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The rich have traditionally passed their wealth on to their children. But an increasing nu

mber of billionaires are choosing not to. The reason？ They want their children to live on themselves — and not to turn into spoiled successors. Nicola Horlick or " supermom" , a famous British billionaire, owing to the fact that she has high-flying jobs and five kids — has spent her career making a report ￡ 250m. She now seems determined to throw off large parts of it. She already gives away about 25% of her income each year; she has just revealed, in a report on the state of charity in the city, that she will not be leaving most of the remainder to her children. " I think it is wrong to give too much inherited wealth to children," Horlick told the reports authors. "I will not be leaving all my wealth to my children because that would just ruin their lives. " She is by no means the first to go public with this convition. Bill Gates has put an estimated $ 30bn into the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This was supplemented, in 2009, by another $ 24bn or so from his friend Warren Buffett. Buffett has always been colorful, quotably clear on where he stands. His daughter often tells a story of finding herself without change for a car parking ticket — her father lent her $ 20, then promptly made her write him a check. "To suggest that the children of the wealthy should be just as wealthy," he has said, " is like saying the members of Americas 2004 Olympic team should be made up only of the children of the 1980 Olympic team. " Antia Roddick, the late founder of the Body Shop, told her kids that they would not inherit one penny. The money that she made from the company would go into the Body Shop Foundation, which isnt one of those awful tax shelters, like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

The billionaires mentioned in the passage dont want to leave much of their wealth to their children because______.

A．they prefer to give their wealth to charity

B．they want their business to go on healthily

C．they believe too much wealth will harm their children

D．they hope their children can make more money themselves

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第1题

The first year of school in America, known as kindergarten（幼儿园), usually begins between the ages of five and six. Among rich countries such a late start is very strange. President Obama

The first year of school in America, known as kindergarten(幼儿园), usually begins between the ages of five and six. Among rich countries such a late start is very strange. President Obama believes it is an economic and social problem; his education secretary goes as far as to say that it is “morally wrong”. This statement has some support,as it is clear from research into vocabulary that youngsters from poor families enter kindergarten well behind those from rich families a disadvantage that usually lasts a lifetime. Children from households on welfare knew 525 words by the age of three, while the children of professionals had mastered 1,116.

Pre-school can help close this gap. So in a speech last month, Mr. Obama called for a partnership between the federal government and the state, to expand it to every American child. It later became known that “every” meant those who come from families with incomes of up to 200% above the poverty line-equal to an income of $47,000 for a family of four.

Some critics(评论家)say that sending children to school at the age of four does not work. The evidence suggests otherwise. For example, on March 20th new results were announced from a study of 9 to 11 year olds in New Jersey. This report found that disadvantaged children who had attended preschool had better literacy(读写能力), language, math and science skills. And two years of prekindergarten were better than one.

Some studies also follow the effects of early learning over lifetimes, such as its effect on crime rates and other factors that may eventually burden society. Critics have singled out a government scheme called Head Start, created in 1965, which provides poor households with a range of services including school-based early education.

21. The kindergarten in other rich countries usually begins()than in America.

A. earlier

B. later

C. slower

22. Which is TRUE about the vocabulary size of the two groups of kids？

A. Poor preschool kids have a larger vocabulary than rich ones.

B. Rich preschool kids have a larger vocabulary than poor ones.

C. There is no obvious difference between the two groups of kids.

23. Which of the following about the New Jersey study is TRUE？

A. There is no evidence to support the New Jersey study.

B. Two years of prekindergarten were better than one.

C. Sending children to school at the age of four is not going to help.

24. The phrase “single out” in the last paragraph means().

A. count

B. think about

C. choose

25. Which of the following is an appropriate title for this passage？

A. Secondary Education.

B. Preschool Education.

C. Poor Kids' Education.

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第2题

In the United States many have been told that anyone can become rich and successful if

he works hard and has some good luck.

Yet, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it.And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is.That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about.It is the story of someone who tries to look as rich and as successful as his neighbors.

The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American by the name of Arthur Momand.He told this story about himself: he began earning $125 a week at the age of 23.That was a lot of money in those days.Young Momand was very proud of his riches.He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City.But just moving there was not enough.When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horse riding every day.When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.

It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up.Momand and his wife could not do that.

The race ended for them when they could no longer pay for their new way of life.They left their wealthy neighborhood and moved back to an apartment in New York City.

Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with their neighbors.He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories.He called it “keeping up with the Joneses”, because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States.“Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with the people around you.Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.

Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do.And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world.But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr.Jones always seems to be ahead.

1.The writer of the selection believes ().

A.anyone in the United States can become rich

B.anyone in the United Sates can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck

C.he can become rich in the future

D.many people in the United States think anyone can become rich if he works hard and has some good luck

2.Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because ().

