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―How can she play the piano so well?
―Well, she all her free time to practice.
A．costs B．takes C．wastes D．devotes
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轻巧夺冠周测月考直通名校系列答案It may not be news to parents of teenage girls, but researchers have confirmed that no one can stop their 16-year-old daughter from deciding how the family spends its money.
The willpower and determination of teenage girls give them a big say in how a family’s money is spent on everything from food and meals to mobile phones, and, of course, clothes. Teenage boys did not show up at all in the analysis, which was designed to find out the influence of young people on household spending.
The findings on the spending power of teenage girls were calculated from Office for National Statistics records of family spending during the 1980s and 1990s. Researchers examined how much money went on services and leisure goods in different kinds of homes. They checked spending on food, restaurant meals, alcohol, tobacco, services, heating, transport, clothes and sports in 2,745 British families.
They found that teenage girls in the UK typically played an active role in family decisions about the allocation（分配）of household resources. But older children— those over the age of 21 who are still living with their parents—appear to have no say in household decisions.
They also tried to calculate to what extent the bargaining power of a teenager affected family budgets. “Every parent knows that children, even at a very early age, have their own preferences with regard to consumption, researchers said. “But children are only interested in a limited range of goods—mainly sweets and toys—and parents are able to use punishment to reduce their children’s bargaining power or remove it.” When they become teenagers, however, girls are much more independent and they are capable of earning their own money, which improves their bargaining power in family decisions.
The researchers could not explain why girls have more influence over spending while the evidence for boys is much less conclusive. However, this study could be of great significance to market research and how marketers target children.
1. From the passage we can learn that .
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A．teenage girls have more influence over family budgets than teenage boys |
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B．teenage boys don't want to decide on household spending |
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C．teenage boys have some influence over household |
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D．teenage girls have weaker willpower and determination than teenage boys |
2.What does the underlined part “give them a big say” in the second paragraph mean?
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A．Make them dare to say something. |
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B．Make them want to know. |
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C．Make them say something meaningful. |
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D．Make their influence stronger. |
3.It appears that household decisions are NOT affected by .
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A．girls living with parents |
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B．girls over 21 |
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C．girls over 12 |
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D．girls living alone |
4.How can parents reduce children’s bargaining power?
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A．By persuading them |
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B．By offering them sweets or toys. |
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C．By threatening to punish them. |
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D．By allocating household resources. |
“Everything happens for the best,” my mother said whenever I was disappointed. “Don’t worry. One day your luck will change.”
I didn’t pay attention to her words. After finishing my college education, I decided to look for a job in a radio station. I wanted to host a sports programme. I went to Chicago and knocked on the door of every station. But I got turned down every time.
In one station, a kind lady said to me that I hadn’t got enough experience. “Get to a small station and work for some time,” she said.
When I went back home, my dad told me that a businessman had opened a store and needed someone to help him. But again, I didn’t get the job.
I felt really down. “Your luck will change,” Mum said to me. Later, I tried another radio station in Iowa. But the owner, a nice man, told me he had already had someone to work for him. As I left his office, I asked, “How can someone be a sports announcer (播音员) if he can’t get a job in a radio station?”
I was waiting for the lift when I heard the man call, “What did you mean? Do you know anything about football?” He let me sit in front of a microphone and asked me to try to imagine that I was giving my opinion on a football game, and finally I succeeded.
On my way home, Mum’s words came back to me, “One day your luck will change, Son.”
1.What was the writer’s ideal（理想的） job?
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A．A sportsman. |
B．A shop assistant. |
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C．A sports announcer. |
D．A businessman. |
2.Why didn’t the writer get the job in Chicago?
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A．Because he was too young. |
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B．Because he didn’t get a college education. |
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C．Because he was not a good-looking person. |
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D．Because he hadn’t got enough experience. |
3.The sentence “I got turned down every time” means “ ”.
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A．I was refused every time |
B．I was successful every time |
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C．I lost my way every time |
D．The door of every station was closed |
4.The writer got a job in the end.
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A．in Chicago |
B．in his home town |
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C．in a college |
D．in Iowa |
NEW YORK---One in five U.S. workers regularly attends after-work drinks with coworkers, where the most common mishaps range from badmouthing another worker to drinking too much, according to a study released on Tuesday.
Most workers attend so-called happy hours to bond with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel necessary, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder. com, an online job site. As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted unprofessionally. Five percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent confessed to singing karaoke. While 21 percent of those who attended said happy hours were good for networking, 85 percent said attending had not helped them get closer to someone higher up or get a better position. An equal number of men and women said they attended happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least likely to attend. Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and of those nearly a quarter go at least once a month.
The survey was conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder. Com among 6,987 full-time employees between February 11 and March 13. Harris Interactive said the results had a sampling error of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.
1.Harris Interactive made the survey to find out .
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A．how U.S. workers spend their after-work time |
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B．what U.S. workers do at after-work drinks |
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C．the relationships between U.S. workers |
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D．who are most likely to attend after-work drinks |
2. of workers who attend after-work drinks speak ill of a colleague.
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A．4 percent |
B．8 percent |
C．16 percent |
D．10 percent |
3.According to the passage, most of those surveyed believed attending after-work drinks .
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A．benefited them a lot |
B．could provide information |
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C．only made them relaxed |
D．was of no help to them |
4.We can learn from the text that .
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A．workers over 55 don’t like to attend happy hours at all |
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B．about 75% of workers go more than once a month |
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C．10.5% of male workers attend happy hours with co-workers |
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D．about 700 workers surveyed shared a secret about a co-worker |
5.After the survey, it can be inferred that .
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A．all the workers oppose after-work drinks |
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B．the workers may change their attitudes towards after-work drinks |
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C．all the workers support after-work drinks |
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D．all the workers are suggested going to attend after-work drinks |