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阅读理解Education as a career or a job

Do you want to become a teacher? If you do, then you should recognise that in England, the US and other Western countries, the term ?teacher' covers a wide range of jobs which can be seen as forming an occupational hierarchy ranging from high status, high income careers to lower paid positions.

At all levels of education, university, school and kindergarten, there are a mixture of well paid, secure careers with prornotional prospects and casual jobs with no prospects. In education, if a job is a secure one, it is called tenured. If it is casual work, it is called non-tenured. Non-tenured jobs in education are paid well whilst the person is working; but out of the semester, i. e. for twelve or fourteen weeks of the year, the worker gets no employment. The tenured teacher or lecturer gets paid for every week of the year, even over the long school or university holidays. They also get extra payments that the non-tenured people do not receive. For example, they receive contributions from their employer that go towards their superannuation fund. They also get paid if they become ill or need maternity leave. When the teacher or lecturer is tenured, she or he is regarded as having a career, but the non-tenured worker is often regarded as just having a job.

The level of academic qualification and the extent of teaching experience will largely determine where a person is placed in the teaching hierarchy. However, in England now the government is asking universities to be more market-oriented and to plan research pmjects and create courses that will sell on the open market. Now that universities in England are o moving toward a more market oriented status, they are trying to find ways to save money and there is great pressure to employ more lecturers on a casual not a tenured basis.

Why do people want to become lecrurers or teachers? There is a lot of in the study of occupational choice. Many occupations have been studied to determine why people chose a particular occupation. In education, two general findings emerged: some people feel that they have a mission to teach and want to be a successful teacher, whereas others have a purely instrumental approach. An instrumental approach means that teacbing is chosen not to fulfill a lifetime ambition but just as way of earning a living. This instrumental approach is likely to develop with the casu?lisation of education.

阅读理解Grandmother's culinary advice

My dear

Charlotte,

Thank you so much for the lovely basket of fruit you sent us on our wedding anniversary. I can hardly believe that your grandfather and r have been married f" 60 years. However, we did get a telegram of congratulations from the Queen, so I suppose that we really have been together for all that time.

In your note you asked the secret of a successful marriage. Weil I believe it has a lot to do with our very different attitudes to food. Your granddad likes to have a big breakfast, but I only like a cup of tea and a piece of toast in the morning. He likes to' stop about 12 noon and have glass of beer arid a plate of egg and chips. I find that too filling, and I like to get on with what am doing, so I prefer to have some fruit and some' nuts at midday.

We both like to have our major meal about seven o'clock in the 'evening, but we like very different' things. Your granddad always has some kind of fish for his dinner. He préfers Tornmy Ruffs, the best fish in South Australia, he calls that fish. He also likes kippers, those salty smoked fish that the English and the Scots? introduced in to Australia. He tefi.1SCs to eat any vegetables at all, except for potatoes. He' likes them either, boiled, baked, mashed at made into chips. He always has another glass of beer with this meal.

I have quite different tastes. I like the foods that the other European and ASian Cultures have introduced into Australia. Lasagna from Itaty, Moussaka from Greece, green curry from Thailand and of course, my favorrite, meat and vegetable dumplings from China. Whatever have, always have a salad of green vegetables and two glasses of' wine with-my meal.

Now, am sure that my diet is much more balanced than your granddads. But he says that now at 79 he is going to eat what he likes. Why is this difference conducive to a happy marriage? Weil we have to buy our food from different shops, cook our food in different ways and borrow different cookery books from the library. So we have a lot of different experiences during the day and a lot to talk about in the evening!

All my

Grand

26. The Queen sent a telegram to the old couple because__________.

A. they ate different foods

B. they lived in Australia

C. they had been married for: 60 years

27. Charlotte wanted to know_______.

A. what food they ate

B. how much beer Grandad drank

C. the secret of a long marriage

28. Charlotte's grandmother_________.

A. liked to eat a big breakfast

B. liked to eat fruit and nuts at noon

C. liked to eat egg and chips at noon

29.Charlotte's grandparents liked to eat their main meal_________.

A.at different times

B.at noon

C. at 7 pm.

30. Charlotte's grandmother believed that_________.

A. her diet was more balanced than her husband's

B. her husband was too old to drink beer

C. fish was not good for her husband

31. Charlotte's grandmother believed that____________.

A. drinking was conducive to a good marriage

B. different daily habits were conducive to a good marriage

C. salads were conducive to a good marriage

判断正误：Reporting sales figures

After a slow start at the beginning of the year when sales started out at $ 9 million and rose to $ 10 million for the month of January, there was a slight increase in February when sales went up to $ 14. 5m. Then in March we had a dramatic increase when sates shot up to a staggering $ 34m. This was after the big Trade Fair in Hong Kong, where we managed to promote our new products and capturé the SE Asin market: The-increase continued in April when sales peaked at $ 38. 5m. There was slight fall for the month of May, which was only to be expected after the rush of interest after Hong Kong, and figures hit the $ 30m. mark. They seem to stabilise there, as the June figures were much the same at $ 31. 4m. We have every to expect them to continue at this rate for the next few munths, but our target for the end of the year is to chase the $ 40m+ mark with a very aggressive marketing policy over the summer and the autumn.

16. The product under discussion is not stated.

17. The year started with a rush.

18. January saw a decline in sales.

19. In February sales declined slightly.

20. In March sales reached $34m.

21. The Hong Kong Trade Fair made little effect on sales.

22. In May the sales figures exceeded those of March.

23. The June figures were similar to the May figures.

24. If the business reaches $ 40 +, the target for the end of the year will have been reached.

25. There would be more ups than down in a chart of the January to June' figures.

If I ___________to make the experiment, I would do it another way.

A. am

B. were

C. was

D. are

her.

A.by

B. over

C. across

D. along

month.

A. the other

B. more

C. another

D. other

Don't worry, it isn't_________, I can deal with it myself.

A. Anything

B. something

C. everything

D. anyhow

_________you will cook the dinner, 1 will do the washing-up afterwards.

A. If

B. Unless

C. When

D. While

James decided not to go out ________he was still really tired.

A. whether

B. because

C. although

D. as

_______snow it is!

A. What heavy

B. What a heavy

C. How heavy

D. How heavy a