True love and kindness is needed in this world. It comes from appreciating the object, and rejoicing in the object, wanting the object to be happy and well, but holding it lightly, not tightly. And this goes for possessions too. You are in an extremely materialistic society in which the possession of more and bigger and better is held up as the total criteria(标准) for being happy.
What we own is not the problem; it’s our attitude towards our possessions. If we have something and we enjoy it, that’s fine. If we lose it, then that’s OK. But if we lose it and we are very attached to it in our heart, then that’s not fine. It doesn’t matter what the object is, because it’s not the object which is the problem. The problem is our own inner grasping mind that keeps us bound to the wheel, and keeps us suffering. If our mind was open and could just let thing flow naturally, there would be no pain. Do you understand? We need our everyday life to work on this, to really begin to see the greed of attachment in the mind and gradually begin to lessen and lessen it.
There is a famous story of a coconut, which is said to be used in India to catch monkeys. People take a coconut and make a little hole just big enough for a monkey to put its paw through. And inside the coconut, which is nailed to a tree, they have put something sweet. So the monkey comes along, sees the coconut, smells something nice inside, and he puts his hand in. he catches hold of the sweet inside, so now he has a fist. But the hole is too small for the fist to get out. When the hunters come back, the monkey is caught. But of course, all the monkey has to do is let go. Nobody’s holding the monkey except the monkey’s grasping greedy mind. Nobody is holding us on the wheel; we are clinging to it ourselves. There are no chains.
54. Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Clinging Causes the Pain                       B. Don’t Learn from the Monkey
C. Giving Up is Holding                               D. Possessions are Pains
55. According to the first paragraph, which of the following statements is true?
A. The world now is lacking in true love.
B. Owning more means being happier in today’s society.
C. Today’s society is very realistic.                    
D. The society needs better criteria.
56. According to the passage, the monkey is caught because___________      .
A. the hunter is cleverer than the monkey   
B. the monkey wants to eat the sweet
C. the hole is too small for the monkey’s fist
D. the monkey doesn’t know giving up
57. Why did the author tell the story of the monkey?
A. Because he liked monkeys very much.
B. Because the story is very interesting.
C. Because he wants to explain the idea further.
D. Because he wants to make the passage attractive.

Students throughout the world spend their money in different ways. A detailed study on student spending indicated that young people's spending habits have changed greatly over the past few years. The study also says that the change is about the same around the world, however. Here are some examples of popular student spending habits---both healthy and also unhealthy---around the world today.
Students these days have too much brand awareness, so their spending on clothes is now quite high. On average, students buy one or two complete sets of new clothes each month, and this makes their total spending higher.
Student spending shows quite an up-and-down pattern as they get older. Students spend a lot more money in high school than before their  high school years because when they enter high school, their exposure (接触到) to branded goods increases. As the students get close to graduation, their expenses start to go down. This is the time when they have to become more responsible about money and start to understand its importance.
Students also spend a lot more on entertainment than their parents did when they were young, because of the easy access to entertainment these days. Shopping is considered to be quite entertaining because of all the different forms of amusement presented by shopping malls. These attract students to buy things.
Student spending on food hasn't increased much, but there has been a marked increase in the use of alcohol. There are several more places in which students can drink now. The culture of having parties has also grown a lot among students too, and students usually end up spending a lot on alcohol in such places.
This is not such a bad situation, actually. The study indicates that although student spending has shot through the roof, at the same time, they are financially much stronger today than they were in the past. This is compensation (补偿，回报), and probably it is just another branch of the life that we are living in this speedily advancing world.
60. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Unhealthy student spending habits.
B. Why student spending is changing. 
C. How a student should spend money.
D. A study on student spending.
61. Why do students spend less money just before graduation?
A. They see fewer products.
B. They are more conscious of the value of money.
C. They have no time to entertain themselves or go shopping.
D. Their spending on clothing goes down.
62. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Student spending habits are becoming worse and worse.
B. Today's students spend more money on entertainment than on clothing.
C. Today's students are better at earning money than their parents.
D. Student spending on food has increased the least.
63. Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?
①Paragraph 1;   ②="Paragraph" 2; ③="Paragraph" 3; ④="Paragraph" 4;
⑤="Paragraph" 5; ⑥="Paragraph" 6;

( TV programmes in Beijing Sunday, May 26,2002   CCTV )

1. If an Englishman wants to know about what’s happening in China, but he doesn’t know any Chinese, he may watch TV at ________． 

A．19:00 on CCTV—1 Channel 2      B．20:05 on CCTV—1 Channel 2

C．22:00 on CCTV—2 Channel 8      D．21:30 on CCTV—2 Channel 8

2.If you are interested in football games, which of the following programs will you choose first？

A. China Sports Report  B. Special Sports C. Today’s Focus  D. China Music TV

3.If you are going to Guangzhou by plane from Chongqing Airport, you’d better pay attention to the programme ________． 

A．Weather Report        B．World-famous Cities

C．Economy 30 Minutes           D．The Story of Earth

Today's parents miss the golden age that their own mothers enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s, researchers found.

