In your daily life, you may buy lots of different things. Some, such as pencils, CDs or books, cost only a little money; but others cost a lot of money, bikes or fridges, for example. If you want to buy the right things for the right price, making a wise decision is very important. Making a good decision can help you save your money. So how can you make a good decision when you buy a product? ① ______
♦ Know why you are buying a product
Before buying a product, think about the following questions—how often and when you will use the product, what the main use of the product is and whether you need the product now or later.
♦ Research the product
If you have decided to buy it, you must want to buy the best one. So you need to find out the information below—what companies make the product, the different prices of the product, what others say about the product, where you can buy the product. In this way, you can choose to shop in stores, online or in factory outlets.
♦ Ask questions before you buy. For example, do I really need to buy batteries?
These steps will help you become a smart shopper. ② ______
Remember, knowing a lot makes you a wiser shopper!
阅读短文，完成下列任务。
1. 回答问题。
(1) How many steps should you take before you buy a product?
(2) Where can you buy the product according to the passage?
2. 从A、B、C中为①②选出两个适当的选项，并将其字母标号分别填在下面的横线上。
A. If you follow them, you will get the best deal.
B. Here are some steps you can take for wise shopping.
C. You can make a decision not to buy anything.
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3. 请将划线部分的句子翻译成汉语：
4. The passage mainly tells us
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Rose City Consumer Society Survey on Rose City consumers’ shopping habits Name: Wang LinSex: ■Male/ ■ Female Age: ■15—19 ■20—24 ■30—34 ■40 or above Job: Bank clerk 1 How often do you go shopping? 5 times a week 2 Where do you usually go shopping? Kaiyuan Mall 3 What do you usually buy? Earrings, scarves 4 Are the things you buy necessary? ■Often ■Sometimes ■ Not really Detail: I bought 25 scarves but in fact I seldom wear them, I bought them just because I thought they were beautiful. 5 How much do you usually spend on shopping each week? ■¥0—¥100 ■¥101—¥500 ■¥501—¥1,000 ■¥1,000 or above 6 How do you feel when you do not shop for a week? I feel very unhappy when I do not go shopping. 7 How do you feel when you have bought something? I feel relaxed. 8 Do you have any money problems because of the shopping? ■ Yes ■ No Detail: I borrowed money from my family and friends. Society’s comment (评论): ___________________________________________________. |
1. Where is the survey from?
It is from
2. Which English word means “消费者” in the survey?
It is
3. What can we know from the second detail?
Wang Lin may not have
4. Why was the survey done?
The designer (s) wanted to collect the
5. If you were Wang Lin’s sister or brother, what advice would you give her?
I would say: You’d better
Do you like sports? Come to Mr Green’s Store now! We sell all our things at very good prices.
Do you have a basketball? We have basketballs for only thirty dollars! Look! Soccer balls are only twenty dollars! Do you need a ping-pong ball? Our ping-pong balls are only one dollar! Do you want to buy baseball bats? Baseball bats are only ten dollars for two pairs! What about volleyballs? They are eighteen dollars. Welcome to our store!
Mr. Green’s Store | |
| Things (物品) | Price |
| A basketball | |
| A(n) | 20 dollars |
| A ping-pong ball | |
| A baseball bat | Ten dollars for |
| A(n) | 18 dollars |
1. Who does Mr Green go shopping with?
2. When do they go shopping?
3. How old is Bill ?
4. Does Bill like oranges?
5. Is Mr Green happy to buy things for his son?
In 1882, a baby girl caught such a serious fever that she nearly died. The fever cut her off from the outside world, depriving（剥夺）her of sight and sound. That poor girl was Helen Keller.
Luckily Helen was not a girl who gave up easily. Soon she began to explore the world by using her other senses. She touched and smelled everything she came across. She also learnt to recognize people by feeling their faces or their clothes.
