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[填空题]Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
Can money buy happiness Yes, (47) the authors of a new study--but only up to a point.
Psychology has shown that richer people generally rank the overall quality of their lives more (48) than poorer people do. At the same time, their actual happiness seems to be (49) less by their ability to buy more than by being able to keep up with those with comparable resources in their own age group.
"Our findings point to the possibility that, rather than promoting overall happiness, continued income growth could (50) an ongoing consumption race where people have to consume more and more, just to maintain a (51) level of happiness," writes Glenn Firebaugh of Pennsylvania State University.
The study was (52) at the American Sociological Association’s 100th Annual Meeting. Whether the rich are happier as a whole than their less (
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
How is the information organized in the lecture
A. By contrasting various periods in American history.
B. By classifying various types of colonies.
C. By describing developments leading to the American revolution.
D. By outlining steps in the development of royal colonies.
[单项选择]Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
The state of Hawaii turns 50 this year. People there should be happy. But it’s hard.
The economy is really bad. The housing market and construction industry are in deep slumps. Tourism has been hammered by the recession and swine flu. Unemployment is double what it was a year ago. To close a $688 million budget gap, the governor announced the most drastic holiday program in the country. She’s closing state offices three days a month, for two years. Aloha Fri day, where people go to work in aloha shirts and muumuus, is going to be Holiday Friday, where they stay home in pajamas and look for jobs on the Internet.
And now, a communist dictator supposedly wants to blow up Hawaii. A Japanese newspaper, The Yomiuri Shimbun, reported this week that North Korea planned to launch a ballistic missile in Hawaii’s direction around the Fourth of July.
You can take the threat for what it’s worth. Hawaii isn’t p
A. less densely-populated areas
B. less-expensive housing areas
C. wealthy suburbs with beautiful landscapes
D. residential community in the metropolises
[单项选择]Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and university when some students earn money, travel, etc. )and a misty look will come into their eyes. There are some disasters and even the most motivated, organized gap student does require family back-up, financial, emotional and physical. The parental mistiness is not just about the brilliant experience that has matured their offspring; it is vicarious (引发同感)living. We all wish pre-university gap years had been the fashion in our day. We can see how much tougher our kids become, how much more prepared to benefit from university or to decide positively that they are going to do something other than a degree.
Gap years are fashionable, as is reflected in the huge growth in the number of charities and private companies offering them. Pictures of Prince William toiling in Chile have helped, but the trend has been
A. The example Prince William set in Chile.
B. The blurbs of gap companies.
C. The growth of the number of charities and private companies.
D. The intervention of parents.
[填空题] Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.
Japanese firms have achieved the highest levels of manufacturing efficiency in the world auto mobile industry. Some observers of Japan have assumed that Japanese firms use the same manufacturing equipment and techniques as United States firms but have benefited from the unique characteristics of Japanese employees and the Japanese culture. However, if this were true, then one would expect Japanese auto plants in the United States to perform no better than factories run by United States companies. This is not the case. Japanese-run automobile plants located in the United States and staffed by local workers have demonstrated higher levels of productivity when compared with factories owned by United States companies.
Other observers link high Japanese productivity to higher levels of capital investment per worker. But a historical perspective leads to a different conclusion. When the two top Japanese automobil
[单项选择] Questions 18 to 20 are based on the following passage.
At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the
questions.
Now listen to the passage.
What did the American government do when the country’s airline industry was in trouble
A. It took steps to restructure the industry.
B. It went out to boost the competition of the industry.
C. It helped the industry by offering tax preference.
D. It provided the industry with cash and loan guarantees.
[单项选择] Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage.
At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the
questions.
Now listen to the passage.
What is the total number of students at Deep Spring College
A. 17,000.
B. 1,700.
C. 24.
D. 9,000.
