题目
题型：不详难度：来源：
Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working harder than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunch rooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever increasing output. Thus the “typical” Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more consumer goods than his counterpart of only a generation ago. He gains in creature comfort and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of personal uniqueness, or individuality.
Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the United States is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that “assembly line life” will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local café?
Since the late 1950s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.
In spite of the critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modern, industrial France is preferable to the old.
小题1:Which of the following is a feature of the old French way of life?
| A．Leisure, elegance, and efficiency |
| B．Elegance, efficiency, and taste |
| C．Leisure, elegance, and taste |
| D．Elegance, efficiency, and leisure |
| A．Many of them prefer the modern life style. |
| B．They actually enjoy working at the assembly line. |
| C．They are more concerned with money than before. |
| D．They are more competitive than the old generation. |
| A．in pursuing material gains the French are suffering losses elsewhere |
| B．it’s now unlikely to see a Frenchman enjoying a stroll by the river |
| C．the French are fed up with the smell of freshly picked apples |
| D．great changes have occurred in the life style of all Frenchmen |
| A．Critics are greater in number than people enjoying the new way of life. |
| B．Students critics are greater in number than critics in other fields. |
| C．Students critics have, on occasion, resorted to violent means against the trend. |
| D．Critics are concerned solely with the present and not the future. |
| A．Changes in the French Way of Life |
| B．Criticism of the New Life Style |
| C．The Americanization of France |
| D．Features of the New Way of Life |
答案
小题1:C
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:A
解析
试题分析：
小题1:C 推理题。根据文章第二段3,4,5行They fear that “assembly line life” will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask, to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life to joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple,说明法国以前的生活方式是休闲，优雅和有品位。故C正确。
小题2:.B 细节题。根据第二段2,3行They fear that “assembly line life” will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely说明法国人担心这样的流水线式的生活会导致以前的法国的生活方式的消失，使用说他们喜欢这样的流水线的生活的说法是错误的。故B的说法符合题意。
小题3:A 段落大意题。根据文章第二段可知，法国人在现代生活中最求很多的物质方面的享受，却失去了很多过去法国人所一直拥有的东西。故A正确。
小题4:C 细节题。根据文章倒数第二段最后一句Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.说明C正确。
小题5:.A 主旨大意题。文章主要讲述的就是法国人的生活方式的变化。故A正确。
点评：文章主要讲述了在现代社会中法国人的生活方式和以前比较，已经有了很大的变化，在追求物质材料的同时也让他们失去了很多法国原来的古老的生活方式的优点。很多人都批评这样的生活方式，甚至采取了暴力手段。本文要求学生有较强的跨文化意识，要求他们能够根据文章的细节确定考查的内容所在的语群，做出精准的选择。
核心考点
试题【Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and lu】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
March, April and May are months full of festivals and events all over the world. Here are some wonderful festivals around the world that happen in spring.
SongKran--Thailand
Dates: 13th-15th, April
In Thailand, it’s time to celebrate the coming monsoon season, which will bring the rain many people have been looking forward to. They celebrate it with a festival called Songkran, when people head out to the streets with water guns to spray(喷，洒）everyone who walks past. If you walk on the streets where the festival is celebrated, prepare to get soaked!
Naghol--Vanuatu
Dates: Every Saturday from April to May
Every year, villagers come together to celebrate the harvest of yams, an important part in the peopls’s diet in Vanuatu. The festival is most famous for its “land diving ceremony”. During the ceremony men and boys dive to the ground from high wooden towers with only two thin vines attached(附于)to their ankles(脚踝）. The divers’ heads have to lightly touch the ground when they jump---something very dangerous if the vines are not measured（测量）properly.
Cherry Blossom Viewing ---Japan
Dates: The cherry blossom season is different from year to year depending on the weather forecast.
The cherry blossom season has huge importance to the people of Japan, who celebrate the days when the flowers finally blossom. Only a few days later, the petals(花瓣） fall to the ground, like pink snowflakes. This is one of the most beautiful things to see. In Japan, almost everyone has picnics in the parks to view the flowers.
Sinhalese New Year--Sri Lanka
Dates: 13th or 14th, April
Just like in many other countries in South an South East Asia, this is the time when the Sinhalese celebrate the traditional New Year, an ancient celebration which marks the end of the harvest season and is one of two times of the year when the sun is straight above Sri Lanka. There are a lot of delicious foods during the celebration.
