高中英语阅读写作材料

（一）

Last year when Tom graduated from school, he came to Taibei. He didn't like to work on his father's farm and hoped to find a job in a big city. He went from one company to another but no one wanted him. With little money left, he got to the station, sad and tired. All he wanted to do was go back to his small town. It was very late at night and the station was full of people. They were waiting to buy tickets of the last train. He bought the last ticket, and he was very happy.

At that time, a woman with a crying baby walked to him and asked him to sell her the ticket. He gave her the ticket because he thought they needed it more than he did. After the train left, he sat on the bench and didn't know where to go. Suddenly, an old man came and said, "Young man, I have seen what you did to the woman. I am the owner of a big company. I need a good young man like you. Would you like to work for me?"

1. Tom came to the station to _______.

A. find a job

B. take the train home

C. sell the ticket

D. take the train to Taibei

2. The woman walked to Tom because _______.

A. she was Tom's old friend

B. her child wanted to talk to Tom

C. she needed to take the train

D. she had no money to buy a ticket

3. Tom didn't take the train because _______.

A. he didn't take a train ticket

B. he missed the train

C. he wanted to talk to the old man

D. he gave his ticket to the woman

4. The old man wanted to _______.

A. lend Tom some money

B. give Tom a job

C. say "Thank you " to Tom

D. sit on the bench with Tom

5. What can we learn from this story?

A. Many people find job in a train station.

B. Don't buy the last ticket of the train.

C. If we try our best to help others, others will help us.

D. We should not give our ticket to others in a train station.

Waste

Mankind is wasting things everywhere and every day. Wherever we go, we can see that papers bottles and cans are throw away; food is wasted just because of poor taste; clothes are discarded(丢弃) simply due to their old fashion. Not only things and money are wasted, but natural resources are abused as well. Trees are cut down merely for fuel; wild animals are killed simply for meat and fur; oil and coal are exploited(开发) in a bad way .

The worse example of man’s waste is the waste of time. Many people trend to spend their time on worthless things, such as wondering about in the street, gossiping(说闲话) in the office, sleeping too much during the day. As we know, time is very precious to us since it passes by and never returns. The waste of time amounts to the waste of life .

It is time to call for an end to the waste. On one hand, we must save natural resources and make full use of them; otherwise human beings will be faced with the shortage of natural resources and suffer from the pollution caused by waste. On the other hand, we must treasure our time. Only with our time devoted to the study and the work for the people will we never regret the life we have had.

（二）

A beautiful and very successful actress (女演员) was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the countryside, but she did not want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the centre of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colours.

It was very difficult to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of the month, when she got the paint er’s bill (帐单). At the bottom of it were these words: “ Four hours watching Miss Hall sing and dance : 3 pounds,” with this note: “ After 5 p.m. I get 15 shillings (先令) an hour instead of 10 shillings.”

1. In order to make the painter work better for her, the actr ess ___________.