题目
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The price of coffee beans hits a 12 – year high today. I thought there might
be some kind of coffee – market story, like we saw with cocoa earlier this summer.
But the main driver of coffee prices right now is simpler: Colombia has had
a few years of weak coffee harvests because of too much rain, which has reduced
the global supply. And coffee drinkers keep buying coffee, even as prices rise, in
other words, demand is unchanged.
The higher price of beans – up about 40 percent since March – means higher prices for the coffee you buy by the pound. But it probably won’t affect the coffee you buy by the cup.
Smuckers, which sells Folgers and Millstone coffees, recently said it was raising its prices because of the higher cost of beans. Starbucks, however, said it would absorb the higher cost of beans without raising prices.
“You see it much more in the grocery store because the raw materials are a big factor of cost,” Jose Sette of the International Coffee Organization told me. “In a coffee shop, your big expenses are rent and labor.”
While real – world supply and demand is the big driver of the price of beans, there may be some speculative action in coffee business in the future.
But futures (期货) of the high – grade Arabica beans are traded in the US, where regulations prevent speculators (投机商) from controlling the market, hoping such things won’t happen just as in London summer market. That suggests that prices should fall when supply improves – which may happen next year.
Some experts say that farmers in third world countries won’t actually benefit from higher prices in this case. When the price difference is due to supply and demand, the profit of the seller usually doesn’t go up.
小题1:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Why coffee is getting more expensive? |
B.How farmer benefits from the high price? |
C.Whether the US will control the coffee market? |
D.What has caused the reduction of coffee? |
A.Colombia is the coffee trading center of the world |
B.Colombia coffee output contains a final share of the world |
C.People need more and more coffee |
D.Coffee sales will be getting less and less |
A.the US made more rules about coffee prices |
B.speculators once held the coffee bean market in London |
C.coffee bean trading was seriously disorganized |
D.coffee bean prices were very low in the US |
A.The price difference determines the profit of the seller. |
B.Smuckers is a famous coffee manufacturer. |
C.Real – world supply and demand decides the prices. |
D.Coffee prices will become much higher next year. |
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析
小题1:考查判断标题。 根据文章的第一段可知本文讲述的是咖啡涨价的原因。故选A。
小题2:细节判断题。由第二段可知,由于哥伦比亚的咖啡豆连续几年歉收,影响了全球的供应量。可知,答案为B.
小题3:细节理解题。根据hoping such things won’t happen just as in London summer market.可知,伦敦夏季市场发生过投机商控制咖啡豆市场的事情。
小题4:细节判断题。由文章对咖啡涨价的原因的分析和我们的常识可知答案应为C.
核心考点
试题【The price of coffee beans hits a 12 – year high today. I thought there might be 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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You probably know you should say "please" and "thank you" at restaurants. You probably know the rules of a library. You know you should respect and be nice to your classmates. But do you have music manners?
Keep It Down! You have to notice the volume of your music. You should not play your music so loud that everyone around you can hear it. Some people might even get angry. Usually, when you play the music loud on an MP3 player, other people can"t hear the words of the song. They just hear a loud sound. No one wants to listen to this. Very loud music can also be bad for your ears. So even if you are alone when listening to your MP3 players, you shouldn"t turn it up too high.
Take Them Off! You need to know when to turn your MP3 off and put it away. Libraries, and schools don"t allow MP3 players. There are other places, like museums, that don"t have rules, but it would be rude to have your MP3 player on. Sometimes, it doesn"t make sense to listen on your MP3 player at event. Why would you listen to music at a play, a movie or a sporting event? You would miss what is going on and others would wonder why you even came.
Take One Out! Once in a while it"s okay just to take out one earphone and not the other. Imagine you are listening on your MP3 player when someone asks you the way. It would not be rude to take out one earphone, tell him the way, and put back the earphone and continue listening. You can also do this when you order food at a fast-food restaurant or when you answer the telephone
It"s Your Choice! There are times when you need to decide what is best. For example, some people can listen to music on their MP3 players when reading books, while others think it is disturbing. In cases like this, you need to do what seems right for you.
小题1:The underlined word "volume" in Paragraph 2 probably means "_________."
A.the type of music |
B.the length of a song |
C.the amount of a sound |
D.the color of an MP3 player |
A.may annoy others |
B.can hurt our ears |
C.is bad for MP3 players |
D.will make us tired |
A.the theatre won"t allow it |
B.the actors will get angry |
C.others won"t hear the play well |
D.we may miss part of the play |
A.show others the way |
B.enjoy a movie at the cinema |
C.watch a sporting event |
D.answer the telephone at museums |
A.MP3 manners |
B.music lovers |
C.music players |
D.MP3 earphones |
Yet, contrary to widespread belief, very few Australians have true prisoner origins. Within only one generation of the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Australia had become a nation of immigrants. Originally coming almost entirely from the British Isles, today one in three Australians comes from elsewhere. Australia’s liberal postwar immigration policies led to an influx of survivors from war-torn Europe, most notably Greeks, Italians, Poles and Germans.
The emphasis has shifted in recent years and today the majority of new immigrants are from Southeast Asia. Today Australia is a ‘blend of nations’ and although some racism exists, it has generally been a successful experiment and the country is justifiably proud to have one of the most harmonious multicultural communities in the world.
小题1:What does the writer mean by saying “It takes a sharp ear to identify regional accents.” in the first paragraph?
