根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项

涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。

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Safety in the highway is not totally out of our hands. Here are four ways we can protect ourselves when we travel.

　 72　 People in small cars are injured more often and more severely than people traveling in large cars. Factories of small cars are strengthening their products’ safety, which helps. But the mix of large cars and small cars on the road is the main reason of the problem.

Being thrown into glass and metal car parts, or being thrown from the car can really hurt or even kill you. 　 73　 The safety belt’s main purpose is to pull you back if your car has a sudden crash with another vehicle or object, or if it rolls over. A belt can reduce the chance of deadly injury by 45% and the chance of serious injury by 50%.

Air bags are important. More than half of all new cars sold have air bags. Air bags provide protection in frontal crashes — the type of crash that kills the most drivers — when they are also wearing safety belts. Most people are demanding air bags in the cars they buy. 　 74　 Effective as they are, they can’t take the place of safety belts.

Drunk driving crashes are less likely to happen if you don’t drink. 　 75　 Many people have realized that drunk driving can lead to death and injury, prison time and other results. There are movements to strengthen penalties （处罚）for drinking and driving.

　 A. How to drive safely?

　 B. You are safer in a large car.

　 C. How to protect ourselves in the highway?

　 D. Air bags are not installed in all cars.

　 E. That’s why safety belts should be worn.

　 F. Drunk driving is the most serious problem.

　 G. But the protection provided by air bags is limited in side or rear crashes.

　 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. 　71 The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. 　72

However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap and they should teach them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.

73 Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. __74 It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well – cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self - confidence.

Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. 　75

　 A. But is it correct?

　 B. And that is more important.

　 C. Cooking demands patience and time.

　 D. They also require their children to take a lot of tests.

　 E. They also want their children to take extra - course activities.

　 F. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

　 G. Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.

People can be addicted to different things – e, g alcohol, drug, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive （强迫的）; they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like others, is impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending large amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.

　　There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they don’t need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason.

　　It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business. They consider people’s needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods.

　　Psychologists often use a method called behavior therapy（疗法） to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.

1．According to the psychologists, a compulsive spender is one who spends large amounts of money __    ___.

　　A．and takes great pleasure from what he or she buys

　　B．in order to satisfy his or her basic needs in life

　　C．and feels he or she is cheated

　　D．just to meet his or her strong psychological need

2．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

　　A．People spend money for exactly the same reason that they need to buy things.

　　B．Business people understand the psychology of compulsive buying better than scientists do.

　　C．Compulsive bargain hunters do not have problems with money.

　　D．Business people and advertisers can use the psychology of peoples’ habits to merest sales.

3．What is the text mainly about?

　　A．The habits of compulsive spenders.

　　B．The psychology of money-spending habits.

　　C．A special psychology of bargain hunting.

　　D．The use of the psychology of spending habits in business.

4．From the text we may safely conclude that compulsive spenders or compulsive bargain hunters ___   __.

　　A．are really reasonable

　　B．are really beyond drugs

　　C．need special treatment

　　D．can never get any help to solve their problems with money

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　　 A．Take care．

　　 B．How are you?

　　 C．Where have you been?

　　 D．Can you join me?

　　 E．Come on, just for a minute．

　　 F．And you should feel free to call or visit me．

　　 G．It's been a whole year since we saw each other last time．