Most people graduate from school and then get a job. Everyone wants a job that pays well. How much money can you make? Ask yourself these questions: What can I do? What skills do I have? Also ask yourself: How much education do I have? For most jobs, the higher your education, the higher your earning power.
In the United States, high school graduates make about $18,600 a year. If you don’t finish high school, you make only $10,800 a year. You can make $7,800 more each year by staying in high school!
If you stay in school, then you can make more money. A person with a high school degree makes about $18,600 a year. If that person goes to college and get a bachelor’s degree (学士学位),he can make $42,000.With a master’s degree (硕士学位),he can make about $53,000.If the person gets a PhD (博士学位),he can make almost $79,000 or more a year.
We can learn a very important thing from the information.If you want to work and make more money,get a good education.
1.The passage mainly tells us _______.
A. how education and pay are connected B. high-paid jobs
C. jobs for high school students D. good schools
2.According to the passage,“earning power” means the ability to _______ money.
A. save B. spend C. pay D. make
3.The writer thinks that a high school graduate usually makes more money than _______.
A. a university graduate B. a person who gets a PhD
C. a person who only finishes primary school D. a person with a master’s degree
4.Each year a person with a PhD can make _______ more than a person who does not finish high school.
A. $37,000 B. $68,200 C. $60,400 D. $26,000
5.From the last paragraph we know that _______.
A. a high school degree is not important
B. university is too expensive
C. a person can make more money with a good education
D. people with a degree don’t need to worry about finding jobs
Mahalya Daye, 13, is an eighth-grader at Lamberton Middle School in Pennsylvania, USA. Every afternoon at nearly 2 o'clock, she runs to a store at her school. But she is not running to buy snacks. Instead, she works as the storekeeper.
“I didn't know that it took so much work. I've never really done something like this,” Mahalya said.
In fact, she is one of 12 volunteer staff members at Bison Bargains. It is the school's first store run (经营) by students. It started on Feb. 22, and it opens each school day during break time from 2 to 2:30 p.m. It mainly sells stationery (文具) and snacks.
The school wants to provide the students with a real-life business experience through this. Christian Ilg, 14, an eighth-grader, was really surprised by how hard it was not to make mistakes and do the transactions (交易). “It's kind of a challenge to learn all the information on the lists and remember all the prices of the products,” Christian said.
To learn about business, the students took a special class. They learnt how to use money and some simple business rules.
The school did a survey on what products students would buy from a school store. In the future, they plan to sell things made by the students themselves. For example, students can sell their homemade pencil boxes.
1.When does Mahalya go to work at the school store?
A. In the morning. B. During lunch.
C. In the afternoon. D. After school.
2.How long is the store open on a school day?
A. 30 minutes. B. 2 hours.
C. 2 hours and 30 minutes. D. 4 hours and 30 minutes.
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Mahalya is the oldest staff member at the store.
B. Products are sold at very low prices at the store.
C. The store sells things made by students themselves.
D. Christian finds it hard to remember all the prices of the products.
4.Which is the best title of the passage?
A. A special class for students B. How to use money wisely
C. How to be a storekeeper D. A student-run store
In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation or commencement(颁授学位典礼) day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many weeks before the day.
Several days before Homecoming, students start to decorate the schoool. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the students. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after they leave school.
During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.
Everyone soon comes to watch the football game. When the game is half over, the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honor to be chosen.
Homecoming is a happy day, but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the game. Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy Homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.
1.The most important thing of the year in high schools and colleges is in America
A. Homecoming B. the foot ball game
C. graduation D. to go to a party
2.When do students begin to prepare everything for Homecoming?
A. The day before Homecoming
B. Many weeks before the day
C. At the beginning of each term
D. Several days before Homecoming
3.Which of the following is NOT done on Homecoming Day?
A. To see old friends
B. To call on teachers they remember
C. To watch the football game
D. To see their parents in the school
4.The underlined word “vote” in the passage means.
A. call B. make or choose
C. give D. show
Marco Polo was from Venice, Italy. In 1271, at age 17, Marco went on a trip with his father and uncle to China. Today people often travel to different places around the world. But it was very hard for people from Europe to visit China then. After three and a half years, the Polos reached China on 1275.
While he was there, Marco Polo worked for Kublai Khan, the emperor（皇帝）of China. He was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans. In his diary, he wrote, “Kublai Khan’s palace is the greatest I’ve ever seen. The streets of the new capital. Daidu, are so straight and so wide.” Paper money also took him by surprise, since it was not yet in use in the West at that time. Homes were heated with “black stones... which burn like wood.” These stones were coal, and most of the Europeans knew little about it then.
After 17 years in China, Marco and his family finally returned to Venice in 1292. After he returned home, Marco completed a book about his trip, full of facts about his wonderful experiences in China.
1.How was Marco Polo’s three-and-a-half-year journey to China?
A. Expensive. B. Comfortable. C. Difficult. D. Smooth.
2.The Polos finally got to China in .
A. 1271 B. 1275 C. 1288 D. 1292
3.What did Marco do when he was in China?
A. He worked for the emperor.
B. He learned to build city streets.
C. He helped to dig for coal.
D. He finished a book about his trip.
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. Magic “black stones”
B. Marco Polo in China
C. Paper money on Daidu
D. Kublai Khan—the greatest emperor
补全对话
Lisa: Hey, Jane. 1.
Jane: Really?
Lisa: Yeah, it's a dancing party.
Jane: 2.
Lisa: Do you want to go with me?
Jane: Can I? I don't really know Susan.
Lisa: 3. She said I could invite a friend.
Jane: OK, then. I'd love to go. 4.
Lisa: On, Saturday night.
Jane: Wow, that's the day after tomorrow! I need to get a new dress.
Lisa: 5. There’s a clothes shop near here. Let's go there after work.
Jane: Sounds good!
A. Me, too.
B. I hope not.
C. No problem.
D. What a shame!
E. Sounds like fun.
F. When exactly is it?
G. My friend Susan is having a party this weekend.
Months later, Junior 3 students will take the senior high school entrance exam. They are studying hard for this big challenge(挑战). Do they have time to do something to ___ their middle school years? Many do.
Leng Jingze, 14, from Tianjin said that in her class students have already _______ goodbye messages or letters for each other. They are also swapping(交换) photos.
"Even the head teacher has a project," said Leng. "She ___ to put all our class photos onto a CD and give each student ____."
Wang Zeyu, 15, in Changchun, Jilin said his ___ are making "lucky stars" as graduation gifts. They are making the cheerful stars ____ colored paper.
"Before ____ a 'lucky star', you write some words for the person on the paper," said Wang. "He or she can read the words ___ they unfold the star."
In Xiao Xia's school, each Junior 3 student will get a yearbook(年刊), in which the graduating classes will put ___ photos and self-introductions.
Xiao said, "We have written a poem in the ancient style as the self-introduction!"
"Our class may not be the one with the ____ school grade but it must be the most creative one," said Xiao. "I feel lucky to study in such a class!"
1.A. celebrate B. require C. damage D. forgive
2.A. read B. written C. looked D. watched
3.A. pretends B. refuses C. allows D. plans
4.A. one B. all C. it D. this
5.A. parents B. students C. teachers D. classmates
6.A. off B. of C. to D. in
7.A. writing B. reading C. making D. bringing
8.A. because B. though C. before D. when
9.A. their B. our C. his D. its
10.A. loudest B. last C. worst D. best
