Money is a key element in economic and business activities and has been the theme of many witty remarks. Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Money makes money, and the money (61) makes, makes more money." To most of us, money is (62) but the currency of a country. But to some people, money is either the best friend or the worst demon. To (63) ,however, money is a subject for study and for something to be money, it must at (64) have the following characteristics: portability, divisibility, stability, durability and acceptability. (65) , nowadays, money has got a lot of (66) : credit cards, debit cards, access cards, IC cards, etc, but they are usually (67) plastic money or electronic money, because they are used like money. (68) a credit card, for example, you can buy books and ties, pay your restaurant bills and taxi fares. You can (69) make a small overdraft if you cannot make your (70) meet this month. "Don’t (71) home without it," American Express, one of the leading credit card issuers once (72) us. For many, (73) a reminder is no (74) necessary, because the plastic money is so safe and so convenient that many people (75) leave home without cash but never without a credit card. Part Ⅳ ClozeDirections: In this part, there is a passage with 15 blanks. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
A. economism
B. economist
C. economy
D. economics
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She was slim and he liked her that way. So he called a lawyer. The result was a contract. According to the document, the fresh-faced bride agreed to pay a fine for each pound she gained in weight, the money refundable upon its loss. The paper signed, and the wedding went on. This is a prenuptial (婚前的)agreement—one more indication of the strange pass of marriage in this most transactional decade. You are welcome to marriage, contractual style, where increasingly detailed legal documents spell out everything from who’s going to do the dishes to who’s going to get the house when you split. This is family planning taken to extreme. Once employed solely by the rich, second-timers and the old industrialist carrying off the latest young cookie, the prenuptial agreement—a written pact between a couple outlining the financial obligations in the event of divorce—is becoming commonplace in a litigious (爱打官司的),disillusioned and materialistic age in which one in every two marriages is projected to end in divorce. The only question is: What about love When asked whether anyone believes in Cupid (爱神)anymore, Dr. Michael Vincent Miller says, "Given a century that is full of sexual liberation, computer-dating services and so on, one feels tempted to reply,’ only in a mood of desperate nostalgia (怀旧 )’. ""Pre-nups" (prenuptial agreements)do assume negativity. Founded on disillusionment, they cannot be separated from the high divorce rate in the United States. The result, argues Miller, is a kind of defending mentality. "We’ve gotten good at managing finiteness, failure and trouble with a sort of ’What’ s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine’s realism’. We’ve seen it isn’t all about love. We’ve seen there’s power politics in there—a fight for control, and when you’ve got those things, you’re halfway to lawyers and money." In other ways, however, the compacts embody positive, even idealistic thinking about marriage, love and relations, a law scholar Isabel Marcus believes. Marcus says , "Contracts could spell the end of romantic love as salvation. They say love exists, but that it’s best accompanied by good, hard thinking about equitability (平等). By writing a contract, the couple gains control of its marriage. "What’s good is it contributes to honesty; what’s unfortunate is the idea that any contract can govern your emotions," says the author of the book "The Nature of Love.\ Some people argue that pre-nups are positive because they ______.
A. guarantee the equality of everyone
B. make love accompanied by a balanced relation between the two
C. guarantee the freedom and equal rights of women
D. make marriages suit the modern times better
Money is a key element in economic and business activities and has been the theme of many witty remarks. Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Money makes money, and the money (61) makes, makes more money." To most of us, money is (62) but the currency of a country. But to some people, money is either the best friend or the worst demon. To (63) ,however, money is a subject for study and for something to be money, it must at (64) have the following characteristics: portability, divisibility, stability, durability and acceptability. (65) , nowadays, money has got a lot of (66) : credit cards, debit cards, access cards, IC cards, etc, but they are usually (67) plastic money or electronic money, because they are used like money. (68) a credit card, for example, you can buy books and ties, pay your restaurant bills and taxi fares. You can (69) make a small overdraft if you cannot make your (70) meet this month. "Don’t (71) home without it," American Express, one of the leading credit card issuers once (72) us. For many, (73) a reminder is no (74) necessary, because the plastic money is so safe and so convenient that many people (75) leave home without cash but never without a credit card. Part Ⅳ ClozeDirections: In this part, there is a passage with 15 blanks. For each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
A. once
B. least
C. first
D. most
Water problems in the future will become more intense and more complex. Our increasing population will tremendously increase urban wastes, primarily sewage.(1)On the other hand, increasing demands for water will decrease substantially the amount of water available for diluting wastes. (2)Rapidly expanding industries which involve more and more complex chemical processes will produce larger volumes of liquid wastes, and many of these will contain chemicals which are noxious. To feed our rapidly expanding population, agriculture will have to be intensified. This will involve ever-increasing quantities of agricultural chemicals. (3)From this, it is apparent that drastic steps must be taken immediately to develop corrective measures for the pollution problem. There are two ways by which the pollution problem can be dwindled.(4)The first relates to the treatment of wastes to decrease their pollution hazard. This involves the processing of solid wastes "prior to" disposal and the treatment of liquid wastes, or effluents, to permit the reuse of the water or minimize pollution upon final disposal. A second approach is to develop an economic use for all or a part of the wastes.(5)Farm manure is spread in fields as a nutrient or organic supplement. Effluents from sewage disposal plants are used in some areas both for irrigation and for the nutrients contained.
There is no question that raising teenagers is a challenge no matter how many parents are living in the home. Particularly challenging are the ages between 12 and 16,which are marked by mood swings, defiant attitudes, and attempts to push the limits set by their parents. During this time, teens are trying their hardest to gain adult independence, which is a normal part of the natural growing process. So, we accept this as a time to help them learn lessons and find their way to adulthood, despite the fact that it sometimes makes us feel like we are raising aliens from another planet! Two parents in the household can be a definite plus during these years, especially if both are healthy and loving. In single parent homes, a healthy and loving atmosphere is also a key ingredient to raising responsible teens. Also, teens are often masters at pitting (使人相斗)their parents against one another, so when they have divorced parents living in different households, it can be extra difficult to co-parent with effectiveness. What can single parents do to make the teens in their homes more pleasant The suggestion is to create realistic and enforceable boundaries. Let your kids know that you will negotiate boundaries every six months, for instance. Let them come up with ideas so that they will be more apt to comply. The topics to discuss may be such as how they spend their time after school, how they spend time with their friends and how should be their dress code and their hairstyles, and so on. However, when it comes to alcohol, drugs, smoking and other obvious health risks, there should be no negotiation at all. I never give them permission to drink—and that was final. Let them know they are responsible for their own behavior and should take themselves out of situations that could lead to trouble. A week before your six-month meeting with your teen, call the other parent and talk about how things have been going in each household. Most of the time, there is a wide range of healthy variations in parenting styles. Explain to your teens that when they enter the workforce, they will work with different supervisors, so operating under different household guidelines should be respected and will be good training for their future. What is the best way to make the teens more pleasant
A. To distinguish the responsibilities of the parents from those of the children.
B. To be more tolerant to them.
C. To establish the highest mark children can get.
D. To discuss with them the rules of behavior they have to comply.