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SAN FRANCISCO — Sales for Apple’s third generation iPad has hit record in the first days after it was on the market, Apple and carrier (电信公司) AT&T said on Monday.
The new iPad went on sale on March 16 in the United States along with nine additional countries and areas.
“We had a record weekend, and we are thrilled with it,” Apple’s CEO Tim Cook said Monday at a conference.
Shortly after the conference call, AT&T said the launch of the new iPad set a new single-day record for its sales.
“On Friday, March 16 AT&T set a new single-day record for its iPad sales, showing strong demand for the new iPad on the nation’s largest 4G network,” said the mobile carrier in a brief announcement.
The new iPad is Apple’s first 4G-capable product, featuring retina (视网膜) display, HD camera and faster processor. Before hitting stores, the new iPad pre-sales were sold out worldwide in two days.
BEIJING — A Chinese farmer was sentenced to 13 years in prison Monday for stealing art pieces from the Forbidden City last year, court authorities said.
Shi Baikui, 27, was fined 13,000 yuan ($2,059) and was deprived (剥夺) of his political rights for 3 years, according to the ruling announced by the Second Intermediate People’s Court in Beijing Monday morning.
Shi, from East China’s Shandong Province, broke into the heavily guarded former home of Chinese emperors in the heart of Beijing, and stole nine art pieces made of gold and jewels, on May 8, 2011, the court said in a statement.
While hurriedly escaping, Shi left behind five of the pieces in the Forbidden City’s compound(场地). Failing to immediately sell the treasures, he threw the other four pieces away the next day, the document said.
Six pieces were recovered and the three missing were worth about 150,000 yuan ($23,760) in total.
Shi was arrested by police at an Internet café in Beijing’s Fengtai district 58 hours after the theft.
56. We can infer from the news that the new iPad ______.
A. was sold out on Mar. 16 B. is more advanced than the last version
C. is cheaper than other cell phones D. is sold only in the United States.
57. The new iPad is so popular because _______.
A. it’s better equipped B. it’s made in the United States
C. it is Apple’s first product D. it depends on the nation’s largest 4G network
58. What can we learn about the stolen art pieces?
A. They were all recovered.
B. They were all sold off.
C. Some were left behind and some were thrown away.
D. Some were missing and some were sold off.
59. Which of the following is true?
A. No one guarded the Forbidden City.
B. The thief was sentenced to three years in prison.
C. The nine art pieces were worth about 150,000 yuan.
D. The thief was caught two days later.
BACD
Though ________ in San Francisco, Dave Mitchell had always preferred to record the plain facts of small-town life.
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A．raised |
B．grown |
C．developed |
D．cultivated |
Many people say pennies are not worth saving. After all, a penny is only worth a cent. But one unusual penny turned out to be worth a lot more when a coin collector paid $1.7 million for it earlier this month.
The coin is one of a kind. It is the only penny that the Denver mint(铸币厂) made out of copper, instead of steel, in 1943. Because it is unique, it is also very valuable. No penny has ever sold for so much money.
The Changing Penny
The Lincoln penny first appeared in 1909. For 34 years, the one-cent coin was made out of copper. Then, in 1943, the penny changed. World War II was going on, and copper was needed for equipment. So for one year, pennies were made out of steel instead. At least most of them were.
Only a few coins were made out of unused copper. There are three main mints, or places where coins are made, in the United States. Of the known copper pennies from 1943, twelve were made in the Philadephia mint, and five were made in the San Francisco mint. Only one was made in the Denver mint.
Nobody knows for sure why a copper penny was made at the Denver mint in 1943, coin dealers Andy Skrabalak told Time for Kids. “There is a rumor that a mint employee made the coin in the middle of the night.”
A Special Set
The coin collector who bought the $1.7 million penny wants to remain unknown. But the reason for the trade is known. He already had two copper pennies from 1943 – one from the San Francisco mint and one from the Philadephia mint. To complete the set, he needed the Denver penny. The three coins will go on display at a coin exhibition in Tampa, Florida.
The collector who sold the penny is also keeping his name a secret. It took four years to convince him to give up the rare coin. Now that he has finally donating all of the money to charity.
1.Why is the Lincoln penny worth over one million dollars?
A. Because it has a history of thirty-four years.
B. Because it was made out of a rare material.
C. Because it was made on one night of 1943 by the Denver mint.
D, Because it was the only coin Denver mint made out of copper in 1943.
2.Before the Lincoln penny was sold, people thought one-cent coins __________.
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A．were worth collecting for selling later |
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B．were surely valuable if not made out of steel |
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C．wouldn’t be sold for large amounts of money |
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D．were only useful for some coin museums |
3.At least how many copper coins were made in 1943?
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A．Five |
B．Twelve |
C．Seventeen |
D．Eighteen |
4.What can we learn about the collector who sold the penny?
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A．He already had two copper pennies from 1943. |
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B．He wanted to complete the set of copper pennies. |
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C．He didn’t want to sell his penny in the beginning. |
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D．He was a well-known coin dealer in Tampa, Horida. |