题目内容
| We should not blindly describe the real estate (房地产) sector as being “overheated”. Certainly, an over-optimistic (过分乐观的) anticipation of property price has led to blind investment in some places. But that’s an isolated phenomenon. It does not tell the whole story. Some would argue the current supply of houses outweighs the demand, as the country’s idle housing space has reached 100 million square meters. But can we infer from this figure that the real estate sector is overheated? Let’s pause and consider. Suppose 20 percent of urban households want to improve their living conditions and each of them expect to enlarge their houses by 20 square meters. With both figures underestimated, there would be 2.7 million urban households wanting to buy larger houses and 540 million square meters of properties should be available in total. The calculation is by no means unrealistic. You can feel that the huge demand is real from your daily contacts with friends. Now my question is: Do we have idle space of 540 million square meters? Suppose further that commodity (日用品) prices would rise as a result of overheated investment. But have we witnessed a rise in the prices of bricks, tiles or stones? No. China’s overall price level has just inched up by 0.3 percent. It does not indicate inflation (通货膨胀). Suppose again that an overheated real estate sector has siphoned (吸取) too much capital from other sectors of the economy. But have we witnessed a shortage of funds in other sectors? No. Have we witnessed a real interest rate higher than the nominal one? No. This is the biggest difference between the real estate today and that in the early 1990s. 1. What is discussed in the passage? (In English) 2. According to the passage, what is the author’s opinion to the real estate? (In English) 3. What does the underlined word “idle” in the second paragraph mean in Chinese? 4. 把第一段的划线部分变成一个含有定语从句的句子。 5. Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese.
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| 1. Whether the real estate today is overheated or not. 2. The real estate sector is not overheated. 3. 空置的 4. But that’s an isolated phenomenon, which does not tell the whole story. 5. 设想，20%的都市住户想去改善他们的居住条件，他们每个人都期待着使自己的住房面积扩大20平方米。 |
____that we should look after the three dogs three times, my mother left home.
| A．Mentioning | B．Having been mentioned |
| C．Having mentioned | D．Mentioned |
It seems that every week someone becomes “the first” or “the youngest” or even “the first married couple” to do something that doesn’t seem to be very useful to the rest of us.
Why do they do it? Don’t they have better things to do with their time and money? And why should I be interested anyway? Human beings have already climbed the highest mountains, sailed across the oceans and flown around the world. Many of these things were done a long, long time ago. There just isn’t anything left to explore nowadays. I suppose there’s still a lot of the universe left, and the bottom of the ocean is still a bit of a mystery, but you need a lot of technology to explore areas like that. So, those people who feel the need for adventure can only do things that have been done before.
In May of this year a British man became the first person to walk alone from Canada to the North Pole. Personally, if I wanted to visit the Arctic, I’d rather go as a tourist on a cruise ship, with a helicopter trip to the North Pole included in the price. But OK, this man decided that he wanted to walk. The problem was that he went in the spring when the ice begins to melt and break up. So he got stuck on a longely piece of ice and a plane had to be sent in to rescue him.
These sorts of rescues are making many Australians angry with these record breakers. People trying to break sailing or rowing records get into trouble in the seas. So the Australian navy has to send ships to save them and this costs the government millions of dollars. I suppose we can’t just leave them to drown but we should give the bill to the people who are rescued.
【小题1】According to the author, the so-called record breakers .
| A．do not benefit other people at all |
| B．inspire people to continue exploring |
| C．are boring and should be stopped |
| D．are usually not wealthy enough |
| A．there are no high mountains for people to climb |
| B．nothing is left for people to explore in the universe |
| C．it’s beyond ordinary people to explore the unknown |
| D．human beings could fly around the world long ago |
| A．often get into trouble |
| B．never use a cruise ship or a helicopter |
| C．never pay their own costs |
| D．satisfy their needs at the cost of others’ interest |
| A．Positive. | B．Negative. |
| C．Uninterested. | D．Neutral（中立的）. |