“Hire me! I’ll do the best for your company,” Lucas Stewart, with a sign on his back, shouted loudly on Bay Street in Toronto. Now it’s becoming more and more difficult to find a job. Do you want not to look foolish or do the wrong things at your new job?

It is important to make the right impression（印象）from the very first day. You will be in a new place. You will face new people. It may be difficult to know what to do. Here are five tips to help you make it through the first day at a new job.

First impression can last forever. Make sure you make a good one. Before your first day, find out if your new job has rules about what you can wear to work. If so, be sure to follow them. No matter what, always be neat and clean.

Get to work on time. Give yourself an extra（额外的）15 minutes to make sure you arrive on time. Pay attention to introductions. One of the first things that your supervisor may do is to introduce you to your co-workers. These co-workers will be important to you. They are the ones who will answer your questions when the boss is not around.

Ask questions. Make sure that your supervisor has told you what is expected of you. If he or she has not told you about your duties, ask for a list. Set daily and weekly goals（目标）for yourself.

Never be the first one to leave. Look at what your co-workers do. It does not look good for you to be eager to leave.

29．Before you arrive at work, you should________.

A．dress up the right way                                B．introduce yourself

C．know your duties                                       D．know your co-workers well

30．According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A．You should be the first to arrive at work.     

B．You should ask your co-workers for your duties.

C．You should not be eager to leave at the end of the day. 

D．You are required to arrive 15minutes earlier.

31．According to the passage, your supervisor is most likely your________.

A．visitor                    B．friend                     C．workmate               D．leader

32．What is the best title for this passage?

A．Getting a New Job                                     B．How to Work

C．Tips on the First Day at Work                      D．The Importance of Co-workers

   Some people study English at home. They want to do well in English and find a better job in the future. But studying at home is kind of boring and it’s hard to have a helper. Now this passage tells you something about studying English at home.

Keep a good English language dictionary at home. When you find a new word in a book, try to guess its meaning. If you can’t guess its meaning, you have to look it up in the dictionary.

Keep studying English every day. Success in studying English comes with hard work and practice. Read or write English every day. Don’t watch TV. Don’t play balls. Spend your free time studying English.

Make right goals. English is a hard language to learn. You can’t expect to be good at it in a day. Study hard, and try to make progress little by little.

Use the Internet. Many website offer online English lessons. Also, visiting English-language news sites can be a good way of learning English words and learning the language in a modern context.

36．Do some people want to do well in English and find a better job in the future?

37．What should you do when you find a new word in a book?

38．What should you do if you can’t guess a word’s meaning?

39．Where does success in studying English come from?

40．What does the passage mainly talk about?

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon. They don’t feel hurt. If the same two people meet again, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand .Friendships between us develop more slowly but may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）deeply into both families.

There is another difficult point for us to understand. Although Americans treat friends warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to them if it requires a great deal of time. But in China, we are usually generous with our time. We, as hosts, will appear at an airport even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take a day off from our work to act as guides to our friends. It is opposite in America. Americans cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily plans. They will probably expect the visitors to get themselves from the airport to the hotels. And they expect the visitors will phone them from there. Once the visitors arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real.

For Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to restaurants, except for business matters. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. So accept their hospitality（好客）at home and enjoy your visit in America!

33．The underlined phrase "pick up" in Paragraph 1 may mean "_________________".

A．put down               B．give up                   C．pay no attention to   D．continue

34．From the passage, we can know_________________.

A．Americans are always generous with their time.

B．Americans don’t feel hurt if their friendships disappear soon.

C．Chinese friendships develop more slowly but will never disappear.

D．Chinese friendships develop faster than American friendships.

35．This passage is most probably written for __________________.

A．American students                                     B．Chinese students

C．Chinese visitors to America                         D．American visitors to China

    People depend on plants. We use plants for food, cloth, shelter (住处), and even the air we breathe (呼吸).

Plants keep our air and water clean. Green plants give us oxygen (氧气). Oxygen is part of the air we breathe.

Plants are also part of the water cycle (水循环). Most of the water that a plant takes in goes back into the air.

Plants give us a lot of the food on the earth. Fruits, vegetables, and grains (谷物) come from plants. Without plants, we would not have bread, rice, carrots, apples, oranges, or bananas! Many people are growing plants to eat in their own gardens at home. Having your own garden helps the earth as well.

When you grow your own fruits and vegetables, you help cut down on pollution because big trucks don’t need to take your food to shops. You also help reduce the amount of rubbish because you don’t need to use bags for packing your food. You can just pick it out of the ground or off a plant and put it into a basket!

Trees are an important plant resource (资源). Trees provide wood to build homes and furniture. Trees are used to make lots of things around your home and at your school. And trees provide fruits that are good for you. Without trees, the earth would be a very different place.

36．________ is part of the air we breathe.

A．Sunlight                 B．Water                     C．Food                      D．Oxygen

37．What happens to most of the water that a plant takes in?

A．It goes back into the air.                              B．It stays in the plant.

C．It goes into the ground.                               D．It stays in the river.

38．What does the phrase “cut down on” mean in Paragraph 5?

A．Cause.                   B．Accept.                  C．Reduce.                  D．Expect.

39．What is the best title of the passage?

A．A Different Place                                       B．The Uses of Plants

C．Food on the Earth                                      D．Gardens at Home

40．You would find the passage in ________.

A．an interesting novel                                    B．a book about animals

C．a popular play                                            D．a book about nature

    Have you ever thought about how many different things you like? You may like pets, parties, presents, foods, and even superheroes! Our world is full of so many things to like!

Do you ever wonder (琢磨) why you like certain animals or why you like to do certain things? You may not think about it often, but you may learn something about yourself if you think twice.

For example, why do you like to play with cats more than dogs? Why do you like going to parties and playing games? Why do you like some sweets but not others?

Our personality helps form what we like and dislike. Sometimes the things we like just come naturally to us. For example, who’s your favourite superhero? You probably like that character (人物) for reasons that are all your own. You may not have even thought about why you like that superhero... you just do.

As you learn more and do more, you may find out that there are more and more things you like. That’s a good thing!

Do your friends like the same things that you do? Maybe you and your friends like different things. But it’s OK. What you like is part of what makes you you!

51．Our world is full of ________ to like.

52．You may ________ if you think twice.

53．Our personality helps form ________.

54．As you ________, you may find out that there are more and more things you like.

55．It’s OK if you and your friends ________.