Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. Soon enough the time will come when you are too tired to move farther than the terrace of the best hotel. Go now.

No need, you may say, to tell that. But what I need to tell you is that you will meet with a surprising amount of opposition the moment you try to set out. Rubbish, you will reply. More people go abroad nowadays than ever before; never has travel, particularly among the young, been more strongly visit, of international exchanges. Perhaps not; but none of this, my dear young friends, is travel. Travel is not going on a round coach trip for $ 67 in all, or spending ten days at a hotel by the sea. Travel is when you want to see how much money and resources you have and then set out, alone or with chosen friends, to make an unhurried journey to a distant goal without a set date for your return.

Real travel, then, is independence in action, and is not liked by most parents. They don’t mind your going in a school party to Athens, because they know just where you are and when you’ll be back, and they can therefore permit you the imagination of freedom without for one second letting you beyond their control. But what they cannot bear is that you should travel all on your own, without giving them your address and return date. In fact, their fears are quite reasonable because that shows how much they love you. So in order to enjoy real travel and at the same time put your parents’ mind at ease. It would be really important for you to bear the following advice in mind.

5. Which statement is true according to the passage?

A. People travel more than before.                                  

B. Young people are encouraged to travel abroad.

C. People should not go on a round coach trip for $ 67.

D. Educational visits should not be encouraged as they are not real travel.

6.What does real travel mean according to the writer?

A. It means telling your parents nothing about the travel   

B. It means not knowing where you want to go.

C. It means traveling to a distant goal in an unhurried manner.  

D. It means traveling without any plan.

7. Your parents allow you to travel in a school party because ________.

A. they want you to be truly free                       B. you are still under their control

C. they don’t have time to travel with you          D. they know it’s good for you

8. According to the writer, when you do real traveling, you should ________.

A. never mind how worried your parents are             

B. give your parents your address and return date

C. tell your parents details about your travel       

D. not let your parents worry about you

It is a matter of common observation that although money income keeps going up over the years, we never seem to become richer. Prices are rising continuously. This condition is what we call inflation: the money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. We have got used to higher and higher rates of inflation in recent years. What could be bought twenty years ago for one pound now costs well over 2 pounds. And at present this rate of inflation seems to be rising rather than falling. If in the real world our money incomes go up at the same rate as prices do. One might think that inflation doesn’t matter. But it does ------.When money is losing value it also loses one of the qualities of a good money—stability of value. It is no longer acceptable as a store of value; and it becomes an unsuitable means of delayed payment. Nobody wants to hold a wasting possession, so people try to get rid of money as quickly as possible. Inflation therefore simply stimulates（刺激）our spending and discourages saving.
【小题1】From the passage we can know that inflation is a situation in which________.

Advertising is a highly developed twentieth-century industry. The development of radio, television, cinema, magazines and newspapers has gone hand in hand with the development of advertising. Why is advertising so popular? Is it a waste of money? It has been proved again and again that repeated advertising increases product sales. Since it increases production, the price can be reduced. Therefore advertising, instead of making a product more expensive, makes it cheaper.
Advertising is now a scientific business. Once managers would say jokingly, " I know that half of what I spend on advertising is wasted, but I don't know which half." Now, all parts of an advertising program are properly measured and researched.
What makes a good advertisement? There have been major changes in advertising in the past sixty years. People read advertisements partly for information and partly for pleasure. Today's advertisements often start with a question, or a puzzle, with the purpose of attracting the reader's attention. Of course, most advertisements contain information. But this is usually contained in a text that is interesting and often funny. Humor is very important. Sometimes advertisements tell a story, or the story may be continued over a number of advertisements. However, there is a danger in this. It is possible that the reader or viewer will remember the advertisement but not the name of the product.
【小题1】The purpose of advertising is ____.

