Module 2 A Job Worth Doing

（滿分150分;时间120分钟）

第一部分  听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the man do？

A. A driver. B. A policeman. C. A gatekeeper.

2. Where probably are the speakers？

A. At a bus stop. B. In a shop. C. In a hospital.

3. What does the man mean？

A. Alice wont arrive on time. B. The woman is too anxious. C. He wants to see Alice very much.

4. What is Karen late for？

A. Her class. B. Her work. C. Her interview.

5. Why does the woman have to leave？

A. She is going to pick up her daughter. B. She is going to be late for her work.

C. She does not like to talk with the man.

第二节（共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至8题。

6. What are the speakers talking about？

A. Their grandsons. B. A department for shopping. C. The youngs behavior.

7. How many T-shirts did the womans grandson buy once？

A. 10. B. 13. C. 30.

8. How did the speakers live in the past？

A. They never wasted. B. They didnt have shoes. C. They wore old clothes.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What do the speakers both want to do in the new year？

A. To save some money. B. To work harder. C. To lose weight.

10. What did Tiger do last year？

A. He joined a health club. B. He stopped smoking. C. He got a good job.

11. What does Jerry want to do this year？

A. To have a nice trip during the vacation. B. To go to New Zealand for further study.

C. To make money by selling fish.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What are the speakers mainly talking about？

A. A travel plan. B. A happy family. C. An ancient palace.

13. What is the probable relationship between the speakers？

A. Mother and son. B. Father and daughter. C. Brother and sister.

14. How does the woman feel about China？

A. Interesting. B. Mysterious. C. Great.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What do the man want to do？

A. To sell a flat. B. To rent a flat. C. To buy a flat.

16. How many bedrooms are there in the flat in Sydney Road？

A. Three. B. Two. C. One.

17. How much does the biggest flat cost each month？

A. $300. B. $250. C. $200.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Who is probably the speaker？

A. A team member. B. A sports trainer. C. A sports organizer.

19. When does the speaker give this talk？

A. Saturday morning. B. Sunday morning. C. Saturday afternoon.

20. What is the limit of the distance to make the exchange？

A. 12 meters. B. 20 meters. C. 22 meters.

第二部分  阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

A week ago “Sports for Life” program was sent to the parents， requiring them to select a sport they wanted their child to play. Since then our staff have received lots of calls from parents asking for more information about it. Here is a memo （備忘录） for your reference when you answer the phones.

Sports 1： Basketball

We expect that this will be the most popular of the three sports. Therefore， students should be advised to sign up as soon as possible. Students will take a private bus to and from Kwun Tong Sports Park. Each student will have to pay for the cost of hiring a bus. There will be four basketball courts available for our use with one teacher watching over each game.

Sports 2： Gym

We will be using St Peters Memorial Park. There are two reasons for choosing this park. First， it is not very busy and crowded before 6：00 pm. Second， there are lots of trees with plenty of shade there. Three activities， skipping， jogging， outdoor aerobics （有氧运动）， all of which are free of charge， will be arranged. And there will be a teacher on duty for each of the activities.

Sports 3： Hiking

Hiking will take place at Kowloon Peak. The activity will start at 2：30 pm and finish 90 minutes later. Three teachers will accompany the students， and a hiking instructor will accompany each group of 15 hikers. Each instructor will cost $75/hr.

