You can conduct a multi-state search, and keep an eye out at state fairs and even malls, where state treasurers(ST) and other officials hold public awareness events.
?Check for unclaimed funds from bank failures or unclaimed deposits from credit union closures.
Did you have money in a checking or savings account at a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-insured financial institution? If the financial institution is closed, you can search the FDIC database（数据库）and you will make it. FDIC has thousands of their banks across the country and deserves your trust.
?Search for unclaimed back wages, pension money, or life insurance funds.
Are you owed unpaid wages from your current employer(CP) or a past employer(PP)? Check the Labor Department?s Wage and Hour Division?s records to see if you have money waiting to be claimed. You also may be owed a pension if a company you worked for went out of business or ended a defined plan.
56. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A. It is likely that several states owe money to you. B. Malls might witness public awareness events. C. Scammers are always ready to help you for free. D. Your past employer might owe you unpaid wages.
57. The organization enabling consumers to confidently place money may be ______. A. ST B. CP C. PP D. FDIC
B
Happiness may be the primary goal of human existence. Clearly, everyone thinks a great deal about happiness. What makes happiness so important to human existence? Not only does happiness feel good, but it appears to provide a variety of psychological and physical benefits. Happy people work hard, play hard, have an active social life, experience good health, and live longer. A happy person lives an average of nine years longer than a miserable one. When studying happiness, it makes sense that its opposite condition would also be a topic of examination. Scientists have observed that there are two unfortunate life events that bring about intense unhappiness, perhaps over the course of many years: the loss of a family member and the loss of a job. However, abundant good news occurs in the study of happiness. Fortunately, humans experience happiness from a wide range of stimuli, from traveling to an exotic destination to redecorating one?s home or from winning a game of soccer to eating a delicious meal. Simply watching a favorite television show or laughing at a funny joke can lift a depressed mood. While the happiness produced by such experiences tends to be short lived, certain conditions do promote a more long-lasting state of happiness as a lifestyle: a wide social network, believing in a meaningful reason for one?s existence, and establishing goals and working to achieve them.
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Surprisingly, income is not a primary factor in determining a person?s level of happiness once the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter have been met. More important is one?s social network. Being socially active may be more effective in increasing one?s immunity（免疫力）to illness than a vaccine. Misery may love company, but so does happiness, and having close friends and family is vital to one?s overall level of happiness. Even sharing one?s home with an animal companion can make a person happier. Scientists report that believing in some kind of meaning for one?s life is necessary to living a happy life. This may be a religion, a code of ethics, a particular value system, a philosophy, or any other reason for being that lifts people out of the ordinary routine of daily existence and gives their life meaning beyond a weekly paycheck. Happiness is not an innate characteristic but may actually be developed as a habit. While people generally do not transform their basic temperaments（性情）, people can learn to become happier by participating in a variety of activities, including socializing, watching funny movies or reading funny books, keeping a gratitude journal, involving oneself in pleasurable activities, such as sports, hobbies, or the arts, focusing on positive outcomes, and performing acts of kindness for others. So, if you want to increase your state of happiness, developing new habits and practices should be a good choice.
58. What can we learn about happiness in this passage?
A. People can easily recover from unhappiness caused by loss of a job. B. Both short- and long-term happiness are caused by various experiences. C. Income has little effect on underprivileged people?s level of happiness. D. Belief in the meaning of life helps people shrink from their routine work.
59. The author uses the phrase “misery may love company” in Paragraph 5 to _______. A. convince people that pets are better company than a loving partner B. encourage people to find mates for their friends who are unhappy C. point out that people will be happier with positive relationships D. recommend that people influence negative people in a positive way 60. What is one assumption the author makes about attaining happiness? A. People can find the meaning of life in ordinary routines. B. A person needs a social network to attain happiness.
C. Reading and writing about your problems will produce happiness. D. Convincing negative people to become positive is a life goal. 61. What is the author?s purpose in writing this passage? A. To explain why humans need happiness. B. To introduce the benefits of happiness. C. To show ways to achieve happiness. D. To advise people to pursue happiness.
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C
Humans are working to find ways of capturing extra carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and keeping it in the Earth. But Nature has its own methods for the removal and long-term storage of carbon, including the world?s river systems, which transport decaying organic material and eroded (侵蚀) rock from land to the ocean. In a study published May 14 in the journal Nature, scientists calculated the first direct estimate of how much and in what form organic carbon is exported to the ocean by rivers. The scientists amassed data on sediments (沉积物) flowing out of 43 river systems all over the world. From these river sediment flow measurements, the research team estimated that the world?s rivers annually transport 200 million tons of carbon to the ocean. The total equals about 0.02 percent of the total mass of carbon in the atmosphere. That may not seem like a lot, but over 1000 to 10,000 years, it continues to add up to significant amounts of carbon (20 and 200 percent) removed from the atmosphere. When organic material decays, a small part of it ends up in rivers. They carry it out to sea, where some settles to the seafloor and is buried and disconnected from the atmosphere for millions of years and eventually makes its way back to the surface in the form of rocks. At the same time, rivers also erode carbon-containing rocks into particles. This process sends the previously locked-up carbon back into the atmosphere. Until now, scientists had no way to distinguish how much of the carbon washed away by rivers comes from either the organic or rocky sources. To solve this dilemma, the scientists found a novel way to distinguish for the first time the sources of that carbon. They analyzed the amounts of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope (同位素), in the river particles. Carbon-14 is present only in material that came from living things, and not rocks. Taking away the portion of particles that did not contain carbon-14, the scientists calculated the percentage that came from organic material: about 80 percent. They also discovered that the more erosion occurs along the river, the more carbon it transfers to sea and disconnects from the air. “The atmosphere is a small reservoir of carbon compared to rocks, soils, the biosphere, and the ocean,” the scientists wrote in Nature. “As such, its size is sensitive to small imbalances in the exchange with and between these larger reservoirs.” The new study gives scientists a firmer handle on measuring the role of global rivers in the global carbon cycle and strengths their ability to predict how riverine carbon export may shift as Earth?s climate changes.
