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University tuition fees (学费)are currently capped at £3,000 annually, but this will be reviewed next year and the Government is under enormous pressure to raise the ceiling.
In the research, the teenagers were presented with die terms of four different loans but 76 per cent failed to identify the cheapest. The young people also predicted that they would be earning on average £ 31.000 by the age of 25, although the average salary for those aged 22 to 29 is just £ 17,815. The teenagers expected to be in debt when they finished university or training, although half said that they assumed the debts would be less than £ 10.000. Average debts for graduates are £ 12,363.
Stephen Moir, head of community investment at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group which owns NatWest, said. "The more exposed young people are to financial issues, and the younger they become aware of them, the more likely they are to become responsible, forward-planning adults who manage their finances confidently and effectively."
Ministers are deeply concerned about the financial pressures on teenagers and young people because of student loans and rising housing costs. They have just introduced new lessons in how to manage debts. Nikki Fairweather aged 15 from St Helens, said that she had benefited from lessons on personal finance, but admitted that she still had a lot to learn about money.
小题1: Which of the following can be found from the five-year research project?
A.Students understand personal finances differently. |
B.University tuition fees in England have been rising. |
C.Teenagers tend to overestimate their future earnings. |
D.The students" payback ability has become a major issue. |
A.to raise the student loans | B.to improve the school facilities |
C.to increase the upper limit of the tuition | D.to lift the school building roofs |
A.are too young to be exposed to financial issues |
B.should learn to manage their finances well |
C.should maintain a positive attitude when facing loans |
D.benefit a lot from lessons on personal finance |
A.Many British teenagers do not know money matters well |
B.Teenagers in Britain are heavily burdened with debts. |
C.Financial planning is a required course at college. |
D.Young people should become responsible adults. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:A
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试题【A study involving 8,500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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The study took ten years. The researchers gathered records from fishing businesses and governments around the world. The magazine Nature published the findings.
The scientists say the common method called long line fishing ravages the populations of large fish. This method involves many fishing lines connected to one boat. These wires can be nearly one hundred kilometers long. They hold thousands of sharp metal hooks to catch fish.
Long line fishing is especially common in the Japanese fishing industry. Records showed that Japanese boats used to catch about ten fish for every one hundred hooks. But long line fishing boats now might only catch one fish per hundred hooks.
The scientists say industrial fishing can destroy groups of fish much faster than in the past. The study suggests that whole populations can disappear almost completely from new fishing areas within ten to fifteen years.
Ransom Myers and Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia led the study with the University of Kiel in Germany. Worm says the destruction could lead to a complete reorganization of ocean life systems. Meyers says the decreased numbers of large fish are not the only worry. He says even populations that are able to reproduce do not get the chance to live long enough to grow as big as their ancestors. He says not only are there fewer big fish, but also they are smaller than those of the past.
It’s the end of this program ,Thank you for your listening.
小题1:What’s the best title for the passage?
A.Big fish are disappearing | B.Long—line fishing in Japan |
C.The harm of industrial fishing | D.Stop killing big fish |
A.Fish can disappear almost completely from new fishing areas. |
B.Now long—line fishing boats might catch one fish per hundred hooks. |
C.Fish now don’t have the chance to grow big enough. |
D.Scientists spent ten years studying the populations of large fish. |
A.The number of big fish started to drop greatly about fifty years ago. |
B.The study was started by Boris Worm of Dalhousie alone. |
C.There will be no big fish left in fifty years . |
D.Japaneses people have stopped catching big fish. |
The report "Whales in hot water?" draws attention to the growing impacts of climate change on whales.They range from changes in sea temperature and the freshening of the seawater because of the melting of ice and increased rainfalls, to a sea level rise, loss of icy polar habitats and the decline of krill populations in key areas.Krill, a tiny shrimp that is dependent on sea ice, is the main source of food for many of the great whales.
The speeding up of climate change adds greatly to trouble from other human activities, such as chemical and noise pollution, which kills some 1000 whales every day.
"Whales and dolphins have an ability to adapt to their changing environment," said Mark Simmonds, International Director of Science at WDCS."But the climate is now changing at such a fast pace that it is unclear to what extent whales and dolphins will be able to adjust."
Climate change impacts are currently greatest in the Arctic and the Antarctic.According to the report, cetaceans that rely on polar, icy waters for their home and food resources are likely to be greatly affected by the reduction of sea ice cover.
WDCS and WWF are urging governments to cut global production of C02 by at least 50 percent by the middle of this century.The latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed it was possible to stop global warming if the world"s emissions start to decline before 2015.
小题1:Which of the following is the most important for whales and dolphins?