21. What is the main purpose of the memo？

A. To attract more students to join in. B. To explain “Sports for Life” to the staff.

C. To collect more ideas about the program. D. To inform teachers and students of the program.

22. Why should students who want to join in Sports 1 register early？

A. Therell probably be too many of them to take part.

B. The school has only a few basketball courts.

C. There are not enough basketball teachers to go with them.

D. A bus will be hired to take students to Kwun Tong Sports Park.

23. When will Sports 3 end？

A. At 4：00 pm. B. At 3：30 pm. C. At 3：00 pm. D. At 2：30 pm.

B

Louis Pasteur， the famous French chemist and bacteriologist， invented “pasteurization”. In 1854 Pasteur was made head of the department of science at the University of Lille， and it was there that he made one of his most famous discoveries. Lille was a major center for wine and beer-making， and some of the local wine-makers asked Pasteur if he could help solve the problem of keeping wine fresh. At that time， it was believed that food and drinks go “bad” due to a purely chemical process. But during a series of experiments Pasteur proved that tiny living organisms （微生物） caused food and drinks to go bad. In the case of wine and beer the organisms are already present in the form of the various yeasts （酵母） that caused the fermentation （發酵） process. Pasteur discovered that heating the wine gently for a few minutes after it had fermented would kill off the yeast that was left in the wine， with the result that the wine would remain fresh for much longer. He also proved that food and drinks could be turned bad by other organisms that were present in the air， and that they too would keep fresh much longer if they were kept in airtight containers.

The heating process was so successful that it made Pasteur famous. It was named “pasteurization” in his honor， and by about 1900 it had been widely used for processing and bottling cows milk. The result was a huge drop in the number of bottle-fed babies dying from infant diarrhea and from that time on it has been a standard treatment for milk and many other food products. This simple process has saved thousands， possibly millions， of lives worldwide.

24. In 1854， Pasteur became ___ .

A. the chairperson of the science department at the University of Lille

B. the director of a chemical laboratory at the University of Lille

C. the general manager of a large beer-making company

D. the president of the University of Lille

25. In the mid-19th century， Lille was a major center for ___ .

A. growing grain crops B. making beer and wine

C. doing chemical researches D. producing various kinds of yeasts

26. What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 1 refer to？

A. Wine and beer. B. Food and drinks.

C. Other organisms. D. The various yeasts.

27. What can we infer from Paragraph 2 about Pasteurs discovery？

A. It is no longer widely used for treating milk and other food products.

B. It has greatly reduced the number of wars in the world.

C. It didnt bring much profit to the wine makers in Lille.

D. It has done great good to children in the world.

C

There are many ways to find a job. It can be as easy as walking into a neighborhood store to look at its announcement board. Local stores often have areas where people can put small signs telling what kind of service they need or can provide. Such services include caring for children or cleaning houses.

Or job searchers can look in the newspaper. Local newspapers have employment announcements placed by companies seeking workers.

Another popular tool for finding jobs is the Internet. For example， people in four hundred and fifty cities around the world can use the Craigslist website to buy objects， meet people or find a job. Craigslist says that it receives two million new job listings each month.

Another useful way to find a job is through a college or university. For example， students at the University of Texas in Austin can go to the Career Exploration Center to get help in finding a job. Of course， looking for a job requires knowing what kind of work you want to do. For example， there is a book called What Color is Your Parachute （降落伞）？ by Richard Bolles. This book has been helping people choose a career since it was first published in 1970.

Some experts also help people find jobs. Susan W. Miller owns a company called California Career Services in Los Angeles. She says her company helps people find jobs by first helping them understand their strengths， goals and interests. Then she provides them with methods and resources to help them find the right job.

28. What can you do on the Craigslist website？

A. Sell your old things. B. Do some shopping online.

C. Create your own announcement board. D. Get useful information about 450 cities.

29. What Color is Your Parachute？ is useful for those who want to ___ .

A. work on the airplane B. find a suitable job

C. buy a parachute D. publish a book

30. How many ways to find a job are mentioned in the passage？

A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.

31. What is the passage mainly about？

A. Ways to find a job. B. Craigslist website.

C. College students part-time jobs. D. The relation between study and work.

D

Theres a good chance that something youve bought online has been in the hands of a “picker” first. These are the workers in warehouses （倉库） who pick， pack and ship all those things were ordering.

At Amazon and other companies， theyre working side by side with robots. Experts say while the robots are replacing some human workers， the machines arent quite ready to take over completely.

