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A well-dressed man entered a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife’ s birthday. The price didn’ t matter. Since business had been very good for him that year. After examining a nice black one that cost $5000, he paid for the pearl in cash, shook hands with the jeweler, and left.
A few days later the man returned and said that his wife liked the pear so much that she wanted another one just like it. It had to be exactly the same size and quality, as she wanted a pair of earrings made, “Can you give me any advice on how to get such a pearl？” said the man. The jeweler regretfully replied, “I would say it’s exactly impossible to find one exactly like that pearl.”
The rich man insisted that the jeweler advertise in the newspapers, offering $ 25,000 for the matching pearl. Many people answered the advertisement but nobody had a pearl that was just right.
Just when the jeweler had given up hope, a little old lady came into his store. To his great surprise, she pulled the perfect pearl from her purse. “I don’t like to part with it,” she said sadly, “I inherited it from my mother, and my mother inherited it from hers. But I really need the money.”
The jeweler was quick to pay her before she changed her mind. Then he called the rich man’s hotel to tell him the good news. The man, however, was nowhere to be found.
The man said he wanted to buy a pearl for ________________.
A.his wife
B.his mother-in-law
C.his own mother
D.no one
He paid $ 5,000 for the black pearl without bargaining because ________________.
A.he was very rich
B.he wanted to make the jeweler believe him
C.he was anxious to get it
D.his business had been successful
He told the jeweler to get him another pearl that must be ________________.
A.exactly the same size as the black on
B.exactly the same quality as the black one
C.worth no more than $ 25,000
D.exactly as big and nice as the black one
Many people answered the advertisement because they wanted _________________.
A.to see the perfect pearl
B.to buy some beautiful pearls too
C.to get in touch with the rich man
D.to sell their own pearl at a high price
The jeweler couldn’ t find the man anywhere because ________________.
A.he died suddenly.
B.he happened to be out
C.he got $ 20,00 by cheating and had run away with the money.
D.he wouldn’t show up until the jeweler called him a second time.
cants do not set about their task in the right way. They do not study the job requirements 27()enough and dispatch applications to all and sundry (所有的人) in the hope that one will bear fruit (奏效). The personnel manager of a textile’s manufacturer for example 28()for designers. He was willing to consider young people 29()working experience provided they had good ideas. The replies contained many remarks like this,"At school I was good at art", "I like drawing things" and even "I write very interesting stories". Only one applicant was sensible enough to30() samples of her designs. She got the job.
Personnel managers emphasize the need for a good letter of application. They do not look for the finest writing paper or perfect typing, but it is 31() to expect legible writing on a clean sheet of paper, not a piece torn roughly from an exercise book.
As soon as the applicant is lucky enough to receive an invitation to attend all interviews, he 32()acknowledge the letter and say he will attend. But the manager does not end there. The wise applicant will fill in the interval making himself familiar with Some activities of the company he hopes to33()applicants have not the faintest idea 34() the company does and this puts them 35() a great disadvantage when they come to answer the questions that will be put to them in the interview.
A、enclose
B、that
C、reasonable
D、failure
E、to
F、acknowledge
G、what
H、deeply
I、advertised
J、with
K、without
L、should
M、which
N、join
O、at
We are all addicted to falling in love. But after we' ve "fallen" a few times and broken our emotional bones, we hopefully wise up a bit. We know that the high of falling in love is not going to last. We know that sooner or later we will have to get real with each other. That is the difference between romance and partnership. Romance is an attempt to keep the addiction going. It has a very short half- life. Partnership is the dance of two ordinary people learning to live together day by day. It is a very challenging school that we enroll in. It is sometimes a lot more work than play. And it certainly requires a lot more psychological adjustment than years of therapy! We don' t just graduate from this school in a year or two. It takes many years, perhaps even a lifetime, for us to master the curriculum.
Your partners are imperfect human beings, just like you. They were not the "wrong" partners any more than you were. Probably, they reflected your own level of realism and emotional maturity. That' s usually the way it works. So don't waste your time thinking you simply made some bad choices. The only bad choice you made was forgetting who has the full time job loving you. I know that you know who this is !
