1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Grocery store design is a carefully crafted art from both psychological and marketing standpoints, according to Reeves Connelly,     1     studied architectural design at the Pratt Institute. He explained there is a reason why fruit and vegetables are often located at the front of the store, “You’ll grab them first and then     2     (hope) feel less guilty about buying junk food later on.” Meanwhile, essential items such as milk and eggs     3     (place) at the back of the store to ensure customers walk through other aisles with many unhealthy options, potentially     4     (increase) the likelihood of impulse purchases.

There’s also a reason why you often feel lost in local supermarkets. They move things around. Reeves explained, “They are well aware that these strategies become less effective after you visit the store a few times, so they’ll regularly move the     5     (produce) to different aisles to confuse you. The practice is not limited to     6     specific store but is employed across     7     (vary) retail chains.”

“Their little tricks always work on me,” one regular shopper admitted, “I walk in to get three things and end     8     spending $300,” he said. On the other hand, some shoppers are proud to declare they have never fallen into the trap. “That’s why I always keep a shopping list on     9     (I),” another shopper shared.” “I’ve started having my groceries     10     (deliver),” he added.

3 . How to Make Your Online Shopping Safer?

There’s every reason in the world to shop online. It’s a great place to find the best prices and get gifts shipped straight to your front door. But these deals don’t always go so smoothly. Below are basic guidelines for safer online shopping. Use them and buy with confidence.

Before shopping

Check the product information. Pay attention to the watermark and the name of the store on the picture. Some stores may steal pictures from other stores. Pay attention to communication with the seller. You can ask for a detailed description of the product. Check the store owner’s credit (信用) history.     1     .

During shopping

    2     , please confirm (确认) the information of the receiver. Choose the right mode for transaction (交易) and avoid the loss. The use of a third-party payment platform for safe transactions provides a fair transaction guarantee (保证) for both buyers and sellers. Buyers pay through a third-party platform and check if the goods received match the description. If there is any problem with the product or if the product does not match the description, buyers can apply to return the money.     3     , to avoid the situation where the shameless buyer does not pay after receiving the goods.

After shopping

Pay attention to the shipping progress once it is shipped. When it is more than 15 days by mail or three days by express delivery, you should contact the seller to ask about the delivery. Meanwhile, you can check the logistics (物流) information.

    4     . Check whether the product is in line with the product information, whether there is damage or other problems. If there is any problem with the product, you can choose to refuse the delivery.

It is recommended that after completing the transaction, the buyers should ask the seller for receipt (收据).     5     , such as emails or text messages.

A．Keep your personal information safe

B．After confirming the buying of the goods

C．The seller can also choose cash on delivery

D．Check the quality of the product right after receiving it

E．Read other buyers’ feedback on this or related products

F．Please be careful when someone claims to be from the bank

G．And they can also keep communication records with the seller

4 . The Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week held in Ethiopia in November attracted over 5,000 visitors. Though the number is not extremely high, the continent is becoming a new global fashion leader, according to a UNESCO report.

Although most African fashion businesses are small and medium-sized enterprises (企业), the report identified a growing number of high-fashion brands concentrated in key markets on the continent. What makes African fashion unique is its authenticity (真实性), according to Kenyan designer Aulga Nato. “If you check most fashion houses elsewhere in the world, they have done so much that they have less creativity in what they are putting out now. Africa, on the other hand, is rich in cloth. We are huge cotton growers, and we are rich in every single way. That’s our fashion,” she explained.

Africa is a major producer of raw materials (原材料) for the fashion industry, with 37 out of 54 African countries producing cotton and textile exports from the continent averaging $15.5 billion (about 110.2 billion yuan) a year. The continent also has a huge animal population from which it sources animal skins. However, there’s a huge shortage of chemicals to make the materials needed to treat the leather (皮革) from animals used in the clothing industry. And the continent still faces challenges related to the movement of people.

Despite these challenges, African designers are giving their best to their work and leading the world in sustainable fashion and practices. African governments have also taken measures to help designers in achieving their aims. It seems that their efforts have paid off. After checking clothing exhibits at a fashion event, Ghanaian exhibitor Solomon Dodoo noticed that every single cloth is unique and there are no two pieces of cloth that look alike.

1. What makes Africa have an unusual fashion?

A．Its increasing tourism.	B．Its huge cotton production.
C．A report from the UNESCO.	D．The authenticity of its fashion.

2. What challenge does African fashion face?

A．A great need for animal skins.

B．Lack of chemicals for treating leather.

C．The development of cotton production.

D．Shortage of creativity among designers.

3. Why do African designers overcome challenges successfully?

A．They are supported by African governments.

B．They abandon unique and sustainable fashion.

C．They lead the world in the clothing industry.

D．They check clothing exhibits at a fashion event.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．African Fashion is Popular in the World

B．African Designers Face Difficulties in Fashion

C．African Countries Have Materials for the Fashion Industry

D．Africa’s Advantages Promote Its Fashion Industry’s Success

5 . 听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1. What does the speaker want to tell the audience about?

A．Some kinds of money used in the early days.

B．The things which will serve as money in the future.

