Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phra
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Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping---watching TV and buying things by phone. Now teleshopping is starting in Europe. In some __46__ countries, people can turn on their __47__ and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and __48__ things.
Teleshopping is becoming popular in Sweden. __49__, the biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in fifteen European countries, and in one year, it makes $10 million. In France, there are two teleshopping channels, and the French __50__ about $ 20 million a year in buying things through those channels.
In Germany, __51__ last year teleshopping was only possible on one channel for one hour every day. Then the government allowed more teleshopping. Other channels can __52__ for telebusiness, including the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company. German __53__ are hoping these will help them sell more things.
Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without __54__. With all the traffic problems in cities, going shopping is not an easy thing. But at the same time, other Europeans __55__ like this new way of buying things. They call __56__ “junk on the air.” Many Europeans usually worry about the quality of the things __57__ on TV. They think high quality is the most important thing, and they don’t believe they can be sure about the quality of the things __58__.
The need of high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be __59__ the American companies. They will have to be more careful about __60__ of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot touch or see by themselves.
| 小题1: | | A．European | B．Asian | C．American | D．African |
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| 小题2: | | A．lights | B．switches | C．radios | D．TVs |
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| 小题3: | | A．some else | B．another many | C．the other | D．many other |
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| 小题4: | | A．Such as | B．For example | C．For teleshopping | D．It is like |
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| 小题5: | | A．takes | B．cost | C．spends | D．spend |
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| 小题7: | | A．begin | B．leave | C．open | D．turn on |
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| 小题8: | | A．people | B．women | C．businessmen | D．officials |
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| 小题9: | | A．to go out | B．going out | C．to buy things | D．buying things |
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| 小题10: | | A．still | B．don’t | C．even | D．won’t |
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| 小题11: | | A．teleshopping | B．TV | C．radio | D．telephone |
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| 小题12: | | A．appearing | B．coming out | C．for sale | D．to buy |
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| 小题13: | | A．in the shop | B．on TV | C．they bought | D．by this way |
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| 小题14: | | A．different from | B．the same with | C．as big as | D．larger than |
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| 小题15: | | A．the number | B．the quality | C．the places | D．the buyers |
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答案
小题1:A
小题2:D
小题3:D
小题4:B
小题5:D
小题6:B
小题7:C
小题8:C
小题9:B
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:C
小题13:B
小题14:A
小题15:B |
解析
试题分析：本文介绍了发源于美国并流行于欧洲各国的电话购物法，说明了电话购物法的发展情况以及受大众欢迎的原因，同时也指出了这种购物法存在的问题，并提出了解决这些问题的途径。
小题1:A。上文讲到电话购物法在欧洲也开始起步，本句承接上文，对欧洲的情况作进一步介绍，因此，应选European。
小题2:D。电话购物法，应通过看电视选择物品，然后电话订购， 故应选TVs。
小题3:D。else为副词不用来修饰名词作定语。the other things意为“别的所有商品”不合文意，选项many other things意为“别的许多商品”为正确选项。
小题4:B。such as中的as为介词，因此该词组用于列举时，后面常直接接名词或名词性短语。而for example用于列举时与后面例子常用逗号隔开。因此B为正确选项。
小题5:D。分析句子，不难发现本句使用了“spend money in dong something”这一结构，且主语the French为第三人称复数，故应用spend的原形。
小题6:B。该句子表示“在德国，每天电话购物法仅在一个频道播放一个小时，这种情况一直持续到去年”，表示某状态一直持续到某个点时间，应用“until + 点时间”。
小题7:C。这里open表示“开放，开张，营业”，本句表示电影频道对电话购物实行了开放政策，可用来进行电话购物。
小题8:C。很明显，电话购物法为商人销售产品提供了一个极佳的渠道。因此本句表达了商人的愿望。
小题9:B。without为介词。后面应跟动词的-ing形式。根据文意，going out应为正确选项。
小题10:B。根据本句开头的But以及下文内容，这里提到的是对电话购物持反对态度的人。故选don’t。
小题11:A。一些人不喜欢电话购物法，称其为“垃圾”。故应选teleshopping。
小题12:C。人们担心的是电视上正在销售的产品的质量。A，B意思不对。for sale表示“待售”，为正确选项。
小题13:B。电话购物法令人们担心的是电视上展销的商品的质量，而不是商店里的商品，也不是已经买到手的商品。故选on TV。
小题14:A。根据上文，欧洲人的购物观念与美国人有所不同。因此电话购物公司也得采取不同的措施。固定结构be different form意为“不同于……”为正确答案。
小题15:B。根据上文，消费者关心的是质量。因此电话购物公司必须对质量倍加小心。故选择quality。
点评：本文主要是测试学生综合运用语言的能力，即从语篇的角度综合测试阅读理解能力、词汇的掌握和对英语习惯用语的熟悉程度、以及语法规则的灵活运用。考生做题时必须时刻从上下文考虑，不应该只看到所添的词在短语或句子内是否可行。因此，在做题时最好将全文通读一下，了解了全文的意思以后再作答。 |
举一反三
My son Jack, a fourth grader, was having a hard time in getting interested in story books recently, so I offered to read the first few chapters to him. In the early pages of ‘Incident at Halk Hill’, a quiet little boy has a special meeting with a female badger (獾).Soon after, another badger is caught in a steel leg trap(陷阱), and the author describes in detail the pain and scare of an animal struggling to its death. We meet the cruel hunter and his ill treatment of a dog; we see the badger being skinned by the boy"s father；and we experience the child"s confusion when beaten by his father in anger. Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds, I thought.
