A．Vocational education is more associated with trades and crafts.

B．Young people are trained by employers on the job.

C．Vocational education is carried out in education institutions.

D．The government is not responsible for vocational education.

By saying "to find silver linings" (Line l,Para. 2) the author suggest that the jobless try to______.

A．seek subsidies from the government

B．explore reasons for the unemployment

C．make profits from the troubled economy

D．look on the bright side of the recession

lt can be inferred from the text that service expediters could possibly

[ A] sort out troubles for elderly and disabled people.

[ B] help collect fines for local govemments.

[ C] sting the government into improving services.

[ D] help poor foreigners navigate home.

Questions are based on the following passage．

It is reported that China uses 20 million trees each year to feed the country"sdisposable chopstick habit. At about 4，000 chopsticks per tree， that"s roughly 80 billionchopsticks per year——far more than the 57 billion（1）by the country"s national forestbureau.

While this is hardly the first time that the chopstick issue has come up in China， thenew numbers make the problem look particularly（2）. The country"s last forest survey，published in 2009， documented rampant （猖獗的 ） deforestation and forest quality farbelow the global（3）. Greenpeace has even dedicated a campaign to the chopstickproblem，（4）it for the destruction of 1.18 million square meters of forest every year.

China has tried to clamp down on chopsticks before—— （5） by taxing them andwooden floor boards， another environmental offender. In 2008， the Wall Street Journal"sJane Spencer reported on a cultural backlash against the chopsticks， led by celebrities，activists and6minded youth.

"Disposable chopsticks are（7）China"s forests，" a 26-year-old activist， dressedas an orangutan （猩猩 ） reportedly said at a protest at Microsoft"s Chinese （8）. "Wemust protest this pointless waste!"

But protest does not appear to have done the trick. In 2010， a（9）mudslide （泥石流 ） that killed 700 was blamed on deforestation， reports the Wall Street Journal. Perhapsthe activist"s appeal to the government represents an appeal to more transparently confrontthe issue.

"We must change our （10） habits and encourage people to carry their owntableware，" he said.

A．a(chǎn)verage

B．blaming

C．chiefly

D．consumption

E．deed

F．destroying

G．environmentally

H．estimated

I．fi"iendly

J．headquarters

K．massive

L．overcome

M．unfairly

N．urgent

O．utmost

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PERSONAL INCOME TAX RATE (MONTHLY) (_VALID FROM SEPT. 1, 2011_) bracket grading tax rate (%) (TR) simple coefficient (SC) 1 less than 1,500 3 0 2 1,500-4,500 10 105 3 4,500-9,000 20 555 4 9,000-35,000 25 1005 5 35,000-55,000 30 2755 6 55,000-80,000 35 5505 7 Over 80,000 45 13505 NoteTax=(income -3500)*TR-SC The above chart shows individual income tax in China. The tax free threshold is 3,500 RMB per month. The tax rates are divided into 7 brackets. The lowest rate is 3% for income between 3,501 and 5,000, while the highest rate is 45% for income over 80,000. Therefore, the higher our income is, the more tax we should pay. ？ Tax, which can be used in public services such as education, road construction, public health and so on, is very important to our country. As we all know, tax makes up a great part of our country’s revenue, and the development of our country depends on it. ？ From what has been discussed above, we can see that it is everyone’s legal duty to pay tax because taxes contribute to the country and create benefits for everyone. Those who try to evade taxation are sure to be punished. In short, paying tax is our responsibility to society. DECIDE IF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IS TRUE (T) OR FALSE (F).

1. The purpose of the passage is to help people know the tips how to pay less tax.()

2. According to the chart, if a person’s monthly is 3600 yuan, he/she doesn’t need to pay tax.()

3. How much income tax a person pays each month depends on how much his/her income is.()

4. The underlined word “evade” in the last paragraph means increase.()

5. Personal income taxes are included in a government’s revenue.()

he people find their counterparts in any other portion of the globe. Valley walls rise steeply five or six thousand feet on every side. The columns crawl through a maze of giant corridors down which fierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass. Amid these scenes of savage brilliancy there dwells a race whose qualities seem to harmonize with their environment. Except at harvest-time, when self-preservation requires a temporary truce, the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian. Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc. complete. Every village has its defence. Every family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud. The numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one another. Nothing is ever forgotten, and very few debts are left unpaid. For the purposes of social life, in addition to the convention about harvest-time, a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed. A man who knew it and observed it faultlessly might pass unarmed from one end of the frontier to another. The slightest technical slip would, however, be fatal. The life of the Pathan is thus full of interest; and his valleys, nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water, are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse population.

Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts: the rifle and the British Government. The first was an enormous luxury and blessing; the second, an unmitigated nuisance. The convenience of the rifle was nowhere more appreciated than in the Indian highlands. A weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred yards opened a whole new vista of delights to every family or clan which could acquire it. One could actually remain in one's own house and fire at one's neighbour nearly a mile away. One could lie in wait on some high crag, and at hitherto unheard-of ranges hit a horseman far below. Even villages could fire at each other without the trouble of going far from home. Fabulous prices were therefore offered for these glorious products of science. Rifle-thieves scoured all India to reinforce the efforts of the honest smuggler. A steady flow of the coveted weapons spread its genial influence throughout the frontier, and the respect which the Pathan tribesmen entertained for Christian civilization was vastly enhanced,

The action of the British Government on the other hand was entirely unsatisfactory. The great organizing, advancing, absorbing power to the southward seemed to be little better than a monstrous spoil-sport. If the Pathan made forays into the plains, not only were they driven hack (which after all was no more than fair), but a whole series of subsequent interferences took place, followed at intervals by expeditions which toiled laboriously through the valleys, scolding the tribesmen and exacting fines for any damage which they had done. No one would have minded these expeditions if they had simply come, had a fight and then gone away again. In many cases this was their practice under what was called the "butcher and bolt policy" to which the Government of India long adhered. But towards the end of the nineteenth century these intruders began to make roads through many of the valleys, and in particular the great road to Chitral. They sought to ensure the safety of these roads by threats, by forts and by subsidies. There was no objection to the last method so far as it went. But the whole of this tendency to road-making was regarded by the Pathans with profound distaste. All along the road people were expected to keep quiet, not to shoot one another, and above all not to shoot at tr

A．loans

B．a(chǎn)ccounts

C．killings

D．bargains

A.$（"tr:even"）

B.$（"tr:odd"）

C.$（"tr:2"）

D.$（"tr:1"）

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