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　　Have you ever had to decide whether to go shopping or stay home and watch TV on a weekend? Now you ___1___ do both at the same time. Home shopping television networks（网络）have become a ___2___ for many people to shop with-out ___3___ having to leave their homes.

　　Some shoppers are ___4___ of department stores and supermarkets-- ___5___ the crowds, waiting in long lines, and sometimes having slight ___6___ of finding anything they want to buy. They’d rather sit quietly at home in front of the TV set and ___7___ a friendly announcer describe a product ___8___ a model shows it. And they can ___9___ around the clock, buying something ___10___ by making a phone call.

　　Department stores and even mail-under companies are ___11___ to join in the success of home shopping. Large department stores are busy ___12___ their own TV channels （频道）to encourage TV shopping in the future. ___13___ can ask questions about products and place ___14___, all through their TV sets.

　　Will shopping by television ___15___ take the place of shopping in stores? Some industry managers think so. ___16___ many people find shopping at a ___17___ store a great enjoyment. And for many shoppers, it is still important to ___18___ or try on dresses they want to buy. That’s ___19___ specialists say that in the future, home shopping will ___20___ together with store shopping but will never entirely replace （取代）it.

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　　Some people are just doomed（注定）to be failures. That’s the way some adults look at troubled kids. Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken ___1___ will never fly as high.”

　　At high school, Gavin was always making ___2___in his town. Teachers were ___3___ when they saw his name on their classroom lists for the next semester（学期）. He ___4___ went to school and always got into lots of fights. I met Gavin for the first time at a meeting. All the students at school had been invited to sign ___5___ for a program designed to have students become more ___6___in their communities.

　　At the ___7___ of the meeting, Gavin was standing outside the circle of students. He didn’t readily join the discussion groups. But slowly, the games drew him ___8___. He was saying things that made much ___9___, and everyone was listening. By the end of the meeting, he had ___10___ the Homeless Project team. The other students on the team were impressed with his good ideas and ___11___ Gavin chairman of the team.

　　Two weeks later, Gavin ___12___ a group of 70 students to collect ___13___. They collected a school record: 2,854 cans of food in just two hours, ___14___ was enough to support poor families in the area for 75 days. The local newspaper ___15__ the event with a full-page article the next day, ___16___ the school posted the story on the main bulletin beard（公告牌）. After that, Gavin started ___17___ at school every day and answered questions for the first time. Later he led a second project, collecting 300 blankets and 1,000 pairs of shoes for the ___18__

　　Gavin reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs ___19___. But once it has healed（痊愈）, it can ___20___ higher than the rest.

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　　Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? ___1___ an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets ___2___ the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to ___3___ the news.

　　Newspapers have one basic ___4___, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to ___5___ it. Radio, telegraph, television, and ___6___ inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. ___7___, this competition merely spurred（刺激）the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the ___8___ and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are ___9___ and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers ___10___ the latest news, today’s newspapers ___11___ and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers’ economic choices ___12___ advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their ___13___. Newspapers are sold at a price that ___14___ to cover even a small fraction（一小部分）of the cost of production. The main ___15___ of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The ___16___ in selling advertising depends on a newspaper’s value to advertisers. This ___17___ in terms of circulation（发行量）. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends ___18___ on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment ___19___ in a newspaper’s pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper’s value to readers as a source of information about the community, city, country, state, nation, and world--and even ___20___.

　　Nancy had just got a job as a secretary in a company. Monday was the first day when she went to work, so she was very 1 and arrived early.

　　She 2 the door open and found nobody there. "I am the 3 to arrive." She thought and came to her desk. She was surprised to find a bunch of 4 on it. They were fresh. She 5 them and they were sweet. She looked round for a 6 to put them in. "Somebody has sent me flowers the very first day!" She thought 7 , "but who could it be?” She began to 8 .

　　The day passed quickly and Nancy did everything with 9 interest. For the following days of the 10 , the first thing·Nancy did was to change water for the flowers and then 11 herself in her work.

　　Then came another Monday. 12 she came near her desk, she was overjoyed to see a (n) 13 bunch of flowers there. She quickly put them in the vase, 14 the old ones.

　　The same thing happened again the next Monday. Nancy began to think of ways to find out the 15 .

　　On Tuesday afternoon. She was sent to hand in a plan to the 16 . She waited for her directives（指令）at her secretary’s 17 . She happened to see on the desk a half-opened notebook, which 18 : "In order to keep the secretaries 19 , the company has decided that every 20 a bunch of fresh flowers should be put on each secretary’s desk."

　　Later, she was told that their general manager was a business management psychologist.

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　　Living one's life is really like driving on a highway. First, to make a good driving,the driver must carefully examine the 1 of his car, just as he cares for his health for a good life. Once he enters into the highway, he must 2 certain rules for his own safety. It also can be said that he must obey certain rules of society when living as a decent (体面 的)adult. For example, on the highway, he is required to keep a constant speed which can be compared with his 3 activities through his life. Neither driving nor living must be taken at too high a speed or at too slow a speed. If he drives too 4 , the po-lice will give him a ticket, just as he will be arrested when he breaks the law. Acting too conservatively(保守地), he will be called an out-of-date person 5 the others driving at the proper speed. When he wants to change his lanes, he must give careful 6 to every direction of his car. It is sometimes dangerous to change the way of life unless he can be sure of completion by doing so. He 7 not make any unnecessary changing of lanes which gives him only danger. Finally,he must discover where he is now by recog-nizing some 8 appearing now and then. If he takes the wrong way, he must return to the right as 9 as he can. But he may thus lose time and energy both on the road and in life. On the whole, driving on a high-way and living one's life are both hard work. But if he is careful and serious enough, 10 will provide him much pleasure.

