Step 1: Willingness to do something different.
Breaking the cycle of doing what you have always done is one of the
most difficult tasks for job seekers. Many find it difficult to
steer away from a career path or make a change, even if it doesn't
feel right. Miller urges job seekers to open their minds to other
possibilities bevond what they are currently doing.
Step 2: Commitment to being who you are, not who or what someone
wants you to be.
Look at the gifts and talents you have and make a commitment to
pursue those things that you love most. If you love the social
aspects of your job, but arc stuck inside an office or "'chained to
your desk" most of the lime, vow to follow your instinct and
investigate alternative careers and work that allow you more time to
interact with others. Dawn worked as a manager for a large retail
clothing store for several years. Though she had advanced within the
company, she felt frustrated and longed to be involved with nature
and the outdoors. She decided to go to school nights and weekends to
pursue her true passion by earning her master's degree in forestry.
She now works in the biotcch forestry division of a major paper
company.
Step 3: Self-definition.
Miller suggests that once job seekers know who they are, they need
to know how to sell themselves. "In the job market, you arc a
product. And just like z product, you must know the features and
benefits that you have to offer a potential client, or employer."
Examine the skills and knowledge that you have and identify how they
can apply to your desired occupation. Your quali­ties will exhibit
to employers why they should hire you over other candidates.
Step 4: Attain a level of self-honoring.
Self-honoring or self-love may seem like an odd step for job
hunters, but being able to accept yourself, without judgment, helps
eliminate insecurities and will make you more self-assured. By
accepting who you are - all your emotions, hopes and dreams, your
personality, and your unique way of being - you' 11 project more
confidence when networking and talking with potential employers. The
power of self-honoring can help to break all the falsehoods you were
programmed to believe -those that made you feel that you were not
good enough, or strong enough, or intelligent enough to do what you
truly desire.
Step 5: Vision.
Miller suggests that job seekers develop a vision that embraces the
answer to "What do I realty want to do?" One should create a solid
statement in a dozen or so sentences that describe in detail how
they see their life related to work. For instance, the secretary who
longs to be an actress describes a life that allows her to express
her love of Shakespeare on stage. A real estate agent, attracted to
his current job because he loves fixing up old homes, describes
buying properties that need a little tender loving care to make them
more saleable.
Step 6: Appropriate risk.
Some philosophers believe that the way to enlightenment conies
through facing obstacles and difficulties. Once people discover
their passion, many arc too scared to do anything about it. Instead.
they do nothing. With this step, job seekers should assess what they
axe willing to give up. or risk, in pursuit of their dream. Tor one
working mom. that meant taking night classes to learn new
computer-aided design skills, while still earning a salary and
keeping her day job. For someone else, it may mean quitting his or
her job. taking out a loan and going back to school full time.
You'll move one step closer to your ideal work life if you identify
how much risk you arc willing to take and the sacrifices you arc
willing to make.
Step 7: Action.
Some teachers of philosophy describe action in this way. "If one
wants to get to the top of a mountain, just sitting at the foot
thinking about it will not bring one there. It is by making the
effort of climbing up the mountain, step by step, that eventualy the
summit is reached." All 100 often, it is the lack of action that
ultimately holds people back from attaining iheir ideals. Creating a
plan and taking it one step at a time can lead to new and different
job opportunities. Job-huntim: taste gain added meaning as you sense
their importance in your quest for a more meaningful work life. The
plan can include researching industries and occupations, talking to
people who are in your desired area of work, taking classes, or
accepting volunteer work in your targeted field.
Each of these steps will lead you on a journey to a happier and more
rewarding work life. After all. it is the journey, not the
destination, that is most important.
1. According to the recent "Plans for 2004" survey, most people are
unhappy with the:: currenl jobs.
2. Mary Lyn Miller's job is to advise people on their life and
career.
3. Mary Lyn Miller herself was once quite dissatisfied with her own
work.
4. Many people find it difficult jo make up their minds whether to
change their career path
5. According to Man Lyn Miller, people considering changing their
careers should commii them­selves to the pursuit of________.
6. In the job market, job seekers need to know how to sell
themselves like
7. During an interview with potential employers, self-honoring or
self-love may help a job seeker to show —_______.
8. Mary Lyn Miller suggests that a job seeker develop a vision that
answers the question"_______"
9. Many people are too scared to pursue their dreams because they
are unwilling to________.
