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Employment experts say you’ll have to ask if you want a pay boost.(翻译)
A What do you mean B What about you
C I’m not sure D What a pity
E What do you think F Sounds great
G Say, why don’t you come with us H Do you mean it
Jessica: I’m so excited! We have two weeks off! What are going to do?
Natasha:__56__. I guess I’ll just stay home. Maybe I’ll catch up on my reading. __57__? Any plans?
Jessica: Well, my parents have rented an apartment in California. I’m going to take long walks along the beach every day and do lots of swimming.
Natasha: __58__!
Jessica: __59__? My parents will be happy to have you with in.
Natasha: __60__?I’d love to!
听力原文: When my son Ryan saw a T-shirt on sale for 5 dollars marked down from 8, he told me, "We'll save 3 dollars if we buy it now.' He looked at me in surprise when I answered, "We'll save 5 dollars if we don't buy it at all."
Today's children get lots of messages and values from television and from friends. They an encouraged to buy things they don't need. What they need is an understanding of the value of the dollar. How do children learn the important facts of life? Most schools do not teach them. It is up to parents to help their children.
To learn about money children need to have some. Early on, parents often handed out money on an as-needed basis. But experts say paying certain amount of money each week is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan.
But how much should the parents give'?. Some experts suggest giving one dollar for each year of age, but Dr. Olivia Mellan disagrees: "I think 5 dollars a week is too much for a S-year-old, and 15 dollars is probably not enough for a 15-year-old." What's right depends on three things: the child's level of development, how much you can give, and what you expect him to pay for.
However much you give them, children will soon feel they need more. But Sharon M. Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, insists that children don't need a raise each year. "There's no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they are a year older, " she says. "What they should learn is how to be good money earners, savers and spenders."
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A.To save 3 dollars.
B.To buy it at once.
C.To ask 3 dollars from the parent.
D.To save 5 dollars.
听力原文: When my son Ryan saw a T-shirt on sale for 5 dollars marked down from 8, he told me, "We'll save 3 dollars if we buy it now." He looked at me in surprise when I answered, "We'll save 5 dollars if we don't buy it at all,"
Today's children get lots of messages and values from television and from friends. They are encouraged to buy things they don't need. What they need is an understanding of the value of the dollar. How do children learn the important facts of life? Most schools do not teach them. It is up to parents to help their children.
To learn about money children need to have some, Early on, parents often handed out money on an as-needed basis. But experts say paying certain amount of money each week is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan.
But how much should the parents give? Some experts suggest giving one dollar for each year of age, but Dr. Olivia Mellan disagrees: "I think 5 dollars a week is too much for a 5-year-old, and 15 dollars is probably not enough for a 15-year-old." What's right depends on three things: the child's level of development, how much yon can give, and what you expect him to pay for.
However much you give them, children will soon feel they need more. But Sharon M. Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, insists that children don't need a raise each year; "There's no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they are a year older," she says. "What they should learn is how to be good money earners, savers and spenders."
(33)
A.To save 3 dollars.
B.To buy it at once.
C.To ask 3 dollars from the parent.
D.To save 5 dollars.
Such weather doesn't seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesn't disprove global warming at all— it's just a blip in the long-term heating trend.
"It's part of natural variability," said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. "With global warming", he said, "we'll still have record cold temperatures. We'll just have fewer of them. "
Deke Arndt of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N. C. , noted that 2009 will rank among the 10 warmest years for Earth since 1880.
Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes, such as heat waves, storms, floods, droughts and even cold spells. But experts did not connect the current frigid blast to climate change.
So what is going on?
"We ba ically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air" over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere, Arndt said. "The Arctic air has really turned itself loose on us. "
In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air confined.
But recently, this air flow has become bent into a pronounced zigzag pattern, meandering north and south. If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska.
But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is swooping down from the north. And that's how you get a temperature of 3 degrees in Beijing, a reading of minus-42 in mainland Norway, and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain, where a member of Parliament who said the snow "clearly indicates a cooling trend" was jeered by colleagues.
The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time, but it is not clear why it's so strong right now, said Michelle L'Heureux, a meteorologist at the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The center says the pattern should begin to weaken in a week or two.
What is the relationship between the global warming and the cold snap?
听力原文:M: Hey! Jenny, do you want to live a longer life?
F: Why? Of course! Everyone hopes so.
M: Look, here is some advice given by experts on how to live a longer and happier life. They tell people to do exercise and keep a healthy diet. They say 30 minutes of mild exercise a day will increase your life span. You can do things like walking, gardening or taking exercise classes.
F: But everyone knows that.
M: Come on! I think there is some valuable advice. For example, they say you should enjoy people more, join some social clubs or groups so that you share your life's joys and sorrows with them and fight depression and stress.
F: That makes sense. In this way, we can have more positive attitudes towards life and stay optimistic because we feel we're not alone. What else does the article say?
M: You should stay mentally active. Because the decline of our brain power will shorten our lives, too. So read the newspaper, visit the public library, balance your checkbook without using a calculator, do crossword puzzles and so on.
F: I think this advice is for old people.
M: Not necessarily. Because it also persuades young people like us to do regular checkups and prevent illness like cancer, high blood pressure which threaten our longevity.
F: All right, I don't mean to argue with you. Are you going to follow every piece of advice listed there?
M: I'll try my best.
According to this conversation, which is not included in order to live a longer life?
A.To do exercise and keep a healthy diet.
B.To follow the doctors' advice strictly.
C.To have more positive attitudes towards life and stay optimistic.
D.To stay mentally active.
听力原文: When my son Ryan saw a T-shirt on sale for 5 dollars marked down from 8, he told me, "We'll save 3 dollars (32)if we buy it now. " He looked at me in surprise when I answered, "We'll save 5 dollars if we don't hay it at all. "
Today's children get lots of messages and values from television and from friends. They are encouraged to buy things they don't need. (33)What they need is an understanding of the value of the dollar. How do children learn the important facts of life? Most schools do not teach them. It is up to parents to help their children.
To learn about money children need to have some. Early on, parents often handed oat money on an as-needed basis. But experts say paying certain amount of money each week is the best way to teach children the meaning of money, how to use it and how to plan.
But how much should the parents give? Some experts suggest giving one dollar for each year of age, but (34)Dr. Olivia Mellan disagrees: " I think 5 dollars a week is too much for a 5-year-old, and 15 dollars is probably not enough for a 15-year-old." What's right depends on three things: the child's level of development, how much you can give, and what you expect him to pay for.
However much you give them, children will soon feel they need more. But Sharon M. Danes, a professor at the University of Minnesota, insists that children don't need a raise each year. "There's no lesson to be learned when children expect an increase just because they are a year older," she says. (35)"What they should learn is how to be good money earners, savers and spenders."
(33)
A.To save 3 dollars.
B.To buy it at once.
C.To ask 3 dollars from the parent.
D.To save 5 dollars.
A.be equal to
B.accomplish
C.add up to
D.pursue
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