Mothers have less time to themselves and feel under greater pressure to juggle work and family life than the previous generation. As a result, 88 per cent said they felt guilty about the lack of time they spent with their children.

    The survey of 1,000 mothers also found that more than a third said they had less time to themselves than their mothers did — just three hours a week or 26 minutes a day.

And 64 percent said this was because they felt they 'had' to go out to work, while nearly a third (29 per cent) said they were under constant pressure to be the 'perfect mother', the report found.

Other findings showed social network and parenting website were important in proving help and support among female communities

    Kate Fox, of the Social Issues Research Centre, which conducted the survey for Procter & Gamble, said: "With increasing pressure on mothers to work a 'double shift' — to be the perfect mother as well as a wage-earner — support networks are more important than ever."

It comes as a separate report examining childcare in the leading industrialized nations found that working mothers in Britain spend just 81 minutes a day caring for their children as a "primary activity".

    Critics say the pressure on women to work long hours, and leave their children in the hands of nurseries or child minders, is putting the well-being of their children at risk.

    The study also reveals that, despite the fact that more and more modern mothers go out to work, the burden of childcare still falls on them — even if their husband is not in work.

A father who is not in work tends to spend just 63 minutes a day looking after his child — 18 minutes less than a mother who goes out to work.

Working fathers spare less than three quarters of an hour with their children.

1.What is the main idea of the passage?   

A. More and more modern mothers go out to work to support the families.

B. Today's parents would rather leave their children in the hands of nurseries.

C. Today's parents have less time to take care of their children.

D. To keep the balance of work and family is not an easy thing.

2.What does the underlined word "juggle" in Paragraph 2 probably mean?  

A. keep objects in the air

B. do many things at once

C. change things

D. organize spending

3.According to Kate Fox,         .    

A. people should learn to relax by using the network

B. network plays an important role in society

C. mothers should make use of the network to gain support

D. it is impossible for woman to become the "double shift"

4.Today's mothers lack the time to company their children mainly because         .    

A. they have no choice but go to work

B. they are under constant pressure

C. they want to be "the perfect mother"

D. they have less time to themselves

5. Which of the following statements is True?     

A. Mothers usually spend three hours looking after their children a day.

B. Since more and more modern mothers go out to work, the burden of childcare falls on fathers.

C. Child minders are good to the health of the children.

D. Mothers spend more time with their children than fathers.

   CHICAGO ---Call it a reward, or just “bribery(贿赂)”.

   Whichever it is, many parents today readily admit to buying off their children, who get goodies(好东西) for anything from behaving in a restaurant to sleeping all night in their own beds.

   That’s what worries parenting experts.

   “I think that reward systems have a time and a place and work really well in certain situations,” says Marcy Safyer, director of the Adelphi University Institute for Parenting.

   “But what often gets lost for people is being able to figure out how to communicate to their kids that doing the thing is rewarding enough,” Safyer says.

   Parents and experts alike agree that the dynamic(动力) is partly a reflection of the world we live in. It’s unrealistic to think a parent wouldn’t reward their children with material things sometimes, says Robin Lanzi, a clinical psychologist and mother of four who’s the research director at the Center on Health and Education at Georgetown University.

   “But you want to make sure that they match the behavior, so it’s not something huge for something small,” Lanzi says.

   She recalls hearing about a father who offered his child a Nintendo Wii game system for scoring a couple goals in a soccer game.

   Elizabeth Powell, a mother of two young daughters in Austin, Texas, knows what she means.

   “You want to raise them in a way that they’re respectful and appreciate things,” Powell says of her children. “But sometimes, you wonder now if kids appreciate even a new pair of shoes. ”

Parenting experts are worried that ____ .

       A. today’s children are fed up with material things

      B. parents are rewarding their kids improperly

      C. today’s children are more and more demanding(苛求的)

      D. there is lack of communication between parents and children

What Safyer says suggests that ____ .

      A. reward systems are quite limited in developing abilities

      B. reward systems work well regardless of（不管） time and place

      C. reward systems are still not made full use of to develop abilities

      D. reward systems are often used at the wrong time and place

What can we learn from what Robin Lanzi says?

      A. She holds a different opinion from other parenting experts.

      B. She thinks children can’t behave well without being rewarded.

      C. She holds a similar belief to Safyer and gives further explanation.

      D. She doesn’t believe in rewarding children for good behavior.

The father who offered his child a Nintendo Wii game system can be regarded as

   _____.

       A. over-rewarding his child       

       B. giving his child proper reward

       C. respecting and appreciating his child 

       D. giving something small for something huge