题目内容
SALESMAN: Hi, young lady. Can I help you?
CUSTOMER: 6
SALESMAN: Okay. How about getting your father a new wallet?
CUSTOMER: Hmm. How much is that black wallet?
SALESMAN: Oh. It’s only $ 40.95.
CUSTOMER: 7
SALESMAN: Hmm. How about this brown leather one? It’s $25.99.
CUSTOMER: Um... I don’t think my father will like the design on the outside, and it doesn’t have a place to put pictures. Besides, I don’t have that much money.
SALESMAN: 8
CUSTOMER: I’m not sure. Probably about ten dollars or so. I’ve been helping my mom around the house for the past week to earn some money. This is all I have.
SALESMAN: 9
CUSTOMER: That’s really pretty, but the price tag says $13.99, and I know I don’t have that much.
SALESMAN: Well, let’s just say the tie went on sale. How about $5? What do you say?
CUSTOMER: 10
A.Okay. How much do you have to spend? |
B.Excuse me, where can I buy this kind of camera? |
C.Well... yeah. I’m looking for a Father’s Day gift. |
D.Oh, thanks, I’ll take it. |
E. Huh? That’s too expensive for me. Do you have a cheaper one?
F. Hmm. How about this tie?
6—10 CEAFD
【解析】略
Mr. Briggs got a job with an insurance company(保险公司) after he left school and went around visiting people in their homes to sell them life insurance. One day, after he had been working for the company for about a year, the insurance manager sent for him and said, “Mr. Briggs, I have been looking at your record as a salesman with our company, and there is one thing that surprises me about it. Why have you been selling insurance only to people over 95 years old, and why have you been giving them such generous(宽厚的)conditions? You’ll ruin our company if you go on like that.”
“Oh, no, sir,” answered Mr. Briggs at once, “Before I started work, I looked at the figures(数字) for deaths in this country during the past ten years, and I can tell you that few people die at the age of 95.”
【小题1】 Before he worked in an insurance company, what was Mr. Briggs?______.
A.He was a worker. | B.He was an official. |
C.He was a student. | D.He was a businessman. |
A.lose | B.break | C.leave | D.destroy |
A.Mr. Briggs had studied the figures for deaths for several years. |
B.Mr. Briggs began to look at the figures after he started work. |
C.A great number of very old people die every year. |
D.The number of the very old people who died every year is small. |
After a 15-year ban on the sale of fireworks in Beijing, Kang Guoliang, 51, was able to start his old trade again yesterday.
As a salesman in Xinhui store in Dongcheng District, he is happy about the increasing number of buying fireworks wrapped in red paper — a color standing for happiness and good luck.
“Fireworks are available for the first time in town for more than a decade,” Kang said happily.“People will buy them.”
The store has 300 boxes of fireworks piled up and is open 24 hours at the moment.Residents are buying the fireworks and firecrackers for the upcoming Spring Festival, which falls on February 18.
Citywide, 2,116 registered stores and retailers, 585 in the centre and 1,600 on the outskirts are trading fireworks in the Chinese capital.Sales of fireworks within the Fifth Ring Road started yesterday and will last until March 4, Xinhua reported.Among the stores, 117 stores are permitted to operate 24 hours.About 600,000 boxes of firecrackers worth more than 100 million yuan have been carried to registered stores.
The Chinese capital began a ban in 1993 to reduce fireworks-related deaths and fires during the holiday season.Last September the ban was removed in response to residents’ fondness for fireworks when celebrating Spring Festival.
According to new rules, Beijing residents are allowed to set off fireworks within the Fifth Ring Road all day on Lunar New Year’s Eve and Lunar New Year’s day, from 7 a.m.to midnight every day from February 19 to March 4.
“Spring Festival without fireworks is not Spring Festival,” said Sheng Hefei, who was buying fireworks in the store.“It was fun to light the firecrackers when I was little,” he said.“The sound and view of fireworks make a real holiday.” However, not all residents welcome the return of firecrackers because of injuries, pollution and noise.“My child is scared of the sudden sound of firecrackers, and it is annoying to hear it all night long,” complained Lu Jun, a local resident.
(China Daily02/11/2008)
1.The passage is likely to belong to a(n)__________?
A.description |
B.argument |
C.advertisement |
D.news report |
2.What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.Beijing fireworks sales start after a 15-year ban. |
B.People go to buy fireworks and firecrackers every where in Beijing. |
C.Beijing residents all welcome the return of firecrackers. |
D.Many stores began to sell fireworks and firecrackers. |
3.We can learn from the passage that ____________.
A.every Spring Festival falls on February 18 |
B.Beijing residents can set off fireworks everywhere . |
C.fireworks are allowed to be sold because people like them. |
D.from February 19 to March 4, Beijing residents can set off fireworks twenty four hours every day. |
4.What is the writer’s attitude towards the sales of fireworks in Beijing?
A.Negative |
B.Not mentioned |
C.Positive |
D.Satisfactory |