考研《英语一》郊区2023年最后冲刺试题含解析.docVIP

考研《英语一》郊区2023年最后冲刺试题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) Double Trouble When I was eight, I wanted a toy and needed $10 to buy it. But, as usual, I was broken. I decided to ask my 11-year-old sister, Kathleen, for a loan. I went to her room, 1 her for the cash. Laughing, she agreed to 2 me the money, but added, “I will charge you 10 percent compound interest every 3 until you pay me back.” “Compound interest---what’s that?” I asked. “Well, interest is what you call the 4 money borrowers have to pay back on a loan,” she explained. “Compound interest means that the interest payments get bigger and bigger the 5 you take to pay back the loan. To repay the loan, you will need to give me $11 after one month. If you wait two months to pay me back, your 6 will grow from $10 to $11. So I’ll be charging you interest on $11. Then I will add that interest to the $11 you already owe me, for a 7 of $12.10. That’s what you’ll owe after two months.” “Sure. I get it,” I said. Though truthfully, I was getting 8 . Kathleen lent me the money, and I bought the toy. My birthday came a month later, and my mom gave me $10. 9 ,that was just the amount I needed to buy another toy I wanted 10 . I put off paying my sister for a month. After another month, I 11 about the loan. Several months later, on Christmas morning, my sister and I each found a $02 bill in our stockings. I was just putting it into my pocket 12 Kathleen tapped me on the shoulder. “Sorry, kiddo. That’s mine. I’m 13 on your debt.” “Huh?” Then I remembered the loan. “Hey! How can it be that much? I 14 borrowed $10.” “True,” she said, “but interest has been compounding for eight months. Now you 15 me $1.43.” She paused, then added. “You can pay me the $1.43.” I 16 to believe that a $10 loan could more than double so quickl