What' S his mother like?()
A.She's very happy
B.She's at home
C.She likes watching TV
D.She's tall and thin
A.She's very happy
B.She's at home
C.She likes watching TV
D.She's tall and thin
A.What did your mother do
B.What does your mother do
C.Is your mother a teacher
A.What does Jane's brother need for the party
B.What does Jane's father need for the party
C.What does John's mother need for the party
A.Mike, What does your mother do on Sunday
B.Mike, What do you usually do on Sunday
C.Mike, What’s your mother like
—________________.
A.It doesn’ t fit us, actually
B.No, I don’ t believe it
C.I don’ t believe in her
Tom told his mother and she said, "You can go.(2)don't ask for some food." Tom said, "All right, Mum." He was happy.
On Saturday Tom went to Jack's house(3). There were a lot of children at the party. They played and sang "Happy Birthday" to Jack. They had a good time. And then Jack's mother gave them some food, but she forgot to give Tom (4). There was only a plate in front of him. He thought to himself, "I'd better wait." He waited politely for some time and then he put his plate on his head and said, "(5)anyone want a nice and clean plate?"
1.A.But
B.party
C.Shall
D.bycar
E.Some
2.A.But
B.party
C.Shall
D.bycar
E.Some
3.A.But
B.party
C.Shal
D.by car
E.Some
4.A.But
B.party
C.Shall
D.by car
E.Some
5.A.But
B.party
C.Shall
D.bycar
E.some
"We are seeing a ton of this," says Ross Levin, an Edina, Minn., financial adviser. "Sometimes it's a great idea and sometimes it is not. You have to make sure you put on your own oxygen mask first."
Some 62 percent of visitors to Grandparents.com have helped their kids financially in the past year, with 70 percent of that group handing over cash to help their adult children and grandchildren with daily expenses, says the site's CEO, Jerry Shereshewsky. Another popular category is housing; in the last year many parents have coughed up down payments to help their kids get into homes while the 8,000 first-time home buyer's credit was in effect.
Then there's the debt-bailout situation. A survey recently conducted by Creditcards.com for Newsweek found that 42 percent of folks with adult children have helped them pay off car loans, credit cards, medical bills, and more.
None of this is surprising to Shereshewsky, who sees the trend as a natural result of changing families and the distribution of wealth. "This is where all the money is--and it's where the money is, despite the fact that we've had this meltdown." In general, the baby-boom generation is far wealthier than their children are, and has a lower unemployment rate than 20-somethings. He says that the vast majority of multi-generation households now involve adult children (and sometimes their children) moving in with aging parents. Baby-boom parents generally aspire to helping their kids and their grandchildren and don't want to wait until they are dead to do it.
"You should give while you're young enough to enjoy the fruits of what you're doing," says Shereshewsky, who is personally considering getting a reverse mortgage on his home when it comes time to help his 20-something kids with home purchases.
According the passage, people are regarded as "strapped" if they are ______.
A.jobless in the recession
B.in financial difficulties
C.dependent on their parents
D.troubled by credit card debt
As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends oil them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of "drop outs": young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?
A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves arc often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress.
The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right Of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.
The main idea of this passage is ______.
A.examinations exert a pernicious influence on education
B.examinations are ineffective
C.examinations are profitable for institutions
D.examinations are a burden on students
who had studied in England for his MBA. Mary told her friends that she was going to return to Europe to work because she had enjoyed her time in England so much.
1. Mary is now in___
A.England
B.the USA
C.France
2. She studied at___untverstty.
A.a British
B.an American
C.a Chinese
3. Mast probably, her grandmother_________
A. worked in the college
B. studied English Literature
C. lived in London
4. Her friend's brother recommended her to________
A. study for her MBA
B. study in the college
C. work for his company
5. Mary would return to Europe to_.
A. study
B. spend her holiday
C. work