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You find few people in the United States today willing to purchase luxury goods at full price. It didn’t use to be that way. Luxury goods used to be actually exclusive. That meant you needed to travel to the right store to purchase them, and you didn’t even have the option of getting a deal.
Today, no one wants to pay full price for luxury goods. People have the unfortunate belief that fakes (赝品) somehow are equal to originals, and if you can’t get a deal on eBay, Amazon, or in an outlet store, purchasing a luxury product probably isn’t worth it. Luxury brands struggle to remain high-end (高档的) images despite the reality that the American consumer is motivated much more by discounts than they are by brand names or image.
Yet people stand in line to pay full price for a new product from Apple and crowds gather to hear about a new smart phone. While electronics are updating every day, people are purchasing technology at full prices much more than they are purchasing luxury goods. What are high-tech makers doing right that luxury makers are pitifully failing at?
Carefully looking at the situation, it would appear as if the Internet didn’t hurt the luxury industry, expectation from the consumers did. What people want these days more than anything is stuff that does something. They want cars that drive, shoes that are comfortable, games that are fun to play, screens that are beautiful to look at, tools that are useful, and entertainment that is entertaining. Little of that fits into what the luxury industry has typically offered with its status, image, and fine materials. The sad reality is that luxury products aren’t that luxury any more.
小题1:What does this passage mainly talk about?
| A．Nobody likes luxury goods any more. |
| B．Luxury goods are of poor quality nowadays. |
| C．Tech products become the new “luxury goods”. |
| D．Iphones have taken the place of luxury products. |
| A．unique and with no bargain | B．low in price |
| C．hard to find | D．easy to sell |
| A．people have found that some luxury goods are fakes |
| B．people can buy luxury goods at a low price on eBay |
| C．luxury brands will give up high-end images |
| D．consumers prefer brand names to discounts |
| A．The Internet service. | B．The images of luxuries. |
| C．The function of products. | D．The expectation from the consumers. |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析
试题分析：文章大意：美国奢侈品行业所面临的威胁。其最大威胁来自美国的高科技行业。并分析了个中原因。
小题1:C 主旨大意题。根据第一段的阐述：“据称美国的市场分析人士最近表示美国奢侈品行业面临的最大威胁来自美国的高科技行业。消息来自一位记者同行阿什丽·鲁兹Ashley Lutz的文章她的报道非常可信该文章的要点在于蒂芙尼公司Tiffany Co发现其产品的最大竞争者并非其他奢侈品牌而是苹果这样的公司。鲁兹指出奢侈品经常仅用于炫耀而科技产品背后的吸引力在于它的功能性”我们可以得到答案。
小题2:A 词义猜测题。上文说“在美国你会发现很少有人愿意出全价购买奢侈品了”说明“奢侈品在过去是一种独特的不打折（不讨价还价）的商品”。
小题3:B推理判断题。从本段中“如果你不能在e电子港湾（eBay）、亚马逊或一家打折店里买到折价商品而去购买奢侈品，这可能会被认为是非常不值的。”可以推断“人们可以在e电子港湾以打折的价格即低价买到奢侈品”。
小题4:C 推理判断题。根据最后一段“审视这一情况时，看起来伤害奢侈品行业的好像不是互联网，而是消费者的预期。人们眼下最想要的是具有某些功用的东西。他们想要好开的汽车、舒适的鞋、有趣的游戏画质、出众的屏幕、实用的工具以及精彩的娱乐。这些诉求基本上与奢侈品行业传统上提供的产品及其看重的身份形象和精良材质不搭边。一个悲惨的现实是奢侈品不再那么奢侈了。”我们可以推断答案。
核心考点
试题【Market analysts in the United States have recently been quoted as saying that th】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Sometimes the reality is stranger than science fiction: Google is road-testing cars that steer, stop and start without a human driver. The goal is to “help prevent traffic accidents, free up people’s time and reduce carbon emissions.” says Sebastian Thrun, who is the project leader for the driverless car, or Carbot.