Last night , I returned from a weekend away to find that Jack had finished the whole book on his own. “It was really, really good and sad, and violent，” he reported. “There was a lot of killing.”
“Were there any happy parts?" I asked,
"The boy"s life was saved by the badger, and that was good. But then that badger got caught in a trap again and at the end it"s dying, too. ” Jack said, "It was so sad that I almost cried. ”
I told him that many books have made me cry, beginning with Heidi, when I was just his age, right on up to the novel I finished last week.
“Well，” he admitted then, “I actually did cry. Reading that book just reminded me of all the sadness in the world, and it made me feel sad ,too. ”
So, I think, now he has been through the sad tone of the passage , the discovery that words on a printed page can give rise to such strong emotion ，that a book can move you right out of your own comfortable little self and into someone else"s pain. Thus we come to realize that if we are to remain fully engaged in life, open to its mysteries and feel sorry towards its suffering, we indeed need stories to grab（抓住） us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own.
小题1:‘Incident at Halk Hill’ is a _______story.| A．sad | B．happy | C．funny | D．boring |
小题2:The underlined sentence “Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds" means____| A．the book is too long for a ten year old child | | B．the book is too difficult for a ten year old child | | C．the book is too violent(暴力) for a ten year old child | | D．the book is too pretty for a ten year old child |
小题3:According to the passage , stories can be something to help you_____| A．enjoy your spare time | B．develop your care for animals | | C．realize the truth of life | D．think about your own life |
小题4:By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to____.| A．tell a story that interested his son | | B．show the importance of reading stories | | C．share an experience between himself and his son | | D．show how to make children interested in books |
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I had made up my mind a long time ago that I would not give a homeless person money, because I could never be sure what that money would be used for. Instead, I decided, I would buy them a sandwich, a cold drink on a hot day, a cup of coffee, whatever I could manage.
I was out recently and saw a homeless man outside of a Starbucks. I decided I would buy this man lunch. I bought a sandwich and soda.
Just as I was leaving the store, two policemen were approaching the man. Obviously the shop owners had complained of his wandering and the police were there to draw him away from the storefronts. Just as they were about to wake him, I asked one of the officers if it was all right if I just gave the man something before he went. I was not sure why I asked the permission but the policeman said sure and I just left the bag in the man’s cart, got in my car and drove off.
As I was driving off I remember thinking “I hope people saw that”. Then I had to seriously ask myself why I hoped people had seen me give the man a sandwich from Starbucks. Was it because I wanted people to think, “She’s such a nice person!”? Why did I hope others had seen me do it? I continued to wonder this all evening.
The next morning, it came to me that I wanted people to have witnessed that small act of kindness not so that I would receive credit and praise but so that they might be inspired to do the same and in so doing that others still would witness their acts of kindness. Thus the whole spirit of pity and giving would be lasting.
