江苏省泰州市名校2023-2024学年高三上学期期初调研考试英语试题

For the love of food

Make food your life in the CIA Associate in Culinary Arts(厨艺)degree program. You'll not only build the main skills used by every chef, but you'll also chart your own path toward a lifelong career doing what you love. Learn to prepare a wide variety of dishes and cuisines, manage people, and use state-of-the-art equipment-all in less than two years! Come and make our hands-on learning approach and industry-proven experts work for you. 

Timetable

Course credits

If you want to get a Culinary Arts degree, you have to attain credits, including:

·51 credits in culinary arts requirements;

·9 credits in liberal arts requirements. 

If you want to get a Culinary Business Management degree, besides previous credits, you  have to attain extra credits, including:

·6 credits in business management requirements. 

How to apply

Get started by submitting your applications on our official website. 

Next, to complete your application file, we just need two additional items:

·Submit an essay to introduce your goal;

·Ask for a recommendation letter written by your teachers. 

Get ready for applications at least 3 months in advance in case of any interviews and background checks. Applications for our program are due by December I, 2023. 

If you want to see our campus in person, please email us at admissions@culinary:edu to make an appointment at least one week earlier. 

Dan Mancina is a skateboarder whose jaw-dropping videos get hundreds of thousands of views. Mancina also happens to be blind, and videos of him using his white cane (手杖) as he skateboards have gained admiration from fans around the world. 

"I've lost my vision slowly throughout my life,"Mancina said. It wasn't until his mid-20s that his condition—an eye disease started to affect his day-to-day life, stopping him from driving and biking. The Michigan native started skating at seven, and got into it more seriously at 13, saying the sport helps him express himself. He stopped skating for a couple of years. This period, the 35-year-old said, was his "lowest point".

However, mobility training helped him gain confidence. Slowly, he returned to doing what he loved. Mancina started filming short videos of his progress and posting them online and met a new group of people to skate with, gaining enough confidence to return to the streets. "I was just actually trying it, and then realized I was still the same person and that I could still do all the things that I love,"he said. 

Now, Mancina wants to create spaces where visually impaired (视力受损的) people can enjoy the sport. "I wanted to build the first skatepark designed for visually impaired people, so I started a foundation called 'Keep Pushing' and have been raising money ever since for a few years now,"he said. The park, set to be built in Michigan, will use adaptive methods, such as increasing the size of obstacles, to make it safe and accessible. 

"To change the perception of the visually impaired, I started my social media stuff. Some people think it's crazy for a blind people to skate. It's not that crazy in my head. I just enjoy skating. I encourage people to think that way—don't let other people decide what you can and can't do. You know. It's all up to you,"Mancina added. 

For a century, Jordan Creek cut across downtown Springfield. Over the decades, the stream regularly flooded into the city's commercial heart. Residents had been tired of the floods so they created concrete banks to cage the stream and in 1932 buried the waterway, hiding it in culverts. (排 水管)under city streets. It was man's attempt to control floodwater. That was the old way of thinking. 

For a while, that controlled the floods. But the roads and other hard surfaces prevented water from going into the ground and allowing more rainwater into the enclosed streams than they could handle. Eventually, the water won. The neighborhood flooded in 2000, 2008 and 2016. For two decades, the city discussed freeing the stream and allowing water to run over the floodplain, Finally, a project to uncover 1,100 feet of Jordan Creek and build three bridges is moving forward. The new way of thinking is to give the water some room, leave some areas for floods and just let nature be nature. 

Uncovering buried waterways to bring them back to life is a process known as"daylighting". Coverings are removed and an attempt is made to restore the natural flow and the surrounding ecosystem. 

The primary goal of the project is flood control. But the work has a variety of benefits. Native plantings will help improve the water quality by filtering (过滤) rainwater. The stream will replace an unsightly landscape and become a "string of pearls (珍珠)" connecting parks and green areas in the city's "Quality of Place"initiative. 

The benefits go beyond that. Stream restoration is neighborhood restoration. The project may promote economic development and increase property values and tax revenue. While the projects can be expensive, they end costly maintenance. Returning to nature is cheaper than maintaining concrete culverts. 

Businesses are now in cost-cutting mode. Title inflation(头衔通胀)has crept into the workplace. Layoffs, hiring freezes and concerns about a recession( 经济衰退 )are plaguing employers. 

To balance this unique economic environment, employers have figured out a way to comfort employees and job applicants without spending more money. They are offering lofty-sounding (听起来高大上的): titles to soften the blow of not providing a raise to internal employees or big compensation to job candidates. 

An employee's title is their identity. It gives them credibility in the office and makes them feel more powerful. 9In this sense, the policy is a sensible way to help retain staff and attract top candidates. 

But if you don't really deserve the new title, it could come back and haunt you. Recruiters (招聘人员) will be pleased to find a candidate who is a perfect ft for a significant, well-paying position in terms of skills, background, and previous experience. However, a stumbling block arises when they notice the candidate has a higher title than the client offers. Since a recruiter wants to make a placement and earn a fee, they won't waste time and will seek out other candidates who are a better fit. 

Even if the recruiters decide to contact the candidate, there's a good chance the candidate won't accept. Because most people aren't aware that their title was inflated and believe it was a reward for their outstanding performance. Understandably, they would be offended if they received a lower-level post. Now that you are at a certain level, you don't want to go backward. 

