题目内容
Over years of study, Paco has discovered that people act in predictable ways when they are shopping. Successful shops adapt themselves to these habits. For example, people tend to 1 to the right when they enter a building. That is why many people have their entrance on the 2 . Also, people speed up when they enter shops and need space to 3 down. That is why there is often a(n) 4 space just inside a shop door giving people a 5 to make themselves at home.
Men and women shop in different ways. Men like to decide what they want 6 they shop. Then they go straight out and get in without buying anything else. Seventy-five percent of men who try clothes on buy them 7 away. Only 35 percent of women do the 8 . Men also 9 not to talk to shop assistants.
Women enjoy the shopping 10 more. They will shop first and decide what they want later, trying different things out 11 the way. Women also like to 12 their time. A shopping trip that takes a man and a woman one hour will take two women three hours. Paco suggests that shops provide “nurseries” for 13 with video games and a TV turned to a sports channel. The women can then shop in 14 while the men play.
According to Paco, these differences can 15 back to the “hunter-gatherer”period of human history. Men were hunters. They focused on stalking 16 and then killing them. Women 17 wild vegetables and fruits. They needed to be 18 , to talk to each other and to cover as much ground as possible.
Every modern city has its shopping area. And the shops are 19 of modern, high-tech goods. But the people shopping are 20 in the same way that their ancestors did forty thousand years ago.
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1．C 提示：下文的have their entrances提示我们，此处应该是朝右转，选turn，其他的选项都与上下文无关。 2．B 提示：正因为人们习惯朝右转，入口就应该设在左边，这样有利于人们进门后可以看到全部商品，选left。 3．A提示：同第4题。 4．A 提示：上文谈到人们进门后放慢速度，给他们一个空间，不但可以使他们放慢速度，还会使他们有回家的感觉，选empty space。 5．D 提示：同第4题。 6．B 提示：由下文可知。 7．C 提示：straight away立即。 8．A 提示：只有35％的女人会如此做。 9．C 提示：男人也通常选择不和售货员交谈。 10．D 提示：下文谈到女人喜欢购物，她们没有目标，也不急于购物，那么她们的兴趣只是在于一种体验，选experience。 11．A 提示：此空前的out与动词trying搭配构成词组“试穿”，选along与后面的the way搭配，意思是“沿路”，符合女人购买习惯；此处并不是out of词组，如果它们与后面的the way搭配，意思就正好相反了。 12．D 提示：take time是个固定搭配，表示“不急不忙”，所以选D。 13．B 提示：由下句可知。 14．B 提示：让男人去看球赛，当然没有人催女人了，这样女人就可以安心采购了，选peace与前面in构成词组，意思是：和平、安定。 15．A 提示：date back意为“回顾、追溯到”。 16．C 提示：由上文的hunters可知。 17．C 提示：由上文的hunter-gatherer可知。 18．A 提示：此段回忆历史，过去妇女的工作是采集野生植物，她们一边说话，一边干活，一点也不着急，当然她们需要耐心，选patient。tender，skilled与上下文无关。 19．D 提示：商店里放满了现代化的高科技商品。 20．D 提示：behave in the same way“表现一样”。 |
A few days ago I got a call from my old college friend whom I haven’t seen for a very long time. The topic, which was about all the good old times that we had changed to a touching story when he started talking about his father.
His father’s declining health made him stay at the hospital. Because of his illness, his father suffered from insomnia (失眠) and often talked to himself. My friend, who had not been able to sleep for a few days as he had to keep watching his father’s condition, became irritated and told his father to keep silent and try to get some sleep. His father said that he really wanted to sleep well because he was very tired and told my friend to leave him alone in the hospital if he did not want to keep him company.
After his father finished talking, he fell unconscious (失去知觉). My friend was very sorry for speaking the ill words towards his father. My friend, whom I knew as a tough person, cried as a baby on the other end of the telephone. He said that from that moment on, he prayed every day, asking God to let his father wake up from his coma. He promised himself that whatever words came out from his father’s mouth after he regained his consciousness, he would gladly take them. His only hope for God was to give him a chance to rectify his past mistake.
Often, we complain when we have to accompany or watch over our parents for years, months, days, hours or even minutes. But do we realize that our parents keep us company and watch over us for as long as we (or they) live? From the day we were born to our adulthood, and even when deaths come to us, they are always at our side.
Imagine how sad our parents will be when they hear a seemingly innocent word of “no” come out from our mouths. We can make promises to ourselves that from now on there will be no more complaints that come out from our mouths when we have to watch over or accompany our parents. No more complaints come out from our mouths when we feel that our parents have treated us like little children. There are so many unlucky ones who have neither fathers nor mothers. They long to have the things that we most complain about, but never have them.
Actually, it takes only a second to think and light the lamp that will bring us to a place where peace is dwelling.
【小题1】Which of the following word can be used to describe the writer’s friend?
| A．Sad | B．Sorry | C．Regretful | D．Pitiful |
| A．put…right | B．recite…by heart | C．realize | D．recognize |
| A．Your parents will keep talking to themselves when they are old. |
| B．Be good to your parents when you still have the chance. |
| C．You will regret in your life if you don’t show your kindness to your parents. |
| D．It is not easy to take good care of sick old parents. |
书面表达
近年来，交通事故及其造成的死亡人数有所增加。请根据以下表格中的提示，写一篇短文，分析事故原因并提出解决这一问题的措施。
| 原因 | 司机：醉驾；疲劳驾驶；超速；开车时接打电话… |
| 行人：闯红灯；在机动车道上骑车；骑车时戴耳机听音乐… | |
| 措施 | 1. …… 2. …… (至少两条) |
2. 提示：疲劳驾驶 fatigue driving
The number of road accidents and the deaths arising from those accidents has increased over the past years.