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     What do you want to be when you grow up? A teacher? A doctor? How about an icecream taster?
      Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste icecream.Just ask John Harrison, an
"Official  Taste Tester" for the past few years.Testing helps manufacturers to be sure of a product's
quality.During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet
icecream-as well as for developing over 75 flavors.
      Some people think that it would be easy to do this job, after all, you just have to like icecream, right? No, there's more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry.He points out that a
dairy or foodscience degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this "cool" field.
     In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and assesses 60 icecream samples.He lets the
icecream warm up to about 12?.Harrison explains, "You get more flavor from warmer icecream, which
is why some kids like to stir it, creating icecream soup."
     While the icecream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its
appearance. "Tasting begins with the eyes, " he explains.He checks to see if the icecream is attractive and
asks himself, "Does the product have the color expected from that flavor?" Next it's time to taste!
Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors, and test samples from so many kinds of icecream
each day keeps Harrison busy but happy-working at one "cool" job.

1. What is John Harrison's job?

A. An official.
B. An icecream taster.
C. A chemist.
D. An icecream manufacturer.

2. According to John Harrison, to be qualified in the "cool field",  it is helpful to ________.

A. keep a diary of work
B. have a degree in related subjects
C. have new ideas every day
D. find out new flavors each day

3. What does Harrison do first when testing icecream?

A. He stirs the icecream.
B. He examines the color of the icecream.
C. He tastes the flavor of the icecream.
D. He lets the icecream warm up.

4. What's the meaning of the underlined word "flavors" in Paragraph 2?

A. 味道  
B. 面包
C. 種類  
D. 品嘗師

5. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

A. Tasting with Eyes
B. Flavors of Icecream
C. John Harrison's Life
D. One Cool Job

     Imagine a world 400 years ago where children were used as chimney sweeps.The pay was low; it
was a dirty trade and there was little reward for the men who did the job and even less for children.
     Medway's annual Sweeps Festival recreates the joy and laughter enjoyed by the chimney sweeps at
their traditional holiday: the one time of the year the sweeps could leave the soot (煙灰) behind and have
some fun.The sweeps' holiday was traditionally held on 1 May each year.Locally, they used to mark the
occasion by staging a procession through the streets of Rochester.
     Their fun continued with the JackintheGreen ceremony, a sevenfoot character waken at dawn on
Blue Bell Hill, Chatham.The JackintheGreen would walk with the chimney sweeps in their parade.When
the Climbing Boys' Act 1868 made it illegal to employ young boys to carry out the trade, the traditional
procession gradually began to fade.The final May celebration was held in the early 1900s.
     The modern day Rochester Sweeps Festival is a colorful mix of music, dancing and entertainment
with more than 60 Morris sides and entertainers celebrating throughout the threeday festival.The festival
was revived in 1981 by local businessman Gordon Newton, a keen historian.He decided it was time to
bring it back and over the years he has helped develop the festival into what it is today-an excellent
performance of traditional Britain.
       Gordon researched the Sweeps' tradition and organized a small parade, involving local Morris teams.
In time, Medway Council took over organization of the festival but Gordon remained actively involved.
Today he is festival producer and plays melodeon (簧風(fēng)琴) for several Morris teams.Doug Hudson is
the festival's music director, a role he has held for many years.Through Gordon's vision and hard work,
Doug's musical ability and the council's help, the Rochester Sweeps Festival has become the largest May Day celebration of its kind in the country.

1.  According to the writer, chimney sweeps ________.

A.  were highly respected              
B.  were well rewarded
C.  led a hard life in the past            
D.  worked in good conditions

2.  Medway's Sweeps Festival ________.

A.  has been organized by the JackintheGreen
B.  dated back to the May celebration in the early 1900s
C.is held to honor those chimney sweeps every other year
D.  has become a time for chimney sweeps to enjoy themselves

3.  The underlined word "revive" in the 4th paragraph most probably means ________.

A.  realize            
B.  review        
C.  recreate          
D.  recognize

4.  It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

A.  the festival has never been supported by the local government
B.  The festival is a good way to see British folk customs in action 
C.  youngsters have been forbidden to be chimney sweeps since 1981
D.  the modern festival lasts five days celebrating the coming of spring

5.  What is the passage mainly concerned about?

A.  Sweeps Festival's history.  
B.  Medway's traditional holidays.
C.  Climbing Boys' Act 1868.
D.  A procession in Rochester.

