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【英语高考】浙江省名校新高考研究联盟第三次联考

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When you were at school, the last thing you probably wanted to do was spend your weekends going to work. There was homework to do, sport to play and fun to be had. But our parents probably persuaded us to find a job to earn some money and get some life experience. When I was a teenager I had a paper round: delivering newspapers to people's homes. I then progressed to a Saturday job in a supermarket: stacking shelves and working at the checkout.

Today in the UK you are allowed to work from the age of 13, and many children do take up part-time jobs. It's one of those things that is seen almost as a rite of passage. It's a taste of independence and sometimes a useful thing to put on your CV. Teenagers agree that it teaches valuable lessons about working with adults and also about managing your money. So, that's no bad thing!

Some research has shown that not taking on a Saturday or holiday job could be detrimental to a person later on. A 2015 study by the UK Commission on Employment and Skills found that not participating in part-time work at school age had been blamed by employers' organizations for young adults being ill-prepared for full-time employment.

But despite this, recent statistics have shown that the number of schoolchildren in the UK with a part-time job has fallen by a fifth in the past five years. Young people feel going out to work will delay their performance at school, and they are under more pressure now to study hard and get good exam results -and a good job in the long term. However, Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, told BBC News that \people learn skills that they will need in their working lives.\In reality, it's all about getting the right balance between doing part-time work and having enough time to study and rest. That seems like something wroth getting up for a Saturday morning.

21. Which of the following in NOT included in the benefits of a Saturday job for school children? A. Providing life experience and chances to be independent. B. Helping teenagers obtain good jobs in the future. C. Offering a balance between study and rest. D. Teaching lessons about managing money.

22. Why was the number of British teenagers with a part-time job fallen recently? A. Because they agree it will be harmful to their later life. B. Because they want to play sports and have other fun.

C. Because they are worried it will affect their academic performance. D. Because they are under more pressure to find a job in long term. 23. What’s the author’s attitude towards part-time work for teenagers?

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A. Negative B. Conservative C. Doubtful D. Positive

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Almost everyone has had the experience of standing at the cash register in front of a long line while a salesclerk struggles to find a bar code or price tag. Instead of taking the time to call for a price check, the clerk may turn to the customer and ask, “Do you know what the price is?”

For every customer who shakes his head “no,” forcing the salesclerk to call for assistance, there is a customer like Irene, a gray-haired widow, who loves to get into these situations. Though Irene knows the exact price of everything she purchases, she won’t tell it to the salesclerk. She’ll say “It’s $1.98” even when she knows it costs several dollars more. The fact that the salesclerk believes Irene isn’t her problem, Irene says, though she’ll admit it is one of the few benefits of looking like a nice old lady.

Nancy, a math teacher, will never forget the time she was buying clothes for her four children. All of the items were reduced 20 percent from the clearance price. The salesgirl punched (打出)in the first item’s price, and then took 20 percent off. So far, so good. Then she entered the price of the second item, subtotaled, and took 20 percent off again. Each time the clerk added another item, she subtotaled first before taking 20 percent off. When the final bill was a little over $10, Nancy could hardly believe her eyes. But she paid the bill without saying anything. She told her husband later that many people wouldn’t have even noticed what the clerk was doing wrong. “Why should I be penalized (使……处于不利地位)for knowing math?” Nancy argued.

A recent college graduate, Jeffrey, can’t afford everything he wants. When he got an offer to receive free issues(期刊)of a very expensive magazine, he immediately signed up for a subscription. From the very beginning he planned to cancel the subscription as soon as the free issues ran out. And he did. The problem was that the magazine kept coming anyway and, eventually, Jeffrey was billed for a year’s subscription. It took more than a few months of correspondence to get the whole mess settled. And, in the end, Jeffrey did get quite a few issues of the magazine without paying anything.

We probably would all agree that Irene, Nancy and Jeffrey are not very good customers. But what does it take to be a good customer? In short, good will. Good will means a customer treats the business honestly and fairly even when he doesn’t have to. Good business policies and good consumer protection against fraud are necessary, but not enough to cover all the possible situations arising between a business and its customers. It takes good will to fill in the cracks. It takes good will to make both good businesses and good customers.

24. Why did the salesclerk believe Irene?

A. There was a long queue of customers standing at the cash register. B. Irene knew the exact price of everything she purchased. C. There was no time to call for a price check. D. Irene looked like a respectable old lady.

25. The correct procedure for the salesgirl to perform should have been __________ . A. to add up each item and then take 20% off the total B. to take 20% off the subtotal each time she added a new item C. to take 20% off each item and then take another 20% off the total

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D. to add up the clearance price of each item

26. What, in the author’s view, should Jeffrey have done to be a good customer? A. He should not have accepted the magazine after the free issues ran out. B. He should have canceled the subscription as soon as the free issues ran out. C. He should have paid in advance when he signed up for the subscription. D. He should not have signed up for the free issues in the first place.

C

Aging happens to all of us, and is generally thought of as a natural part of life. It would seem silly to call such a thing a \

On the other hand, scientists are increasingly learning that aging and biological age are two different things, and that the former is a key risk factor for conditions such as heart disease, cancer and many more. In that light, aging itself might be seen as something treatable, the way you would treat high blood pressure or a vitamin deficiency.

Biophysicist Alex Zhavoronkov believes that aging should be considered a disease. He said that describing aging as a disease creates incentives to develop treatments.

\制药的) industry so that they can begin treating the disease and not just the side effects,\

\circles, people take aging research as just an interest area where they can try to develop interventions(干预). The medical community also takes aging for granted, and can do nothing about it except keep people within a certain health range.\

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, \health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable.\

\find ways to repair that damage. I think of it as preventive medicine for age-related conditions.\

Leonard Hayflick, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said the idea that aging can be cured implies the human lifespan can be increased, which some researchers suggest is possible. Hayflick is not among them.

\many people who recover from cancer, stroke, or heart disease. But they continue to age, because aging is separate from their disease,\life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.\27. What does Alex Zhavoronkov think about aging? A. It is silly to regard aging as a disease. B. Aging is more risky than cancer.

C. Describing aging as a disease will help to develop treatments. D. Aging is natural and there is no way to control it. 28. What does the underlined sentence in Para.4 mean? A. The medical community is quite interested in aging research.

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