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[单项选择]Passage Two
After taking a six-week, fully paid maternity leave (产假) earlier this year, Francine Gemperle was anxious to resume her job but reluctant to be away from her baby daughter, Veronika. Fortunately, she did’t have to choose between them. Maya Design, a Pittsburgh based creative consulting firm, allows parents to bring newborns into the office.
“If I’d had to leave my children after my maternity leave ended, I would never have goes back to work,” says Gemperle, a designer and researcher, who brought her son Milo into the office after he was born.
She’s not the only parent taking advantage of the benefit. Senior analyst Jon West brings his 10-mouth-old son, Owen, to the several times a month. In fact, when West considered using only part of his paternity leave, his co-workers urged him to take all six weeks.
“I had pressure to take that leave,” recalls West, “People told me, it’s an important part of your life and you need to experience it.”
“No matter how quiet the baby
A. Taking on women employees.
B. Dealing with women’s complaints
C. Dismissing unqualified women staff
D. Taking care of women staff welfare
[单项选择]Passage 2
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve problems-to read, write and to compute. This vision of intelligence stresses formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more education, who is very good at some form of school discipline is “intelligent”. Yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have graduation certificates. A true indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day.
If you are happy, if you live every moment for everything that is worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for
A. is the root of all mental distress
B. is a widely held but wrong concept
C. contributes to one’s self fulfillment
D. helps eliminate intellectual prejudice
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Passage 6
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is very good at some form of school discipline, is "intelligent"; yet mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it’s worth, then you are
A. is a widely held but wrong concept
B. will help eliminate intellectual prejudice
C. is the root of all mental distress
D. will contribute to one’s self-fulfillment
[单项选择]Where is this passage most probably taking place
A. In a theater.
B. In a sitting-room.
C. In a classroom.
D. In a library.
[填空题]After the two therapists had misdiagnosed him, the author diagnosed himself.
[单项选择]（ ）, he must be totally exhausted after a two weeks' trip by bus.
A. Being very strong
B. As a strong man
C. Strong as he is
D. As he is strong
[单项选择]Passage Three
A. By taking advantage of ferries. B. By crossing bridges.
C. By getting through tunnels. D. By riding submarines.
[填空题]According to the passage, fear of taking test may give rise to ______.
