2013全国中考试题精选-阅读型题材实战训练B卷.doc

2013全国中考试题精选 阅读型题材实战训练B卷 2013济南市中考 一、阅读理解。(共5小题，每小题1分，计5分) 阅读下列短文，从每题A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。 “Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”Do you agree with this old saying? Joanne Gordon does. She is the author of Be Happy at Work and other books about careers(职业). Gordon believes that about 30% of employees(雇员) in North America do not like their jobs, and she thinks that is terrible. She wants to help people who do not feel satisfied(满意的) with their jobs find work that is good for them. Joanne says,“There are no happy jobs, only happy workers.”She believes that happy workers share three main characteristics(特点)。 First, happy workers enjoy the daily activities of their jobs, and they look forward to the workday. Take Tony Hawk, for example. At age 14, he became a professional skateboarder. Now he is a businessman working on projects related to skateboarding—films and video games, but he still skates every day. He once said,揗y youngest son ’s pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. My son said,慖o’ve never seen my dad do work.挃Tony agrees that his job doesn ’t look like work. He has found a way to spend each day doing a job he enjoys. Second, happy workers like the people they work with. Sally Ayote says,揑 work with the coolest people in the world.擲he and her group cook for almost 1 200 people in Antarctica. s Most of these people are scientists who are doing research. Sally loves to sit and talk with them. She says,揟here is no television here, no radio, so I get to know the scientists and what they’re studying.擲ally thinks she has a great job, and the best part about it is the people. Third, happy workers know that their work helps others. Caroline Baroni’s work helps people who have had to leave their home countries because of war or other dangers. She is a filmmaker who started an organization called FilmAid, which shows movies in refugee(难民) camps around the world. Caroline believes that movies can be very