Young people are not_________ to stand and lo...

Young people are not_________ to stand and look at works of art; they want art they can participate in.

A.content         B. generous         C. confident            D. conservative

高一英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

Work and the Young: Generation Jobless

“YOUNG people ought not to be idle (闲置的) . It is very bad for them," said MargaretThatcher in 1984. She was right: there are few worse things that society can do to its young than to leave them ignored.

Yet more young people are idle than ever. The International Labour Organization reports that 75m (m=million) young people globally are looking for a job. World Bank surveys suggest that 262m young people are economically inactive. The number of young people without a job is nearly as large as the population of America (311m).

Two factors play a big part. First, the long slowdown in the West has reduced demand for labour, and it is easier to put off hiring young people than it is to fire older workers. Second, inemerging economies population growth is the fastest in countries with disordered labour markets, such as India and Egypt.

One possible way to settle this problem is to stimulate growth. That is easier said than done in a world suffering from debt, and is anyway a possible answer. The countries where the problem is worst (such as Spain and Egypt) suffered from high youth unemployment even when their economies were growing. Throughout the recession ( 经济不景气)，companies have continued to complain that they cannot find young people with the right skills. This underlines the importance of two other solutions: reforming labour markets and improving education.

Youth unemployment is often at its worst in countries with inflexible labour markets. High taxes on hiring, strict rules about firing, high minimum wages: all these help force young people to the street corner. South Africa has some of the highest unemployment, in part because it has powerful trade unions and inflexible rules about hiring and firing. Many countries with high youth unemployment rate have high minimum wages and heavy taxes on labour. India has around 200 laws on work and pay.

Across the OECD (经合组织) , people who left school at the earliest opportunity are twice as likely to be unemployed as university graduates. But it is unwise to conclude that governments should simply continue increasing the number of people who graduate from university. In both Britain and the United States many people with arts degrees are finding it impossible to get appropriate jobs. In North Africa university graduates are twice as likely to be unemployed as non-graduates.

What matters is not just number of years of education people get, but its content. This means expanding the study of science and technology and closing the gap between the world of education and the world of work-for example by upgrading vocational education and by building closer relations between companies and schools. Germany, which has the second lowest level of youth unemployment in the rich world, owns long-history system of vocational schooling and apprenticeships (学徒制).

The problem of youth unemployment has been getting worse for several years. But there are at last some reasons for hope. Governments are trying to address the mismatch between education and the labour market. Companies are beginning to take more responsibility for the young. The world has a real chance of introducing an education-and-training revolution worthy of the solution to the problem.

1.According to the passage, which of the following statements may the author approve of ?

A. A flexible labour market is not enough to raise youth employment.

B. As long as the economy grows youth unemployment will soon be settled.

C. Firms fire more older workers than the young in the economic slowdown.

D. Powerful trade unions and high minimum wages lead to high employment.

2.The author mentioned the German's education system in order to show_____________.

A. rich countries are responsible for high youth unemployment

B. the problem of youth unemployment has been settled

C. companies have more responsibilities to settle youth unemployment

D. the match between education and the labour market can reduce youth unemployment

3.What does the underlined phrase "vocational education” mean in Para.7 ?

A. Technical training.

B. Higher education.

C. Moral education.

D. Business courses.

4.The passage mainly talks about _____________.

A. the need for labour market revolution

B. possible ways to settle global youth unemployment

C. the relations between education and employment

D. factors contributing to low youth unemployment

高一英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Many people are complaining that work and study are quite difficult at time. They need a method to relax. I have found that the best way to reduce ________ is to read a good book. It ________ me to escape from real life, it gives me a(n) ________ view on the world, and reading a book is a very ________ activity.

First, reading a good story is the best way to ________ about my troubles during the day. Many of the books I read have ________ plot lines（情节安排）, which attract me to the characters and action. When I am ________ reading, nothing in the outside world seems to exist anymore. One　 cannot ________ in this dreamland forever, of course. ________ for an hour or so a day, it is very calming.

Second, reading books can also give me a new way to ________ the outside world. Even a fictional book can have this ________. When authors write a book, they ________ their ideas and feelings about how the world works. By ________ works of different writers, I find that I ________ more about other people, and ________ they think. This helps me to learn to ________ others just as they are.

Finally, the most ________ reason why reading is good for ________ is that it allows me to ________ the most amazing peace. For a devoted（投入的）reader, it is ________ to go to a bright, beautiful place to read. You can just stay at home, sitting in your favorite chair. With the house being completely quiet, you can enter the peaceful world of knowledge and imagination.

