Questions 37-38

Complete the following notes on reducing reverse culture shock using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

&8226;while abroad, keep in touch with 37.__ back home, and with other people from your own country

&8226;read newspapers and magazines from your home country so that you know about important 38.__

&8226;before you leave, get the addresses of the friends you have made in the UK so you can keep in touch

&8226;when you get home, give yourself time to readjust to life there—and give your friends and family time to readjust to you

&8226;stay in contact with anyone who lives near you and has also studied abroad

Questions 39-40

Answer the following questions using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer

What 3 kinds of contacts should you have made during your time abroad？

The purpose of the passage is to _____.

B) introduce some useful techniques of language learning

C) teach people how to learn English

D) compare language teaching with language learning

READING PASSAGE 2

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 15-27, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below.

Fun for the Masses

Americans worry that the distribution of income is increasingly unequal.

Examining leisure spending changes that picture.

A

Are you better off than you used to be？ Even after six years of sustained economic growth, Americans worry about that question. Economists who plumb government income statistics agree that Americans'incomes, as measured in inflation-adjusted dollars, have risen more slowly in the past two decades than in earlier times, and that some workers' real incomes have actually fallen. They also agree that by almost any measure, income is distributed less equally than it used to be. Neither of those claims, however, sheds much light on whether living standards are rising or falling. This is because 'living standard' is a highly amorphous concept. Measuring how much people earn is relatively easy, at least compared with measuring how well they live.

B

A recent paper by Dora Costa, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, looks at the living-standards debate from an unusual direction. Rather than worrying about cash incomes, Ms Costa investigates Americans'recreational habits over the past century. She finds that people of all income levels have steadily increased the amount of time and money they devote to having fun. The distribution of dollar incomes may have become more skewed in recent years, but leisure is more evenly spread than ever.

C

Ms Costa bases her research on consumption surveys dating back as far as 1888. The industrial workers surveyed in that year spent, on average, three-quarters of their incomes on food, shelter and clothing. Less than 2% of the average family's income was spent on leisure but that average hid large disparities. The share of a family's budget that was spent on having fun rose sharply with its income: the lowest-income families in this working-class sample spent barely 1% of their budgets on recreation, while higher earners spent more than 3%. Only the latter group could afford such extravagances as theatre and concert performances, which were relatively much more expensive than they are today.

D

Since those days, leisure has steadily become less of a luxury. By 1991, the average household needed to devote only 38% of its income to the basic necessities, and was able to spend 6% on recreation. Moreover, Ms Costa finds that the share of the family budget spent on leisure now rises much less sharply with income than it used to. At the beginning of this century a family's recreational spending tended to rise by 20% for every 10% rise in income. By 1972-73, a 10% income gain led to roughly a 15% rise in recreational spending, and the increase fell to only 13% in 1991. What this implies is that Americans of all income levels are now able to spend much more of their money on having fun.

E

One obvious cause is that real income overall has risen. If Americans in general are richer, their consumption of entertainment goods is less likely to be affected by changes in their income. But Ms Costa reckons that rising incomes are responsible for, at most, half of the

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