Can Money Buy Happiness？
1． 不同的人对金钱能买来幸福持有不同观点。 2． 我的观点
Can Money Buy Happiness？
Can money buy happiness？The answer varies among people. Some believe that money is the source of happiness, because money provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, and clothes for the needy. While others hold that money is the root of evils, because it is the devil of money that drives a person to lie, cheat, steal and worst of all, to murder.
In my opinion, money is essential to being well-off, but not necessarily to well-being. Happiness is a state of mind, not something that can be bought.
钱能买来幸福吗？
钱能买来幸福吗？答案因人而异。一些人认为钱是幸福之源，因为钱能为穷人提供食物、为病人提供医药、为需要帮助的人提供衣服。而其他人则认为钱是罪恶之源，这是因为钱这个魔鬼驱使一个人去说谎、偷盗，最糟糕的是谋杀。
我的观点是钱对幸福生活来说是必要的，但不是必须的。幸福是一种状态，不是可以用钱买的到的东西。
Test 9
第一部分：交际用语（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
此部分共有5个未完成的对话，针对每个对话中未完成的部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出正确选项。
1-5 BCACD
1. —____________. 你父母到巴黎呆了多久了？
—Well, they got there last Wednesday. So about a week. 他们上星期三到那里的。呆了差不多一星期了。
A. When did your parents arrive at Paris? B. How long have your parents been in Paris?
C. Did your parents arrive at Paris last Wednesday? D. When will your parents go to Paris?
2. —How often do you go dancing? 你多久去跳一次舞？
—____________ 每隔一天去一次。
A. I will go dancing tomorrow. B. Yesterday. C. Every other day. D. I’ve been dancing for a year.
3. —Hello, may I talk to the director now? 你好，我现在可以和导演谈谈吗？
—____________ 很抱歉，他现在很忙。
A. Sorry, he is busy at the moment. B. No, you can’t. C. Sorry, you can’t D. I don’t know.
4. —How about going to dinner at the Mexican restaurant tonight? 今晚去墨西哥餐厅吃饭怎么样？
—____________ 太好了！
A. Forget it. B. Sorry, I like Mexican food. C. That’s great! D. Glad you like it.
5. —Madam, do all the buses go downtown? 女士，请问，是不是所有的公交车都开往市区？
—____________ 对不起，我也不是本地人。
A. Wow, you got the idea. B. No, never mind. C. Pretty well, I guess. D. Sorry, I’m new here.
第二部分：交际用语（共10小题；每小题3分，满分30分）
此部分共有2篇短文，每篇短文后有5个问题。请从每个问题后的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出正确选项。 6-10 DCBBD 11-15 ABDAB
Passage 1
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses.
当John和Victoria Falls到达纽约开始他们的一年生活时，他们没有随身带很多东西。他们计划要么住在装修好的公寓里，要么买些旧家具。但是他们很快了解到越来越多的人正在采用的一种新的方式。租用家具（如窗，桌子，盘子等等）已经成为美国发展最快的行业之一。
What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couple – people whose job or business may force them to
move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture that they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.
什么样的人是租用家具而不是买家具的呢？从事国际商务的人，政府官员，外国学生，航空公司工作人员，刚结婚的年轻夫妇---- 那些由于工作而被迫频繁来往不同的城市的人。他们可以省去每次搬家具的麻烦和费用。他们到一个新家的时候，只需租新的家具就好了。收入少的年轻人不想买那些他们可能很快就不喜欢的便宜家具。他们宁愿等到有钱时买他们真正喜欢的家具。同时，他们发现他们可以租比他们买得起的质量更好的家具。
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think. (248words)
有个家庭，他们有属于自己的大而漂亮的房子，可是他们太喜欢租来的家具了以至于他们决定继续租用而不买新的家具。但是人们通常不喜欢告诉别人这些。租家具的想法还是很新的，他们不能确定邻居们对此会怎么想。 6. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses? ____________ 以下哪个行业已成为美国发展最快的行业之一？
A. Selling home furnishings. B. Renting furnished apartments. C. Selling used furniture. D. Renting home furnishings. 租用家具。 7. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? ____________ 为什么人们更喜欢租用家具？
A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new. B. Because it saves them a lot of money.
C. Because it saves them much trouble and money. 因为这样可以省去很多麻烦和钱。 D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way. 8. What can you infer from the passage? ____________
从段落中你能推断出什么？
A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town. 在这对夫妇的家乡，租用家具并不流行。 C. Only those who don’t have enough money to rent furniture. D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
9. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? ____________ 下面哪个作为本段的题目最好？
A. Rent or Buy?
B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings. 一种新的获得家具的方法。 C. Furnished Apartments. D. A New Idea.