By developing the car and the software that drives it, Google wants to change how people get from place to p1ace. Eric Schmidt, one of the company’s top officials, said, “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense.”
So far, the driverless autos have gone about 140,000 miles on California roads without people taking over the driving. Many of the roads are very busy or full of curves that challenge human drivers. The autos’ software makes it possible to know speed limits, traffic patterns and road maps. The vehicles use radar, lasers and video cameras to find other cars and avoid people crossing streets.
There has only been one accident during the testing. And in that case, the Carbot was hit from behind by a human driver when Goog1e’s car was stopped at a red light. Engineers say the driverless cars are safer than autos with people behind the wheel because the computers react much more quickly than humans.
The Carbot is still in very early testing stages. Experts agree that it will be years before you will be able to buy one. But it is likely that one day you will be sitting in the driver’s seat of a driverless car. When the auto was first invented it was called a “horseless carriage”. Now it seems that it is time for the “driverless carriage” to be part of our 1ives.
小题1:What’s the main idea of the passage?
| A．An auto revolution is on its way. |
| B．Google has developed a driverless car. |
| C．The Carbot has passed its early testing stages. |
| D．Science fiction has turned into reality. |
| A．it uses radar, lasers and video cameras |
| B．it knows speed limits, traffic patterns and road maps |
| C．the computer has a better sense of direction than drivers |
| D．the software responds to emergencies faster than a human driver |
| A．it can drive all by itself |
| B．it can avoid any traffic accident |
| C．it doesn’t pollute the environment |
| D．it is the most fashionable car nowadays |
| A．unfriendly | B．desperate | C．critical | D．optimistic |
They claim they want to dress as they please．But they all wear the same clothes. Then set off in new directions in music．But somehow they all end up with listening to the same record together．Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that many people are doing it．They have come out of their cocoon（茧） into a larger cocoon．
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and go his or her own way．Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market．These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be．
And many of today"s parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children．All this adds to a great barrier(障碍） for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path．
But the barrier is worth climbing over．The path is worth following, You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party．You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records．You may have some thoughts "that you don"t care to share with your classmates at once, well, go to it．Find yourself．Popularity will come-with the people who respect you for who you are．That is the only kind of popularity that really counts．
小题1:In this passage, the author wants to tell .
| A．teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves |
| B．readers how to be popular with people around |
| C．parents how to control and guide their children |
| D．people how to understand and respect each other |
| A．have much difficulty understanding each other |
| B．lack confidence |
| C．dare not cope with （处理） problems single-handed |
| D．are much afraid of getting lost |
| A．There is no popularity that really counts． |
| B．What many parents are doing is helping their children find their own paths． |
| C．It is bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates． |
| D．Most teenagers claim that they want to do what they like to, but they are actually doing the same． |
| A．Convincing． | B．Influential. |
| C．Instructive． | D．Authoritative（权威的）． |
| A．differ from others in as many ways as possible |
| B．get into the right reason and become popular |
| C．find one"s real self |
| D．rebel against parents and the popularity wave |
Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA material—some of it unearthed by miners in Alaska—to conclude that today’s domestic dog originated in Asia and accompanied the first humans to the New World about 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. Wayne suggests that man’s best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge,” said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and they’re useful to eat.”
Researchers have agreed that today’s dog is the result of the domestication(驯化) of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a common thought about the precise origin of North America’s domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendents(后代) of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48.
Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层) until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A.D., before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of “pure native American dogs,” Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendents of wolves from North America.
Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(标本) from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge.
Leonard and Wayne’s study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human companions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep,” Wayne said. “They didn’t feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource.”
