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I like this dress better than that one, but it costs almost four times

A. as much B. as many C. so much D. so many

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　　My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car．From the time I wa s a saver．My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week．I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura．In tho se day s the area wa s mo stly agricultural．The climate wa s and still i s a s clo se to perfect a s you could get．I earned some of my money picking one crop or another．When I wa s about ten, a school friend' s family owned walnut orchard s(果园)and it wa s harve st time．She told me we could earn five dollar s for every bag of walnut s we picked．I certainly learned about picking walnut s that day．Not surprisingly, that wa s my fir st and la st time a s a walnut picker．

　　In 1960 my grandmother pa s sed away．She left me 100 share s of AT＆T．One hundred share s of stock don't seem like much today but back then tho se share s paid me＄240 per year in dividend s(利息)．That wa s huge for a kid my age．

　　By the time I wa s seventeen．I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and I knew exactly that I wanted．Ithink my father wa s somewhat suri sed when I announced I had saved up ＄ 1, 300 and wa s ready to buy my new car．I'll never forget the evening my father said, “Let' s go see about that car”．I wa s so excited．

　　My father could have ea sily ju st given me the car but he alway s in si sted that hi s children work for what they got．Thi s wa s not a bad thing．I learned self-reliance．Self-reliance i s equal to freedom．Now that I think about it I need to be thanking my father．

(1)

Which one of the following s didn't belong to the saving of ＄1, 300?
[　　]
A．	Weekly allowance．
B．	Her earning s by picking crop s．
C．	Share s left by grandma．
D．	Money earned from selling share s．

(2)

The underlined part in the second paragraph probably meant ________．
[　　]
A．	she didn't have the chance of picking walnut s
B．	enough money had been earned for her car
C．	the work wa s too hard for children like her
D．	she had no time to do that again for some rea son

(3)

We can know from the pa s sage the author got her car at the age of ________．
[　　]
A．	16
B．	17
C．	18
D．	19

(4)

The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．
[　　]
A．	give the author freedom
B．	be unwilling to buy the author a car
C．	teach the author to learn self－reliance
D．	give the author a big surpri se

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　　Two year s ago, Wendy Ha snip, 47，experienced a brain injury that left her speechle s s for two week s．When she finally recovered, she found her self talking with what seemed to be a French accent．“I phoned a friend the other day, and she spent the fir st ten minute s laughing, ” Ha snip said at the time, “while I have nothing again st the French．”

　　Ha snip suffered from foreign accent syndrome(外国口音综合症), a rare condition in which people find them selve s speaking their own language like someone from a foreign country．The condition u sually occur s in people who have experienced a head injury or a stroke-a sudden lo s s of con sciou sne s s, sen sation, or movement cau sed by a blocked or broken blood ve s selin the brain．

　　The condition wa s fir st identified during the Second World War in a Norwegian woman who se head wa s injured during an attack by the German military．The woman recovered but wa s left with a German-sounding accent, to the horror of fellow villager s who avoided her after that．

　　Re searcher s have di scovered that the combined effect of the damage to several part s of the brain make s victim s lengthen certain syllable, mi spronounce sound s, and change the normal pitch(音高)of their voice．Tho se change s in speech add up to what sound s like a foreign accent．

　　Another re searcher, a phonetician, say s victim s of the syndrome don't acquire a true foreign accent．Their strangely changed speech only re semble s the foreign accent with which it ha s a few sound s in common．

　　When an Engli sh woman named Annie recently developed foreign accent syndrome after a stroke, she spoke with what seemed to be a Scotti sh accent．However, Annie' s Scotti sh coworker s said she didn't sound at all like a Scot．

(1)

According to the pa s sage, people ________ may have foreign accent syndrome．
[　　]
A．	who se parent ha s experienced a head injury
B．	who have lived in a foreign country for a long time
C．	who have lo st their con sciou sne s s owing to a stroke
D．	who have learned foreign language from their coworker s

(2)

If a per son suffer s foreign accent syndrome, ________．
[　　]
A．	hi s coworker s will be afraid of him and avoid contacting with him
B．	he ha s more chance of suffering stroke again
C．	he will speak a fluent foreign language like native speaker s
D．	hi s speech only ha s a few sound s in common with the foreign accent

(3)

Writing thi s pa s sage, the writer' s main purpo se i s to ________．
[　　]
A．	introduce foreign accent syndrome and some related information
B．	warn people not to be at the ri sk of experiencing a stroke
C．	make it clear that foreign accent syndrome can be cured
D．	tell a story of an injured woman during the Second World War

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Ea sy Way s to Keep Your Brain Sharp

　　Everyone i s forgetful, but a s we age, we start to feel like our brain s are slowing down a bit-and that can be a very annoying thing．　　1　　 Read on for some technique s worth trying．

　　1．　　2　　

　　People who regularly made plan s and looked forward to upcoming event s had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer' s di sea se(老年性痴呆症)， according to a recent study．　　3　　 Something a s simple a s setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do．There' s evidence that people who have a purpo se in life or who are working on long or short-term goal s appear to do better．In other word s, keep your brain looking forward．

　　2．Go for a walk．

　　Mildly rai sed glucose(葡萄糖)level s can harm the area of the brain that help s you form memorie s and phy sical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal level s．In fact, exerci se produce s chemical s that are good for your brain．　　4　　

　　3．Learn something new．

　　Take a Spani sh cla s s online, join a drawing club, or learn to play card s．A study found that mental stimulation limit s the weakening effect s of aging on memory and the mind．But the be st thing for your brain i s when you learn something new and are phy sically active at the same time．　　5　　 Or you can ju st go dancing with your friend s．

A．Focu s on the future．

B．Thi s can be e specially harmful to the aged．

C．It should be something like learning gardening．

D．So take a few minute s each day to do some reading．

E．But don't worry if our schedule i sn't filled with life－changing event s．

F．Luckily, re search show s there i s a lot you can do to avoid tho se moment s．

G．In other word s, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain．

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One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I 1 that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, _ 2 he knew me. The man had a newspaper 3 in front of him, which he was 4 to read, but I could 5 that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my 6 , the man was clearly puzzled by the 7 way in which the waiter and I 8 each other. He seemed even more puzzled as 9 went on and it became 10 that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the 11 . When he came out, he paid his bill and 12 without another a glance in my direction. I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had 13 . "Well, "he said, "That man was a detective(侦探). He 14 you here because he thought you were the man he 15 ." "What ?"I said, showing my 16 . The owner continued, "He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I 17 say he looked very much like you! Of course since we know you, we told him that he had made a __18_." "Well, it's really 19 I came to a restaurant where I'm known, "I said. " 20 , I might have been in trouble."
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