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Need a Job This Summer? The provincial government and its partners offer many programs to help students find summer jobs. The deadlines and what you need to apply depend on the program. Not a student? Go to the government website to learn about programs and online tools available to help people under 30 build skills, find a job or start businesses all year round. Jobs for Youth If you are a teenager living in certain parts of the province, you could be eligible(符合条件)for this program. Which provides eight weeks of paid employment along with training. Who is eligible: Youth 15-18 years old in select communities(社区). Summer Company Summer Company provides students with hands-on business training and awards of up to $3,000 to start and run their own summer businesses. Who is eligible: Students aged 15-29, returning to school in the fall. Stewardship Youth Ranger Program You could apply to be a Stewardship Youth Ranger and work on local natural resource management projects for eight weeks this summer. Who is eligible: Students aged 16 or 17 at time of hire, but not turning 18 before December 31 this year. Summer Employment Opportunities(机会) Through the Summer Employment Opportunities program, students are hired each year in a variety of summer positions across the Provincial Public Service, its related agencies and community groups. Who is eligible: Students aged 15 or older. Some positions require students to be 15 to 24 or up to 29 for persons with a disability. 【1】What is special about Summer Company? A. It requires no training before employment. B. It provides awards for running new businesses. C. It allows one to work in the natural environment. D. It offers more summer job opportunities. 【2】What is the age range required by Stewardship Youth Ranger Program? A. 15-18. B. 15-24. C. 15-29. D. 16-17. 【3】Which program favors the disabled? A. Jobs for Youth. B. Summer Company. C. Stewardship Youth Ranger Program. D. Summer Employment Opportunities. |
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We have the most friends at the age of 26 after having spent the first quarter of our lives building up our friendship circle, a new research has claimed. The research into friendship shows that our social circle peaks at 26 years and 7 months, at which we typically have five close friends. Women are the most popular at 25 years and 10 months, with men hitting the highest friendship point a little later at 27 years and 3 months. The research, by Forever Friends, shows that about a third of adults meet their closest friends while at school, with about a fifth saying they meet them at work. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter now also play a major role in building new friendship. The research points out that 25 to 34-year-olds make 22 friends via Facebook, compared to 18 to 24-year-olds who make 12, and 35 to 44-year-olds who make just four. Forever Friends’ relationship coach Sam Owen says, “It is no coincidence that over a third of us meet our best friends at school. It is a key time in our lives when friendship is growing through sharing notes, giving gifts, seeing each other regularly and laughing a lot. As adults we can often forget how powerful these small things are and how the little things can make a difference. ” Later in life we find ourselves losing friends. Over half of us lose friendship through moving, while 36% say that over time they grow apart from close pals. Having children also causes 19% to drift away from childhood friends. With growing pressures being put on friendship these days, it’s important to make time for our friendship. 【1】How many friends can a 20-year-old college student make via Facebook? A.4. B.18. C.12. D.22. 【2】In Paragraph 5, the author is trying to tell the readers ______. A.how important making friends is B.that friendship is not easy to keep C.how much has been done to keep friendship D.that friendship at school is important 【3】The underlined phrase “drift away from” in Paragraph 6 means______. A.make sense of B.lose contact with C.feel sorry for D.make up with 【4】This passage is most probably taken from______. A.a brochure B.an advertisement C.a textbook D.a newspaper |
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Two years ago, Microsoft sank a data centre off the coast of Orkney in a wild experiment. That data centre has now been retrieved from the ocean floor, and Microsoft researchers are assessing how it has performed, and what they can learn from it about energy efficiency. Their first conclusion is that the container packed with servers（服务器）had a lower failure rate than a conventional data centre. When the container was pulled out of the seabed around half a mile offshore after being placed there in May 2018, just 8 out of the 855 servers on board had failed, which compares very well with a conventional data centre. As more and more of our data is stored in the cloud, there is growing concern about the vast energy demands of data centres. This experiment was an attempt to learn broader lessons about energy efficiency in cloud computing（云计算）. All of Orkney’s electricity comes from wind and solar power, but there were no issues in keeping the underwater data centre supplied with power. “We have been able to run really well on what most land-based data centres consider an unreliable electric-power network,” says Spencer Fowers, one of members in the technical team. Underwater data centres might sound like an unusual idea, but David Ross, who has been a consultant to the data centre industry for many years, believes the project has great potential. He uses examples where it would be beneficial, such as organisations facing a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. “You could effectively move something to a more secure location without having all the high costs of constructing a building. It’s flexible and cost-effective,” he says. Microsoft is cautious about saying when an underwater data centre might be a commercial product, but the company is confident that the experiment has proved the idea has value. “We think that we are past the point where this is a science experiment,” says Ben Cutler. “Now it’s simply a question of what do we want to engineer — would it be a little one, or would it be a large one?” 