What will you do if you have six million dollars? Different people give different answers.
David  I will buy an island if I have six million dollars. Then I will be the king of the island. I will invite my friends to my island and we’ll have a good time there.
Cathy  If I get six million dollars, I want to start my own business and I will do a lot of things for my family. For me, nothing is more important than my family. I will buy a new house for my parents and take them to travel around the world.
Julie   If I have six million dollars, I will put five million in the bank and spend one million. I will visit Sydney, Toronto, Moscow and other interesting cities. I want to try different kinds of delicious food, and build a house with a swimming pool.
Victor  If I have six million dollars, I will use the money to do everything I like. I will use two million to open my own shop. And I will give another four million to schools and charities. I would like to help students in poor areas to get good education. I want everyone to live a happy life.
【小题1】David will invite his friends to ________.

Have you ever dreamt of winning the lottery (彩票)? Most people will dream of cars, large houses, and not having to work any more. But in real life, that does not always happen.

Dr, H Van Haan, a writer of several books on lottery winners says, “Winning the lottery doesn’t change people’s lives as much as we imagine. Most lottery winners keep their jobs, but we often find that they lost their friends. Their friends will often ask them for money and these friends very often get angry if they don’t share the money.”

Most lottery winners spend most of their first one million dollars on travel. However, when the early excitement of traveling around the world has disappeared, the happiness that the money brings also disappears. In less than a year after winning, most winners say that they are not happier than before.

Too much money can make people unhappy, especially for those who are not used to it. It is true. One study shows that more than 30% of lottery winners lost most of their money in the first five years and many of them had money problems. Another report shows that a lot of people had a happy marriage before they won the lottery, but they had problems after winning the money.

So, you see, although most people dream of winning the lottery, the dream can sometimes turn into a nightmare.

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1．People usually dream of            when they win a lot of money.

A．buying a car                                 B．finding a new job

C．buying a lottery ticket                     D．making some new friends

2．Dr. H Van Haan says that most people who win the lottery            .

      A．don’t change their lives

      B．lose their jobs but keep their friends

      C．keep their jobs but lose their friends

      D．get angry when their friends ask for money

3．The underlined word “nightmare” means            .

A．an unpleasant idea                          B．a terrible dream

C．a wonderful fact                                   D．a terrible accident

4．Which of the following is not true in the passage?

A．Winning the lottery can make people very rich but sometimes quite unhappy.

B．People who win a lot of money always have no money.

C．About one third of lottery winners lose most of their money in five years.

D．The excitement and happiness that winning the lottery brings usually disappear in one year.

5．We can infer (推论) that          from the passage.

A．Dr. H Van Haan probably interviewed some lottery winners

B．traveling makes all lottery winners unhappy

C．nobody dream of winning the lottery

D．many people don’t understand why the lottery winners are unhappy

What will you do if you have six million dollars? Different people give different answers.

David? I will buy an island if I have six million dollars. Then I will be the king of the island. I will invite my friends to my island and we’ll have a good time there.

Cathy? If I get six million dollars, I want to start my own business and I will do a lot of things for my family. For me, nothing is more important than my family. I will buy a new house for my parents and take them to travel around the world.

Julie?? If I have six million dollars, I will put five million in the bank and spend one million. I will visit Sydney, Toronto, Moscow and other interesting cities. I want to try different kinds of delicious food, and build a house with a swimming pool.

Victor? If I have six million dollars, I will use the money to do everything I like. I will use two million to open my own shop. And I will give another four million to schools and charities. I would like to help students in poor areas to get good education. I want everyone to live a happy life.

1.David will invite his friends to ________.

A. his new house ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. his island

C. his country????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ??????????? D. his factory

2. _________ will take his (her) parents to travel around the world.

A. Victor????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. Julie? ????????????? ??? C. David ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. Cathy??

3.Julie will spend _________ million dollars traveling and doing other thing.

A. one????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. two ????????????? ??????? C. three ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. four

4.Victor will spend two million dollars _________.

A. enjoying delicious food????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. helping poor students

C. opening a shop????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ?? D. building a house

5.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage?

A. Victor hopes everyone can live a happy life.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ?????????????

B. Julie doesn’t like traveling.

C. Cathy loves her family very much.????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ?????????????

D. David gets on well with his friends.

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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

　　Computer programmer David Jones makes $35,000 a year designing (设计) new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a credit card (信用卡). Instead, he has been told to wait another two years, until he is 18.

　　The 16-year-old boy works for a small firm in Liverpool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. David's firm (公司) puts two new games on the home market each month. But David's biggest headache is what to do with his money. In spite of his salary (薪水), made by inventing new programs within quite a short period of time, with bonus payments (奖金) and profit-sharing (分红), he cannot drive a car, get some money from a bank to buy a house, or get credit cards.

　　He lives with his parents in their house in Liverpool, where his father is a bus driver. His firm has to pay $150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive. David got his job with the firm a year after leaving school with six 0-levels and working for a time in a computer shop.“I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs,”he said.

　　“I suppose (认为) $35,000 sounds a lot but actually (实际上) that's not good enough. I hope it will come to more than that this year.”He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother $20 a week. But most of his spare time is spent on working.

　　“Unfortunately (不幸的是), computing was not part of our studies at school,”he said.“But I had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time. I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway.”

　　David added, “I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement (退休) is a possibility (可能性). You never know when the market will disappear.”

1．Why is David different from other young people of his age?

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A．He earns a very high salary.

B．He has no job.

C．He does not go out much.

D．He lives at home with his parents.

2．David's greatest problem is ________.

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A．making the banks treat him as a grown-up

B．inventing computer games

C．spending his salary

D．learning to drive

3．He was hired by the firm because ________.

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A．he had worked in a computer shop

B．he had written some computer programs

C．he works very hard

D．he had learnt to use computers at school

4．He left school after taking six 0-levels because ________.

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A．he did not enjoy school

B．he wanted to work with computers and staying at school did not help him

C．he was afraid of getting too old to use a computer

D．he wanted to earn a lot money

5．Why does David think he might retire early?

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A．Because one has to be young to write computer programs.

B．Because a million dollars is enough for him to live a happy life.

C．Because he thinks computer games might not always sell so well.

D．Because he thinks his firm might go bad.