【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 working. B. Loving, supportive and strongwilled.C. Careful, helpful and beautiful. D. Strict, sensitive and supportive.45. Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?A. Selfconfidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family.B. Clear goals, mom’s encouragement, a poor family and higher education.C. Mom’s encouragement, clear goals, selfconfidence and hard work.D. Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities. BMy son and a bunch of his 13yearold friends piled into the back seat of my car, ready for the lastdayofschool party at McDonald’s on report card day last year. “Jack got a laptop for getting straight A’s, and Laurie got a cell phone,” one boy said. “Oh, yeah, and Sarah got an iPod Nano, and she’s only in third grade,” said another. “And how about Brian? He got $ 10 for each A.”I suddenly became concerned. These payoffs might get parents through grammar school, but what about high school and beyond? What would be left after the electric guitar, the cell phone, and the portable DVD player?I saw the road ahead: As the homework load increased, my ine would decrease. I saw my fortable lifestyle disappear before my eyes — no more of those $5 bags of alreadypeeled organic carrots. No more organic anything!I started to feel surprised and nervous. Would every goal attained by my two children fetch a reward? A high grade point average? A good class ranking? Would sports achievements be included in this reward system: soccer goals, touchdowns, runsbattedin? What about orchestra? Would first chair pay more than second? I’d be penniless by eighthgrade graduation.“We never paid anything for good grades,” said my neighbor across the street, whose son was recently accepted at MIT. “He just did it on his own. Maybe once in a while we went out for pizza, but that’s about it.”Don’t you just hate that? We’re all running around looking for the MP3 player with the most updates, and she’s spending a few dollars on pizza. She gets motivation。 we get negotiation.46．Why did the writer suddenly bee concerned? A．Because many kids were getting very good grade at school.B．Because he was worried about the current reword system. C．Because he wasn’t making enough money to buy things for his kids’ good grades. D．Because kids were having too many parties after school.47．The underlined sentence “As the homework load increased, my ine would decrease.” (in Paragraph 3) probably means that _________. A．taking care of the children would influence my work B．I would spend more money on my children’s homework C．reducing children’s homework load would cost me a lot D．more rewards would be needed as the children grew up48．The example of the author’s neighbor shows that _________. A．pizza is the best way to encourage children B．the author’s neighbor was very poor C．reward is not the only way to encourage children D．the son of the author’s neighbor’s didn’t like reward49．It can be inferred from the passage that _________. A．children would think that you should if you pay them for good grades B．children would work harder if you buy them pizza for good grades C．children would not ask for rewards when they enter high school D．children would not ask for rewards when they enter university50．What is the author’s attitude toward paying children reward for good grades?A．Helpful. B．Uncertain. C．Unpleasant. D．Unknowable. CFolklore is the branch of the study of man which deals with local customs, tales and traditions. Everybody is a storehouse of folklore, though not everybody realizes it. Often, in deed, those who have never heard the word folklore have the greatest store of it, for the people with least book education monly cherish most firmly old ideas and superstitions (迷信) which have been passed on by word of mouth for generations. Everyone has heard stories of ghosts, witches, fairies, and giants. We all know some proverbs and have e across such ideas as, for example, that it is lucky to see black cat and unlucky to see a single magpie (喜鵲). We keep certain seasons of the year as festivals, such as Christmas, and we are familiar with the special customs connected with weddings and funerals. All such things are of interest to those who study folklore.People who study folklore won’t criticize the old beliefs and practices they e across as silly, childish, or oldfashioned. Instead, they will try to collect accurate records of them and then see how these are connected with other ideas and customs of other places or times. By paring with what is known of olden times or the folklore of other countries, they try to discover how certain beliefs and practices came into being, and what purpose they serve now or used to serve in the past.Often we find