Do you remember your home phone number of family birthdays? The researchers (调查者) spent two weeks polling (调查) 4,000 people for the magazine named Puzzler Brain Trainer. Here are the results of the survey.
70% | Rely on (信赖) their phones to remember important dates | 10% | Can"t remember their home phone numbers | Old people | Can remember more than three birthdays | Young people | Can"t remember three birthdays | 阅读理解。 | Every day, it is easy to see advertisements in English all around us. Look at your own bags and clothes, and at the bags and clothes of your classmates. How many different advertisements can you see which use English words? Often bags and clothes show the name of the company that made them. This is a popular form. A special picture or symbol called a logo (标识语) is sometimes used.Logos appear on many different products (产品). They are popular because when you see a logo, it is hard to forget that product or company. It is common to see advertisements on TV and hear them on the radio. Most advertisements are very short. Sometimes the advertisers use a short sentence which is easy for people to say and remember. Nike, for example, has a simple English sentence which is used all around the world: "Just do it." Advertisements often use funny situations as well. It is simple to remember it. All advertisements are designed (设计) to make people buy a product. An advertisement for a soft drink, for example, might show a group of young people who are having fun. The young people are al1 drinking the soft drink.Advertisers are saying to you, "Why don"t you buy this drink and be like these people? You can be young and modern" You might think that advertisements are not after you, bul the next time you buy a soft drink, ask yourself this question: Why am I buying this particular (特别的) product? | 1. From the passage,we know that _____. | A. all the advertisements around us are written in English B. many bags have the name of the company that made them C. having soft drinks makes a person young and modern D. advertisements are only after young people | 2. A good logo is _____. | A. easy to remember B. a useful product C. difficult to understand D. easy to buy | 3. People are most likely to remember an advertisement that is _____. | A. in English B. long C. funny D. famous | 4. All advertisements are designed to _____. | A. sell you something you don"t want B. make you young and modern C. make you buy the product D. show you what you need to buy | 5. The best title of this passage may be _____. | A. Advertisements for Bags and Clothes B. Advertisements on TV and Radio C. Advertisements About Sports D. Advertisements Around Us | 阅读理解。 | ( )1. Lanlan is a lovely and kind girl. She hopes that she can help the children who lose chances to go to school. ( )2. Liu Hong is going back to her home town for the summer vacation. She will buy a camera. She will take some photos and show them to her classmates when she returns. ( )3. Mr. and Mrs. Smith want to have a relaxing holiday out of the busy city. They like to stay- in a classical (古典的) building. ( )4. Jim is very interested in pandas but he knows little about them. He wants to borrow some books on pandas. ( )5. Mr. Lu will pay 60 yuan to see an American movie with his son.
| A. Wickets Hotel A 200-year-old country house in the country south to the city of Rome with 30 bedrooms. Three meals provided a day. Open all year round. B. City Library The largest library in the area with over 70 000 books of different kinds in it. Two big reading-rooms which can hold 2 000 readers. Open from 9:00 am to 7:00 pm, Monday to Saturday. C. Sunny Museum An art show from August 1st to 20th. Over 300 paintings by world famous artists will be shown in it. D. Concert A concert in Jinma Theater on July 10th. Some famous singers in China will sing in the concert. The money for the tickets will, be used for the poor children. E. Singing Competition The House of Culture of the city will hold a singing competition in October. Those who like singing can take part in the competition. F. Dadi Cinema "Snow White", a cartoon by Disney, will be shown in Dadi Cinema next Sunday. Ticket Price. ¥40. (Half for children) G. Canon Digital (数码) Camera A Canon digital camera with 8 million pels (象素) is on sale for 2 500 yuan in Tianhe Supermarket in Guangzhou. | 完形填空。 | My holiday is coming. Yesterday I asked my American friends about the best way to travel within the United States. They said it was best to go by 1 and gave me the 2 . To fly, of course, is the fastest way, but one can"t see anything during a 3 except the blue sky and white clouds. So it is not very interesting to one who wants to see the 4 . Besides, airfare is very 5 . To travel by train is 6 , because passengers can walk and buy food and drinks on a train. They can also see cities and the country through the windows. But trains don"t leave or 7 at a place every day, and don"t go to many cities. To travel by bus, my friends tell me, is easy, cheap and convenient, though not so fast as traveling by plane or so 8 by train. You can find buses almost in every city, big or small. That makes travel arrangement easy. I take their 9 . Now I have decided to go to the east coast with an interesting 10 by bus. | ( )1. A. bus ( )2. A. reason ( )3. A. railway ( )4. A. country ( )5. A. cheap ( )6. A. relaxing ( )7. A. wait ( )8. A. comfortable ( )9. A. advice ( )10. A. dialogue | B. train B. answer B. flight B. heaven B. large B. interested B. arrive B. convenient B. surprise B. movement | C. plane C. suggestion C. course C. mountains C. expensive C. dear C. pass C. tiring C. feeling C. trip | 阅读理解。 | You want to know about my staying in America, right? Well, to tell you the truth, it is really an eye-opening experience to study here. In China, I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade. However, I didn"t know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School, Connecticut. When I first studied English, I was told to say, "I am fine" when people say "How are you?" But in the US, I found that people say, "I am good" or "I"m tired". One day, someone greeted me with "What"s up?" It made me confused. I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didn"t know what to say. Since then, I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures. To my surprise, US girls spend a lot of time in the burning sun to get a tan (晒黑). However, in China, girls try every possible way to get their skin paler, or "whiter". I was also surprised by how hardworking US students are. In China, schoolwork is almost everything, so we study hard and that"s it. But here, a "good" student gets good grades, does a lot of for the public and plays sports or music. The kids here are so talented, I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at an early age and that I have never thought about sports. | 1. According to the writer, textbook English is ________ everyday English. | A. quite different from B. the same as C. more difficult than D. easier than | 2. What does the word "confused" in the fourth paragraph mean in Chinese? | A. 困惑 B. 憧憬 C. 悲痛 D. 后悔 | 3. A good US student spends his / her time __________. | A. only in doing homework B. only on sports or music C. only in working for the public D. on studies, sports or music and public work | 4. Which of the following is NOT true? | A. The writer is now in US. B. American girls love to have white skin. C. US students are talented and hard working. D. The writer regrets (后悔) that he gave up playing the piano. | 5. Which is the best title for the passage? | A. My Own Travel in the US B. My Studying in the US C. My Opinion about the US D. My Friends in the US |
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