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　　Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about 1 500, but many of them are not very 1 . English is one of the most important languages because many people use it, not only in England and America, but also in other countries of the world. About 200 million people speak it 2 their own language, and another 200 million use it as 3 language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it. Millions of boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

　　Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. 4 children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

　　Which is the best way to learn a language? We know that we all learnt our own language well when we were 5 If we learn a second language in the 6 way, it won't seem so difficult. How does a small child do? It listens to what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ask for it. It is using the language, 7 in it and talking in it all the time. If people use a second language 8 , they will learn it 9 .

　　In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak; it is the best way to learn all new words through the 10 . You can read them, spell them and write them later.

　　The year I went away to college was a very difficult transition (过渡期) for me. 1 is probably true with many people, I got quite homesick and 2 thought about going home.

　　Although the 3 time for many students is getting 4 from home, my mailbox was frequently 5 One day when I went to the mailbox, there was a postcard 6 out at me. I sat down to read it, 7 a note from someone back home. 8 I be-came increasingly puzzled (困惑) as 9 postcards were like this: It was a full news report about a woman named Mabel and her newborn baby. I took the card back to my room and 10 about it.

　　Several days later I 11 another post-card, this one 12 news about Maybel-line, Mabel's cousin. Soon after, another card arrived and then another, 13 full of news of different people. I began to 14 look forward to the next one, 15 to see what this author would come up with 16 I was never 17 .

　　Finally, the cards 18 coming, right about the time I had begun to feel 19 about college life. They had been such a hap-py distraction (调剂) that I have 20 all the postcards and still bring them out to read whenever I need a lift.

　　“When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king, ”said John Wanamaker,who in 1876 turned an abandoned railway station in Philadelphia into one of the world's first department stores. This revolutionary concept 1 the face of retailing(零售业)and led to the development of advertising and marketing as we know it today.

　　But convincing as that slogan was, 2 the shopper was cheated out of the crown. 3 manufacturing efficiency increased the variety of goods and lowered prices, people still relied on advertisements to get most information about products. Through much of the past century, ads spoke to an audience restricted to just a few radio or television channels or a 4 number of publications. Now media choice has 5 too, and consumers select what they want from a far greater variety of sources-especially with a few clicks of a computer mouse 6 the internet, the consumer is finally seizing power.

　　As our survey shows, 7 has great implications for companies, because it is changing the way the world shops. Many firms already claim to be “customer-driven” or “consumer-centred”. Now their 8 will be tested as never before. Taking advantage of shoppers' 9 will no longer be possible: people will know-and soon tell others,even those without the internet-that prices in the next town are cheaper or that certain goods are inferior. The internet is working wonders in 10 standards. Good and honest firms should benefit most.

(7) A．consumer power

B．product quality

C．purchasing (购买) habit

D．manufacturing (制造) efficiency

　　The survey about childhood in the Third World shows that the struggle for survival is long and hard. But in the rich world, children can 1 from a different kind of poverty-of the spirit. 2 , one Western country alone now sees 14 000 attempted suicides (自 杀) every year by children under 15, and one child 3 five needs psychiatric (心理) advice.

　　There are many good things about 4 in the Third World. Take the close and con-stant relation between children and their par-ents, relatives and neighbours for example. In the West, the very nature of work puts dis-tance between 5 and children. But in most Third World villages mother and father do not go miles away each day to work in of-fices. 6 , the child sees mother and father,relations and neighbours working 7 and often shares in that work.

　　A child 8 in this way learns his or her role through joining in the community's 9 : helping to dig or build, look after ani-mals or babies-rather than 10 playing with water and sand in kindergarten, keeping pets 11 playing with dolls.

　　These children may grow up with a less oppressive sense of space and time than the 12 children. Their sense of days and time has a lot to do with the change of seasons and positions of the sun or the moon in the sky. Children in the rich world, 13 , are pro-vided with a watch as one of the 14 signs of growing up, so that they can 15 along with their parents about being late for school times, meal times, bed times, the times of TV shows...

　　Third World children do not usually 16 to stay indoors, still less in high-rise apartments (公寓). Instead of dangerous road, “keep off the grass” signs and “don't speak to strangers”, there is often a sense of 17 to study and play. Parents can see their children outside rather than observe them 18 from ten floors up.

　　 19 , twelve million children under five still die every year through hunger and disease. But childhood in the Third World is not all 20 .

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　　When television first began to expand,very few of the people who had become famous as 1 announcers were able to be equally effective on television. Some of the difficulties they experienced when they were trying to 2 themselves to the new medi-um were technical. When 3 on radio, for example, they had become 4 to seeing on behalf of the listener. This art of seeing for others 5 that the announcer has to be very good at talking. In the case of televi-sion, however, the announcer sees 6 with the viewer. His duty, 7 , is completely different. He is there to make sure that the viewer does not 8 any point of interest, to help him focus on particular things, and to help him 9 the images on the television screen. 10 his radio colleague, he must know the value of silence and how to use it at those moments when the pictures speak for himself.