Just before her seventh birthday, the family hired a private tutor-Anne Sullivan. With the help of Anne, Helen soon learnt to read and write in Braille（盲文）. She also learnt to read people’s lips by pressing her finger-tips against them and feeling the movement and vibrations（振动）. She also learnt to speak, a major achievement for people who could not hear at all.
Helen proved to be a remarkable scholar, graduating with honors from Radcliff College in 1904. While she was still at college, she wrote The Story of My Life.
She toured the country, giving lecture after lecture. Many books were written about her and several plays and films were made about her life. Finally she became so famous that she was invited abroad and received many honors from foreign universities. In 1932 she became a vice-president of the Royal National Institute for the Blind in the United Kingdom.
请根据短文内容，完成下列表格（词数不限）。
A Remarkable Woman-Helen Keller | ||
| Suffering from the fever | The poor girl couldn’t | |
| Struggling experiences | Before meeting Anne Sullivan | ◆She touched and smelled everything she came across. ◆She learnt to recognize people by |
| After meeting Anne Sullivan | ◆She could read and write in Braille, and read people’s lips. ◆She also | |
| The achievements she received | ◆She wrote a book when ◆The lectures she gave, many books written about her, several plays and films about her life made her famous. | |
| The story of Helen Keller tells us that | ||
Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? That article will describe a typical high school and students.
A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their text books and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would like to loan (租借). Students must pay back if they lose any of them.
American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their fathers or mothers drive them to school. When they turn 16 years of age, most will take a free driving class at school for one term. If students pass their state driver’s exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.
Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take science, math, English and social studies. They can choose art, homemaking, fashion design and other classes. Some schools ask the students to take one or more of the following special classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because each teacher has their own classroom to give the students time to hurry to their next class.
The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school, more than half of the students join in after-school activities, such as sports and clubs.
Title:
| Outline | Details |
| Introduction (介绍) | Introduce a typical American high school and its |
| Lockers and textbooks | Every school has a locker for textbooks and outdoor clothes. They like loaning textbooks better than |
| Students usually go to school by bus or on foot . Sometimes their They can | |
| Classes and classrooms | Students have to take main classes, elective classes and sometimes one or more They don’t go to the |
| After-school activities | After school, most of the students take |
Many Americans enjoy running in their daily life. Early in the morning, at noon, or in the evening, whether (无论) in big cities or in the countryside, all over the United States, you can see Americans running-men and women, the young and the old. People run everywhere—down quiet streets in towns or at the gym. Some people even run in their living rooms.
However, running wasn’t so popular in the past. In the 1960s, few people ran, of whom most were athletes (运动员) and healthy strong people. At that time, women almost never ran. If they did, people might laugh at them. But today all these have changed. Men and women of all ages enjoy running.
Doctors say many of the health problems come from bad habits like eating too much, smoking cigarettes or taking little exercise. They often advise (建议) people to eat less and exercise more. In fact, if you aren’t ready to change your diet, you can start running.
1. What sports do many Americans like?2. Where do Americans run?
3. Did Americans like running in the 1960s?
4. What would happen if women ran in the 1960s?
5. What advice (建议) do the doctors give people?
【推荐1】Things adults should learn from kids
Adults should learn from kids a lot. For example, kids tend to show love. Every action they do for others, is filled with love. They don’t think twice before loving, and they just love. So adults also need to know: the best way to receive love is to first give it. Unluckily, most of us have developed the habit of questioning everything.
Kids never hide emotions. They cry when they hurt themselves, and express displeasure when things don’t go their way. However, we adults always try to hide our feelings, and never express ourselves sincerely. Crying or expressing oneself is what normal people do. Never hold back tears or happiness.
Kids are curious little beings, who always try to understand their surroundings by completely involving themselves in every task they undertake. They have a huge taste for knowledge, and ask lots of questions every day. This curious nature guides their life, and often leads them to simple excellent discoveries. Are adults as curious as kids? Well, most of us aren’t. Also, they no longer have the thirst for knowledge, and don’t even ask questions if they don’t understand something. Adults often forget that it isn’t talent or skill but our curiosity and a huge taste for knowledge that makes us worthy.