10. Young people liked renting home furniture in that __________.
年轻人喜欢租用家具是由于什么？ 他们没有钱而且不想买便宜的家具。
A. They have less money
B. They don’t want to buy old furniture C. The new furniture is of good quality
D. They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture
Passage 2
A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man — the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort. 美国文化的一个特点，并且几乎成为美国的一项传统的是对自我奋斗的人的尊敬――通过自己的努力到达顶峰，通常是白手起家。然而公司，企业的领导，社会地位很高，在社区中获得比一般工人或工厂技术人员更多的尊敬的大学教授，都不愿说出自己的父亲在美国是从一个农民，工人这类人开始奋斗的。 This attitude toward manual（体力的）labor is now still seen many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously（豪华地）furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of
something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education. 这种对体力劳动的尊敬在美国生活的很多地方都能看到。一个人被邀请到一户家庭赴宴，这户家庭装潢不只舒适，可以说是豪华，处处可证明这家人支付的起国外旅行，奢侈的爱好和孩子的大学教育。但是这样的女主人很有可能自己做饭招待客人，然后洗刷餐具，并且这样的宴会不会仅仅提供快餐式的罐头食品，从附近面包房买的蛋糕或派。相反的，女主人通常为精心准备特别的菜肴而感到自豪。男主人会谈论自己如何洗车，在花房劳作，粉刷房子，他的儿子在外地上大学，做餐厅侍应生，洗盘子来供自己生活花费，或者暑假的时候为建筑队在高速公路工作赚钱付学费。
11. From paragraph 1, we know that in America _______.从第一段我们可以知道在美国_______？ A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man人们对自我奋斗的人评价很高 B. people can always rise to the top through their own efforts C. college professors win great respect from common workers D. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors
12. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _______. 从这篇文章来看，女主人自己做饭主要是因为_______？ A. servants in American are hard to get
B. she takes pride in what she can do herself 她对自己可以做的事情感到自豪 C. she can hardly afford servants D. It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food 13. The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “_______”. 第二段中，词组“等在桌旁”的意思是什么？ A. work in a furniture shop B. keep accounts for a bar C. wait to lay the table D. serve customers in a restaurant在餐厅为客人服务 14. The author’s attitude towards manual（体力的）labor is _______.作者对体力劳动者的态度如何？ A. positive 积极的 B. negative C. humorous D. critical
15. Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage? 下面那项最适合作这篇文章的题目？ A. A Respectable Self-made Family.
B. American Attitude toward Manual Labor. 美国人对体力劳动者的态度 C. Characteristics of American Culture. D. The Development of Manual Labor.
第三部分：词汇与结构（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
此部分共有5个未完成的句子，针对每个句子中未完成的部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出正确选项。
16-20: DCCCD
16. On average, a successful lawyer has to talk to several ______ a day. 一般一个成功的律师一天要接待好几个委托人。
A. customers B. supporters C. guests D. clients 17. What is the train _____ to Birmingham? 到伯明翰的火车票多少钱？
A. fee B. tip C. fare D. cost 18. You shouldn’t ______ your time like that, Bob; you have to finish your school work tonight. 鲍勃，你不该那样浪费时间；你今晚得完成学校得作业。
A. cut B. do C. kill D. kick 19. Both the kids and their parents ______ English, I think. I know it from their accent. 我想，这些孩子和他们的父母都是英格兰人。从他们的口音我可以知道。
A. is B. been C. are D. was 20. Never before ______ see such a terrible car accident on the road! 我从来没有看到过这么恐怖的一起交通事故。
A. I have B. have I C. I did D. did I 第四部分：完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
以下短文中共包含10个未完成的句子，针对每给句子中空缺部分有4个选项，请从A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出正确选项。
21-30：DABCA BDABC
Eagle has the longest life-span of its' species. Eagle can ___21__ 70 years, but to reach this age, the Eagle must make a hard decision.
___22__ it's 40's, its' long and flexible talons (爪) can no longer grab prey (掠食) which serve as food, its' long and sharp beak (鸟嘴, 喙) becomes bent. Its' old-aged and heavy wings, due to their thick feathers, become stuck to its' chest and make it ___23__to fly. Then Eagle is left with only two options: die or go through a painful process of change ___24__ lasts 150 days for survival.
The process requires that Eagle fly to a mountain top and sit on its' nest. There the Eagle knocks its' beak ___25__a rock until it plucks (拔去) it out. After plucking it out, Eagle will wait for a new beak to grow back. ___26__its' new talons grow back, the eagle starts plucking its' old-aged feathers and after five months, eagle can take its' flight of rebirth and lives for thirty ___27__ years.
