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How the iron of tomorrow

(the first Self Clean Iron)

can change your lifestyle today?

    General Electric introduces the iron of tomorrow. The iron can clean itself. Inside where irons get dirty. Because it cleans itself each and every time you empty it.

How?  With a push of a magic blue button.

The magic blue button

    The first thing you’ll notice that’s different about this iron is the blue button on the side. It’s marked “Self Clean”. Push this blue button, and you can wash out loose mineral deposits that remain and block up inside. Push this button, and you’ve made life a lot easier.

Less chance of brown spots

    Sure, Self Cleaning Iron is going to cut down on brown spots. (Those ugly spots that happen on nice, cleanly pressed clothes.) Because a Self Cleaning Iron becomes clean each time you press that magic blue button.

Steams much longer

    Common sense tells you that if you’ve an iron that blocks less often it has to stay younger for a long period of time. In other words, it steams much longer. That’s another joy of owning General Electric’s Self Cleaning Iron.

What does it mean to you

    Today you are doing so much more than just running a house and running after the kids.

You’re working. You’re going to school. It’s all part of your lifestyle. The iron can change that lifestyle. By giving you less trouble before you iron. If we can make it easier for you to be a better wife, a better mother, a better house maker, we want to. The new Self Cleaning Iron is another one of Home-Makers from General Electric.

Lifestyle.

We’re with yours.

GENERAL ELECTRIC

64. This passage is ______.

   A. an introduction to General Electric   B. an operating instruction of Self Cleaning Iron

   C. an advertisement of Self Cleaning Iron  D. a description of the change of lifestyle

65. This iron can clean itself by ______.

   A. empting itself                 B. washing out mineral deposits 

   C. locking up mineral deposits      D. giving off more steam

66. According to the passage, what is most likely to attract the customers?

   A. It is made by General Electric.             

   B. The iron will not produce mineral deposits.

   C. There will be fewer brown spots on pressed clothes.

   D. Their clothes will be cleaned at the same time.

67. Self Cleaning Iron can help change your lifestyle because ______.

   A. you can run your house better         B. you don’t have to run after the kids

   C. you can use it while you are working    D. we want you to be a better house maker

64.C  从文中对于未来电熨斗优点的介绍可知，这是一篇关于它的广告。

65.B  从第一段的第三句话及第二段“you can wash out loose mineral deposits that remain and block up inside”可知。

66.C  由第四段less chance of brown spots可知。

67.A  由“By giving you less trouble before you iron”可知。

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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 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 as 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 and an attractive man more manly than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally' female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the "manly" qualities 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. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of

women, ir o_nler 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.

51. The word "liability" most probably means        

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

52. In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness       

      A. makes women look more honest and capable

      B. strengthens the feminine qualifies required

      C. is of no importance to women

      D. often enables women to succeed quickly

53. Bowman's experiment shows that when it comes to polities, attractiveness        

      A. turns out to be a disadvantage to men

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

      C. affects men and women alike

      D. has as little effect on men as on women

54. 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

55. 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
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using his arms,hands and fingers to help him in his explanations,and his face to express his feelings. Listen to
him,and you will hear the loudness, the quality and musical note of his voice always changing according to
what he is talking about. 
      The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn't mean he will indeed be able to
act well on the stage, for the re are very important differences between the teacher's work and the actor's. the
actor has to speak words he has learnt by heart；he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays
a certain part,even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What
he has to do is to make all the se carefully learnt words seem natural on the stage.
     A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play-the y ask and
answer questions,the y obey orders,and if the y don't understand something,the y say no. the teacher the
refore has to meet the needs of his audience. He can't learn his part by heart,because the ir brains couldn't keep
discipline:the y couldn't keep strictly to what another has written.
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A. act out what you have learnt strictly
B. be a good actor on the stage
C. sit all the time while teaching
D. suit the need of different students
2. the underlined word talents in the first paragraph means _____.
A. methods
B. girls
C. wishes
D interests
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A. the teacher must learn everything by heart.
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C. He has to use more facial expressions.
D. He has to control his voice better than an actor.
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A. move around the class
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C. take an active part in class
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       Michelle Obama has just started a campaign against childhood obesity（肥胖）with the admission that she put her girls Malia and Sasha on a diet because they were getting fat．Clearly，childhood obesity must be solved and urgently．But is it a good idea for mothers to put their daughters on diets?

       Studies show that the more children diet，the more likely they are to become obese as adults．

Research also shows that gifts are highly influenced by their mothers when it comes toeating habits and body image．

       This was the case for Carly，40，who blames her mother for her lifelong struggle with weight．“My mother was on a diet the whole time I was growing up，”she says．“And she put me on my first diet when I was 10．I lost puppy fat，gained her approval and never ate normally  again.” 

       America’s First Lady clearly has a vital healthy eating message to．convey．But could this be damaging for Malia and Sasha? Could they develop eating disorders because of it?

       “It’s wrong just to blame mothers for their daughters’ eating disorders，”says Susan Ringwood，chief executive of the eating disorders charity，Beat．“There is a genetic（基因的）component to eating disorders．"However，“We do know that parents have a very strong

influence over a child’s eating．It's important to realize that you are your daughter’s role model．Girls idolize the ir mothers．”says Ringwood．

       “No food should ever be‘good’ or‘bad’，”Ringwood says．Instead，“You have to make it clear that food is a sociable，healthy and fun part of life，not something to be feared．”

       “Talk to her about body image，”Ringwood says．“Talk about how curves are an important and exciting part of being a woman．Show her that anorexic（厌食的）fashion models are not sexy，but i11．The pressure on girls today is immense，”she says．“But don’t forget that you are the authoritative voice，too．”

1．Michelle Obama has started a campaign to                  ．

       A．solve childhood obesity across the country

       B．attract the attention of the world

       C．show her first lady identity

       D．please the public

2．The author mentions Carly in Paragraph 3 to show that                ．

       A．mothers have a great influence on girls，eating habits

       B．the more you diet，the more weight you will put on

       C．mothers are to blame for the unbalanced diet

       D．side effects of dieting are hard to avoid

3．According to Ringwood，          ．

       A．food is considered something fearful

       B．food can be recognized as“good”or“bad”

       C．only slim mothers are role models of their daughters

       D．eating disorder has something to do with genetic component

4．The passage tells us that               ．

       A．mothers’ lead is of great importance

       B．daughters are victims of mothers’authority

       C．dieting teenagers can't turn into obese adults

       D．experts have arguements about eating disorder

5．It can be concluded that         .

       A．eating disorder always goes hand in hand with being slim

       B．girls are more concerned about body shapes than boys

       C．daughters tend to have a lifelong struggle with weight

       D．the author is against children’s dieting

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