请阅读Passage 1,完成第 21~25小题。Passage 1What would you do with $ 5

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请阅读Passage 1,完成第 21~25小题。Passage 1What would you do with $ 590m? This is now a question for Gloria MacKenzie, an 84-year-old widow who recently emerged from her small, tin-roofed house in Florida to collect the biggest undivided lottery jackpot in history. If she hopes her new-found fortune will yield lasting feelings of fulfilment, she could do worse than read Happy Money by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton.These two academics use an array ofbehavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive. Fantasies of great wealth often involve visions of fancy cars and extravagant homes. Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly. What was once exciting and new becomes old-hat; regret creeps in. It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms. Dunn and Mr. Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema. These purchases often become more valuable with time-as stories or memories particularly ifthey involve feeling more connected to others.This slim volume is packed with tips to help wage slaves as well as lottery winners get the most happiness bang for your buck. It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television(something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it). Buying gifts or giving to charity is often more pleasurable than purchasing things for oneself, and luxuries are most enjoyable when they are consumed sparingly. This is apparently the reason McDonald's restricts the availability of its popular McRib-a marketing trick that has turned the pork sandwich into an object of obsession.Readers of Happy Money are clearly a privileged lot, anxious about fulfilment, not hunger. Money may not quite buy happiness, but people in wealthier countries are generally happier than those in poor ones. Yet the link between feeling good and spending money on others can be seen among rich and poor people around the world, and scarcity enhances the pleasure of most things for away from this book believing it was money well spent.The author's attitude towards Americans' watching TV is ____.
A

critical

B

supportive

C

sympathetic

D

ambiguous

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第1题:

请教:2005年12月大学英语三级考试真题第1大题第3小题如何解答?

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第3题:According to this passage, gestures are__________

A. spoken words              

B. a non-language element

C. pictures in a language     

D. written language

 


正确答案:B

第2题:

From the passage we can ge the idea that the fuzzy computer would need only a few dozen lines of programming to do its job.()

此题为判断题(对,错)。


正确答案:正确

第3题:

Here is the dessert.()?

A、Do you like some

B、Would you like some

C、Do you like that

D、Would you like that


参考答案:B

第4题:

Which statement can be inferred from this passage?

A.Each question has its proper time and place.

B.It is impolite to ask "how do you feel".

C.You won"t ask one person "how do you feel" when he is in a hurry.

D.It is easy to tell the truth when a person is very old.


正确答案:A
其他选项都无法从文章所提供的信息里推出。

第5题:

请教:2009年12月大学英语三级考试A级真题第2大题第6小题如何解答?

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21. Would you please pass me the book ________ cover is black?

A) which

B) whose

C) that

D) its

 


正确答案:B
 

第6题:

Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?

A. Work to give women a fair pay deal.

B. Time to change the situation.

C. Equal work, equal pay.

D. Should women be treated as second-class citizens


正确答案:C
A选项是应该努力让女人得到平等的薪水。B选项是时间会改变状况。C选项是同工同酬。D选项是女人是否应该被当作二等公民对待?选项C用精练而有感染力的语言针对文章内容表达了作者的一种观点、一种呼吁。

第7题:

You____ about your friends never coming to see you, but when they do come, you give them such a hard time that its hardly surprising they usually stay away.

A、capital

B、complain

C、temperature

D、passage


正确答案:B

第8题:

The passage would probably be most helpful to .

A. those who draw maps B. those who get lost

C. those who make compasses D. those who do experiments


正确答案:B

第9题:

请教:2010年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试卷(浙江)第1大题第5小题如何解答?

【题目描述】

5.If you plant watermelon seeds in the spring, you       fresh watermelon in the fall.

A.eat

B.would eat

C.have eaten

D.will be eating

 


正确答案:D

答案分析:

解析:本题考查条件句的时态。根据句意:如果你在春天种下西瓜种子,你会在秋天吃到新鲜的西瓜。可以判断这是真实的条件从句,会发生的事情,所以选择will be eating表将来。

第10题:

Which do you think would be the best title for this passage? ( )

A. Work to give women a fair pay deal

B. Time to change the situation

C. Equal work, equal pay

D. Should women be treated as second-class citizens


正确答案:C
C[解析]A选项是应该努力让女人得到平等的薪水。B选项是时间会改变状况。C选项是同工同酬。D选项是女人是否应该被当作二等公民对待?选项C用精练而有感染力的语言针对文章内容表达了作者的一种观点和呼吁。

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