1、 Unit5 Launching Your Career 第一部分第一部分 听力（听力（略略） 第二部分第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分阅读（共两节，满分 50 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 37.5 分）分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Charity walk talk The Sunshine Youth Fund organized a charity walk around Tai Shek Lake on 17 September. It was very hot on that
2、day, but over two hundred people came and joined the event. We raised $120,700. The money will go to Project Oasis in Malaysia, which will help provide clean water for some faraway villages. The people in those villages will have a stable water supply from now on. In some faraway villages in Malaysi
3、a, women and girls are tasked with gathering water from faraway springs, rivers, and ponds. On average, they walk over an hour each time, often through forests and over mountains. Mesalech, her husband, four of their sons, and their one granddaughter live in a village. Every day, Mesalechs granddaug
4、hter gathers water at the spring half a mile from her home. At eight years old, she carries one gallon (加仑) each time she travels to the spring, and she journeys to the spring three times before the sun goes down. “I want my granddaughter to get educated,” Mesalech said. “I want there to be safe wat
5、er in my village.” When you give safe water, you give children the opportunity to go to school. The top donations and the lucky draw results are as follows: Top donations 1st Mr. K. C. Tung $28,000 2nd Sanki Electronic Company $13,000 3rd Charity lucky draw winners First prize Winners 40-inch LCD TV
6、 Chau Lai Yuk Second prize A vacation to Malaysia Tyler Li Third prize Washer and dryer Elizabeth Ng Mrs. Beatrice Zhou $10,000 Other prizes Supermarket coupons (优惠券) Kevin Smith Choi Fung Thank you for your kind support. See you next March. 21. What can we learn about the charity walk according to
7、the text? A. It was held on a cloudy day. B. It aims to protect Tai Shek Lake. C. It attracted more than a thousand people. D. It raises money to supply water to people. 22. How much money did Sanki Electronic Company donate? A. $120,700. B. $28,000. C. $13,000. D. $10,000. 23. What is the purpose o
8、f the text? A. To introduce an organization. B. To describe an event. C. To raise environmental awareness. D. To show appreciation for a donation. B Williamina Fleming had at first taken the position of housemaid out of necessity: Shortly after moving to America in 1878, her husband, James, left her
9、. She was 22, in a new country, abandoned. Edward Charles Pickering, director of the Harvard College Observatory, hired her, and quickly found Fleming was hard-working, intelligent, dependable, highly attentive to detail, and good with numbers. Fleming wasnt the first woman to work in Pickerings lab
10、. The Observatory was, in the beginning, the province of men, young physicists and astronomers. Pickering had become so exasperated with the careless work of his male assistants. Hed said that his “Scotch maid” could do a better job. When Pickering officially hired Fleming as an assistant in 1881, s
11、he was one of a handful of women assistants in the lab, and the only one at that time with no scientific education. But that proved not to be a problem. She began by assisting Pickering with photometry (光度测定), the process of measuring the brightness of stars. She finally became responsible for not o
12、nly measuring and cataloging stars and publishing the Observatorys annual review but also for hiring, managing and training the women computers. When Fleming first began her work as a computer, there were known to be just under 200 variable stars. Within a decade at the Observatory, she and her fell
13、ow computers had recognized 100 more, many of them personally identified by Fleming. Her work of discovering, identifying and cataloging the stars resulted in the 1890 publication of the first Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, which listed the brightness, position and type of 10,351 stars. By 189
14、3, thanks to Flemings initiative and Pickerings encouragement, there were 17 women computers working for the Observatory, totaling nearly half of all of the employees. “Wanting to work, wanting intellectual excitement, wanting to make a difference, and wanting the chance to make a contribution to sc
15、ience made women ideally suited to the kind of research the Observatory required. And they did make discoveries,” said Fleming. 24. What does the underlined word “exasperated” in paragraph 2 mean? A. Upset. B. Honest. C. Careful. D. Surprised. 25. What did Pickering find about Fleming after he hired
16、 her officially? A. She had difficulty in doing housework. B. She was good at operating computers. C. She had no scientific background. D. She was an excellent helper. 26. What can we infer from the numbers mentioned in paragraph 4? A. Fleming had a talent for discovering stars. B. Astronomy went th
17、rough a slow process of change. C. Fleming spent considerable time in measuring stars. D. The new technology helped Fleming find many stars. 27. What is the purpose of the text? A. To praise Pickerings encouragement to Fleming. B. To inspire readers love for astronomy. C. To recognize the contributi
18、ons of scientists. D. To introduce a female pioneer in astronomy. C The first patients to receive gene-editing ( 基因编辑) treatments for blood diseases will enter the new year free of painful symptoms. The experiments suggest that changing DNA could treat sickle cell disease (SCD) and beta thalassemia,
