result. ▲ 39
You had a savings goal, didn’t you? If you didn’t have a specific goal, it may be why your savings effort failed. Set a smaller savings goal now, and use that to build a larger savings goal for the upcoming year. Make sure that you equate(使等同)your savings with a specific goal.
▲Reduce your debt
Debt reduction is an important goal, especially in the case of high-interest debt such as credit cards. It’s easy to get into an unrecoverable increase of debt if you have no plan to keep debt in check. It is a longer-term goal, but one you need to start right away. 40 . That may be a tall task, which is all the more reason to start immediately.
A. Increase your savings
B. Have a clear goal for your debt C. You will go on with your new decisions D. Most other financial improvements will follow
E. Start small by setting a spending budget for your shopping F. But this year, you can make some progress on your financial goals G. Attack the debt with the highest interest rate, and control your spending
第三部分:语言知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
In 1993, Greg Mortenson travelled to northern Pakistan to climb K2, the world’s second highest mountain. Instead of reaching the top, he became so 41 that he had to come down. Some porters took him home to Korphe, their village, and 42 him.
While he was recovering, Greg 43 the village children writing their lessons outside in the dirt. The village had no 44 and couldn’t pay $l a day for a teacher. Greg decided to pay the village back by raising money to build a school and 45 a teacher.
Back home in Montana, Greg wrote many 46 to celebrities(名人)and business people. 47 , he received just one reply and one check for $100. Then he wrote 16 grant proposals(补助金申请)— all were 48 . Finally he started 49 his things, but only raised $2,000.
Then an elementary school class in Wisconsin 50 a project called Pennies for Pakistan. They 51 $623 in pennies to CAI — Central Asia Institute, founded by Greg. After that, adults began to take a(n) 52 in his project. 53 , Greg raised $12,000 and in 1996, CAI 54 its first project — the school in Korphe.
Over two decades, CAI’s 55 have expanded into other areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan, many of them too dangerous or remote for other organizations to reach. CAI has 56 the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Hundreds of new requests for 57 still cross the organization’s desks every day. It looks forward to 58 these future projects, because Greg and CAI truly 59 the surest path to peace is through 60 . With education they can change the world, one child at a time.
41. A. sleepy
B. thirsty
C. hungry
D. weak
42. A. took care of
C. made use of 43. A. imagined insisted
44. A. school 45. A. become
B. paid attention to D. lost contact with C. stopped
D.
B. noticed
B. bridge B. help
C. road C. hire
D. hospital
D. meet
46. A. poems B. letters C. checks
D. books
47. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However
D. Moreover
cut
48. A. turned down B. broken down down
49. A. fixing
B. selling
C. settled down D.
C. cleaning D.
packing
50. A. rejected undertook
51. A. lent
paid
52. A. idea
chance
53. A. Eventually Casually
54. A. advertised completed
55. A. reputations trips
56. A. cost
controlled
57. A. help
58. A. seeking for pointing out
59. A. announce believe
60. A. money
education
B. reported
B. owed B. interest
B. Suddenly
B. revised B. trades
B. changed B. permission C. interviews
B. taking away B. warn B. patience C. proved C. donated C. course C. Strangely C. predicted D.
C. projects C. saved D.
D. jobs
C. dealing with C. suggest D.
C. music D.
D.
D.
D.
D.
D.
D.
第II卷
第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 All our dreams have something to do 61 our feelings, tears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. But something on the “outside” may affect 62 we dream. If a person is hungry or tired or cold, his dream may include a feeling of this kind. If the blanket on your body has slipped off your bed, you may dream that you 63 (sleep) or resting on the ice or snow. So the subject of your dream usually comes from something 64 has an effect on you while you are sleeping (feeling of cold, a noise, etc.) and it may also use your past 65 (experience) and the wishes and interests you have now.
There are some scientists who have made 66 special study of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams mean. Their 67 (explain) of dreams, though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone, and it offers an interesting way of 68 (deal) with the problem. They believe that dreams are 69 (most) expressions of wishes that did not come true. In other words, a dream is a way of having your wishes 70 (carry) out. 第四部分:写作(共两节,满分35分)
第一节:短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文,文中共10处错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 增加:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(A),并在其下面写出该加的词。 删除;把多余的词用斜线(\\)划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
Challenges of life are of great importance in our grow. They remind me
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