In a 2013 study, it was reported that almost 66 percent of recent high school graduates went to college, a 4 percent decline since 2009, when college enrollment(入学) reached an all-time high.
So, what are the other 35 percent of high school graduates doing after they walk out of their school for the last time? Here are what some Robinson High students have planned.
For Robbie Claiborne, graduation means the start of a military career.He plans to join the Coast Guard after graduation."I was born around the ocean.I love the water.I want to fight for my country and for what I love," said Claiborne.
Others just want a break from school."I really want to take a gap year," Liliam Clavijo said."I'd really love to work in Spain for a year before going to college."
Most students, however, are rather excited.Eban Trunk, a junior, has been planning his future career since middle school."I really want to be a mailman.It just seems like a cool job.Everyone loves the mailman," Trunk said."One day the idea just came to me, and I knew that was what I wanted to do."
For many students, a high school diploma means more choices."I'm not really sure what I'll do after high school," senior Joshua Loring said."I might do technical school.I'm in auto shop classes right now."
Meanwhile, Cassidy Grunderson plans on working at Busch Gardens full time."I just want to live on my own, get a job and move out," Grunderson said.
Stephen Hambleton, who teaches auto tech classes at Robinson, says many of his students choose to enter the automobile industry after graduation."It's an instant job, and after taking years of auto shop in high school, it's easy to get hired," he said.Several seniors in his class, including Loring, plan to enter the industry upon graduation.
"College isn't for everyone, and I really respect people who decide to do their own thing," said Coleman Parks, a senior student."I think too many people feel that they're only as valuable as their degree."
Graduates are proving that college isn't the only option when high school ends.
1.What can we learn from the study in 2013?
A.College enrollment in 2013 reached the highest point in history.
B.College enrollment in 2013 is not as high as that in 2009.
C.Only a small number of graduates go to college after graduation.
D.Some students fail to graduate from senior high school.
2.What is the meaning of the underlined phrase “a gap year”?
A.a year of differences
B.a year of many choices.
C a year between senior high graduation and college.
D.a year between college graduation and workplace.
3. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
A.Cassidy Grunderson plans to enter the automobile industry upon graduation
B.For many students, a high school diploma gives them limited choices.
C.Senior high school graduates are faced with more choices than just going to college.
D.Eban Trunk plans to work in Spain for a year.
4.What might be the best title for the story?
A.Fewer Senior High Graduates Go to College
B.Cool Jobs for Senior High Graduates
C.Gap Year or College?
D.Confused Senior High Graduates
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There was a man who worked all of his life and saved all of his money.He was a real miser (守财奴) when it came to his money.He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket（棺材）with me.I wanna take my money to the afterlife."
So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.
Well, one day he died.He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest friend.When they finished the ceremony, just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said "Wait just a minute!"
She had a shoe box with her, she came over with the box and placed it in the casket.Then the undertakers locked the casket down and rolled it away.Her friend said, "I hope you weren't crazy enough to put all that money in the casket."
"Yes," the wife said, "I promised.I'm a good Christian, I can't lie.I promised him that I was going to put that money in that casket with him."
"You mean to tell me you put every cent of his money in the casket with him?"
"I sure did.I got it all together, put it into my account and I wrote him a check."
1.What was the woman’s reaction to her husband’s last words?
A.She remained silent. B.she said no.
C.She said yes. D.She was annoyed.
2.The woman’s friend believed that ______.
A.she shouldn’t put all the money in the casket
B.she should put all the money in the casket.
C.she should give his husband a promise.
D.she should not break her promise.
3.Which word can best describe the woman?
A.attractive B.clever C.dishonest D.lazy
4.What might be the best title of the story ?
A.Take All My Money With Me B.A Promise Cleverly Kept
C.A Loving Wife D.Miser and his Wife
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Dear Sir,
I’m writing to complain about the service offered by your company.
I told your service department on November 21 that my washing machine needed repairing, Your service engineers have since been here four times—on December 1l, December 19, December 25 and January 5．The problem was found out on the first visit and the wrong parts were brought by different engineers on the two next visits.The correct part was fitted by the first engineer on the fourth visit.
In short, my complaints are:
a．I had to wait three weeks for an engineer to call and nearly two months for the machine to be repaired.
b．The engineers who called on December 19 and December 25 had been given wrong information by the company, which made me take two half days off unnecessarily.
c．The first and fourth visits lasted a total of thirty minutes.But in the invoice （发票）, I have to pay for four visits of four hours’ work.I will not be paying the invoice for their mistakes and I do hope to receive your answers to these complaints.
Yours,
Robert White
1.Robert’s main purpose in writing to the company is to tell the company ________.
A.how its service department is operating
B.how its different engineers came for the repair
C.that two of the engineers didn’t give him any help
D.that he refuses to pay the company for their mistakes
2.The first of Robert’s complaints is that________.
A.it took him three weeks to have the machine repaired
B.it took him nearly sixty days to get his machine repaired
C.it had been almost two months before the first engineer came
D.it took the engineer 3 weeks to find out something wrong with the machine.
31． A.the company didn’t tell them exactly what they should do
B.the company didn't tell them where the correct parts were
C.they were not sure about whether the machine worked or not
D.they hadn’t been told where the right parts should be fitted.
3.It can be inferred from the letter that Robert promises to pay for________.
A.three hours’ work B.half an hour’s work
C.an hour’s work D.four hours’ work
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