文档介绍：2020 年公共英语三级考试阅读冲刺练****题及答案
Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)
Part A
Directions ：
Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing a thick line across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
Text I
Fifteen years ago, I entered the Boston Globe, which was
a temple to me then. It wasn ’t easy getting hired. But once you were there, I found, you were in.
Globe jobs were for life-guaranteed until retirement. For
15 years I had prospered there
— moving from an ordinary
reporter to foreign correspondent and finally to senior
editor. I would have a lifetime of security is I struck with
it. Instead, I had made a decision to leave. I entered my
boss’s office. Would he rage? I wondered. He had a famous
temper. “Matt, we have to have a talk,
” I began awkwardly.
“I came to the Globe when I was twenty
- four. Now I
’m forty.
There’s a lot I want to do in life. I
’m resigning.
” “To
another paper? ” he asked. I reached into my coat pocket, but
didn ’t say anything. I handed him a letter that explained
everything. It said that I was leaving to start a new media
company. We were at a rare turning point in history. I wanted
to be directly engaged in the change.
“I ’m glad for you, ”
he said, quite out of my expectation.
“I just came from a
board of directors meeting and it was seventy-five percent discouraging news. Some of that we can deal with. But much of it we can ’t, ” he went on. “I wish you all the luck in the
world, ” he concluded. “And if it doesn ’t work out,
remember, your star is always high here. ”
Then I went out of his office, walking through the newsroom for more good-byes. Everybody was saying
congratulations. Everybody — even though I ’d be risking all
on an unfamiliar venture ： all the financial security I had carefully built up.
Later, I had a fi