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江苏省高三英语阅读理解专练（4） A 　　I woke up with a big headache, and my head felt like it was burning. But I knew Jane was having a big party the weekend after this, and I knew she’d invite me if I saw her in school. So I was ready for school no matter how I felt. 　　My mother said that I had a temperature of 101 and that I should go back to bed. I told her I would have a big Spanish test I couldn’t miss. I also explained that I was working on a project in social studies and that I had to give a report today. But she said that I sounded not just sick, but crazy, and that I had better go back to bed. 　　1．What is the real reason the author wants to go to school? 　　A. To see Jane. 　　B. To take a test in Spanish. 　　C. To show that he isn’t sick. 　　D. To give a report in social studies. B 　　Several days ago, a Beijing - based IT company fired about 400 people overnight. No one had expected the job cuts, which broke with traditional ways of letting go of workers in China. Moreover, what was special about this case was that the day before the 400 were fired, they all received from their boss a gift - the book “Who Moved My Cheese?”. 　　The book - a bestseller in the US - is being used by men and women to deal with changes in their lives and work. Some large organizations, including Coca- Cola, Kodak and General Motors, ask their employees to read it in order to encourage them to be active towards changes. 　　Cheese is something related to everyone’s livelihood - our jobs, the industries we work in, relationships and love as well. 　　With China’s official entry into WTO, the whole nation will face up to more changes and challenges. So what should we do once this “cheese” on which we are so dependent is moved? 　　“Whatever challenges and changes we meet, we should face up to them bravely” Jiang Hengwei, a civil servant said after reading the book. 　　Professor Yang in Renmin University of China agrees. “We should change our way of thinking. The coming competitive foreign companies and produc