Unemployment in Europe has recently hit record highs. Although Denmark has been protected from economic problems thanks to its low public debt, qualified (有资格的) professionals are still finding it tough to get a job. Danish marketing firm Reputation Copenhagen has come up with a way of helping academics get noticed -- putting them on display (展示) in storefront windows.
Many highly-trained professionals, ranging from former CEOs to lawyers and tax experts, are currently finding it increasingly difficult to find proper employment on the Danish job market. Some of them have been trying for years, leaving their resumes (简历) with dozens of companies, without ever hearing back from them, and are now at a point where they are willing to try anything, even putting themselves in display windows like goods, hoping to get noticed.
Alexander Peitersen, managing director of Reputation Copenhagen, came up with the idea of using his company's office as a storefront f
or the campaign (活动), as there are many businesses nearby that might be interested in the talents on display. So he set up a small desk, put up the “an available academic is sitting here” sign and asked the unemployed to just sit in the windows like goods. It seems like a pretty desperate measure, but at least it works. According to the agency's website, three of the jobseekers in their window display got a job in a day or two.
Peitersen says he came up with the idea after realizing human resource managers get hundreds of job applications every day, which look more or less the same, and that creative thinking is required in order to increase the chances of finding employment. Apart from companies interested in qualified job-seekers, the campaign has also attracted the attention of both local and international media.
1.Which of the following words can be used to describe Peitersen?
A. Independ
ent. B. Creative. C. Sensitive. D. Cautious.
2.Some job-seekers are willing to put themselves
in the windows to display in that ______.
A. they think it is fashionable
B. their parents ask them to
C. it’s increasingly difficult to get hired
D. they find it’s interesting
3.It can be Inferred that ______.
A. no companies show interest in the qualified job-seekers in the windows
B. both local and international media don't agree with the campaign
C. human resource managers have to reply to hundreds of applicants
D. to some degree the window displays help people find jobs
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. Job-seekers are displayed in the windows hoping to get hired.
B. The rate of unemployment in Europe has recently become hitter.
C. It is hard for qualified professionals to get a job.
D. Denmark has avoided economic problems due to its low public debt.
China’s new term, tuhao, may be in next year’s Oxford English Dictionary. The word caught the attention of the dictionary's editing team after BBC’s recent program on influential Chinese words. “If its influence continues, it is very likely to appear on our updated list of words,” said Julie Kleeman, project manager with the editing team.
In Chinese tu means uncouth (笨拙的) and hao means rich. It has traditionally been referred to rich people who throw their weight around in China’s countryside. The word became more popular in September with the launch of Apple’s new gold-colored iPhone, which is loved by China’s rich people. The color became known as “tuhao gold.” The word is now also used by the online community to refer to people who have the cash but lack the class to go with it. Kleeman also mentioned two other Chinese words — dama and hukou — which may also make it into the dictionary.
People can have an intuitive (直观的) grasp of the meanings if they see pinyin, Kleeman said, adding that people avoid using an English word to keep the original meaning.
“We have nearly 120 Chinese-linked words now in Oxford English Dictionary,” she said. Some of them are: Guanxi, which means “connection”; Taikonaut, a mix of taikong, meaning outer space, and astronaut.
The new words will be first uploaded on the official website before the dictionaries arrive. The online version is also renewed every three months. “It at least broke our old rules. It used to take 10 years to include a new word but now we keep the pace with the time,” according to a statement from ex-chief-editor John Simpson.
1.Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
A. Dama and hukou have made it into Oxford English dictionary.
B. Some influential Chinese words appeared on one of BBC’s recent programs.
C. tuhao refers to people who have both the cash and the class.
D. John Simpson thinks that it is not good to break old rules.
2.What does the underlined part in paragraph 2 mean?
A. Give orders to others. B. Get ready to help others.
C. Go on a diet. D. Put on weight.
3.Tuhao be
comes more popular in September partly because ______.
A. it is very likely to appear in Oxford English Dictionary
B. it is often used by the online community
C. people use Chinese pinyin to keep the original meaning
D. Apple launched a new gold-colored iPhone
4.The main idea of the text is that ______.
A. tuhao may end up in Oxford English Dictionary
B. sometimes pinyin makes Chinese words better understood
C. tuhao has a new meaning at the present time
D. Oxford English Dictionary Includes new words faster than before
The composing career (作曲生涯) of Albert Roussel got off to a changeable start, and received one of its biggest successes from a lie.
Roussel became an orphan (孤儿) at the age of eight and went to live with his grandfather. He built on the music he had learned from his mother, entertaining himself by reading through the family music collection and playing operatic selections and popular songs on the piano. Three years later Roussel’s grandfather died, and his mother's sister took him in. Her husband arranged for young Albert to take piano lessons. Summer vacation
s at a Belgian seaside added a second love to his life — the sea. He studied to be a soldier in the navy, but still made time to study music.
In the French Navy, he and two friends found time to play the music of Beethoven and other composers. Roussel also began composing. At the Church of the Trinity in Cherbourg on Christmas Day 1892, he had his first public appearance as a composer. That success encouraged Roussel to write a wedding march, and one of his fellow naval officers offered to show it to a famous conductor, Edouard Colonne. When Roussel’s friend returned with the manuscript (手稿), he reported that Colonne had advised Roussel to give up his naval career and devote his life to music.
