As society advances and basic needs are most often being met, things that were not considered important in the past have taken priority(優(yōu)先). In the past, people could easily get a job and progress pretty well, as long as they were hard-working; education was important but not as crucial(關(guān)系重大) as it is today.

Nowadays, just as clothes are important to first impressions, degree is important to a person’s first job interview or even a job with a good salary. Although experience is important to survive in any trade or profession, the first thing that companies look for is that piece of paper before looking at one’s experience.

A passport into the world of any profession is what having a degree means today, especially for professions that have need of certification and pay well, such as architects, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

That piece of paper, the degree, is also a passport to jobs in top or middle management in any company, especially so for multi-national corporations(跨國(guó)公司). Having a degree opens up opportunities that one would not have had if one did not have any kind of degree. A degree simply proves that one has gone through the necessary training and understanding of how to carry out a job.

Although there are many that may say having a degree may not necessarily equal to success, it would most definitely help any person achieve success in shorter and easier steps. Success cannot simply be a result of hard work and/or depending on one’s experience or degree alone; it is the art and knowledge of how to work that determines one’s success. Therefore, it should not be for the sake to get a degree, but the quality of the degree and experiences that one can learn from that matter as well.

What would be the best title for this passage?

A. People used to be hard-working

B. How important is the degree?　　

C. How can we enter the top management?

D. Degree surely leads to success

Why does the author mention clothes in the second paragraph?

A. To prove the importance of the first impression.

B. To stress the importance of job interviews.　　

C. To show the importance of clothes.

D. To explain the importance of degree.

What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Having a degree

B. Success

C. Necessary training

D. Having an opportunity

As society advances and basic needs are most often being met, things that were not considered important in the past have taken priority(優(yōu)先). In the past, people could easily get a job and progress pretty well, as long as they were hard-working; education was important but not as crucial(關(guān)系重大) as it is today.

Nowadays, just as clothes are important to first impressions, degree is important to a person’s first job interview or even a job with a good salary. Although experience is important to survive in any trade or profession, the first thing that companies look for is that piece of paper before looking at one’s experience.

A passport into the world of any profession is what having a degree means today, especially for professions that have need of certification and pay well, such as architects, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.

That piece of paper, the degree, is also a passport to jobs in top or middle management in any company, especially so for multi-national corporations(跨國(guó)公司). Having a degree opens up opportunities that one would not have had if one did not have any kind of degree. A degree simply proves that one has gone through the necessary training and understanding of how to carry out a job.

Although there are many that may say having a degree may not necessarily equal to success, it would most definitely help any person achieve success in shorter and easier steps. Success cannot simply be a result of hard work and/or depending on one’s experience or degree alone; it is the art and knowledge of how to work that determines one’s success. Therefore, it should not be for the sake to get a degree, but the quality of the degree and experiences that one can learn from that matter as well.

1. What would be the best title for this passage?

A. People used to be hard-working

B. How important is the degree?　　

C. How can we enter the top management?

D. Degree surely leads to success

2.Why does the author mention clothes in the second paragraph?

A. To prove the importance of the first impression.

B. To stress the importance of job interviews.　　

C. To show the importance of clothes.

D. To explain the importance of degree.

3.What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Having a degree

B. Success

C. Necessary training

D. Having an opportunity

 

As society advances and basic needs are most often being met, things that were not considered important in the past have taken priority(優(yōu)先). In the past, people could easily get a job and progress pretty well, as long as they were hard-working; education was important but not as crucial(關(guān)系重大) as it is today.
Nowadays, just as clothes are important to first impressions, degree is important to a person’s first job interview or even a job with a good salary. Although experience is important to survive in any trade or profession, the first thing that companies look for is that piece of paper before looking at one’s experience.
A passport into the world of any profession is what having a degree means today, especially for professions that have need of certification and pay well, such as architects, doctors, lawyers, and teachers.
That piece of paper, the degree, is also a passport to jobs in top or middle management in any company, especially so for multi-national corporations(跨國(guó)公司). Having a degree opens up opportunities that one would not have had if one did not have any kind of degree. A degree simply proves that one has gone through the necessary training and understanding of how to carry out a job.
Although there are many that may say having a degree may not necessarily equal to success, it would most definitely help any person achieve success in shorter and easier steps. Success cannot simply be a result of hard work and/or depending on one’s experience or degree alone; it is the art and knowledge of how to work that determines one’s success. Therefore, it should not be for the sake to get a degree, but the quality of the degree and experiences that one can learn from that matter as well.
【小題1】 What would be the best title for this passage?

