After stepping into the classroom, I glanced round all the students and began my following words. “Thank you” are my  【小题1】 words, which I would like to use to express my deepest  【小题2】 to all of you.
Thinking back to the past 3 years, a lot of things  【小题3】 remain fresh in my memory. I cannot forget your  【小题4】 smile the first time I met you. I cannot forget that you were to  【小题5】  for your being late for class,   【小题6】  when I asked why you were late, you tried to 【小题7】  the fact of buying me a lovely teddy bear for Teacher's Day. I cannot forget your humorous words of breaking  【小题8】  when I was angry about your bad performance. I cannot forget that we share the happiness of success after making great   【小题9】.
With time going by, I come to 【小题10】  that you are the mirror of my life. The mirror can reflect my past and  【小题11】 my future. Looking through the mirror, I'm more aware of my   【小题12】 and weaknesses.
It is you who made me believe love can be  【小题13】 . It is you who made me realize sometimes in the  【小题14】 of pursuing our dreams, we may  【小题15】 some difficulties and setbacks(挫折), but if we set up our mind to do it,   【小题16】 is impossible to a willing heart.
So standing in a higher position, I will help you to  【小题17】  the dreams confidently and firmly,   【小题18】 suffering the mistakes I made when I was your age.
【小题19】 , I pray that kind of friendship can stand the test of  【小题20】  and last forever. I pray that you can get good performance in the entrance examination and make your dreams come true.

【小题21】
A.embarrassing
B.favorite
C.pleased
D.interested
【小题22】
A.admiration
B.respect
C.appreciation
D.apology
【小题23】
A.thus
B.suddenly
C.gradually
D.still
【小题24】
A.innocent
B.funny
C.forced
D.bitter
【小题25】
A.charge
B.blame
C.scold
D.punish
【小题26】
A.but
B.so
C.and
D.or
【小题27】
A.show
B.hide
C.tell
D.explain
【小题28】
A.the ice
B.the silence
C.the glass
D.the rule
【小题29】
A.contributions
B.efforts
C.mistakes
D.promises
【小题30】
A.think
B.accept
C.approve
D.realize
【小题31】
A.foresee
B.expect
C.share
D.guess
【小题32】
A.experience
B.benefits
C.knowledge
D.strengths
【小题33】
A.received
B.awarded
C.rewarded
D.addicted
【小题34】
A.direction
B.history
C.process
D.life
【小题35】
A.make sense of
B.come across
C.put up with
D.take place
【小题36】
A.everything
B.anything
C.nothing
D.something
【小题37】
A.find out
B.look for
C.pick out
D.head for
【小题38】
A.avoiding
B.trying
C.considering
D.delaying
【小题39】
A.In a way
B.After all
C.Above all
D.At this moment
【小题40】
A.examination
B.society
C.time
D.success
 

Taste is such a subjective matter that we don’t usually conduct preference tests for food. The most you can say about anyone’s preference is that it’s one person’s opinion. But because the two big cola companies—Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola are marketed so aggressively, we’ve wondered how big a role taste preference actually plays in brand loyalty. We set up a taste test that challenged people who identified themselves as either Coca-Cola or Pepsi fans: Find your brand in a blind tasting.

We invited staff volunteers who had a strong liking for either Coca-Cola Classic (传统型) or Pepsi, Diet (低糖的) Coke, or Diet Pepsi. These were people who thought they’d have no trouble telling their brand from the other brand.

We eventually located 19 regular cola drinkers and 27 diet cola drinkers. Then we fed them four unidentified samples of cola one at a time, regular colas for the one group, diet versions for the other. We asked them to tell us whether each sample was Coke or Pepsi; then we analyzed the records statistically to compare the participants’ choices with what mere guess-work could have accomplished.

Getting all four samples right was a tough test, but not too tough, we thought, for people who believed they could recognize their brand. In the end, only 7 out of 19 regular cola drinkers correctly identified their brand of choice in all four trials. The diet-cola drinkers did a little worse----only 7 of 27 identified all four samples correctly.

While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times. Two people got all four samples wrong. Overall, half the participants did about as well on the last round of tasting as on the first, so tiredness, or taste burnout, was not a factor. Our preference test results suggest that only a few Pepsi participants and Coke fans may really be able to tell their favorite brand by taste and price.

1.According to the passage the preference test was conducted in order to ________.

A. show that a person’s opinion about taste is mere guess-work

B. compare the ability of the participants in choosing their drinks

C. find out the role taste preference plays in a person’s drinking

D. reveal which cola is more to the liking of the drinkers

2. It is implied but not stated in the first paragraph that ________.

A. the competition between the two colas is very strong

B. blind tasting is necessary for identifying fans

C. the purpose of taste tests is to promote the sale of colas

D. the improvement of quality is the chief concern of the two cola companies

3.The word “burnout” (Line3, Para. 5) refers to the state of _________.

A. being seriously burnt in the skin

B. being badly damaged by fire

C. being unable to function because of excessive use

D. being unable to burn for lack of fuel

4.The author’s purpose in writing this passage is to ________.

A. emphasize that taste and price are closely related to each other

B. recommend that blind tasting be introduced in the quality control of colas

C. show that taste preference is highly subjective

D. argue that taste testing is an important marketing strategy

 

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