6. A photo,however,can be both a work of art and an        record. It can record an important event as a beautiful or exciting picture.

   A. elegant   B. apparent   C. informal   D. actual

5. Travel will inevitably increase and cars will become even more        as the society becomes richer and as people have longer holidays and more leisure time.

   A. accurate   B. abundant

   C. constant   D. exceptional

4. She said that she had benefited from lessons on personal finance,but        that she still had a lot to learn about money.

   A. consulted   B. spotted

   C. admitted   D. donated

3. Fashion magazines have almost        the practice of putting models on the cover because they don't sell nearly as well as famous faces.

   A. claimed   B. abandoned

   C. appointed   D. conveyed

2. The car factory has produced a new car of high quality;its only        is that it uses a lot of petrol.

   A. advantage   B. drawback   C. mistake   D. profit

1. In the following         ，she recalls the job that challenged her imagination and skill but left her flying high.

   A. comprehension   B. evidence   C. figure   D. account

People just naturally associate kangaroo,koala and fine beaches with Australia. Yes,you can find many fine sand beaches,white or brown,to enjoy the sunshine and seaside breeze. However,in Queensland,the eastern state of Australia,a night beach tour at this time of year may bring you a more exciting sight of the miracle of life：You can watch hatching baby turtles making their first steps in a natural environment.

On Mon Repos beach,about 14 kilometers east of the city of Bundaberg in Queensland,Australia,lies Mon Repos Conservation Park.

By day,Mon Repos beach is a sweeping bay of brown sand,a quiet spot for people to sunbathe,surf and fish.

By night,it's home to the largest concentration of endangered marine turtles on the eastern Australian mainland. And the miracle of egglaying and hatching occurs from around mid October to the end of April every year. 

In order not to disturb the turtles,tourists have to follow the instruction of the guides. But this may make the tour more like an adventure：Tourists are usually told to huddle (crowd) close together,hold hands and walk close to the shoreline in the dark.

At the start of the season (October and November) ，tourists can view turtles laying their eggs. Nature turtles first use all four flippers to dig a body pit in the sand and then lay eggs in it. It's not uncommon for a turtle to lay more than 100 eggs at a time. And her mission isn't done until she uses her flippers to flick sand and cover the nest.

If you go there at the end of the season (March to April) ，you can see groups of hatchings walk down to the water. It is an astonishing sight as the small creatures,barely two minutes old,race instinctively to the sea.

If they survive,the same hatchings will return in 50 years' time to lay eggs on the very beach where they first emerged (出現) .

(   ) 5. The first paragraph is intended to         .

   A. recommend the readers to have a holiday in Australia

   B. give the readers an idea of the different sceneries of Australia

   C. draw the readers' attention to the topic of this article

   D. show that Australia has a variety of animals

(   ) 6. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

   A. A turtle can usually lay 100 eggs at a time.

   B. If you go to the beach in October,you can see turtles lay eggs.

   C. Turtles usually lay eggs when they are 50 years of age.

   D. It's quite dangerous for the tourists to watch the turtles at night by the seashore.

(   ) 7. Which of the following shows the correct relationship of the three places?

(M = Mon Repos Conservation Park; Q = Queensland;B = Bundaberg)

(   ) 8. Which of the following words may be used to replace the underlined word "flick" in the 6th paragraph?

   A. dig   B. move   C. gather   D. make

 Personal finance is an increasingly complex world. There are more ways to invest money,more ways to save it,and more ways to lose it. Yet many people are more strangers to this world than they might like to admit.

  Starting young to teach financial literacy.

  In the United States,there are growing calls to do more to help young people learn skills in financial literacy. Some efforts begin in high school. But more and more information is available on the Internet,not only for young people but also for adults. The goal is to teach about budgeting,saving,investing and using money.

  The United States Financial Literacy and Education Commission was established in two thousand three. This government group supervises financial education efforts through nineteen federal agencies.

  Information on financial literacy and education can be found at its Web site. The address is My Money,gov. It includes links to agencies that deal with banking,buying a home,investing and other areas.

  The National Council on Economic Education has found that seventeen states now require high school students to take a class in economics. This number has grown from thirteen in nineteen ninetyeight.

  As of three years ago,half of all states required students to take a class in personal finance. Yet that number has fallen from twentyfive to twentytwo.

The National Council on Economic Education sells textbooks for grades four through twelve. It also offers free materials for teachers. The information is available at ncee.net.

  Teachers say parents also need to play a larger part in educating their children about money. A recent study found that seventy percent of college students said they received financial advice mainly from their parents.

Investment companies also offer information. Charles Schwab,for example,has a Web site to help parents teach their kids about money and investing.   The address is SchwabMoneyWise. com.

  One of the first tastes of financial independence that many young people get is through summer jobs. Junior Achievement is an organization that teaches young people about finance and business. It says almost threefourths of young people questioned said they planned to have a summer job.

(   ) 1. What's the goal of teaching young people financial literacy?

   A. To teach them budgeting.

   B. To teach them saving.

   C. To teach them investing and using money.

   D. All of the above.

(   ) 2. Which web site or organization can help parents teach their kids about money and investing?

   A. My Money.gov   B. ncee.net

   C. SchwabMoneyWise.com   D. Junior Achievement

(   ) 3. Which of the following is NOT true?

   A. The US Financial Literacy and Education Commission was set up in 2003.

   B. 13 states in the US required high school students to take a class in economics in 1998.

   C. 3 years ago,half of all states in the US required students to take a class in personal finance.

   D. Through summer jobs,young people can try to become independent in finance.

(   ) 4. What's the best title of the passage?

