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53. A. achieving 54. A. Accept 55. A. career

B. affecting B. Assume B. marriage C. epecting C. Fancy C. fate D. declining D. Consider D. benefit

第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Free, Official Sources to Find Unclaimed Money

Does the government owe you money? There might be unclaimed funds or property waiting for you from savings or checing accounts, wages and pensions, ta refunds（退款）, life insurance policies, and a lot more. Companies may offer to find this money for a fee. And scammers may try to tric you with fae promises of money from the government. But you can find your unclaimed money yourself for free. Chec out USA Gov’s list of official sources to get started

?Search for unclaimed money and property in every state where you have lived.

You can conduct a multi-state search, and eep an eye out at state fairs and even malls, where state treasurers(ST) and other officials hold public awareness events.

?Chec for unclaimed funds from ban failures or unclaimed deposits from credit union closures.

Did you have money in a checing or savings account at a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-insured financial institution? If the financial institution is closed, you can search the FDIC database（数据库）and you will mae it. FDIC has thousands of their bans across the country and deserves your trust.

?Search for unclaimed bac wages, pension money, or life insurance funds.

Are you owed unpaid wages from your current employer(CP) or a past employer(PP)? Chec the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division’s records to see if you have money waiting to be claimed. You also may be owed a pension if a company you wored for went out of business or ended a defined plan.

56. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. It is liely that several states owe money to you. B. Malls might witness public awareness events. C. Scammers are always ready to help you for free. D. Your past employer might owe you unpaid wages.

57. The organiation enabling consumers to confidently place money may be ______. A. ST B. CP C. PP D. FDIC

B

Happiness may be the primary goal of human eistence. Clearly, everyone thins a great deal about happiness. What maes happiness so important to human eistence? Not only does happiness feel good, but it appears to provide a variety of psychological and

physical benefits. Happy people wor hard, play hard, have an active social life, eperience good health, and live longer. A happy person lives an average of nine years longer than a miserable one. When studying happiness, it maes sense that its opposite condition would also be a topic of eamination. Scientists have observed that there are two unfortunate life events that bring about intense unhappiness, perhaps over the course of many years the loss of a family member and the loss of a job. However, abundant good news occurs in the study of happiness. Fortunately, humans eperience happiness from a wide range of stimuli, from traveling to an eotic destination to redecorating one’s home or from winning a game of soccer to eating a delicious meal. Simply watching a favorite television show or laughing at a funny joe can lift a depressed mood. While the happiness produced by such eperiences tends to be short lived, certain conditions do promote a more long-lasting state of happiness as a lifestyle a wide social networ, believing in a meaningful reason for one’s eistence, and establishing goals and woring to achieve them. Surprisingly, income is not a primary factor in determining a person’s level of happiness once the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter have been met. More important is one’s social networ. Being socially active may be more effective in increasing one’s immunity（免疫力）to illness than a vaccine. Misery may love company, but so does happiness, and having close friends and family is vital to one’s overall level of happiness. Even sharing one’s home with an animal companion can mae a person happier. Scientists report that believing in some ind of meaning for one’s life is necessary to living a happy life. This may be a religion, a code of ethics, a particular value system, a philosophy, or any other reason for being that lifts people out of the ordinary routine of daily eistence and gives their life meaning beyond a weely paychec. Happiness is not an innate characteristic but may actually be developed as a habit. While people generally do not transform their basic temperaments（性情）, people can learn to become happier by participating in a variety of activities, including socialiing, watching funny movies or reading funny boos, eeping a gratitude journal, involving oneself in pleasurable activities, such as sports, hobbies, or the arts, focusing on positive outcomes, and performing acts of indness for others. So, if you want to increase your state of happiness, developing new habits and practices should be a good choice.

58. What can we learn about happiness in this passage?

A. People can easily recover from unhappiness caused by loss of a job. B. Both short- and long-term happiness are caused by various eperiences. C. Income has little effect on underprivileged people’s level of happiness. D. Belief in the meaning of life helps people shrin from their routine wor.

59. The author uses the phrase “misery may love company” in Paragraph 5 to _______. A. convince people that pets are better company than a loving partner B. encourage people to find mates for their friends who are unhappy C. point out that people will be happier with positive relationships D. recommend that people influence negative people in a positive way 60. What is one assumption the author maes about attaining happiness? A. People can find the meaning of life in ordinary routines. B. A person needs a social networ to attain happiness.

C. Reading and writing about your problems will produce happiness.

D. Convincing negative people to become positive is a life goal. 61. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage? A. To eplain why humans need happiness. B. To introduce the benefits of happiness. C. To show ways to achieve happiness. D. To advise people to pursue happiness.