19、 conditions both caused by faulty genes that make it difficult for the blood to carry oxygen. The companies behind the trials said that a patient in the US with SCD had been well since July. A thalassemia patient in Germany had been free of symptoms for nine months. The treatment for both conditions
20、 involved a gene-editing tool called CRISPR-Cas9. It was used to change the DNA of some of the cells of Victoria Gray, 34, who has SCD. This caused her body to produce foetal haemoglobin, a substance not usually present after the age of six months. Earlier work had shown that foetal haemoglobin effe
21、ctively treated the symptoms of SCD. SCD is a genetic condition in which red blood cells, which should be round, adopt a C-shaped look and are sticky. They block blood vessels (血管) and damage organs. Until now the only means of curing SCD involved a bone marrow transplant ( 骨髓移植), which relies on a
22、suitable donor and carries a risk of rejection and death. The new treatment involved harvesting bone marrow stem cells from Ms Gray, who then had chemotherapy ( 化疗) to kill her bone marrow. The obtained cells were edited using CRISPR-Cas9. It consists of a gene-cutting enzyme ( 酶), led by instructio
23、ns to a particular part of a cells DNA. Once it arrives there it locks onto the DNA and removes a part of it, leaving the cell to repair the damage. It was used to disable a gene that stops foetal haemoglobin being produced. Billions of Ms Grays blood-producing bone marrow cells were treated in this
24、 way before being put back into her body. Ciaran Lee of University College Cork said that previous studies involving individual cells had been highly promising. “What remains to be seen is whether the stem cells corrected by CRISPR-Cas9 can survive for the lifetime of the patient, providing a perman
25、ent cure, or whether the effect is temporary.” 28. What can we say about the new treatment? A. It may cause serious symptoms. B. It seems less effective than expected. C. It could cure various blood diseases. D. It proves successful at least for now. 29. Which of the following was first done during
26、the treatment given to Ms Gray? A. Finding a suitable donor for her. B. Leading the enzyme to a part of a cells DNA. C. Taking bone marrow stem cells from her. D. Using chemotherapy to kill her bone marrow. 30. Why does the treatment require cutting the gene? A. To improve the patients ability to pr
27、oduce blood. B. To make the patients living cells create an enzyme. C. To let the patients body produce foetal haemoglobin. D. To kill the patients C-shaped red blood cells. 31. What is Ciaran Lees opinion about the new treatment? A. It will give the patient a permanent cure. B. Its effectiveness ne
28、eds more examination. C. It requires more research on individual cells. D. Its risk may be higher than traditional treatments. D Noting that my 19-year-old daughter seemed frustrated with career choices after changing college majors a few times, I did what any good helicopter parent would do: I boug
29、ht her a career-testing and counseling (咨询) session. Vendors (销售商) of career tests, which assess ones interests and abilities and link them with potential occupations, see rising demand from teenagers, young adults and their parents. My daughter says her experience a three-hour assessment of her inn
30、ate (先天的) aptitudes and abilities, followed by a two-hour interpretive session with a Seattle-area psychologist was helpful. It enabled her to put the last nail in the coffin (棺) of her decreasing interest in medicine, by showing that most medical careers dont suit her problem-solving style. As a pa
31、rent, however, dont make the mistake I did: expecting a “Eureka moment” when the perfect career path unfolds before your child like the yellow brick road. Too many people believe “you take a test and it tells you what you should do,” says Spencer Niles, a professor of counselor education at Pennsylv
32、ania State University. “There is no such test.” A good place to begin is a campus career center. Many offer students free or low-cost tests. It is often helpful for young people who say things like, “I dont know myself, I dont know what my skills are, or I have so many options, I cant decide.” For a
33、 deeper look, batteries of aptitude tests assess inborn abilities and skills. My daughter took the Highlands assessment, plus a personality test, with Seattle-area psychologist Paul Marano. From the skills she exhibited, he saw more than a dozen career possibilities, from design analyst to astronome
34、r. The data was almost overwhelming. But as I listened to Dr. Marano encourage my daughter to speak out her self-doubts, unearth her passions and plan follow-up job shadows and informational interviews, I realized he was teaching a set of skills and attitudes important for lifelong career management
35、: Trust your own interests. Do your homework. Be honest with yourself. If you can line up your passions behind your natural talents, you can overcome any difficulty. Not a bad takeaway for life. 32. What do we know about the author? A. She gave her daughter a lot of support. B. She made career choic
36、es for her daughter. C. She knew little about her daughters potential. D. She felt frustrated with her daughters changing majors. 33. What information did the authors daughter get from the sessions? A. She lacks problem-solving skills. B. She has little interest in medicine. C. She should learn from
37、 most medical workers. D. She should consider careers other than medicine. 34. What would Spencer Niles advise people to do about aptitude tests? A. Dont teach fish to swim. B. Dont put all your eggs in one basket. C. Dont expect anything useful from them. D. Dont place too much importance on them.