C．The development of money.

2. What might have been used as money by early Japanese according to the speaker?

A．Salt.

B．Tea.

C．Nuts.

3. What is the common character of the things used as money?

A．Difficult to get.

B．Being used widely in daily life.

C．Being highly valued by most people.

4. Who used the first coins in the world?

A．The Europeans.

B．The Chinese.

C．The American Indians.

9 . “Few articles change owners more frequently than clothes. They travel downwards from grade to grade in the social scale with remarkable regularity,” wrote the journalist Adolphe Smith in 1877 as he traced a coat’s journey in the last century: cleaned, repaired and resold repeatedly; cut down into a smaller item; eventually recycled into new fabric. But with the improvement in people’s living standards, that model is mind-boggling in the era of fast fashion. The average British customer buys four items a month. And it is reported that 350,000 tonnes of used but still wearable clothes go to landfills in the UK each year.

Yet the gradual revival of the second-hand trade has gathered pace in the past few years. At fashion website Asos, sales of vintage clothes (古董衫) have risen by 92%. Clothing was once worn out of necessity, and now it is simply a way of life. Busy families sell used items on eBay, teenagers trade on Depop and some fashion people offer designer labels on Vestiaire Collective. Strikingly, it has become big enough business that mainstream retailers (零售商) want a slice of the action.

For some buyers and sellers, the switch to the second-hand is born of financial difficulties. Only a few have become worried about the impact of their shopping habit on the planet. But the shift is only a partial solution. Some people worry that some mainstream brands may “greenwash” — using second-hand goods to improve their image, rather than engaging more seriously with sustainability.

However, the biggest concern may be that people keep buying because they know they can resell goods, still chasing the pleasure of the next purchase but with an eased conscience (愧疚). Boohoo, a powerful fast fashion company, has seen sales and profits rise, despite concerns about environmental problems in its supply chain that led to an investigation last year.

A new Netflix series, Worn Stories, documents the emotional meanings that clothes can have: Each old item is full of memories. Actually, a handbag from a grandmother and a scarf passed on by a father are both valuable for us. A love of style is not a bad or an unimportant thing. But a committed relationship is better than a quick flash. Can we learn to appreciate our own old clothes as well as others’?

1. What does the word “mind-boggling” underlined in paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Unbelievable.

B．Popular.

C．Reasonable.

D．Influential.

2. With the business mentioned in paragraph 2, the author wants to show _______.

A．old clothes are more popular than new pieces

B．the online second-hand markets are booming

C．the fashion world begins to favor vintage clothes

D．many clothing brands are innovative in their new products

3. How does the second-hand trade impact people according to paragraph 4?

A．It makes people feel free to pursue fast fashion.

B．It makes people more cautious about their budgets.

C．It encourages people to choose eco-friendly clothes.

D．It pushes people to be more engaged with sustainability.

4. Which of the following views does Worn Stories advocate?

A．Old items have lost favor with the public.

B．Old items are worthy of being long cherished.

C．Older generations attach great importance to old items.

D．Older generations care about the quality of their clothes.

10 . The week my eldest son finished pre-school education, I decided to clear out the playroom filled with his toys. Toys had kept him company whenever his mother and I were busy with other duties, and over the years we had collected a really large number of them. Here are some of what I found: 13 puzzles, 4 games for practising maths, and a speaker box that could play Mozart to develop musical ability.

Our masses of playthings may have been extreme, but it was by no means unusual. American families spend, on average, around 600 dollars every year on toys; a 10-year-old child in the UK may have owned 238 toys, totaling about 6,500 pounds.

During the past two centuries, educators, toy companies and parents like us have acted as if the purpose of play is to prepare children for adulthood. The more book learning we could pack up as play, and then give to our children, the better. Then, in the second half of the 20th century, toys were increasingly bought for the purpose of building better brains in order to build more competitive and successful grownups. By 2020, the different kinds of educational toys had made nearly $65 billion worldwide. Toys that teach — from the Speak & Spell to the See & Say — are now a part of many young lives.

“This generation of parents is asking toys to provide an end product, and that end product is success,” Richard Gottlieb, an influential toy industry advisor, commented. “They want toys to get their children into Harvard.”

“The model has been, ‘If I get toys that do schoolish things, then that’s good,’” Alison Gopnik, a leading developmental psychologist, said. “But that really goes against what the developmental science is telling us. For a long time, we’ve been getting our children, and their toys, all wrong.”

1. Why does the author mention toys in his house?

A．To present the varieties of toys.

B．To advise others to buy fewer toys.

C．To show parents’ craziness for toys.

D．To complain of too many toys in his house.

2. How does the author show his point in paragraph 2?

A．By listing numbers.	B．By quoting opinions.
C．By providing examples.	D．By drawing comparisons.

3. What is parents’ misunderstanding about toys?

A．They can keep children happy.

B．They can make children positive.

C．They can reduce children’s stress.

D．They can promote children’s success.

4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?

A．Do We Need to Buy Toys?	B．Are Toys a Part of Our Life?
C．Can Toys Bring Us Happiness?	D．Have We Got Toys All Wrong?