根据短文内容,从短文后的七个选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Money Matters

Parents should help their children understand money. 1. So you may start talking about money when your child shows an interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.

1. The basic function of money

Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It is important to show your child how money is traded for the things he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier(收银员). 2. When your child grows a bit older and understands the basic function of money, you can start explaining more ways of using money.

2. Money lessons

Approach money lessons with openness and honesty. 3. If you must say no to a child’s request to spend money, explain, “You have to make a choice between this and that toy.”

3. 4.

Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands of a product –a name-brand butter and a generic(无商标产品), for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. 5. If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to make another purchase with the money saved. Later, you may explain how more expensive choice leaves less money for other purchases.

A. Wise decision

B. The value of money

C. Permit the child to choose between them.

D. Tell your child why he can –or cannot –have certain things.

E. Ask yourself what things that cost money are most important to you.

F. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.

G. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest.

阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项 (A 、B 、C 和 D )中,选出最佳选项。

Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband , Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he went out one day to do some shopping.He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his suitcase was gone.He was extremely worried as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his passport.

He reported the case to the police and then sat there,lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to settle down in a new one.

Late in the evening, the phone rang.It was a stranger.He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions.Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can(垃圾桶)that had been left out on the footpath.

My husband rushed to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents.Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of unfamiliar papers.Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents.At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and trust in people.We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

1.What did Rashid plan to do after his arrival in Sydney?

A.Go shopping

B.Find a house

C.Join his family

D.Take a vacation

2.The girl’s parents got Rashid’s phone number from_______.

A.a friend of his family

B.a Sydney policeman

C.a letter in his papers

D.a stranger in Sydney

3.What does the underlined word “restored” in the last paragraph mean?

A.Showed

B.Sent out

C.Delivered

D.Gave back

4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?

A.From India to Australia.

B.Living in a a New Country.

C.Turning Trash to Treasure

D.In Search of New Friends.

完形填空(共2小题)

16. I had arrived at the airport about 30 minutes before the check in.It had been a very busy three days for me with lots of meetings.So I was glad to have the ________ time to make my notes on what I needed to do the following day,but suddenly the announcement came that my flight had to be delayed.

As I sat waiting for my _______to be called,I reflected on my last meeting of the day.It was not a business meeting but rather a very enjoyable ________ with an old business friend I had not seen for over 12 years.Our lunch was spent recalling times gone by ________ filling each other in what had happened in our lives over the last 12 years.We both laughed and smiled as we ________ the good times and the great experiences we had shared together.

It was great to have this additional time to replay in my mind what we had talked about.I realized just how important it was to have regular ________ of the good times in our life.I was ________enough to have had the chance to take a short break and look back on the good things that had happened in my life.It was somewhat like looking at an old photo album ________ in a cupboard in your house.There before your eyes are lots of wonderful memories that take you back to times and places,and most importantly to those people who are in the ________

My flight home was finally called three hours later.I smiled as I ________ the plane and realized that I was not at all ________ about the delay in the flight,as I had been able to spend the time reflecting on the good times from days gone by.

1.A.rest B.extraC.breakD.alone

2.A.flight B.numberC.turnD.name

3.A.chatB.negotiationC.lunchD.gathering

4.A.aswellasB.asfarasC.assoonasD.aslongas

5.A.reviewedB.reflectedC.recalledD.restored

6.A.memoriesB.rehearsalsC.performancesD.reminders

7.A.depressedB.embarrassedC.LuckyD.proud

8.A.leftoutB.storedawayC.putoutD.setaway

9.A.picturesB.cupboardC.presentD.past

10.A.tookB.boardedC.reachedD.1anded

11.A.disturbedB.puzzledC.afraidD.upset

High school dropouts(辍学者)earn an average of $9000 less per year than graduates.Now a new study dispels a common belief why they quit.It’s much more basic than flunking out(不及格).

Society tends to think of high school dropouts as kids who just can’t cut it.They are lazy, and perhaps not too bright.So researchers were surprised when they asked more than 450 kids who quit school about why they left.

“The vast majority actually had passing grades and they were confident that they could have graduated from high school, ” John Bridgeland, the executive researcher said.About 1 million teens leave school each year.Only about half of African-American and Hispanic(美籍西班牙的)student will receive a diploma(证书), and actually all dropouts come to regret their decision.So, if failing grades don’t explain why these kids quit, what does?Again, John Bridgeland:“The most dependable finding was that they were bored.”“They found classes uninteresting; they weren’t inspired or motivated.They didn’t see any direct connection between what they were learning in the classroom to their own lives, or to their career aspirations.”

The study found that most teens who do drop out wait until they turn sixteen, which happens to be the age at which most states allow students to quit.In the US, only one state, New Mexico, has a law requiring teenagers to stay in high school until they graduate.Only four states:California, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, plus the District of Columbia, require school ?attendance? until age 18, no exceptions, another researcher, says raising the compulsory(义务的)attendance age may be one way to keep more kids in school.

“As these dropouts look black, they realize they’ve made a mistake.And anything that sort of gives these people an extra push to stick it out and it through to the end, is probably helpful measure.”

New Hampshire may be the next state to raise its school attendance age to 18.But critics say that forcing the students unwilling to continue their studies to stay in school misses the point-the need for reform.It’s been called for to reinvent(彻底改造)high school education to make it more challenging and relevant(中肯的, 切题的), and to ensure that kids who do stick it out receive a diploma that actually means something.

1.Most high school students drop out of school because ________.

A.they have failing grades

B.they take no interest in classes

C.they are discriminated against

D.they are lazy and not intelligent

2.According to the passage, which state has a law requiring school attendance until they graduate?

A.New Hampshire.

B.Utah.

C.New Mexico.

D.The District of Columbia.

3.The underlined words “stick it out” probably mean “________”.

A.complete schooling

B.solve the problem

C.love having classes

D.believe in themselves

4.In the last paragraph, the writer is trying to ________

A.analyze the reason why students quit school

B.suggest raising the compulsory attendance age

C.call on to reform high school education

D.wish to make laws to guarantee no education

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