38、35. What does the author think of aptitude tests? A. They are a guarantee of ideal careers. B. They provide overwhelming but direct results. C. They are helpful for lifelong career management. D. They do a much better job than college career counseling. 第二节（共第二节（共 5 小题；每小题小题；每小题 2.5 分，满分分，满分 12.5 分）
39、分） 阅读下面短文， 从短文后的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 选项中有两项为多余选项。 Career planning is not something that you do once and then forget. Its an activity you should do at least once a year. 36 Make career planning a regular event. Find a day or weekend at least once a year and schedule time to truly focus on what you want
40、 out of your career. 37 Our likes and dislikes change over time, so its always a good idea to reflect on what you feel strongly about in your life and career. Make a list of what you like and dislike about your job. Hopefully you still enjoy a lot of your work activities, but if thats not the case,
41、it might be time to start considering a new job or career. Set career goals. While you can be successful in your career without setting goals, you can be even more successful after setting them. What are your short-term (within a year) and long-term (within five to 10 years) career goals? You probab
42、ly already know about SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound) goals. Always write them down and share the list with someone. 38 Another big part of career planning is reviewing and adjusting these goals on a regular basis and developing new goals once you accomplish (实现) y
43、our previous ones. 39 Explore new education or training opportunities. Never miss a chance to learn and grow more as an employee and individual. Part of career planning is finding training opportunities that will help you further your career. 40 This is free money and can be valuable in reaching you
44、r goals. A. Research further career advancement opportunities. B. This will help you to create a sense of accountability. C. Here are four steps you can take to develop a career plan. D. Reflect on what you like, dislike, need, and want from work. E. A fun part of career planning is picturing your c
45、areer in the future. F. If your company offers professional development opportunities, take advantage of them. G. So, each time you sit down to do some career planning, break out this list and review it. 第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分第三部分语言运用（共两节，满分 30 分）分） 第一节（共第一节（共 15 小题；每小题小题；每小题 1 分，满分分，满分 15 分）分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所
46、给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 In denying ourselves the chance to see a situation from different perspectives, we rob (剥夺) ourselves of many wonderful opportunities. By choosing not to 41 all possible outcomes of a situation, we may choose a direction that actually 42 us rather than allows us to fl
47、ourish (茁壮成长). Since the moment I discovered music as a 43 of mine, I have always known that I dont want to teach it. To me, music is something that cannot be 44 . It is not a step-by-step 45 in my opinion. You must have some sort of talent to build on. 46 , as I began my reluctant (不情愿的) search for
48、 vocal teaching positions, you can imagine my 47 at how rewarding the profession sounded. The job advertisement was offering a teaching 48 in a highly reputable music school. They 49 that their teachers work to “develop students” and to “prepare them for performances at school and around the communi
49、ty.” This is something that 50 me. I didnt realize just how much I 51 to give young students with a passion for music the same nurturing (培养) in their 52 growth that I received. I was extremely 53 when I didnt find many job ads requesting singers or entertainers which I planned to be. Had I not been
50、 54 , I wouldnt have considered music teaching nor would I have discovered all the 55 things that come along with it. By not limiting my path, I suddenly saw many roads I could follow. So, as the old saying states, “Dont knock it til you try it.” 41. A. determine B. achieve C. produce D. consider 42