A.they want to be as rich as their neighbors

B.they want to be happy

C.they don’t want others to know they are rich

D.they want others to know or to think that they are rich

3.It can be inferred from the story that rich people ().

A.like to live in apartments

B.like to live in New York City

C.like to live outside New York City

D.like to have many neighbors

4.Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because Jones is ().

A.an important name

B.his neighbor’s name

C.a popular name in the United States

D.not a good name

5.According to the writer, it is ().

A.correct to keep up with the Joneses

B.interesting to keep up with the Joneses

C.impossible to keep up with the Joneses

D.good to keep up with the Joneses

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第3题

Most Americans believe that good education is quite necessary to democracy and social

progress.Even during their colonial time the settlers attached great importance to setting up schools for their children, because these puritans(清教徒) were firm believers in education.

They tried hard to establish enough schools for their children.The schools were not only to teach children how to read, write and calculate but also to train clergymen(牧师) .The first college, Harvard, was set up in Massachusetts in 1636.Soon after, the colonial government passed a law requiring every town of more than 40 families to have a school and school master.By the mid-eighteenth century several well-known colleges were founded, including Columbia in New York and Princeton in New Jersey.They were used to train young people.Education did not develop very fast in the South where big plantation(农场) owners did not want to build schools for the children of the poor workers and slaves.Children from rich families usually went to England for higher education.This was one of the reasons why the South developed more slowly than the North.

Colonial schools laid the foundation for American educational system in which all the American schools were left to the care of communities or local authority.Compulsory education has been carried out and primary and secondary education has been open to American children free of charge for many years.

21.Education in most Americans'eyes is().

A.quite necessary for social development and democracy

B.important only for the earliest settlers

C.good as they have many famous universities

D.the basis of working hard

22.Which of the following was not a task of school？ ()

A.To train clergymen.

B.To teach children how to read and write.

C.To teach children maths.

D.To send children to British universities.

23.The South America developed slowly because().

A.children in the South went to England for higher education

B.there were not many rich people in the South

C.not all rich children in the South had chances to go to school in England

D.education developed quite slowly in the South

24.American educational system was built().

A.on the basis of colonial educational system

B.after some famous colleges were founded

C.by churches as they hoped to train more clergymen

D.when many children from rich families went to England

25.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage？ ()

A.Princeton University was founded around 1750s.

B.Colombia University was built in 1636.

C.Harvard University was founded by the American government.

D.A law was passed by the American government that a school should be built in every town.

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第4题

段落翻译： Before you make up your mind about which...

段落翻译： Before you make up your mind about which way to go, take a hard, honest look at your motivation for starting a company. Too many people are looking to get rich, escape the corporate grind, and work shorter hours with more free time. None of those reasons is likely to lead to success. If you are focused on solving a customer problem or need, believe you can do what you do better than anyone else, dying to work long hours, wear many hates, and juggle endless responsibilities, then you have the right startup mindset. You also need certain personality traits. One of them is a willingness to work very hard all by yourself, at least for the first year or so (and possibly longer).

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第5题

A king once 【B1】 seriously ill. His doctors and wise men tried cure 【B2】 cure. But nothing

【B3】. They were ready to 【B4】 hope when the king's old servant spoke up. He said, "If you can find a happy man, take the shirt from his back and 【B5】 it on the king, then he will 【B6】 "So the king's officials rode 【B7】 throughout the kingdom, yet nowhere 【B8】 a happy man. No one seemed 【B9】; everyone had some complaints. If a man was rich, he never had enough. If he was not rich, it was someone else's 【B10】. If he was 【B11】, he had a bad mother-in-law. If he had a good mother-in-law, he was catching a cold. Everyone had something to complain about. 【B12】, one night the king's own son was passing a small cottage 【B13】 he heard someone say, "Thank you. I've finished my daily labor, and helped my fellow man. My family and I have eaten our fill, and now we can 【B14】 and sleep in peace. 【B15】 more could I want？" The prince was very happy 【B16】 a happy man at last. He gave 【B17】 to take the man's shirt to the king, and pay the 【B18】 as much money as he 【B19】. But when the king's officials went into the cottage to take the happy man's shirt 【B20】 his back, they found he had no shirt at all.

【B1】

A．fell

B．felt

C．feel

D．fall

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第6题

Jim was intelligent, but he hated hard work. He said, "You work hard, and make a lot of mo

ney, and then the government takes most of it. I want easy work that gives me lots of money and that the government doesn't know about."

So he became a thief--but he did not do the stealing. He got others to do it. They were much less intelligent than he was, so he arranged everything and told them what to do.

One day they were looking for rich families to rob, and Jim sent one of them to a large beautiful house just outside the town.

It was evening, and when the man looked through one of the windows, he saw a young man and a girl playing on a piano.

When he went back to Jim, he said, "That family can't have much money. Two people were playing on the same piano there."

