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I needed to buy a digital camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照), maybe occasionally for magazines. Being the cautious type, I fancied a reliable brand. So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations and headed for my nearest big friendly camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked an assistant, “Can I have one of those?”  He looked perturbed (不安). “Do you want to try it first?” he said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to?” I replied ,“There is nothing wrong with it?” This made him look a bit insulted and I started to feel bad. “No, no. But you should try it,” he said encouragingly. “Compare it with the others.”

 I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering a wide range of slightly different prices and discounts, with each company selling a range of models based around the same basic box. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to take Z and possibly H into account at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.

But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps by making the right choice, the clever choice, the wise choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The assistant seemed a sincere man. So I let him take out of my chosen camera from cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers… and when he started to introduce the special features, I interrupted to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.

Why do we think that new options(选择) still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer an opportunity to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.

1.The shop assistant insisted that the writer should               

A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it.

B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others.

C. get more information about different companies.

D. trust him and stop asking questions.

2.What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it ”(paragraph 2)

A. He should get a 50% discount.

B. The price of the camera was unreasonably high.

C. The quality of the camera was not good.

D. The camera would soon fall in value.

3.The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he                  

A. knew very little about it.

B. didn’t trust the shop assistant.

C. wanted to make sure the one he chose would be the best.

D. had a special interest in taking pictures of his fellow shoppers.

4.I t can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion,            .

A. people waste too much money on cameras

B. cameras have become an important part of our daily life

C. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product

D. famous companies care more about profit than quality

 

【答案】

1.B

解析:细节理解题。根据第一段作者与推销员之间的对话,可以了解到,推销员一直在劝说作者试一下机器,并且与其他的机器进行比较。故选择B。

2.D

解析:推理判断题。第二段开头,作者分析了在卖场,自己将会被各种照相机的种类,弄的不知如何选择。但是“But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with”,最终我还是必须选择一款,但是无论选择哪一款都会有两个必定的结果:(1)会立马贬值。(2)会很快有新的产品。所以选择D。

3.C

解析:推理判断题。阅读第四段,可知作者经过内心的思量,明白最后还是得做决定,得买一款,所以还是需要作出明智的决定,就是试一下自己最初选择那一款,从而确定自己的选择。

4.C

解析:推理判断题。最后一段作者分析了人们为什么老是喜欢新的事物,因为旧的事物我们了解了,有局限性,而新的事物会带给我们更多我们没想到的。根据作者在购物的过程中,最终选择了试用自己最初的照相机,所以得出作者的观点是:我们并不需要了解很多新的东西,只要达到自己的最初的要求就行。

 

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In a class I teach adults.I gave the task to “Go to someone you love, and tell them that you love them.”At the beginning of the next   1  , one of the students began by saying, “I was   2   with you last week when you gave us this   3  .But as I began driving home my conscience(良心)started talking.Then I knew   4   who I needed to say ‘I love you’to.Five years ago, my father and I had a   5   and never really resolved it.We   6   seeing each other unless we absolutely had to at family gatherings.We hardly   7   to each other.So by the time I got home, I had   8   myself I was going to tell my father I loved him.Just   9   that decision seemed to lift a heavy load off my chest.At 5∶30, I was at my parents’house ringing the doorbell, praying that Dad would   10   the door.  11   luck would have it, Dad did answer the door.I didn’t   12   any time-I took one step in the door and said, ‘Dad, I just   13   over to tell you that I love you.’It was as if a change came over my dad.Before my   14   his face softened, the wrinkles(皱纹)seemed to   15   and he began to cry.He   16   out and hugged me and said, ‘I love you too, son, but I’ve never been able to say it.’But that’s not   17   my point.Two days after that visit, my dad had a heart attack and is in the hospital.I don’t even know if he’ll   18   it.So my   19   to all of you is this:Don’t wait to do the things you know need to be done.What if I had waited to tell my dad?Take the   20   to do what you need to and do it now!”

(1)

[  ]

A.

day

B.

afternoon

C.

morning

D.

class

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[  ]

A.

angry

B.

satisfied

C.

strict

D.

anxious

(3)

[  ]

A.

task

B.

order

C.

work

D.

problem

(4)

[  ]

A.

hardly

B.

exactly

C.

badly

D.

sadly

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[  ]

A.

disagreement

B.

debate

C.

word

D.

promise

(6)

[  ]

A.

kept

B.

preferred

C.

hoped

D.

avoided

(7)

[  ]

A.

talked

B.

comforted

C.

helped

D.

laughed

(8)

[  ]

A.

advised

B.

told

C.

convinced

D.

promised

(9)

[  ]

A.

doing

B.

making

C.

performing

D.

taking

(10)

[  ]

A.

answer

B.

close

C.

pull

D.

drag

(11)

[  ]

A.

When

B.

As

C.

While

D.

