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Now, a team of American and Canadian economists have proposed a new __1___(explain) for the declining savings rate in American families , one rooted in individual psychology.  Changes in the media landscape have made other people's spending more visible than ever. That, ___2__turn, is making all of us spend even more—and save even __3__(little).
Humans are social creatures. When we see other people spending money, we have a tendency 
  4  (believe)that we can—or should—be spending, too.
Fifty years ago, our frames of reference for our spending habits were __5__(relative) small. Now we have social media. Facebook lets us stay in touch with our rich college classmates __6__ always seem to be on vacation. We can create and share ___7__(detail) logs of the stuff we consume at places like Yelp and TripAdvisor.
The net effect of this saturation of consumptive media is that we're bombarded every day with signals to consume. "People infer that low saving   8weigh怎么读  (be) a good idea," as the authors put it.
"To decide if you're overconsuming, make a special effort to notice when your friends do something that is frugal, such as having a staycation or holding on to their 15-year-old car," Hirshleifer, one of the __9___(author) said. "If you're going to compare ___10__(you) to others, try to make it realistic."
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Among all the fast growing areas of science and technology, the research of human genes, or biological engineering as people call it, is drawing more and more attention now. Sometimes it is a hot topic discussed by people.
The greatest thing that gene technology can do is to cure serious diseases that doctors at present can almost do nothing with, such as cancer and heart disease. Every year, millions
of people are murdered by these two killers. And to date, doctors have not found an effective way to cure them. But if the gene technology is applied, not only can these two diseases be cured completely, bringing happiness and more living days to the patients, but the great amount of money people spend on curing their diseases can be saved, therefore it benefits the economy as well. In addition, human life span (寿命) can be prolonged.
Gene technology can help people give birth to healthy and clever children. Some families, with the British royal family being a good example, have hereditary (遗传的) diseases. This means their children will for sure have the family disease, which is a great trouble for these families. In the past, doctors could do nothing about hereditary diseases. But gene technology can solve this problem perfectly. The scientists just need to find the wrong gene and correct it, and a healthy child will be born.
Some people are worrying that gene research can be used to manufacture human beings in large quantities. In the past few years, scientists have succeeded in cloning a sheep, therefore these people predict that human babies would soon be cloned. But I believe clon
ed babies will not come out in large quantities, for most couples in the world can have babies in a very normal way. Of course, the government must take care to control gene technology.
1. What does “these two killers” in the second paragraph refer to?
  A. Gene technology and another treatment of the two diseases.
  B. The two murderers who killed the cloned baby.
C. The two diseases of cancer and heart disease.
D. Hereditary diseases and cancer. 
2. What’s the main idea of the third paragraph?
  A. How gene technology can be used to treat hereditary diseases.
  B. Gene technology can be used to clone human babies.
  C. Gene technology can help people give birth to a baby.
  D. Gene technology can help the British royal family out. 
3. In what way can gene technology help to treat hereditary diseases?
  A. Using gene technology, people with hereditary diseases can have more living days.
B. Using gene technology, the scientist finds the wrong gene and corrects it.
C. Using gene technology, human babies can be cloned.
D. Doctors can cure cancer and heart disease with the help of gene technology. 
4. What is the main purpose of this passage?
  A. To express the writer’s idea that gene technology will benefit people.
  B. To tell people the disadvantages of gene technology.
  C. To tell the readers that gene technology will not benefit people.
D. To explain that gene technology will also do harm to humanity.
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In celebration of the 34th International Volunteers Day, the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic ___41___ (launch) its Global Recruitment of Volunteers on 5 December.
IOC (国际奥委会)President Thomas Bach delivered a video message and praised the volunteers ___42___a vital part of the Olympics preparation team. He said the Beijing 2022 Games volunteering programme would arouse public ___43___(eager) for winter sports especially among the young generation and ___44___"Beijing is making history as the first city in the world ___45___ (host) both the summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games". He encouraged everyone to be a part of this exciting chapter of Olympic history and become ___46___volunteer for Beijing 2022 Games for the experience of a lifetime.

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