Passage FiveQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Before you choose a career, you must first know yourself—your interests and abilities, your strengths and weakness, your physical endurance and energy, your dreams and ambitions. Secondly, you must get information about the world of work and the requirements for entering it. Then you try to match yourself and a suitable field of work.We speak of a field of work rather than a job because you should prepare for a broad range of jobs, not just one. This will help you if at some time you need to change from one type of job to another.Although girls will naturally be looking forward to marriage and motherhood, many will probably work for at least half of their married lives. This is in fact what is happening now. Girls are marrying younger so their children grow up while they are still quite young themselves. It is easier now for housewives to go out to work when their children are independent because they can have so many laborsaving devices in the home. Girls, therefore, should take as seriously as boys the need to select a career suitable for their interests and abilities.What should you think about in trying to find your career? You are probably better at some school subjects than others. These may show strengths that you can use in your work. A boy who is good at mathematics can use that in an engineering career. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good at office work. So it is important to know the subjects you do well in at school. On the other hand you may not have any specially strong or weak subjects but your re- ports show a generally satisfactory standard. Although not all subjects can be used directly in a job ,they may have indirect value. A knowledge of history is not required for most jobs but if history is one of your good subjects you will have learned to remember facts and details. This is an ability that can be useful in many jobs.Your school may have taught you skills, such as typing or technical drawing, which you can use in your work. You may be good at metalwork (金属加工；金属制品)or cookery and look for a job where you can improve these skills.If you have had a part-time job on Saturday or in the summer, think what you gained from it. If nothing else, you may have learned how to get to work on time ,to follow instructions and to get on with older workers .You may have learned to give correct change in a shop, for example. Just as important ,you may become interested in a particular industry or career by seeing it from the inside in a part-time job. Facing your weak points is also part of knowing yourself. You may be all thumbs when you handle tools; perhaps you are a poor speller or cannot add up a column of figures. It is better to face any weaknesses than to pretend they do not exist. Your school record, for instance ,may not be too good ,yet it is an important part of your background. You should not be apologetic about it, but instead recognize that you will have a chance of a fresh start at work.Employers will consider other things about you too. They will be interested to know if you have been a perfect person, and taken part in sports and clubs and any out-of-school activities. What does the writer imply by mentioning the indirect value of knowledge?

Passage FiveQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Before you choose a career, you must first know yourself—your interests and abilities, your strengths and weakness, your physical endurance and energy, your dreams and ambitions. Secondly, you must get information about the world of work and the requirements for entering it. Then you try to match yourself and a suitable field of work.We speak of a field of work rather than a job because you should prepare for a broad range of jobs, not just one. This will help you if at some time you need to change from one type of job to another.Although girls will naturally be looking forward to marriage and motherhood, many will probably work for at least half of their married lives. This is in fact what is happening now. Girls are marrying younger so their children grow up while they are still quite young themselves. It is easier now for housewives to go out to work when their children are independent because they can have so many laborsaving devices in the home. Girls, therefore, should take as seriously as boys the need to select a career suitable for their interests and abilities.What should you think about in trying to find your career? You are probably better at some school subjects than others. These may show strengths that you can use in your work. A boy who is good at mathematics can use that in an engineering career. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good at office work. So it is important to know the subjects you do well in at school. On the other hand you may not have any specially strong or weak subjects but your re- ports show a generally satisfactory standard. Although not all subjects can be used directly in a job ,they may have indirect value. A knowledge of history is not required for most jobs but if history is one of your good subjects you will have learned to remember facts and details. This is an ability that can be useful in many jobs.Your school may have taught you skills, such as typing or technical drawing, which you can use in your work. You may be good at metalwork (金属加工；金属制品)or cookery and look for a job where you can improve these skills.If you have had a part-time job on Saturday or in the summer, think what you gained from it. If nothing else, you may have learned how to get to work on time ,to follow instructions and to get on with older workers .You may have learned to give correct change in a shop, for example. Just as important ,you may become interested in a particular industry or career by seeing it from the inside in a part-time job. Facing your weak points is also part of knowing yourself. You may be all thumbs when you handle tools; perhaps you are a poor speller or cannot add up a column of figures. It is better to face any weaknesses than to pretend they do not exist. Your school record, for instance ,may not be too good ,yet it is an important part of your background. You should not be apologetic about it, but instead recognize that you will have a chance of a fresh start at work.Employers will consider other things about you too. They will be interested to know if you have been a perfect person, and taken part in sports and clubs and any out-of-school activities. What is the meaning of “all thumbs” in Paragraph 6?