10. What ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals is
______.
1. N
2. Y
3. NG
4. Y
5. those things that they love most
6. products
7. more confidence
8. What do I really want to do?
9. give up, or risk
10. the lack of action
PartIII Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)
11.A) Surfing the net.
B) Watching a talk show.
C) Packing a birthday gift.
D) Shopping at a jewelry store.
本题答案:A
12. A) Me enjoys finding fault with exams.
B) He is sure of his success in the exam.
C) He doesn't know if he can do well in the exam.
D) He used to get straight A's in the exams he took.
本题答案:B
13. A) The man is generous with his good comments on people.
B) The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the world.
C) The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories.
D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature.
本题答案:D
14. A) Study for some profession.
B) Attend a medical school.
C) Stay in business.
D) Sell his shop.
本题答案:C
15. A) More money.
B) Fair treatment.
C) A college education.
D) Shorter work hours.
本题答案:A
16. A) She was exhausted from her trip.
B) She missed the comforts of home.
C) She was impressed by Mexican food.
D) She will not go to Mexico again.
本题答案:B
17. A)Cheer herself up a bit.
B) Find a more suitable job.
C) Seek professional advice.
D) Take a psychology course.
本题答案:C
18. A) He dresses more formally now.
B) What he wears docs not maich his position.
C) He has ignored his friends since graduation.
D) He failed to do well at college.
本题答案:A
Questions 19 to 22 arc based on the conversation yon have just heard.
19.
A) To go sightseeing.
B) To have meetings.
C) To promote a new champagne.
D) To join in a training program.
本题答案:B
20.
A) It can reduce the number of passenger complaints.
B) It can make air travel more entertaining.
C) It can cut down the expenses for air travel.
D) It can lessen the discomfort caused by air travel.
本题答案:D
21.
A) Took balanced meals with champagne.
B) Ate vegetables and fruit only.
C) Refrained from fish or meat.
D) Avoided eating rich food.
本题答案:D
22.
A) Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane
B) Many of them were concerned with their well-being.
C) Not many of them chose to do what she did.
D) Not many of them understood the program.
本题答案:C
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
23. A) At a fair.
B)At a cafeteria.
C) In a computer lab.
D) In a shopping mall.
本题答案:A
24.
A) The latest computer technology.
B) The organizing of an exhibition.
C) The purchasing of some equipment.
D)The dramatic changes in the job market.
本题答案:C
25.
A) Data collection.
B) Training consultancy.
C) Corporate management.
D) Information processing.
本题答案:B
Section B
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
26.
A) Improve themselves.
B) Get rid of empty dreams.
C) Follow the cultural tradition.
D) Attempt something impossible
本题答案:A
27. A) By finding sufficient support for implementation.
B) By taking into account their own ability to change.
C) By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals.
D) By making detailed plans and carrvinc them out.
本题答案:D
28. A) To show people how to get their lives back to normal.
B) To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.
C) To remind people to check the calories on food bags.
D)To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.
本题答案:D
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
29. A) Michael's parents got divorced.
B) Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.
C) Karen's mother died in a car accident.
D) A truck driver lost his life in a collision.
本题答案:B
30. A) He ran a red light and collided with a truck.
B) He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.
C) He was killed instantly in a burning car.
D) He got married to Karer's mother.
本题答案:B
31. A) The reported hero turned out to be his father.
B) He did not understand his father till too late.
C) Such misfortune should have fallen on him.
D) It reminded him of his miserable childhood.
本题答案:A
Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
32. A) Germany.
B）Japan.
C)The U.S.
D) The U.K.
本题答案:D
33. A) By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B) By working long hours every day.
C) By putting in more hours each week.
D) By taking shorter vacations each year.
本题答案:D
34.
A) To combat competition and raise productivity.
B)To provide them with more job opportunities.
C) To help them maintain their living standard.
D) To prevent them from holding a second job.
本题答案:A
35. A J Change their jobs.
B) Earn more money.
C) Reduce their working hours.
D) Strengthen the government's role.
本题答案:C
Section C
Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with
the false impression that
nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are
(36)________io provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal
or moral (37)________to any physician. We provide healih teaching.
(38)________physical as well as emotional problems.
