53. Which of the following statements is true?

A. It was Katharine Graham’s husband who made the greatest contributions to the Post.

B. When Katharine Graham first took over the Post, her critics doubted her ability.

C. Katharine Graham was successful in her career but suffered severe depression.

D. Katharine Graham was free to do whatever she liked in her early life.

54. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Ups and downs of The Washington Post.

B. Katharine Graham’s family life and career.

C. Katharine Graham: from housewife to successful publisher.

D. Katharine Graham: a woman who shaped American journalism.

B

LIDAC MAYNARD

11 Windrift Circle

Methuen, MA

978 – 555 – 4539

JOB OBJECTIVE

Seek special education, primary school, or middle school math teaching position.

EDUCATION

Rivier College, Nashua, NH

Bachelor of Arts in Education – May, 2006

Major: Elementary Education

Have successfully completed PRAXIS I and PRAXIS II. Meet highly qualified testing requirements for Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

November, 2005 – January, 2006

Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst, NH

Student Teacher

• Developed and completed student–centered lessons in all subject areas for various groups of fifth grade special and regular education students.

• Adapted lessons to meet student’s needs by reviewing their backgrounds and learning needs through IEPs.

• Communicated with parents on a regular basis via newsletters, daily or weekly progress reports, phone calls, and email, resulting in increased parental participation at home.

August, 2005 – November, 2005

Charlotte Avenue Elementary School, Nashua, NH

Student Teacher

• Taught reading and writing through Language Experience Approach methods.

• Introduced a Writer’s Workshop appropriate for first grade students to help them to develop their writing skills.

• Developed learning stations in reading and science, enabling students to be more independent learners.

Spring, 2005

Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst, NH

Designed and taught a unit on Insects and Spiders, based on New Hampshire Standards to 23 self-contained, third and fourth grade students with disabilities.

Fall, 2004

Amherst Street Elementary School, Nashua, NH

Taught a class of 24 third grade students with a wide range of abilities.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

• After–School Aid, Amherst School District, Amherst, NH (2004 – 2005)

• Summer Camp advisor, YMCA, Nashua, NH (Summers, 2002 and 2003)

• Big Brother / Big Sister Volunteer, Nashua, NH (2002 – 2005)

55. What kind of job does Linda want to get? k*s5u高考资源网

A. A Big Brother / Big Sister Volunteer. B. A middle school math teacher.

C. A special education advisor. D. A summer camp advisor.

56. Linda has worked for the following schools EXCEPT ___________.

A. Rivier College, Nashua, NH B. Wilkins Elementary School, Amherst, NH

C. Charlotte Avenue Elementary School, Nashua, NH D. Amherst Street Elementary School, Nashua, NH

57. What can we know about Linda according to the passage?

A. She is merely interested in developing student’s math abilities.

B. She is not active in participating in after–school activities.

C. She is permitted to teach in any of the high schools of New York.

D. She has some teaching experiences in several elementary schools.

C

WASHINGTON — Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, according to researchers.

Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found on Thursday.

Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others --- even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.

“We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.

They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.

“Regardless of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not,” Dunn said in a statement.

Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $3,000 and $8,000.

“Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself,” they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.

“Finally, participants who were randomly (随机地) required to spend money on others experienced greater happiness than those required to spend money on themselves,” they said.

They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.

“These findings suggest that very minor adjustment in spending allocations (分配) --- as little as $5 --- may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,” Dunn said.

This could also explain why people are no happier even though US society is richer.

“Indeed, although real incomes have increased dramatically in recent decades, happiness levels have remained largely flat within developed countries across time,” they wrote.

58. Dune’s experiment on 630 Americans was to ________.k*s5u高考资源网

A. help people make careful plans for their money B. encourage people to be generous to others

C. see how to spend money is important to happiness D. test whether $5 is enough to buy happiness

59. What can we conclude according to the experiment?

A. Happiness largely depends on the size of your bonus money.

B. Happiness, as a matter of fact, has nothing to do with money.

C. The more money you give away, the happier person you will be.

D. Spending money for the good of society will make you happier.

60. How many different ways are used by the researchers to test their theory?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

61. The last sentence of the passage means _______.

A. happiness does not necessary increase as money grows

B. people in richer countries actually have more problems

C. fast economic growth has a bad effect on people’s life

D. great increase of income contributes to keeping happiness level stable

D

The 2012 London Olympics had enough problems to worry about. But one more has just been added --- a communications blackout caused by solar storms.

After a period of calm within the Sun, scientists have detected the signs of a fresh cycle of sunspots that could peak in 2012, just in time for the arrival of the Olympic torch in London.

Now scientists believe that this peak could result in vast solar explosions that could throw billions of tons of charged matter towards the Earth, causing strong solar storms that could jam the telecommunications (通信) satellites and interact links sending five Olympic broadcast from London.

“The Sun’s activity has a strong influence on the Earth. The Olympics could be in the middle of the next solar maximum which could affect the functions of communications satellites,” said Professor Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.