A．People used to be hard-working

B．How important is the degree?

C．How can we enter the top management?

D．Degree surely leads to success

【小題2】Why does the author mention clothes in the second paragraph?

A．To prove the importance of the first impression.

B．To stress the importance of job interviews.

C．To show the importance of clothes.

D．To explain the importance of degree.

【小題3】What does the underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refer to?

A．Having a degree

B．Success

C．Necessary training

D．Having an opportunity

閱讀下面短文，然后按照要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語(yǔ)短文。

The generation gap between students and their teachers is becoming more significant with only 3.3 per cent out of a survey group of 1,000 students from 30 key middle schools in the city saying they would be willing to tell their teachers of their inner thoughts.

　 In today's educational environment, teachers are positioned to be the authority figure for learning instead of also becoming a good friend in the lives of students.

　　As only students with good marks in exams are considered the "apples in the eyes" of the teachers, most students think their teachers to be partial (偏心).

　　"I feel sad to hear such remarks," said Yu Yi, a well-known special-class teacher.

　　She recalled that in the past, teachers and students would play basketball together or comment on novels while sitting on the grass during a break. But today, study and good marks are the only topics of conversation between students and teachers.

　　"Schools are not only the place where knowledge is imparted (傳授) but also where students are taught how to be an upright person," Yu said．"The success of a person is not merely determined by intelligence but also by emotional state."

Yang Xiong, director of the Juvenile Research Institute, said the educational system which focuses on examinations should be held to be substantially responsible.

[寫作內(nèi)容]

（1）以約30個(gè)詞概括學(xué)生不愿告訴老師內(nèi)心想法的原因；

（2）然后以約120個(gè)詞就“現(xiàn)代師生關(guān)系”這個(gè)主題發(fā)表你的看法，并包括如下要點(diǎn)：

①你是否愿意告訴老師你內(nèi)心的想法？為什么？

②你希望你與你的老師之間的關(guān)系是怎樣的？如何才能建立這種關(guān)系？

 [寫作要求]

（1）可以使用實(shí)例或其它論述方法支持你的論點(diǎn)，也可以參照閱讀材料的內(nèi)容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子；

（2）標(biāo)題自定；

（3）文中不能出現(xiàn)考生真實(shí)姓名和學(xué)校名稱。

During the recent milk crisis in China, different related parts of the society have been put under the microscope, including stars.

An online survey asked if celebrity spokespersons should bear responsibility　for endorsing （代言） tainted milk products．Thirty four percent answered　“yes”．They said that the celebrities had betrayed the trust of the people and　should be more morally responsible.

They are right．But what’s more important is that we should train ourselves　to be wise enough not to blindly accept what is being sold, even by our favorite　stars.

No doubt television advertisements, together with other media products, inform and entertain us．But, too often, there are hidden messages in the information we receive．The songs we hear, the images we see, and the articles we read, are carefully selected to convey political, cultural, economic and moral messages．The mass media delivers us these messages in an attempt to persuade us into believing or buying whatever is being pushed.

The question is: should we always believe what the advertisement or mass media says? The answer is that we should use our minds to dig out the hidden meaning and rely on our own judgment to make a choice.

In some countries, students take a course called “media literacy”．They learn to analyze the mass media．They are encouraged to challenge everything they see or hear and to do research into missing views．They learn to ask questions and to be critical （批判性的） thinkers.

1．What does the underlined word “tainted” in the second paragraph probably mean?

A．Popular．　 　 B．Healthy．　　 C．Tasteless． 　 D．Harmful.

2．The writer mentioned celebrity spokespersons to　　　　 .

A．point out the shortcomings of advertisements

B．call on us to think more about the product

C．warn us not to blindly copy popular stars

D．stress that they are to blame for misleading

3．What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

A．The media products are created with a purpose.

B．We should take media products as entertainment.

C．Messages in products do no good to customers.

D．We seldom take some information for granted.

4．To think critically, we need to do the following except　　　　 .

A．making judgment about what we see and hear

B．a(chǎn)nalyzing the intention of messages presented

C．making a decision after asking for others’ opinion

D．digging out the missing views behind the information