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    Men are happier with money, while women find greater joy in friendships and relationships with their children, co – workers and bosses, a new global survey indicates.

The online survey of 28,153 people in more than 51 countries by global marketing and information firm Nielsen found that as the world struggles with a recession（衰退） and financial markets remain declined, many people are reminding themselves that money can’t buy happiness．

The Nielsen Happiness Study found that globally, women are happier than men in 48 of the 51 countries surveyed in August 2009, and only in Brazil, South Africa and Vietnam were men found to be happier than women．

“Because they are happier with non-economic factors, women’s happiness is more recession-proof which might explain why women around the world are happier in general than men are,” Nielsen Vice President of Consumer Research Bruce Paul said in a statement．

    Japanese women reported the greatest difference and are 15 percent happier than Japanese men．Women are also more optimistic about the future, scoring higher than men on predictions of their happiness in the next six months．

Women were also more content with their marriage life, the study found．Japanese and New Zealand women reported the greatest difference in satisfaction with their marriage life．

Men are generally happier with their physical health than women, and this is especially pronounced in South Africa．Egypt bucks the trend, with women rating their happiness with their health considerably higher than men．

Globally, men rated their happiness with their mental health higher than women．It was the same in Belgium, South Korea, Mexico, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Egypt, and Israel．

There are three main drivers of happiness globally, according to the study: personal financial situation, mental health and job/career．Being satisfied with your partner is also important for happiness．

61．The passage mainly centers around ______．

       A．key drivers leading to happiness

       B．a(chǎn) study on happiness between sexes

       C．a(chǎn) medical survey on men and women

       D．comparisons between men and women

62．Compared with women, men tend to be happier with ______．

       A．money, friendship and their family

       B．financial situation, health and marriage life

       C．the future, mental health and money

       D．mental health, physical health and money

63．The underlined word in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to ______．

       A．strengthens          B．opposes        C．follows      D．continues

64．According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT right?

       A．Globally, women are happier than men in general．

       B．Women in Vietnam are not as happy as men．

       C．Women score higher than men on predictions of their future．

       D．Women’s happiness is less likely affected by financial crisis．

65．Which country has the biggest difference in happiness between men and women?

       A．Japan．   B．New Zealand．       C．Egypt．         D．South Africa．

D

There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.

That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But the problem is that some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.

The 5% mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.

Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. “There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” They will say. “You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”

This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.

And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.

Don’t guess! Look it up!

67. It is certain that the best way to learn new words is________.

  A. to learn them by oneself                           

B. to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently

C. to guess them from the context

D. to get more separate meanings of each word^

68. The underlined word “them” in paragraph 2 refers to_______.

  A. the 30,000 words                        B. English teachers

  C. misunderstood words                  D. frequently used words

69. Which of the following is most likely NOT true?

  A. Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.

  B. Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.

  C. How many words the writer got wrong are not known.

  D. All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.

70. It can be inferred that_____________.

  A. when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart.

  B. We must use the words as often as possible in order to master them.

  C. It’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context

  D. Only dictionaries can help us learn language well.

--Peter is very clever and he studies hard as well．

---No ______be always wins first in the examinations.

A．doubt B．question C．wonder D．problem

When he saw all his books _____ here and there on the floor, he knew that something terrible _____.

A. lying; must have happened B. lie; must happen

C. lay; might have happened D. had lain; could have happen

I forget where I read the article, or I _____ it to you now.

A. will show B. would show

C. am going to show D. am showing

It is necessary ___ me ___my studies before a new term.

A. for, to make a plan for B. of, making a plan for

C. for, to make a plan of D. of, making a plan of

You can say "He went there _____, not _____."

A. on the car; by car B.on foot; in his car

C. by foot; by car D.in his car; by his foot

書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

一名好學(xué)生應(yīng)該具有許多優(yōu)秀品質(zhì)（如下圖所示），你認(rèn)為哪一個(gè)或哪兩個(gè)是最重要的品質(zhì)？請(qǐng)結(jié)合自己的生活實(shí)際分析原因，并寫出你的感悟。

要求：1.題目自擬；

2.不少于100詞；

3.文中不出現(xiàn)真實(shí)姓名。

After years of hard work ,he has at last achieved his lifelong        of launching a newspaper, which is very popular with teenagers.

A.ambition

B.appetite

C.motivation

D.privilege

We can’t wait. We have to_________ the direction and the distance before we take action.

   A. let out            B. figure out       C. try out           D. turn out