You could live forever several times over by ______.
第1题
听力原文: Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationships with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term--quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900;you could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75 or be older.
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A.Different interpretations of the term “health.”
B.Improving the quality of life
C.The importance of health to quality living.
D.People's expectations of a long and healthy life.
第2题
A.Language.
B.Computing.
C.Bachelor.
D.Accommodation.
第3题
【C1】
A.law
B.rule
C.case
D.matter
第4题
Animation means making things which are lifeless come live and 【S1】______ .
move. Since earliest times, people have always been fascinated by
movement. And not until this century have we managed to capture 【S2】______ .
movement, to record it, and in the case of animation, to reinterpret it 【S3】______ .
and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector. In
the world of cartoon animation, everything is impossible. You can 【S4】______ .
make the characters you create do exactly that you want them to do. 【S5】______ .
A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created Pat 【S6】______ .
Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a
marvelous cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat can do as 【S7】______ .
taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back. The
famous Walt Disney cartoon characteristics came to life after 1928. 【S8】______ .
Popeye the Sailorman and his girl friend Olive Oyl were born at the
Max Fleischer studios in 1933. But to be an animator, you don't have
to be a professional. It is possible for anyone to make a simple
animated film with using a camera at all. All that you have to do is to 【S9】______ .
draw directly on to blank film and then running the film through a 【S10】______ .
projector.
【S1】
第5题
The car began to break 【C4】______ the ancient division between town and 【C5】______ . The movement perhaps began 【C6】______ the prosperous middle class, 【C7】______ for a holiday from New York, 【C8】______ were delighted to discover the rest of their country. 【C9】______ the cheapest car also enabled the working class to travel, for pleasure or in 【C10】______ of work. Even poor country people, it 【C11】______ out, could own cars and when they did so, many of them used the freedom thus 【C12】______ to depart to the West or to the cities.
Even more important, perhaps, was the 【C13】______ of the car on daily life. It came into 【C14】______ for all sorts of short trips, to work or to the 【C15】______ , which had previously been made by trolley bus or 【C16】______ . It made a whole new pattern of living possible. Vast suburbs began to 【C17】______ over the land. No longer 【C18】______ you have to live in comparatively cramped housing near the railroad station. Nor did you have to 【C19】______ your annual holiday at one of the traditional, crowded resorts nearby. 【C20】______ , you could speed over the hills and far away.
【C1】
A.process
B.system
C.production
D.creation
第6题
W: Well,I think most people want to have a secure future. Um,however,the information they need to achieve financial security isn't at their fingertips. For example,well,they need to establish their goals,for instance,how much money do they need to live?
M: Then how much money do you think people need to save for themselves?
W: Welt,the thing is,you should have 3-6 months of monthly salary saved,so whatever your monthly salary is,you should have enough to pay your expenses for 3-6 months without any income.
M: And then in addition to that,most of us need to plan for college,retirement,taking care of parents,etc.
W: Uh-huh. And the kinds of things that rise up unexpectedly,for example,like the water heater blowing up or the car not starting in the morning.
M: So,what's the biggest mistake people make?
W: Well,they tend to live from paycheck to paycheck. And when something unexpected occurs,if they don't have someone to help,they just go deeper and deeper into debt,then fall farther and farther behind their payments.
M: So,if you could give people one piece of advice to make their financial future more secure,what would you suggest?
W: The best advice I can give is that“Pay yourself first”. When you get your paycheck,save some portion of it,even $i0 a week. That's giving up a movie or one stop at a fast food restaurant.
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A.3-6 months of monthly salary
B.13% of their monthly salary
C.10 dollars a week
D.36% of their monthly salary
第7题
W: Does it have three bedrooms?
M: No. There are two. The master bedroom is quite spacious though. Maybe you could let the children share the larger room, and you and your husband could use the smaller one.
W: I suppose I could do that.
M: A three-bedroom apartment will be difficult to find.
W: Yes, I know. Believe me, I have been looking for over a week. The few three-bedroom apartments that I have found are either extremely expensive or the owner won't allow children as tenants.
M: Well, the owner allows two children in this apartment complex.
W: Aren't you the owner?
M: No. I am the manager. I live here, too, on the first floor of this building.
W: Oh. That's nice. Then if anything gets broken...
M: Just leave a note on my door.
W: You said that the rent would be 350 dollars a month. Does that include any of the utilities?
M: Yes. It includes gas. Your furnace and stove axe gas, so, as you can imagine, your other utilities, electric and water, are quite inexpensive.
W: This sounds better and better. But before I sign a lease I would like my husband to see it.
M: Why not stop by with him this evening?
W: How late are you open? He doesn't get off work until five.
M: Come by at six. I will still be in the office. I am sure that you are eager to move from the hotel, and if we get the paper work out of the way tonight, you can move in tomorrow.
W: Oh, that would be wonderful.
(23)
A.The woman's husband.
B.The owner of the apartment.
C.The apartment manager.
D.The tenant who occupies the apartment now.
第8题
The author decided to live a car-free life______.
A.after his car was damaged beyond repair
B.after he was hurt in a terrible car accident
C.because public transport was easily accessible
D.because the traffic jam was too much for him
第9题
听力原文:M: Hey, Karen. Looks like you got some sun this weekend.
W: Yeah, I guess so. I spent the weekend at the beach.
M: Oh yeah? That's great! Where did you stay?
W: Some friends of my parents live out there and they invited me for as long as I wanted to stay.
M: So what are you doing back here already?
W: Oh, I have a paper I need to work on, and I just couldn't do any serious studying at the beach.
M: I don't blame you. So what did you do out there... I mean besides lie out in the sun, obviously?
W: I jogged up and down the beach and I played some volleyball. You know, I never realized how hard it is to run on sand. I couldn't even get through a whole game before I had to sit down. It's much easier to run in the wet sand near the water.
M: Not to mention cooler. Did you go swimming?
W: I wanted to, but they said the water isn't warm enough for that until a couple of months from now, so I just waded in up to my knees.
M: It all sounds so relaxing. I wish I could get away to the beach like that.
W. It looks like you could use it. Don't tell me you spent the weekend in the library again.
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A.Relaxing at the seashore.
B.Visiting her parents.
C.Sailing on a boat.
D.Preparing for a race.
第10题
听力原文: Yuppies are young people who cam a lot of money and live in a style. that is too expensive for most people. If you are invited to a yuppie dinner party, don't be surprised if you are offered freshly-cooked insects as a first course. While the idea of eating fried insects fills most of us with horror, insect eating is becoming highly fashionable. For example, in the media industry, successful executives are often seen to eat fried or boiled insects from time to time while working at their desks. These safe-to-eat insects can be found and ordered on the Internet. And young people are logging on to exotic food websites and ordering samples of prepared insects to serve at their dinner parties. Although the idea of eating insects is probably disgusting to most of us, few people would claim that pigs, chickens and some kinds of seafood we often eat are examples of great beauty. One day insects could be marketed and sold as a food item in supermarkets.' According to their fans, they are not only high in protein and low in fat, but also very tasty. But until our attitudes to food change fundamentally, it seems that insect eaters will remain a select few.
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A.Because we might be offered a dish of insects.
B.Because nothing but freshly cooked insects are served.
C.Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food.
D.Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.