单选题I see this principal all over as I go through my day. I see rims on car wheels that cost upwards of $ 500, just for a little bit of decoration on a vehicle. I see people spend four or five dollars for a cup of coffee, hundreds of dollars for cell phones that they almost never use, thousands of dollars on huge television sets that they almost never watch. All around us are ads and commercials that keep us wanting to buy things that keep us dissatisfied with the way things are, and those ads and commercials are trying to convince us that if we just buy some more stuff—no matter what the cost—we'll be happier and more content. But somewhere along the line we have to learn to make our own decisions about value. There's a common law of economics that states that many poor people will stay poor because of the decisions that they make about how to spend their money. How many people have you known or known of, for example, who have little money yet who buy a very expensive car with high monthly payments? And how many people are in trouble right now because they bought houses that were more expensive than they could afford? While I wouldn't say that the answer to our money issues would be to skimp and save every penny and never have any fun in life, it is important that we learn about value and about when to spend how much. A few years ago, for example, my wife and I had cell phones. At the time I worked half an hour from home, I was on the road with sports teams a lot, and my wife also was on the road quite a bit. The cell phones made sense, even though we didn't use them much—at least we knew that if anything happened, we could contact one another. Then we moved someplace where we didn't need the phones any more, for we both worked close to one another and we weren't on the road much. Suddenly, the $75 every month to keep the phones made no sense, so we got rid of them. They were now just a luxury item, no longer as necessary as they were before. They simply didn't have the same value that they had had before. And even though it had been quite convenient to make an occasional phone call from wherever I happened to be, that convenience was no longer worth the amount of money we would have had to pay to maintain it. The best that we can do is to learn to define the value of our money for ourselves and to exchange our money for goods and services that have equal or even greater value. Money is here, and it's a part of our lives. We can live with it and have it work for us, or we can squander it and lose it and become angry and frustrated with our loss. The choice is ours, but one thing is for sure—the path to happiness doesn't lie in exchanging our money for goods or services of little value; rather, we need to make sure that the money we spend is money well spent. Only then can we avoid the resentment and frustration that will come over having wasted money when we didn't need to.

单选题 Question 29 to 30 are based on the follwing news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.

单选题What would be announced concerning the elections?

单选题According to the author; one possible reason for the growth of science during the days of the ancient Greeks and in modern times is ______.

单选题Working under the new expert who always encourages creativity in young people, we have been ______ with better ideas in test design.A. coming down B. coming out C. coming along D. coming up

单选题I would ______ you not to involve in this matter.A. councilB. counselC. declareD. console

单选题The millions of calculations involved, ______ by hand, would have lost all practical value by the time they were finished.[A] bad they been done[B] they had been done[C] having been done[D] they were done

单选题With keen ______,convincing facts and a global angle, Epstein vividly recorded a brilliant page of the great Chinese revolution.

单选题 {{I}} Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.{{/I}}

单选题The Countess was ______ enough to show us around her home.

单选题He listened hard but still couldn't ______ what they were talking about. A. make over B. make up C. make upon D. make out

单选题Taste is such a subjective matter that we don't usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone's is that it's one person's opinion. But because the two big cola companies -- Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola --are marketed so aggressively, we've wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either CocaCola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting. We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either CocaCola Classic or Pepsi, Diet Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they'd have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand. We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants' choices with what mere guesswork could have accomplished. Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too though, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet cola drinkers did a little worse -- only 7 out of 27 identified all four samples correctly. While both groups did better than chance would predict; nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so fatigue, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

单选题Which one is not included in the conditions for the US's changing attitude towards Iran?

单选题What can we infer from United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan' s words?

单选题Social companionship is beneficial in that ______.

单选题A convenient way is to set the food on a piece of aluminum oil, ______to the air for half an hour, and then cover it with a dish.