小题1:. What does the underlined word “ soaked” in Paragraph 2 probably mean?
| A．tired | B．wet | C．crazy | D．interested |
| A．the divers may fall onto the ground if the thin vines break |
| B．the divers may bump into （撞在…上）the wooden tower on the way down |
| C．the divers’ ankles may get injured if the vines are tied too tightly |
| D．the divers may injure（伤害）their heads if the vines aren’t measured properly |
| A．the Cherry Blossom Celebration usually lasts a long time in Japan |
| B．the Cherry Blossom Celebration is the most important festival in Japan |
| C．the time for the Cherry Blossom Celebration in Japan can be different yearly |
| D．people usually stay at home for celebration during the cherry blossom season. |
Mark Zukerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, an extremely popular social working website that started in the United States.
Now, millions of student users visit Facebook daily and the website is one of the top ten widely visited sites on the Internet worldwide. College and high school students use Facebook to communicate with friends and share both information and pictures for free. The company earns money through advertising.
Many other companies have been rumored(谣传）to be interested in buying Facebook. Just a few years after Mark started the company, he was approached by Terry Semel, who was the CEO of Yahoo. Terry offered Mark one billion dollars($1,000,000,000) to sell Facebook to Yahoo. Mark said no, though. He stands behind his dreams at the very beginning. He knows the value of the company could fall down; however, he is in this to build something unbelievable, not be bought out by another company.
Maybe he was smart. Now Facebook is rumored to be worth billions of dollars and bigger companies like Microsoft or Google want a share of the company. Some private firms are also interested. Facebook could sell 15billion dollars if Mark decides to sell it at all. Perhaps Mark will just keep working from his California office to continue his dream of building something cool.
小题1:.Facebook makes money from _____ .
| A．members | B．advertisements | C．pictures | D．students |
| A．Microsoft | B．Facebook | C．Google | D．Yahoo |
| A．Determined | B．Humorous | C．Gentle | D．Selfless |
We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, others, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it.
Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed — no examination is perfect — but to have no tests or examination would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency the values and the purpose of each teacher.
Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them — a form of favouritism will replace equality at the moment. The bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defense of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school’s reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school.
The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer.
小题1: The word “favouritism” in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that .
| A．bright children also need certificates to get satisfying jobs. |
| B．poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets. |
| C．children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs. |
| D．children attending ordinary schools achieve great success. |
| A．Schools for bright children would lose their reputation. |
| B．There would be more opportunities and excellence. |
| C．Children from poor families would be able to change their schools. |
| D．Children’s job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation. |
| A．jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection |
| B．computers should be selected to take over many jobs. |
| C．special classes are necessary to keep the school standards |
| D．schools with academic subjects should be done away with |
| A．schools and certificates | B．examination and equality |
| C．opportunity and employment | D．standards and reputation |
Holiday Inns and McDonald’s. both saw unmatched growth in the 1960s. Their growth opened another direct business operation—franchising.
These operations have the same general pattern. The franchisor, the parent company, first establishes a successful retail business. As it expands, it sees a profit potential in offering others the right to open similar business under its name. The parent company’s methods and means of identification with consumers are included in this right. The parent company supplies skill, and may build and rent stores to franchisees. For these advantages the franchisee pays the franchisor a considerable fee. However, some of the advantages and disadvantages are different.
By extending a “proven” marketing method, a parent can profit in several ways. First, the franchisee’s purchase price gives the parent an immediate return on the plan. Then the sale of supplies to the franchisee provides a continuing source of profits. As new businesses are added and the company’s reputation spreads, the values of the franchise increases and sales of franchises become easier. The snowballing effect can be dramatic. Such growth, too, bring into play the economies of scale. Regional or national advertising that might be financially impossible for a franchisor with 20 franchises could be profitable for one with 40.
The parent, then, finds immediate gains from the opportunity to expand markets on the basis of reputation alone, without having to put up capital or take the risk of owning retail stores. Added to this advantage is a less obvious but material one, Skilled, responsible retail managers are rare. People who invest their capital in franchises, though, probably come closer to the ideal than do paid managers. In fact, the franchisee is an independent store operator working for the franchisor, but without an independent’s freedom to drop supplies at will. Of course the factory’s costs of selling supplies are less. But also certainly the franchisee buying goods that have had broad consumer acceptance will not casually change supplies, even when the contract permits. If the hamburger is not what the customer expected, they may not return. Having paid for the goodwill, the franchisee won’t thoughtlessly destroy it.