Since

(12)

[  ]

A.

treasure

B.

kill

C.

waste

D.

enjoy

(13)

[  ]

A.

came

B.

went

C.

glanced

D.

looked

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[  ]

A.

eyes

B.

nose

C.

head

D.

arms

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[  ]

A.

appear

B.

disappear

C.

deepen

D.

increase

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[  ]

A.

reached

B.

ran

C.

stretched

D.

worked

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A.

still

B.

even

C.

ever

D.

yet

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[  ]

A.

make

B.

suffer

C.

bear

D.

succeed

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[  ]

A.

information

B.

news

C.

message

D.

note

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[  ]

A.

time

B.

patience

C.

step

D.

class

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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper(志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the   41  I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any  42  , and nobody seemed to care about his   43 .

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,__44__anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine,  45 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was  46  . I didn’t have the   47 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might  48 me he had died.

Several   49 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I   50  who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was  51 ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n)   52 look on his face, he replied yes. I   53 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever   54 .

He began to tell me how,  55 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could  56 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie  57 believed that it was my voice and  58 that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t  59 him since, he fills my heart with  60 every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death.

1.

A.money

B.energy

C.time

D.effort

 

2.

A.visitors

B.relatives

C.patients

D.problems

 

3.

A.interest

B.requirement

C.condition

D.thought

 

4.

A.talking about

B.looking for

C.pointing out

D.helping out

 

5.

A.so

B.even though

C.yet

D.as if

 

6.

A.dead

B.mad

C.gone

D.excited

 

7.

A.right

B.chance

C.courage

D.time

 

8.

A.cheat

B.tell

C.remind

D.warn

 

9.

A.days

B.weeks

C.months

D.years

 

10.

A.realized

B.wondered

C.heard

D.asked

 

11.

A.great

B.alive

C.successful

D.lucky

 

12.

A.happy

B.uncertain

C.nervous

D.proud

 

13.

A.apologized

B.remembered

C.explained

D.told

 

14.

A.dreamed

B.shown

C.wanted

D.received

 

15.

A.because

B.if

C.unless

D.as

 

16.

A.notice

B.feel

C.imagine

D.appreciate

 

17.

A.hardly

B.rightly

C.firmly

D.wrongly

 

18.

A.humour

B.worry

C.touch

D.treatment

 

19.

A.forgotten

B.called

C.missed

D.seen

 

20.

A.joy

B.regret

C.respect

D.honour

 

Big things were happening in my life the summer after I turned 13. In the middle of that summer, my parents   1.   my entire world and turned it upside down   2.   they told me they were getting a divorce. I couldn’t believe that our family was going to   3. . Though I always knew my parents weren’t very happy and they often   4.  , I still wanted my family to stay the same.

My life changed completely   5.   the divorce. My mother and I moved into a small apartment across town,   6.   my father and brother, Bill, stayed in our house. I now became a   7.   whenever I went to see my dad and Bill on the weekends. And immediately I had my soon-to-be stepfather, Dan, whom I showed no   8.   in. I was depressed, especially after Dan and my mother married and I realized that there was no   9.   that things could change back to the way they were.

Even though I  10.  all Dan’s attempts to get to know me and wasn’t very   11.   to him, he never gave up on me.  12. , I began to trust him. I realized that we actually had some things in   13.  , especially when it came to movies and TV shows. We  14.   a lot of time together hanging out watching TV. That gave us a chance to talk and getto know each other.

Better still, Dan showed an interest in me that I had never experienced from my own father. Dan was always around when I needed   15.   on school or friends. Once I began to warm up to Dan, the three of us began spending a lot of time together. We often went out to eat and took short trips.   16. , I discovered that I had the happy family that I had always wanted.

I now realize my parents were  17.   about getting the divorce. Their divorce was the best thing to happen for all of us. My father also found happiness—he   18.   and had another child, my half-sister, Michelle.

At 13, I learned an important   19.   —change is not always the worst thing that can   20.  . Sometimes, it is just what we need the most.

21. A. created            B. shook                  C. entered                 D. occupied

22. A. unless              B. if                         C. when                   D. until

23. A. break up           B. hold up               C. keep up               D. show up

24.A. whispered  B. fought               C. talked                    D. competed

25.A. throughout        B. beyond                C. before                    D. after

26.A. where              B. although                    C. while                       D. that

27.A. visitor                B. relative               C. neighbor                   D. stranger

28. A. confidence              B. interest                C. fear                      D. anger

29. A. doubt                B. difference          C. point                    D. way  

30.A. forgot                B. supported            C. resisted                  D. valued

31. A. serious              B. nice                     C. bad                         D. generous

32. A. Gradually         B. Immediately          C. Usually                  D. Regularly

33. A. mind                 B. trouble                  C. common                 D. order

34.A. spent                B. wasted                   C. lost                        D. saved

35.A. experience  B. information          C. impression                    D. advice

36.A. However     B. Besides                 C. Eventually                     D. Occasionally

37. A. wrong          B. confident                   C. guilty                 D. right

38.A. remarried          B. returned                 C. changed                D. left

39. A. method             B. truth                      C. skill                              D. word

40. A. exist         B. remain                  C. continue                D. happen

 

 

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Comment on : Hunter Country Lodge & Restaurant

    My husband and I stayed at this lodge during our honeymoon. Set in the beautiful surroundings of Hunter Valley you have your own very log cabin. The rooms are comparatively expensive, but they are very spacious. The restaurant has delicious food with wine of varieties, ready for you in the evening.

