—（） he work at a school?—Yes,he （）.

A.No, he does．

B.No, he doesn’t．

C.Yes, on foot．

Soon, a golden-haired boy appeared. "Do you have a job for me？" he asked. I told him about a system for sorting books. He picked up the idea immediately. Then I showed him some cards for some unreturned books that I thought had been returned but not recorded. Maybe some books were put on wrong places. He said, "Is it a kind of a detective(侦探) job？" I answered yes, and then began his work.

He had found three books with wrong cards by the time his teacher opened the door and said, "Time for rest!" he argued for finishing the finding job, but the teacher won.

The next morning, he arrived early, "I want to finish these books," he said. At the end of the day, when he asked to work with me more often, it was easy for me to say yes.

After a few weeks I found a note on my desk, inviting me to dinner at the boy's home. At the end of a pleasant evening, his mother declared that the family would be moving to another school. Her son's first concern, she said,was leaving the library. "Who will find the lost books？" he asked. When the time came, it was hard to say goodbye.Though at the beginning he had seemed an ordinary boy, his strong feeling of interest had made him different.

Do you know who he is？ This boy became a great man of the Information Age: Bill Gates.

(1)、Why did the teacher go to the library to find a job for Bill Gates？

A：Because the teacher found the librarian quite busy.

B：Because Bill Gates wanted to find a job.

C：Because Bill Gates finished his study quickly and had more free time than the others.

D：Because the library needed a new worker.

(2)、What do you know from the passage？

A：Library work was very difficult for Bill Gates.

B：Bill Gates did his job without any difficulty.

C：The librarian was too busy to have a rest.

D：His mother hoped that Bill Gates would stay for his job.

(3)、The sentence "He picked up the idea immediately" means that ______.

A：he learned that system quickly

B：he collected that system quickly

C：he lifted up that system quickly

D：he improved that system quickly

(4)、What was Bill Gates expected to do in the library？

A：Finding the lost cards.

B：Learning the system.

C：Helping the worker with everything in the library.

D：Finding books with wrong cards.

(5)、How did Bill Gates feel when his family would move to another school area？

A：Sad.

B：Pleasant.

C：Worried.

D：Interested.

188. Is it difficult for you to get up in the morning？ Do you sometimes oversleep？ Are you often late for work or school？ Yes？ Then Hiroyuki Sugiyama of Japan has a special bed for you. Hiroyuki’s bed will get you up in the morning! Here is how it works: The bed is connected to an alarm clock. First, the alarm clock rings. You have a few minutes to wake up. Next, a tape recorder in the bed plays soft music or other pleasant sounds. A few minutes later, a second recording plays. The second recording can be loud music or unpleasant sounds. If you don’t get up after the second recording, you’ll be sorry. A mechanical “foot” is in the bed. The mechanical foot kicks you in the head. Then the bed waits a few more minutes. What! You’re still in bed! Slowly, the top of the bed rises higher and higher. The foot of the bed goes lower and lower. Finally, the bed is vertical. You slide off the bed and onto the floor. You are awake and out of bed. Hiroyuki made his bed because he wanted to win a contest. He works for Honda Motor Company. Once every two years, Honda has a contest—the “All Honda Idea Contest”. In 1996 Hiroyuki won a prize for his bed. [共5题]

(1) The purpose of the passage is ________.

(A) to praise Hiroyuki

(B) to tell a story

(C) to introduce a special bed

(D) to wake somebody up

(2) What does the special bed do first in the morning？

(A) Its tape recorder plays soft music.

(B) Its tape recorder plays loud music.

(C) It kicks you in the head.

(D) Its alarm clock rings.

(3) If you don’t wake up after the clock rings, what will happen？

(A) The bed becomes vertical and you slide off the bed.

(B) The tape recorder plays pleasant sounds.

(C) You will be late for work.

(D) The mechanical “foot” kicks you in the head.

(4) Hiroyuki made such a special bed because ________.

(A) he wanted to win the contest held by his company.

(B) he was good at inventing new things.

(C) he wanted to make money.

(D) he sometimes overslept.

(5) Who is Hiroyuki？

(A) A scientist. (B) A company worker. (C) An inventor. (D) A carpenter.

A．will be a complete failure in his future work

B．will not be able to find a suitable job

C．will regret not having worked harder at school

D．may do well in his future work

You’re lucky, Ron, he said. For every boy with a job these days, there's a dozen without. So Ron joined the working world at twenty pounds a week.

For a year he spent his days filing shelves with tins of food. By the end of that time he was looking back on his school-days as a time of great variety(多样性) and satisfaction. He searched for an interest in his work, with little success.

One fine day instead of going to work Ron got a lift on a lorry going south. With nine pounds in his pocket, a full heart ad a great longing for the sea, he set out to make a better way for himself. That evening, in Bournemouth, he had a sandwich and a drink in a caf é run by an elderly man and his wife.

Before he had finished the sandwich, the woman had taken him on for the restof the summer, at twenty pounds a week, a room upstairs and three meals a day. The ease and speed of it rather took Ron’s breath away. At quite times Ron had to check the old man’s arithmetic in the records of the business.

At the end of the season, he stayed on the coast. He was again surprised how straightforward it was for a boy of 17 to make a living. He worked in shops mostly, but once he took a job in a hotel for 3 weeks. Late in October he was taken on by the sick manager of a shoe shop. Ron soon found himself in charge there; he was the only one who could keep the books.

(1)Ron Jackie left school at sixteen because _______.

A、his father made him leave

B、he didn't want to stay in school

C、he was worried about the future

D、he could earn a lot of money in the supermarket

(2)What did Ron’s father think about his leaving school？

A、He thought his son was doing the right thing.

B、He advised him to stay at school to complete his education.

C、He was against it.

D、He knew there was a job for every boy who wanted one.

(3)After a year, Ron to realize that ________.

A、he was interested in the job

B、his work at the supermarket was dull

C、being at work was much better than going to school

D、the store manager wanted to get rid of him

(4)Ron left the supermarket because ______.

A、he knew he would find work in Bournemouth

B、he took a job as lorry driver

C、he gave up the job because he felt unwell

D、he wanted to work at the seaside

(5)Ron was able to take over the shoe shop because ________.

A、he got on well with the manager there

B、he knew how to keep the accounts of the business

C、he had had experience of selling books

D、he was young and strong

A．has worked

B．will work

C．is working

D．works

A、from

B、off

C、away

Passage Two

The student who wants a newspaper career has much hard work ahead of him before he can ecome even a cub, or beginning reporter. He may begin by working on his high school ewspaper or yearbook.

Then the aspiring (有志的) reporter may break into newspaper work as a copyboy, running rrands and helping sta. ff reporters. He may even be given a chance to write small stories. ometimes students who are interested in news reporting can get jobs as campus reporters for ocal newspapers.

Jobs such as these serve to acquaint the beginner with the atmosphere of newsgathering.They give him a chance to sharpen his eye for details and teach him to be sure that his facts are accurate, that he reports them correctly, and that he writes his articles clearly. This work may lead to a job as a cub reporter on a newspaper, the important first step toward a career in news reporting.

36. The best title for this passage is ______.

A. The Work of a Newspaper Reporter

B. Reporting News from the Campus

C. Getting Started as a Reporter

D. What a Copyboy Does

The writer concludes that school rules to forbid smoking ______.

A．should be introduced, for it really works at the school where he once studied

B．should not be introduced, for it may cause disturbance

C．should be introduced though it may not work effectively

D．needn't be introduced as long as teachers don't smoke in front of children