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and sold many different things. Tom worked hard in his shop but he had a good business and he was happy.
Then a supermarket opened across the street. The supermarket was ten times the size of Tom"s shop.
The manager of the supermarket wanted to take people away from Tom. He found out what Tom"s
prices were and then made his lower than Tom"s.
People quickly stopped buying things from Tom"s shop. They bought everything from the supermarket
instead. Soon Tom"s business was very bad and he was angry.
"It"s not fair," Tom thought, "I must do something to teach that supermarket manager a lesson." The
price of steak in the supermarket was $ 5.00 a pound. Tom put a sign in his window,"Steak—$4.50 a pound."
The next day the price of steak in the supermarket was $4.25 a pound, Tom changed the sign in his
window. "Steak—$4.00 a pound."
An hour later, the sign in the supermarket said, "Steak—$3.75 a pound." Ten minutes later the sign in
Tom"s window said, "Steak—$ 3.50 a pound." Five minutes later the sign in the supermarket said, "Steak—
$ 2.50 a pound." Twenty seconds later the sign in Tom"s window said, "Steak—$ 1.00 a pound."
The manager of the supermarket ran cross the street into Tom"s shop. "This price cutting must stop,"
he said, "Steak is costing me $ 4.00 a pound. I"m selling it at $ 2.50 a pound. I"m losing money every minute!"
"I"ll stop cutting all my prices," Tom said, "if you will stop cutting all yours."
The supermarket manager agreed, and the two men shook hands.
Tom smiled. He had not lost any money on the steak. He didn"t sell steak at all.
B. he wanted to make a lot of money
C. he had a good business.
D. his prices were high
B. Making your prices lower than others".
C. Making your prices higher than others".
D. Losing money every minute.
he would at least lose _____ dollars.
B. 150
C. 100
D. 175
Please give us at least two ways.
B. _____________________________________________________________.
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试题【阅读理解。 Tom owned a small shop. He worked hard. It was open from seven in the 】；主要考察你对人物故事类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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invitation on his desk. It was from several of his classmates asking him to join them on a camping trip.
This was the first time he was asked to join in an out-of school activity. Why were they asking him now?
Nobody seemed to like him. In fact, he had been so lonely that he drowned his feeling with food. As a
result, he hat put on a lot of weight, and this gave the kids something more to make fun of him.
Cindy, who was standing near Jess when he read the invitation, went out quickly to tell the others that
the trick had worked. Everyone was pleased that Jess thought that was true. But there was no camping trip.
Tile whole thing was made up.
At first, Cindy thought it was fun. But later, when Jess told her that he was going to buy a sleeping bag
with his savings, Cindy bad second thoughts. She knew that Jess"s family had little money, and she hated
to see him spend his savings on something he would never use. Cindy also hated to tell Jess the truth. Her
close friends would be angry with her.
What could she do now?
B. Everyone would be angry with Cindy.
C. Cindy might have trouble with her friends.
D. Jess would be thankful to his classmates.
B. he asked for a lot of food from his classmates
C. he brought his food to his classmates
D. he had a lot of food to put on weight
B. Jess had few friends in the class
C. Cindy was Jess"s best friend in the class
D. Jess joined in many out-of-school activities
A young man works hard 1 his lessons. He is very busy 2 . He doesn"t have time 3 . After
4 , he falls ill. Every night, when he goes to bed, he 5 his eyes and tries to sleep. But he can"t.
He thinks, "I must go to 6 the doctor." He tells the doctor, "I can"t go to sleep at night." "Try counting(数) 7 . When you 8 1,000, you"ll be asleep," says the doctor. The next day the man goes 9
the doctor"s office. "Well," says the doctor, " 10 are you today?" "Well," the man says, "I tried counting
one, two, three …up to 1,000. 11 when I reached 569, I began to feel sleepy (犯困的). I had to 12
and 13 some tea. Then I went 14 counting up to 1,000 again. But I 15 couldn"t fall asleep."
( )1. A. in | B. on B. studying B. to rest B. sometime B. opens B. call B. numbers B. go B. back B. when B. But B. get to B. drink B. in B. already | C. at | D. for D. studies D. of resting D. some times D. cleans D. listen D. time D. reach D. home to D. how D. For D. get out D. drinks D. for D. hardly | |
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| Tom lived a long way from the city. One day he went to the city to buy something in the shop, and after he bought them, he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table. When he looked round, he saw some old people put eye glasses on before reading their books, so after lunch he went to a shop to buy some glasses, too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop. The man in the shop made him try on (试戴) a lot of glasses, but Tom always said, "No, I can"t read with these." The man became more and more puzzled (困惑). At last he said, "Excuse me, but can you read at all?" "No, I can"t," Tom said, "If I can read, do you think I come here to buy glasses?" | ||||
| 1.Tom met some old people _____. | ||||
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| A. far away from the city B. in the shop C. in the restaurant D. in the park | ||||
2. When did Tom go to the shop to buy some glasses? _____. | ||||
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| A. After lunch B. Before lunch C. In the morning D. In the evening | ||||
| 3. Tom went to a restaurant to _____. | ||||
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| A. buy eye glasses B. have lunch C. buy some books D. sell eye glasses | ||||
| 4. Before reading their books the old people in the restaurant _____. | ||||
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| A. drank tea B. took their glasses off C. bought glasses D. put their glasses on | ||||
| 5. In fact, Tom _____. | ||||
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| A. liked eye glasses B. went to the wrong shop C. couldn"t read at all D. knew the man in the shop | ||||
| 短文填空。从方框内选择合适的单词，并用其适当形式填空，使短文完整、连贯。 | ||||
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