   A. Information on Financial Literacy and Education

   B. How to Get Financial Independence

   C. Starting Young to Teach Financial Literacy

   D. The Way of Earning and Saving Money

 My ears are recently full of joyous remarks from my friends such as, "Oh,Beckham is so handsome,so cool,that I can't help falling in love with him!" or "What perfect skills he has！”

  Yeah,I 1       to some degree,though I sometimes do want to 2        them how much they know about Beckham,apart from his 3        and how much they know about football apart from 4        goals. It seems funny that we are 5        for things,with which we are unfamiliar or about which we are 6       ,but we all,my friends as well as I,consider this one of life's 7       .

  We need these pleasures to 8        our lives. But that doesn't 9        to craziness or nonsense. As an old saying goes: "Don't judge a book by its cover."We should not judge anything from its 10       . We should all know,it is one's good 11        and great contribution that make one a star and unforgettable. Therefore we'd better say 12        about Beckham's good looks.

  If we close our eyes,falling in deep 13       ,we can find that the things that move us to be really happy or sad have a 14 meaning. If we don't go deeper and are just satisfied with 15        things,sooner or later we will find that we have not really gained anything because our first 16        has blinded and misled us,and we will remain ignorant (無知的) 17       we realize that and make some changes.

  It is believed that thinking and going deeper than before is 18        of great progress. If one day we are willing to go deeper into everything,no matter how much it 19        us,we will finally prove how much we have 20        up,how much more sensible,mature,and intelligent we have become.

(   ) 1. A. like   B. agree   C. think   D. disagree

(   ) 2. A. ask   B. tell   C. teach   D. doubt

(   ) 3. A. skills   B. fame   C. team   D. appearance

(   ) 4. A. kicking   B. hitting   C. scoring   D. controlling

(   ) 5. A. concerned   B. crazy   C. curious   D. anxious

(   ) 6. A. uncertain   B. unhappy   C. displeased   D. unsatisfied

(   ) 7. A. aims   B. qualities   C. pleasures   D. truth

(   ) 8. A. keep up   B. brighten up   C. make up   D. bring up

(   ) 9. A. add   B. increase   C. amount   D. rise

(   ) 10. A. transport   B. producer   C. quality   D. appearance

(   ) 11. A. thinking   B. character   C. background   D. ability

(   ) 12. A. more   B. something   C. less   D. nothing

(   ) 13. A. love   B. sleep   C. sense   D. thought

(   ) 14. A. clear   B. puzzling   C. moving   D. valuable

(   ) 15. A. material   B. deep   C. surface   D. pleasant

(   ) 16. A. conclusion   B. experience   C. lesson   D. impression

(   ) 17. A. since   B. although   C. unless   D. before

(   ) 18. A. sign   B. cause   C. value   D. willingness

(   ) 19. A. worries   B. pains   C. satisfies   D. offers

(   ) 20. A. given   B. sent   C. built   D. grown

  While drunken driving may be on the decline,traffic safety experts remain puzzled over how to deal with another alcoholrelated danger：drunken pedestrians.

  Pedestrians struck and killed by cars often are extremely drunk. In fact,they are drunken more frequently―and with higher bloodalcohol levels―than drunken drivers who are killed in accidents,various studies have shown. Forty percent of adult pedestrians involved in fatal crashes have a bloodalcohol level of at least 0. 10―which by law in most states signifies intoxication (醉酒) 一compared to only 25 percent of drivers in deadly accidents,according to recent federal data.

  Some types of pedestrian accidents have been declining nationally,especially those involving children,but the number of adult pedestrians who are drunk when killed in traffic has remained relatively steady at 2       ,500 a year. The total number of pedestrians killed annually in US traffic accidents is at least 7 ,000,or one of every seven highway accidents resulting in death.

  "We're dealing here,we think,with a very severe drinking problem that leads to a severe highway safety problem”，said Richard Blomberg,president of Dunlap and Associates Inc.，in Norwalk,Coon.

  Blomberg,whose consulting company found a very high rate of alcohol involvement in a controlled study of pedestrian accidents in New Orleans,was among several researchers who spoke on the topic at the annual meeting of the Research Council's Transportation Research Board (TRE) in Washington in January.

  Pedestrian accidents have not received enough attention in the past,according to Kay Colpitts,who chairs the board's committee on pedestrians. Few methods exist to monitor walking habits,she said,and researchers have been puzzled about how to prevent disasters.

(   ) 5. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

   A. Traffic Safety.

   B. Drunken Drivers.

   C. Drunken Pedestrian Accidents.

   D. A Severe Highway Safety Problem.

(   ) 6. Among the causes of walkers' accidents,the most serious problem is         .

   A. long delays in traffic signals causing pedestrians to lose patience

   B. taking too much alcohol and then hanging along the roads

   C. a lack of adult keeping eyes on many children involved in accidents

   D. former drunken drivers whose licenses are not allowed to use for a time

(   ) 7. According to recent federal data,drunken drivers with an over 0. 10 bloodalcohol level in deadly accidents         .

   A. are 15 percent less than drunken adult walkers

   B. are relatively steady at 2 ,500 a year

   C. are at least 7 ,000 in US traffic accidents

   D. make up oneseventh of highway accidents

(   ) 8. From the passage we know that Blomberg is         .

   A. a researcher

   B. a specialist in traffic safety

   C. a clerk of a consulting company

   D. a government official