What's more, if your current title is too high, it raises red flags. For example, when searching for a new job, if your title is "director," but the new role is under that level, the interviewer will. curiously inquire,"why do you want to go down in tilt?" There will be a presumption from the,hiring manager that something isn't right. They may feel that the job seeker is leaving before being fired and willing to downgrade. Rather than trying to figure out the motivations of the ,candidate,they'll move on to others who have a cleaner story without any baggage.

Career coaches provide a series of services, from helping you figure out what you want to do to exploring chances for career growth.  To make it all worthwhile, some helpful tips are offered here to help you choose a right coach. 

Know what type of professional you need to hire. In other words, they help you explore your future career possibilities and figure out what is stopping you from advancing in your development. 

Go into your coaching relationship with an idea of what you think you need from them, but be willing to think about their guidance on what other measures may make you more successful — for example, Business Value training to make sure you'll be satisfied in a new job. 

Try sample lessons to find the right one. Most coaches offer free sample lessons, which help you get to know their styles clearly. You may need a coach with career experiences, or you may need one who offers life advice. If you aren't sure what you want, ask questions. 

Consider cost, and make contact. Coaching fees are not the same. Some coaches charge more for polishing resumes(简历), while others include that in the overall price. 

Once you're clear about it, you can make your decision and communicate with the chosen coach. 

A. Make sure you have a well-designed resume. 

B. You need to understand what you're receiving for the expense. 

C. Career coaches also provide services for your personal training. 

D. Thus, you can assess whether the coach understands your needs. 

E. Engaging with a career coach requires an investment of time and money. 

F. Know which services you need and be open to services you don't know you need. 

G. Career coaches can help you decide how to make full use of your professional potential. 

Coming out of college can be a terrifying change. However, for me it was made a lot easier when I 1  a well-paying job offer several months before college had ended. I meant I was able to 2  other aspects of my life. Sadly, this quickly fell apart when the global pandemic hit. Suddenly, pretty much everyone was working from home, and most 3 , including the one I was going to work for, took back any job offer they had given. 

I started 4  because I had no way to pay for anything and nobody in my field was hiring. I started losing 5 ， and any time I thought about it, I would become 6  and stressed. 

Eventually, I turned to my family and friends for 7 ， since I wasn't able to figure it out myself. As soon as I started talking to them, the stress I was feeling started to 8  I had an entire 9  system of people who were helping out. 

My family advised me to start looking for jobs outside of my field. Looking back this seems extremely 10  but at the time I had discounted it completely because I 11  that if there were no jobs in my field, there wouldn't be any jobs available to me at all They helped me 12  for any job we could find. My friends and family helped me 13  and soon enough I was offered a job that paid well enough for me to be able to afford moving out. 

When we are in a(n)14  situation and don't know what to do, an outside perspective helps bring new ideas, or makes us reevaluate the ideas we have 15  dismissed. 

Forestry patrollers (巡逻员)have recently observed a herd of Mongolian wilds asses in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, as (enhance) protection improves the

environment for the rare mammals. 

The eight asses (spot) earlier this month in the Urad natural reserve near the China-Mongolia border. According to the forestry authority, this was the first time in several years that a herd of Mongolian wild asses (turn) up in the reserve. "They are (physical)fit. We have seen them coming out to graze (吃草)every day,was very rare in the past. We watched them and placed hay at distance in order not to frighten them," said a local herdsman. 

Su Jun,director of the forestry authority,owed the return of the wild the continuous improvement of grassland ecology. ,effective actions of local police and local residents'(aware)of protecting wildlife also helped a lot. Now the forestry authority has set up fixed water and hay-feeding points in the reserve to prevent the wild asses (starve). Su said the staff is also increasing patrols and monitoring to guard against illegal hunting. 

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I looked up from my desk to see the teacher writing on the board: "Battle of the Books!" She smiled and said, "This time it's a teamwork. You're going to be in teams of two, and set a reading goal. Every team that meets their goal by the end of the month will get a prize!"The lunch bell sounded before she could explain any more rules.

As I gathered my things, Liya passed my desk and said, "Teammates?"Since Liya and I shared the same interest in graphic novel （漫画小说），and we took Hindi language class together, we teamed up automatically. I was both relieved and excited to have my team. Then we got to the cafeteria and quickly threw out a bunch of ideas of what to do at our table.

I looked to our third friend Kash, with whom the three of us always do stuff together, "Kash, do you have ideas for us?""Why would I give you guys ideas?"he said gloomily （阴沉地）. "I'll save that for my team . . . whoever that is. Now I see how I rank in the friendship lineup. "Kash replied in an angry tone.

I knew he was mad for a reason. If I were him, not only would I think that I ranked last in that group, but I'd also be panicking about what team I could join. But now, I was on the inside and Kash wasn't. I felt like the only way to fix this would be three people on a team. So, as the teacher walked by our table, I asked for her permission. What surprised me was that she had intended to draw names to assign random groups, but didn't get a chance to say it before lunch.

Awkward and frustrated, we were stuck in this dilemma. Having first teamed up without Kash didn't mean we didn't like him. I knew we—especially I—wouldn't be able to enjoy any prize if our friend felt bad about being left out. So, I decided to do something to make it up for him and convince Kash he was an equal friend.

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