2012高考二轮复习英语专题训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解35

　　2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）

　　专题2 阅读理解 35

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　　This is an open letter to the three people who stole my handbag from the department store I am employed as a shop assistant.

　　When you took my bag, I don’t know what you thought you were going to get. With my wages, there's not much left on a Tuesday. I hope the ￡5 was useful to you . I have informed the social security office so you won’t be able to cash the child benefit next week. I hope that won't leave you too short. But if you really need a couple of pounds, I suppose you could always cash one of the two checks left in my check book. Of course, I phoned the bank right away and the check-casing card is no longer valid, so it won’t be much use to you.

　　Actually I don’t mind about the money too much. We single parents who work to support our families understand only too well what it means to be short of cash. However, I don’t suppose it went very far among the three of you. Sorry about that!

　　I wish you had left the bag behind and just taken the wallet and check book. There were all kinds of papers in it, and notes and things that I really need. I really think that was very inconsiderate of you. I mean, how would you like something like that to happen to you?

　　Well, perhaps the bag will turn up. It wasn’t even an expensive one, just a plain, old brown leather shoulder bag. You probably dumped it in the nearest rubbish bin or threw it into the bushes. We've looked around, of course, but no one saw which way you went after you left the shop.

　　I'm not really angry with you. I know how the pressures of modern living can affect us, but I am sad at the loss of my personal things. I feel violated and helpless. The police were very icy, and they just shrugged their shoulders. “It happens all the time,” they told me. Some small comfort, I suppose. But I’ve lost just a little more faith in human nature．And as my young son said when

　　told him what had happened, “Why? Mummy, why us?” I couldn't answer that question. I wonder if you can.

　　1. In writing Paragraph 2, the writer wants to

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　　A. describe the contents of the bag in detail.

　　B. give some suggestions to the three thieves

　　C. state the fact that she was careless with the money

　　D. tell the thieves hardly any money was available

　　2. Which of the following is the most valuable to the writer?

　　A. The cash in her bag. B. The handbag itself.

　　C. The papers and notes in the bag. D. The check books in the bag.

　　3. What can we conclude about the police?

　　A. They think the case quite common. B. They show sympathy for the woman.

　　C. They have doubts about human nature. D. They are unable to find the thieves.

　　4. Why does the author write the letter?

　　A. To give the thieves a serious warning.

　　B. To express her affection for her valuable bag.

　　C. To call people’s attention to their belongings.

　　D. To complain about the fall of morality.

　　B

　　Job sharing refers to the situation in which two people divide the responsibility of one full-

　　time job. The two people willingly act as part-time workers, enough hours between them to fulfill

　　the duties of a full-time worker. If they each work half the job, for example, they each receive 50

　　per cent of the job’s wages, its holidays and its other benefits.

　　Job sharing differs from conventional part-time work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and professional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commitment.

　　Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing number of unemployed people. Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemployment problems; its focus, rather, is to provide well-paid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities.

　　As would be expected, most job sharers are women. A survey carried out in 1988 by Britain’s Equal Opportunities Commission showed that 78 per cent of sharers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age. Subsequent studies have come up with similar results. Many of these women were re-entering the job market after having had children, but they chose not to seek part-time work because it would have meant lower status. Job sharing also offered an acceptable shift back into full-time work after a long absence.

　　The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventional one-position jobs. However, to ensure a greater chance that the partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position. Moreover, there must be a fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones. In sum, for a position to be job-shared well, the two individuals must be well matched and must treat each other as equals.

　　1. In what way is work sharing different from job sharing?

　　A. Work sharing is aimed at creating more jobs.

　　B. Work sharing requires more working hours. 

　　C. Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary.

　　D. Work sharing depends on the employer’s decision.

　　2. According to Paragraph 4, young mothers preferred job sharing to conventional part-time work

　　mainly because _________.

　　A. they were over ideal working ages

　　B. they sought higher social status

　　C. they had difficulty finding full-time jobs    

　　D. they had to take care of both work and family

　　3. In job sharing the partners should __________.

　　A. enjoy equal social status                    

　　   B. have similar work experience

　　C.  know each other very well

　　    D. keep in touch with each other 

　　4. The main purpose of the passage is to ___________.

　　A. discuss how to provide more jobs   

　　B. describe job sharing in general

　　C. recommend job sharing to women

　　D. compare job sharing with work sharing    

　　C

　　The Child Ego State

　　The Child ego state is a set of behaviors, thoughts and feelings which are replayed from our own childhood.

　　Perhaps the boss calls us into his or her office, we may immediately get a churning in our stomach and wonder what we have done wrong. If this were explored we might remember the time the head teacher called us in to tell us off. Of course, not everything in the Child ego state is negative. We might go into someone’s house and smell a lovely smell and remember our grandmother’s house when we were little, and all the same warm feelings we had at six years of age may come flooding back.

　　The Child ego states are constantly being updated. For example, we may meet someone who gives us the permission we needed as a child, and did not get, to be fun and joyous. We may well use that person in our imagination when we are stressed to resist our old ways of thinking that we must work longer and longer hours to keep up with everything. We might ask ourselves “I wonder what X would say now.” Then on hearing the new permissions to relax and take some time out, do just that and then return to the work renewed and ready for the challenge. Afterwards, rather than blaming ourselves for what we did or did not do, what tends to happen is that we automatically start to give ourselves new permissions and take care of ourselves.

　　Alternatively, we might have had an extremely unpleasant experience yesterday which goes into the Child ego state as an antique memory that stands in the way of our growth. Positive experiences will also go into the Child ego state as antique memories. The positive experiences can then be drawn on to remind us that positive things do happen.

　　The process of analyzing personality in terms of ego states is called structural analysis. It is important to remember that ego states do not have an existence of their own. They are concepts to enable understanding. Therefore it is important to say “I want some fun” rather than “My Child wants some fun.” We may be in our Child ego state when we say this, but saying “I” reminds us to take responsibility for our actions.

　　1. The writer uses two examples in Paragraph 2 in order to _____.

　　A. support the idea in Paragraph 1

　　B. explain why we become nervous

　　C. prove the Child ego state is negative

　　D. introduce the point of Paragraph 3

　　2. By asking “I wonder what X would say now”, we intend to __________.

　　A. blame ourselves

　　B. accept challenges

　　C. keep up with everything

　　D. avoid stress

　　3. According to the passage, the Child ego state __________.

　　A. shows one’s wisdom

　　B. influences one’s actions

　　C. limits one’s thoughts

　　D. exists in one’s childhood

　　4. The underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refers to __________.

　　A. structural analysis

　　B. “My Child wants some fun”

　　C. the Child ego state

　　D. “I want some fun”

　　DCAD

　　ABCB

　　ADBD