(39)________patient-related services.
and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or
suitable for the patient. If. in any(40)_________. we feel that a
physician's order is (41)________or unsafe, we have a legal(42)
______ to question that order or refuse to carry it out.
Nursing is not a nine-to five job with every weekend off. All nurses
are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional
and physical stress, however, that occurs due to odd working hours
is a (43)________reason for a lor of the career dissatisfaction.
(44)______________That disturbs our persona! lives, disrupts our
sleeping and eating habits.
and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and
activities.
The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these
situations. (45)
_____________________________Consumers of medically related services
have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our
medical system. But if trends continue as predicted,
(46)__________________________________________
36.licensed
37.obligation
38.assess
39. coordinate
40. circumstance
41.inappropriate
42.resposbility
43. prime
44.lt is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we
change shifts four or five times a month.
45.Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced
nurses finally give up trying to change the system.
46.they will find that most critical hospital cares will be provided
by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately rrtrained nurses.
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
section A
Questions 47 to 51 arc based on the following passage.
Google is a world-famous company, with its, headquarters in Mountain
View, California. It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998.
and inflated(膨胀) with the Interact bubble. Even when even-thing
around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Google's search
engine is so wide­spread across the world thai search became Google,
and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective,
fascinatingly fast technology,
Google owes much of its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L
Pace, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who. at
Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventu­ally
became Google's search engine. Brin. who had met Page at a studem
orientation a year earlier. joined the project early on. They were
both Ph.D. candidates when thej devised the search engine which was
better than the rest and. without any marketing, spread by word of
mouth from cartv adopters to. eventually, your grandmother.
Their breakthrough, simply put. was that when their search engine
crawled the Web. it did more than just look for word matches: it
also tallied (统计) 2nd ranked c host of other critical factors like
how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results
than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation
Googol (the mathematical term for the number I followed bv 100
zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They
raised money from prescient (有先见之明的)professors and venture
capitalists and moved off campus to turn Google into a business.
Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried
to sell their technology to other search engines, but no one met
their price, and they built it up on their own.
The next breakthrough came in 2000. when Google figured out how to
make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no
one was paying. The solution turned out to be advertising, and it's
not an exaggeration to say that Google is now essential!} an
advertising company, given that that's the source of nearly all its
revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $ 100
billion.
47. Apart from a series of fortunate evems. what is it that has made
Google so successful?
48. Google's search engine originated from________ started by L.
Page.
49. How did Google's search engine spread all over the world?
50. Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no
one would
51. The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from____
答案
47. The brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page
48. the academic project
49. By word of mouth
50. meet their price
51. advertising
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
You hear the refrain all the lime: the U.S. economy looks good
statistically, but il doesn't feel good. Why doesn't ever-greater
wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates
at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent {富裕的) Society by
John Kenneth Galbraith. who died recently at 97.
The Affluent Society is a modem classic because it helped define a
new moment in the human condition. For most of history, "hunger,
sickness, and cold" threatened nearly everyone. Galbraith wrote.
"Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously ii is not of
ours." After World War II. the dread of another Great Depression
gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemploy­ment had
averaged I8.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.
To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent.
Through advertising. companies conditioned consumers to buy things
they didn't really want or need. Because so math spending was
artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending
that would make everyone belter off was being cut down because
people Instinctively—and wrongly—labeled gov­ernment only as "a
necessary evil."
It's often said that only the rich are yetting ahead; everyone else
is standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many
undeserving rich—overpaid chief executives, for instance. But over
any meaningful period, most people's incomes are increasing. From
1995 to 2004. inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3
percent, to $43.200. People feel "squeezed" because their rising
incomes often don't satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes,
more health care, more education.
The other great frustration is thai ii has not eliminated
insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of
living. As corporate layoffs increased, that pan has eroded. More
workers fear they've become "the disposable American." as Louis
Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.
Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from
poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence Suggested Utopian
(乌托邦式的) possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is
much less physical misery than before. People are better off.
Unfortunately. affluence also creates new complaints and
contradictions.
The other great frustration is that i! has not eliminated
insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of
living. As corporate layoffs increased, that pan has eroded. More
workers fear they've become "The disposable American;' as Louis
Uchitelle puts it in his book bv the same name.
Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying
wants of their citizens. Bui the quest for growth lets loose new
anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order.
Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can
choose a unique wa) to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so
extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and some­times
inspires choices that have ami-social consequences, including family
breakdown and obesity (肥胖症). Statistical indicators of happiness
have not risen with incomes.
