题目内容
Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. By drawing attention to new idea it helps enormously to raise standards of living. By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment. It lowers the costs of many services. your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 percent more.
And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy. Apart from the fact that twenty – seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising. He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the article bad in quality more than once. If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value.
1.What is the main idea of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words.)
2.Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
All the honest advertisers will stick to what they have promised in their advertisements.
3.Please fill in the blank in the first paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 5 words.)
4.Do you think advertising necessary or not? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)
5.Translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
1.Advertising is useful
2.no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements.
3.Without advertisements/ If there were no advertisements.
4.I think advertising is necessary because they can assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices and the consumers can know of such product.
5.他这样做不会维持太久,因为让人欣慰的是公众都有较好的判断力,不会第二次购买劣质产品。
Every day millions of letters go from one country to another. Letters mailed in Italy are received in Japan. Letters mailed in Canada are received in Africa. On the letters are many different kinds of stamps,bought in different countries.
The Universal Postal Union helps each letter get to the right place as quickly as possible. It sets up rules about the size and weight of letters,postcards,and small packages(包裹). It has rules that all countries must follow about international postal rates(费用).
One hundred years ago,international mail did not move so smoothly. One country did not always accept another country’s letters. Letters from some countries were too large to fit into the mailboxes of other countries. Letters travelled by many different routes(路线).Some were lost along the way.
Sometimes the person who sent the letter could pay only part of the postage. The person receiving the letter had to pay the rest.
The United States was the first to suggest that all countries work together to settle the questions of international mail. In 1974,men from twenty-four countries met in Switzerland to form the Universal Postal Union.Today,more than 120 nations belong to this union. From its office in Switzerland,the union helps the mail to move safely and quickly around the world.
【小题1】From the story we can infer that ______.
| A.mail is important to all countries |
| B.not enough letters are sent all over the world |
| C.all the letters must go to Switzerland first |
| D.all stamps look exactly the same |
| A.to help move mail quickly around the world |
| B.to give many men a chance to work |
| C.to help men meet in Switzerland |
| D.to look for the lost letters along the way |
| A.money paid when you buy a stamp |
| B.money spent on an envelope |
| C.the charge for carrying a letter by post |
| D.the pay a postman receives for his work |
| A.different kinds of stamps in different countries | B.an organization that makes rules |
| C.international mail | D.the size and weight of letters |