单选题 Directions: In this part there are three passages and four advertisements. Each passage and the four advertisements are followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.
Once, Angela shared her feelings about money, "Money worries me. I think ! intend to live without money because I HATE MONEY. " We were all touched by her words as they reminded us of the spiritual burdens that money managing can bring to us. Later I offered to help Angela deal with her financial problems. She hesitated to accept my offer, and I could see she was afraid of what it might involve. I quickly assured her that 1 wouldn't make her do more than she was able to. I told her frankly that I wouldn't burden her with guilt, judgements, or impossible tasks. All I would ask her to do was to let me help her look at her fears and try to make some sense of them.
Angela still resisted my offer, and I can remember the excuses she gave me as the repeated complaints I had heard from so many people. "I'll never understand money", "I don't deserve to have money. " and the most devastating one of all, "I just can't do it. "
Angela's attitude conveyed the same negativity and fear that I believed annoyed many people. I was sure it was this attitude that prevented people from managing their money effectively. My counseling has taught me that these anxieties are inseparably connected to our self-doubts and fear for survival. At a deeper level we know that money is not the source of life, but sense of worth that drives us to act as if it were. It locks us up in self-doubts and prevents us from tapping into the true source of our management power and spirit.
单选题 Angela's words moved the author and others because they were ______.
  • A. in the same financial trouble
  • B. in the same financial condition
  • C. of the same family background
  • D. of the same feeling over the issue
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。题干为“安吉拉的话打动了作者和其他人，因为他们……”，第一段第二句话说，我们对安吉拉的话深有感触是因为这使我们想起理财所带来的精神负担，所以他们实际上与安吉拉有同感。故答案为D。
单选题 Angela wouldn't take the author's offer of help in fear of ______.
  • A. being forced to share her money with others
  • B. having to do something beyond her reach
  • C. being found guilty of making impossible errors
  • D. revealing her judgement about money
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 推理题。题干为“安吉拉拒绝作者帮她是因为害怕……”，此题原文在第一段第五句，作者说自己马上告诉安吉拉不会让她做超出她能力范围的事情。B选项意思与此一致，故答案为B。
单选题 As for money managing, the author intended to tell Angela how to ______.
  • A. overcome her fears
  • B. make wise decisions
  • C. avoid making mistakes
  • D. learn the necessary skills
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。题干为“对于理财，作者打算告诉安吉拉怎样去……”第一段最后一句话“All I would ask her to do was to let me help look at her fears and try to make some sense of them”，作者表明要帮安吉拉正视自己的恐惧并且弄清楚这些恐惧到底是什么，所以作者的目的是要帮安吉拉克服恐惧。故答案为A。
单选题 The word "devastating" (in boldface in paragraph 2) probably means ______.
  • A. convincing
  • B. instructive
  • C. shocking
  • D. shameful
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 词汇猜测题。从上文列举的借口可看出这些借口都是消极负面的借口，故排除A。shameful与文意无关；shocking的意思是“骇人的，很坏的”，符合语意。故答案为C。
单选题 According to the author, people's anxieties about managing money result from their understanding of money as the only source of ______.
  • A. life
  • B. evil
  • C. spirit
  • D. peace
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。题干为“据作者所说，人们对理财的焦虑源于他们认为钱是……”，最后一段明确指出，人们认为钱是生活的本源，并且这种想法把我们禁锢在自我怀疑中，是我们不能发觉自己的管理才能的真正源泉。故答案为A。