1 . On social media, you may see "BM girls", who wear small skirts, tiny T-shirts and skinny jeans. The group is named after the Italian fashion brand Brandy Melville. It says its clothes are “one size fits all”.

However, most clothes the brand provides for girls are in small sizes, according to British newspaper The Sun. The brand’s idea of “one size fits all" has made many girls feel uncomfortable.

"For me, the problem was not the fact that I couldn't purchase your clothes. The root of my frustration is in the humiliation I felt when I realized that ... I just wasn't good enough for the Melville brand," young girl Andy Esmond wrote on the website Odyssey. "I got the message loud and clear: If you don't have an ideal body type, we would rather you not wear our clothing."

Esmond is one of many girls around the world who are dissatisfied with their body shapes. According to a 2018 survey conducted by Youth Select Committee in the UK, 8 in 10 teenage girls in the UK want to change their weight or body shape. Tn China, more than half of teenagers want to lose weight to make themselves look better, according to a 2018 survey by Southern Weekly.

But fashion trends like the Brandy Melville clothing line do nothing to ease the anxiety of negative body image. Instead, they feed it further, noted Coppell Student Media. In order to achieve such an "ideal” image, some girls develop eating disorders. Even worse, this trend may lead to low self-esteem, depression and hopelessness.

“The idealization of thinness can be a key factor in worsening the illness and preventing recovery, and fashion retailers should respect diversity in people's natural body shapes and sizes,“ Beat, the UK's leading eating disorder charity, told Fabulous Digital.

After all, beauty doesn't come in a box, or in one form. Just recognize that we are all different and that is something to be celebrated. In fact, accepting your true self can display a natural beauty that cannot be ignored.

1. What can we know about the group "BM girls"?

A．They are an American fashion brand.	B．They only buy Brandy Melville clothes.
C．They love to wear small-sized clothes.	D．They always share what they wear online.

2. Why are many girls dissatisfied with the brand Brandy Melville?

A．Because it offers limited sizes in clothing.

B．Because it produces too expensive clothes for them.

C．Because it provides all customers middle-sized clothes.

D．Because it has poor customer service.

3. How do fashion trends like one-size-fits-all influence consumers?

A．They help people to improve their body image.

B．They set new standards for clothing production.

C．They encourage people to accept their body image.

D．They cause some girls to develop unhealthy body images.

4. What should fashion retailers do according to Beat?

A．Promote the idea of wearing comfortable clothes.	B．Help customers recover from their illnesses.
C．Value differences in body shapes and sizes.	D．Encourage customers to wear different clothes.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Who could the man most probably be?

A．A sales manager.

B．A T-shirt producer.

C．A customer.

2. How much discount of the T-shirts can be given on bigger orders?

A．20%.

B．40%.

C．60%.

3. What does the woman mean at last?

A．The T-shirts will sell well.

B．Many people prefer to buy sweaters.

C．There is not much demand for the T-shirts.

3 . How to Order Coffee at Starbucks

Learning how to order coffee at Starbucks can be tricky, and if you think that ordering coffee at Starbucks is confusing, you are not alone.

    1     Things move quickly as their employees try to serve customers as efficiently as possible. Orders are generally taken at one of the cash registers. You will be asked for your first name, which you should state clearly.     2     Don’t be mad if they spell or read your name incorrectly. People who have unique or hard-to-spell names will sometimes use an easy "Starbucks" name when ordering, like Mike or Amy.

    3     Their names for size are: Tall, Grande, Venti, and Trenta. However, if you order a small, medium, large, or extra-large drink, they will still understand you.

For ordering basic coffee, beyond specifying the size you want, you need to tell the servers whether you want regular or decaffeinated coffee.     4     If you intend to add cream or milk to your coffee, say with room for cream, or simply, with room. If you want a full cup, say no room. Read the list above the counter ahead of time, because they may not ask you which you would like.     5     You will have to wait a bit longer for a new batch (批) to get prepared. Once you you’re your coffee, you will find milk, cream and sweeteners on a nearby counter.

In a word, when you order, say the size you want first, then give the name of the drink, and finally add the special instructions.

A．Starbucks offers all kinds of coffee.

B．Starbucks is often a very busy place.

C．Otherwise, they will assume that you want regular.

D．Sometimes they will write your name in short forms.

E．The ordering process is somehow complicated because they use terms to describe drink size.

F．Finally, if you are very particular about the freshness of your coffee, it’s time to ask about that.

G．Your name will immediately be written on your cup and called out when your drink is ready.

4 . How much did the woman pay for the running shoes?

A．￡50.

B．￡15.50.

C．￡15.

5 . 假定你是李华，你的好友Mike用花呗购物成瘾，购物金额常常超出其所能偿还的能力范围，这给他的生活和学习带来了困扰。请你给他写一封邮件，内容包括：
1. 过度消费的危害；
2. 提出合理的建议。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
参考词汇：蚂蚁花呗Ant Credit Pay
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6 . The Buy Nothing Movement

Social media, magazines and shop windows bombard（猛轰）people daily with things to buy, and British consumers are buying more clothes than ever before. The average person spends more than £ 1,000 on new clothes a year, which might not sound like much.     1     A lot of consumer spending is by means of credit cards. British people currently owe about £670 per adult to credit card companies. Also, people are spending money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need. Britain throws away 300,000 tons of clothing a year, most of which goes into landfill（垃圾填 埋地）sites.