1.A. debates　　 B. mistakes　　 C. pressure　　 D. influence

2.A. forces　　 B. allows　　 C. requires　　 D. forbids

3.A. new　　 B. easy　　 C. familiar　　 D. ordinary

4.A. basic　　 B. tiring　　 C. special　　 D. peaceful

5.A. care　　 B. learn　　 C. think　　 D. forget

6.A. stupid　　 B. simple　　 C. boring　　 D. interesting

7.A. teaching　　 B. studying　　 C. enjoying　　 D. practicing

8.A. stay　　 B. leave　　 C. take　　 D. settle

9.A. So　　 B. But　　 C. And　　 D. Unless

10.A. look at　　 B. worry about　　 C. search for　　 D. believe in

11.A. effect　　 B. success　　 C. problem　　 D. weakness

12.A. ask　　 B. know　　 C. express　　 D. change

13.A. buying　　 B. reading　　 C. judging　　 D. spreading

14.A. trust　　 B. doubt　　 C. praise　　 D. understand

15.A. why　　 B. how　　 C. when　　 D. whether

16.A. admire　　 B. refuse　　 C. accept　　 D. recognize

17.A. hopeful　　 B. important　　 C. probable　　 D. different

18.A. working　　 B. writing　　 C. relaxation　　 D. exploration

19.A. find　　 B. carry　　 C. leave　　 D. produce

20.A. great　　 B. impossible　　 C. reasonable　　 D. unnecessary

高一英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

A large number of people are _____, and how can the local government ignore the problem?

A. at work　　         B. in work　　 C. out of work　　     D. after work

高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

A large number of people are _____, and how can the local government ignore the problem?

A．at work           B．in work           C．out of work        D．after work

高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

All young people dream of travelling the world. They are restless and very eager to see new sights. However, they have little idea how they would really do it if given the chance. Because their knowledge of geography is quite limited, they seldom know much about the places they wish to visit or how they would get there.

Already hundreds of thousands of Chinese student tourists are visiting these places-Wuyi, Lhasa, Lijiang, Dali, Vientiane and Phnom Penh. Indeed, these students will soon be the most travelled generation in China’s long history. The World Tourist Organization predicts that a quarter of a century from now the number of Chinese tourists going abroad will be twenty times what it is today. The largest percentage of these tourists will visit Southeast Asia. Not all Chinese who travel abroad will be tourists, however. More and more youths are deciding to volunteer their skills in this region; much like their peers in the Peace Corps and VSO.

Critical thinking skills required include planning for a trip and solving problems after the trip has begun. The focus is on how to read an atlas (地图集) to make travel plans and how to find ways of travelling. An atlas offers a wealth of information about geography and is one way to increase students’ awareness of their global environment. Use of an atlas especially addresses the needs of students with different visual and spatial (空间的) learning styles.

1.The main idea of the first paragraph is ________.

2.These places, Wuyi, Lhasa, Lijiang, Dali, Vientiane and Phnom Penh, lie in ________.

3.Which of the following statements is TRUE?

4.One way to increase students’ awareness of their global environment is for them to ____

5.The underlined phrase “a wealth of” can be replaced by “_________”.

高一英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析

Some people do not like anything to be out of place; they are never late for work; they return their books to the library on time; they remember people's birthdays; and they pay their bills as soon as they arrive. Mr. Dodds is such a person .

Mr. Dodds works in a bank, and lives on his own. The only family he has is in the next town :his sister lives there with her husband, and her son, Mark, Mr. Dodds does not see his sister, or her family, from one year to the next, but he sends them Christmas cards, and he has not forgotten one of Mark’s seventeen birthdays.

Last week Mr. Dodds had quite a surprise. He drove home from the bank at the usual time, driving neither too slowly nor too fast. He parked his car where he always parked it, out of the way of other cars, and he went inside to make his evening meal. Straight away, there was a knock at the door. Mr Dodds opened the door to find a policeman standing on the door-step .

“What have I done wrong ?” Mr. Dodds asked himself . “Have I driven on the wrong side of the road? Has there been some trouble at the bank? Have I forgotten to pay an important bill?”

“Hello, Uncle ,” said the policeman,” My name is Mark.”

1.From the passage we know that his sister ______.

A. lives in the next town with her husband and son

B. is the only member of the family that he knows

C. never writes back to him

D. has a small family: a son and Mark, her husband

2.“He has not forgotten one of Mark’s seventeen birthdays” means ____.

A. he has not forgotten Mark’s seventeenth birthday.

B. he sent Mark something on his seventeenth birthday

C. he always sent a Christmas card on Mark’s birthday

D. he always sent Mark something on his birthday

3.There was a knock at the door when Mr. Dodds was ______.

A. driving home from the bank

B. parking his car

C. ready to make his evening meal

D. just about to shut the front door

4.The policeman was there _______.

A. to ask Mr. Dodds to go to see his uncle

B. to ask Mr. Dodds to park his car not too near to other cars

C. to meet Mr. Dodds, his uncle

D. to see Mr. Dodds about some trouble at the bank

高一英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

In the lobby(休息室) after a long day at work, I found myself standing next to a handsome young man with a nice smile. A __ showed what we had in common: I had ____ in New York city from Germany while he had ____ from South America.

We exchanged stories about the ____ of starting a new life in a new country. “I’ve been ___an apartment within walking distance from my ____. And what I want is to have a good ____ of Central park! But I’m dreaming. I can’t ____ to rent a room like that myself and I haven’t found a roommate to share in expenses.” The young man wrote a ___ down on a piece of paper. “Her name’s Carol and she is a good girl,” he said. “You’ll ____ her, and she needs a roommate.”

