题目内容
He bought a book with the _______.
A. remaining 50 dollars B. remained 50 dollars C. remain 50 dollars D. 50 remained dollars
A
Do you know of anyone who uses the truth to deceive (欺骗)? When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can give you a false picture.
For example, someone might say, I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!
This guy's a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought $ 200 worth of tickets, and only one was a winner. He’s really a big loser!
He didn’t say anything that was false, but he left out important information on purpose. That’s called a half-truth. Half truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest.
Some politicians often use this trick. Let’s say that during Governor Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her opponents (对手) says, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million jobs!” That’s true. However, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs.”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s against the law to make false statements so they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might say, “Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache.” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company.
This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
1.How much did the lottery winner lose?
A.One hundred dollars. |
B.Two hundred dollars. |
C.Three hundred dollars. |
D.Four hundred dollars. |
2.We may infer that the author believes people should ______.
A.buy lottery tickets |
B.make use of half-truths |
C.not take anything at false value |
D.not trust the Yucky Company |
3.What do the underlined words “net gain” in Paragraph 5 mean?
A.final increase |
B.big advantage |
C.large share |
D.total saving |
4.What can we know from the example of the Yucky Pill advertisement?
A.False statements are easy to see through. |
B.Half-truths are often used to mislead people. |
C.Doctors like to act in advertisements. |
D.Advertisements are based on facts. |
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Success story
Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.Frank is now the head of a very large business company. 1 .It was his job to repair bicycles 2 .He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small work-shop of his own.During the war Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. 3 .By the end of the war, 4 which employed seven hundred and twenty-enght people.Frank smiled when he remembered 5 .He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.She wanted him to repair their son’s bicycle!
A.At that time he had two helpers |
B.But as a boy he used to work in a small shop |
C.He wanted to repair their son’s bicycle |
D.And at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day |
E.His hard early years and the long road to success
F.The small work-shop had become a large factory
G.He wanted to succeed.