Not long afterward, at the age of 2S, Roussel did just that. He applied the qualities that he had developed in the navy to his composing and became a major force in twentieth century French music. As for Edouard Colonne’s inspiring advice that Roussel should devote his life to music, Roussel's naval friend later admitted that he had made it up and that he had never even shown Roussel’s manuscript to the conductor.
1.What information can we get from the second paragraph?
A. Albert’s grandfather died when Albert was eight years old.
B. Albert's aunt arranged for him to take piano lessons.
C. Albert gave up studying music after he studied to be a soldier in the navy.
D. Albert came to love the sea after summer vacations at the seaside.
2.From the third paragraph we know that ______.
A. in the French Navy, Roussel and two friend began composing
B. Roussel’s first public appearance at the church was successful
C. Roussel's naval friend showed the wedding march to Edouard
D. Edouard Colonne advised Roussel to devote his life to music
3.Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The composing career of Roussel started stably.
B. Roussel learned basic music knowledge from his aunt.
C. A white lie helped Roussel achieve success.
D. Roussel was cheated and hurt by his naval friend.
4.Who told a lie according to the text?
A. Roussel’s grandfather. B. Albert’s naval friend. C. Roussel's aunt. D. Edouard Colonne.
Jenny was a pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl (珍珠) necklace priced at $2.50. Her mother bought the necklace for her on condition that she had to do some homework to pay it off. Jenny agreed. She worked very hard every day, and soon Jenny paid off the necklace. Jenny loved it so much that she wore it everywhere except when she was in the shower. Her mother had told her it would turn her neck green!
Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would read Jenny her favorite story.
One night when he finished the story, he said, “Jenny, could you give me your necklace?”
“Oh! Daddy, not my necklace!” Jenny said. “But you can have Rosy, my favorite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. Okay? ”
“Oh no, darling, that’s okay.” Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. “Good night, little one.
A week later, her father once again asked Jenny for the necklace after her favorite story. “Oh, Daddy, not my necklace! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her? She’s my favorite.”
“No, that’s okay,” her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. “God bless you, little one. Sweet dreams. ”
Several days later, when Jenny’s father came in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lip was trembling. “Here, Daddy,” she said, holding out her hand. She opened it and her beloved pearl necklace was inside. She let it slip into her father’s hand.
With one hand her father held the plastic pearl necklace and with the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue box. Inside the box was a real, beautiful pearl necklace. He had had it all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap necklace so he could give her a real one.
1.What did Jenny have to do to get the plastic pearl necklace?
A. She had to help her mother do some housework.
B. She had to listen to her father tell a story every night.
C. She had to ask her father to pay for the necklace.
D. She had to give away her favorite toys to the poor children.
2.From the text we know that ______.
A. Jenny’s mother paid a lot for the plastic pearl necklace
B. Jenny wore the necklace everywhere even in the shower
C. Jenny didn’t like Rosy and Ribbons any longer
D. Jenny got a real pearl necklace from her father
3.Jenny’s father asked for her plastic pearl necklace repeatedly in order to ______.
A. get it for himself B. donate it C. train her character D. put it away
4.What can be the best title for the text?
A. A Lovely GirlB. Father and Daughter
C. A Pearl NecklaceD. An Unforgettable Childhood
Long long ago, a circle missed one piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its piece. But because it was and therefore could roll only very slowly, it the flowers along the way. It with the worms. It enjoyed the sunshine. It found lots of different pieces, but of them fitted. So it left them all by the side of the road and searching. Then one day the circle found a piece that fitted . It incorporated the missing piece into itself and began to roll. it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, fast to notice the flowers or talk to the worms. After it realized how different the world seemed when it rolled so quickly, it , left its found piece by the side of the road and rolled slowly away.
The of the story, I suggest, is that in some strange we are more whole when we are missing something. The man who has is in some ways a poor man. He will never know what it like to nourish his soul with the dream of something . When we accept that is part of being human and when we can continue rolling life and appreciate it, we will have a wholeness that others can only desire, which , I believe, is _ God asks of us — not “Be perfect”, not “Don’t even make a mistake”, “Be whole”.
1.A. otherB. missingC. restD. remaining
2.A. incomplete B. uglyC. ordinaryD. unusual
3.A. pickedB. wateredC. admiredD. planted
4.A. playedB. chattedC. sangD. danced
5.A. neitherB. eachC. allD. none
6.A. carried out B. put onC. worked outD. kept on
7.A. especially B. permanentlyC. perfectlyD. constantly
8.A. Although B. Now thatC. UnlessD. As long as
9.A. very B. tooC. soD. how
10.A. stoppedB. continuedC. hesitatedD. cried
11.A. lessonB. rootC. reasonD. cause
12.A. degreeB. levelC. senseD. manner
13.A. nothing B. somethingC. littleD. everything
14.A. smellsB. feelsC. looks
D. sounds
15.A. betterB. commonC. impracticalD. worse
16.A. strength B. kindnessC. imperfectionD. benefit
17.A. behindB. atC. ofD. through
18.A. recognizedB. searchedC. achievedD. founded
19.A. whichB. howC. thatD. what
20.A. butB. whileC. andD. otherwise
— How do you want your eggs? — ______.
A. They taste good B. I want them very much
C. I’d like some cakesD. Fried, please
