题目内容
2.Do you have a spare room in your house?What about a driveway for your car?Both of these can help you make money.Many people who are short of money are taking advantage of what's been called the"sharing economy".Perhaps the best-known example of a company in this field is Airbnb-an American web business which allows you to rent out your spare room to holidaymakers.It says it operates in 34,000 cities of more than 190countries and it has over 2,000,000 listings.It seems to have cornered the market!
A British company is doing something with parking spaces.JustPark's founder,Anthony Eskinazi,says,"When I had the original idea,I spotted a driveway close to a sports stadium.It would have been so convenient if I could have just parked in that driveway rather than in a commercial car park."And he has a big clientele(顾客):around 20,000 people have advertised their spaces on the site,and he says around half a million drivers use it.There are other sites doing very similar things,like Uber and Lyft-these let drivers share their cars with other passengers.Any driver knows how valuable a place to park is.A church near Kings Cross in central London has apparently made over£200,000 by renting out space in this yard to travelers!
Because this is a new business world,those rules aren't there yet and many people are happy to share as long as it pays!
But the sharing economy has its shortages:the competitors of these new companies.People who run things like traditional B&B,commercial car parks and taxi services are afraid of ending up losing money.And there is another issue,regulations on these new businesses are unclear.How will renting out your driveway affect your neighbor?
32.Which can best replace the underlined word"cornered"in Paragraph 2?B
A.determined by
B.taken control of
C.benefited from
D.come onto
33.Why are a lot of people happy to share according to Paragraph 4?B
A.To avoid tax.
B.To make a profit.
C.To get over limits to them.
D.To gain more convenience.
34.Which of the following may be against the sharing economy?D
A.A church with a large free yard.
B.A driver needing a parking place.
C.A traveler looking for a spare room.
D.A hotel owning good accommodations.
35.How is the future of the new business according to the last paragraph?B
A.Modern and effective.
B.Effective but worrying.
C.Hopeful and satisfying.
D.Creative but unpractical.
分析 本文是一片应用文,主要介绍了一些能够获益的方法与例子.文中通过几个例子告诉我们只要能够用心观察每一处的机会,你就会成功从中获益
解答 32.B;词义猜测题.根据前文"It says it operates in 34,000 cities of more than 190 countries and it has over 2,000,000 listings."(该公司表示,该公司在190多个国家的34000多个城市运营,它拥有超过2,000多万的上市),可知后文的它似乎已经把市场逼上绝路了,也就是它控制了市场.故选B.
33.B;细节理解题.根据文中"Because this is a new business world,those rules aren't there yet and many people are happy to share as long as it pays!"(因为这是一个新的商业世界,这些规则还没有,很多人都乐于分享,只要它付出),可知人们乐于分享是为了赚钱.故选B.
34.D;细节理解题.根据文中"which allows you to rent out your spare room to holidaymakers"(它允许你把你的空余房间出租给度假者),可知分享经济倡导分享,而D项A hotel owning good accommodations(有良好住宿条件的旅馆),与分享经济相冲突.故选D.
35.B;细节理解题.根据文中"regulations on these new businesses are unclear."(关于这些新业务的规定尚不清楚),可知新业务的前景是有效,但还是有很多担忧的,故选B.
点评 本文考察学生的理解推断能力以及细心程度,只要抓住文章的关键词,采用寻读的方法查找细节,就能找到正确答案.
Chinese writing began thousands of years ago.According to an ancient story,a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing.One winter day while he was hunting,he saw the tracks of animals in the snow and observed that the appearance of each one was different.Then he had the idea that he could use different shapes to represent different objects.The first Chinese characters were drawings of physical objects.Some characters have been simplified and others have been made more difficult over time.However,as a whole the characters have developed from drawings into standard forms.
Not all characters were developed from drawings of objects.Sometimes to express ideas,some characters were made by combining two or more characters together.Other characters were developed for directions and numbers.It is easy to distinguish their meanings by looking at them.
Though these kinds of characters indicate meanings,one of their shortcomings is that they do not show how they should be pronounced.Therefore,a method was developed to have one part of a character indicate the meaning and the other suggest the pronunciation.Many Chinese characters used today were made this way.
In the 1950s the Chinese government introduced simplified Chinese characters and now they have widespread use in China's mainland.
Brief(61 )intruduction | The Chinese language is (62 )different from western language because it uses characters to (63 )represent ideas,objects or deeds. |
The origins of Chinese characters | An idea (64 )occurredto Cangjie after he observed the tracks of animals (65 )whose appearance differed from each other in the snow. |
The(66 )developments/evolutions of Chinese characters | •As a whole,the characters developed from drawing into standard forms. •Some characters were made by comining two or more characters together,whose meanings are easy to (67 )distinguish. •Many Chinese characters consists of two parts,one (68 )indicatingthe meaning and the other suggesting the pronunciation. •Now,Chinese characters have become much (69 )simpler and been used in china's mainland (70 )widely. |
A. | get closed to | B. | get close to | ||
C. | getting close to | D. | getting closed to |