Britain has laws to make sure that women have the same chances as men in education, jobs and training.But it's still unusual to find women doing dirty or heavy jobs.
Nikki Henriques is a car maintenance engineer in London. She used to be a secretary. Barty Phillips, a journalist of The Observer, a Sunday newspaper, asked her why she wanted to work with cars.
“My first reason was independence(独立),”she said,“I also wanted to use my hands, and I like learning about how things work. Many people prefer to have a woman repair their cars, too.”
Nikki didn't find it easy to become a car maintenance engineer. She went to a Government Skill Center——a special sort of college where people can learn a new job——for twenty weeks. “For ten weeks I was the only woman among four hundred men, and some of them were rude to me.It was also very tiring——from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon, with only 30 minutes for lunch.”
Now Nikki works freelance, that is, she's self-employed, working for herself and not for a garage or a compare
Barty Phillips, also spoke to Rose, who works as a general builder in Sheffield, an industrial town in the north of England.Like Nikki, Rose used to be a secretary.“I didn't enjoy it at all,” she said.“I wanted to do more practical work, and I wanted to be self-employed.”
Rose joined a women's building cooperative, and she learnt her job from other people and from experience.However, many of the women in her group have been specially trained.Most of the jobs they do are improvements to buildings and general repairs.
“People often say, 'Oh, women aren't strong enough,' but I don't think strength is important,” said Rose.“The important thing is to get used to doing a different sort of work”
Rose would like more women to come into the building industry, “Everything built at the moment is a product of men's world.If women become builders, they will be able to understand the production of their houses and their towns.”
(1) There are laws in Britain to help women _________.
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A.get higher pay than men
B.enjoy more freedom than men
C.do dirty or heavy jobs
D.have equal chances with men in education and work
(2) The job of a car maintenance engineer is to _________.
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A.make cars
B.sell cars
C.repair cars
D.keep cars for others
(3) According to Rose, a woman wishing to be a general builder _________
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A.must be specially trained
B.should be strong enough
C.can learn her job either from others or by experience
D.must get used to doing a different sort of work
(4) The best title for this passage might be _________
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A.Nikki Henriques, A Car Maintenance Engineer
B.Rose, A General Builder in Sheffield
C.Women at Work
D.British Women
科目:高中英语 来源: 题型:054
Last Thursday, the day before I got on the plane to fly to China, I went to see a movie. It wasn’t just any movie, but the recently released(上映)Harry Potter blockbuster(耗费巨资拍摄的电影)“The philosopher’s Stone” that has 1 Britain, America, and now Japan, by storm.
The film is a tale of witchcraft(魔法) 2 in modern-day Britain. Based on a book by J. K. Rowling, 3 tells the story of a very 4 baby, seared at birth by an evil wizard who kills his parents. The only legacy (遗赠物)of the tragedy is a red 5 on the baby’s forehead-and magical 6 , inherited(继承)from his mother and father, to fight against and overcome evil.
The Harry Potter myth was founded five years ago by Joanne Rowling, a 7 single mother living in Edinburgh, in the north of the United Kingdom. To date, 110 million 8 of her books have been sold worldwide. But before her publishers would 9 the first manuscript(手稿),Joanne Rowling 10 agree to change her name on the book cover to J. K. Rowling
11 it was feared that child, 12 young boys, 13 not read an adventure story written by a woman. 14 , when the books became an overnight success, did it become generally known that the talented and creative author was 15 a young and attractive woman.
At the start of production, forty thousand 16 actors were auditioned(试演)and
17 for the screen role, yet Daniel Radcliffe was discovered when the producers took a
18 and went out to a theatre in London’s west end. There in the 19 row sat young Daniel who was visiting the theatre with his father for an evening’s entertainment. Daniel was screen tested and with J. K. Rowling’s agreement was immediately 20 the part. Now kids around the world together with their parents are quite familiar with Harry Potter and the actor Daniel Reddiffe.
1.A.arrived B.taken C.hit D.brought
2.A.published B.shown C.set D.seen
3.A.he B.which C.one D.it
4.A.lovely B.interesting C.poor D.special
5.A.mark B.sign C.note D.character
6.A.energies B.strength C.powers D.force
7.A.lonely B.serious C.weak D.poor
8.A.kinds B.copies C.pieces D.sets
9.A.receive B.admit C.accept D.allow
10.A.was to B.planned to C.had to D.preferred to
11.A.so B.since C.although D.because
12.A.particularly B.frequently C.greatly D.recently
13.A.should B.could C.would D.might
14.A.Even later B.Only later C.Later in the year D.Sooner or later
15.A.in fact B.after all C.at least D.in time
16.A.men B.film C.play D.child
17.A.checked B.examined C.tested D.questioned
18.A.bus B.walk C.break D.look
19.A.back B.next C.front D.opposite
20.A.supplied B.provided C.acted D.offered
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The first Olympic Games at Olympia were held in 776 B. C. They were held 1 four years from 776 B. C. to 393 A. D. In ancient 2 , games were closely 3 to the worship(尊敬)of the gods and heroes. They were also held as part of religious ceremonies(宗教仪式)to 4 dead heroes. But from the beginning, the games at Olympia served to 5 the Greek sense of national unity. So every four years over 1 100 years, thousands of 6 stopped all wars and 7 to a small sanctuary in northwestern Greece for five days in the late summer for 8 reason—to watch the Olympic Games. During that time, 9 from all over the Greek world competed in a number of 10 events and worshipped the gods at Olympia. The athletes competed not for 11 or material goods, 12 only for the honor of being Olympic visitors. Like our Olympics, 13 athletes were heroes who put their hometowns on the map. However, 14 our Olympics, only 15 who spoke Greek could compete, instead of athletes from any 16 and the games were 17 held at Olympia instead of moving around to different places every time.