Kids live in the present, and give 100% to any task they are doing. They never worry about the future, and since they are so busy enjoying their present, life is great today. However, with a job, money, and relationships, it does get hard for an adult to enjoy life. The best thing to do here is to change oneself, and if that isn’t possible, we can live like a child. Just don’t worry about the future, because it isn’t in your control. The only thing you can control is your present, so work hard toward it.
阅读以上信息, 用恰当的单词完成下面的表格, 每空一词。
| Things adults should learn from kids | |
| Show love | Adults should learn to give love first instead of receiving love. |
| Never hide emotions | ●Children aren’t afraid to display their emotions ●Adults always |
| Be curious | ●Kids are curious, ●Our value |
| Live in the present | ●Kids live in the present happily. ●Adults need to enjoy the present |
WARNING: Holding a cell phone against your ear or putting it in your pocket may be bad for your health.
This sentence is a warning that you’d better not put it close to you when a new phone is bought. Apple company, for example, doesn’t want iPhones to come closer to you than 1.5 centimeters; Research in Motion, BlackBerry’s producer, recommends 2.5 centimeters.
If cell phone use can cause health problems, the result will be very serious. Americans spend 2.26 trillion (万亿) minutes chatting on cell phones every year, which brings $109 billion for the wireless businessmen.
Devra Davis, professor who has worked for the University of Pittsburgh, has published a book about mobile phone radiation (辐射). Davis studies how often brain cancer happens during different age groups. She finds a big increase in brain cancer in the 20-to-29 age group and a drop for the older people.
Children are more easily hurt by radiation than grown-ups, Ms. Davis and other scientists point out. But no studies have yet been finished on cell phone radiation and children, she says.
Henry Lai, a research professor, began lab radiation studies in 1980 and found that mice exposed to (暴露在) radiofrequency (电波频率) radiation had destroyed DNA in their brains.
Ms. Davis recommends using wired earphones (有线耳机) or the phone’s speaker. Children should send text messages rather than call, she said, and pregnant (怀孕) women should keep phones away from their bodies.
| It’s | |
| Warning from different companies | ● Apple company, the |
| ● Motion, BlackBerry’s producer recommends 2.5 centimeters | |
| The results of research from different areas | ● Devra Davis pointed out that people in the 20-to-29 age are more likely to have brain cancer than older people ● Ms. Davis and other scientists studied that children are |
| ● Henry Lai found that mice exposed to radiofrequency radiation had destroyed DNA in their brains. | |
| Ms. Davis’s | ● It’s better for children to send text messages than to make a phone call. ● Pregnant women should keep phones away from their bodies. |
Social media (媒体) is certainly an interesting place to learn others’ opinions. You can read everything (A)
In fact, you might feel so eager (热切的) that you feel like you should reply to this person at once. You might do some research, find some facts of your own and reply to what they’ve written. Yon finish writing out your reply, click “Post” and win the argument!
Most people don’t like it when other people disagree with (C) their ideas, especially online strangers. It’s impossible that they will change their opinion just because you argue with them. In fact, it’s possible that you made them feel more confident and they are correct. And the thing is, when you get in these kinds of online arguments, it slowly influences you because they are endless and terrible. (D) You might not know it at first, but the argument that you take part in can actually influence your mood badly. If you argue often, you start to enjoy arguing and then end up doing it even more. It’s a dangerous circle (B) is harmful to you.
I guess the best thing to do is to tell yourself that don’t waste time on useless online arguments. There are much better and more interesting things to do, whether online or in real life.
1. 在文中(A)和(B)的空白处分别填入适当的词：2. 划线部分(C)指代的是：
3. 将文中划线部分(D)改写为：
You might not know it at first, but the argument that you take part in can actually have a
4. 从文中找出两个描述人们对网上争论的感觉的形容词：
5. 从文中找出能说明本文中心大意的单词或短语：
