1. Where is the conversation probably taking place?
| A．At an electronics store. | B．At a post office. | C．At a bank. |
| A．It is easily broken. | B．It is expensive. | C．It is heavy. |
In recent years, the term “China Chic”
Tapestry, a fashion group, with Donghua University launched a training program,
Shan said China Chic was their theme. Among their designs, there lay
“China Chic’’, involving the use of traditional patterns, is not a wind like trend, a flash in the pan,
3 . Membership Privileges(特权)
As a VivaCity Kids Club member, you get to enjoy great deals and offers from all participating stores as well as access to exclusive events all year round! That’s not all. You can also enjoy special birthday deals on your birthday month when you shop and dine at VivaCity Shopping Mall. Keep a lookout for the latest updates of privileges and offers at www. vivacity/kidsclub/offers.
Current Promotions for Kids Club members from 07 January 2022 to 31 March 2022
BumbleBEE Fashion • 30% discount for regular-priced items • Additional 10% off sales items • FREE gift-wrapping service | Parisian Miki • FREE Vision Screening and Eye Tests • 20% OFF all regular-priced spectacle frames and sunglasses | |
LEGENDS ARCADE • Buy $20 worth of tokens and get 5 FREE electronic games • Buy $50 worth of tokens and get 15 FEREE electronic games | Cotton ON Kiddos • Spend a minimum of $50 and get 20% off regular-priced items • Buy $150 worth of clothing and get a FREE Minecraft | |
CANDY KINGDOM • 10% OFF Kids’ Candy range* * With minimum purchase of $10 worth of items from Kids’ candy range. | Mr Lim’s Noodle Place • Kids eat for FREE with purchase of any 2 full course set meals. |
| A．BumbleBEE Fashion. | B．Parisian Miki. |
| C．Cotton ON Kiddos. | D．CANDY KINDOM. |
| A．Getting a Minecraft. | B．Playing electronic games. |
| C．Having an eye test. | D．Eating noodles. |
| A．To advertise for brand names. |
| B．To introduce money-saving tips. |
| C．To illustrate the design of posters. |
| D．To inform members of the best deals. |
4 . Imagine stepping into your local supermarket, choosing your necessary things into a basket, heading to the bagging area and walking out with your weekly shopping. There is no need to make a payment, no counting coins, and no placement of a credit card in a terminal. In fact, there is no cashier at all. This is not a theft but a realistic picture of the future way to pay — when technology recognizes your presence, scans your shopping, and invisibly takes payment from your account.
Amer Sajed, the chief executive of Barclaycard, says it will result in the steady dying of the physical plastic credit card, which his company introduced to the UK over 55 years ago. Credit cards have evolved ever since 1966, but the basic procedure of payment has remained the same. A card is either handed over, or the number on it is read out or entered into a machine.
All that requires the existence of a plastic card, but Mr Sajed says this will be replaced by wearable items. At a display for Barclaycard staff, he shows off a plastic ring, a bracelet and a keychain which all contain a chip allowing the shopper to make payments on credit. This, he says, is just a bridge to technology that will recognize customers by their eye or fingerprint, so people will be able to shop without lining up at a checkout.
Although cash, cheques and indeed cards will remain a choice for shoppers, he says, these new ways of paying will take a growing share of the payments market in 10 years’ time. Such a future sounds frightening for anyone who already has concerns about the safety of payment. Mr Sajed argues that nothing will be done without permission.
As this digital market becomes more popular, and the technology advances, there will be a battle among banks, payment providers and others for their product to be used.
