Is the world really going mad? 1._____day I was sittng in a restaurant 2._____ a quick drink and a talk with a few friends when it suddenly 3._____ me that almost everyone in the restaurant was smoking. It wasn’t long 4._____ the whole room was 5._____ with smoke. I asked with an apology for 6._____ to open a window to stop myself 7._____!

    Nowadays air pollution is something that hardly question any more. However, I still can’t walk down the street in any of the big cities without 8._____ that people are 9._____ the air pollution. It is time for the government departments of the world to introduce emission(廢氣排放) controls on all cars and 10._____ the public transport system(公共交通體系) to encourage people to 11._____ their cars at home. A friend of mine takes flying lesson each morning and it really makes him 12._____ when he climbs above the smog layer(煙霧) and looks down 13._____ it and thinks: “I’m breathing that!” This kind of 14._____ results from the bad management of resources. Waste things can 15._____ should, be treated properly. House building, road 16._____, and industrial development are all earthmoving(or earth-reducing) operations and can change the balances of 17._____ created over millions of years. I would like to 18._____serious studies done on all these main works before they are built. Also, there should be 19._____ national parks set up to keep the most beautiful parts of our countries in their natural 20._____.

.A.The other       B. Another          C. Every         D. Each

.A.asking for       B. drinking         C. having         D. buying

.A.seemed         B. struck           C. sank           D. showed

.A.ago            B. after             C. before         D. now

.A.full            B. filled          C. crowed          D. parked

.A.promise        B. help           C. suggestion        D. permission

.A.standing        B. sitting         C. talking           D. dying

.A.thinking        B. persuading      C. deciding         D. learning

.A.suffering        B. dying          C. walking         D. standing

.A.increase        B. reduce         C. improve         D. raise

.A.wash           B. repai          C. drive            D. leave

.A. sick           B. tired           C. foolish          D. excited

.A.on             B. at               C. from          D. for

.A.discussion      B. question         C. pollution        D. operation

.A.but            B. yet             C. still             D. and

.A.work           B. construction     C. building         D. setting

A.life             B. mind          C. human being      D. plants

A.see             B. start           C. enjoy            D. pay

A.few             B. any           C. more             D. no

A.situation         B. states          C. soils             D. place

     1n 2007．five young people in the American state of Massachusetts developed an idea.The team knew that the world is filled with mobile phones．About eighty percent of all people are said to live within reach ofa wireless telephone signal．   

    The idea was to use mobile phones and the Internet to connect job seekers with employers．The young people wrote a business plan and formed a company called Assured Labor．

    Assured Labor won a development competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT)．Three of the founders were graduate students there．  

    Assured Labo ris an electronic market place．It has two parts．One is for；the Unied States．That operation was launched in January in Boston．It links pe'ople with employeis offering temporary jobs．

    The other arm of the business is for developing markets．That operation is meant to help people get mbfe permanent jobs．A representative is currently building partnerships with universities，and international compaines in Central America.

    Assured Labor’s presidenL David Reich，says the companies now place job advertisements on radio or in newspapers．Some even drive around in cars with loudspeakers announcing that jobs are available．He says the companies are interested．in having more modem hiring practices．

    Through Assured Labpr,companies will list open positions on the Internet．People who think

 they could do the job could reply by text messags or on their cellphones．

    This is how the system works in Boston.

The jobs available include house cleaning．dog walking and home repai.People who want their house cleaned，for example，can look online at a list of twenty housekeepers．The list tells what services．they offer，and how much they want to be paid．People need two letters praising their work to get on the list of service providers．

    The employer chooses workers they would like jto hire ,The company then sends the workers a text or e-mail message so they can respond quickly to an offer．

    After a job is completed，the employer and employee rate each other, The rating is kept for  future use．Assured Labor is not charging anyone，right now,but the plan is to have employers pay for the service．   

61．Assured Labour is founded by                

    A．David Reich                   B．five young people in Massachusetts

    C an uknown expert                D．three graduate students fromMIT

62．what kinds ofjobs does Assured Labor offer?

    A．Temporary jobs．              B．Permanent jobs．

    C.Free jobs                       D, BothA and B·

63．Which is NOT one of the means for Assured。Labor to advertise jobsavailable?'

    A．Radio     B．Newspapers    C．TV programmes     D．Cars with loudspeakers

64．Which of the following is the proper procedure to seek a job through  Assured Labor?

    a.  People can look online at a list of jobs

    b．Companies will list open positions on the Internet．

    c．The company sends the workers a text or e-mail message．

    d．The workers can respond to an offer．

    e．The employer'chooses workers they would like to hire．

    A．a(chǎn)cdbe         B．baecd        C．bedae          D．a(chǎn)bdea

 65．What can be inferred from the passage?

    A．The present hiring practices need to be improved．

    B．Employers don’t need to pay Assured Labour．

    C．Universities also join  Assured Labor for financial help

    D. Assured Labor only offers household jobs．

66．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

    A．An Electronic MarketPlace

    B. Mobile Phones and Markets

    C. Getting Into Job Market by Mobile Phone

    D .Job Seekers and Markets

　　He's an old cobbler(修鞋匠) with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me, “I haven't time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street; he'll fix them for you right away. ”

　　But I'd had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman(手藝人). “No, ”I re-plied, “the other fellow can't do it well. ”

　　“The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “ while-U-wait ”--without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋帶) you might as well just throw away the pair.

　　The man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron(圍裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week. ”

　　I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

　　“See what I can do? ”he said with pride.“Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work. ”

　　When I got back to the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

　　These are times when nothing is impor-tant but the bottom line, when you can do things in any old way as long as it “pays”,when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption (消費(fèi)) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.

(1) Which of the following is true about the old cobbler?

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A．He was equipped with the best repai-ring tools.

B．He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

C．He was proud of his skills.

D．He was a native Parisian.

(2) The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend” (paragraph 7) implies that________.

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A．nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

B．it was difficult to communicate with this man

C．the man was very strange

D．the man was too old

(3) According to the author, many people work just to________.

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A．realize their abilities

B．gain happiness

C．make money

D．gain respect

(4) This story wants to tell us that________.

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A．craftsmen make a lot of money

B．whatever you do, do it well

C．craftsmen need self-respect

D．people are born equal