小题1: The underlined word “remains” is closed in meaning to ______.
| A．leftover food | B．animal waste |
| C．dead bodies | D．living environment |
| A．ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 AD |
| B．the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogs |
| C．the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolves |
| D．the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans |
| A．Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs. |
| B．Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in 1920s. |
| C．Latin America’s dogs are different from North America’s in genes. |
| D．Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge. |
| A．dogs fed on mice | B．dogs were easy to keep |
| C．dogs helped protect their resources | D．dogs could provide excellent service |
| A．the origin of the North American dogs |
| B．the DNA study of ancient dogs in America |
| C．the reasons why early people entered America |
| D．the difference between Asian and American dogs |
Activities in Among the Boys are in agreement with the best practices in the prevention of high-risk behavior. First, community-based youth development programs are considered important parts of a comprehensive prevention method, particularly in high-risk neighborhoods. Second, compensatory(补偿) education that targets at risk youth for academic failure is also considered an effective prevention method. Third, interventions(介入) aimed at improving youth’s moral reasoning, social problem-solving, and thinking skills are reported to be effective methods for reducing violence in high-risk populations, especially when carried out with elementary school-aged boys. Finally, Among the Boys has an adapted tutoring part, considered an effective prevention tool. Tutoring is typically a one-to-one match between a tutor and a youth, but Among the Boys employs what is referred to as “group tutoring.” Among the Boys makes up for its high student-tutor ratio(比例) with quality and quantity of time, as the program meets after school, on Saturdays, and all day during the summer, and is staffed primarily by males, an unusual quality among educational programs.
Among the Boys is rare and successful form of grassroots program, and represents the dream of a successful male who grew up in the Highland Park neighborhood and has returned to make a valuable contribution to his community.
小题1:Which of the following most accurately describes the organization of the second paragraph？
| A．A theory is presented and proved with data. |
| B．A statement is made and supported with examples. |
| C．A problem is put forward and solutions are suggested |
| D．A situation is described and a prediction is provided |
| A．Art programs can promote painting but cannot prevent school failure. |
| B．Social problem-solving skills are not important for high school-age youth. |
| C．Most educational programs have some female staff members. |
| D．Teamwork produces better paintings than does independent work. |
| A．Among the Boys employs a traditional tutoring model |
| B．tutoring is effective only with elementary school-age boys |
| C．tutoring prevents the youth’s attention from wandering off |
| D．increased hours with a group can be as effective as a one-to-one tutoring relationship |
| A．sought contributions to make his program successful |
| B．designed the program for the same neighborhood in which he grew up |
| C．is seeking reelection for the Highland Park community school board |
| D．was a successful graduate of Among the Boys when he was a youth |
| A．forgiving | B．doubtful | C．praising | D．ignorant |
McCarroll has good reasons for rejecting fur. Each year, tens of millions of amimals, including dogs and cats, needlessly suffer and die to fuel the fur industry. But what did Jay McCarroll use in place of fur?“I have patchwork pieces that contain all sorts of combinations of fabrics. The rest is cotton, nylon, polyester…you name it. I even have some stuff made out of bamboo / cotton blend. Anything but fur and leather,”he told Fashion Wire Daily.
“So many people want to protect animals and live their lives without causing unnecessary cruelty. More than two thirds of Americans have pets, and we share a bond with animals every day. Saying no to fur can help millions of animals, and we want to show our respect to leading designers like Jay who embrace compassion(同情) as the fashion,”said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of The HSUS.“It is great to see leaders in the fashion industry recognizing that the animals need their fur more than we do.”
小题1:Which of the following is true about Jay McCarroll?
| A．He is a famous fashion designer. |
| B．He is the executive vice president of the HSUS. |
| C．He is an editor of Fashion Wire Daily. |
| D．He is the head of an animal protection organization. |
| A．A new unit of a book. | B．The beginning of a new trend. |
| C．The latest issue of a magazine. | D．A newly established organization. |
| A．Polyester. | B．Bamboo. | C．Leather. | D．Patchwork pieces. |
| A．Human beings depend emotionally on animals. |
| B．Fashion can go hand in hand with compassion for life. |
| C．Fur is more effective than bamboo/cotton blend for clothing. |
| D．Fur is more expensive than other materials for fashion designers. |
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