Imagine that someone offers you $X today or $1,500 in 5 years. If the interest rate is 4 percent, then you would prefer to take the $X today if and only if
A.X >1,338.26.
B.X >1,232.89.
C.X >1,120.89.
D.X >1,055.56.
A.X >1,338.26.
B.X >1,232.89.
C.X >1,120.89.
D.X >1,055.56.
Imagine ___with someone who never stops ___practical jokes on you.
A.to live, to play
B.to live, playing
C.living, to play
D.living, playing
A.to live; to play
B.living; playing
C.to live; playing
D.living; to play
A.to live; to play
B.living; playing
C.to live; playing
D.living; to play
听力原文: If you are someone who tends to focus on the negative, thinking positively may be a new skill for you. One way to keep a positive attitude about yourself is by writing down and saying several sentences. The sentences should be strong ,supportive statements about yourself such as "I am a confident and capable person who can handle challenges. "It's hard to feel defeated when your self-talk is positive. Another technique for reducing stress is positive images. When confronted with a problem, try to imagine the outcome that you want. This technique is used by sport professionals with tremendous success. You too can champion your cause by mentally picturing positive results. Sometimes people are faced with unfortunate circumstances that can not be changed. In these instances, it may help to think about some of the assets and resources that you have that can support you and help you cope such as family, friends, skills, education, money and good health.
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A.You can imagine that you are a sport professional.
B.You can imagine your cause.
C.You can imagine a beautiful picture.
D.You can imagine the outcome that you want.
According to Bolden, someone who turns away from "oh" to "so"______.
A.has become more efficient in using the art of word choosing
B.has gained the ability to imagine and share others' feelings
C.has become less focused on the past while more on the future
D.has become less concerned with self-interest while more with interpersonal relationships
听力原文: If you are someone who tends to focus on the negative, [31] thinking positively may be a new skill for you. One way to keep a positive attitude about yourself is by writing down and saying several sentences. The sentences should be strong, supportive statements about yourself such as "I am a confident and capable person who can handle challenges." It's hard to feel defeated when your self-talk is positive. Another technique for reducing stress is positive images. When confronted with a problem, [29] try to imagine the outcome that you want. This technique is used by sport professionals with tremendous success. You too can champion your cause by mentally picturing positive results. Sometimes people are faced with unfortunate circumstances that can not be changed. In these instances, it may help to [30] think about some of the assets and resources that you have that can support you and help you cope such as family, friends, skills, education, money and good health.
(30)
A.You can imagine that you are a sport professional.
B.You can imagine your cause.
C.You can imagine a beautiful picture.
D.You can imagine the outcome that you want.
If you were swayed by someone's looks, would that be wrong? In the past, people often equated beauty with virtue and ugliness with vice.
Even now, the expression "as ugly as sin" has not quite passed from the language. There is, of course, the equally famous expression "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", to counter it. Most beholders agree what is beautiful — and modern biology suggests there is a good reason for that agreement. Biology also suggests that beauty may, indeed, be a good rule of thumb for assessing someone of either sex. Not an infallible one, and certainly no substitute for an in-depth investigation. But, nevertheless, an instinctive one, and one that is bound to contribute to the advantage of the physically well endowed.
听力原文: In the United States, it is not customary to telephone someone very early in the morning. If you telephone him early in the day, while he is shaving or having breakfast, the time of the call shows the matter is very important and requires immediate attention. The same meaning is attached to phone calls made after 11: 00 p.m. If someone receives a call during sleeping hours, he assumes it is a matter of life or death. The time chosen for the call communicates its importance.
If a late phone call is regarded in the U.S. as a cause for concern, imagine the excitement and fear caused by a crowd of people arriving at the door at 2: 00 a.m. On an island in the south Pacific, a plant manager from the U.S. had just such an experience. The natives of the island met one night to discuss a problem. When they arrived at a solution, they went to see the plant manager and woke him up to tell him what had been decided. Unfortunately, they did not know that it is a very serious matter to wake Americans at such an hour. The plant manager, who did not understand the local culture, thought there was a fight and called the police.
(33)
A.11:00 a.m.
B.1:00 p.m.
C.3:00 p.m.
D.5:00 a.m.
听力原文: Imagine that someone in your neighbourhood broke the law, and the judge put the whole neighbourhood under suspicion. How fair will that be? Well, it happens everyday to high schoolers. Just because some students have stolen things in shops, all of us are treated like thieves. Even though I'd never steal.
Store employees looked at me like I'm some kind of hardened criminal. For example, during one lunch period, my friend Denny and I went to the Graben Gore Restaurant to have a hot dog. We arrived to find a line of students waiting outside. A new sign in the window told the story."No More Than Two Students At A Time". After 15 minutes, we finally got in. But the store manager laid the evil eye on us. I asked him about the new sign, and he said, "You kids are stealing too much stuff. " You kids? Too much stuff? We were not only assumed to be thieves, but brilliant, greedy thieves. The most annoying thing though, is the way employees watched my friends and me. It's horrible.
Once, at a drug store, I was looking around and found a guy standing on a large box, stocking the shelves.He was watching my hands, more than he was watching his own. I showed him that my hands were empty. He got down off his box and rushed off, as if he was going to get the store manager. How crazy is that!
Questions:
33. What does the speaker find to be unfair?
34. What measure did the Graben Gore Restaurant take to stop stealing?
35. What happened in a drug store that greatly annoyed the speaker?
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A.Hardworking students being accused of cheating.
B.Boy students being often treated as law-breakers.
C.Innocent people being suspected groundlessly.
D.Junior employees being made to work overtime.
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