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66. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage? A. About one-third PhD candidates do not complete the work to earn the degree. B. Some PhD dropouts enjoy satisfying good salaries and career progression. C. PhDs are not earning what they actually deserve in nonacademic fields. D. Optimism dominates regarding getting PhD dropouts to return to school.
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
A. I have done house sitting many times. B. Thousands of people do this all the time. C. It is also possible to do house sitting in other countries. D. You must take a little care over what your description says about you. E. This is an international house sitting service for all city and country areas. F. You must have a good car, so you can travel to different parts of the country.
House Sitting
In many countries of the world people do what is called house sitting. It means that if owners of the house are going away, they want someone to come into their home and look after the house and maybe pets while they are away.
In Australia, many people travel. After people retire, they might buy a van and travel all over the country. ____67____
So if the owners want to travel or go away for some reason, they might want someone in their home to care for it and keep the gardens tidy. House sitters might have to care for pets. Also, quite a few people have swimming pools in their back yard and they need cleaning. ____68____ I feel it is a
great way of seeing the country, because you go and stay in a new city, get to meet new people, and have time to go sightseeing in a new area.
Generally you have many opportunities to get a house sitting job. There are websites where you find the advertisements by people who want to travel, and by replying to the advertisement, you can make arrangements to go and look after their home.
There are some requirements to be a house sitter. You must be a trusted person, so that the home owner knows you will not steal anything. You must be able to go when the house owner wants you to go, so you need lots of free time. ____69____ You need to be good with pets, able to care for cats and dogs, or other pets they may have.
Some house sitting jobs are just for a few days or a couple of weeks while the house owners have a short holiday. Sometimes it is for much longer. We have had one house sitter for six months, while the home owners travelled to Europe.
____70____ Then you can travel to many different countries and stay there. One of the most important things to get is reference from the home owners where you have stayed. A reference is a written letter to say that you are trustworthy and have looked after their home well. You can show these letters to prospective house sitting jobs and they know you will do a good job.
IV. Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
Encouragement and praise can come in many forms，and some ways are better for child development than others. Researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford University who studied mother-child interactions over the course of several years found that the type of praise children receive affects their attitudes toward challenges later in life.
Specifically, praise coming with feedback about their behavior and the choices that toddlers made helped them to cope better with difficult experiences five years later, compared with compliments that focused more on the child himself, like “You’re a good boy.”
Elizabeth Gunderson, an assistant professor of psychology at Temple University says, “Praising the efforts and actions of the kid is going to be more beneficial in their long-term persistence and desire to be challenged and work hard in the future.”
Such “process praise” includes comments such as “You worked really hard”, which emphasize the child’s actions. “Person praise” includes comments like “You’re smart”, which focus on a child’s inherent qualities. These distinctions aren’t new in the field of psychology, but exactly how they affect children’s development hasn’t been clear.
As part of the study, researchers visited the homes of more than 50 toddlers between the age of 1 and 3 years old, and filmed their daily interactions with their parents during multiple 90-minute sessions. Five years later, the researchers followed up with the families, measuring the children’s attitudes toward challenges and problem solving. The children who grew up with more process praise were more open to challenge, and were able to identify more ways of overcoming difficult problems. They were also more likely to say they could improve intelligence with hard work. While person praise didn’t seem to have any negative effect on the children, the study suggests that process praise teaches children that their talents and abilities can be developed and improved, while person praise sends the message that their abilities are fixed and therefore not easily altered.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72. 他去年写的小说卖得很好，使得他一夜成名。（sell）
73. 新的考试模式是否可行或有益于学生的发展有待考证。（remain）
74. 手机在人们日常生活中起着如此重要的作用，没有人敢不带手机去旅行。（Such） 75. 无论我们在何处，都要牢记：生命中最重要的并不是功成名就而是家人的幸福和陪伴。
（matter）
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in over 120 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假如你是王平，最近你校同学举行了某英文报组织的讨论，其中一个话题是：高考前有些家长在考场附近租住宾馆陪孩子复习，这样做有无必要？请根据下面表中所提供的信息给报社写一封信（信中不能提及你的真实姓名和学校），客观地介绍讨论情况并谈谈你的看法。
75%的同学认为：不必住宾馆 1. 浪费钱 2. 住哪里与考试关系不大 3. 父母陪伴反而增添压力
25%的同学认为：有条件的还是住宾馆好 1. 环境、条件好；安静 2. 父母陪伴增强信心