小题1:The underlined word “Starbucks” in the second paragraph is the name of a _________.| A．shop | B．bookstore | C．bank | D．man |
小题2:When the author saw the homeless man, he was __________.| A．begging outside | B．buying goods | | C．staying awake | D．falling asleep |
小题3:What’s the purpose of the passage?| A．To show the author is great. | | B．To encourage people to help others. | | C．To introduce an experience that changed the author. | | D．To call on people not to give money to a homeless man. |
小题4:The author can be best described as __________.| A．bad-tempered | B．hard-working | | C．kind-hearted | D．self-confident |
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Helen was loved as a friendly 1ady by a11 who knew her. She had belonged to the same church for almost all her adult lire and was highly 36.______. Poor Helen was well into her 90’s. Since her husband passed away，she moved in with Jennifer, her young granddaughter. However, life is 37._______. One night driving home from the store, Jennifer was hit dead by a drunk driver. Once again, Helen was alone.
The 38._______ of losing those closest to her and the loneliness of being all alone were 39.______ she could bear. She changed--she fell into 40._______ and hopelessness. Naturally, people around her saw the change. But nobody seemed to know how to 41._______ her. Months passed. It was now December, and the holiday season was 42._______ to be harder than Helen imagined it would be. She felt like she was 43._______, slowly inside. She wondered if she would see Christmas this year.
44._______, the second Sunday of December, the Sunday School teacher came to her with a special request. Would she be 45.______ enough to help decorate the tree that was in the middle of the children’s classroom? Each child had handmade a special decoration to 46.______ on the tree, and they needed assistance. Helen attempted to 47._______ refuse, but the teacher said that the children had requested she be the 48._______ that year. It was important to them for some reason, the teacher whispered.
The night of the special event, Helen was present and wore the best smile. The 49.______ of the young children was bittersweet, which held memories of her dear Jennifer. For the first time in months, though, you could see her eyes 50._______ through tears. She was happy that the children had 51.______ her. Most decorations had been placed on the tree 52._______ a group of nine children came and sat in front of her. Each of them either had no grandmother any longer, 53.______ had never even known theirs. This was a very special celebration and union. In the middle lay a gift-wrapped box 54._______ for her with a card reading “Our Grandma, with love. ”
Christmas this year wasn’t unkind to Helen. No, it was a new 55._______, a brand-new start and nine new reasons to her…
| 小题1: | | A．valued | B．rewarded | C．approved | D．respected |
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| 小题2: | | A．funny | B．challenging | C．boring | D．diverse |
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| 小题3: | | A．weakness | B．coldness | C．sadness | D．tiredness |
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| 小题4: | | A．other than | B．more than | C．rather than | D．1essthan |
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| 小题5: | | A．nervousness | B．anxiety | C．depression | D．separation |
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| 小题6: | | A．acknowledge | B．distinguish | C．appreciate | D．comfort |
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| 小题7: | | A．desired | B．pictured | C．aiming | D．proving |
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| 小题8: | | A．crying | B．dying | C．moving | D．struggling |
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| 小题9: | | A．Gradually | B．Recently | C．Then | D．Meanwhile |
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| 小题10: | | A．kind | B．optimistic | C．patient | D．enthusiastic |
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| 小题11: | | A．base | B．place | C．hide | D．set |
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| 小题12: | | A．politely | B．personally | C．seriously | D．unwillingly |
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| 小题13: | | A．volunteer | B．visitor | C．teacher | D．assistant |
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| 小题14: | | A．view | B．thought | C．sight | D．scenery |
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| 小题15: | | A．staring | B．shining | C．looking | D．1ighting |
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| 小题16: | | A．helped | B．treated | C．invited | D．amused |
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| 小题19: | | A．intended | B．written | C．sent | D．1eft |
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| 小题20: | | A．ending | B．process | C．goal | D．beginning |
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FFather was a hardworking man who delivered bread as a living to support his wife and three children. He spent all his evenings after work attending classes，hoping to improve himself so that he could one day find a better. paid job. Except. for Sundays, Father hardly ate a meal together with his family. He worked and studied very hard because he wanted to provide his family with the best that money could buy.
Whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. Though he often longed to spend more time with his family, he weighed his contribution to his family above everything else.
The day came when the examination results were announced. To his joy, Father passed, and with distinctions too! Soon after, he was offered a good job as a senior supervisor which paid handsomely.
Like a dream come true, Father could now afford to provide his family with life’s little luxuries like nice clothing，fine food and vacation abroad.
However, the family still did not get to see Father for most of the week. He continued to work very hard, hoping to be promoted to the position of manager. In fact, to make himself a worthily candidate for the promotion, he took another course in an open university.
Again, whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. Though he often longed to spend more time with his family, he weighed his contribution to his family above everything else.