I called her right away. “I’ve been ___ to hear from you,” said Carole, who lived near Central Park. ___, she became my best roommate, and has been my ___ for 34 years.

“We were sure lucky to ____ each other,” Carole said to me recently. “But I wondered what took you so ____ to call.” I said. “I called right after I ____ your South American friend.” Carole looked amazed. “Not a friend, ___ I met him only once, and he told me about you. But that was a whole week before you finally ____.” “But I don’t understand; I didn’t know him until that afternoon.” “Maybe he know of you before because you were ____ known in the company for your achievement.”

Though you are a small potato, if you work hard and do ___, people will find you sooner or later.　

1.A. chat        　　 B. action            　　 C. letter            D. sentence

2.A. got            　　     B. arrived        　　　　　 C. reached        D. approached

3.A. returned            B. appeared            C. heard            D. come

4.A. pleasure            B. difficulties        　　 C. excitement    　　 D. danger

5.A. finding out        B. adopted            C. decorated　　 　 D. searching for

6.A. job            　　     B. home                C. school        　　 D. friend

7.A. sight            B. visit                C. view    　　     D. point

8.A. realize            B. provide    　         C. afford    　　 　     D. stand

9.A. number            B. sign        　         C. mark        　     D. note

10.A. meet             B. like        　         C. believe        D. agree

11.A. looking             B. staying    　         C. waiting    　　     D. keeping

12.A. And                B. However    　         C. Then        　     D. Indeed

13.A. wife                B. friend    　　         　　 C. roommate    　     D. partner

14.A. receive            　　 B. find        　　         C. notice    　　     　　 D. see

15.A. short                B. fast        　　         C. long            D. slow

16.A. ran into            　　 B. heard from        　　 C. knew of        D. referred to

17.A. hurriedly            B. rapidly            　　 C. commonly    　　 D. exactly

18.A. said                B. called            　　 C. spoke        　　 D. visited

19.A. far                B. much                C. well            D. rather

20.A. everything            B. anything            C. nothing        D. something

高一英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

In the lobby(休息室) after a long day at work, I found myself standing next to a handsome young man with a nice smile. A ______ showed what we had in common: I had ______ in New York city from Germany while he had ______ from South America.

We exchanged stories about the ______ of starting a new life in a new country. “I’ve been ______ apartment within walking distance from my ______. And what I want is to have a good ______ of Central park! But I’m dreaming. I can’t ______ to rent a room like that myself and I haven’t found a roommate to share in expenses（费用）.” The young man wrote a ______ down on a piece of paper. “Her name’s Carol and she is a good girl,” he said. “You’ll ______ her, and she needs a roommate.”

I called her right away. “I’ve been ______ to hear from you,” said Carole, who lived near Central Park. ______, she became my best roommate, and has been my ______ for 34 years.

“We were sure lucky to ______ each other,” Carole said to me recently. “But I wondered what took you so ______ to call.” I said. “I called right after I ______ your South American friend.” Carole looked amazed. “Not a friend, ______ I met him only once, and he told me about you. But that was a whole week before you finally ______.” “But I don’t understand; I didn’t know him until that afternoon.” “Maybe he know of you before because you were ______ known in the company for your achievement.”

Though you are a small potato, if you work hard and do ______, people will find you sooner or later.

1.A. chat　　 B. action　　 C. letter　　 D. sentence

2.A. got　　 B. arrived　　 C. reached　　 D. approached

3.A. returned　　 B. appeared　　 C. heard　　 D. come

4.A. pleasure　　 B. difficulties　　 C. excitement　　 D. danger

5.A. finding out　　 B. adopted　　 C. decorated　　 D. searching for

6.A. job　　 B. home　　 C. school　　 D. friend

7.A. sight　　 B. visit　　 C. view　　 D. point

8.A. realize　　 B. provide　　 C. afford　　 D. stand

9.A. number　　 B. sign　　 C. mark　　 D. note

10.A. meet　　 B. like　　 C. believe　　 D. agree

11.A. looking　　 B. staying　　 C. waiting　　 D. keeping

12.A. And　　 B. However　　 C. Then　　 D. Indeed

13.A. wife　　 B. friend　　 C. roommate　　 D. partner

14.A. receive　　 B. find　　 C. notice　　 D. see

15.A. short　　 B. fast　　 C. long　　 D. slow

16.A. came across　　 B. heard from　　 C. knew of　　 D. referred to

17.A. hurriedly　　 B. rapidly　　 C. commonly　　 D. exactly

18.A. said　　 B. called　　 C. spoke　　 D. visited

19.A. far　　 B. much　　 C. well　　 D. rather

20.A. everything　　 B. anything　　 C. nothing　　 D. something

高一英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

______ young man standing there looks strong and healthy; however, as

_________  matter of fact ,he has a serious disease.　　　　

A. The; the       B. A; a        C. The; a         D. A; the

高一英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析