Should we be surprised? Not really. We've simply reaffirmed an old
truth: the pursuit o(afflu­ence does not always end with happiness.
52 What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The
Affluent Society?
A) Why statistics don't tell the truth aboui the- economy.
B) Why affluence doesn't guarantee happiness
C) How happiness can be promoted today.
D) What lies behind an economic boom.
本题答案:B
53. Acording to Galbraith. people feel discontented because________.
A) public spending hasn't been cut down as expected
B) the government has proved to be a necessary evil
C） they are in fear of another Great Depression
D) materialism has run wild in modem society
本题答案:D
54. Why do people fee! squeezed when their average income rises
considerably?
A) Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.
B) Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation.
C) The distribution of wealth is uneven between tiie rich and the poor.
D) Health care and educational costs have somehow gone out of control.
本题答案:A
55. What does Louis Uchitelle mean by -the disposable American"
(Line 3, Para. 5)?
A) Those who see job stability as pan of their living standard.
B) People full of Utopian ideas resulting from affluence.
C) People who have little say in American politics.
D) Workers who no longer have secure jobs.
本题答案:D
56. What has affluence brought to American society
A) Renewed economic security.
B) A sense of self-fulfillment.
C) New conflicts and complaints.
D）Misery and anti-social behavior.
本题答案:C
Questions 57 to 61 art based on the following passage.
The use of deferential (敬重的) language is symbolic of the Confucian
ideal of the woman, which dominates conservative gender norms in
Japan. This ideal presents a woman who withdraws quietly to the
background, subordinating her life and needs to those of her famiK
and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother,
master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Japa­nese woman
excels in modesty and delicacy: she "treads softly (谨言慎行) in the
world," elevating feminine beauty and grace to an an form.
Nowadays, it is commonly observed that young women are not
conforming to the feminine linguistic (语言的) ideal. They are using
fewer of the very deferential "women's" forms, and even using the
few strong forms that are known as "men's." This, of course,
attracts considerable atten­tion and has led to an outcry in the
Japanese media against the defeminization of women's language.
Indeed, we didn't hear about "men's language" until people began to
respond to girls* appropria­tion of forms normally reserved for boys
and men. There is considerable sentiment about the "cor­ruption" of
w'omen's language—wrhich of course is viewed as part of the loss of
feminine ideals and morality—and this sentiment is crystallized by
nationwide opinion polls that are regularly carried out bv the media.
Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never used as
many of the highly deferebtial forms as older woman.This highly
polite style id no doubt something that young woman have been
expected to "grow into"—after all, it is a sign not simply of
femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be
taken to indicate a change in the nature of one's social rela­tions
as well. One might well imagine little girls using exceeding!;
polite forms when playine house or imitating older women—in a
fashion analogous to little girls' use of a high-pitched voice to do
"teacher talk" or "mother talk" in role play.
The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential
language is a sure sign of change— of social change and of
linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the
"masculiniza-tion" of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign
that girls are making the same claim to author!:? as boys and men.
but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be
"•masculine." Kalsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays arc
using more assertive language strateg c order to be able to compete
with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simplj.
different positions for women and girls, but different relations to
life stages, and adolcscer.: girls are participating in neM
Subculture! forms. Thus what may. to an older speaker, seem like
"maseliJ^ line" speech ma seem to an adolescent tike "liberated" or "hip" speech.
57. The first paragraph describes in detail .
A» the standards set for contemporary Japanese women
B) the Confucian influence on gender norms in Japan
C) the stereotyped roic of women in Japanese families
D) the norms for traditional Japanese women to follow
本题答案: B
58. What change has been observed in today's young Japanese women?
A) They pay less attention to their linguistic behavior.
B) They use fewer of the deferential linguistic form.
C)confuse male and female forms of language.
D) They employ very strong linguistic expressions.
本题答案: B
59. How do some people react to women's appropriation of men's
language forms as reported in the Japanese media?
A) They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization.
B) They sec it as an expression of women's sentiment.
C) They accept it as a modem trend.
D) They express strong disapproval.
本题答案: D
60. According to Yoshiko Matsumoto. the linguistic behavior observed
in today's young women______________
A) may lead to changes in social relations
B) has been true of all past generations
C) is viewed as a sign of their maturity
D) is a result of rapid social progress '
本题答案: A
61. The author believes that the use of assertive language by young