One piece of advice I give young people is that they don't have to decide what they want to do for the rest of their life at age 22. Just think of all the jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago and what might exist 10 years from now.
My daughter is a nurse practitioner(从业者). But she didn’t start there when she went to college. She got her undergraduate degree in hotel and restaurant management with a minor(辅修课程) in business. She wanted to find a job in travel and tourism and see the world. On graduation day she looked at me and said, “Mom, I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life that’s meaningful, but I don’t think it' s travel and tourism”. I looked at her and said, “Just get a job and then figure it out.”
She struggled for a year or two after college with a couple of different jobs including work in the travel industry for a short time. But she started thinking early on after graduation about becoming a nurse. Whenever she talked to me about it, I told her she’d be a great nurse-super organized, able to multitask better than anyone I knew, with amazing people skills. But I also told her that she’d have to work hard and study the sciences if she wanted to be a nurse.
She considered her choices and decided to enter a combined nursing/nurse practitioner program getting her second bachelor’s degree then her master’s. She had found her passion(热衷的爱好)!Her nursing career since 2005 has progressed. She now has a mix of leadership, administrative, and clinical work.
Do you know what your passion is? Have you found it in your work or are you still searching for it?
1.How did the author react to her daughter’s words on graduation day?
A.She recommended a job to her daughter.
B.She was worried about her daughter’s future.
C.She was angry about her daughter’s uncertainty.
D.She advised her daughter to find answers in practice.
2.What was the author’s attitude toward her daughter’s decision to become a nurse?
A.Cautious. B.Favorable.
C.Unconcerned. D.Disappointed.
3.What do we know about the author’s daughter?
A.She has traveled around the world.
B.She has figured out what she loves to do.
C.She was unsuccessful in her nursing career.
D.She was unwilling to follow her mother’s suggestion.
4.How does the author support her main idea?
A.By listing facts. B.By analyzing causes.
C.By making a comparison. D.By providing a typical example.
Finland is offering free trips to people in need of happiness lessons
For the past two years, Finland has been named the happiest country in the world. Its citizens are relaxed and cheerful, enjoying life in a technologically advanced society. The Finns themselves owe(归功于) this to their connection with nature and their instinct(本能) to go outside whenever anxiety appears: “When others go to therapy(治疗), Finns put on a pair of rubber boots and head to the woods. A project called Rent A Finn will send a select number of guests to live in Finland for three days this summer. All travel and accommodation costs are covered, but you must be willing to be filmed throughout the experience.
Guest’s activities
Experience anything from visiting a national park to spending a weekend fishing at a real summer cottage， berry picking in the wilderness, enjoying a proper Finnish sauna(桑拿浴)一 basically all the things that we Finns love to do in nature and what makes Finland the happiest country worldwide.
Esko, mayor(市长) of a small town, will take you boating and teach you to play molkky, a Finnish throwing game. If you stay with Hanna, an IT professional, you’ll travel to her grandmother’s lakeside home outside Helsinki, where you’ll pick blueberries and eat traditional foods. Linda and Niko, who live on Uto, an island with a population of around 40, will take you sailing, show you the lighthouse, and camp out on an island.
Application
Now is the time to apply by filling out an online application form and filming a 3-minute video describing yourself, your connection to nature, and why you want to visit Finland. Submit, breathe deeply, and wait. I know what I’ ll be doing this weekend.
1.What do the Finns think mainly brings them happiness?
A.Getting close to nature.
B.Living in a rich country.
C.Remaining in high spirits.
D.Getting on well with others.
2.Who will lead guests to pick blueberries around a lakeside home?
A.Esko. B.Linda.
C.Hanna. D.Niko
3.What should you do if you want to join the project?
A.Complete a form online.
B.Make a video about Finland.
C.Pay the activity expenses in advance.
D.Learn how to make traditional Finnish food.