We keep remembering that they are not perfect, nor we are. Love is not a game of perfection. It is a game of overwhelming imperfection. The amazing thing is that love survives all of our mistaken attempts to control our partners and our relationships.
We can conclude from the passage that______.
A．we won't forget who has the full time loving us
B．love is addictive
C．love from your partner is not enough
D．love lies in the maturity of emotion which is essential to a partnership or relationship
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:
The oldest and simplest method, then of describing differences in personality was to classify people according to types, and such a system is called a Typology. A famous example of this method was set forth in Greece about the year 400 BC.A physician named Hippocrates theorized that there were four fluids, or humors, in the body. Corresponding to each humor, he believed, there existed a definite type of personality.
The four humors were blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. A person in whom all four humors were in perfect balance had a harmonious personality. If a person had too much blood, he was called sanguine(血红色), or cheerful and optimistic. Someone with too much yellow bile was choleric, or irritable and easily angered. Too much black bile made a person melancholy, or depressed and pessimistic. An oversupply of phlegm caused a human being to be phlegmatic, or slow and unfeeling. Scientists have long since discarded Hippocrates’ fluid theory. But the names of the humors, corresponding to these temperaments, have survived and are still useful, to some extent, in describing personality.
Other features of people, such as their faces and physics, have also been used to classify personality. Today, however, personality theories and classifications may also include factors such as heredity(遗传特征), the environment, intelligence , and emotional needs. Psychology, biology, and sociology are involved in these theories. Because of the complexity of human personality, present day theories are often very different from one another. Psychologists vary in their ideas about what is most important in determining personality.
36.According to Hippocrates’ fluid theory, a man with too much phlegm will be ____.
A.optimistic B.easily angered C.unexcitable D.pessimistic
37.The main idea of this passage is about ____.
A.the complicated factors in determining one’s personality
B.Hippocrates’ fluid theory and its development
C.the past and today of personality classifications and theories
D.different personalities and their details
38.At present, psychologists ____.
A.have common opinion about personality theories and classifications
B.use biology, archaeology and sociology to study personality theories
C.have abandoned Hippocrates’ fluid theory entirely
D.all agree that human beings are characterized with complex personalities
39.The third paragraph mainly talks about ____.
A.Hippocrates’ fluid theory
B.scientists’ points of view on Hippocrutes’ fluid theory
C.Hippocrates’ fluid theory and its fate
D.defects in Hippocrates’ fluid theory
40.According to this passage the factors which are still NOT used to clas sify personality are ____.
A.one’s born features and needs of love and success
B.one’s height and weight
C.one’s hobbies and ideals
D.the environment and intelligence
A.I'm not sure
B. Perfect
C. That's right
A.homophones
B.perfect homonyms
C.homographs
D.polysemic words
But I wonder:If American education is so poor,why is it that this is still the country of innovation. When I was 12 in Indonesia,I had to memorize the names of all the world's major cities,from Kabul to Karachi.At the same age,my son,who was brought up a Californian,thought that Buenos Aires was Spanish for good food.However,unlike children of his age in Asia and Europe,my son had studied creative geography.When he was only 6,he drew a map of the route that he traveled to get to school,including the streets,the traffic signs and the houses that he passed.
Dissatisfied American parents forget that in this country their children are able to experiment freely with ideas; without this they will not really be able to think or to believe in themselves.
Critics of American education cannot grasp one thing:freedom.America,I think,is the only country that extends even to children the license to freely speak,write and be creative.Our public education certainly is not perfect, but it is a great deal better than any other.I think I have found the answer to my question.
36.From the text we learn that ______.
A.both Americans and immigrants are dissatisfied with the quality of American education
B.the author shares the general idea that American education is worse than education in many othercountries
C.Japanese schools in America require their American teachers to teach mathematics at Japanese levels
D.the author's German friend was a little displeased because the mathematics test for his son was too easy
37.Which of the following is NOT true？
A.The author most probably was an immigrant from Asia and received some school education there.
B.Buenos Aires must be the name of a city,as are Kabul and Karachi.