When a robot finds its storage unit， it slides underneath， lifts it up and then delivers it to a worker—theyre called pickers. On a recent day， the computer told a picker to grab what looked like a fantasy board game. The picker found it， scanned it and placed it on the conveyor （传输机） belt.

“In a traditional fulfillment center （订单履行中心） where the associate would walk to the different items， it can take hours to fulfill a customer order，” Robinson says.

Now， with the help of robots， that task takes minutes and fewer humans.

So is this a sign were entering a new industrial revolution？

“Its definitely going to take over a lot of jobs，” says Karen Myers， a scientist at SRI， one of Silicon Valleys oldest research centers.

At the same time， she says， “were running against the limits of technology.” Take “the picker” at the Amazon fulfillment center. Myers says those skills are proving to be uniquely human.

“Our fingers are unbelievably agile and the current generation of robotic operators—theyre getting much， much better，” she says. “But theyre just not quite there yet.”

Technologists say that， increasingly， humans will work side by side with robots instead of robots working alone.

Amazon says robots and humans enabled the Tracy Warehouse to fulfill customer orders faster. That means more customers and more human workers.

32. What are a pickers normal tasks？

a. Picking goods.                           b. Packing goods.

c. Shipping goods.                         d. Producing goods.

A. a， b， c B. a， b， d C. a， c， d D. b， c， d

33. With the help of robots， some tasks are ___ .

A. Better done B. less interesting C. more time-saving D. less money-making

34. Which word can replace the underlined word “agile” in Paragraph 9？

A. Quickly-moving. B. Unreal. C. Powerful. D. Energetic.

35. What is the best title for the text？

A. The Future of Robots B. The Advantages of Shopping Online

C. Robots Replacing Humans Completely D. Robots and Humans Working Side by Side

第二節（共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Our mood may change suddenly like a storm with lightning and thunderbolts that comes without notice.

The good news is that bad moods can leave as suddenly as they have come. Exceptions to this rule of course are cases where there are other problems such as depression （抑郁症） or any other mental destruction.

How to improve your mood？

36        When you understand that you are not feeling happy and you are in depression or disappointment， then you can use these simple techniques that will be able to change the negative situation and improve your mood.

37        Exercises， gymnastics and sports help a lot to achieve a better emotional balance.

If you feel that you are in a bad mood， take a hot bath or sauna （桑拿浴）.        38

39        When you leave work or home， go to places that make you happy and calm. This helps to improve your mood.

Make relations with happy， optimistic and pleasant people.        40        Positive and optimistic feelings that create positive thinking for the future will help you overcome your bad feelings and defeat your bad mood.

When the problem of bad moods， frustration and negative emotions beyond normal situations becomes chronic （長期的）， it is important to turn to a specialist for help.

A. Change your environment.

B. The relaxation of the body will help.

C. There are ways to improve your mood.

D. This can help improve your mood greatly.

E. Use physical activity to fight against feelings of depression.

F. Changes in feelings and mood can happen for various reasons.

G. First you have to learn to recognize when you are in a bad mood.

36.                            37.                            38.                            39.                            40.

第三部分  英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节  完形填空（共20小题;每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Nick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with. I was hoping to have a relaxation the summer before my busy senior year， but my mother asked me to do her a    41   . One of her colleagues needed a full-time    42   . “You planned to volunteer at the local hospital; why not volunteer to    43    Nick instead？” Then she told me that this six-year-old boy was not a    44    child.

Nick was a lovely little boy who suffered from many disorders. Normal day-care centers would not    45    him. As a baby， he had serious ear infections which left him with equilibrium （平衡） problems. He couldnt    46    or run properly. I was hesitating （猶豫）    47

I was to take the job when my mother    48   ， “Dont you want to be a nurse in the future？ I doubt if you even have the    49   .”

Then I told her I was    50    for the job.

