长篇阅读10题，总分值：20分
Directions： You are going to read a passage with 10 statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter.
Teens Give up Traditional Summer Jobs to Build Careers
(A) Pikesville Josh Borris is working this summer, but he won’t be paid. Completing a second summer as an intern (实习生) at Correct Rx Pharmacy Services Inc., he said, is more valuable than earning money at a traditional summer job. “I want to one day be a pharmacist (药剂师) researcher figuring out how drugs interact with the human body,” he said of his summer work at the institutional pharmacy company. “This internship is an experience for the future.” Even as fewer teens seek to work during the summer, some like Borris are pursuing internships or other experiences. They hope such experiences will give them a leg up on their intended careers. “Right now, there is pressure on finding a career,” said John A. Challenger, CEO of the employment-consulting firm. “People worry that there won’t be something for them coming out of school.”
(B) But not everyone. Many teenagers simply don’t want to work. Only about a million of the 11 million youths between 16 and 19 who were neither employed nor actively seeking work last year wanted a job, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The rest, according to surveys conducted by the bureau, said they did not want to work. The percentage of youths in the workforce has declined steadily since 1994, according to the BLS. It hit an all-time low record last year and may be headed even lower this summer.
(C) Still, there are jobs for teens – and teens who want to take them. Nearly 1.1 million teens found work last summer, up from 960,000 in 2010, according to the BLS. In a report issued in late April, John A. Challenger, CEO of the firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas employment consulting projected more would find jobs this summer, even though they face increased competition from older, more experienced applicants, including people in their 20s looking for any kind of work and “retirees who are seeking low-skilled, low-pressure jobs to supplement their retirement income”. Not counted in the data are the
teens who win internships. While most internships go to college and graduate school students, some high-schoolers also are in the hunt.
(D) “There may be as many as two million interns employed each year,” wrote Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, in a report issued May 23. “Experts agree that the internship phenomenon was growing even before the Great Recession and has accelerated since. Yet, few can provide any information on the impact of internships, paid or unpaid, on the labor market or the wages and employment prospects of young people.” More and more teenagers are keen on filling their resumés with work experience beyond the traditional summer jobs of scooping (用勺舀) ice cream and waiting tables, Challenger said.
(E) Riley Drake, a senior, got an unpaid internship last June at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine through family connections. She still works there on an immunology (免疫学) project, developing and testing tumor-targeted antibodies (抗体). “I was excited to just be a lab monkey,” Drake said, “but I ended up getting to work on my own project. This is valuable because not only am I finding something no one has found before, but I’m learning interpersonal skills, lab skills and how to interact with people older than I am.”
(F) Yvette Schein, a senior at Baltimore’s Bryn Mawr School, also has used her summers as an opportunity to pursue what interests her: global health. “For the past three summers I’ve gone to Tanzania for five weeks,” she said. “I help with a public health research project called ‘Partnership for the Rapid Elimination of Trachoma’.” Schein’s father, Dr. Oliver Schein, a professor at the Hopkins medical school, connected her with the project but doesn’t go on the trips with her. Her first summer, she mostly handed out forms to patients. The past two years, she performed tests on patients with trachoma, an eye disease. This summer she is going to help map how the disease spreads by marking infected homes with a Global-Positioning System. “I get to see an entirely different perspective on the world,” she said. “This has changed my life.”
(G) Not everyone is fortunate enough to have connections like those. Baltimore has developed a program to find real-world work experience for city teenagers called ‘Baltimore City Youth Works’, which finds paying summer jobs for young people between 14 and 21 in the public and private sectors.
The program, which runs from June 25 to August 3, aims to give young people “the chance to put a stamp on what our future workforce will look like,” said Brice Freeman, spokesman for the mayor’s office of employment development. “We’ve secured jobs for around 5,000 people this summer.”
(H) Jasmine Lane, a senior at the Academy for College and Career Exploration in Baltimore, got a job through the program at Veolia Transportation, which provides taxi and other public transportation services in the city. She’s worked at the front desk for the company, answering phones, assisting customers, filling out paperwork and taking inventory. “It’s a great program,” Lane said. “It really boosts teens’ skills and gives teens more experience to put on their resumés. When you don’t have experience, you can’t get certain jobs.”
(I) Of course, not every teen focuses exclusively on career-oriented experience. Danielle Moses, a junior at Du Bois High School in Baltimore, who has obtained positions through Youth Works in the past, wants a paying job at McDonald’s or at a hairstyling school this summer. “I like having my own money, and a job gives me something to do during the summer,” she said. Still, Moses said, in the future she hopes to pursue a summer job or an internship related to her intended career: nursing. If she does, Moses would be joining what Challenger said is a growing number of teens choosing a career-oriented internship or job. “Jobs right now,” he said, “are trials for future roles.”
1)
An increasing number of teenagers are more aware of the importance of real-work experience than traditional summer jobs. (D)
2)
Some teens hope to get a summer job with some payment because they want to have money of their own. I
3)
According to Challenger, some retired people are also hunting for jobs in order to earn some extra money for their better retirement life. (C)
4)
Internship is very important for it helps young people master a lot of skills such as how to communicate with other people and how to work in the lab. E
5)
The number of the young people who don’t want to work is on the rise since 1990s. B
6)
The experience of internship has a big impact on interns’ life, which helps them see the world from a completely different perspective. F
7)
Quite a few students work as interns in order to gain experience for their future work. A
8)
According to experts internship first appeared before the Great Recession and since then it has been developing at a faster rate. D
9)
Some city government has offered a program intended to help young people gain some work experience. G
10)
Internships are popular among college graduates but there is also a chance for high school students. C 参考答案：
1) D 2) I 3) C 4) E 5) B 6) F 7) A 8) D 9) G 10) C
阅读理解15题，总分值：30分
Directions： Read the following passages carefully. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished sentences. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer to each question.
As the world becomes increasingly populated, it is also becoming alarmingly polluted. We use more resources, produce more waste, and cause more environmental distress than ever before. Fortunately, there are many ways that you can help to counter the negative effects that we force on the environment. One of these is driving an electric car. This benefits not only the environment but also individual drivers.
Electric cars produce about 80 percent less pollution than cars with gas-powered motors. In fact, the only reason that electric cars produce any pollution at all is that their electric energy is generated by power plants — electric cars themselves send out no exhaust. When energy comes from large sources such as power plants, it’s easier to regulate and monitor, so there’s less waste than if the energy is generated by many smaller sources, such as the gas engines in individual cars.
In addition, electric cars are simply more efficient than gas-powered cars for several reasons. First, electric cars have regenerative breaking, which means that when you use the brakes (刹车) in an electric car, the battery has a chance to recharge. Conversely, when you brake in a gas-powered car, you actually use energy.
Also, during the production of electric cars, more time and energy are spent making the design lighter and more powerful so that there will be less drag from the wind. This allows them to travel farther using less energy than a gas-powered car would use to go the same distance.
Moreover, electric cars can also save people time. While gas-powered cars require visits to a mechanic every few months, the only routine maintenance required by electric cars is replacing the battery every four years.
Overall, there are numerous benefits of driving an electric car. It may take a little getting used to, but in the long run, the use of electric cars can help save the environment and give people more time and money to be put to better use. 11)
What way is discussed to help reduce environmental distress?
A. Using less energy resources.
B. Making the world less populated.
D. Driving an electric car.
C. Producing less waste and pollution.
12)
Why do electric cars produce much less pollution?
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