People can be addicted to different things — e.g.
alcohol, drugs, certain foods, or even television. People who have such addition
are compulsive, i.e. they have a very powerful psychological need that
they feel they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is
irrational — impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy
on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words,
compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure
in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get
from the things they buy.
There is special psychology of bargain
hunting. To save money, of course, most people search for sales, low prices and
discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things they don’t need
just only because they a
A. necessary
B. compulsory
C. complicated
D. fearful
[单项选择]Passage TwoA. It can help people keep alert. B. It can help people keep young.
C. It can help improve people’s memory. D. It can help strengthen people’s bodies.
[单项选择]Passage TwoWhy do some people feel guilty when they drink coffee
A. They are not allowed to drink coffee.
B. They think coffee does no good to them.
C. They think coffee is too expensive.
D. They should not drink coffee when working.
[单项选择]
Passage Four
Many things make people think artists are weird and the weirdest may be this: artists’ only job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
This wasn’t always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited for ex- pressing ioy. But somewhere in the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as insipid, phony or, worst of all, boring as we went from Wordsworth’s daffodils to Baudelaire’ s flowers of evil
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But it’s not as if earlier times didn’t know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness Advertising. The
A. Poetry is not as expressive of joy as painting or music.
B. Art grow out of both positive and negative feeling.
C. Poets today are less skeptical of happiness.
D. Artist have changed their focus of interest.
[简答题]According to the passage, how can people increase their individual’s I. Q.
[单项选择] Passage 2
Fire can help people in many ways. But
it can be very dangerous. Fire can heat water, warm houses, give light and cook.
But fire can bum things, too. It can bum trees, houses, animals or people.
Sometimes big fires can burn forests.
Nobody knows for sure how
people began to use fire. But there are many interesting stories about the first
time a man or a woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man
very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope (绳子) and brought fire
down.
Today people know how to make a rue with matches (火柴) .
Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous.
One match can bum a piece of paper and then it might bum a house. A small fire
can become a big fire very fast. Fire kills many people every year. So you must
be careful with matches. You should al
A. Not everybody knows how people began to use fire.
B. Nobody knows how to make a fire.
C. It is an Australian who started a fire.
D. We are not sure how people began to use fire.
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