高中英语人教Unit 5 The Value of Money 作业.doc

UNIT 5　The Value of Money
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What you spend rather than what you earn 1. ________ (help) to determine how content you are with life, a new study says.
Research from the Office for National Statistics found spending on hotels, restaurants and household furnishings was associated with life satisfaction. 2. ________ (unsurprising), spending on insurance and mobile phones was not. But the ONS said that overall spending and income mattered less than personal circumstances when 3. ________ (measure) life satisfaction. Good health, marital status (婚姻状况) and economic activity had the strongest associations with how positively life satisfaction is rated.
Its analysis found that age also mattered: the young have 4. ________ (high) life satisfaction than those in their 40s but life satisfaction rises again in later years, before falling again for those in their 80s. Living 5. ________ (condition) were also important. Those who own their homes think their life satisfaction is higher than 6. ________ in poverty.
But while spending is more important than income, households with 7. ________ income of between ￡24,000 and ￡44,000 would feel more 8. ________ (satisfy) if their income increased, the ONS found. The ONS said: “There is no evidence of a significant association between household income 9. ________ life satisfaction overall after accounting for other characteristics, such as age, 10. ________ (marry) and so on.”
【语篇解读】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文。文章叙述了一项新的研究，分析了为什么你的花费而不是收入决定你对生活的满意度。
1. helps　考查主谓一致。分析句子成分可知，本句的主语是“What you spend”，谓语动词要用单数，本句叙述的是客观事实，要用一般现在时，故填helps。
2. Unsurprisingly　考查副词。空格在句中作状语，修饰一个句子，要用副词形式，因为此词在句首，第一个字母要大写，故填Unsurprisingly。
3. measuring　考查非谓语动词。 空格处的动词的逻辑主语是总体支出和收入(overall spending and income )，与动词measure二者之间是主动关系，要用动词­ing形式。
4. higher　考查比较级。根据后面的“than”，可知此处要用比较级，故填higher。
5. conditions　考查名词。根据后面的系动词(were)，可知，本空要用复数形式，故填conditions。
6. those　考查代词。根据语境可知，此句是一些人对另一些人的对比。根据上下文可知，本空是代词，填those恰当。
7. an　考查不定冠词。句中的名词income是收入，可作可数