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C．She couldn?t be on a college basketball team. D．She wouldn?t be admitted by an ideal college. 43．We can learn from the passage that . A．her family wouldn?t like to pay her college fee B．her father forced her to play basketball in collage

C．being a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for college D．she wouldn?t like to turn to his father for help when in difficulty 44．Which word can best describe her father? A．Encouraging.

B．Optimistic.

C．Stubborn.

D．Cruel.

45．Which proverb best matches the story? A．Practice makes perfect. B．Rome was not built in a day. C．Where there is a will, there is a way. D．Pride comes before a fall.

B

As I was reading a recent story in Slate on 20-somethings complaining about how the economy was ruining their life plans, I couldn?t help but think the 20-somethings sounded like a bunch of spoiled children who grew up expecting everything to be easy for them. As a 20-something myself, I certainly share their disappointment: my husband and I probably won?t be able to buy a house until we?re in our 40s, and we too are burdened by student loans（贷款）. But why should it be any different? Being young persons in America, shouldn?t they take up all of the challenges and opportunities that this country offers?

Consider some of these views shared in the Slate story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a two-bedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she won?t be able to have children for at least a decade because they can?t afford to buy a house yet.

I read that, and I thought, what planet is she living on where you need to own a house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country, or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a luxury（奢华）, not a fertility requirement. A 26-year-old in the story despairs（绝望）that he can?t afford to get a Ph.D. in literature. Well, that sounds a bit like expressing disappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the

beach in Thailand for five years.

Yes, it?s sad that these young people feel so lost. But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality. Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, says that she thinks people?s expectations are slowly adjusting, but today?s 20-somethings grew up at a time when everyone?s wealth appeared to be expanding. Their parents probably saw their home values rise along with their investments. “So you have people who have grown up in an environment where people had great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.

This recession（衰退）will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic group. In the meantime, it seems a lot better for our mental health to focus on being grateful－for our one-bedroom apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a day－than on longing for some kind of luxury life.

46．What makes the author think the 20-somethings sound like a bunch of spoiled children? A．They expect everything to be easy for them.

B．They complain that the economy is spoiling their life plans. C．They are reluctant to face all of the challenges. D．They are burdened by student loans.

47．The underlined word “fertility” in Paragraph 3 probably means . A．baby production C．baby comfort

B．pleasant

D．essential

48．Which of the following is not one of the complaints of the 20-somethings? A．They can?t have children for at least a decade to buy a house. B．They have only one-bedroom apartment to live in. C．They can?t buy a house until 40 because of student loans. D．They despair at not being able to afford a Ph.D. in literature.

49．What?s the author?s attitude towards the 20-somthings with high expectation in Paragraph 5?

A．Intolerant. B．Negative. C．Unbelieving. D．Understanding. 50．What is the best title for this passage?

A．How Young People Afford to Continue Their Study

B．Why Young People Can?t Afford to Buy a House C．When Young People?s High Hopes Create Despair D．What the 20-somethings? High Expectations Are

C

Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their first efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often tied to their children?s success, it can be a painful experience.

Figuring out why the fire went out is the first step. Assuming that a kid doesn?t suffer from a learning disability, or isn?t involved in some family crisis（危机）at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or classmate pressure. “Everything is within the kids? control; their intelligence is changeable,” says Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, “parents can play a key role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, and progress rather than emphasizing their ?smartness? or praising high performance alone. Most of all, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.”

Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. “These programs shut down the motivation of all kids who aren?t considered gifted and talented. They destroy their confidence,” says Jeff Howard, a social psychologist. Howard and other educators say it?s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurriculum activities.

“The problem of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions,” says Michael Nakkual, a Harvard education professor. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to free them of the idea that class work is irrelevant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. They need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run.

51．According to the passage, the parents of kids with no ambition . A．don?t do a very good job teaching them to walk B．are to blame if the kids do poorly in school

C．feel pain because ambitions are connected to their success D．should take part in extracurriculum activities with kids

52．The underlined part “the fire went out” probably means . A．the motivation was suddenly lost B．the fear of failure was suddenly gone C．the learning disability was suddenly lost D．the fire was suddenly gone

53．All the following can contribute to a sudden lack of ambition except . A．learning disability C．emphasis on testing

B．classmate pressure D．extracurricular activities

54．What is the most important thing for parents in motivating their kids? A．By punishing kids who don?t display ambition. B．By emphasizing smartness and high performance. C．By telling kids that mistakes are a part of learning. D．By praising the effort and progress they have made. 55．We can infer from the passage that .

A．children who have lost their ambition will never succeed in life B．school performance has much to do with students? later success C．both the parents and the school are to blame for the lost ambition D．younger kids learning to walk are more ambitious than older ones 第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

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