1. What can we infer according to the first paragraph?| A．Thefts will often happen. | B．There’s on need to make cash. |
| C．You can do some shopping for free. | D．Shopping will be more convenient. |
| A．It has already disappeared. | B．It will still exist as a payment way. |
| C．It was invented by Barclaycard 55 years ago. | D．It has been replaced by the new payment way. |
| A．The necessity of a plastic card. | B．The procedure of doing shopping. |
| C．The function of the wearable items. | D．The new kind of clothing with a clip. |
| A．The future of the credit card. | B．The convenience of the future life. |
| C．The more popular shopping market. | D．The development of the payment way. |
Lovely dog aged 5 I'm moving and can't take him with me. Very good with children. I'd like to give it away to a good home. Tel: 8631966 | Wanted Welcome to the Hilo's Store Take any old pair of shoes to us between now and 30 Sep. And you will pay not more than ten dollars for any new pair of shoes. Your old shoes will be given to the poor people. Tel: 2455919 or 2456836 |
A women's dress size 12 silk $150. Also three dresses for girls between 5 and 9 years old, $120 the three. More information call Laura at 5998326. |
1. What can you get for free according to the given information?
| A．a pair of shoes | B．a women's dress | C．a girl's dress | D．a lovely dog |
| A．8631966 | B．5998326 | C．2455919 | D．2456836 |
| A．Recycling. | B．Sales. | C．Charity. | D．Exhibition. |
As we get older there are certain gifts standing out in our memories for a variety of reasons.
One gift I was given and treasured most was a doll named Patsy. She wasn’t originally mine but was my younger sister’s Christmas gift, but on holding Patsy I immediately fell in love with her and couldn’t bear to part with het. Luckily, my sister was quite happy to exchange dolls. From then on Patsy was my baby and I continued to love her dearly and would have died for her.
Another gift I offered my Mom has been shining in my mind. On a Saturday, I was on my way to the local cinema when I happened to glimpse(一瞥) at the window of the gift shop at the corner of our street. There were lovely gloves, pretty flowered handkerchiefs, and rose patterned teacups and saucers, all in pretty boxes. Seeing all these lovely gifts reminded me that it would soon be Mother’s Day and my mother’s birthday. Wouldn’t it be nice, I thought, if I could give my mother something really special, something I’d bought myself? So I stepped inside the shop and admired a dressing table set, which was a green cut glass with ornamental tray(装饰托盘) and several matching pieces. I was sure my mother would love it.
The lady must have seen my disappointment when she told me the price. But she had a suggestion which immediately lifted my spirits. She pulled out a large notebook and wrote my name in it and the gift I wanted to buy, and in return I paid her a penny from my pocket money. It meant no sweets that day but I didn’t care. At the age of nine, I’d made my very first lay-by(分期付款)…and felt like a grown up. From then on, every Saturday I dropped in at the shop on schedule and paid a penny, which the lady dutifully recorded in her notebook.
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2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
The day before Mother’s Day I paid the last two pence.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Too excited to wait till Sunday, I excitedly presented the gift to my mother.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Tmall Genie Tmall Genie is a smart speaker developed by Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group. Introduced in July 2017, the device consists of 360-degree speakers and an LED light ring at the bottom. Like other smart speakers, the Genie can search the Internet, control home automation devices, and order products from Tmall.com. Voice interaction is currently only available in Mandarin. |
Ding Dong Ding Dong is created by Chinese company LingLong. It was released in 2016 and has a height of 9.5 inches and has a square base. The device is capable of reading the news, weather updates, and online shopping. Versions are available that speak either Mandarin or Cantonese. |
Mi AI The Mi AI Speaker, developed by Xiao Mi, will wake you up in the morning, read off your schedule, take notes and tell you about the weather. It can control other Mi Home devices such as the Mi Kettle, lights, and rice cooker. What’s more, you can even have it serve as a tutor for your kids, but it can only follow the command in Chinese. |
Amazon Echo Amazon Echo is developed by Amazon, com. The device connects with the voice- controlled intelligent assistant service Alexa. The device is capable of voice interaction (in English, French, Chinese), music playback, setting alarms, and providing weather, traffic and other real-time information. It can also control several smart devices acting as a home automation system. The interesting function is that the latest version can order milk or other food materials on Amazon.com. |
1. Who is most likely to buy a Ding Dong?
| A．A young man who likes sports. |
| B．A student who likes learning English. |
| C．An old man who likes listening to the radio. |
| D．A kid who likes playing games online. |
| A．Tmall Genie | B．Mi AI |
| C．Ding Dong | D．Amazon Echo |
| A．Its voice interaction is in different languages. |
| B．It has an easier access to the Internet. |
| C．It can be controlled by voice. |
| D．It controls home automation devices. |
8 .