小题1: Franchising refers to a business operation in which a successful parent company .
| A．sells name-brand goods to a private investor |
| B．rents proven ideas and techniques for investment |
| C．sells the right, the guidance to a business under its name |
| D．takes no advertising responsibility for individual investors |
| A．an immediate investment return |
| B．the profit from the sale of supplies |
| C．the ownership of additional retail stores |
| D．the possibility of profitable advertising |
| A．the advantages and disadvantages of franchising |
| B．the benefits of franchising to the franchisor |
| C．the unmatched economic growth in the 1960’s |
| D．some regional and national business operation |
| A．More advantages of franchising. |
| B．Negative aspects related to franchising. |
| C．The standard of consumer acceptance. |
| D．Risks of investment besides franchising |
He says our relation with others often becomes clearly 45 when money enters the picture. You might have 46 with somebody and you think that you are very good friends. But you will 47 him only when you ask him to lend you some money. If he does, it brings 48 to the friendship that seems stronger than ever before. Or it can suddenly 49 the friendship if he doesn’t.
Since money is so important to us, we consider those who possess a lot of it 50 very important. The author interviewed some millionaires for 51 . Question: What is 52 thing you have discovered about being rich, because you are a self-made man? Answer: What makes me surprised most is how people give me 53 . I am nothing. I don’t know much. All I 54 money
People just 55 making more and more money, but what is it 56 ? How much do I need for a given purpose in my life? In his book, the professor uncovered an important need in modern society: to bring back 57 that money is an instrument 58 the end． 59 plays an important role in the material world, but expecting money to give happiness may be 60 the meaning of life.
| 小题1: |
|
| 小题2: |
|
| 小题3: |
|
| 小题4: |
|
| 小题5: |
|
| 小题6: |
|
| 小题7: |
|
| 小题8: |
|
| 小题9: |
|
| 小题10: |
|
| 小题11: |
|
| 小题12: |
|
| 小题13: |
|
| 小题14: |
|
| 小题15: |
|
| 小题16: |
|
| 小题17: |
|
| 小题18: |
|
| 小题19: |
|
| 小题20: |
|
最新试题
- 1针对粮肉食用油等食品价格持续上涨，国务院法制办牵头修订了《价格违法行为处罚规定》。2007年全国共查处价格违法案件6.1
- 2生活中离不开水，净化水的知识在日常生活中有着广泛的应用．要除去水中的异味和色素，常在自制净水器中加入______；自来水
- 3阅读下面的文字，完成后面的题目。祖母是一片不知愁的落叶 朱成玉 怀念祖母，是从一片叶子开始的，秋天的叶子。 叶子上错
- 4实验室里常用______和______反应来制取二氧化碳．铅蓄电池里的溶液不慎漏到大理石地面上，会发出嘶嘶声，并产生二氧
- 5小辉同学的学习成绩不理想，因此他觉得自己不是个好学生。对此，下列说法正确的是[ ]A．他对自己的要求十分严格
- 6读图“不同天气系统过境前后气压变化示意图”，其中表示台风及沙尘暴过境前后的曲线分别是[ ]A．①③B．②④C．②
- 7作文。 当一只玻璃杯中装满牛奶的时候，人们会说“这是牛奶”；当装满菜油的时候，人们会说“这是菜油”。只有当
- 8_________ climber gets to the top first will get a $5,000 pr
- 9--Mom, I can"t find my new T-shirt. --Oh, honey, it_________
- 10已知正数满足，若恒成立，则实数的取值范围为
热门考点
- 1如图，某同学从旧书市场买到一本民国时期的书，图是其封面。据此判断该书发行时间应是A．辛亥革命时期B．抗日战争时期C．北伐
- 2在四冲程内燃机的做功冲程中，______能转化为机械能．
- 3函数的单调增区间为（ ）A．B．（3，+∞）C．D．（﹣∞，2）
- 4根据句意及首字母提示，完成下列句子。1. Do you o________ go to a movie?2.I can
- 5阅读下面的文字，按要求答题。 建筑是科学，建筑也是艺术。建筑是无声的诗歌，建筑是凝____固的音乐。wēi _____
- 6新中国成立以来，全国人民在中国共产党的领导下，励精图治、奋发图强，正朝着全面建设小康社会的宏伟目标跨越。我国要实现的从总
- 7小翔同学利用课余时间制作图示一款捕鼠器．将一块木板用铰链固定在桌边的O点，木板能绕O点转动，食饵放于A点，A的下方放一水
- 8将抛物线y=x2+3向左平移1个单位长度后，得到的抛物线的解析式是[ ]A.y=x2+4 B.y=x2+2 C.
- 9若x=1是一元二次方程x2﹣kx+3=0的一个根，则k=( )
- 10 2011年11月28日至12月9日，联合国气候变化大会在南非东部海滨城市德班召开，大会重点关注了二氧化碳排放。完成问题