduated from Jingshan High School. She is good at foreign
languages, especially English.
3. Li Wei became an English teacher in a high school in New York after he had got the master degree and a
certificate in California University. He came back to China last week and wanted to act as an English teacher
in Guangzhou.
4. Lanra, who is a 23-year-old lady, is good at writing as well as computer. She would like to be employed as
a secretary.
5. Lu Bin, who can operate on the computer well, has just graduated from Guangya Middle School. She can
have the chance to go to university, but she gives it up. She wants learn to do business as a salesgirl first.
1. Ann A. Five Waiters and Ten Waitresses
2. Lisa B. One Secretary
3. Li Wei .C. Accountant
4. Laura D. Salesclerk
5. Lu Bin E. English Teacher
chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to
unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some
pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain
inevitably (不可避免的) brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement,
religious commitment (义务), self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor (单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying.
If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most
distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night"s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don"t know
any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have
children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating
realizations. It liberates (解放) time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase
our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase
our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are
always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all..
B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
B. a thankless job
C. a moral duty
D. a source of inevitable pain
B. ignorance
C. prejudice(偏见)
D. misunderstanding
A. have as much fun as possible during one"s lifetime
B. be able to distinguish happiness from fun
C. put up with pain under all circumstances
D. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
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Oprah Winfrey revolutionized the talk show market with her unique and natural style and rose to become
the host of the most watched daytime show on television, which boasts 22 million viewers daily (three-fourths
of whom are women).She is the first African American to own her own TV studio. The multitalented Winfrey
is also a millionaire businesswoman, a talented actress, owner of a movie production company, and committed
philanthropist(慈善家).
"I was taught to read at an early age. By the time I was three, I was reciting speeches in the church.
They"d put me up on the program, and say, "Little Mistress Winfrey will render a recitation," and I would do
"Jesus rose on Easter Day, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, all the angels did proclaim.""
Oprah Winfrey"s public speaking career began in 1957.At three, she was speaking in church, by her teens
she was touring the churches of Nashville, reciting the sermons of James Weldon Johnson. Other children
sang, Oprah talked. And she"s still talking -but to much larger audiences. The path that led from her
grandmother"s farm in Kosciusko, Mississippi to becoming the first African-American woman billionaire is a
story of unwavering (不动摇的) focus and unrelenting (不屈不挠的) determination.
Taught to read by her grandmother at an age when most children are only learning to talk, Oprah became a
voracious (如饥似渴的) reader-a habit she retains to this day. Books became her outlet to the world and the
basis of her passionate belief in education. An actress of nomination. Some call her lucky, but Oprah Winfrey
doesn"t believe in luck. She believes"luck is preparation meeting opportunity." Her rise from reading the news on a small radio station to being the first woman in history to own and produce her own television talk show proves her point.
A seeker of truth in herself and in others, her empathy (执著), honesty, and love of people have made her
one of the most beloved women in America; a teacher who educates a devoted audience about subjects as
varied as sexual abuse, divorce, children"s issues, and countless other important subjects; a close friend who
visits over 20 million homes a day.
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