广东省肇庆市2014届高三上学期期末质量检测英语试题试卷(3)

The government has promised successful candidates a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan( $ 250) in the first year, 2,500 yuan ($ 320) the second year and 3,000 yuan ($ 385) the third year, provided their performance is up to the required standards, Sun said.
Wang Lina, who graduated from Beijing Union University last year, was one of the first graduates to find work in the city's countryside. After majoring in industrial and commercial administration,
Wang served as the assistant to the village head of Ertiaojie Village in suburban Beijing’s Pinggu
District. For one project, Wang contacted people at the Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sciences and arranged for the local farmers to receive training in strawberry planting. Her efforts paid off. The village had a plentiful harvest of organic strawberries earlier this year.sj.fjjy.org
Nationwide, about 150,000 university graduates found employment in rural areas last year, according to figures provided by the Ministry of Education.
The ministry predicts that 4. 95 million students will graduate from universities across the country this year, 820,000 more than last year. About 1.4 million of them are unlikely to find jobs when they graduate.
In Beijing, a record 200,000 people are expected to graduate from university this year. Less than half of them are expected to be offered jobs, according to the personnel bureau.
36. The underlined word "recruit "in the first paragraph probably means _________. 
A. employ         B. force         C. encourage        D. train
37. We can see from the passage that ___________________.  
A. once you are hired as a junior official, you can get an endlessly rising salary
B. the government guarantee a relatively high salary for the successful candidates
C. working as junior officials is easy but very meaningful
D. the competition for the job as junior officials is very fierce
38. From the story of Wang Lina we can learn that _________.  
A. the sooner you go to the countryside, the sooner you will be successful.
B. local farmers can get big harvests if they learn more knowledge.
C. university graduates can also realize their value in rural areas.
D. Wang had great difficulty in helping villagers planting organic strawberries.
39. The last two paragraphs aim to tell us that ________.  
A. more and more graduates will work as junior officials.
B. the universities should not have so many students.
C. there are more and more graduates in recent years.
D. it is not easy for graduates to find jobs nowadays.
40. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
A. Go to the Countryside.                  B. Job Hunting for University Graduates.
C. What Is the Best Career?                D. A good Job Choice for University Graduates.

D
Today just as technology changed the face of industry, farms have undergone an “agricultural revolution”. On the farm of today, machines provide almost all the power.
One of the most important benefits will be the farm computer. A few forward-looking farmers are already using computers to help them run their farms more efficiently. The computers help them keep more accurate records so they can make better decisions on what crops to plant, how much livestock to buy, when to sell their products, and how much profit they can expect. Many computer companies have been developing special computer programs just for farmers. Programs are being written for hog(猪) producers, grain farmers, potato farmers, and dairy farmers. In the future, farmers will be able to purchase computer programs made to their needs. Because of the growing importance of computers on the farm, students at agricultural colleges are required to take computer classes in addition to their normal agricultural courses. There can be no doubt that farmers will rely on computers even more in the future. While the old-time farm depended on horse power, and modern farms depend on machine power, farms of the future will depend on computer power.
Another technological advance which is still in the experimental stage is the robot, a real “mechanized hired hand” that will be able to move and, in some ways, think like a human being. Agricultural engineers believe that computer-aided robots will make startling（令人吃惊的） changes in farming before the end of the century. Unlike farmers of the present, farmers of the future will find that many day-to-day tasks will be done for them. Scientists are now developing robots that will be able to shear(修剪) sheep, drive tractors, and harvest fruit. Even complex jobs will be done by robots. For example, in order to milk their cows, farmers must first drive them into the special barn（畜棚）, then connect them to the milking machines, watch the machines, and disconnect them when they are finished. In the future, this will all be done by robots. In addition, when the milking is completed, the robots will automatically check to make sure that the milk is pure. The complete mobilization of the farm is far in the future, but engineers expect that some robots will be used before long.
41. Which sentence carries the main idea of the whole passage?
A. The first sentence of the first paragraph.
B. The first sentence of the second paragraph.
C. The first sentence of the third paragraph.
D. The last sentence of the second paragraph.
42. According to the passage, computers can not help farmers decide _______.
A. how much money they can earn from their products
B. whether to plant a certain kind of crop
C. what livestock to raise