11．We can conclude according to the passage that ________.

　A. the writer is a goverment official

　B. the writer is worried about inflation

　C. the writer encourages people to spend money

　D. the writer has become richer because of inflation

D

　“Most experiences of absent - mindedness-forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room-are caused by a simple lack of attention, ” says Schacter. “You’re supposed to remember something, but you haven’t encoded(编码) it deeply.”

　Encoding, Schacter explains, is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impression on recalling it later. Failure to encode properly can create troublesome situations. If you　put your mobile phone in a pocket, for example, and don’t pay attention to what you did because you’re involved in a conversation, you’ll probably forget that the phone is in the jacket now hanging in your cupboard.“ Your memory itself isn’t failing you, ” says Schacter, “Rather, you didn’t give your memory system the information it needed.”

　Lack of interest can also lead to absent -mindedness. “A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago, ” says Zelinski, “ may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.”Women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment, and memory relies on just that.

　“Visual cues( 视觉提示 )can help prevent absent- mindedness, ”says Schacter, “But be sure the cue is clear and available. ”If you want to remember to take a medicine with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table-don’t leave it in the medicine box and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.

　Another common experience of absent - mindedness: walking into a room and wondering why you’re there. Most likely, you were thinking about something else. “Everyone does this from time to time, ”says Zelinski. “The best thing to do is to return to where you were before entering the room, and you’ll likely remember.”

10．Under inflation people are likely to ________.

　A. go to the bank more often than usual

　B. save more money since their incomes rise

　C. spend money quickly rather than to save it

　D. keep money at home instead of going to banks

9．In the writer’s view, if incomes and prices rise at the same rate, ________.

　A. inflation maybe still be a problem

　B. we have nothing to worry about

　C. inflation is no longer a problem

　D. we will become richer and richer

8．From the passage we can know that inflation is a situation in which________.

　A. everyone’s incomes rise

　B. money will hold its value

　C. we can watch our money grow

　D. money constantly loses its value

7．To get the information from BDU every day．you must ________.

　A. have a copy of China Daily

　B. know how to operate a computer

　C. understand the Chinese language

　D. have business connections with China

C

　It is a matter of common observation that although money income keeps going up over the years, we never seem to become richer. Prices are rising continuously. This condition is what we call inflation: the money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. We have got used to higher and higher rates of inflation in recent years. What could be bought twenty years ago for one pound now costs well over 2 pounds. And at present this rate of inflation seems to be rising rather than falling. If in the real world our money incomes go up at the same rate as prices do. One might think that inflation doesn’t matter. But it does .When money is losing value it also loses one of the qualities of a good money-stability(稳定)of value. It is no longer acceptable as a store of value; and it becomes an unsuitable means of delayed payment. Nobody wants to hold a wasting possession, so people try to get rid of money as quickly as possible. Inflation therefore simply simulates(刺激)our spending and discourages saving.

6．The advertisement above will be very helpful to________.

　A. foreign business people

　B. the travelers from America l

　C. the students studying abroad

　D. all the China Daily readers

5．If you get into BDU, you can ________.

　A. get all the information in China Daily

　B. know everything that takes place in China

　C. get information of the latest business activities in China

　D. get the most important business information all over the world

4．It can be inferred from the letter that Robert promises to pay for________.

　A. there hours’ work　　　　B. half an hour’s work

　C. an hour’s work　　　　　D. four hours’ work

B

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3．The second and third engineers brought the wrong parts because________.

　A. the company didn’t tell them exactly what they should do

　B. the company didn't tell them where the correct parts were

　C. they were not sure about whether the machine worked or not

　D. they hadn’t been told where the right parts should be fitted.

2．The first of Robert’s complaints is that________.

　A. it took him three weeks to have the machine repaired

　B. it took him nearly sixty days to get his machine repaired

　C. it had been almost two months before the first engineer came

　D. it took the engineer 3 weeks to find out something wrong with the machine.