Advertising is a highly developed twentieth-century industry. The development of radio, television, cinema, magazines and newspapers has gone hand in hand with the development of advertising. Why is advertising so popular? Is it a waste of money? It has been proved again and again that repeated advertising increases product sales. Since it increases production, the price can be reduced. Therefore advertising, instead of making a product more expensive, makes it cheaper.

Advertising is now a scientific business. Once managers would say jokingly, " I know that half of what I spend on advertising is wasted, but I don't know which half." Now, all parts of an advertising program are properly measured and researched.

What makes a good advertisement? There have been major changes in advertising in the past sixty years. People read advertisements partly for information and partly for pleasure. Today's advertisements often start with a question, or a puzzle, with the purpose of attracting the reader's attention. Of course, most advertisements contain information. But this is usually contained in a text that is interesting and often funny. Humor is very important. Sometimes advertisements tell a story, or the story may be continued over a number of advertisements. However, there is a danger in this. It is possible that the reader or viewer will remember the advertisement but not the name of the product.

1.The purpose of advertising is ____.

2.Which of the following can be used in place of the underlined phrase "hand in hand" ?

3. What is meant by what managers said in the second paragraph?

4.What does the writer think of advertising?

One Sunday, a picture in the newspaper touched me. A young woman stood in front of a totally destroyed home．A little boy stood beside her with his head   36  .  Holding her skirt tightly was a tiny girl, eyes wide with   37  and fear.

   With growing  38   I noticed that their sizes of each family member closely   39  ours. This would be a good opportunity to   40  my children, so I explained their difficult   41   to my seven-year-old twins and three-year-old Meghan.

   “We have so much, but these people now have nothing,” I said, “we’ll   42  what we have with them.”

   I brought three large boxes and placed them on the living room floor.  Meghan watched seriously,  43  the boys and I filled one box with canned food.

While I   44   through our clothes, I encouraged the boys to go through their toys and   45   some of their less favourite things. Meghan watched  46   as the boys piled up useless toys in the box.

“I’ll help you find something for the little girl,” I said to her.

The boys placed the toys they had   47  to donate into one of the boxes while I filled the third box with clothes. Meghan walked up with Lucy, her worn, faded,  much-loved toll   48     tightly to her chest. She  49  in front of the box, pressed her little face into Lucy’s face,  gave her a  50   kiss, then , laid her gently on the top of the other toys.

   “Oh , honey,” I said , “You   51   to give away Lucy．You love her so much.”

   Meghan nodded ,eyes shining with tears. “Lucy makes me happy, Mommy.   52   she’ll make that little girl happy too.”

I stared at Meghan for a long moment,   53   how I could teach the boys the lesson she had just taught me.

It’s easy to give what we don’t want any more, but   54  to let go of things we cherish, isn’t it?  55 , the true spirit of giving is to give with your heart.

36．A．off                 B．up                  C．round               D．down

37．A．smile               B．confusion            C．joy                 D．anger

38．A．puzzle               B．interest              C．happiness            D．friendship

39．A．matched             B．suited               C．compared            D．equalled

40．A．teach               B．change              C．help                D．complain

41．A．problem             B．life                 C．suffering            D．situation

42．A．give                B．spare               C．share               D．send

43．A．as                  B．because             C．since               D．though

44．A．got                 B．looked              C．sorted               D．came

45．A．keep                B．donate              C．leave                D．sell

46．A．hopefully      B．quietly              C．depressingly          D．anxiously

47．A．separated            B．chosen              C．supposed            D．bought

48．A．hugged              B．caught              C．held                D．grasped

49．A．regretted            B．stood               C．paused              D．cried

50．A．precious             B．lovely               C．hearty               D．final

51．A．oughtn’t             B．wouldn’t like  C．don’t have             D．had better not

52．A．Though             B．Also          C．Yet                    D．Maybe

53．A．realizing             B．wondering             C．expecting              D．knowing

54．A．hard                B．necessary            C．available               D．important

55．A．Therefore            B．Moreover            C．Otherwise             D．However