 

My ratings (等级) for this hotel are:   ●●●●●Value ●●●●●Service

I recommend this hotel for: honeymoon, romantic couples

                                  B

Comment on: Aloha Pualani Hotel

    My husband and I stayed at the Aloha Pualani after months’ busy work. The rooms are small but clean. The peaceful laidback feel was exactly what we were looking for. We didn’t hear noise from streets. My husband loved the outdoor barbecue (烧烤). If you are looking for a relaxing, childfree, clean, natural place to stay this is without a doubt, but it’s a long tiring way.

My ratings for this hotel are:  ●●●●○Rooms     ●●●●●Cleanliness

I recommend this hotel for: romantic getaway

I don’t recommend this hotel for: the aged, young children

                                   C

Comment on: Karin’s Holiday Cottage

    Karin’s Holiday Cottage is really worth the price for lower earners. Walking along the beach, we saw many fish and turtles. We had a rental car because it was a little far from the shopping center. But we found the windows needed to be open to allow air in, and the cottage didn’t have air conditioning but with the 3 ceiling fans. Anyway we stayed plenty cool.

My ratings for this hotel are:     ●●●○○Rooms       ●●●○○location

I recommend this hotel for: young, single people.

I don’t recommend this hotel for: People hunting for luxurious (豪华的) hotels.

                                  D

Comment on: Arison Centre Hotel

  We hosted a conference last month at the Arison Centre Hotel - a charming hotel. The modern and large rooms are air-conditioned and fully-equipped with private safe, wireless Internet access and all new equipments. The hotel also has a business centre, conference rooms, car park and a western-style restaurant.

My ratings for this hotel are: ●●●●●surroundings    ●●●●●Service

I recommend this hotel for: conference and holiday

I don’t recommend this hotel for: city getaway from noise

                                    E

Comment on: GeofBob Holiday Inn

  This hotel is great for the value. I was impressed by how attentive the staff were. I left my room without locking the door. The cleaning lady noticed and immediately informed me. Staying in the hotel made my trip a pleasant one. But we wouldn’t come again because of the walk. You can’t just hop down to the beach or the bar - 200 steep steps each way – so exhausted.

My ratings for this hotel are:    ●●●●●Value      ●●●○○location

Likes: Service                 Dislike: traffic

I recommend this hotel for: young travelers

I don’t recommend this hotel for: people with disabilities

                                   F

Comment on: Punta Regina Isle Hotel

   Tastefully located on an island, the hotel is good, with its staff helpful and its price reasonable. Don’t drive a car, for most of the tourist spots were walking distance, or you can go everywhere by boat. If you like sea food, island setting, and wine, this is excellent.

My ratings for this hotel are: ●●●●●location  ●●●●●Service

Like: beautiful surroundings             Dislike: vehicles

I recommend this hotel for: young holiday makers

I don’t recommend this hotel for: self-driving travelers

 

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 When the Blacks are budgeting their yearly vocation, money is the first thing they think about. They are used to simple life without too much modern equipment. The family all like swimming, and sea food as well.

57. Mr. John Wallace is going to have a product presentation to promote (促销)his late microphone. He is searching for a hotel in the city center which is well-equipped, and where people from different parts of the country can join in the event over the NetMeeting.

58. Having had their wedding, Jim and Sussane plan a trip. Imagine how sweet they are when they are sipping their favourite Nyetimber in the sunset. They also treasure the environment, the comfort of the rooms and the service of the hotel.

59. A group of college students are having their holiday. They plan to choose a place where they can have their BBQ food, and where they are free from noise. They don’t care much about room size but at least they should be clean.

60. Ken and Judy are newly-married. They dreamed of the life of islanders who are eating sea food, hunting for fish. They prefer that the hotel rooms are not so expensive and the service is good.

 

When milk arrived on the doorstep

When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer.

Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change our order, my mother would pen a note—“Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery”—and place it in the box along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically(魔术般)appear.

All of this was about more than convenience. There existed a close relationship between families and their milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn't freeze. And I remember Mr. Basille from time to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his delivery.

There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk thus making it difficult for milkmen to compete (竞争). Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practiced to have a delivery service.

Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I saw brought back my childhood memories. 1 took it home and planted it on the back porch (门廊). Every so often my son's friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my boyhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

1.Mr. Basille gave the boy a quarter out of his coin changer      .

A.to show his magical power      B.to pay for the delivery

C. to satisfy his curiosity          D.to please his mother

2.What can be inferred from the fact that the milkman had the key to the boy's house?

A.He wanted to have tea there.   

B.He was a respectable person. 

C.He was treated as a family member.

D.He was fully trusted by the family.

3. Why does home milk delivery no longer exist?

A.Nobody wants to be a milkman now.  

B.It has been driven out of the market.  

C.Its service is getting poor.             

D.It is forbidden by law.

4.Why did the author bring back home an old milk box?

A.He missed the good old days.         

B.He wanted to tell interesting stories.  

C.He needed it for his milk bottles.      

D.He planted flowers in it.

 

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