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  A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers.“last week, ” said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church.As it was a present, I spent twice its worth in advertising, but didn't get it back.”

“How did you write your advertisement?”asked one of the listeners, a merchant.

“Here it is, said the man, taking out of his pocket a slip cut from a newspaper.The other man took it and read, “Lost from the City Church last Sunday evening, a black silk umbrella.The gentleman who finds it will receive ten shillings on leaving it at No.10 Broad Street.”

“Now, ”Said the merchant, “I often advertise, and find that it pays me well.But the way in which an advertisement is expressed is of extreme importance.Let us try for your umbrella again, and if it </PGN0332.TXT/PGN>fails, I'll buy you a new one.”

The merchant then took a slip of paper out of his pocket and wrote:“If the man who was seen to take an umbrella from the City Church last Sunday evening doesn't wish to get into trouble, he will return the umbrella to No.10 Broad Street.He is well known.”

This appeared in the paper, and on the following morning, the man was astonished when he opened the front door.In the doorway lay at least twelve umbrellas of all sizes and colours that had been thrown, and his own was among them.Many of them had notes fastened to them saying that they had been taken by mistake, and begging the loser not to say anything about the matter.

60. The result of the first advertisement was that ______________.

A. the umbrella was found somewhere near the church

B. the man got his umbrella back

C. the man wasted some money advertising

D. nobody found the missing umbrella

61. The merchant suggested that the man should _______________.

A. buy a new umbrella           

B. write another and better advertisement  

C. go on looking for his umbrella

D. report the police

62. “If it fails, I’ll buy you a new one,” suggested that the merchant

_______________.

A. wanted to buy him a new umbrella

B. didn’t know what to do            

C. was rich enough to buy one

D. was quite sure of success       

63. The story is mainly about _________________.

A. a useless advertisement    

B. how to make an effective advertisement

C. what the merchant did for the umbrella owner

D. how the man lost and found his umbrella

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  Can you imagine what life would be like if there is no telephone? You could not call your friends 1 the phone and talk to them. If fire 2 out in your house, you could not 3 the fire department. If somebody were 4 , you could not call a doctor.

  In our 5 life, we need to communicate with one another. We do this 6 by speaking to other people and listening to 7 they have to say to us, and as we are 8 to them we can do this very 9 . However, our voices will not travel very far even when we 10 . It is thanks to the 11 of the telephone that we are 12 able to communicate with each other 13 hold conversations when we are far 14 . We can hear each other clearly 15 we were in the same room.

  The man who 16 this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman. Bell, a teacher of visible speech 17 later moved to Canada, 18 all his spare time experimenting. He was 19 active in his research for a means of sending speech by electricity that he left 20 time for his day-to-day work and at one time was almost penniless.

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  On a hot summer day in late August, I sought shade and a cool drink at a waterfront cafe on a Greek island.Over a hundred degrees in   1  air.Crowded.Tempers(脾气)of both the tourists and waiters had   2  to meet the situation, making it a rather quarrelsome environment(环境).

  At the table next to mine sat an attractive,   3  couple, waiting for   4  .They held hands, whispered, kissed, and laughed.Suddenly they stood, picked up their   5   and stepped together   6   the edge of where they were sitting to place the table in the sea water.The man stepped   7   for the two chairs.He politely   8   his lady in the knee-deep water and then sat down himself.All people around laughed and cheered.

    9   appeared.He paused for just a second, walked into the water to   10   the table and take their   11  , and then walked back to the   12  cheers of the rest of his   13  .Minutes later he returned carrying a bottle of wine and two glasses.Without pausing, he went   14   into the water to   15   the wine.The couple toasted(祝酒)each other, the waiter and the crowd.And the crowd   16   by cheering and throwing flowers to them.Three other tables   17   to have lunch in the water.The place was now filled with laughter.

  One doesn’t step into water in one’s best summer clothes.Why not?

  Customers are not served   18  .Why not?

  Sometimes one should consider   19   the line of convention(常规)and enjoy   20   to the fullest.

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anxious

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familiar

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  This story took place in France during World War Ⅱ.At the edge of the forest lived a French girl named Marie.She spent her time looking   1   goats in the forest.

