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Many important leaders of different countries______ in the opening ceremony of the 29th Olympics held on August 8,2008.

A．turned upB．turned downC．turned onD．turned over

A

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　　He's an old cobbler(修鞋匠) with a shop in the Marais, a historic area in Paris. When I took him my shoes, he at first told me, “I haven't time. Take them to the other fellow on the main street; he'll fix them for you right away. ”

　　But I'd had my eye on his shop for a long time. Just looking at his bench loaded with tools and pieces of leather, I knew he was a skilled craftsman(手艺人). “No, ”I re-plied, “the other fellow can't do it well. ”

　　“The other fellow” was one of those shopkeepers who fix shoes and make keys “ while-U-wait ”--without knowing much about mending shoes or making keys. They work carelessly, and when they have finished sewing back a sandal strap (鞋带) you might as well just throw away the pair.

　　The man saw I wouldn't give in, and he smiled. He wiped his hands on his blue apron(围裙), looked at my shoes, had me write my name on one shoe with a piece of chalk and said, “Come back in a week. ”

　　I was about to leave when he took a pair of soft leather boots off a shelf.

　　“See what I can do? ”he said with pride.“Only three of us in Paris can do this kind of work. ”

　　When I got back to the street, the world seemed brand-new to me. He was something out of an ancient legend, this old craftsman with his way of speaking familiarly, his very strange, dusty felt hat, his funny accent from who-knows-where and, above all, his pride in his craft.

　　These are times when nothing is impor-tant but the bottom line, when you can do things in any old way as long as it “pays”,when, in short, people look on work as a path to ever-increasing consumption (消费) rather than a way to realize their own abilities. In such a period it is a rare comfort to find a cobbler who gets his greatest satisfaction from pride in a job well done.

(1) Which of the following is true about the old cobbler?

[　　]

A．He was equipped with the best repai-ring tools.

B．He was the only cobbler in the Marais.

C．He was proud of his skills.

D．He was a native Parisian.

(2) The sentence “He was something out of an ancient legend” (paragraph 7) implies that________.

[　　]

A．nowadays you can hardly find anyone like him

B．it was difficult to communicate with this man

C．the man was very strange

D．the man was too old

(3) According to the author, many people work just to________.

[　　]

A．realize their abilities

B．gain happiness

C．make money

D．gain respect

(4) This story wants to tell us that________.

[　　]

A．craftsmen make a lot of money

B．whatever you do, do it well

C．craftsmen need self-respect

D．people are born equal
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     Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most impor-tant representatives of popular culture.
Fans used to be cra-zy about a specific film,but now the public tends to base its consumption
(消费)on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines
have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover be-cause they don't sell
nearly as well as famous faces. As a result,celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful
market potential,moving from advertising for others' prod-ucts to developing their own.
     Celebrity clothing lines aren't a completely new phenome-non,but in the past they were
typically aimed at the ordinary consumers,and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they're
started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands.
The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style.As
celebrities become more and more experienced at the market,they expand their production
scale rapidly,cover-ing almost all the products of daily life.
      However, for every success story, there's a related warning tale of a celebrity who
overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product's origin is,if it fails
to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional
marketing. And once the initial(最初的) attention dies down,consumer m-terest might fade,
loyalty(忠诚)returning to tired-and-true labels.
     Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrass-ment. The pop-cultural circle might
be bigger than ever,but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each mis-step threatens
to reduce a celebrity's shelf life, and thesame newspaper or magazine that once brought him
fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the  ego's
(自我的 ) potential  for  expansion  is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and
public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next fron-tier to be conquered. As
the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might
last only a short time, but fashion-like celebrity-has always been temporary. 
1. Fashion magazines today _______ .      
A. seldom put models on the cover
B. no longer put models on the cover
C. need not worry about celebrities' market potential
D. judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly
2.A change in the consumer market can be found today that_______.     
A. price rather than brand name is more concerned
B. producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements
C. producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements
D. quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned 
3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly_______.
A. decrease the popularity of a celebrity and the sales of  his products
B. damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the  general public
C. cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show business
D. influence the price of a celebrity's products
4. The passage is mainly about  ______    
A. celebrity and personal style
B. celebrity and market potential
C. celebrity and fashion design
D. celebrity and clothing industry

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