He owned （that) he（)a mistake.

A.which

B.when

C.that

D.where

A．saw off

B．saw to

C．saw over

D．saw through

rly from cold and hunger, he decided to go shooting in a wood near his cottage(小屋，村舍). The wood belonged to Lord Northwood, a rich gentleman, and Pat had no right to go there, but in it there were swarms of rabbits and flocks of birds that were good to eat, and Pat determined to take the risk. Suddenly he saw the owner, with a group of friends, coming towards him in the wood. There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood’s face as he caught sight of the gun in Pat’s hands. Pat’s heart sank with fear, but he saw there was no hope of escape, so he walked boldly up to the company and said to Lord Northwood, “Good morning, sir, and what has brought you out so early this morning？” Lord Northwood, rather surprised, said he and his friends were taking a little exercise to get an appetite for their breakfast. Then, looking at Pat with suspicion, he said, “But why are you out so early in the morning？” “Well, sir,” said Pat, “I just came out to see if I could get a breakfast for my appetite.” The whole crowd burst into laughter at Pat’s ready wit, and with a smile Lord Northwood walked on, leaving Pat to try his luck with the rabbits.

(1).This is a story about().

A、a rich man who owned a big wood.

B、 a poor Irishman who lived all by himself.

C、 a clever man who tried to get something to eat for his breakfast.

D、 an Irish hunter with a large family.

(2). There was a look of anger on Lord Northwood’s face. Why？()

A、 He was not expecting Pat at this early hour.

B、 He knew Pat was coming for shooting.

C、 He didn’t like the poor Irishman at all.

D、 Pat had not told him he would come.

(3). Why was Lord Northwood surprised？()

A、 He had not expected such a bold question from Pat.

B、 He wondered why Pat didn’t run away.

C、 Pat wasn’t afraid of him.

D、 Pat had a gun in his hands.

(4).Pat’s _______ made the whole crowd burst into laughter.()

A、 funny looks

B、 interesting remarks

C、 quick and witty response

D、 promise to leave right away

(5).It was because of his _________ that Pat was left to try his luck.

A、 boldness

B、 calmness

C、 quickness of mind

D、 obedience (服从, 顺从)

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:

People say that money cannot buy happiness. This was true for Howard Hughes. (76) He was one of the richest and most powerful men of his time. He bad everything: good look success, power, and a lot of money. But he didn ’t have lave or friendship because he couldn’t buy them. All his life he used his money to control everything and everyone around him. In the end, he lost control of everything, even himself.

Howard Hughes was born in 1905 in Houston, Texas. His father started the Hughes Tool Company. He was a workaholic （工作狂）and made a lot of money. He bought everything he wanted. He even gave money to schools so Howard could get into them. From his father, Howard learned to be a successful but merciless businessman. Hughes’ s mother, Allene also had a big influence on his life. Howard was her only child. She protected him and gave him everything. Unfortunately Allene had mental problems. (77)She was afraid of germs and diseases. She was obsessed with Howard&39;s health，and he became obsessed win it too.

Allene died when Howard was 16 years old. Two years later his father died. Hughes inherited the Hughes Tool Company. Then he married Ella Rice. He and Ella moved to Los Angeles, California. It was there that Howard Hughes began to become a legend （传奇人物）. Hughes began to invest his money in movies. He became an important producer soon after he moved to California. He worked hard, but he also played hard. He became obsessed with power and control. When he couldn’t get something legally, he gave money politicians and businessmen so they would help him. He owned a lot of businesses, including airplane companies, a movie studio （制片厂）, Las Vegas hotels, gold and silver mines, and radio and television stations. Once he bought a television studio so he could watch movies all night He also bought a hotel because he wanted to stay in his favorite room for one weekend.

Accordign to the passage ,Howard Hughes was hot _____.

A.good-looking

B.wealthy

C.friendly

D.powerful

Which of the following about Hughes' father is NOT TRUE？A.He started the Hughes Tool Company.

B.He liked to spend money.

C.He worked hard.

D.He drank alcohol a lot.