 | A Woman Endures Marilyn Hering www.iuniverse.com Paperback | E-book $10.95 | $3.99 |  | The Diary of an Iraqi National Saad H Al Ajeel www.authorhouse.com Paperback | E-book $36.00 | $6.00 |
Following the loss of her baby and marriage, Eleanor decides to move to South Carolina to run an inherited tea plantation. There she will learn to grow tea, and possibly something more: romance. | In the almost one hundred years of the life of modern Iraq （from 1921 onwards）, Saad H Al Ajeel describes the different stages that Iraq has passed through. | ||
 | Hot Horse Harry Jerry Lee Miller www.xlibris.com Paperback | E-book $21.99 | $3.99 |  | Cat Tales : Da Real Pussy Mick E. Jones www.authorhouse.com Hardback | Paperback | E-book $15.99 I $12.99 | $3.99 |
Hot Horse Harry lived up to his name, mad at the world. But when a series of unfortunate events came, the quick-tempered Harry changed. The book is designed for children under 12. | Cat Tales: Da Real Pussy reveals that the spirit of a supreme being exist in all things living. The book also supports the concept that cats are creatures of myth and mystery. | ||
1. If you are a history lover, which book suits you best?
| A．The Diary of an Iraqi National | B．Hot Horse Harry |
| C．Cat Tales: Da Real Pussy | D．A Woman Endures |
| A．Marilyn Hering’s | B．Saad H Al Ajeel’s |
| C．Jerry Lee Miller’s | D．Mick E. Jones’s |
| A．$7 | B．$12 | C．$30 | D．$18 |
9 . Want to pick up that new best-seller for your flight, but not sure you want to spend the money?
This will change your mind.
If you’ve done a lot of traveling, you’ve probably noticed that the bookstores at airports all look pretty similar. They’ve all got familiar logos, the walls of inviting plane snacks, and, of course, the towers of new hardcover books. Chances are you’ve wanted to grab one of those books for the plane ride. However, those hardcover books are a little pricey. Is it worth it to splurge, just to relieve the midair boredom?
Yes it is—because of a cool program that these bookstores have in place. These similar airport stores are all owned by the company Paradies Lagardère, and all of those stores take part in what’s called the “Read and Return program.” It’s exactly what it sounds like. Whenever you buy one of those books, you’ve got six months to finish it and bring it back to the same, or another, Paradies Lagardère location. When you do that, you get half your money for the original purchase back.
If you’re going on a trip, buy that book you’ve been dying to read. When you go back to the airport for the return trip, bring the book back with you and get half the money back. While you’re still in the bookstore, go ahead and get that other book you’ve been dying to read. Or the sequel to the book you read on the way there. Either way, your boredom on the flight back will be cured. And it gets better: the book you gave back will be re-sold for half price! Here’s what you can get for free at an airport.
There are two things you do need to make sure of. You have to bring back the receipt to get your money back. Also, the book needs to be in decent condition. But other than that, this program couldn’t be easier. In a way, it’s like a buy-one-get-one-half-off deal for books. Or get two books for the price of one-and-a-half. Either way, count us in.
1. What does the underlined word “splurge” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Spend the money. | B．Take the effort. |
| C．Take the trouble. | D．Spend the time. |
| A．You can read books for free in any Paradies Lagardère store. |
| B．You can buy books for half price in airport bookstores. |
| C．You need to return the book to the same store where you buy it. |
| D．You can get half your money back if you return the book timely. |
| A．It is difficult to take part in the program. |
| B．The receipt is necessary if you want to return the book. |
| C．The program is popular with readers. |
| D．The program runs successfully. |
| A．To encourage people to read on airplanes. |
| B．To introduce Paradies Lagardère company. |
| C．To advertise the “Read and Return program”. |
| D．To show the advantages of reading on airplanes. |
| A．She will go to the supermarket. |
| B．Her teeth are in bad condition. |
| C．She dislikes chocolates and candies. |
