1. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?
A.Co-workers. | B.Husband and wife. | C.Shopkeeper and customer. |
A.Vegetables. | B.Chips. | C.Cookies. |
A.£6. | B.£10. | C.£12. |
A.On foot. | B.By bus. | C.By car. |
2 . Healthy See, Healthy Do
Visit the grocery store on an empty stomach, and you will probably come home with a few things you did not plan to buy. But hunger is not the only cause of additional purchases. The location of store displays (摆放) also influences our shopping choices.
The checkout area is a particular hotspot for junk food. Studies have found that the products most commonly found there are sugary and salty snacks.
Adjoian and her colleagues wondered if such findings would apply to their city’s crowded urban checkout areas, so they selected three Bronx supermarkets for their own study.
Of the more than 2,100 shoppers they observed, just 4 percent bought anything from the checkout area. Among those who did, however, customers in the healthy lines purchased nutritious foods more than twice as often as those in the standard lines.
The potential influence may seem small, but Adjoian believes that changing more checkout lines would open customers’ eyes to nutritious, lower-calorie foods. Health department officials are now exploring ways to expand healthy options at checkout counters throughout New York City.
A.These foods give people more energy. |
B.They bought unhealthy foods 40 percent less often. |
C.And it may make or break some healthy eating habits. |
D.The supermarkets began to offer nutritious, lower-calorie foods. |
E.These findings caught the attention of New York City Department of Health. |
F.They replaced candies and cookies with fruits and nuts near the checkout counter. |
G.And a few studies have suggested that simply swapping in healthier options can change customer behavior. |
3 . With the average American going through more than 700 pounds of paper per year, many firms are looking for ways to discourage their employees from over-using the office printer.
Toshiba America Business Solutions has come up with an alternative idea. It has introduced the e-STUDI04508LP, a printer that gives users the option to print with erasable toner (墨粉) — allowing a single piece of paper to be reused several times.
To reuse a piece of paper, the printer basically uses the same process as a normal printer, but in reverse (反过来), said Bill Melo, chief marketing executive for Toshiba America Business Solutions. Paper printed with the erasable toner is fed back into the printer, superheated, and the toner gets removed and put in a discard tank.
There are a couple of catches. All of the printouts using the erasable toner have to be in blue ink, which is the only color in which erasable toner is now available. And the company said that people may want to stop reusing the printouts after five times through the eraser because small traces of erased text will build up over time.
The $15,420 printer is aimed at offices and schools, where there are often large numbers of printouts that outlive their usefulness quickly. With the erasable toner, it' s possible to load any short-lived handouts back onto the printer to be erased and then reused.
Still, convincing customers to commit to erasable toner isn't always easy. Melo said not all its customers were happy about only having the erasable option.
The model, Melo said, should better serve the needs of those who want to be environmentally conscious but also may need something more permanent on occasion.
1. What' s special about Toshiba' s printer?A.It' s low-priced. | B.It' s fashionable. |
C.It' s lightweight. | D.It' s eco-friendly. |
A.A discard tank. | B.Light colored ink. |
C.Special writing paper. | D.A high enough temperature. |
A.Theories. | B.Differences. |
C.Problems. | D.Characteristics. |
A.They asked for more patterns. |
B.Some expressed dissatisfaction. |
C.They considered it hard to operate. |
D.Some worried about its recycling. |
1. What kind of motorcycle does the man ask for at first?
A.A small one. | B.A big one. | C.An expensive one. |
A.The low price. | B.The high speed. | C.The great design. |
A.A Raven. | B.A Harley. | C.A Seminole. |
1. Why is the man at the shop?
A.To order a camera for his wife. |
B.To have a camera repaired. |
C.To get a camera changed. |
A.Pink. | B.Black. | C.Orange. |
A.Make a phone call. |
B.Wait until further notice. |
C.Come again the next day. |
1. Why will the woman go downtown?
A.To have lunch. | B.To see her sister. | C.To go shopping. |
A.A student. | B.A teacher. | C.A shop assistant. |
A.Some books. | B.Some flowers. | C.Some clothes. |
1. Which bed does the woman choose?
A.A twin bed. | B.A double bed. | C.A queen-sized bed. |
A.A couple. | B.Mother and son. | C.Salesman and customer. |
8 . 假如你是李华,3月1日在英国某网站购买了一本英文原版小说Pride and Prejudice。收到货后,你发现书封面破损并存在缺页现象,请你就此向网站客服写封电子邮件投诉。
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2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。
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For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute impolitely; he does so with skill: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the color you mentioned.” Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”
Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round”. She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store bywhat the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lockout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spendan hour going from one rail to another, to and fro, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
1. The passage mainly talks about ________.
A.differences between men and women shoppers |
B.A man goes shopping because he needs something |
C.How women go about buying clothes. |
D.Women are better at shopping than men |
A.he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear |
B.he buys whatever he likes without considering its value |
C.he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things |
D.he often buy things without giving the matter proper thought. |
A.He buys a similar thing because of the color he wants. |
B.He usually does not buy anything. |
C.At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys. |
D.So long as the style is right, he buys the thing. |
10 . A bargain is something offered at a low and advantageous price. A more recent definition is: a bargain is a dirty trick to force money out of the pockets of silly and innocent people.
The cost of producing a new—for example—toothpaste would make 80 p the proper price for it, so we will market it at £ 1.20. It is not a bad toothpaste, and as people like to try new things it will sell well to start with; but the attraction of novelty soon fades, so sales will fall. When that happens we will reduce the price to £ l. 15. And we will turn it into a bargain by printing 5 p OFF all over it.
Sometimes it is not 5 p OFF but l p OFF. What breathtaking rudeness to advertise l p OFF your soap or washing powder or whatever! Even the poorest old-age pensioner ought to regard this as an insult(侮辱), but he doesn’t. A bargain must not be missed. People say one has to have washing powder(or whatever)and one might as well buy it a penny cheaper.
The real danger starts when unnecessary things become “bargains”. Many people just cannot resist bargains. Provided they think they are getting a bargain they will buy clothes they will never wear or furniture they have no space for. Once I heard of a man who bought an electric saw as a bargain and cut off two of his fingers the next day. But he had no regrets: the saw had been truly cheap.
Quite a few people actually believe that they make money on such bargains. A lady once told me: “I’ve had a lucky day today. I bought a dress for £120, reduced from £400; and I bought a beautiful Persian carpet for £600, reduced from £900.” It will never occur to her that she has actually wasted £720. She feels as though she had made £ 580. She also feels, I am sure, that if she had more time for shopping, she could make a living out of it.
Some people buy in large quantities because it is cheaper. Once a couple bought enough sugar for their lifetime and the lifetime of their children and grandchildren. They thought it a bargain not to be missed. When the sugar arrived they didn’t know where to store it —until they realized that their toilet was a very spacious one. So that was where they piled up their sugar. Not only did their guests feel rather strange whenever they were offered sugar to put into their coffee, but the toilet became extremely sticky.
To offer bargains is a commercial trick to make the poor poorer. When greedy fools fall for this trick, it serves them right.
1. Which word best describes the language style of the passage?A.Polite. | B.Foolish. | C.Humorous. | D.Serious. |
A.Good quality. | B.Low price. | C.Newness. | D.Curiosity. |
A.It’s a gift for poor people. | B.It’s an offense to shoppers. |
C.It’s a bargain worth trying. | D.It’s a real reduction in price. |
A.Bargains are things people don’t really need. | B.Bargains are often real cheap products. |
C.Bargains help people make a living. | D.Bargains play tricks on people. |