During her junior year of high school, Candice Backus ’s teacher handed her a sheet and i

Australian Athlete Cathy Freeman

Cathy Freeman was born in an aboriginal (土著的) family in Australia. When she was still a girl, her talent in running was （31） . Her mother encouraged her to （32） her interest in sports. Her stepfather (继父), Bruce Barber, told her that she could win a gold medal at the Olympics if she trained （33） . At the age of 15, she （34） at the National School Championships. She achieved such good （35） that she was encouraged to （36） the 1990 Commonwealth Games team. She became a （37） of the 4x 100-meter relay (接力) team, which won gold at the Commonwealth Games. In 1990, she took part in the Australian National Championships, winning the 200 meters, and then ran in the 100, 200, and 4xl00 meters （38） at the World Junior Games. During this time,

She （39） an Australian track official. He later became her （40）, manager, and boyfriend.

During her junior year of high school, Candice Backus ’s teacher handed her a sheet and instructed the 17-year-old to map out her future financial life. Backus pretended to buy a car, rent an apartment, and apply for a credit card. Then, she and her classmates played the “stock market game, ” investing the hypothetical(假设的) earnings from their hypothetical jobs in the market in the fateful fall of 2008. “Our pretend investments crashed , ”Backus says, still horrified. “We felt what actual shareholders were feeling. ”

That pain of earning and losing money is a feeling that public school increasingly want to teach. Forty states now offer some types of financial instruction at the elementary or high-school level, including lessons in balancing checkbooks(支票本 ) and buying stock in math and social-studies classes. The interest in personal-finance classes has risen since 2007 when bank failures became a regular occurrence.

Rather than teach investment strategies, these courses offer a basic approach to handling money: Don’t spent what you don’t have. Put part of your monthly salary into a saving account, and invest in the stock market for the long-term rather than short-term gains. For Backus, this means dividing her earnings from her part-time job at a fast-food restaurant into separate envelopes for paying bills, spending, and saving. “Money is so hard to make but so easy to spend, ”she s one weekday after school.

After Backus finished her financial classes, she opened up a savings account at her local bank and started to think more about how she and her family would pay for college. “She just has a better understanding of money and how it affects the world , ” says her mother, Darleen. All of this talk of mon ey can make Backus worry, she says, but luckily, she feels prepared to face it.

16. The purpose of the high school class ’s “stock market game ” is ____________.

A.introduce a new course

B.encourage personal savings

C.learn about investment

D.teach credit card hazards

Student interest in taking classes on finance has increased because of ____________.A.the state of the economy

B.the need for employment

C.the rate of graduation

D.the desire to purchase cars

According to the passage, taking money management courses will help to ____________.A.get accepted by colleges

B.become very wealthy

C.take more vacations

D.prevent from going into debt

The author’attitude toward financial classesin public school is ___________.A.positive

B.critical

C.objective

D.worried

After Candice Backus completed the class about money, she _______.A.is debt free

B.manages the family income

C.will graduate early

D.feels more competent

To Whom it May Concern:

Janet Doe has worked for me as a Resident Manager for the past 3 years. Her responsibilities have included leasing, inspecting apartments, hiring maintenance staff, taking tenants complaints, making sure common areas look presentable, and keeping track of the property budget.

During her time here she has had an amazing impact on the appearance and financial turn around at the property. The property was near bankrupt when Janet took over. She turned things around almost immediately, and as a result we are expecting our second year of profit.

Janet is highly respected by her co-workers for her willingness to help anyone anytime she can. She has been instrumental in helping institute new company-wide cost saving procedures. She is very well organized, diligent in her paperwork, easily reachable, and always on time.

Janet has real leadership potential. I would highly recommend her for your MBA program.

Sincerely,

Joe Smith

Joe Smith

Regional Property Manager

What is the author's purpose of writing this letter？

A．Introducing Janet to her Regional Property Manager

B．Recommending Janet to a MBA program for her application

C．Summarizing Janet's performance in the company

D．Supporting Janet for a coming promotion

A.Emily Dickinson

B.Jack London

C.Ernest Hemingway

D.Poe

A.senior

B.superior

C.perfect

D.lower

A.a freshman

B.a senior

C.a sophomore

D.a junior

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Directions: Translate the following text into Chinese.

Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain--it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect white flower nestled in soft pink tissue paper.

But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.

My mother contributed to these imaginings. She'd ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbour I'd help when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved？ during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. As a teenager, though, I had more fun speculating that it might be a boy I had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though I didn't know him.

A．called; that

B．calling; that

C．is called; that

D．called; it

Her neighbors have filed a complaint against her, for her dog always () at night.

A、yells

B、roars

C、shouts

D、barks

_________the new pop singer built her first album piece by piece.

A． Over a year and a half

B． Over half and a year

C． Over one and a half year

D． Over year and half