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¡°thank you¡±was clumsy or awkwardly formal£®The chances are£¬if you said ¡°thank you¡±£¬you made someone¡¯s day£®You star£®

81£®We can tell from the results of the poll that A£®people are unconcerned about politeness nowadays£® B£®¡°thank you¡±remains the best expression of gratitude£® C£®there is a variety of expressions of appreciation£® D£®there are more formal expressions than informal ones£® 82£®Which word/phrase does NOT appear in the top 20? A£®Cheers£® B£®Thanks£® C£®Brilliant£® D£®You star£®

83£®According to the passage£®which is an appropriate response to¡°awesome¡±or¡°brilliant¡±? A£®Thanks£® B£®Cheers£® C£®Nice one£® D£®Sure£®

84£®According to the passage£¬the way in which we express our gratitude depends on all the following EXCEPT

A£®gender£® B£®formality£® C£®culture£® D£®circumstance£® 85£®In the last paragraph the author encourages people to A£®continue their acts of kindness£® B£®behave themselves well£® C£®show their gratitude to others£® D£®stop worrying about bad manners£® TEXT B

From 2007 to 2010£¬American households lost $l1 trillion in real estate£¬savings, and stocks More than half of all U£®S£®workers either lost their jobs or were forced to take cuts in hours or pay during the recession£®The worst may be behind them now, but the shocking losses of the past few

years have reshaped nearly every facet of their lives¡ªhow they live£¬work£¬and spend¡ªeven the way they think about the future£®

For Cindy, the recession began when her husband was relocated to Rhinelander,

Wisconsin£®by his company forcing the family to move in a hurry£®The couple bought a new house but were unable to sell their two-bedroom home in Big Lake£¬Minnesota£®With two mortgages(µÖѺ½è¿î) and two young children to care for, Cindy couldn't imagine how to stretch her husband's paycheck to keep her family fed£®

Then she stumbled upon an online community called Blotanical£¬a forum for gardeners£¬many with an interest in sustainability£®¡°The more I read and discussed these practices£¬the more I realized this would help not only our budget but also our health£¬¡±she says£®

Cindy admits that before the recession£¬she was a city girl with no interest in growing her own dinner£®¡°I grew flowers mostly¡ªI didn¡¯t think about plants that weren¡¯t visually interesting.\But to stretch her budget£¬she began putting in vegetables and fruit¡ªeverything from strawberry beds to apple trees¡ªand as her first seedlings grew£¬her spirits lifted£®She no longer thinks of gardening and making her own jams as just a money saver£»they¡¯re a genuine pleasure£®¡°It¡¯s brought us closer together as a family, too£¬¡±she says£®Her kids voluntarily pitch in with(Ö÷¶¯°ïÖú)the garden work£¬and the family cooks together instead of eating out£®The food tastes better ¡ªit's fresher and organic ¡ªand the garden handily fulfills its original purpose£ºcost cutting£®Now she spends about $200 to $300 a month on groceries£®less than half of the $650 a month that she used to lay out£®

After discovering how resourceful she can be in tough times£¬Cindy is no longer easily discouraged£®¡°It makes me feel proud to be able to say I made it myself,¡±she says£®¡°I feel accomplished£¬and I'm more confident about attempting things I've never done before£®\avoids convenience stores and has begun learning to knit£¬quilt£¬and make her own soap£®\think I would have ever begun this journey if it weren¡¯t for the recession£¬¡±she says£®¡°I have a feeling that from now on£¬it will affect my family¡¯s health and happiness for the better£®\ 86£®We learn from the first paragraph that the recession A£®affected Americans in certain occupations£® B£®had great impact on Americans¡¯work and life£® C£®had only brought huge losses in savings and stocks£®

D£®is over with some of the losses recovered.

87£®What made the family's financial situation even worse was that they A£®moved to Rhinelander in a hurry£® B£®had two children to raise£®

C£®didn't know anyone in Rhinelander£® D£®couldn't sell their home in Big Lake£®

88£®Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A£®Cindy had seen the benefits of gardening in a different way£® B£®Cindy had developed a hobby of gardening before the recession£® C£®Cindy had already had a keen interest in sustainability£® D£®Cindy had already planned to meet the gardeners£®

89£®In addition, Cindy views gardening as a genuine pleasure because gardening A£®helped her cut living costs almost by half£® B£®enabled her to make her own jams£® C£®built up family ties and kids¡¯enthusiasm£® D£®enabled her to know more about plants£®

90£®What does Cindy think of the difficult times she has gone through? A£®It gave the couple and their kids a tough lesson£® B£®It gave her confidence and optimism£® C£®It would come again and affect the family£® D£®It left a lasting psychological impact on the family£®

TEXT C

¡°I'm a little worried about my future£¬¡±said Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate£®He should be so lucky£®All he had to worry about was whether to have an affair with Mrs Robinson£®In the sixties£¬that was the sum total of post-graduation anxiety syndrome£®

Hoffman's modern counterparts are not so fortunate£®The Mrs Robinsons aren't sitting around at home any more£¬seducing graduates£®They are out in the workplace£¬doing the high-powered jobs the graduates want£¬but cannot get£®For those fresh out of university, desperate for work but unable to get it£¬there is a big imbalance between supply and demand£®And there is no narrowing of the gap in sight£®

The latest unemployment figures show that 746,000 of 18-24 year-olds are unemployed¡ª a record rate of 18 per cent£®Many of those will have graduated this summer£®They are not panicking yet£¬but as the job rejections mount up£¬they are beginning to feel alarmed£®

Of course£¬it is easy to blame the Government and£¬in particular, the target that Labour has long trumpeted---50 per cent of school-leavers in higher education£®That was not too smart£®The Government has not only failed to meet its target¡ªthe actual figure is still closer to 40 per cent¡ª but it has raised expectations to unrealistic levels£®

Parents feel as badly let down as the young people themselves£®Middle-class families see their graduate offspring on the dole(¾È¼Ã½ð)queue and wonder why they bothered paying school fees£®Working-class families feel an even keener sense of disappointment£®For many such families£¬getting a child into university was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream£®It represented upward social and financial mobility£®It was proof that they were living in a dynamic£¬economically successful country£®That dream does not seem so rosy now£® Graduate unemployment is not£¬ultimately, a political problem ready to be

solved£®Job-creation schemes for graduates are very low down in ministerial in-trays£®If David Cameron's Conservatives had a brilliant idea for guaranteeing every graduate a well-paid job£¬they would have unveiled it by now£®It is a social problem£¬though a more deep-seated social problem than people perhaps realize£®

91£®The author begins with an episode from The Graduate in order to A£®support the fact that more women are working now£®

B£®show that few graduates started working right after graduation£®

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