Though it is mere 1 to 3 percent of the population, the upper class possesses at least 25 percent of the nation’s wealth．This class has two segments：upper-upper and lower-upper．Basically, the upperupper class is the “old rich”－families that have been wealthy for several generations－an aristocracy of birth and wealth．Their names are in the Social Register, a listing of acceptable members of high society．A few are known across the nation, such as the Rockefellers, Roosevelts, and Vanderbilts．Most are not visible to the general public．They live in grand seclusion(深居简出), drawing their income from the investment of their inherited wealth．In contrast, the lower-upper class is the “new rich”．Although they may be wealthier than some of the old rich, the new rich are anxious to make their money like everybody else beneath their class．Thus their prestige(威望)is generally lower than that of the old rich, who have not found it necessary to lift a finger to make their money, and who tend to look down upon the new rich．
However its wealth is acquired, the upper class is very, very rich．They have enough money and leisure time to cultivate an interest in the arts and to collect rare books, paintings, and sculptures．They generally live in exclusive areas, belong to exclusive social clubs, communicate with each other, and marry their own kind-all of which keeps them so distant from the masses that they have been called the out-of-fight class．More than any other class, they tend to be conscious of being members of a class．They also command an enormous amount of power and infulence here and abroad, as they hold many top government positions, run the Council on Foreign Relations, and control multinational corporations．Their actions affect the lives of millions．
(1)
According to the author, the “old rich” get richer ________．
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A．
through the Social Register
B．
through their reputation
C．
by investing their inherited wealth
D．
by collecting paintings and sculptures
(2)
The reason why the “old rich” look down upon the “new rich” is that ________．
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A．
the former are wealthier than the latter
B．
the latter sweat themselves to make money
C．
the “new rich” have no interest in arts
D．
the “old rich” are conscious of being members of the upper class
(3)
The upper class is also called the out-of-sight class because ________．
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A．
they keep away from the general public
B．
they spend most of their time abroad
C．
they don't communicate with any people
D．
they move frequently from place to place
(4)
We can learn from the passage that ________．
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A．
the upper class is powerful and influential
B．
the upper class collects rare books to make money
C．
the upper class holds all top government positions
D．
the “old rich” make much more money than the “new rich”
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?
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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 ________．
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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 ________．
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A．
16
B．
17
C．
18
D．
19
(4)
The purpo se of the author' s father doing like that wa s to ________．
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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
阅读理解
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．
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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, ________．
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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 ________．
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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
