so far he hasn't had a Newberry card in his collection"可知,卡瓦纳没有Newberry Company的卡,表明他的申请被拒绝了,故选A项。
6.What do the underlined words "the discipline" in the last paragraph probably refer to?
A.Having many cards to your own name.
B.Buying things by card and paying off in time.
C.Managing to own more privileges for your card.
D.Using a card to buy things as many times as possible.
解析:选B 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的"Never use a card to buy anything you can't pay off in a couple of months"可知,卡瓦纳建议人们:如果几个月内无法偿还信用卡,那人们最好别用信用卡购物,故选B项。
7.What do we know about Cavanagh's cards?
A.Some of them are useless.
B.They are safely kept in his long wallet.
C.They have brought him fame and privilege.
D.Fewer new cards are added to his collections.
解析:选C 推理判断题。根据第一段中的"holds the Guinness record for the most credit cards"及倒数第二段中的"Despite this privilege"可知,卡瓦纳收藏的信用卡给他带来荣誉并且也使他享有一些特权。
Ⅴ.阅读七选五
(2018·南昌二中模拟)
We Are the World, We Are the Future
Someone said "We are reading the first verse of the first chapter of a book, whose pages are infinite". __1__ We are all in the position of the farmers. If we plant a good seed, we reap a good harvest. If we plant nothing at all, we harvest nothing at all.
We are young. How to spend the youth? It is a meaningful question. __2__ Youth is not a time of life; it's a state of mind. It's not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips or supple knees. __3__ It's the freshness of the deep spring of life.
A poet said "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour".Several days ago, I had a chance to listen to a lecture. I learnt a lot there. __4__ Let's show our right palms. We can see three lines that show how our love, career and life will be. I have a short line of life. What about