The word obsessed in Paragraph 2 probably means_____ .A.troubled

B.reduced

C.related

D.informed

Howard Hughes' parents died _____.A.when he was 16 years old

B.before he was 19 years old

C.after he got married

D.after he moved to California

From the passage, we learn what Mr. Hughes lacked in his life was _____.A.education

B.love

C.money

D.good looks

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

of the best mutual funds (互惠基金) of the last decade.He is the only fund manager to perform. the best for nine years in a row.

Cooper's interests in stocks(证券) began at the age of nine, when he noticed his father reading something in the newspaper.So Bill asked his father what it was.His father explained that he was reading the financial pages.His father pointed to a column with some company's logo in it."If you owned a share of this company," he told his young boy, you have 25 cents more today than you had yesterday." Young Cooper asked, "You can make money without doing any work？" His father replied yes.So Bill responded, "Well, that's what I want to do."

With this idea, he made his way out of his secondary school and into the university.He worked very hard at his studies of finance.When he got his first job in a bank, he found that a university degree is not a sign that one in a finished product, but an indication a person is prepared for his career.He is now making big money, yet he knows clearly that is based on hard work.

21.In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the phrase "for nine years in a row" means().

A.for nine years in a line

B.for nine years continuously

C.for nine years as if rowing a boat

22.It was that Bill got an impression on finance when he was only nine years old().

A.through his father's explanation

B.from the financial pages in the newspaper

C.from his father's reading

23.It was the idea that that attracted the young boy()

A.one can make money without working in a bank

B.one can make money through buying stocks

C.one can make money without buying any stocks

24.From the passage, we know that Bill's success lied in his().

A.good luck

B.hard work

C.his father's help

25.Bill Cooper soon learnt after his graduation that a university degree().

A.meant nothing in a bank

B.did mean that one was finished

C.only indicated that one was ready to start his career

6 Assume today’s date is 16 April 2005.

Henry, aged 48, is the managing director of Happy Home Ltd, an unquoted UK company specialising in interior

design. He is wealthy in his own right and is married to Helen, who is 45 years old. They have two children – Stephen,

who is 19, and Sally who is 17.

As part of his salary, Henry was given 3,000 shares in Happy Home Ltd with an option to acquire a further 10,000

shares. The options were granted on 15 July 2003, shortly after the company started trading, and were not part of

an approved share option scheme. The free shares were given to Henry on the same day.

The exercise price of the share options was set at the then market value of ￡1·00 per share. The options are not

capable of being exercised after 10 years from the date of grant. The company has been successful, and the current

value of the shares is now ￡14·00 per share. Another shareholder has offered to buy the shares at their market value,

so Henry exercised his share options on 14 April 2005 and will sell the shares next week, on 20 April 2005.

With the company growing in size, Henry wishes to recruit high quality staff, but the company lacks the funds to pay

them in cash. Henry believes that giving new employees the chance to buy shares in the company would help recruit

staff, as they could share in the growth in value of Happy Home Ltd. Henry has heard that there is a particular share

scheme that is suitable for small, fast growing companies. He would like to obtain further information on how such

a scheme would work.

Henry has accumulated substantial assets over the years. The family house is owned jointly with Helen, and is worth

￡650,000. Henry has a ￡250,000 mortgage on the house. In addition, Henry has liquid assets worth ￡340,000

and Helen has shares in quoted companies currently worth ￡125,000. Henry has no forms of insurance, and believes

he should make sure that his wealth and family are protected. He is keen to find out what options he should be

considering.

Required:

(a) (i) State how the gift of the 3,000 shares in Happy Home Ltd was taxed. (1 mark)