62. According to the study, organic carbon _______. A. makes up 2% of the total carbon in the air B. is buried under the seafloor forever C. can only be found in living things D. will come back to the air eventually
63. The underlined word “novel” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _______. A. new B. normal C. complicated D. precise
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64. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. before the study scientists didn?t know that rivers wash carbon to the ocean B. rivers don?t have much influence on controlling the carbon in the air C. rivers running through thick forests transport less carbon to the ocean D. the largest amount of carbon is stored in the atmosphere
D
The night before Leymah Gbowee won the 2011 Nobel Prize for helping to lead the women?s protests that overthrew Liberia?s dictator, she was at a book party in my home. We were celebrating the publication of her autobiography, Mighty Be Our Powers, but it was a somber night. A guest asked her how American women could help those who experienced the horrors and mass rapes of war in places Liberia. Her response was four simple words: “ ▲ ” Leymah and I could not have come from more different backgrounds, and yet we have both arrived at the same conclusion. Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns. This brings us to the obvious question—how? How are we going to take down the barriers that prevent more women from getting to the top? Women face real barriers in the professional world, including blatant and subtle sexism, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Too few workplaces offer the flexibility and access to child care and parental leave that are necessary for pursuing a career while raising children. Men have an easier time finding the mentors（导师） and sponsors who are invaluable for career progression. Plus, women have to prove themselves to a far greater extent than men do. And this is not just in our heads. A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments. In addition to the external(外部的) barriers erected by society, women are hindered（阻碍） by barriers that exist within ourselves. We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize(内化) the negative massages we get throughout our lives—the messages that say it?s wrong to be outspoken, aggressive, more powerful than men. We lower our own expectations of what we can achieve. We continue to do the majority of the housework and child care. We compromise our career goals to make room for partners and children who may not even exist yet. Compared to our male colleagues, fewer of us long for senior positions. This is not a list of things other women have done. I have made every mistake on this list. At times, I still do. My argument is that getting rid of these internal barriers is critical to gaining power. Others have argued that women can get to the top only when the institutional barriers are gone. This is the chicken-and-egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles. We will march into our bosses? offices and demand what we need, including pregnancy parking. Or better yet, we?ll become bosses and make sure all women have
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what they need. The egg: We need to eliminate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right. So rather than engage in philosophical arguments over which comes first, let?s agree to wage battles on both fronts. I?m encouraging women to address the chicken, but I fully support those who are focusing on the egg. Internal barriers are rarely discussed and often overlooked. Throughout my life, I was told over and over about inequalities in the workplace and how hard it would be to have a career and family. I rarely heard anything, however, about the ways I might hold myself back. These internal barriers deserve a lot more attention, in part because they are under our own control. We can break the hurdles in ourselves today. We can start this very moment. I never thought I would write a book …
65. Which of the following is most appropriate for“ ▲ ”as Leymah?s response? A. More women in power. B. More women with courage. C. More women in unity. D. More women in peace.
66. The external barriers professional women face now are listed below EXCEPT _______. A. less support from their businesses B. lower expectations of achievements C. more trouble in finding working partners D. stricter criteria of assessment 67. We can learn from Paragraph 3 that the writer _______. A. encourages women to remove the internal barriers B. criticizes women for giving in to the internal barriers C. reflects on the internal barriers from women?s side
D. feels helpless about how to handle the internal barriers
68. What does the writer mean by “wage battles on both fronts” in Paragraph 4? A. Break the internal and external barriers. B. Remove external barriers and get to the top. C. Get rid of internal barriers and gain power.
D. Achieve leadership roles and break down the external barriers.
69. What does “the book” mentioned in the last paragraph probably focus on? A. Some complex challenges faced by women. B. Inspiration to fight against sexism in reality. C. Adjustments that women can make themselves. D. Advice on how to overcome external barriers. 70. What does the writer probably agree with?
A. Women?s leadership arises from the improvements of their conditions.
B. Women should first remove the existing sexism to build up their leadership. C. Men should take full responsibility for the sexual inequalities in society.
D. Women should take the first step on the way to the top by changing themselves.
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