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1、1阅读理解(社会生活类)03七、However wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do everything we want. Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someones time or money could be better spent on something else.Every hour of our ti
2、me has a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of these options has a different opportunity costnamely, what they cost us in missed opportunities.Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive
3、and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. Why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and use the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends? Thisthe alternative use of your cash and timeis the opportunity cost.For economists, every decision is made by k
4、nowledge of what one must forgoin terms of money and enjoymentin order to take it up. By knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. Consider that most famous economic rule of all: theres no such t
5、hing as a free lunch. Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.Some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imagine spending your entire life calculating wh
6、ether your time would be better spent elsewhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. Yet, in a sense its human nature to do precisely thatwe assess the advantages and disadvantages of decisions all the time.In the business world, a popular phrase is “value for money.“ People want their cash
7、 to go as far as possible. However, another is fast obtaining an 2advantage: “value for time.“ The biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. By readmg this passage you are giving over a
8、bit of your time which could be spent doing other activities, such as sleeping and eating. In return, however, this passage will help you to think like an economist, closely considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.58. According to the passage, the concept of “opportunity cost“ is
9、applied to .A. making more money B. taking more opportunitiesC. reducing missed opportunities D. weighing the choice of opportunities59. Hie “leftover . time“ in Paragraph 3 probably refers to the time .A. spared for watching the match at homeB. taken to have dinner with friendsC. spent on the way t
10、o and from the matchD. saved from not going to watch the match60.What are forgone opportunities?A. Opportunities you forget in decision-making. B. Opportunities you give up for better ones.C. Opportunities you miss accidentally.D. Opportunities you make up for.【考点】考察经济知识类阅读58. 【答案】D 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第一
11、段 2,3 行 Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someones time or money could be better spent on something else.可知opportunity cost是指人们思考自己的时间金钱是否可以更好地被利用在其他的事情上。也就是在衡量自己的选择是否合理。故 D项符合。59. 【答案】C 3【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第三段 Why not, you might rea
12、son, watch the game from home and use the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends?人们本来是想去看球赛,但是球赛的票太贵了。所以就把本来准备看球赛的金钱和时间用在了别的地方,那么这里的 leftover money and time就是指看球赛来回所花费的时间。故 C正确。60. 【答案】B 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第三段 Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend
13、in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.即使有人带你去享受免费的午餐,在这种情况下,你吃饭的时间还是会让你失去某些东西。这是从 forgone opportunities的角度来说的,也就是说你还可以用这段时间做更有价值,更有意义的事情,但是你却把他用来享用这段免费的午餐。所以 forgone opportunities就是指放弃的机会。故 B正确。八、August 1990,BostonDear Maya Shao-ming,To me, June 6,1990 is a sp
14、ecial day. My long-awaited dream came true the minute your father cried, “A girl!“ You are more than just a second child, more than just a girl to match our boy. You, little daughter, are the link to our female line, the legacy of another womans pain and sacrifice 31 years ago.Let me tell you about
15、your Chinese grandmother. Somewhere in Hong Kong, in the late fifties, a young waitress found herself pregnant (怀孕) by a cook, probably a co-worker at her restaurant. She carried the baby to term, suffered to give it birth, and kept the little girl for the first three months of her life. I like to t
16、hink that my motheryour randmotherloved me and fought to raise me on her own, but that the daily struggle was too hard. Worn down by the demands of the new baby and perhaps the constant threat of starvation, she made the painful decision to give away her girl so that both of us might have a chance f
17、or a better life.More likely, I was dropped at the orphanage (M JLR) steps or somewhere else. I will probably never know the truth. Having a baby in her unmarried state would 4have brought shame on the family in China, so she probably kept my existence a secret. Once I was out of her life, it was as
18、 if I had never been born. And so you and your brother and I are the missing leaves on a family tree.Do they ever wonder if we exist?Before I was two, I was adopted by an Anglo couple. Fed three square meals a day, I grew like a wild weed and grasped all the opportunities they had to offerbooks, mus
19、ic, education, church life and community activities. In a family of blue-eyed blonds, though, I stood out like a sore thumb. Whether from jealousy or fear of someone who looked so different, my older brothers sometimes teased me about my unpleasing skin, or made fun of my clumsy walk. Moody and impa
20、tient, burdened by fears that none of us realized resulted from my early years of need, I was not an easy child to love. My mother and I conflicted countless times over the years, but gradually came to see one another as real human beings with faults and talents, and as women of strength in our own
21、right. Lacking a mirror image in the mother who raised me, I had to seek my identity as a woman on my own. The Asian American community has helped me regain my double identity.But part of me will always be missing: my beginnings, my personal history, all the delicate details that give a person her o
22、rigin. Nevertheless, someone gave me a lucky name “Siu Wai.“ “Siu“ means “little,“ and “War means “clever.“ Therefore, my baby name was “Clever little one.“ Who chose those words? Who cared enough to note my arrival in the world?I lost my Chinese name for 18 years. It was Americanized for convenienc
23、e to “Sue.“ But like an ill-fitting coat, it made me uncomfortable. I hated the name. But even more, I hated being Chinese. It took many years to become proud of my Asian origin and work up the courage to take back my birth-name. That, plus a little knowledge of classroom Cantonese, is all the Chine
24、se culture I have to offer you. Not white, certainly, but not really Asian, I try to pave the way between the two worlds and bridge the gap for you. Your name, “Shao-ming,“ is very much like mine“Shao“ means “little.“ And “ming“ is “bright,“ as in a 5shining sun or moon. Whose lives will you brighte
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