side of it．The towns were linked by a bridge．One day，a hole appeared in the bridge．Both towns agreed that the hole should be mended．However，disagreement came up as to who should mend it．Each town thought that it had a better reason for the other to mend the hole．The town on the right bank said that it was at the end of the road，so the left—bank town should mend the hole．The town on the left bank，on the other hand，insisted that all the traffic came to the right—bank town，so it was in their interest to mend the bridge． The quarrel went on and on，and so did the hole．The more it went on，the more the hostility between the two towns grew． One day a man fell into the hole and broke his leg．People from both towns questioned him closely about whether he was walking from the right bank to the left or from the left bank to the right，in order to decide which town should be blamed for the accident．But he could not remember，since he got drunk that night． Some time later，a car was crossing the bridge and broke an axle(轴)because of the hole．Neither town paid any attention to the accident，as the traveler was not going from one to the other．but was merely passing through．The angry traveler got out of the car and asked why the hole was not mended． On hearing the reason，he declared，“I'll buy this hole．Who’s the owner？” Both towns at once declared that they owned the hole． “One or the other，whoever owns the hole must prove it．” “How shall we prove it？”asked both sides． “That’s simple．Only the owner of the hole has the right to mend it．I'll buy the hole from whoever mends the bridge” People from both tow ns rushed to do the job while the traveler smoked a cigar and his driver changed the axle．They mended the bridge in no time and asked for the money for the hole． “What hole？”The traveler looked surprised．“I can’t see any hole．I've been looking for a hole for several years now．I'm prepared to pay a good price for it，but there’s no hole here．Are you pulling my leg or what？” He got into his car and drove off． What did the two towns quarrel about？________．

A.Whether the hole should be mended

B.Which of them should mend the hole

C.Why there was a hole in the bridge

D.When they should mend the hole

can drive the streets of their hometowns and happily roll back the years. The rest are pulled home by duty and leave as soon as possible. After Ray Atlee had been in Clanton (his hometown) for fifteen minutes he was anxious to get out.

The town had changed, but then it hadn't. On the highways leading in, the cheap metal buildings and mobile homes were gathering as tightly as possible next to the roads for maximum visibility. This town had no zoning whatsoever. A landowner could build anything with no permit, no inspection, no notice to adjoining landowners, nothing. Only hog farms and nuclear reactors required approvals and paperwork. The result was a slash-and-build clutter that got uglier by the year.

But in the older sections, nearer the square, the town had not changed at all. The long shaded streets were as clean and neat as when Ray roamed them on his bike. Most of the houses were still owned by people he knew, or if those folks had passed on the new owners kept the lawns clipped and the shutters painted. Only a few were being neglected. A handful had been abandoned.

This deep in Bible country, it was still an unwritten rule in the town that little was done on Sundays except go to church, sit on porches, visit neighbors, rest and relax the way God intended.

It was cloudy, quite cool for May, and as he toured his old turf, killing time until the appointed hour for the family meeting, he tried to dwell on the good memories from Clanton. There was Dizzy Dean Park where he had played little League for the Pirates, and there was the public pool he'd swum in every summer except 1969 when the city closed it rather than admit black children. There were the churches—Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian—facing each other at the intersection of Second and Elm like wary sentries, their steeples competing for height. They were empty now, but in an hour or so the more faithful would gather for evening services.

The square was as lifeless as the streets leading to it. With eight thousand people, Clanton was just large enough to have attracted the discount stores that had wiped out so many small towns. But here the people had been faithful to their downtown merchants, and there wasn't a single empty or boarded-up building around the square—no small miracle. The retail shops were mixed in with the banks and law offices and cafes, all closed for the Sabbath.

He inched through the cemetery and surveyed the Atlee section in the old part, where the tombstones were grander. Some of his ancestors had built monuments for their dead. Ray had always assumed that the family money he'd never seen must have been buried in those graves. He parked and walked to his mother's grave, something he hadn't done in years. She was buried among the Atlees, at the far edge of the family plot because she had barely belonged.

Soon, in less than an hour, he would be sitting in his father's study, sipping bad instant tea and receiving instructions on exactly how his father would be laid to rest. Many orders were about to be given, many decrees and directions, because his father (who used to be a judge) was a great man and cared deeply about how he was to be remembered.

Moving again, Ray passed the water tower he'd climbed twice, the second time with the police waiting below. He grimaced at his old high school, a place he'd never visited since he'd left it. Behind it was the football field where his brother Forrest had romped over opponents and almost became famous before getting bounced off the team.

It was twenty minutes before five, Sunday, May 7.Time for the family meeting.

From the first paragraph, we get the impression that ______.

A．Ray cherished his childhood memories.

B．Ray had something urgent to take care of.

C．Ray may not have a happy childhood.

D．Ray cannot remember his childhood days.