C.Children in other countries are not likely to learn creative geography.
D.The knowledge of geography of the author's son shows that American education is poor.
38.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage？
A.If children are not allowed to experiment freely with ideas they won't grow up independent and creative.
B.Most Americans think the present American educational system is not as good as it used to be
C.Private schools run by Japanese businessmen maintain a higher level than American public schools.
D.Americans are more innovative than other people in the world.
39.In the last paragraph the author say,“I have found the answer to my question.”What is the question？
A.Is Japanese education better than American education？
B.Why do Japanese businessmen send their children to Japanese-staffed schools？
C.Why was my son not taught enough geographic knowledge？
D.Is American education really worse than education in other countries？
40.What would be the best title for this passage？
A.American education and education in foreign countries
B.Improvement needed for American education
C.Freedom to think-characteristic of American education
D.Education and innovation in America
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:
Designing a lens can be compared to playing chess. In chess a player tries to trap his opponent's king in a series of moves. In creating a lens a lens designer attempts to “trap” light by forcing all the rays arising from a single point in the subject to focus on a single point in the image, as a consequence of their passing through a series of transparent(透明的) elements with precisely curved surfaces. Since in both cases the ultimate goal and the means by which it can be attained are known, one is tempted to think there will be a single best decision at any point along the way. The number of possible consequences flowing from any one decision is so large, however, as to bevirtually, if not actually, infinite. Therefore in lens design, as inchess, perfect solutions to a problem are beyond reach. Although this article will be concerned only with the design of photographic lenses, the same principles apply to all lenses.
The lens designer has one enormous advantage over the chess player: the designer is free to call on any available source of help to guide him through the staggering number of possibilities. Most of that help once came from mathematics and physics, but recently computer technology, information theory,chemistry, industrial engineering and psychophysics have all contributed to making the lens designer's job immeasurably more productive. Some of the lenses on the market today were inconceivable a decade ago. Others whose design is as much as a century old can now be mass produced at low cost. With the development of automatic production methods, lenses are made by the millions, both out of glass and out of plastics. Today's lenses are better than the best lenses used by the great photographers of the past.Moreover, their price may lower, in spite of the fact that 19th century craftsmen worked for only a few dollars a week and today's lenses are more complex. The lens designer cannot fail to be grateful for the science and technology that have made his work easier and his creations more widely available, but he is also humbled: it is no longer practical for a fine photographic lens to be designed from beginning to end by a single human mind.
31.Lens design and chess playing are similar in that ____.
A) the final goal and the means by which it can be reached are known
B) perfect solutions to a problem can be found
C) any one decision at any point along the way to the goal can bring numerous possible results
D) both A and C
32.The final goal of designing a lens is ____.
A) to trap the opponent's lenses
B) to focus light with lenses
C) to hand make lenses at low cost
D) to reflect light by means of curved surfaces
33.After the passage the author will talk about ____.
A) the principles of designing lenses
B) techniques of making contact lenses
C) the design of photographic lenses
D) styles of lenses
34.Which of the following words cannot be used to describe today's lenses？
A) More delicate. B) Cheaper. C) Numerous. D) Unpopular.
35.Lens designers today ____.