C

Humans are woring to find ways of capturing etra carbon dioide (CO2) from the atmosphere and eeping it in the Earth. But Nature has its own methods for the removal and long-term storage of carbon, including the world’s river systems, which transport decaying organic material and eroded (侵蚀) roc from land to the ocean. In a study published May 14 in the journal Nature, scientists calculated the first direct estimate of how much and in what form organic carbon is eported to the ocean by rivers. The scientists amassed data on sediments (沉积物) flowing out of 43 river systems all over the world. From these river sediment flow measurements, the research team estimated that the world’s rivers annually transport 200 million tons of carbon to the ocean. The total equals about 0.02 percent of the total mass of carbon in the atmosphere. That may not seem lie a lot, but over 1000 to 10,000 years, it continues to add up to significant amounts of carbon (20 and 200 percent) removed from the atmosphere. When organic material decays, a small part of it ends up in rivers. They carry it out to sea, where some settles to the seafloor and is buried and disconnected from the atmosphere for millions of years and eventually maes its way bac to the surface in the form of rocs. At the same time, rivers also erode carbon-containing rocs into particles. This process sends the previously loced-up carbon bac into the atmosphere. Until now, scientists had no way to distinguish how much of the carbon washed away by rivers comes from either the organic or rocy sources. To solve this dilemma, the scientists found a novel way to distinguish for the first time the sources of that carbon. They analyed the amounts of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope (同位素), in the river particles. Carbon-14 is present only in material that came from living things, and not rocs. Taing away the portion of particles that did not contain carbon-14, the scientists calculated the percentage that came from organic material about 80 percent. They also discovered that the more erosion occurs along the river, the more carbon it transfers to sea and disconnects from the air. “The atmosphere is a small reservoir of carbon compared to rocs, soils, the biosphere, and the ocean,” the scientists wrote in Nature. “As such, its sie is sensitive to small imbalances in the echange with and between these larger reservoirs.” The new study gives scientists a firmer handle on measuring the role of global rivers in the global carbon cycle and strengths their ability to predict how riverine carbon eport may shift as Earth’s climate changes.

62. According to the study, organic carbon _______. A. maes up 2% of the total carbon in the air B. is buried under the seafloor forever C. can only be found in living things

D. will come bac to the air eventually

63. The underlined word “novel” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______. A. new B. normal C. complicated D. precise 64. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.

A. before the study scientists didn’t now that rivers wash carbon to the ocean B. rivers don’t have much influence on controlling the carbon in the air C. rivers running through thic forests transport less carbon to the ocean D. the largest amount of carbon is stored in the atmosphere

D

The night before Leymah Gbowee won the 2011 Nobel Prie for helping to lead the women’s protests that overthrew Liberia’s dictator, she was at a boo party in my home. We were celebrating the publication of her autobiography, Mighty Be Our Powers, but it was a somber night. A guest ased her how American women could help those who eperienced the horrors and mass rapes of war in places Liberia. Her response was four simple words “ ▲ ” Leymah and I could not have come from more different bacgrounds, and yet we have both arrived at the same conclusion. Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns. This brings us to the obvious question—how? How are we going to tae down the barriers that prevent more women from getting to the top? Women face real barriers in the professional world, including blatant and subtle seism, discrimination, and seual harassment. Too few worplaces offer the fleibility and access to child care and parental leave that are necessary for pursuing a career while raising children. Men have an easier time finding the mentors（导师） and sponsors who are invaluable for career progression. Plus, women have to prove themselves to a far greater etent than men do. And this is not just in our heads. A 2011 Mcinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments. In addition to the eternal(外部的) barriers erected by society, women are hindered（阻碍） by barriers that eist within ourselves. We hold ourselves bac in ways both big and small, by lacing self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling bac when we should be leaning in. We internalie(内化) the negative massages we get throughout our lives—the messages that say it’s wrong to be outspoen, aggressive, more powerful than men. We lower our own epectations of what we can achieve. We continue to do the majority of the housewor and child care. We compromise our career goals to mae room for partners and children who may not even eist yet. Compared to our male colleagues, fewer of us long for senior positions. This is not a list of things other women have done. I have made every mistae on this list. At times, I still do. My argument is that getting rid of these internal barriers is critical to gaining power. Others have argued that women can get to the top only when the institutional barriers are gone. This is the chicen-and-egg situation. The chicen Women will tear down the eternal barriers once we achieve leadership roles. We will march into our bosses’ offices and demand what we need, including pregnancy paring. Or better yet, we’ll become bosses and mae sure all women have what they need. The egg We need to eliminate the eternal barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right. So rather than engage in philosophical arguments over which comes first, let’s agree to wage battles on both fronts. I’m encouraging women to address the chicen, but I fully support those who are focusing on the egg.