Part C Answer questions 1—10 by referring to the
following book reviews. Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it
on ANSWER SHEET I.
Some choices may be required more than once.
palaces an emphasis on something that can hardly be learnt at
school
71．________
is particularly helpful for those who fear changes
72．________
tells readers it doesn’t follow that those who don’t have good academic
achievement will not make a fortune.
73．________
is not written by a single writer
74．________
tells a very simple story but it contains some messages
75．________
seems not to express ideas straightforward
76．________
is written by the one who also wrote a lot of other works with other works
with other writers
77．________
is probably full of facts
78．________
is not only statistical but also interesting
79．________
is not related to finance
80．________
Section
A Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on
your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese is that all can come to
see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it
plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese is a parable that takes place in a
maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice — nonanalytical
and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes
to get it. Hem and Haw are "little people," mouse-size humans who have an
entirely different relationship with cheese. It’s not just sustenance to them;
it’s their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the
cheese they’ve found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as
something related to our livelihoods — our jobs, our career paths, the
industries we work in-although it can stand for anything, from health to
relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in
the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese
when the cheese we have runs out. Dr. Johnson, co-author of The One Minute
Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups,
schools, military organizations — any place where you find people who may fear
or resist change. And although more analytican and skeptical readers may find
the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural
history in just 94 pages: Things change. They always have changed and always
will change. And while there’s no single way to deal with change, the
consequence of pretending change won’t happen is always the same: The cheese
runs out. Section B
Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique
economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own
highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire,
eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend. The lifelong monetary
problems experienced by his "poor dad" (whose weekly paychecks, while
respectable, were never quite sufficient to meet family needs) pounded home the
counterpoint communicated by his " rich dad" (that "the poor and the middle
class work for money," but "the rich have money work for them"). Taking that
message to heart, Kiyosaki was able to retire at 47. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, written
with consultant and CPA Sharon L. Lechter, lays out the philosophy behind his
relationship with money. Although Kiyosaki can take a frustratingly long time to
make his points, his book nonetheless compellingly advocates for the type of
"financial literacy" that’s never taught in schools. Based on the principle that
income-generating assets always provide healthier bottom-line results than even
the best of traditional jobs, it explains how those assets might be acquired so
that the jobs can eventually be shed. Section
C What do you do after you’ve written the No.1
bestseller The Millionaire Next Door Survey 1,371 more millionaires and write
The Millionaire Mind. Dr. Stanley’s extremely timely tome is a mixture of
entertaining elements. It resembles Regis Philbin’s hit show (and CD-ROM game)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, only you have to pose real-life questions,
instead of quizzing about trivia. Are you a gambling,
divorce-prone, conspicuously consuming "Income-Statement Affluent"
Jacuzzi fool soon to be parted from his or her money, or a frugal, loyal, resole
your shoes and buy your own groceries type like one of Stanley’s "Balance-Sheet
Affluent" millionaires "Cheap dates," millionaires are 4.9 times likelier to
play with their grandkids than shop at Brooks Brothers. "If you asked the
average American what it takes to be a millionaire," he writes, "they’d probably
cite a number of predictable factors: inheritance, luck, stock market
investments ... Topping his list would be a high IQ, high SAT scores and grade
point average, along with attendance at a top college." No way, says Stanley,
backing it up with data he compiled with help from the University of Georgia and
Harvard geodemographer Jon Robbin. Robbin may wish he’d majored in socializing
at LSU, instead, because the numbers show the average millionaire had a lowly
2.92 GPA, SAT scores between 1100 and 1190, and teachers who told them they were
mediocre students but personable people. "Discipline 101 and Tenacity 102" made
them rich. Stanley got straight C’s in English and writing, but he had
money-minded drive. He urges you to pattern your life according to Yale
professor Robert Sternberg’s Successful Intelligence, because Stanley’s
statistics bear out Sternberg’s theories on what makes minds succeedand it ain’t
IQ. Besides offering insights into millionaires’ pinchpenny
ways, pleasing quips ("big brain, no bucks"), and 46 statistical charts with
catchy titles, Stanley’s book booms with human-potential pep talk and bristles
with anecdotes — for example, about a bus driver who made $3 million, a doctor
(reporting that his training gave him zero people skills) who lost $1.5 million,
and a loser scholar in the bottom 10 percent on six GRE tests who grew up to be
Martin Luther King Jr. Read it and you’ll feel like a million bucks.