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Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman immediately finds it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes.

For a man, small problems may begin when the shop doesn't have what he wants. In that case, the salesman, tries to sell the customer something else. "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the colour you mentioned. "Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on."

However, a woman in almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need and she is only "having a look around". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her. She will try on any number of things. Most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one room to another, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

1.The underlined part “sets great store by ” in paragraph 3 means___

A. has much information about B. knows nothing bout

C. believes in D. has her doubts about

2.What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?

A. They welcome suggestions from others.

B. They rarely consider buying cheap clothes.

C. They predict what they want to buy.

D. They listen to advice but never take it.

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Men never buy what they don’t need

B. A man’s shopping is often based on need

C. A woman goes shopping in order to look for cheap things

D. A woman’s shopping is never based on need.

1.C

2.A

3.B

【解析】试题分析:本文介绍了男士和女士购买衣物的不同:男士因为需要而购物,女士购物只是转转看看。

1.C 词义猜测题。这一段的开头讲到女士去购物通常不是因为需要而是只想看看;因此,“She is always open to persuasion”她对别人的说服来者不拒,事实上,她对推销员的话很在意。故set great store by sth.(注重,重视某物)和believe in 意思相近,故选C。

2.A 细节理解题。根据第三段的第三句“She is always open to persuasion”可知,女士乐意接受别人的建议,A项表述符合语境,故选A。

3.B 推理判断题。A项表述过于绝对;根据第一段的第二句“A man goes shopping because

he needs something. ”可知B项表述正确;根据第三段的第二句“Her shopping is not often based on need and she is only "having a look around”可知C项表述不正确;D项表述过于绝对。故选B。

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As if to stress its cultural role, Liverpool has more museums and galleries(美术馆) than most cities in Britain. At Walker Art Gallery, I was told that it has the best collections of Victorian paintings in the world, and is the home of modern art in the north of England. However, culture is more than galleries. Liverpool offers many music events. As Britain’s No.1 music city, it has the biggest city music festival in Europe, and its musicians are famous all over the world. Liverpool is also well-known for its football and other sports events. Every year, the Mersey River Festival attracts thousands of visitors, making the city a place of wonder.

As you would expect from such a city, there are restaurants serving food from around the world. When my trip was about to complete, I chose to rest my legs in Liverpool’s famous Philharmonic pub(酒馆). It is a monument to perfection, and a heritage attraction itself.

Being a World Heritage Site, my home city is certainly a place of “outstanding universal value”. It is a treasure house with plenty of secrets for the world to explore.

1.Visitors who see the city for the first time would be deeply impressed by________

A. its charming banks B. its famous museums

C. its wonderful palaces D. its attractive buildings

2.The third paragraph is developed mainly by______

A. providing different examples

B. following the order of space

C. making comparisons

D. analyzing causes

3.The author uses the Philharmonic pub to prove that_______

A. Liverpool is a well-known city for its restaurants

B. Liverpool is an impressive place full of attraction

C. a pub is a wonderful place for visitors to relax themselves

D. a pub is a perfect choice for visitors to complete their journey

4.What is the passage mainly about?

A. The universal value of the world heritage in Liverpool

B. The exciting experience of the author in Liverpool

C. The special cultural atmosphere of Liverpool

D. The beautiful historic sites of Liverpool

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The real reason why I should not like to be back in the book trade for life, however, is that while I was in it I lost my love of books. A bookseller cannot always tell the truth about his books, and that gives him a dislike for them. There was a time when I really did love books---loved the sight and smell and feel of them---if they were fifty or more years old, that is. Nothing pleased me quite so much as to buy a bargain lot of them on sale for several pounds. There is a peculiar flavour(独特的味道)about the unexpected books you pick up in that kind of collection: little-known eighteenth-century poets, or out-of-date geography books. For occasional reading---in your bath, for example, or late at night when you are too tired to go to bed---there is nothing as good as a very old picture story-book.

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1.List two conditions that are necessary to run a bookshop. (No more than 9 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

2.Why didn’t the author want to go back to the book trade? (No more than 10 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

3.What did the author feel most pleased about? (No more than 8 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

4.How did the author feel when he saw large quantities of books in the bookshop? (No more than 6 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

5.What kind of books does the author buy occasionally now? (No more than 10 words)

____________________________________________________________________________

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I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing . She would practice dribbling (运球) and shooting over and over again, sometimes until . One day I asked her she practiced so much. She looked in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can is if I get a scholarship, I am going to play college basketball. I want to be . My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

Well, I had to give it in to her—she was . One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms. I walked toward her and quietly asked what was “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply. “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at her height she would probably get to play for a top ranked team, offered a scholarship. So she stop dreaming about college.

She was and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not the power of a dream. He told her she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, could stop her except one thing — her own attitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”

The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter (招聘人员). She was indeed offered a . She was going to get the college education that she had and worked toward it for all those years.

1.A. through B. across C. over D. into

2.A. brought out B. showed out C. stood out D. worked out

3.A. only B. lonely C. simply D. alone

4.A. dark B. dawn C. midnight D. daybreak

5.A. how B. when C. why D. what

6.A. worriedly B. shyly C. quietly D. directly

7.A. go B. meet C. enter D. attend

8.A. worse B. better C. the best D. the worst

9.A. determined B. encouraged C. fixed D. fascinated

10.A. covered B. enclosed C. dropped D. buried

11.A. the affair B. wrong with C. the thing D. the matter

12.A. ever B. even C. once D. never

13.A. far more B. much less C. more less D. many more

14.A. should B. must C. can D. may

15.A. overjoyed B. moved C. embarrassed D. heartbroken

16.A. understand B. experience C. learn D. believe

17.A. even if B. as if C. that if D. only if

18.A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything

19.A. prize B. medal C. scholarship D. position

20.A. dreamed of B. relied on C. thought of D. looked forward

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Jacqueline may have been hired for name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth.Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself.In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.Her books are the autobiography she never wrote.Her role as First Lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor.However, few knew that she had achieved so much.

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C.promoted her books through social relations

D.gained a lot from her career as an editor

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D.Jacqueline’s achievements were widely known.

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A.a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years

B.a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences

C.an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as an editor

D.an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing

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1.They provide him wood and other products; they give him shade;and they help to prevent drought and floods.

2. In his eagerness to draw quick profit from the trees, he has cut them down in large numbers.

Two thousand years ago, a rich and powerful country cut down its trees to build warships, with which to gain itself an empire. It gained the empire but, without its trees, its soil became bare and poor. When the empire fell to pieces, the country found itself faced by floods and starvation.

Even where a government realizes the importance of a plentiful supply of trees, it is difficult sometimes to make the people realize this. 3. So unless the government has a good system of control, or can educate the people, the forests slowly disappear.

4. The results are even more serious: for where there are trees, their roots break the soil up, allowing the rain to sink in, and also hold the soil. 5. But where there are no trees, the rainfalls on hard ground and flows away on the surface, and this causes floods and the rain carries away the rich topsoil in which crops grow. When all the topsoil is gone, nothing remains but worthless desert.

A. This does not only mean that there will be fewer trees.

B. However, a lot of trees are being cut down.

C. Unfortunately, in many parts of the world, man has not realized that the third of these services is the most important.

D. This prevents the soil from being washed away.

E. If there were no more trees, something terrible would happen.

F. Trees are useful to man in three very important ways.

G. They cut down the trees but are too careless to plant and look after new trees.

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