  One day, she was sitting on a fallen tree,   2   she heard a voice from behind the bush.It said, “Don’t look around, but listen   3  .You know the little window in the roof over your bed and hold your   4   lamp just under the window for ten minutes.And then put   5   the light and go to sleep.”

  She did   6   the unseen man told her.She could hear a plane flying round and round   7   her cottage.“I’m helping the plane!” Marie said to   8  

  At that time thousands of French people were   9   in the forests and mountains to resist the Germans.They were in need of food and weapons, which had to be   10   to them from planes coming from England.In this way, Marie carried out   11  

  One morning Marie met the owner of the voice, a young French soldier.He sat near her and said, “Thank you, Marie, for what you have done.Tonight is very important.Things of great   12   will be dropped and the light must be shown at 3 o’clock in the morning.Can you keep   13   till then?” “I’ll not   14  ,” Marie answered.Night fell.Two   15   soldiers burst in, gun in hand.They searched the cottage and remained in her room and she was   16   to go outside.She sat still, wondering what she could do.She couldn’t stand on the bed to show the light.She remembered her   17   to the French soldier.The enemies were asleep.Just then she had an idea.Noiselessly she got out of the room and   18   fire to the hay.In a moment the cottage was burning.She ran   19   the forest.In the morning, the French soldier came.“You’ve done well, Marie,” he said, “You did not fail.The plane   20   us what we need.Your parents are safe.Come and join us.”

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carried

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sent

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value

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Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants. But in the executive(主管的) circle, beauty can become a liability.

  While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman.

  Handsome male executives were considered having more honesty than plainer men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success.

  Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck.

  All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.

  Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the "manly"qualifies required.

  This is true even in politics, "When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently, " says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates(候选人). She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.

  The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.

  The word "liability" most probably means ________.

  A. disadvantage B. advantage   C. misfortune   D. trouble

 Bowman's experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness________

  A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men

  B. is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women

  C. has as little effect on men as on women

  D. affects men and women alike

  It can be inferred from the passage that people's views on beauty are often________.

  A. practical   B. supportive   C. old - fashioned D. one - sided

  The author writes this passage to ________.

  A. give advice to job - seekers who are attractive

  B. discuss the disadvantages of being attractive

  C. demand equal rights for women

  D. state the importance of appearance

Hi!Have you ever suddenly felt that someone you knew was in trouble—and was he? Have you ever dreamed something that came true later? Maybe you have ESP (超感觉知觉).
  ESP stands for Extrasensory Perception. It may be called a sixth sense. It seems to let people know about events before they happen, or events that are happening some distance away.
  Here's an example. A woman was ironing clothes. Suddenly she screamed, "My father is dead! I saw him sitting in the chair!" Just then, a telegram came. The woman's father died of a heart attack. He died sitting in a chair.
  There are thousands of stories like this one on record. Scientists are studying them to find out what's behind these strange mental messages. Here's another example—one of hundreds of dreams that have come true.
  A man dreamed he was walking along a road when a horse and carriage came by. The driver said, "There's room for one more." The man felt the driver seemed dead, so he ran away. The next day, when the man was getting on a crowded bus, the bus driver said, "There's room for one more."
  Then the man saw that the driver's face was the same face he had seen in the dream. He wouldn't get on the bus. As the bus drove off, it crashed and burst into flames. Everyone was killed!
  Some people say stories like these are coincidences. Others, including some scientists, say that ESP is real. From studies of ESP, we may someday learn more about the human mind.
【小题1】According to the passage, the author believes that the sixth sense is ________.

A.in existence B.imaginative C.not real D.impossible
【小题2】ESP lets people know _________.
A.about events before they happen
B.about events after they happen
C.about events that are happening some distance away
D.A and C
【小题3】In the last paragraph the underlined word "coincidences" probably means _______.
A.things that may not happen
B.things that happen in a dream
C.things that must happen
D.things that happen by accident
【小题4】This article is mainly about ________.
A.the human dreamB.the sixth sense
C.the human mind D.a crowded bus

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