The 18 Olympics had a rich variety of games. Many of these games are the ancestors of our modern Olympic Games and had 19 and playing conditions which modern athletes would be very 20 with. They include boxing, jumping, running, wrestling and so on.
1. A. some B. each
C. every D. any
2. A. Britain B. Greece
C. Russia D. China
3. A. stuck B. known
C. connected D. owed
4. A. welcome B. honor
C. call D. meet
5. A. strengthen B. invent
C. reach D. form
6. A. soldiers? B. athletes?
C. people D. players
7. A. marched B. rode
C. flew D. crowded
8. A. a single B. some
C. a certain D. no
9. A. people B. audience
C. competitors D. soldiers
10. A. physical B. athletic
C. political D. interesting
11. A. money B. fame
C. victory D. medal
12. A. and B. while
C. but D. because
13. A. good B. all
C. winning D. brave
14. A. for B. unlike
C. like D. as
15. A. free men B. slaves
C. poor men D. Frenchmen
16. A. continent B. town
C. period D. country
17. A. always B. again
C. usually D. sometimes
18. A. recent B. biggest
C. ancient D. modern
19. A. armies B rules
C. competitors D. fields
20. A. agreeable B. delighted
C. familiar D. popular
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The 18 Olympics had a rich variety of games. Many of these games are the ancestors of our modern Olympic Games and had 19 and playing conditions which modern athletes would be very 20 with. They include boxing, jumping, running, wrestling and so on.
1. A. some B. each
C. every D. any
2. A. Britain B. Greece
C. Russia D. China
3. A. stuck B. known
C. connected D. owed
4. A. welcome B. honor
C. call D. meet
5. A. strengthen B. invent
C. reach D. form
6. A. soldiers? B. athletes?
C. people D. players
7. A. marched B. rode
C. flew D. crowded
8. A. a single B. some
C. a certain D. no
9. A. people B. audience
C. competitors D. soldiers
10. A. physical B. athletic
C. political D. interesting
11. A. money B. fame
C. victory D. medal
12. A. and B. while
C. but D. because
13. A. good B. all
C. winning D. brave
14. A. for B. unlike
C. like D. as
15. A. free men B. slaves
C. poor men D. Frenchmen
16. A. continent B. town
C. period D. country
17. A. always B. again
C. usually D. sometimes
18. A. recent B. biggest
C. ancient D. modern
19. A. armies B rules
C. competitors D. fields
20. A. agreeable B. delighted
C. familiar D. popular
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“If you haven't got anything interesting 1 , don't say anything 2 .” That's 3 mothers and fathers sometimes 4 their young children.It is not rather a good way 5 the children shut up.However, the Maxism may be worth remembering.
If you are 6 speaking 7 , have you 8 had to stand up in front of a crowd, knees trembling to speak? You have almost certainly been bored by one of those public speakers who can make even 9 seem endless.In our new radio series Speak Out, we examine the art of speaking in English, and take a look at the trick people use to draw and hold the attention of an audience.
The series is based on actual speeches 10 during a public speaking competition organized by the English Speaking Union.Every year the ESU invites pupils from schools all 11 Britain to choose a subject then come to London and give their 12 speeches in front of the audience.
The young speakers-all 13 their mid-teens are judged on their general ability, 14 on their originality and mastery of the subject.We have 15 some of the speeches and you will be able to listen to them in the Speak Out programs.
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Like that of her own character, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling’s life is like a fairy tale. Divorced, living on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling 1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 2 a table in a café during her daughter’s naps – and it was Harry Potter 3 rescued her.
Rowling 4 that she always wanted to write and that the first 5 she actually wrote down, when she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit 6 Rabbit. Many of her favorite 7 center around reading – hearing The Wind in the Willows 8 aloud by her father when she had the measles(麻疹), enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, and her favorite story of all, The little White Horse.
At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and 9 one year studying in Paris. After college she moved to London to 10 as a researcher and bilingual secretary. The best thing about working in an office, she has said, was 11 up stories on the computer when no one was 12 . During this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the idea 13 her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn’t know it. He 14 a school for wizardry – she could see him very plainly in her mind. By the time the train 15 into Kings Cross station four hours later, many of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully 16 in her head. The story took further shape as she continued working on it in 17 and cafes over her lunch hours.
After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and 18 . She settled in Edinburgh to be near her sister and 19 to finish the book before looking for a teaching job. Wheeling her daughter’s carriage around the city to escape their 20 , cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to write when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.
1. A. read B. recited C. wrote D. copied
2. A. on B. in C. around D. at
3. A. what B. that C. which D. who
4. A. remembers B. thinks C. reminds D. supposes
5. A. book B. story C. novel D. fiction
6. A. naming B. published C. called D. replaced
7. A. songs B. sports C. things D. memories
8. A. spoken B. said C. told D. read
9. A. cost B. spared C. took D. spent
10. A. regard B. consider C. work D. treat
11. A. searching B. reading C. listening D. typing
12. A. noticing B. watching C. observing D. seeing
13. A. came to B. struck to C. stuck to D. hit on
14. A. studies B. attends C. builds D. goes
15. A. entered B. pulled C. reached D. arrived
16. A. organized B. taken C. formed D. appeared
17. A. theatres B. pubs C. cinemas D. concerts
18. A. chapters B. books C. magazines D. newspapers
19. A. set about B. set off C. set up D. set out
20. A. splendid B. large C. comfortable D. tiny
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