To all of you at Chinese love links.
I am 44 years old and never married. I have always wanted to find that perfect someone that I dream about. For about the last five years I have almost given up the hope of ever finding the one I truly wish to spend the rest of my life with.
I have always tried to be a nice guy. I had found your website some four or five months before. I did not know what to expect. I don’t know how to speak Chinese and never thought truly of how I was to an Asian woman.
Well, I had a lot of replies from some very nice and pretty women. I had a hard time finding only a couple to write to. But one stood out from the rest. She was cute, nice and seemed to hold a lot of the same values as I do. In a short time I had decided to write only to her. We communicate via e-mails 2-3 times a day and phone calls once or twice a week.
I went and met her and her family only a week ago. Her name is Yun and she lives in Nanning. I found Nanning to be one of the most beautiful cities I had ever been to. We had even decided to marry and bring her to the USA under the finance visa. Not only did she meet everything I had ever hoped to find in someone else but turned out to be what every woman should be like, at least the ones I have met. We plan to marry as soon as she is here and start a family together as neither of us has children but we both want them.
So to anyone out there reading this, I can only say this: You may not find what you are looking for if you’re not honest with your partner and yourself. This site worked for me mostly because I was honest with something that I wanted in someone else. When I did find her, love can work even across the other side of the world, between language differences and cultural differences. I wish you all luck in finding your perfect match. I have finally found mine and wish to give all my thanks to those at Chinese love links to help make it happen.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur
【小题1】We can infer from the letter that Chinese love links is a website to ____________.

A.help foreigners to travel in China
B.help both Chinese and foreigners to find one they want to marry
C.help Chinese and foreigners make friends
D.receive letters from the USA
【小题2】 Which of the following is true about Arthur’s story?
A.He was sure of finding a Chinese woman as his wife at first.
B.He was determined to find a Chinese woman as his wife.
C.He almost lost hope in finding a perfect wife until he found Yun.
D.No women wrote to him before Yun.
【小题3】 Yun stood out from the rest because ________.
A.she was a Chinese.
B.she had much in common with Arthur
C.other women stopped writing to Arthur
D.she was cute and nice and often phoned to Arthur
【小题4】Arthur thinks _________ is the most important in finding someone one wants to marry .
A.being honest with the partner and oneselfB.help from the website
C.difference in languages and placesD.difference in cultures

A study involving 8,500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of them are ignorant when it comes to money. The findings, the first in a series of reports from NatWesl that has started a five-year research project into teenagers and money, are particularly worrying as this generation of young people is likely to be burdened with greater debts than any before.
University tuition fees (学费)are currently capped at £3,000 annually, but this will be reviewed next year and the Government is under enormous pressure to raise the ceiling.
In the research, the teenagers were presented with die terms of four different loans but 76 per cent failed to identify the cheapest. The young people also predicted that they would be earning on average £ 31.000 by the age of 25, although the average salary for those aged 22 to 29 is just £ 17,815. The teenagers expected to be in debt when they finished university or training, although half said that they assumed the debts would be less than £ 10.000. Average debts for graduates are £ 12,363.
Stephen Moir, head of community investment at the Royal Bank of Scotland Group which owns NatWest, said. "The more exposed young people are to financial issues, and the younger they become aware of them, the more likely they are to become responsible, forward-planning adults who manage their finances confidently and effectively."
Ministers are deeply concerned about the financial pressures on teenagers and young people because of student loans and rising housing costs. They have just introduced new lessons in how to manage debts. Nikki Fairweather aged 15 from St Helens, said that she had benefited from lessons on personal finance, but admitted that she still had a lot to learn about money.
【小题1】 Which of the following can be found from the five-year research project?

A.Students understand personal finances differently.
B.University tuition fees in England have been rising.
C.Teenagers tend to overestimate their future earnings.
D.The students' payback ability has become a major issue.
【小题2】The phrase "to raise the ceiling" in paragraph 2 probably means "______".
A.to raise the student loans B.to improve the school facilities
C.to increase the upper limit of the tuitionD.to lift the school building roofs
【小题3】 According to Stephen Moir, students_______.
A.are too young to be exposed to financial issues
B.should learn to manage their finances well
C.should maintain a positive attitude when facing loans
D.benefit a lot from lessons on personal finance
【小题4】What can we learn from the passage?
A.Many British teenagers do not know money matters well
B.Teenagers in Britain are heavily burdened with debts.
C.Financial planning is a required course at college.
D.Young people should become responsible adults.

There is a small shop about 200 meters from where I live that sells groceries, meat and other basic necessities. About 10 years ago, there was a beggar who would go into the shop every day and ask the owner for a      . The owner, although he would love to help, simply didn’t have any jobs available, so he kept        the man’s request.

This situation continued        for a few months, until the owner        to give the homeless man a job which        sweeping outside the shop. Every single day from 5 am, the homeless man was there doing the very best he could for the       , and it did earn him some pennies.       , the owner saw how good a job the man was doing and gave him a job working as a cashier. He was watched closely to make sure that he didn’t       any of the money received from the sales. He was still homeless, after all. The homeless man did a/an        job as a cashier for over 2 years, and did such a good job that he was promoted to       the finance for the whole shop.

    To my      , this was the arrangement up until 2 years ago, when the owner      . In his will, he only had one      , to give the whole shop to the now stable, “homeless” man. Now, I could walk into that shop and see him working as hard as ever, with his own business that is still        and active 10 years after getting his job as a sweeper.

    From this story, we can probably get the inspiration: work hard and give everything your best effort, even if it isn’t your       situation, it very well may turn out to be some day in the future.

1.A. coin                            B. home                             C. job                                   D. meal

2.A. ignoring                 B. considering                     C. accepting                      D. refusing

3.A. again                     B. weekly                          C. often                D. daily

4.A. wanted          B. agreed            C. planned                  D. expected

5.A. meant               B. involved               C. included              D. kept

6.A. family                B. owner                           C. shop                               D. money

7.A. Normally                B. Accurately                    C. Generally                 D. Eventually

8.A. lose                            B. pocket                           C. spend                            D. save

9.A. honest              B. practical         C. fantastic                D. kind

10.A. take                    B. raise                       C. provide                    D. manage

11.A. knowledge   B. mind                              C. regret                            D. joy

12.A. got tired                  B. grew old              C. passed away                 D. gave up

13.A. thought                   B. purpose                        C. request                         D. suggestion

14.A. big                            B. new                      C. different         D. popular

15.A. ideal               B. current                         C. reasonable                   D. financial

 

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