Passage FiveQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Before you choose a career, you must first know yourself—your interests and abilities, your strengths and weakness, your physical endurance and energy, your dreams and ambitions. Secondly, you must get information about the world of work and the requirements for entering it. Then you try to match yourself and a suitable field of work.We speak of a field of work rather than a job because you should prepare for a broad range of jobs, not just one. This will help you if at some time you need to change from one type of job to another.Although girls will naturally be looking forward to marriage and motherhood, many will probably work for at least half of their married lives. This is in fact what is happening now. Girls are marrying younger so their children grow up while they are still quite young themselves. It is easier now for housewives to go out to work when their children are independent because they can have so many laborsaving devices in the home. Girls, therefore, should take as seriously as boys the need to select a career suitable for their interests and abilities.What should you think about in trying to find your career? You are probably better at some school subjects than others. These may show strengths that you can use in your work. A boy who is good at mathematics can use that in an engineering career. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good at office work. So it is important to know the subjects you do well in at school. On the other hand you may not have any specially strong or weak subjects but your re- ports show a generally satisfactory standard. Although not all subjects can be used directly in a job ,they may have indirect value. A knowledge of history is not required for most jobs but if history is one of your good subjects you will have learned to remember facts and details. This is an ability that can be useful in many jobs.Your school may have taught you skills, such as typing or technical drawing, which you can use in your work. You may be good at metalwork (金属加工；金属制品)or cookery and look for a job where you can improve these skills.If you have had a part-time job on Saturday or in the summer, think what you gained from it. If nothing else, you may have learned how to get to work on time ,to follow instructions and to get on with older workers .You may have learned to give correct change in a shop, for example. Just as important ,you may become interested in a particular industry or career by seeing it from the inside in a part-time job. Facing your weak points is also part of knowing yourself. You may be all thumbs when you handle tools; perhaps you are a poor speller or cannot add up a column of figures. It is better to face any weaknesses than to pretend they do not exist. Your school record, for instance ,may not be too good ,yet it is an important part of your background. You should not be apologetic about it, but instead recognize that you will have a chance of a fresh start at work.Employers will consider other things about you too. They will be interested to know if you have been a perfect person, and taken part in sports and clubs and any out-of-school activities. Why should employers consider your out-of-school activities?

To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. 63. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error ,but from silly error . 64. If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself . Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. He did not do so because he thought he knew. 65. Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone . I believe myself that hedgehogs eat black beetles , because I have been told that they do ;but if I were writing a book on the habits of hedgehogs, I should not commit myself until I had seen one enjoying this unappetizing diet . Aristotle ,however ,was less cautious . Ancient and medieval authors knew all about unicorns and salamanders ;not one of them thought it necessary to avoid dogmatic statements about them because he had never seen one of them. Many matters, however ,are less easily brought to the test of experience. 66. If, like most of mankind, you have passionate convictions on many such matters, there are ways in which you can make yourself aware of your own bias . If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do. 67. If someone maintains that two and two are five, or that Iceland is on the equator, you feel pity rather than anger . (From How to Avoid the Foolish Opinions)

Many of us who think we are poor ______31______ ,if we could only see them, in possibilities all about us, in faculties worth more than diamond bracelets .In our large Eastern cities it has been found that at least ninety-four out of every hundred found their first fortune at home, or near at hand, and in meeting common everyday wants .It is a sorry day for a young man ______32______ ,but thinks he can do better somewhere else. Some Brazilian shepherds organized a party ______33______ and took along a handful of translucent pebbles to play checkers with on the voyage. After arriving in San Francisco, and after they had thrown most of the pebbles away, ______34______ .They hastened back to Brazil, only to find that the mines from which the pebbles had been gathered had been taken up by other prospectors and sold to the government.The richest gold and silver mine in Nevada was sold by the owner for $42,to get money to pay his passage to other mines, where he thought he could get rich. Professor Agassiz once told the Harvard students of a farmer ______35______ ,and concluded to sell out and get into a more profitable business. He decided to go into the coal-oil business; ______36______ and coal-oil deposits, and experimented for a long time. He sold his farm for $200,and engaged in his new business two hundred miles away. Only a short time after ,the man who bought his farm discovered upon it a great flood of coal-oil, which the farmer had previously ignorantly tried to drain off.Hundreds of years ago there lived near the shore of the river Indus a Persian by the name of Ali Hafed. He lived in a cottage on the river bank, ______37______ stretching away to the sea. He had a wife and children, an extensive farm, fields of grain, gardens of flowers, orchards of fruit, and miles of forest. He had plenty of money and everything that heart could wish. He was contented and happy. One evening a priest of Buddha visited him ,and ,sitting before the fire, ______38______ ,and how the first beams of sunlight condensed on the earth's surface into diamonds. The old priest told that a drop of sunlight the size of his thumb was worth more than large mines of copper, silver, or gold; ______39______ ;that with a handful he could buy a province, and with a mine of diamonds he could purchase a kingdom. Ali Hafed listened, and was no longer a rich man. He had been touched with discontent, and with that ,all wealth vanishes. Early the next morning he woke the priest who had been the cause of his unhappiness, and anxiously asked him where he could find a mine of diamonds. “What do you want of diamonds? ”asked the astonished priest. “I want to be rich and place my children on thrones. ”“All you have to do is to go and search until you find them," said the priest.“ But where shall I go?” asked the poor farmer.______40______“How shall I know when I have found the place?” “When you find a river running over white sands between high mountain ranges ,in those white sands you will find diamonds.” answered the priest.(From Opportunities Where You Are)A. from which he could get a grand view of the beautiful countryB. “Go anywhere , north, south, east, or west.”C. are rich in opportunitiesD.to go to Europe for coal-oil deposits.E.to go to California to dig goldF. who owned a farm of hundreds of acres of unprofitable woods and rocksG. explained to him how the world was madeH. who can not see any opportunities where he isI. he studied coal measuresJ. that with one of them he could buy many farms like hisK. they discovered that they were diamondsL.in order to find a mine of diamonds Directions: Read through the passage below and then choose from the list following the passage the best phrase or sentence to fill in each of the numbered spaces and write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. Some of the suggested answers are not needed to use.

( success)They had a ____. attempt to land on the moon.

( high)Her _____ is about five feet inches.

( breathe)We got to the top and drew in a ____ of fresh country air.

( gold)The old man sighed with regret that the____ days are gone.

( promote) They are planning a big sales____ for this year.