However wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do every

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However wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do everything we want. Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someone’s time or money could be better spent on something el.Every hour of our time has a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of the options has a different opportunity cost—namely, what they cost us in misd opportunities.Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. Why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and u the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends? This—the alternative u of your cash and time—is the opportunity cost.For economists, every decision is made by knowledge of what one must forgo—in terms of money and enjoyment—in order to take it up. By knowing precily what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. Consider that most famous economic rule of all: there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.Some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imagine spending your entire life calculating whether your time would be better spent elwhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. Yet, in a n it’s human nature to do precily that—we asss the advantages and disadvantages of decisions all the time.In the business world, a popular phra is “value for money.” People want their cash to go as far as possible. However, another is fast obtaining an advantage: “value for time.” The biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. By reading this passage you are giving over a bit of your time which could be spent doing other activities, such as sleeping and eating. In return, however, this passage will help you to think like an economist, cloly considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.小题1:According to the passage, the concept of “opportunity cost” is applied to ________.A．making more money B．taking more opportunitiesC．reducing misd opportunities D．weighing the choice of opportunities小题2:The “leftover ... time” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to the time ________.A．spared for watching the match at home B．taken to have dinner with friendsC．spent on the way to and from the match D．saved from not going to watch the match小题3:What are forgone opportunities?A．Opportunities you forget in decision-making. B．Opportunities you give up for better ones.C．Opportunities you miss accidentally. D．Opportunities you make up for. 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:D  小题2:C小题3:B

解析

文章大意：本文是一篇议论文。文章论述了不管我们多么的富有，在一天里我们不可能找到足够的时间做我们想要做的一切。因此，我们要放弃一些事情选择做更好的事情。小题1:D考查推理判断。根据文章第二、三段，尤其第三段最后一句This—the alternative u of your cash and time—is the opportunity cost可知“机会成本”这个概念应用于衡量机会的选择方面。故D正确。小题2:C考查词义推测。题中“leftover money and time”是指“剩下来的钱和时间”。根据文章第三段第一句Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get  to and from the stadium.可知leftover … time所指的是“花在观看比赛（路上）来去的时间”。故C正确。小题3:B考查推理判断。根据文章第四段，尤其最后一句Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.可以推测出forgone opportunities是指“所放弃用于更好的机会”。故B正确。

考点

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人生感悟类阅读的概念：

生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。

生活感悟类阅读解题指导：

一、文章特点： 生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。二、解题技巧：针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。