1、【 精品教育资源文库】体育类单词识记：event Olympic race associationbeat coach deserve goalgymnastics applaud judge matchprofessional score shoot athletecourt defeat victory champion短语扫描：burst into cheers 欢呼起来fall behind 落在()后面hold ones breath 屏住呼吸go all out全力以赴take up开始(从事)take the lead带头participate in 参加in competit
2、ion with 与竞争sign up报名参加judging by/from根据作出判断跟踪训练.语境填词1.This article discussed those (事件) that led to her death.2.This place had too many (联想) with my childhood.3.Our (目标) for the moment is to try and score points at each race.4.Add up your (分) and see how many points you can get.5.His (profession) c
3、areer started at Liverpool University.单项填空6.“Talking about drugs helped prepare me for the peer pressures in high school， ”says Michelle,17，who the first program.A.participated in B.worked outC.approved of D.made up【 精品教育资源文库】7.To protect the environment，the local government has put up a lot of to
4、warn the citizens not to litter the ground.A.sighs B.sights C.signals D.signs8. the number of cars，he thought there were not many people at the club.A.He judged by B.Judged fromC.Judge by D.Judging from9.James so far behind in the race that he knew he had little chance of winning.(2016南京、盐城一模)A.fell
5、 B.fallsC.has fallen D.was falling10.If you drive from the airport，go on the motorway and follow the .A.ways B.points C.signals D.signs.阅读理解At 23，my career got going.I was midway through a masters degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science and had been hired as a parttime reporte
6、r for a finance website.I got a great onemonth review and my boss asked if I was interested in staying with the company after graduation.However，balancing graduate studies with work was challenging.To deal with it，I checked my real self at my office door.I came in to work，greeted my colleagues and l
7、istened more than I contributed in each morning meeting.The small team I worked with often seemed busy，so rather than giving ideas that might get turned down，I stayed back.After four months，my boss called me into his office.The meeting was going well until he told me that despite the great work I ha
8、d produced，the team had held a meeting and decided， “We dont think its the right fit.”I must have looked confused.“Youre ambitious，intelligent and will be very successful， ” my boss said.“But you havent made enough effort to join the team.You lost the enthusiasm you showed in your interview.That won
9、t work long term，and if I could give you one piece of advice，it would be to let your 【 精品教育资源文库】guard down.” I couldnt believe that performing well at my job wasnt enough to keep it.But I knew my boss was right.They knew that when they hired me，I had no experience in finance reporting，yet they took
10、 a chance on me.In meetings I usually contributed last，after I had heard everyone elses suggestions.I did it to show that I was a listener，but also to hide my fears.They liked the person who walked into the interview，and they didnt respect me when I hid that person from them.“Dont leave before you l
11、eave.” That advice is essential for women at all stages of our careers.Because we work so hard for success，we dont like to think that we hurt ourselves sometimes.But each of us must change when necessary.In trying to earn a fulltime job，I “leaned back” in order not to show too much of myself or my l
12、ack of expertise(专门知识).I learned that the hard way wasnt the way to achieve our goals.1.Why was the author offered a job at the company at first?A.She just got her masters degree in finance.B.She greatly impressed her boss in her first month.C.She had quite a lot of experience in finance reporting.D
13、.She showed her special financial talent while working there.2.During her next four months at the company，the author .A.performed well enough to earn the teams respectB.didnt balance her graduate studies with work very wellC.was a good listener and contributed a lot in the meetingsD.was afraid to of
14、fer her ideas because of her lack of confidence3.What does the author intend to tell us in the passage?A.We should always keep up our enthusiasm at work.B.Expertise and experience are greatly valued in the workplace.C.We should not shy away from sharing our ideas when working in a team.D.Its unwise
15、of women to show themselves off when taking part in teamwork.任务型阅读Age has its privileges in America，and one of the more important of them is the senior citizen discount.Anyone who has reached a certain agein some cases as low as 55is automatically entitled to dazzling array of price reductions at ne
16、arly every level of commercial life.Eligibility(资格) is determined not by 【 精品教育资源文库】ones need but by the date on ones birth certificate.Practically unheard of a generation ago，the discounts have become a routine part of many businessesas common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on
17、 airliners.People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them；yet，millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent(有支付能力的).Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans.The practice
18、 is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous(同义的).Perhaps that once was true，but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population.To be sure，there is economic diversity within the elderly，and many older American
19、s are poor.But most of them arent.It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies.For many firms， they are a stimulus to revenue.But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly，of younger Americans.Moreover，they are a direct irritan
20、t(刺激物) in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits，which mostly involve a transfer of resources from the young to the old.Employment is another sore point.Supported by
21、 laws and court decisions，more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on thejobthereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.Far from a kind of charity they once were，senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic p
22、rivilege to a group with millions of members who dont need them.It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others.Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people cant take care of themselves and need special tr
23、eatment；and they threaten the creation of a new myth，that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups.Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing 【 精品教育资源文库】older Americans are fighting againstdiscrimination by age.Outline Deta
24、ilsIntroductionAge determines whether an American can be given a discount，which is a common 4. in American business life today.Origin of senior citizen discountSince the senior citizens are often treated as people who are in 5. ，they are given such priority.6. situationThe situation has changed a lot where the majority of the elderly are not poor at all.Younger Americans were at a(an) 7. directly or indirectly due to the discounts given to the elderly，thus leading to conflicts between generations.The number of older Americans 8. to w
