上海中考英语冲刺首字母训练题10
Passage 19
Most people want to work, but it has become m 1 difficult in today's world to find work for e 2 .The economies(经济)of the world n 3 to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not p 4 and so more people are w 5 work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can d 6 the work of many people in a shorter time. Also, machines don't ask for more money and l 7 holidays. In all of the countries of the world machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on f 8 .One machine can often do the work of forty people. About 75000 people are m 9 to the cities a day to look for jobs, but o 10 70% of them can find jobs.
Passage 20
Someone says, "Time is money," but I think time is even more i 1 than money. Why? Because when money is s 2 we can get it b 3 . However, when time is g 4 it'll never return. That's w 5 we mustn't waste time. It's sure that the t 6 is usually limited(有限的).Even a second is very important. We should make full use of our time to do something u 7 . But some people don't know the importance of time. They spend their limited time smoking, drinking and playing. They do not know that wasting time means wasting part of their own l 8 .
In conclusion, we should save time, we shouldn't l 9 today's work for tomorrow. Remember we have no time to l 10 .