1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph refer to
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2. What was the purpose of Goldman"s invention? ( No more than 10 words. )
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3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( No more than 10 words. )
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4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( No more than 10 words. )
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5. What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( No more than 20 words)
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1 . shopping carts
2. It was to make shopping easier and attract more business.
3. Because few customers used his carts
4. Because he wanted to promote his shopping carts.
5. He was a smart businessman. He invented the shopping cart and made it accepted by customers.
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( )1.A. interested ( )2.A. Yet ( )3.A. breath ( )4.A. computer ( )5.A. chat ( )6.A. double ( )7.A. set out ( )8.A. found ( )9.A. photo ( )10. put ( )11. figure ( )12. continued ( )13. surprising ( )14. out ( )15. later | B.bored B.Still B.look B.line B.secret B.classmate B.set off B.ran B.website B.tore B.gentleman B.refused B.puzzling B.so B.sooner | C.delighted C.So C.break C.letter C.post C.example C.set about C.met C.picture C.kept C.angel C.began C.amusing C.up C.more | D.amazed D.Anyway D.moment D.mail D.duty D.image D.set up D.went D.mark D.broke D.lady D.wanted D.outgoing D.away D.earlier | |||||
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Grandfather"s Clock In the dining room of my grandfather"s house stood a heavy grandfather"s clock.Meals in the dining room were a __1__for our four generations to become one.The grandfather"s clock always stood like a trusted old family friend,__2__us playing jokes and telling stories,which was already a __3__of our life. As a child,the old clock interested me.I watched and listened to it during __4__.I was surprised how at __5__times of the day,the clock would strike three times,six times or more,with a wonderful great __6__ that echoed(回音)throughout the house.The clock chimed year after year,a part of my __7__,a part of my heart. Even more __8__to me was my grandfather"s special action each day.He carefully __9__the clock with a special key each day.The key was magic to me.It __10__our family"s magnificent clock ticking and __11__all year round. After my beloved grandfather died,it was several days after the __12__before I remembered the clock!"Mama!The clock has wound down!"The __13__washed my cheeks when I entered the dining room.The clock stood hopelessly as serious and __14__as the funeral ceremony had been.Not quite as magnificent without my grandfather"s __15__touch.I couldn"t bear looking at it. Years later,it worked again.In the movement of the hands of the clock,my grandfather lived again. | ||||||||
( )1. A.time ( )2. A.seeing ( )3. A.start ( )4. A.stories ( )5. A.busy ( )6. A.shock ( )7. A.memories ( )8. A.comfortable ( )9. A.opened ( )10. A.made ( )11. A.singing ( )12. A.funeral ( )13. A.tears ( )14. A.attractive ( )15. A.brave | B. possibility B. hearing B. part B. jokes B. urgent B. sound B. minds B. hopeful B. wound B. controlled B. standing B. death B. sweats B. quiet B. special | C. problem C. watching C. signal C. periods C. happy C. song C. comfort C. wonderful C. turned C. kept C. knocking C. generation C. hair C. noisy C. kind | D. pleasure D. looking D. mark D. meals D. different D. music D. information D. skillful D. started D. fixed D. striking D. ceremony D. water D. magnificent D. strong | |||||
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"Two books per visit per week, "said the unsmiling librarian as she handed a library card.Neither the limits nor her attitude __1__ me, a 9yearold Jewish girl growing up in Berlin in the 1950s.I needed those visits.The books were filled with stories in which, however __2__ things seemed, everything __3__ well in the end, __4__ justice, bravery, and wisdom-a striking contrast to my everyday experiences. Thirty years later, I, a recent immigrant to the US with a daughter aged 13, stood in front of another librarian.This librarian was __5__. "What did she say?"I asked my daughter, who already knew a little English and often __6__ as my interpreter. "She said "Can I help you?"" "Ask if they have any books in German, "I requested. "No, they don"t."translated my daughter. While hunting for a job, I was told that the library needed people to __7__ books.The interview was short-the job didn"t require much English, just a __8__ of the alphabet.I started the next day.Every day, I handled hundreds of books whose meaning was __9__ from me, mentally dividing them by size and color. One day, while shelving, I found English for Beginners and began studying it on my own.Step by step English letters started forming words I could __10__, words combined into phrases, and-oh, __11__!-I was reading.It was a slow process, supported by dictionaries and __12__ by tears, but it was progress. Afterwards I got promoted to the front desk-__13__ books in and out and answering simple questions. Every day I receive dozens of people.Sometimes I spot new immigrants.They come from all over the world, so they look different, but the hesitant expression on their faces and their __14__ manners are similar.My heart goes out to them, for they are people like me.I fully understand the __15__ roads on which they have stepped."They"ve come to the right place, "I think to myself.Then I smile and say-just the way a librarian said to me a long time ago-"Can I help you?" | ||||||||
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