Many times, in order to survive, we ___28__ start a change process. We sometimes need to ___29__old memories, habits and other past traditions. Only freed from past burdens, can we __30__ the present. (208 words)
鹰是世界上寿命最长的鸟类，一生的年龄可达70岁。要活这么长的寿命，在其生命的中期必须做出艰难却重要的决定。
因为鹰活到40岁的时候，它的长而灵活爪子开始老化，无法有效地抓住猎物；它的长而尖喙变弯，翅膀也越加沉重，由于厚重的老羽毛，翅膀和胸粘在一起，使得飞翔十分吃力。这时，它只有两种选择：一是等待死亡；二是经历150天痛苦的重整后再生。
选择重整后再生的鹰，要经过一个痛苦更新的过程。它首先要努力地飞到山顶，在悬崖筑巢，这段时间，要用力将又长又弯的喙击打岩石，直到完全脱落，然后等候新的喙长出来；再用长出的新喙将老羽毛一片一片地拔掉。五个月后，待新的羽毛长出后，鹰得以重生，又可以翱翔于广阔的天空，继续后30年的生命旅程。
许多次，为了生存，我们必须开始经历变化。有时，我们需要遗弃旧的记忆，习惯和一些老惯例。只有从过去烦恼的尘埃中解脱，我们才能更好地把握现在。 21、A. survive B. live C. live with D. live up to 22、A. In B. On C. Of D. With 23、A. easy B. difficult C. hardly D. difficulty 24、A. who B. what C. which D. it 25、A. against B. for C. with D. on 26、A. Although B. When C. Because D. Therefore 27、A. fewer B. less C. many D. more 28、A. have to B. will C. should D. need 29、A. cherish B. get rid of C. keep alive D. remove from 30、A. look forward to B. dream of C. take advantage of D. free from
第五部分：英翻汉（满分15分）
请把下列3句英文翻译成中文。
31. You needn’t go there anymore. He already knows about it. 32. As is known to all, China is a developing country.
33. The most common samples of inorganic materials are the gases of the atmosphere, water, rocks, etc. 31. 你不必去了，他已经知道那件事了。 32. 众所周知，中国是一个发展中国家。
33. 大气中的气体、水、岩石都是无机物中最普通的实例。 第六部分：写作（满分15分）
要求在30分钟内，根据下面所给的题目和中文提纲用英语写出一封不少于80词的短文。
The Digital products
1. 如今数字化产品得到广泛的使用，例如……。 2. 数字化产品的使用对人们生活所带来的影响。
The Digital products
Nowadays, digital products are enjoying growing popularity among people. Take me for example, the first thing I do after waking up is to switch on my cell phone to check my text messages and read the latest news. Then listen to music on my IPod on my way to school. At the end of the day, I enjoy watching TV programs, or surfing the net.
Why are we so fond of those digital products? The answer is simple. They are doing us good---- making our lives comfortable and convenient. These two key factors represent the trend of new inventions of modern age that brings in the wide use of digital products.
数字化产品
现在，数字化产品越来越得到大家的欢迎。以我为例，我醒来的第一件事是打开我的手机看看我的短信，读读最新的消息。然后在上学的路上用我的iPod 听音乐。晚上，我会看电视或上网。
为什么我们会如此喜爱那些数字化产品呢？答案很简单。它们对我们有用---使我们的生活舒服、方便。这两个关键因素是摩登时代新发明的趋势。 g an employment tribunal claim Employment tribunals sort out disagreements between employers and employees. You may need to make a claim to an employment tribunal if: you don't agree with the disciplinary action your employer has taken against you your employer dismisses you and you think that you have been dismissed unfairly. For more information about dismissal and unfair dismissal, see Dismissal. You can make a claim to an employment tribunal, even if you haven't appealed against the disciplinary action your employer has taken against you. However, if you win your case, the tribunal may reduce any compensation awarded to you as a result of your failure to appeal. Remember that in most cases you must make an application to an employment tribunal within three months of the date when the event you are complaining about happened. If your application is received after this time limit, the tribunal will not usually accept it. If you are worried about how the time limits apply to you, take advice from one of the organisations listed under Further help. Employment tribunals are less formal than some other courts, but it is still a legal process and you will need to give evidence under an oath or affirmation. Most people find making a claim to an employment tribunal challenging. If you are thinking about making a claim to an employment tribunal, you should get help straight away from one of the organisations listed under Further help. If you are being represented by a solicitor at the tribunal, they may ask you to sign an agreement where you pay their fee out of your compensation if you win the case. This is known as a damages-based agreement. In England and Wales, your solicitor can't charge you more than 35% of your compensation if you win the case. If you are thinking about signing up for a damages-based agreement, you should make sure you're clear about the terms of the agreement. It might be best to get advice from an experienced adviser, for example, at a Citizens Advice Bureau. To find your nearest CAB, including those that give advice by e-mail, click on nearest CAB. For more information about making a claim to an employment tribunal, see Employment tribunals. The (lack of) air up there ? ? Watch mCayman Islands-based Webb, the head of Fifa's anti-racism taskforce, is in London for the Football Association's 150th anniversary celebrations and will attend City's Premier League match at Chelsea on Sunday. \asked to meet Yaya Toure,\\speak to him first to find out what his experience was.\Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against CSKA for the \behaviour of their fans\City's 2-1 win. Michel Platini, president of European football's governing body, has also ordered an immediate investigation into the referee's actions.
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