The word "intelligent" in the first sentence is closest in meaning to ______.

A．clever

B．honest

C．interesting

D．modest

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第7题

Prehistoric men and women enjoyed a more varied diet than people do now, since they ate

species of plant and several hundreds thousands types of living things. But only a tiny percentage of these were ever domesticated. Modern shops have hastened a trend towards specialization which began in the earliest days of agriculture. The food of the rich countries has become cheaper relative to wages. It is speedily distributed in supermarkets. But the choice annually becomes less and less great. Even individual foods themselves become more standardized. We live in the world of carrot specially blunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag, and the tomato grown to meet a demand for a standard weight of weighting tomatoes to a kilo. Siri von Reis asks: Only the three major cereals (谷物类食物) and perhaps ten other widely cultivated species stand between famine and survival for the world's human population and a handful of drug plants has served Western civilization for several thousand years. A rather obvious question arises: Are we missing something？ After all, there are 800 000 species of plant on earth.

1.Most of us have come to expect().

A、no variation in our diet

B、a reduction in food supplies

C、a specialist diet

D、food conforming to a set standard

2.The conclusion seems to be that we().

A、could make use of more natural species

B、don't cultivate the right kind of food

C、produce more food than we need

D、cultivate too many different species

3.In prehistoric times people().

A、ate much more than we do today

B、lived mainly on plant food

C、had a wide-ranging diet

D、were more fussy about what they ate

4.The specialization of food was started by().

A、the emergence of supermarkets

B、the rise of agriculture

C、the rich countries

D、the modern shops

5.According to the passage, people in the West today survive on().

A、carrots and tomatoes

B、several thousand types of plants and cereals

C、a very small number of cultivated foods

D、special species planted one thousand years ago

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第8题

Which title best fits the passage？（)

Trees mainly serve man in three important ways: They provide him with wood and other products; they provide him shade; and they help to prevent droughts and floods.Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important.In his eagerness to make money from trees, he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And besides, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even more serious: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil allowing the rain to sink in and also bind(固定) the soil, thus preventing it from being washed away easily;but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When the top-soil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.Two thousand years ago，a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire.It set up the empire, but, without its trees, its soil became poor and grew weak. When the empire fell to pieces, the home country found itself faced by floods and starvation(饥荒).

A、Trees and Man

B、The Function of Tree Wood

C、How do People do with Trees

D、The Usage of Tree Roots

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第9题

Most American families are smaller than the families in other countries. Most American

families have one or two parents and one or two children each. Children in the US will leave their parents ’ home when they grow up. They usually live far from their parents because they want to find good jobs. They often write to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to visit their parents on holiday. Parents usually let their children choose their own jobs. Americans think it important for young people to decide on their lives by themselves. Children are asked to do some work around their house. And in many families, children are paid for doing some housework so that they learn how to make money for their own use.

1.The size of most American families is() that of other countries.

A、larger than

B、smaller than

C、as big as

D、as small as

2.When children grow up, they leave their parents’ home to()

A、get married

B、be free

C、find good jobs

D、study

3.They visit their parents()

A、on weekdays

B、on weekends

C、at any time

D、on holiday

4.Which of the following statements is WRONG()

A、Children have the freedom to choose their own job

B、Parents don't ask their children to do the housework.

C、Parents think it important for children to make their own decision.

D、When children grow up, they usually live far away from their home.

5.Some parents pay their children for doing housework because ()

A、children can learn how to make money for themselves

B、their children required them to do so

C、they are rich

D、it is required by law

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第10题

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania to speak at the N

ational Soldiers Cemetery. The Civil War was still going on. There was much criticism of President Lincoln at the time. He was not at all popular. He had been invited to speak at Gettysburg only out of politeness. The principal speaker was to be Edward Everett, a famous statesman and speaker of the day. Everett was a handsome man and very popular everywhere.

It is said that Lincoln prepared his speech on the train while going to Gettysburg. Late that night, alone in his hotel room and tired out, he again worked briefly on the speech. The next day Everett spoke first. He spoke for an hour and 57 minutes. His speech was a perfect example of the rich oratory of the day. Then Lincoln rose. The crowd of 15,000 people at first paid little attention to him. He spoke for only nine minutes. At the end there was little applause. Lincoln turned to a friend and remarked, "I have failed again." On the train back to Washington, he said sadly, "That speech was a flat failure, and the people are disappointed."

Some newspapers at first criticized the speech. But little by little people read the speech. They began to understand better. They began to appreciate its simplicity and its deep meaning. It was a speech which only Abraham Lincoln could have made.

(6) Today, every American school child learns Lincoln's Gettysburg Address by heart. Now everyone thinks of it as one of the greatest speeches ever given in American history.

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln was______.

A．very critical

B．unpopular

C．very popular

D．very courteous

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