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The Botanic Garden
The Garden has over 8,000 plant species；it holds the research and teaching collection of living plants for Cambridge University.
The multi-branched Torch Aloe here is impressive. The African plant produces red flowers above blue-green leaves, and is not one to miss.
Get to the display house to see Dionaea muscipula，a plant more commonly known as the Venus Flytrap that feeds on insects and other small animals.
The Garden is also a place for wildlife-enthusiasts. Look for grass snakes in the lake. A snake called ‘Hissing Sid’ is regularly seen lying in the heat of the warm sun. Byron's Pool
Many stories surround Lord Byron's time as a student of Cambridge University. Arriving in 1805, he wrote a letter complaining that it was a place of “mess and drunkenness”．However，it seems as though Byron did manage to pass the time pleasantly enough. I'm not just talking about the pet bear he kept in his rooms. He spent a great deal of time walking in the village.
It is also said that on occasion Byron swam naked by moonlight in the lake，which is now known as Byron's Pool. A couple of miles past Grant Chester in the south Cambridge shire countryside，the pool is surrounded by beautiful circular paths around the fields. The cries of invisible birds make the trip a lovely experience and on the way home you can drop into the village for afternoon tea. If you don't trust me，then perhaps you'll take it from Virginia Woolf—over a century after Byron，she reportedly took a trip to swim in the same pool.
36. As mentioned in the passage，there is a small charge for ________. A. attending the masters' class
B. learning life drawing
D. seeing an exhibition
C. working with local artists
37. “Torch Aloe” and “Venus Flytrap” are ________. A. common insects
B. wildlife enthusiasts D. impressive plants
C. rarely seen snakes
38. We can infer from the passage that Byron seemed ________. A. to like walking
B. to fear pet bears
C. to be a heavy drinker D. to finish university in 1805
39. In the passage Byron's Pool is described as a lake ________. A. located in Grant Chester C. surrounded by fields 40. The passage mainly talks about ________. A. unknown stories of Cambridge University B. a way to become creative in art C. the colourful life in the countryside D. some places for weekend break
B
As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think.
That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job turnover data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations, terminations (终止) and retirements. In both good times and bad, turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still humming along, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!
And as it turns out, even today — with job growth near zero — over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.
I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from (and compete for).
B. owned by Lord Byron D. discovered by Virginia Woolf
But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look; learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections.
So don’t let the headlines fool you into giving up. Four million people get hired every month in the U.S. You can be one of them.
41. The author tends to believe that high unemployment rate ________.
A. should not stop people from looking for a job B. prevents many people from changing careers C. deprives（剥夺）many people of job opportunities D. does not mean the U.S. economy is worsening 42. Most job openings come from ________. A. job growth C. improved economy
B. job turnover
D. business expansion
43. The underlined word “humming” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________. A. falling B. satisfying
C. disappointing
D. growing
44. What does the author say about overall job growth? A. It gives a ray of hope to the unemployed. B. It increases people’s confidence in the economy. C. It doesn’t have much effect on individual job seekers. D. It doesn’t mean greater job security for the employed.
45. What is the key to landing a job according to the author? A. Persistence (坚持). C. Education.
C
Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.
Here is an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.
Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul. Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?
In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.
There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable
B. Intelligence. D. Experience.