Father’s hard work paid off and he was promoted. Happily, he decided to hire a maid to relieve his wife from her domestic tasks. He also felt that their three-room flat was no longer big enough. It would be nice for his family to be able to enjoy the facilities and comfort of a condominium. Having experienced the rewards of his hard work many times before, Father resolved to further his studies and work at being promoted again. The family still did not get to see much of him. In fact, sometimes Father had to work on Sundays entertaining clients.
Over again, whenever the family complained that he was not spending enough time with them, he reasoned that he was doing all this for them. Though he often longed to spend more time with his family, he weighed his contribution to his family above everything else.
As expected, Father"s hard work paid off again and he bought a beautiful condominium overlooking the coast of Singapore. On the first Sunday evening at their new home, Father declared to his family that he decided not to take any more courses or pursue any more promotions. From then on he was going to devote more time to
his family, and it was a promise.
Father did not wake up the next day.
小题1:Father worked and studied very hard because ________.| A．he had to support his family | | B．he was enthusiastic in attending classes | | C．he wanted to bring his family a better lire | | D．he had to so as to reduce his family’s complaint |
小题2:What CAN’T Father get through his hard work?| A．Family time. | B．Higher education. | C．Better housing. | D．Vacation abroad. |
小题3:How would the family feel when “Father did not wake up the next day”?| A．To their joy, Father can have a good rest in the end. | | B．They should have stopped Father from working so hard. | | C．Thank God, Father can stay home with them. | | D．There is no point working hard for a better life. |
小题4:What is the function of the italicized(斜体)paragraphs in this passage?| A．To make readers show sympathy for Father. | | B．To show how stubborn Father was. | | C．To make readers fee l how hard Father worked. | | D．To imply a sad ending to the story. |
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Christmas is long gone. and Valentine’s Day is a distant memory. That means it"s a slow time for jewelers, and a good time for you to make a purchase. Whether you’re out shopping for gold, or silver, here fife a few things you need to know:
What determines price?
The purity of the metal is one of the elements that determines the price. Gold purity is indicated with a stamp of 10K, 14K, 18K, or 24K. And different countries have their own standards. For example, for a piece to be considered gold in the US, it must be at least 10K. In Britain and Canada: 9K. In Italy and France: l 8K. Anything over l 8K is really too soft for everyday wear. That’s why jewelry stores in the US sell mostly 14K.
How much can you expect to pay?
That depends on the weight of the metal and the gemstone(宝石). So keep that in mind, especially when buying online. To keep yourself from getting ripped off, ask yourself the following:
●How long has the company been around?
●What is its return policy?
● Is the jewelry featured on the website visible from all directions?
● Is the company transparent with the gram weights and the size of the gemstones?
Yellow gold? White? Rose?
Yes, it"s confusing, and while this is largely a personal decision, there fife a few things to keep in mind. For starters. white or rose gold costs about l 0% more than yellow gold. If you want the “look for less”, consider gold. plated jewelry. “Gold plated” and “gold overlay” mean the same thing and guarantee a thicker layer of finish than “vermeil” which is a flash finish that is thinner and less consistent, but more affordable. Buy vermeil finished pieces you want for a season or two just to follow the fashion. For pieces you want to wear for a lifetime, solid gold is best.
What about sterling silver(标准纯银)?
Sterling silver has been。an alternative for white gold during the difficult economy, and while it used to be more popular with just the younger these days it has much more mass appeal. So much so that retailers are now offering fine gemstones with silver--something you used to see only with gold.
Keep in mind that in the US. the sterling silver standard is 92.5% real silver. Don’t buy it if there isn’t a “925” stamp on it. And keep in mind that the lower price you’re paying for silver means more maintenance. To keep silver jewelry from becoming less shiny, consider keeping a piece of chalk in your jewelry box.
小题1:According to the passage, the underlined phrase “getting ripped off” in Paragraph 3 probably means “_______”.| A．being charged | B．being cheated | C．being affected | D．being attracted |
小题2:Which of the following is relatively good for only wearing a short time?| A．A 14K necklace. | B．A gold-plated ring. | | C．A vermeil ear ring. | D．A gemstone necklace. |
小题3:We call infer from the last paragraph that silver jewelry should be kept ________ | A．in a dry place | B．in a cold place | C．in a wet place | D．in a hot place |
小题4:The author writes the passage mainly to ________.| A．encourage young people to buy fashionable jewelry | | B．tell people the best time to purchase gold and silver | | C．introduce the real value and popularity of gold and silver | | D．inform people of the factors to consider in buying jewelry |
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