1 . Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday. The day after it has been known as Black Friday.     1    and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.

 Black Friday is a great time to go shopping.     2     The biggest one is that there are not enough low-priced items. Each store may only have a few. These items are in great need, so people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three to four hours before a store opens. They may be hoping to get a low price on a TV or computer, but not everybody can get one.     3     

    4     It was first used in Philadelphia in the 1950s. The police called this day Black Friday because of the heavy traffic it caused. In the 1960s, stores tried to rename the day “Big Friday”. It did not stick. The name “Black Friday” continued to spread across the country. It seems that it is here to stay.

 Now people all over the country take part in Black Friday events.     5    Stores have held Black Friday events in the UK, Australia, and Brazil since 2012. In Mexico, stores offer a weekend of discounts every year. They call it “El Buen Fin”, which means “the good weekend” in Spanish. I guess people everywhere like to buy things on sale.

A．It is even spreading to other parts of the world.

B．However, there are problems.

C．It is the start of the holiday shopping season,

D．Some people leave, disappointed.

E．The situation makes people worried.

F．So where does the name Black Friday come from?

G．Some Black Friday events have been crazy.

2 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Apple Farming Earns City Wide Recognition

Yuncheng kicked off     1     agriculture show on Oct 15. The highlight was a famous fruit     2     (grow) in the city, the apple.

In Yuncheng, the planting area of apples reaches 166,000 hectares, with an average annual output of about 6 million tons. However, what makes the local people     3     (pride) is not the output but the quality of the produce.

The city     4     (know) for selenium- rich apples. Selenium (硒) is a trace element that’s beneficial     5     human health. Selenium-rich apples can sell at prices about 15 percent     6     (high) than ordinary varieties.

The latest information technology is also used for     7     (improve) the output and quality of apples. An intelligent operational system,     8     is linked with various sensors on the farm, monitors the conditions of soil and air.

    9     (help) farmers expand their sales, the city has registered the “Yuncheng Apple” brand name. Meanwhile, the collective marketing strategy has improved the recognition of the produce among consumers both nationwide and across the world.

Yuncheng’s apples have been sold to 75     10     (country) and regions. The total export volume is about 300,000 tons a year, accounting for about 80 percent of Shanxi’s total exports of apples.

8 . Amazon has made a new version（版本）of its cheapest Kindle e-reader with an improved screen and a reading light, a feature previously held back for its more expensive e-readers.

Costing $10 more than the previous generation, at $69.99, the new Kindle has a 6in e-ink display with an adjustable front light to make the screen readable in the dark. “Customers consistently tell us how much they appreciate having a front light on Kindle e-readers so they can read in any environment, ” said Erie Saarmio, the European head of Amazon e-readers. He added that this was the first Kindle under S100 with a built-in adjustable front light.

The new Kindle not only has a similar light to the Kindle Paperwhite, but also mirrors its design from 2015. It is 8. 7mm thick, making it 0. 4mm thinner than the previous version, but it weighs 174g instead of 16lg now. Amazon says its size and weight till make it easy to read while holding in one hand. The new Kindle also relinquishes the previous touch system for a more modern touch screen, the same technology used in smart phones and Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite, which should be more responsive. Amazon says the redesigned e-reader still has a six-week battery life based on 30 minutes of reading a day with Wi-Fi turned off.

Amazon’s audiobooks（有声读物）, first introduced with the Kindle Oasis in 2016, can also be used in the new Kindle. It has enough storage（存储）to hold 14 audiobooks or thousands of e-books as is standard with Amazon’s e-readers.

1. How has the new Kindle been improved?

A．By making it lighter.	B．By adding a reading light.
C．By improving its appearance.	D．By increasing its storage space.

2. What does the underlined word “relinquishes” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A．Adjusts to.

B．Keeps on.

C．Gives up.

D．Stands for.

3. What similarity do the new Kindle and the Kindle Oasis share?

A．They both have a six-day battery life.

B．They both support Amazon's audiobooks.

C．They both have to be used with Wi-Fi turned on.

D．They’re both equipped with an improved screen.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Some new features of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers.

B．The popularity of Amazon’s cheapest Kindle.

C．The improvement of Amazon’s cheapest Kindle.

D．Different versions of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers.