题目内容
Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart（购物手推车）. They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging（吃力地携带）groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.
After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.
But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的）customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
76. The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ____________.
（No more than 3 words）
77. What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention?（No more than 10 words）
_________________________________________________________________________.
78. Why was Goldman disappointed at first?（No more than 10 words）________________________________________________________________
79. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market?（No more than 10 words）______________________________________________________________
80. What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons.（No more than 20 words）_________________________________________________________________
76. shopping carts 77. It was to make shopping easier attract more business.
78. Because few customers used his carts.
79. Because he wanted to promote his shopping carts.
80. He was a smart businessman. He invited the shopping cat and made it accepted by customers.
Or
He was smart but he shouldn’t have used tricks to attract customers.
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从16 ~ 30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was Christmas Eve, but I had to work in 
the clinic. The only thing that 16 my day w
as the beautiful Christmas tree in our waiting room and a 17 sent to me by my boyfriend — a dozen red roses.
As I was cleaning my desk, I was told that a 18 in the office urgently needed to speak with me. Stepping out, I 19 a tired-looking woman with a baby in her arms. 20 , she explained that her husband was my next 21 . The guards were to bring him to the office that afternoon. She wasn’t allowed to visit her husband in 22 , so he had never seen his son. She 23 me to let the boy’s father sit in the waiting room with her as 24 as possible before I called him for his appointment. I agreed.
A short time later, her husband arrived. The woman’s tired face 25 when her husband sat beside her. They laughed, cried and shared their child.
After almost an hour, I called the prisoner in. He seemed like a 26 and humble man. I 27 what he possibly could have done to be held under such conditions. I tried to make him comfortable.
Finally, I wished him a Merry Christmas—a(n) 28 thing to say to a man headed back to prison. He smiled and thanked me. He also said sadly that he couldn’t get his wife anything for Christmas. Hearing this, I was 29 with a wonderful idea.
I’ll never forget the 30 on both their faces as the prisoner gave his wife the beautiful roses.
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