A) have a large source of help to fall back on B) receive a low salary
C) are less respectable than those of the past D) are not decisive in the lens design
Why the Super-Rich Aren"t Leaving Much of Their Fortunes to Their Kids
A．What do Sting， Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have in common？ All three have huge fortunes， and none of them are giving them to their kids．Sting just revealed that most of him $ 300 million would not end up with his six adult children．The musician said that he certainly didn"t want to leave them trust funds that are obstacles round their necks．"They have to work．All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything， which I really respect and appreciate．"
B．Bill and Melinda Gates are giving a reported $10 million for each of their three children: pocketchange compared with their $ 76 billion．Buffett"s three kid~ each have a $ 2 billion foundation funded by Dear Old Dad．The rest of his money goes to charity， just like Gates and several other billionaires who have invested their vast fortunes in improving the world．As Buffett famously put it， the perfect amount to leave children is "enough money so that they would feel they could do anything， but not so much that they could do nothing．"
C．All those spoiled rich kids with more money than sense won"t make smart choices or live healthy， productive lives if they have unlimited access to the money they inherit．Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson has stated she has no intention of leaving a substantial inheritance: "I am determined that my children should have no financial security．It ruins people not having to earn money．"
D．Wealthy families have always struggled with this issue．But the same drama is now playing out on a smaller scale for millions of baby boomers （婴儿潮时期出生的人）， who hesitate to give away $ 30 trillion over the next 30 years——the largest transfer of wealth in American history．What used to be a private family matter has become a public discussion about wealth， privilege and pemonal responsibility．Who gets the big money？ Should it be the heirs？ Or are they better off without it？
E．"We probably struggled over this more than any other issue，" says a local self-made multi- millionaire．The businessman and his wife， worth hundreds of millions， grew up modestly in middle- class families and wanted to create a financial plan that would take care of their children——but not spoil them——if the couple died suddenly．"We were fearful of what might happen if they had control of a large amount of money at a young age，" he says．"The more we stared at that， the more we became uncomfortable．"
F．Inspired by Buffett"s example， they created trusts for each of their now college-age children．Each kid has $ 2．5 million controlled by trustees， who can release money only for education， health care， a home purchase or a business start-up．Any unspent money in the trust will continue to be invested and grow．Those restrictions remain in place until each child reaches age 40; after that， the money is all theirs to do as they please．By 40， their parents assume they will be mature enough to use the money wisely or save it as a safety net．The rest of the multimillion-dollar family fortune is going to a foundation， which will eventually be managed by the children and can be used only for charity．The kids are aware of the trusts and the planning that went into them．"They really are thrilled with it，" their father says．"They want to be their own persons．" A huge inheritance， he
believes， can be a lifelong trap for children of rich parents．"I didn"t want them to look in the mirror and say， " Who am I？""
G．Whether having so much money is good or bad for trust-fund babies depends on how the family has prepared the kids， their personal qualities and how well they handle the pressures of great wealth and the fear of not inheriting．For every party girl like Paris Hilton， there"s an Ivanka Trump， who got a business degree from wharton and has made her family"s money and famous name valuable into a prosperous career．Johnson used his inheritance to launch a filmmaldng career and to live， all things considered， a relatively normal life in New York．"In my case， it turned out to be a great benefit，" he says．
H．Most parents want to protect their children from the dark excesses of money——drugs， legal troubles， and so on——and preserve the family fortune for future generations．That usually doesn"t work out: The fn"st generation makes the money， the second spends the majority of it， and the third drains the rest．Hence the old saying goes like " Shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations．" Traditionally， the wealthy gave all their money to their children and grandchildren， and then hoped for the best．Baby boomers， says consulting firm Accenture managing director Bob Gach， are living longer and struggling to balance their own retirement needs and interests with their children"s weffare．Boomers are different from previous generations: more likely to give away money while they"re still alive， more concerned about their adult children finding and keeping jobs．Excess properties typically go into tax-protected trusts．
I．There are really good reasons to leave a tegacy （遗产） in a thoughtful way——ways that promote the production and healthy lifestyles．Many trusts are structured to distribute inheritances at the specific ages determined in advance．A commonpractice is to give a third at 25， a third at 30 and the rest at35．Some inheritances are set up to encourage the heirs to graduate from college， marry or hold a job for a specific amount of years before any money will be released．
J．A lot of people don"t like to talk about money because they don"t want the kids to know how much they"re actually worth or what they might inherit．Although adult children in the United States have no legal rights to their parents" money， it"s rare for heirs to get cut off with nothing．But that doesn"t mean they get everything．Bill Gates， the world"s richest man， won"t disclose the exact amount each of his three kids will inherit， but he said they"ll get an "unbelievable" education and
health care and the reported $10 million， which still puts them fmnly in the One Percent——but not even close to their self-made father"s billions．For that， they"ll have to found their own empire．In terms of their income， they will have to pick a job they like and go to work．
If rich kids are well cultivated and prepared for the txust fund， it will be beneficial to their future． 查看材料
