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[单项选择]What most people don’t realize is that wealth isn’t the same as income. If you make $1 million a year and spend $1 million, you re not getting wealthier, you’re just living high. Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.
The most successful accumulators of wealth spend far less than they can afford on houses, cars, vacations and entertainment. Why Because these things offer little or no return. The wealthy would rather put their money into investments or their businesses. It’s an attitude.
Millionaires understand that when you buy a luxury house, you buy a luxury life-style too. Your property taxes skyrocket, along with the cost of utilities and insurance, and the prices of nearby services, such as grocery stores, tend to be higher.
The rich man’s attitude can also be seen in his car. Many drive old unpretentious sedans. Sam Walton, billionaire founder of the Wal-Mart Store, Inc., drove a pickup truck.
Most millionaires measure success by net worth, not inc
A. will not be taxed by the government
B. have accumulated wealth in another sense
C. live high and have little saved
D. can show that they are among the rich
[单项选择]Able-bodied people just don’t realize how difficult it is _________ good jobs.
A. of disabled people to get
B. of disabled people getting
C. for disabled people to get
D. for disabled people getting
[单项选择]What is one thing most people don’t associate with Madonna
A. She is chief executive of an entertainment company.
B. She prefers making records to films.
C. She is not concerned about media attention.
[填空题]People in the rich one-third don’t realize the enormous difference between them and the other two-thirds. A very simple example is that a fisherman in South America may be catching fish which is processed into pet food and yet his own children are not getting enough protein for their bodies to develop properly.
Although a lot of the world’s natural resources like oil come from these poorer countries, we in the richer countries are probably using sixty times as much of these resources as a person in Asia or Africa. The richer countries are in a position to dictate the suppliers what kind of prices they are prepared to pay for these natural resources. In some cases, the prices have gone down. In others, they have remained steady. But the prices the richer countries get for their own exports have continued to rise. So they are getting richer and richer and the poorer countries are getting poorer.
What is the actual condition of rich countries and poor countries
The fact is __
[单项选择]What most probably is Tim
[单项选择]What most probably does Mary do
A. A student.
B. A reporter.
C. A teacher.
D. A lecturer.
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Researchers produced evidence to support what most of us already knew--that a cup of tea is the answer to any crisis.
Dr. Malcolm Cross, a psychologist at City University London, tested the anxiety levels of a group of people following a (41) situation and revealed that even a single cup of tea has a (42) calming effect. His team gave 42 volunteers a mental arithmetic exam and (43) offered half of them a cup of tea and the other half a glass of water. The water group’s anxiety levels soared (44) 25 percent compared to before the task, (45) the tea group actually reported a four percent reduction in anxiety---despite the difficult test, they were more relaxed than when they started.
According to a survey carried out for the research, 68 percent of Britons (46) tea in a dilemma, making it the nation’s most common response to trouble of (47) kind. About 60 percent said the promise of comfort a
A. give up
B. owe to
C. look on
D. turn to
