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can help you better manage your money?
As we grow up, we gradually develop a set of our own values or beliefs. These are influenced by
society,our family,the education we receive and so on. Once this value system is set up,it"s not easy to
change later in life.
Financial experts say that everyone also has their own belief of how to manage their finances.This is
part of our value system and it has a great impact on the way we look after our money.
According to our different values,experts put us in three categories.They are:the ant,the cricket and the
snail.
The ant-works first
Just like ants who work heart and soul in summer in order to store food for winter,these people don"t
care about enjoying the moment.They work very hard and save money they earn so that they can enjoy life
when they get old and retire. The ant loves to save but they could make more out of their money if they
were willing to invest in some funds and stocks with low risk.
The cricket-fun first
The cricket wants to enjoy everything now and doesn"t think too much about the future. They even
borrow money when they really want something.Many young people now belong to this group.These
people have little savings.When they get old,they might have problems.They should learn to save and buy
insurance.
The snail-lives under pressure
The snail refers to people who make life difficult for themselves.They take big long－term loans from
the bank in order to buy things such as luxury houses.They are happy to take big loans even though they
are not sure whether they can afford it. This can cause problems in the future. They should plan more
carefully.
B．put work before everything else
C．live a luxury life at all costs
D．take the risk of investing a large sum of money
B．our family
C．education
D．money
B．the relation between man and insects
C．the insects in nature
D．the problems with dealing with money
B．The cricket.
C．The snail.
D．None of the above.
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 Everybody in this world is different from one another.But do you know 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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when you see the glass?Will you describe your feeling as happiness or as pleasure?I believe you will say it
is a feeling of pleasure. There is a connection between these two kinds of feelings, and sometimes one
causes the other,but they are not the same.Pleasure is more dependent on the five senses while happiness
is independent of them.
When you are happy,little unpleasant events usually do not disturb you.When you are unhappy,you feel
as if everything is against you.You may compensate_for it by eating chocolate and sweets because this give
s you pleasure,yet you stay unhappy.A person may smoke cigarettes because it gives him pleasure,yet this
does not make him happier,especially if he knows the fact that it is not good for his health.
The physical world is always in a changing state.At each moment a new thing is being created,changed,
transformed and then destroyed.This is the normal state of things and no one can change it.If we stay still in a certain state,we are sure to experience unhappiness sooner or later.On the other hand,if we adjust to the
environment,nothing can influence our moods.Then outer events have nothing to do with our inner joy of
mind.
The room of the mind is filled with worry or fear.If you are free of thinking about them,the room has
been emptied,and then you will see what is happening and experience it.When your mind stays quiet,you
will see that happiness comes from the inside.
B．to let out your anger for
C．to provide with a balancing effect for
D．to solve the problems for
B．You eat chocolate and sweets when you feel as if everything is against you.
C．Smoke cigarettes even though you know the fact that it is not good for your health.
D．You are free from worry or fear when your mind stays quiet.
B．pleasure sometimes arouses happiness
C．you feel happy when nothing around you changes in a certain state
D．you feel unhappy because you have to adjust to the environment
B．Happiness Changes Us
C．Happiness Is Within Us
D．Stay a Quiet Mind
through a teacher"s__1__as he or she tries to teach your kids? Did you ever wonder what the teacher
__2__from you, the parents?
Parents can be__3__or suspicious. They can be of great help to the teacher__4__be in need of
help themselves. Some teachers think parents are too__5__on their children.Here is__6__one teacher
puts it.
"I usually have the__7__of parents coming in and__8__me how much they care about the kids"
education and how they really__9__their kids. They tell me they stand and__10__ them closely when
they do their homework. Sometimes they__11__offer help with the kids" lessons as if they were
teachers. They check their schoolwork, and are too sensitive to__12__. They blame the kids on
everything having to do__13__school. When a parent asks me how his or her kid is getting on in my
class, my answer usually is "Well, you know, he is__14__a good kid. He is fine in my class. Maybe
you don"t have to be so__15__with your kid.""
Teachers want parents to know that they are professionals at__16__with children. They have
__17__many children and even parents. Because of this, teachers can be__18__at educating children.
Teachers are__19__that parents want their children to do well, but they know more about what
children should be able to do at different ages and__20__.