    2    But charity shops can't sell all those unwanted clothes. A lot of clothes that charities can't sell are sent abroad, causing even more economic and environmental problems.

    3    The idea originated in Canada in the early 1990s and then moved to the US. On Buy Nothing Day people organise various types of protests and cut up their credit cards. Throughout the year, Buy Nothing groups organise the exchange and repair of items they already own.

The trend has now reached influencers on social media who now encourage their viewers not to buy anything at all for periods as long as a year. Two friends in Canada spent a year working towards buying only food. For the first three months they learned how to live without buying electrical goods, clothes or things for the house. For the next stage, they gave up services, for example, haircuts, eating out or buying petrol for their cars.     4    

The changes they made meant two fewer cars on the roads, a reduction in plastic and paper packaging and a positive impact on the environment from all the energy saved.     5    But even if you can't manage a full year without going shopping, you can participate in the anti-consumerist movement by refusing to buy things you don't need.

A．In one year, they'd saved $55,000.

B．If everyone followed a similar plan, the results would be impressive.

C．Online shopping means it is easy for customers to buy without thinking.

D．Second-hand clothes are often of too poor quality to recycle in charity shops.

E．But that figure hides two far more worrying trends for society and for the environment

F．However, a different trend arises in opposition to consumerism—the ' buy nothing' trend.

G．People might not realise the problems because they donate their unwanted clothes to charities.

7 . Shenzhen is an ideal shopping place for visitors. The following is a list of the most popular shopping areas in the city.

North Huaqiang Area

The most prosperous shopping area in Shenzhen, it is home to dozens of market places for electronic products, clothing and jewelry. Some market places each house hundreds of shops, from flagship stores selling big brands to small shops where you can bargain.

It is also a great place to dine, with plenty of restaurants offering various Chinese dishes and foreign brands like Pizza Hut, Hagen Dazs and AijiSen.

Dongmen Area

One of the oldest commercial centers in Shenzhen, this area highlights a walking street flanked by humming stores. It is a good place to buy clothes, handbags, fashion accessories, jewelry, handicrafts, toys and small electronic gadgets.

MixC Shopping Mall

It is the city’s largest shopping mall and one of the most luxurious, selling clothes, cosmetics and fashion accessories. There is a large indoor ice skating rink, a movie theater and a supermarket selling many imported goods. You can also find quite a few foreign restaurant brands here, including Pizza Hut, Starbucks and a Japanese noodle house.

Shekou

Sitting by a beautiful cove in Western Nanshan District, this quiet place is frequented by many expatriates living in Shenzhen. There are stores selling antiques, collectibles, handicrafts and souvenirs, as well as bars and restaurants offering western food.

1. What can you do at North Huaqiang Area？

A．Skate.	B．Enjoy Chinese food.
C．Watch a film.	D．Buy antiques.

2. Where can you find a large indoor place to skate？

A．In North Huaqiang Area.	B．In Dongmen Area.
C．In MixC Shopping Mall.	D．In Shekou.

3. Where does this passage probably come from？

A．A text book.	B．A museum guide.
C．A news report.	D．A travel magazine.

8 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does the man suggest the woman do?

A．Save up for the car.

B．Go to another car dealer.

C．Ask someone to check the car.

2. What is the salesman going to do?

A．Give a discount.

B．Stick to a high price.

C．Ask for cash payment.

3. How will the man help the woman?

A．Lend money to her.

B．Drive her car home.

C．Take care of her car.

9 . 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.    1    

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.    2     A 2012 study in the Netherlands found that hospital workers were more likely to give up junk food for healthy snacks when the latter were more readily available on canteen shelves, for example. In 2014 Norwegian and Icelandic researchers also found that replacing unhealthy foods with healthy ones in the checkout area significantly increased last-minute sales of healthier foods.

    3     It has been working with more than 1,000 store owners to encourage them to order and promote nutritious foods. “We know that the stores are full of cues (暗示) meant to encourage consumption,” says Tamar Adjoian, a research scientist at the department, “Making healthy foods more convenient or appealing can lead to increased sales of those products.”

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.     4     Then they recorded purchases over six three-hour periods in each store for two weeks.

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.    5     The findings were reported in September in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

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.

10 . 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.

2. What' s the key to making the printer work?

A．A discard tank.	B．Light colored ink.
C．Special writing paper.	D．A high enough temperature.

3. What does the underlined word "catches" in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Theories.	B．Differences.
C．Problems.	D．Characteristics.

4. How did the public respond to the printer?

A．They asked for more patterns.

B．Some expressed dissatisfaction.

C．They considered it hard to operate.

D．Some worried about its recycling.