题目内容
2. Great changes in our country since 1978.
2. have taken place
A study involving8,500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of them are ignorant when it comes to money. The findings,the first in a series of reports from NatWest that has started a fiveyear research project into teenagers and money,are particularly worrying as this generation of young people is likely to be burdened with greater debts than any before.
University tuition fees (学费) are currently capped at £3,000 annually,but this will be reviewed next year and the government is under enormous pressure to raise the ceiling.
In the research,the teenagers were presented with the terms of four different loans but 76 per cent failed to identify the cheapest. The young people also predicted that they would be earning on average£31,000 by the age of 25,although the average salary for those aged 22 to29 is just£ 17,815. The teenagers were expected to be in debt when they finished university or training,although half said that they assumed the debts would be less than £l0,000. Average debts for graduates are£ 12,363.
Stephen Moir,head of community investment at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group which owns NatWest,said, "The more exposed young people are to financial is?sues,and the younger they become aware of them,the more likely they are to become responsible,forwardplan?ning adults who manage their finances confidently and ef?fectively."
Ministers are deeply concerned about the financial pressures on teenagers and young people because of student loans and rising housing costs. They have just in?troduced new lessons in how to manage debts. Nikki Fairweather,aged15,from St Helens,said that she had ben?efited from lessons on personal finance,but admitted that she still had a lot to learn about money.
18. Which of the following can be found from the fiveyear research project?
A. Students understand personal finances differently.
B. University tuition fees in England have been ris?ing.
C. Teenagers tend to overestimate their future earn?ings.
D. The students' payback ability has become a major issue.
19. The underlined phrase "to raise the ceiling" in Para?graph2 probably means" ".
A. to raise the student loans
B. to improve the school facilities
C. to increase the upper limit of the tuition
D. to lift the school building roofs
20. According to Stephen Moir,students
A. are too young to be exposed to financial issues
B. should learn to manage their finances well
C. should maintain a positive attitude when facing loans
D. benefit a lot from lessons on personal finance
21. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Many British teenagers do not know money mat?ters well.
B. Teenagers in Britain are heavily burdened with debts.
C. Financial planning is a required course at college.
D. Young people should become responsible adults.
2. 哪个队会赢还很难说。
It is hard which team will win.
as well as be always in case of in particular keep one's balance
1. Tom his brother is a doctor.
2. Stricter safety measures will be taken at the airport new terrorist attacks.
3. I was moved by the whole performance and the dance by the disabled girl
4. He forgetting where he leaves his things.
5. The teacher said that it was important to when I made a sequence of dance movements.
Like any good mother,when Karen found out that another baby was on the way,she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son,Michael,prepare for a new baby. They find out that the new baby is going to be a girl,and day after day,night after night,Michael sings to his sister in Mummy's stomach.
Finally,Michael's little sister is born. But she is in serious condition. With alarm in the night,the am?bulance rushes the infant to the neonatal (初生的) in?tensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital,Knoxville,Tennessee. The days go by. The little girl gets worse. The paediatric (儿禾斗的) specialist tells the parents, "There is very little hope. Be prepared for the worst."
Karen and her husband contact a local cemetery about a burial plot. They have fixed up a special room in their home for the new baby,but now they plan a funeral. Michael keeps begging his parents to let him see his sister. "I want to sing to her," he says.
Karen makes up her mind. She will take Michael whether they like it or not. If he doesn't see his sister now,he may never see her alive.
She dresses him in an oversized suit and marches him into ICU. He looks like a walking laundry basket,but the head nurse recognizes him as a child and shouts,"Get that kid out of here now!No children are allowed. Never disturb patients here. ” The mother ri?ses up strongly and says, " He is not leaving until he sings to his sister!"
Karen leads Michael to his sister's bedside. He gazes at the tiny infant losing the battle to live. And he begins to sing. In the purehearted voice of a 3-year-old boy,Michael sings, " You are my sunshine,my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey."" Instantly the baby girl responds. The pulse rate be?comes calm and steady.
The next day,the very next day,the little girl is well enough to go home!Woman's Day magazine calls it "the miracle of a brother's song". The medical staff just call it a miracle. Karen calls it a miracle of God's love ！
Never give up on the people you love.
1. What may the underlined words "the infant" in Par?agraph 2 refer to?
A. The baby. B. Karen.
C. Mary. D. Michael.
2. What do we know about the little sister after she was born?
A. She was driven to St. Mary's shop.
B. A doctor came to see her in her house.
C. She was very thin and couldn't speak.
D. She was in great danger.
3. What do we know about the head nurse?
A. The head nurse was careful.
B. The head nurse was rude.
C. The head nurse was responsible.
D. The head nurse had no sympathy.
4. What is the main idea of the text?
A. A boy's singing saved his sister's life.
B. The little girl is well enough to go home.
C. Michael's little sister is born with a serious disease.
D. No children are allowed to enter the intensive care unit.
Mona Lisa,the mysterious woman in Leonardo da Vinci's 16 th century masterpiece,had just given birth to her second son when she sat for the paint?ing,a French art expert said on Tuesday. The discovery was made by a team of Canadian scientists who used special infrared (红夕卜线的) and threedimen?sional (三维的) technology to study the paint layers on the work,which now sits in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Bruno Mottin of the French Museums' Centre for Research and Restora?tion said that on very close examination of the painting it became clear that Mona Lisa's dress was covered in a thin transparent gauze veil (透明面纱) .
"This type of gauze dress was typical of the kind worn in early 16th cen?tury in Italy by women who were pregnant or who had just given birth. This is something that had never been seen up to now because the painting was always judged to be dark and difficult to examine," he told a news conference.
"We can now say that this painting by Leonardo da Vinci was painted in memory of the birth of the second son of Mona Lisa,which helps us to date it more precisely to around 1503. " The young woman with the ambiguous half smile has been identified as Lisa Gherardini,wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo. She had five children.
"People always wrote that Mona Lisa had allowed her hair to hang freely over her shoulders. This greatly surprised historians because letting your hair hang freely during the Renaissance was typical of young girls and women of poor virtue (美德) ”，he said.
The team had hoped to discover more details about Leonardo's painting tech?niques,which the artist used to create a hazy (朦胧的) effect. But scientist John Taylor said the team had been disappointed by the lack of brush stroke detail on the painting.
5. According to the passage,Mona Lisa was .
A. a woman of poor virtue
B. Leonardo's second wife
C. a woman who was pregnant
D. the wife of Florentine merchant
6. We can infer from the passage that .
A. the research has been carried out in France
B. Mona Lisa was painted in 1503
C. in Leonardo's time women could only wear short hair
D. the most difficult part is to identify the paint layers
7. What is probably the best title for the passage?
A. Mona Lisa,the mysterious woman
B. Mona Lisa was a new mother
C. Great discovery in painting
D. Leonardo's painting technique
8. The information reported in the passage was first got from .
A. a newspaper
B. the Internet
C. a news conference
D. the museum
9. The police coming soon.
2. Her a of mind during driving nearly caused an accident.
1. 天气转暧，冰层就会破裂。
The ice will when the warm weather comes.
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