【1】What did Microsoft researchers find according to paragraph 1? A.The advantage of the underwater data centre. B.The safety of the traditional data centre. C.The novel feature of the traditional data centre. D.The computing power of the underwater data centre. 【2】What was the purpose of the experiment? A.To make Orkney’s environment better. B.To explore a greener way of data storage. C.To display the strength of cloud computing. D.To improve the energy efficiency of computers. 【3】What does Ross think of underwater data centres? A.It is not practical due to high costs. B.It protects people from different disasters. C.It faces an uncertain future in the data centre industry. D.It outweighs the traditional data centres in several aspects. 【4】What will Microsoft probably do later according to the last paragraph? A.Seek cooperation with other engineers. B.Decide the scale of underwater data centres. C.Perform another experiment on cloud computing. D.Design marketing strategy for underwater data centres. |
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The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms for most but severe symptoms are more likely in the elderly or people with existing health problems. Most infected patients have recovered from it so far. The leader of the IOCS coordination commission for the Tokyo Olympics says there is no May deadline to cancel the games and he remains confident the event will go ahead despite sports coming to a stop globally amid the coronavirus epidemic. John Coates, who will have to go into government-mandated self-isolation when he returns to Australia this week from Olympic business in Europe, told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper: “It’s all proceeding to start on the 24th of July.” Dick Pound, a former IOC vice president, said that the end of May seemed to be a possible deadline for the IOC to make a call on the Tokyo Olympics. But Coates told that the IOC didn't recognize the deadline and he thought Pound had backed away from it, too. The latest measures, which include bans on gatherings of more than 500 people, came in the wake of the suspensionz（暂停） of sporting events in parts of the world affected by the virus outbreak. That has caused postponements and uncertainty for qualifying in some Olympic sports, although the IOC and Tokyo organizers have consistently said the games will go ahead as scheduled. As for athletes traveling to Japan from affected countries. Coates said some national Olympic committees were already preparing. “The Chinese are probably the best organized,” he told the SMH. “The Chinese are in various parts of Europe and the last I heard is they're bringing them all together in a university in Paris where they'll be fully contained, 600 of them, and they will go straight from there, straight into Japan. They won’t put anyone on a plane who has got coronavirus. 【1】What is the main purpose of the first paragraph? A.To discover the victims of the virus. B.To show that the virus is not terrible. C.To study the harm of the COVID-19 illness. D.To support the IOC'S idea for the Tokyo Olympics below. 【2】What can we infer from John Coates’ words in Para. 2? A.All sports games will start on July 24. B.Australians should self-isolate at home. C.The IOC will not cancel the Tokyo Olympics. D.The Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled in May. 【3】What is the attitude of the IOC towards the Tokyo Olympic Games? A.Uncertain. B.Supportive. C.Negative. D.Dissatisfied. 【4】What is the main idea of the text? A.IOC's confidence in the Tokyo Olympic Games. B.The uncertain future of the Tokyo Olympic Games. C.Peoples worries about the spreading of coronavirus. D.Chinese athletes' preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games. |
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Critical（批判的）thinking is the art of using reason to analyze ideas and dig deeper to get to our true potential. It doesn’t mean you’re thinking harder or longer. 【1】 Here are some tips and ideas to help you build a foundation for critical thinking. Question your assumptions. We make a lot of assumptions about almost everything. It’s how our brain processes certain pieces of information, and how we get along in everyday life. You could say they are the foundation of our critical framework. 【2】 Then the whole foundation needs to be rebuilt, from the bottom up. Don’t take information on authority until you've investigated it yourself. Instead of double-checking everything anyone says, we tend to label information as either coming from a trustworthy or not trustworthy source. This keeps us from double-checking every piece of information that comes our way, saving time and energy. But it also keeps us from getting to the bottom of things we think of as coming from a trustworthy source, even when they don’t. 【3】 Put yourself in other people’s shoes. Empathy can also help you develop your critical thinking skills. 【4】 You may find that a little understanding facilitates a deeper insight into other people and their behavior. The deeper your insight into yourself and others, the wiser your decisions will be. 【5】 There is no way to learn better than learning from your friends. If you only want to be a big fish swimming in the little pond just because your ego（自负）feels good, keep this part. If you are wondering about how to develop critical skills, make friends with smart people and throw away your ego. A. Actually, it’s about thinking better. B. Surround yourself with people smarter than you. C. Be someone that people know that they can count on. D. You should not judge others until you fully understand their situation. E. But what if they turned out to be wrong, or at least not entirely truthful? F. The reason is that understanding does not always go with the right action. G. So what is published in a magazine or online doesn’t mean it’s necessarily true. |