假定你是李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Peter来信询问你大学想学的专业。请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 告知你将选择中医专业；
2. 解释你选择此专业的原因。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Peter,
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Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号( ∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线( \ )划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last Sunday, I went to Tian'anmen Square with my cousin, a boy of nine year old. Because it was the first time that he has come to Beijing, so everything could interest him. He took many photos, saying they would be showing to his friends, most of who had never visited Beijing. Then a foreigner in the fifties caught our attention. To my greatly surprise, before I could react, my cousin went up. With fluent English, he asked if she needed any help. Knowing her passport missing, we immediately helped her got in touch with the police. What a kind boy!
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式，并将答案填写在答题卡上。
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, 1. (elect) as 2019's ''Person of The Year'' last week.
In August 2018, tired of the ''refusal'' of world leaders 2. (take) action, the young girl started camping in front of the Swedish Parliament every Friday with 3. sign, which said: ''Schools Strike for Climate''.
The teen's act soon spread quickly, 4. (inspire) kids and adults worldwide to take action. By September, 2018, her 5. (week) strike had become a worldwide climate change movement called ''Fridays for the Future'', 6. tens of thousands of students skipping school on this day to condemn the inaction of the leaders of their respective countries.
The teenager, who has single-handedly helped bring climate change to the forefront of the global conversation, owes her 7. (succeed) to her Asperger's syndrome. She says, ''I see the world in black and white, and I don't like compromising. 8. I were like everyone else, I would have continued on and not seen this.''
Though Thunberg does not have a magical cure for climate change, she 9. (believe) that climate change can be affected at a grassroots level by educating friends and electing 10. (politician) that support the cause.
More than anything else in the world, Jayden Hairston wanted to learn how to sing. _________, his elementary school in Yonkers didn't _________ the music instruction he needed. So he begged his parents to sign him up for after-school lessons.
His mother said, ''Ever since I could _________, he has been singing and dancing for the family. '' She wanted to help her son to do whatever he loved, but private lessons were too _________ for the family where there was only one breadwinner.
Then Jayden began researching after-school arts _________ on the Internet. Luckily, he soon _________ the website of Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) in New York City. There, he could _________ singing and dancing lessons. It was a bit far from Yonkers. But he _________ his parents to take him for a visit.
That was three years ago. Now Jayden is one of HSA’s most _________ students. He takes singing, dancing, or theater lessons almost every day after school. Last year, he performed in seven productions. ''When I'm at HSA, I don't want to leave, '' he says. ''It's made me more __________. I feel better about myself, '' Jayden says.
Like Jayden, many poor students across the United States have __________ access to arts instruction in schools. HSA is one of many nonprofit groups that __________ this gap (缺口) by offering cheaper online arts classes which most families can __________. These groups are usually funded by donations.
A Harvard University study found that arts instruction does not straightly raise students' __________ in math and English. However, that doesn’t mean arts education isn’t __________. Arts train a set of thinking skills __________ those measured by test scores. It can also offer another __________ for children who may not __________ good scores in such exams. Without it, students might never __________ their strengths and possibly their future occupations.
Jayden Hairston knows this firsthand. He says Harlem School of the Arts has __________ him to go after his professional goals.
1.A.Besides B.Instead C.Therefore D.However
2.A.offer B.hold C.sell D.follow
3.A.imagine B.speak C.remember D.listen
4.A.attractive B.horrible C.troublesome D.expensive
5.A.applications B.programs C.competitions D.technologies
6.A.ran over B.broke into C.set up D.came across
7.A.teach B.perform C.attend D.check
8.A.convinced B.forced C.instructed D.forbade
9.A.friendly B.active C.selfless D.cautious
10.A.confident B.modest C.reasonable D.sensitive
11.A.direct B.normal C.limited D.broadened
12.A.bridges B.widens C.breaks D.deepens
13.A.advertise B.prepare C.recommend D.afford
14.A.responses B.achievements C.memory D.attention
15.A.exciting B.demanding C.valuable D.reliable
16.A.different from B.regardless of C.similar to D.along with
17.A.challenge B.right C.direction D.destination
18.A.distinguish B.accumulate C.urge D.obtain
19.A.expect B.discover C.process D.satisfy
20.A.required B.motivated C.promised D.reminded
