四川省绵阳南山中学2022┄2022学年高二上学期期中考试英语试题

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第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

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They say if you love your job, you’ll never work a day in your life. We say if you travel for work, you’ll never have a boring commute（上下班往返） a day in your life. If the typical 9-to-5 isn’t working for you, here are some options that will pay you to travel. No matter your current skill set, you can probably do it somewhere else.

Represent abroad

The State Department is actively hiring Foreign Service Officers, and it’s probably easier than you think to bec ome one. You’ll have to a lot of tests, but if you pass, you’ll spend the next years of your life working around the world. A Junior Foreign Service Officer starts at $71,000 a year.

Teaching English as a Second Language abroad is one of the best ways to deepen understanding of another culture. There’s no need to be a certified English teacher in order to go abroad. In this program in China, soon-to-be teachers go abroad to obtain their Teaching English as a Foreign Language（TEFL）certifications. A beginning teacher in China will earn $2,500 for working six months, plus room and board.

A cruise ship is a floating village. Therefore, any job that you could have in a village you could have onboard a ship-even auctioneering（做拍卖师）. Carnival is hiring an art auctioneer to work aboard a luxury cruise ship. The only qualifications necessary are a college degree and public speaking skills. Going…going…sold.

Write the rails

Writers can reimagine themselves as rail-surfing Jack Kerouacs, crossing the country and wri ting from coast to coast on the Amtrak Writer’s Residency. The application process consists of two questions, as well as the opportunity to provide up to a 20-page writing sample. Amtrak will select 24 writers to participate in the program with the help from a panel of judges.

Although the project won’t replace a full-time job, it’s really a fun opportunity. The application period for 2016 has closed, but applications will reopen in the fall.

21.Which job requires a college degree？

A. Representing abroad

B. Teaching English in China

C. Selling art on the seas

D. Writing the rails

22.The advertisement is intended for .

A. Those who are tired of their present jobs

B. Those who want to have a job with traveling

C. Those who just graduate from university

D. Those who want to go on vacation abroad

23.What may Jack Kerouacs be？

A. Director of the Amtrak Writer’s Residency

B. A sportsman devoted to rail-surfing

C. An applicant of the program

D. A famous writer

B

Every man wants his son to be somewhat of a clone, not in features but in footsteps. As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable. You begin to realize that your boy, in your footsteps, could probably accomplish what you hoped for. But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.

My son Jody has hated school since day one in kindergarten. Science projects waited until the last moment. Book reports weren’t written until the final threat.

I’ve been a newspaperman all my adult life. My daughter is a university graduate working toward her master’s degree in English. But Jody？When he entered the tenth grade he became a “vo-tech” student（技校学生）. They’re called “motorheads” by the rest of the

student body.

When a secretary in my office firs t called him “motorhead”, I was shocked. “Hey, he’s a good kid,” I wanted to say. “And smart, really.”

I learned later that motorheads are, indeed, different. They usually have dirty hands and wear dirty work clothes. And they don’t often make school honor rolls（光荣榜）.

But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education. We who labor in clean shirts in offices don’t have the abilities that motorheads have. I began to learn this when I had my car crashed. The cost to repair it was estimat ed at $800. “Hey, I can fix it,” said Jody. I doubted it, but let him go ahead, for I had nothing to lose.

My son ,with other motorheads, fixed the car. They got parts from a junkyard, and ability from vo-tech classes. The lost was $25 instead of $800.

Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed. Neighbors and co-workers trust their car repairs to him.

These kids are happiest when doing repairs. They joke and laugh and are living in their own relaxed world. And their minds are bright despite their dirty hands and clothes.

I have learned a lot from my motorhead：publishers need printers, engineers need mechanics, and architects need builders. Most important, I have learned that fath ers don’t need clones in footsteps or anywhere else.

My son may never make the school honor roll. But he made mine.

24. What used to be the author’s hope for his son？

A. T o avoid becoming his clone

B. To resemble him in appearance

C. T o reach the author’s unachieved goals

D. T o develop in a different direction

25. The author let his son repair the car because he believed that .

A. His son had the ability to fix it

B. it wouldn’t cause him any more loss

C. it would save him much time

D. other motorheads would come to help

26. In the author’s eyes, motorheads are .

A. cheerful and smart

B. tidy and hardworking

C. lazy but bright

D. relaxed but rude

27. What did the author realize in the end？

A. Motorheads have greater ability than office workers

B. It is important for one to make the honor roll

C. Architects play a more important role than builders

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