A.Australians speak Standard English with no local accents whatsoever. |
B.You have to practice a lot to learn to understand the different accents. |
C.The Australian regional accents are very difficult to understand indeed. |
D.There is not much difference between the accents in different areas of Australia. |
A.Most Australians have ancestors who were prisoners. |
B.The Australian economy is dependent on sheep exports. |
C.The majority of people living in Australia come from Europe. |
D.The pace of life is different in the city and in the country. |
A.Community | B.racism | C.blend of Nations | D.Southeast Asia |
A.there are no signs of Australia’s colonial past in its modern cities |
B.Australia’s recent immigration policy encourages immigrants from Southeast Asia |
C.immigrants from Southeast Asia have brought racial problems |
D.“riding on sheep’s back” resulted in slow development in rural communities |
A.society | B.economy | C.racial problems | D.history |
A very common North American urban legend concerns a mad man in the woods.A dangerous mad man has escaped from a hospital for the mentally ill.At some point in his life he has lost a hand and it has been replaced by a hook.A boy and a girl are out dating,sitting in a car.They hear on the radio that the area is dangerous,so they drive off.When they arrive home they find a bloodstained hook hanging on the door handle of the car door next to the girl.
Missing kidney(肾)stories are fairly common.Of course,the details are variable.It might be a woman waking up in a strange hotel in Bangkok,or a man finding himself in a cold bath in Toronto.or a young man with faint memories of wild disco party,but they all find a flesh wound,and discover that one of their kidneys has been removed and,probably, sold.
The back seat killer has plenty of drama.A woman gets into her Car late at night.Another Car follows her, speeding,flashing lights and really frightening her.She gets home and keeps on pressing the horn.Her husband runs out.The chasing car stops.The husband demands to know why the driver has been frightening his wife.He says he saw a strange man get into the back of the car as the wife got in,and then hide.They go and look,and there is a dangerous mad man...
小题1:What is the writer’s attitude towards “urban legends”?
A.Curious. | B.Disgusted. | C.Frightened. | D.Doubtful. |
A.The mad man left it there as a warning. |
B.The mad man narrowly escaped being injured in a car accident. |
C.The mad man had just been about to attack the girl. |
D.The boy had meant to frighten the girl with it. |
A.They had their kidney removed when they were unconscious. |
B.They sold their kidneys for profit. |
C.They were suffering loss of memories. |
D.They had been wounded before the accident. |
A.To warn the other driver not to follow her. |
B.To give herself enough courage to face the danger. |
C.To made her husband aware of something urgent. |
D.To inform her family of her safe return. |
A.Crazy. | B.Dangerous. | C.Brave. | D.Helpful. |
A “Dutch agreement” was one made between men who had drunk too much alcohol. “Dutch courage” was the false courage produced by the effects of drinking alcohol. And “Dutch leave” was what a solider took when he left his base(基地)without permission.
Some of these old expressions are still used today with a little different meaning. “Dutch treat” is one example. Long ago, a Dutch treat was a dinner at which the invited guests were expected to pay for their own share of the food and drink. Now, Dutch treat means that when friends go out to have fun, each person pays his own share.
Another common expression heard a few years ago was “in Dutch”, which simply referred to the country then. Nowadays, if someone says to you, you are in Dutch, they are telling you that you were in trouble. An important person, a parent or teacher perhaps, is angry with you.
Some of the Dutch expressions heard in American English have nothing to do with the Dutch people at all. In the 1700s, Germans who moved to the United States often were called Dutch. This happened because of mistakes in understanding and saying the word “Deutsch”, the German word for German. Families of these German people still live in the eastern United States, many in the state of Pennsylvania. They are known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.
During the American Civil War, supporters of the northern side in the central state of Missouri were called Dutch, because many of them were German settlers. In California, during the Gold Rush, the term Dutch was used to describe Germans, Swedes, and Norwegians as well as people from the Netherlands.
President Theodore Roosevelt once noted that anything foreign and non-English was called Dutch.One expression still in use, “to talk to someone like a Dutch uncle”, did come from the Dutch.The Dutch were known for the firm way they raise their children. So if someone speaks to you like a Dutch uncle, he is speaking in a very severe way. And you should listen to him carefully.
小题1:According to paragraph 1, the British used “Dutch” as a word for something bad and mistaken because ___________.
A.it was the long-lasting habit of the British language. |
B.the Netherlands was the closest rival(竞争对手) for naval supremacy then. |
C.there was a close connection between “Dutch” and “Deutsch”. |
D.anything foreign and non-English was called “Dutch”. |
A.invite his friends to dinner. |
B.beat a strange passer-by without any reason. |
C.speak to a Dutch uncle. |
D.become angry with the teacher. |
A.The expression “to talk to someone like a Dutch uncle”. |
B.When friends go out to have fun, they choose Dutch treat. |
C.Germans who moved to the United States were called Dutch. |
D.A solider took “Dutch leave” during wars. |
A.Language causes of the Anglo-Dutch Wars |
B.Language of the Netherlands |
C.Deutsch VS Dutch |
D.Dutch expressions in American English |
With the help of the government, _19______3-year Food Dude Program began _20_______ September, 2005. The program __21_____(start) by the University of Wales Bangor. It tries to help children eat more fruit and vegetables __22______in school and at home. Over 30,000 children from 150 primary shcools have joined the program. Children wathch the six parts of the Food Dudes cartoon over 16 school days. It"s just long enough to get the children ____23____(eat) fruit and vegetables again and again until they begin to like the taste.
The results show that the program has been a great success, and will soon become popular around the world. Even the US and Canada take the Food Dudes Program very ___24____(serious) and in 2006 it ___25____(win) the World Health Organization best practice award.
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