I never thought I would have a life-changing experi?ence at Wal-Mart.

Although my thoughts were only on speed, the checkout line I was standing in wasn't moving as quickly as I wanted, and I glanced towards the cashier.

There stood a man in his seventies, wearing glasses and a nice smile. I thought, well, he's an old guy!

For the next few minutes I watched him. He greeted every customer before scanning the items. Sure, his words were usual, " How's it going?" But he did something different~he actually listened to people. Then he would respond to what they had said and engage them in brief conversation.

I thought it was odd. I have grown accustomed to people asking me how I was doing simply out of robotic conversational habit. After a while, you don't give any

thought to the question and just mumble something back. I could say, "I just found out I have six months to live," and someone would reply, "Have a great day!,, But that wasn't the end.

He gave them the change, walked around the counter, and extended his right hand in an act of friend?ship. He looked at the customers in the eyes. "I surely want to thank you for shopping here today," he told them. "You have a great day. Bye.,,

The looks on the faces of the customers were price?less. There were smiles and some sheepish grins. All had been touched by his simple gesture―and in a place they never expected. They would gather their things and walk out, smiling.

Of course, he did the same to me and I got to know his name, Marty.

Who was that guy? It was as if Sam Walton had come back from the dead and invaded this old guy's body.

I had never walked away from that shop feeling like

that.

5.    The checkout line the writer was standing in moved slower than expected because .

A.    the cashier couldn't work as fast as others

B.    there were some big purchases

C.    the cashier did more than scanning the items

D.    the writer was not patient enough

6.    What was most customers' reaction to Marty's behaviours?

A.    They thought it priceless.

B.    They were in some way moved.

C.    They thought it awful and odd.

D.    They felt somewhat offended.

7.    What can we infer about Sam Walton?

A.    He might be Marty's father or grandfather.

B.    He might be friendly and devoted to Wal-Mart.

C.    He might have died while working in the mar?ket.

D.    He might have come back from the dead once be?fore.

8.    What does the writer intend to express through the text?

A.    Our everyday life is always full of surprises.

B.    Most customers enjoy being treated this way.

C.    Being different is a good way of doing business.

D.    A little positive action can make a big difference.

People say one man's trash(垃圾)is another man's treasure. That 5 comes to me as I 6 the house purchased in 1962 by my parents. My mother passed a-way in 1996. My father left the house 7 my sister and me when he died a few months ago.

After Dad was 8, we looked around the 9 house where we grew up and that Dad loved so much. At first we felt so 10 all the stuff(东西)left. Like so many of their generation, my parents 11 every?thing. And like many of my generation, we faced anxious  12    about what to abandon and what to keep.

As we started throwing out old phone books and every medical bill from every 13 my parents ever saw, I also 14 many hidden treasures. Mum's pocketbook was in their bedroom closet, which had everything in it, 15 her hairbrush with hair, as if she were still here. And Dad, who was a World War H veteran(退伍军人)and a world traveller, 16 every?thing—from little spoons from all over the world to every letter he wrote to his parents while in the 17 . The letters he wrote during the war 18 his thoughts as a young man. Later, in the basement, I 19 our old kitchen table, which brought back 20 of my parents and sister and me having breakfast together.

I'm realizing all these things 21 my parents' life journey. Each time I go to 22 ,1 find something that reminds me of my childhood or teaches me some?thing about my parents 1 23 knew. 24 , from the shabby furniture to all the hidden treasures, means more to me than all the money in the world.

5.    A. coincidence       B. goal

C.  principle  D. thought

6.    A. looked for  B.  looked through

C.  looked into     D.  looked after

7.    A. to       B. for

C.  with D. by

8.    A. retired       B. ill

C.   gone      D. injured

9.    A. clean  B. strange

C.   empty                         D. modern

10.   A. pleased with      B.  familiar with

C.  astonished at   D.   disappointed at

11.   A. saved  B. enjoyed

C.  purchased       D. designed

12.   A. decisions    B. bargains

C.  challenges       D. responsibilities

13.   A. person       B. doctor

C.   neighbour     D. child

14.   A. bought       B. discovered

C.  buried     D. lost

15.   A. just     B. even

C.  only D. yet

16.   A. liked   B. bought

C.  kept D. lost

17.   A. countryside       B. school

C.   college   D. army

18.   A. received     B. directed

C.   sensed    D. described

19.   A. repaired     B. cleaned

C.  spotted    D. set

20.   A. introductions     B. memories

C.  descriptions     D. communications

21.   A. represent    B. recognize

C.   instruct  D. confirm

22.   A. the supermarket B. church

C.  my office D.  the house

23.   A. merely       B. always

C.  really      D. never

24.   A. Everything B. Nothing

C.  Anything D. Something

Cheaters called " pirates" often use camcorders (便携式摄像机)and cellphones to make illegal copies of blockbusters (大片)in the local theatre. These pirates then sell those recordings on the street or over the Internet at very low prices. Some share them for free.

"It's unfair for people to pirate movies," says 15-year-old Hadaia Azad Ezzulddin. " Movie piracy takes money out of the pockets of thousands of people in the movie industry," she notes. Victims include famous actors and directors as well as local theatre owners and their employees.

Hadaia came up with an idea that could help stop movie piracy. Hadaia's idea is to use infrared (红外线的)light. This range of light is invisible to the human eye. It is visible, however, to many types of cameras. Theatre owners could place small infrared lights on their movie screens. The lights would not disturb people watching the movie.   It would,  however,  distort the recordings made by many types of cameras.

To test her idea, Hadaia built a box with a movie screen inside. Then, she projected images on that screen through a hole in the box. She took recordings of those images, using nine different types of cameras. These included the types found in cellphones as well as camcorders. During some tests, she also turned on light emitting diodes (发光二极管),or LEDs. The LEDs were embedded (植入的)in a certain place behind the movie screen. They gave out infrared light.

Sure enough, she showed, a pirated movie included odd stripes or spots if it had been recorded while the LEDs were on. It might be possible to use the LEDs to flash the date and time on the movie screen. The information would then appear in the illegal recordings. Theatre owners or police might use the information to track down the pirates.

Cutting down on piracy might get more people into theatres to watch the real movie instead of an illegal copy. Six out of every ten films now produced aren't profitable. They don't make enough money to recover how much is spent to make and market the films. Such a poor payback can discourage film-makers from producing anything but the types expected to become blockbuster hits. It might also keep smaller theatres from showing a wider variety of movie types.

5.    From what Hadaia says in Paragraph 2, we can infer that        .

A.    most people spend less money on pirate movies

B.    the pirates don't have to pay for the movie tickets

C.    theatre owners will increase the price of movie tickets

D.    she strongly criticizes those who video movies in the theatre

6.    Infrared lights are put on the movie screens to .

A.    adjust the brightness of the movie screens

B.    make sure the images of movies are dark

C.    protect the eyesight of viewers in the darkness

D.    make illegal copies of movies unpleasant to see

7.    What is the correct order of the steps in Hadaia'.s test?

a.     She projected pictures on the screen.

b.    She used cameras to record the pictures.

c.     She turned on the LEDs placed behind the screen.

d.    She made a special box with a movie screen inside.

A. b a c d       B.  d c a b

C.  d b a c     D. bead

8.    According to the last paragraph, we can know that

A. forty per cent of movies now are profitable

B.    small theatres often choose to show low-cost movies

C.    more and more people go to theatres to fight movie piracy

D.    film-makers prefer to produce ordinary movies than blockbusters

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