43. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?

　 A. What to Buy at Charity Shops

　 B. Charity Shop: Its Origin & Development

　 C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate

　 D. The Public’s Concern about Charity Shops

答案　 40.C　 41.D　 42.A　 43.C

Passage 38

(08·浙江B篇)

Below is a discussion on a website.

42. Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops?

　 A. The operating costs are very low.　　　

　 B. The staff are usually well paid.

　 C. 90% of the donations are second-hand.

　 D. They are open twenty-four hours a day.

41. The first charity shop in the UK was set up to_______.

　 A. sell cheap products　　　　　　　　　　 　 B. deal with unwanted things

　 C. raise money for patients　　　　　　 　 D. help a foreign country

40. The author loves the charity shop mainly because of _______.

　 A. its convenient location　　　　　　　 　 B. its great variety of goods

　 C. its spirit of goodwill　　　　　　　　　 　 D. its nice shopping environment

76.What is the main idea of this passage?

　 　　 A.We should balance work with rest.

B.The Sabbath gives us permission to rest.

C.It is silly for anyone to say “I am so busy”.

D.We should be available to our family and friends.　　

答案　 73.B　 74.D　 75.B　 76.A

Passage 37

(08·天津B篇)

I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.

The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence each.

Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don’t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.

The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding(资助)medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment.

75.Some people feel guilty when taking time to rest because they _______.

A.think that taking a rest means lacking ambitions

B.fail to realize that rest is an essential part of life

C.fail to realize that religions force them to rest

D.think that taking a rest means being lazy

74.According to Paragraph 4, a successful person is one who is believed to _______.

A.be able to work without stress　　　　　　　　 B.be more talented than other people

C.be more important than anyone else　　　　 D.be busy working without time to rest

73.The “alarm” in the first paragraph refers to “_______”.

　 　　 A.a signal of stress　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.a warning of danger

C.a sign of age　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D.a spread of disease

75. Which city has dropped most on the list in North America?

　 A. New York.　　　　　　　　 B. Los Angeles.　　　　　　 C. San Francisco.　　　　　 D. Toronto.

答案　 72.C　 73.B　 74.A　 75.D

Passage 36

(08·湖北D篇)

One morning a few years ago, Harvard President Neil Rudenstine overslept.For this busy man, it was a sort of alarm: after years of non-stop hard work, he might wear himself out and die an early death.

Only after a week’s leave-during which he read novels, listened to music and walked with his wife on a beach-was Rudenstine able to return to work.

In our modern life, we have lost the rhythm between action and rest.Amazingly, within this world there is a universal but silly saying: “I am so busy.”

We say this to one another as if our tireless efforts were a talent by nature and an ability to successfully deal with stress.The busier we are, the more important we seem to ourselves and, we imagine, to others.To be unavailable to our friends and family, and to be unable to find time to relax-this has become the model of a successful life.

Because we do not rest, we lose our way.We miss the guide telling us where to go, the food providing us with strength, the quiet giving us wisdom.

How have we allowed this to happen? I believe it is this: we have forgotten the Sabbath, the day of the week-for followers of some religions-for rest and praying.It is a day when we are not supposed to work, a time when we devote ourselves to enjoying and celebrating what is beautiful.It is a good time to bless our children and loved ones, give thanks, share meals, walk and sleep.It is a time for us to take a rest, to put our work aside, trusting that there are larger forces at work taking care of the world.

Rest is a spiritual and biological need; however, in our strong ambition to be successful and care for our many responsibilities, we may feel terribly guilty when we take time to rest.The Sabbath gives us permission to stop work.In fact, “Remember the Sabbath” is more than simply permission to rest; it is a rule to obey and a principle to follow.

74. Which city is the third most expensive on the list?

　 A. Tokyo.　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Hong Kong.　　　　　　 C. Moscow.　　　　　　　　　 D. Sydney.