For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping-watching TV and buying things by phone. Now
teleshopping is 1 in Europe. In a number of European countries, people 2 rurn on their TVs and shop for
clothes,jewelry, food, and many other things.
Teleshopping is becoming 3 in Europe. The biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on
TV in European countries,and in one year it can 4 about $100 million. In France there are two teleshopping
5 , and the French spend about $20 million a year buying things 6 these channels. In Germany, teleshopping
was only one channel for an hour every day last year. Now the government 7 opening other channels for
teleshopping,including the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company.
German businessmen hope this new teleshopping will help them sell 8 things.
Some people like teleshopping 9 they can do some shopping without leaving their homes, espccially in
the 10 with heavy traffic. 11 at the same time,other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. They
call teleshopping "Junk 12 ".They usually 13 the quality of the things sold on TV.
The 14 for high quality makes the European teleshopping companies have to be different from the
American companies. 15 will have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell if they want
to make money.
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| The 1990s saw great changes in the way people communicate. People could send mail without going to the post office, and go shopping without leaving home. 1_____ The cause of this great change was the Internet. The idea for the Internet began in the early 1960s in the United States. The Department of Defense wanted to connect their computers together in order to share private information. In 1969, the ARPA (an early from of the Internet) first connected computers at four American universities. 2_____ In 1972, scientists shared ARPA net with the world. They created a way to send person-to-person messages using ARPA net. This was the beginning of e-mail. 3_____ However, most people were not using the Internet. Then, in the 1980s, personal computers became more common. In the early 1990s, two important things happened: the birth of the World Wide Web in 1991, and the creation of the first Web browser (浏览器) in 1993. The Web made it easier to find information on the Internet, and to move from place to place using links. The Web and browser made it possible to see information at a website with pictures, sound, and words. Today, millions of people connect to the Internet to send e-mails, visit website, or store information on servers. 4_____ And computers are changing how we learn, work, shop, and communicate. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. Computers are now an important part of our lives. B. One computer successfully sent information to another. C. Words like e-mail and download became part of people"s vocabulary. D. Over the next few years, there was a lot of progress made in the world of computing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| A good way to pass an exam is to work hard every day. You may not pass an exam if you don"t work hard for most time and then work a few days before the exam. If you are taking an English exam, don"t only learn the rules of grammar. Try to read stories in English and speak English whenever you can. Before you start the exam, read carefully over the question paper. Try to understand the exact (确切的) meaning of each question before you pick up your pen to write. When you have at last finished your exam, read over your answers. Correct the mistakes if there are many and make sure that you have not missed anything out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. You do well in an exam by ________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. working hard every day B. only read stories in English C. staying up late the night before an exam D. working hard only a few days before an exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. Learning the rules of grammar ________ to pass an English exam. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. is enough B. is not enough C. is not necessary D. is of no use | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. It is not a good way ________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. to read English stories B. to learn rules of garmmar C. to speak English as often as possible D. to work hard only a few days before an exam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. The word "whenever" means ________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. only in class B. what time C. at any time D. forever | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. "You haven"t missed anying out" means ________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. you haven"t thought hard about anything B. you haven"t hard enough time to do angthing C. you have done everything D. you have given th wrong answer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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