第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。三百六十
An allowance(零用钱) is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions. Children remember and learn from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.
How large is an allowance appropriate? Experts say there is not right amount. Actual amounts differ from area to area, and from family to family.
To set an appropriate allowance for your child, work out a weekly budget. Allow for entertainment expenditures (花费) such as movie and snack. Next include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare and school supplies. “If you make the child responsible for these bills, ”says Josephine Swanson, a consumer specialist, “he or she will learn to budget for necessary expenditures.”
Finally add some extra money to make saving possible. If you can, keep your child’s allowance in line with that of his friends, a child whose purchasing power falls away below his peers can feel left out.
It can be tough but avoid excusing your children when they make a mistake with their allowance. When Brooke Stephens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville, her mother gave her $5 a week. $1.75 of which was for bus fare and lunch. “ If you lose money” Brooke’s mother told her, “you walk home.”
One week the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store, and then she called home for a ride, “Mom made me walk home,” recalls Stephens, now a financial planner in Brooklyn. “At first I was angry. But I finally realized that she was trying to teach me an important lesson.”
Experts advise an allowance should not be tied directly to a child’s daily chore (琐事). Kids should help around the house not because they get paid for it but because they share responsibilities as members of family. You might, however, pay a child for doing extra jobs at home. That can develop his or her initiative (主动性).
1. What does the text mainly discuss?
A. How to develop a child’s initiative.
B. How to work up a budget.
C. How to teach a child to save money.
D. How to teach a child to manage money matters.
2. It can be inferred from the text that if a child is given an allowance, he or she may_____.
A. spend all the money very soon
B. be spoiled and finally ruined
C. lose the money and can not return home
D. feel responsible and be careful about money
3. The underlined part “his peers”(in Para.4)probably refers to ______.
A. his friends B. his brothers C. his parents D. his teachers
4 Why does the author mention Brooke Stephens?
A. To question the opinion about pocket money.
B. To compare Stephens with other experts.
C. To explain the parents should be strict when children are developing habits about money.
D. To suggest that pocket money is useless in developing a child’s sense of responsibility.
第二节 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(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
As I drove my Blue Buick into the garage, I saw that a Yellow Oldsmobile was _36_too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the _37_ space. That left _38_ enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home __39_, and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space --too close to my car, _40_. At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had __41_ and I shouted at her.“Can’t you see you’re not _42_ me enough space? Park farther over.” Banging (猛推) open her door into_43_, the driver shouted back: “ Make me!”_44_ this she stepped out of the garage. Still, each time she got home first, she parked too close to my _45_. Then one day, I thought, “What can I do?” I soon found _46_. The next day the woman _47_ a note on her windshield(挡风玻璃)：
Dear Yellow Oldsmobile,
I’m sorry mistress (女主人) shouted at yours the other day. She’s been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn’t sing anymore while _48_. It wasn’t like her to scream _49_. Fact is, she’d just got bad news and was taking it out on you two. I __50_ you and your mistress will __51_ her.
Your neighbor,
Blue Buick
When I went to the _52_ the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:
Dear Blue Buick,
My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so _53_ because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I’m glad we can be __54__ now.
Your neighbor,
Yellow Oldsmobile
After that, whenever Buick _55_Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved cheerfully and smiled.
36. A. driven B. parked C. stopped D. stayed
37. A. complete B. close C. narrow D. fixed
38. A. quite B. nearly C. seldom D. hardly
39. A. hurriedly B. first C. finally D. timely
40. A. as usual B. as planned C. as will D. as yet
41. A. run into B. run about C. run out D. run off
42. A. keeping B. saving C. offering D. leaving
43. A. mine B. hers C. itself D. ours
44. A. For B. With C. From D. Upon
45. A. room B. area C. front D. side
46. A.an instruction B. a result C. an answer D. a chance
47. A. put B. wrote C. sent D. discovered
48. A. working B. driving C. returning D. cooking
49. A. on end B. so long C. like that D. any more
50. A. hope B. know C. suppose D. suggest
51. A. comfort B. help C. forgive D. please
52. A. office B. flat C. place D. garage
53. A. crazily B. eagerly C. noisily D. early
54. A. neighbors B. friends C. drivers D. writers
55. A. followed B. passed C. found D. greeted
Many people hope to have a _____ job, especially during the financial crisis.
A. professional B. premier C. primitive D. permanent
It’s reported that the mayor who ______ his power to give jobs to his relatives was put into prison.
A. adjusted B. absurd C. accused D. abused
. ---Why do you say that the doctor is in a _______?
---Because he doesn’t know whether to tell the patient the truth or not.
A. procedure B. dilemma C. barrier D. interval
．It was a long time before she_________ to what he had said.
A. caught on B. went on C. went up D. caught up