A.Rainfall | B.Krill | C.Sea ice cover | D.High sea level |
A.dolphins | B.krill | C.sea horses | D.sharks |
A.increase | B.control | C.protection | D.fall |
A.The Pacific Ocean | B.Asia. |
C.Two polar areas. | D.Equator. |
A.Climate change will lead to the changes in sea temperature. |
B.Climate change will result in the freshening of the sea water. |
C.Climate change will have a bad effect on human activities and whales. |
D.Human beings will forever have no ability to stop global warming. |
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective.
Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm. The size of a product can attract a shopper.But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product.The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.”
小题1:Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?
A.The cost of its package. | B.The price of the product. |
C.The colour of its package. | D.The brand name of the product. |
A.attracted the customers strongly B.had weak effects on the customers
C.tricked the customers into shopping D.caused the customers to lose interest
小题3:Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?
A.The way to promote goods. | B.The discovery of a genius. |
C.The team to produce a good product. | D.The brand name used by successful producers. |
A.Choice of Good Products | B.Disadvantages of Products |
C.Effect of Packaging on Shopping | D.Brand Names and Shopping Tricks |
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the upper and middle reaches of the Pearl River has been rapidly urbanized(城市化)and industrialized in recent years, leading to a rise in the amount of urban rubbish to the damage of the land, rivers and atmosphere.
Refuse dumps and special plants in most cities treat rubbish to make it harmless, with 5,800 tons of wastes being burnt, buried or made into fertilizers on a daily basis.
He Suping, a woman engineer with the water resources department in Guangxi said, it is imperative for the autonomous region to treat sewage wastes to protect the area’s Karst terrain(喀斯特地形)and rain water which brings contact between groundwater and surface water, making groundwater more easily polluted.
The Xijiang River, a branch of the Pearl River which runs from Guangxi to neighboring Guangdong Province, provides fresh water for a number of riverside cities such as Macao, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Zhaoqing, so Guangxi must begin to treat rubbish quickly to protect the water sources, said Liu Chen, a senior engineer with the Ministry of Water Resources.
The government 2001—2006 plan to spend billions of yuan to turn wastes harmless has been mainly provided by national debt payments and overseas investment.So far wastes treatment projects have received a total of 400 million yuan(48 million US dollars)from national debts and 60 million yuan(7.22 million US dollars)from overseas loans(贷款).
小题1:The main idea of the passage is __
A.A large number of waterways have been polluted in China up to now. |
B.Guangxi and Guangdong have taken the lead in making water clean. |
C.China"s rivers are badly in need of improvement. |
D.China is making efforts to reduce pollution of the rivers. |
A.The government has no ability to afford the expenses of treating wastes. |
B.The government has a long-term plan to treat wastes. |
C.National debt payments and overseas investment are taking an important part in developing China"s economy. |
D.A great deal of money is needed in dealing with wastes. |
A.the improvement of people’s living standard |
B.people’s wasting too much |
C.urbanization and industrialization |
D.too many tourists’ coming |
A.unnecessary | B.important | C.easy | D.unbelievable |
In Scotland the sound denoted by the letter "R" is generally a strong sound, and "R" is often pronounced in words in which it would be silent in southern English. In the Highlands and the Western Isles the ancient Scottish language, Gaelic, is still heard. The Scots are said to be a serious, cautious, thrifty(节约的) people, rather inventive(善于创造的) and somewhat mystical. All the Celtic peoples of Britain (the Welsh, the Irish, the Scots) are often described as being more "fiery(暴躁的)" than the English. They are often of a race that is quite different from the English.
The Welsh have protected their language to a remarkable extent. The English generally look upon the Welsh as an emotional(易动感情的) people who are, however, somewhat difficult to get to know easily.
Ireland is divided into two parts. The six countries of Northern Ireland are still part of Great Britain, though, in normal circumstances(环境), they have their own Parliament. The Irish are known for their charm and vivacity(活泼), as well as for the beauty of the Irish girls. Irish, often calls Erse, is a form of Gaelic. It was in danger of dying out, but when the territory(地域) of the Republic became independent, Erse was received, and is now the official first language of the Republic, English being the second. The Irish are known for their charm and vivacity, as well as for the beauty of the Irish girls.
小题1:Why do many foreigners call the inhabitants English?
A.Because only English live on the British Isles. |
B.Because only English plays a more important role than the others. |
C.Because all the people are glad to be regarded as English. |
D.Because they are used to thinking of the British Isles as England. |
A.both England and Scotland |
B.both Wales and Ireland |
C.both Highland and Western Isles |
D.both Northern Ireland and England |
A.“R” is often pronounced in words in which it would be silent in north English. |
B.The Welsh, the Irish and the Scots are all the Celtic peoples of Britain. |
C.The Celtic peoples are often of a race that is little different from the English. |
D.The Welsh have not protected their language very carefully. |
A.English; first | B.Gaelic; second | C.Gaelic; first | D.English; second |
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