     Jim suffered heart problems.In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was
drawing to a close.
     When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was
expected.Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly.Jim was rushed back to operation,
but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness.He died on the operating table on the day before
his 48th birthday.
     Dr.Bruce Smoller, a psychologist, had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the
stranger he realized Jim's case was.When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack
and stayed home to recover.One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to
come home from school at noon to pick it up.His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had
died.Jim's father was 48.
      "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father, " Dr.Smoller says."He felt that if he had not asked
him to look at his homework, his father would have lived.Jim had been troubled by the idea.The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years." Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48.
     Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences produce farreaching effect on the health of grownups.Although most cases are less direct than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

1.  Jim was sent back to operation because ________.

A.  his heart didn't work well    
B.  he expected a full recovery
C.  his life was drawing to a close    
D.  the first one wasn't well performed

2.  What made Dr.Smoller feel strange about Jim's case?

A.  Jim died at a young age.
B.  Jim died on the operating table.
C.  Both Jim and his father died of the same disease.
D.  Jim's death is closely connected with his father's.

3.  From Smoller's words, we can infer that ________.

A.  Jim's father cared little about his study
B.  Smoller agreed that Jim did kill his father
C.  Jim thought he would be punished some day
D.  Smoller believed Jim wouldn't live to the age of 48

4.  Which of the following could have strong effect on one's physical health according to the text?

a.  One's genes.
b.  One's life in childhood.
c.  One's physical education.
d.  The date of one's birthday.
e.  The opinions one has about something.
A.  a, b, d  
B.  a, b, e
C.  a, c, e  
D.  b, c, d

5.  Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.  Both Jim and his father died at the age of 48.
B.  Jim often asked his father to do his homework.
C.  Jim was believed to kill his father.
D.  Most childhood events can cause cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

     With large and small keyboards everywhere, neither children nor adults need to write much of
anything by hand.That's a big problem.Study after study suggests that handwriting is important for brain
development-helping kids get fine motor skills and learn to express and create ideas.Yet the time devoted
to teaching penmanship (書法) in most schools has shrunk to just one hour a week.Is it time to give up
handwriting? Have a look at the link between the brain and penmanship, and you may get the answer.
    A test among students in grades 2, 4 and 6 found that they not only wrote faster by hand than by
keyboard, but also created more ideas when composing essays with handwriting.And other research
shows that the finger movements required to write by hand activate brain areas involved with thought,
language, and shortterm memory.
  A recent Indiana University study had one group of children practice writing letters by hand while a
second group just looked at those letters.Then, both groups of kids entered a functional MRI (核磁共
振) that scanned their brains as the researchers showed them the same letters.Researchers found that the
brain activity in the first group was far more advanced and "adultlike".
  Handwriting also affects other people's way they think of adults and children.Several studies have shown
that the same average essay will score much higher if written with good penmanship and much lower if
written out in poor handwriting.These studies have also found that people judge the quality of a person's
ideas based on his or her handwriting.And the consequences are real: On standardized tests with
handwritten sections, like the SAT, all essay that is considered hard to recognize gets a big zero.
    Studies show that this isn't only an Englishlanguage phenomenon.Chinese and Japanese youths are
suffering from "character amnesia". They can't remember how to write characters, thanks to computers
and text messaging.Some experts fear that Chinese writing and reading are so closely linked in the brain
that China's reading ability as a nation could suffer.

1. According to the passage, it can be learned that ________. 

A. many researches have been done on handwriting
B. essays can't be composed without handwriting
C. all children write faster by keyboard than by hand
D. most schools are trying to teach more handwriting

2. What does the Indiana University study imply?

A. Children should practice writing letters.        
B. Handwriting can increase brain activity.
C. It's good for children to enter a functional MRI.  
D. Letters should often be shown to children.

3. What does Paragraph 4 mainly talk about?

A. Handwriting affects both adults and children.
B. Handwriting helps a person write better essays.
C. SAT should be done with good handwriting.  
D. Good handwriting makes a person seem smarter.

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Essays written with keyboards will get lower scores.
B. The quality of your ideas depends on your handwriting.
C. Chinese and Japanese youths don't know how to write.
D. Less handwriting may affect China's reading ability.

5. The passage tries to tell us that ________.

A. keyboards are more popular than handwriting    
B. we shouldn't judge people by their handwriting
C. handwriting is of great importance              
D. it's time to give up using keyboards