No amount of money with her life will ________ her desire for comfort.
A.appreciate
B.appeal
C.appease
D.applause
A.appreciate
B.appeal
C.appease
D.applause
By “the pool of contributions” (Para. 1) the writer means______.
A. money paid by the insurers B. the amount of each premium
C. money paid by all those insured D. the cost of administering insurance
The country has ______people and ______money ______spent on tobacco every year.
A. a large quantity of, a number of, are
B. plenty of, a great deal, are
C. a great deal of, plenty of, is
D. a large number of, a large amount of, is
The amount of money you spend on your garden______.
A.can be large
B.must be large
C.can not be large
D.must not be small
A.stand up to
B.make up for
C.come up with
D.put up with
Public radio and television stations, on the【65】hand, do not have advertisements and people do not have to【66】to watch them. These stations gain their money from the【67】, from private companies, and from some of the【68】who watch or listen their programs. The【69】government and some large corporations give【70】,large gifts on money, to the public stations.
(66)
A.products
B.programs
C.produce
D.governments
A.The penny that doubles itself every day for one month
B.The time span of at least two million years in human history
C.An illustration of the exponent growth rate given by the author
D.The large amount of money you would luckily make after the fourth week
Most problems between teenagers and their parents yield best to (导致) joint planning and decision making. Within any particular family【25】are avoided and problems are solved when all of the persons take【26】in the situation,【27】in working it out.【28】parents and young people learn how to get【29】well with each other and develop skills in understanding and【30】understood, even the most difficult problems are relieved.
(36)
A.free
B.likely
C.able
D.curious
When she had paid for the piano, the shop assistant asked her if she would like him to get it tuned(调音) every few months. Mrs. Peters agreed.
A few months later she heard from the shop that a man was coming to tune the piano at ten that morning. Now she had not cleaned the house yet, so it was dusty and untidy. Mrs. Peters hated having even the least amount of dirt, and felt ashamed whenever strange people saw her house like that. So she had to hurry to clean everything carefully. It meant a lot of effort, and it made her hot and tired, but anyhow, by the time the man arrived, everything was finished.
She opened the door, and the man was standing there with a big dog. "Good morning," the man said politely, "Will it disturb you if I bring my dog in, please? I' m blind, and he leads me wherever I go."
Mrs. Peters stopped playing the piano ______.
A.because she began to work
B.when she had no room to live in
C.because her flat was too small for a piano
D.when she got married
Passage Two(26~30) Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely clever act of stealing or an even cleverer cheat (诈骗). Either way, it could be the perfect crime (犯罪), because the criminals are birds-horning pigeons!
The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car: if you want the car back, pay up then. The car owner is directed to a park, told where to find a bird cage and how to attach money to the neck of the pigeon inside. Carrying the money in a tiny bag, the pigeon flies off。
There have been at least four such pigeon pick-ups in Changwa. What at first seemed like the work of a clever stay-at-home car thief, however, may in fact be the work of an even lazier and more inventive criminal mind-one that avoids (避免)not only collecting money but going out to steal the car in the first place. Police officer Chen says that the criminal probably has played a double trick: he gets money for things he cannot possibly return. Instead of stealing cars, he lets someone else do it and then waits for the car-owner to place an ad (启事) in the newspaper asking for help。
The theory is supported by the fact that, so far, none of the stolen cars have been returned. Also, the amount of money demanded-under 3,000 Taiwanese dollars-seems too little for a car worth many times more。
Demands for pigeon-delivered money stopped as soon as the press reported the story. And even if they start again, Chen holds little hope of catching the criminal. “We have more important things to do,” he said。
第26题:After the car owner received a phone call, he 。
A. went to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried
B. gave the money to the thief and had his car back in a park
C. sent some money to the thief by mail
D. told the press about it
Now in this industrialized world people are inclined to choose material possessions. This is true of doctors, too. The high income of doctors is the envy of other people. Many high school graduates are eager to get into medical colleges, and countless girls consider doctors to be their best choice of husbands. For many years the public has charged that doctors in public hospitals demand money from patients. The amount of money the patients give determines the kind of treatment they receive. It has also been said that drug companies have to pay the doctors so that the latter will use their products.
Recently a large medicine factory set up by the U.S. Investors declared that it will stop giving "kickbacks" to doctors as the factory bas spent too much to promote sales over the years. This declaration has caused quite a stir in our society. We wonder what the officials who have denied the dealings mentioned above will say about this.
According to the passage why did the doctors in Taiwan deserve our highest admiration in former times? ______.
A.Because they were a group of qualified doctors
B.Because they ranked first in wealth
C.Because they were able to cure the sick of poverty
D.Because they were the doctors with medical morals as well as medical skill