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It’s pretty common to feel like we’re in a position or career where we’re just going through the motions, trying to get to that next paycheck or the next vacation. Yet, it is __________ to hope for or to expect better from those we work for after we have __________ what we have been assigned to do. St. John Properties just __________ $10 million in holiday bonuses to their employees! This incredible __________ came during the company’s holiday party where all 198 employees were __________ with a sealed envelope. Then, the company owner Edward St. John took to the stage and said each envelope __________ a bonus check based on the time with the company, at a(n) __________ of $50,000 per employee. When St. John was asked what __________ him to give away such sizable bonuses, he simply said, “They’re the ones who make the boat go.” Sometimes, it may feel like our __________ at work or at home may go unnoticed so that’s why it’s important to __________ them on a personal level. In doing so, it helps us better appreciate our colleagues or __________ members for their own efforts. When we show our __________ , not only during the holiday season but every chance we get, we __________ to improve morale and team spirit. __________ , it helps to remind us of our potential, both __________ and collective, and leads us to the opportunities we deserve. 【1】A.impossible B.strange C.ridiculous D.acceptable 【2】A.refused B.adjusted C.accomplished D.delayed 【3】A.handed down B.gave out C.handed in D.gave up 【4】A.impact B.gift C.policy D.notice 【5】A.awarded B.inspired C.presented D.impressed 【6】A.contained B.cashed C.represented D.covered 【7】A.expense B.average C.loss D.rate 【8】A.disturbed B.allowed C.forced D.caused 【9】A.positions B.roles C.efforts D.achievements 【10】A.value B.recognize C.admit D.encourage 【11】A.family B.society C.group D.union 【12】A.determination B.knowledge C.appreciation D.view 【13】A.choose B.tend C.try D.expect 【14】A.Otherwise B.Therefore C.However D.Furthermore 【15】A.individual B.physical C.mental D.hidden |
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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。 President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions 【1】 fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhong Nanshan,84, 【2】 excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three【3】(other) were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒).They are Zhang Boli, a【4】(tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu , head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist 【5】 made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research. Zhong also has long been devoted to the research ,prevention and【6】(treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases(慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of achievements. He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状) outbreak in 2003 in China.【7】(follow) the COVID-19 outbreak , the Chinese government encouraged the country【8】(contain) the disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42000 medical workers from across the country 【9】(send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been 【10】(effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March. |
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假如你是李华，你最近在某网站购得一部电子书阅读器(Kindle)，却发现商品存在一些质量问题，请你给商品负责人写一封电子邮件进行投诉，要点如下:1.购买时间；2.质量问题；3.你的要求。 注意:1.词数80词左右；2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。 Dear Sir/Madam, I am Li Hua. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua |
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阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 Jatin and his younger sister, Neha, lived with their parents in a poor neighborhood. Their mother was very sick and their father was struggling to find a job, and they had only a little money with which to buy food. As they had not paid the rent for several months, the landlord was breathing down their necks (盯着他们). One day, Jatin took Neha's shoes to a shoe repairman to be fixed, but he lost them on the way home. It wasn't until he got home that he realized he had lost the shoes. He was afraid that his parents would be angry and disappointed. So he begged his sister to keep it secret. Neha agreed and the two decided to share Jatin' s running shoes. Neha's school hours were in the morning, so she would wear them first. After school, she would rush back and give them to Jatin. He could then run to his school, which began in the afternoon. Although he ran as fast as he could, Jatin often arrived late and was warned by the school. A long distance race was going to be held for the boys in the city. When Jatin learned that the third prize was a new pair of shoes, he decided to take part. He ran home excitedly and promised his sister that he would win her the new shoes. The day of race arrived. Jatin had a strong start, but halfway through the race he began to get tired and his legs began to ache. Getting more and more exhausted he thought only of Neha and his promise to her. Dreaming of the new shoes he would win for his sister gave him strength, and he stayed right behind the two fastest runners, determined to finish third. Suddenly, as the finish line drew near, another runner collided(碰撞) with Jatin from behind and Jatin fell on the ground. 注意： 1. 所续写短文的词数应为150左右 2. 续写部分分为两段，开头已给出。 Paragraph 1: Jatin looked up and he saw the other boys rushing ahead. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Paragraph 2: Filled with pleasure, Jatin walked home in no time. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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