| ( )1. A. heart ( )2. A. reflects ( )3. A. effective ( )4. A. but ( )5. A. hard ( )6. A. where ( )7. A. problems ( )8. A. advising ( )9. A. help with ( )10. A. connect ( )11. A. even ( )12. A. marks ( )13. A. at ( )14. A. nearly ( )15. A. satisfied ( )16. A. working ( )17. A. fed ( )18. A. pleased ( )19. A. content ( )20. A. stages | B. mind B. results B. attentive B. or B. keen B. how B. contracts B. examining B. deal with B. guide B. already B. efforts B. beyond B. really B. careful B. playing B. observed B. worried B. doubtful B. classes | C. soul C. benefits C. supportive C. thus C. dependent C. when C. accidents C. telling C. make up C. watch C. still C. pains C. in C. seldom C. strict C. staying C. attended C. disappointed C. aware C. schools | D. spirit D. expects D. positive D. as D. crazy D. why D. agreements D. instructing D. give up D. inspire D. merely D. words D. with D. hardly D. cautious D. joking D. greeted D. experienced D. suspicious D. projects |
| 阅读理解 | |||
| Have you played it? It"s a game for a person or for a carload. Someone begins, "I"m grateful to God for. . . " And he or she shares something. Then the next person gives gratitude for something. This goes on for 5 minutes or more until you reach your destination. There"s no loser. Everyone feels happy after expressing gratitude. And sometimes you discover amazing things. My 5-year-old granddaughter and I played the gratitude game when she visited us. I found out she was grateful to her friend Josh. . . and "the other Josh". She was grateful to go swimming at the pool. She was grateful to have a daddy who played with her and to a nice mommy. She would begin the gratitude games as soon as we settled into the car to drive somewhere. Playing it with her, I tried to be honest and not just say something fast. I really stopped to think. What was I grateful for at the moment? That our country was not at war. That we had plenty to eat. Playing the game made me more aware of the good things in my life. A friend of mine was having a tough time seeing that there wasn"t any good in his life. I suggested to my friend that he take a few minutes before going to bed and write down all the good things he could think of that happened during the day. Later he told me what happened. He couldn"t think of anything good. But he persisted until he was able to write a few things down. The next morning he decided to look for signs of good during the day. He sat down on his front steps. A robin(知更鸟)landed on the grass. In his words, it began"doing a little dance", preening (整理羽毛)and cleaning itself. He watched the entire show. It was delightful. He realized that if he hadn"t been really looking for good, he would never have noticed the robin and would have missed what to him was a remarkable display. That evening he filled several pages with recordings of good that had happened during the day and things he was grateful for. Gratitude had made a huge difference! | |||
| 1. The purpose of the gratitude game is to __________. | |||
| A. let people share their gratitude to God B. discover amazing things in life C. make people realize the good things around them D. practice people"s skill of expressing themselves | |||
| 2. From the description by the writer, we can know that her granddaughter __________. | |||
| A. spoke much faster than the writer B. enjoyed the gratitude game C. finished the game within five minutes D. doubted her honesty | |||
| 3. What was the problem with the writer"s friend? | |||
| A. He saw nothing worth his appreciation. B. He had lost his purpose of life. C. He had trouble remembering what had happened during the day. D. He found it hard to play the game. | |||
| 4. The story of the writer"s friend tells us that __________. | |||
| A. life is meaningless to a person who doesn"t know how to give gratitude B. one can always find relief in nature when he is in depression C. gratitude plays an important role in changing a person"s character D. it"s not difficult to find good things in life if one starts looking for them | |||
| 阅读理解 | |||
| Every people has their own way of saying things, their own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors. Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot about something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about something. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for their color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland jazz. Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pink when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health. Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful. Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song-Mood Indigo-about the deep blue color, indigo. In the words of the song:"You aren"t blue till you"ve had that Mood Indigo. "Someone who is blue is very sad. The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green. Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money. The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now. But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations. | |||
| 1. If you had your wallet stolen while doing some shopping, you may call it__________. | |||
| A. a white day B. a black day C. a red day D. a green day | |||
| 2. Suppose Mr. Brown says he is very happy because his three children are all in the pink, this means all his children are________. | |||
| A. lucky and wealthy B. gentle and modest C. fit and healthy D. creative and energetic | |||
| 3. When she got home and found nothing had been done by her husband, Jane was really__________. | |||
| A. red hot B. green C. blue D. black | |||
| 4. In the following paragraph, the writer might tell the readers something about__________. | |||
| A. unpopular organizations in the world B. people"s response towards a black day C. the influence of the traditional blues D. more words about a color, such as brown | |||
| 阅读理解 | |||
| Have you ever thought about what determines the way we are when we grow up? Remember the TV program Seven Up? It started following the lives of a group of children in 1973. We first meet them as wide-eyed seven-year-olds and catch up with them at seven-year intervals:nervous 14-year-olds, serious 21-year-olds and then grown-ups. Some of the stories are inspiring, others sad, but what is interesting in almost all the cases is the way in which the children"s early hopes and dreams are shown in their future lives. For example, at seven, Tony is a lively child who says he wants to become a sportsman or a taxi driver. When he grows up, he goes on to do both. How about Niki? She says, "I would like to find out about the moon. "And she goes on to become a space scientist. As a child, soft-spoken Bruce says he wants to help "poor children" and ends up teaching in India. But if the lives of all the children had followed this pattern, the program would be far less interesting than it actually was. It was the children whose childhood did not prepare them for what was to come that made the program so interesting. Where did their ideas come from about what they wanted to do when they grew up? Are children influenced by what their parents do, by what they see on television or by what their teachers say? How great is the effect of a single important event? Many film directors, including Steven Spielberg, say that an early visit to the cinema was the turning point in their lives. Dr. Margaret McAllister, who has done a lot of research in this area, thinks that the major factors are parents, friends and their wider society. | |||
| 1. What does the text mainly discuss? | |||
| A. New ways to make a TV program interesting. B. The importance of TV programs to children. C. Different ways to make childhood dreams come true. D. The influence of childhood experience on future lives. | |||
| 2. What does the underlined word "influenced" mean in the last paragraph? | |||
| A. Impressed. B. Improved. C. Affected. D. Attracted. | |||
| 3. What are the examples in Paragraph 2 meant to show? | |||
| A. Many people"s childhood hopes are related to their future jobs. B. There are many poor children in India who need help. C. Children have different dreams about their future. D. A lot of people are very sad in their childhood. | |||
| 4. Spielberg"s story is meant to show that __________. | |||
| A. going to a movie at an early age helps a child learn about society B. a single childhood event may decide what one does as a grown－up C. parents and friends can help a child grow up properly D. films have more influence on a child than teachers do |