The day started at 7：00 am. Nick was my wake-up call！ With so much energy and very little    51   ， he was quite a mix.

At the park， when he saw all the other children play on the jungle gym and swings （秋千）， the boys face    52    up—how he wished he belonged to the group of his age！ You would think it would be    53    to get a child to go down a slide. Believe me， it wasnt！ It took time， a lot of time. But with patience and support， Nick took one step up the slide each day. We worked together to face his    54    and gradually he got closer to taking the slide of his life.

Halfway through the summer， he    55    it to the top of the slide. With my arms    56    him tightly， we flew down the slide！ I waited for his reaction. After    57    that he was safe and sound， he gave me a big    58    and asked， “May I go down again， alone？”

I had never been    59    in my life when I saw this little child climb the ladder and enjoy what other children take for granted.

This    60    child taught me that being a nurse means respect， kindness and patience.

41. A. service B. business C. favor D. trade

42. A. nurse B. waitress C. guard D. guide

43. A. protect B. attend C. defend D. comfort

44. A. bad B. clever C. normal D. friendly

45. A. admit B. receive C. accept D. adopt

46. A. speak B. play C. stand D. walk

47. A. if B. what C. why D. where

48. A. suggested B. argued C. challenged D. commented

49. A. courage B. energy C. belief D. time

50. A. fit B. sorry C. grateful D. ready

51. A. attention B. knowledge C. balance D. control

52. A. delighted B. cheered C. lit D. shut

53. A. difficult B. interesting C. simple D. terrible

54. A. fears B. worries C. chances D. situations

55. A. climbed B. got C. managed D. made

56. A. taking B. holding C. bringing D. greeting

57. A. reporting B. remembering C. recognizing D. realizing

58. A. kiss B. clap C. welcome D. surprise

59. A. busier B. worse C. happier D. stronger

60. A. poor B. smart C. brave D. special

第二節 （共10小题;每小题1.5分，满分15分）

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。

Robinson Crusoe is an English sailor. After many adventures and dangers， he comes to Brazil， where he settles down another voyage—to West Africa， for    61    purpose of trading with the natives. During a storm， the ship    62    （destroy） off the coast of an island without people， and he alone manages to swim ashore， while all the rest of the crew are drowned. He    63    （build） himself a house， and lives first by hunting and raising livestock and    64    （crop）. He saves a savage （野人） from the hands of cannibals （食人者）， gives    65    （he） the name Friday， and makes him into a    66    （perfectly） servant. After some time he rescues three more prisoners （俘虏） from the cannibals. For many years he manages to live on the island.

One day an English ship visits the island， its crew planning    67    （leave） the captain and his officers ashore. Robinson succeeds

68    helping the captain get control of the ship again.

Robinson，    69    （take） Friday with him， is invited aboard the ship and returns to England. After some years he revisits his island colony，    70    is becoming more and more prosperous， but Friday is killed during an attack by the Indians.

61.                            62.                            63.                            64.                            65.

66.                            67.                            68.                            69.                            70.

第四部分  写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节  短文改错（共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分）

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。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（＼）劃掉。

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。

I am anxiously expecting your letter， and at last it reached you. I am very glad now to know that everyone at home are enjoying good health as usually. Things here are same as they were before. The final examination will take place in next week， so I am now busy with preparing my lessons. Its nice to think that the summer vacation is coming near. I cant say how many I want to see you all again. I am looking forward to spend the summer days with you. Give my loves to Father， Mother and the others at home.

第二节  书面表达（满分25分）

假如你是李平，你从报纸上得知某外贸超市欲招聘会说英语的临时服务员。请你根据下列提示用英语写一封求职信，内容包括：

1.个人基本情况;

2.你的能力与特长;

3.你的希望。

注意：

1.词数100左右，信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数;

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Sir or Madam，

Im writing in response to your advertisement for a temporary position as a shop assistant.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely，

Li Ping