1 . When Joanne Morton and Lydia Shaw came across the Boston Public Market, which features only New England businesspersons, they knew they had to stop in. The women, visiting from southeastern Connecticut, always try to buy local things. “We always try to support our local farmers and businessmen,” says Shaw. “We’re not into big companies,” adds Morton.

They aren’t alone. A great number of Americans choose “local” food, according to recent surveys from the International Food Information Council Foundation. But what does it mean to shop local things? For some, it is still a matter of geography or it is about supporting their local economy （经济）. And for others, it is about knowing where their food comes from and how it is made, even if it is coffee shipped from a Costa Rican company.

Years earlier, Congress passed a bill that gave money to support local food. According to the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, a product that can be considered local has to travel less than 400 miles.

But Lydia Zepeda, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found the largest agreement about what can be called local: any product that comes from within an hour’s drive. “But is that with or without traffic?” she asks. “What if it crosses state lines?” adds John Hayes, a food science professor at Pennsylvania State University. “A customer might like to buy local things to help an old town,” he says. “Or maybe it’s just because local food tastes better,” says Kaitlin Bohon. “I taste a difference.” For Ms Bohon, buying local food is both about supporting New England business and knowing who grew and processed her food.

1. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．We won’t work in big companies.

B．Big companies don’t support local farmers.

C．Big companies are not good shopping places.

D．We’re not interested in the products of big companies.

2. What is one reason for shopping local things?

A．Lower price.	B．After-sales service.
C．Local economy.	D．Transportation costs.

3. What’s the purpose of the text?

A．To show what can be called local.

B．To make people produce more local things.

C．To discuss the meaning of buying local things.

D．To introduce the development of local things.

4. From which part of a magazine does the text come?

A．Life.

B．Science.

C．Health.

D．Travel.

3 . 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。

Throughout history, humans have had an urge (欲望) to make social connections. Making friends     1    (be) something that most people do     2    (natural) when meeting people through family and friends. In addition, the Internet has introduced a new meeting place—the social networking site (SNS).

In the United States, MySpace. com is one of     3     largest social   networking   sites with over 100 million users. Unlike some sites that require a special     4     (invite) to join, MySpace is open to everyone over the age of 14. Users create their own profile page. They can decide whether they want to make their profile available only to friends     5    to all users.

Many   people prefer   using   SNS     6     (stay)   in   touch   with   friends and   meet new people.   Instead of     7    (ask) for a phone number or e-mail address, asking for someone's MySpace profile is becoming a much more popular question. For many, these sites have made a positive difference in their lives by widening their social circles.   However,   some   people have   found social networking sites carry some     8    (risk).   There   are   stories   of   bosses   offering   a   job   and   then   changing   their   mind   after     checking     the person's     9    (person) profile on the   Internet.   So     10       is   important   to   think   about   the   type   of information you include on your profile page.

4 . Most people follow others blindly mainly under the effect of peer(同龄人) pressure. Some people also feel it safe to follow a large number of people. In some rare cases it might be right to follow the crowd(群众), but in most cases this can be one big mistake. Actually there are reasons why we shouldn’t follow the crowd blindly.

According to a study, people tend to follow the crowd when they aren’t sure about the direction they should take. This means a large number of people could be following others without understanding what’s right and what’s wrong！This attracts more people to follow them and the result is that most people move in a certain direction even if it isn’t right.

A man who wants to be successful always hopes for others’ guidance and he usually follows the same path of most people, but the question this man never asks himself is：are all of those people successful？Of course not！If you want to follow a crowd, then follow a successful one. However, in real life you’ll only find one successful person among hundreds of people, and that’s why following the crowd makes no sense at all.

Most people act without thinking wisely. If you always follow others because they’re greater than you in number, then sooner or later you’ll discover that you’re making decisions you might regret later.

However, should we never follow the crowd？No. I’m not trying to say you should never follow the crowd, but instead I’m just asking you to think wisely before you make a decision. If you find others are right, there is no problem in following them, but if you have doubts about the direction they’re moving in, don’t follow them blindly.

1. According to the text，most people follow others blindly mainly because         .

A．they are affected by their peers	B．they don’t believe in themselves
C．they feel it safe to stay with others	D．they are weaker than other people

2. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?

A．It needs some time to think wisely.

B．We shouldn’t regret what we have done.

C．We should think wisely before deciding to follow others.

D．Making others follow us is better than following others.

3. Which of the following will the author agree with?

A．It is wrong to follow other people.

B．Those who follow others won’t succeed.

C．Only those foolish people will follow others.

D．One should use his head before following others.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Effects of following others.

B．Benefits of making wise decisions.

C．Reasons why most people follow others.

D．Reasons why people shouldn’t follow others blindly.

5 . Clothing rental is a hot new industry and retailers (零售商) are demanding to get on board in hopes of attracting green shopper.

But is renting fashion actually more environmentally-friendly than buying it, and if so, how much more? Journalist and author Elizabeth Cline investigated (调查) this question and concluded that it's not as sustainable as it seems.

Take shipping, for example, which has to go two ways if an item is rented — receiving and returning. Cline writes that consumer transportation has the second largest carbon footprint of our collective fashion habit after manufacturing.

She writes, ''An item ordered online and then returned can send out 20 kilograms of carbon each way, and increases up to 50 kilograms for rush shipping. By comparison, the carbon impact of a pair of jeans purchased from a physical store and washed and worn at home is 33.4 kilograms, according to a 2015 study by Levi's.''

Then there's the burden of washing, which has to happen for every item when it's returned, regardless of whether or not it was worn. For most rental services, this usually means dry cleaning, a high impact and polluting process. All the rental services that Cline looked into have replaced perchloroethylene (氯乙烯), a carcinogenic (致癌的) air pollutant, still used by 70 percent of US dry cleaners, with alternatives, although these aren't great either.

Lastly, Cline fears that rental services will increase our appetite for fast fashion, simply because it's so easily accessible. There's something called ''share washing'' that makes people waste more precisely because a product or service is shared and thus is regarded as more eco-friendly. Uber is one example of this, advertised as ''a way to share rides and limit ear ownership.'' and yet ''it has been proven to discourage walking,bicycling, and public transportation use.''

Renting clothes is still preferable to buying them cheap and throwing them in the dustbin after a few wears, but we shouldn't let the availability of these services make us too satisfied. There's an even better step — that's wearing what is already in the closet.

1. What is Elizabeth Cline's attitude toward clothing rental?

A．Approving.	B．Unfavorable.
C．Objective.	D．Enthusiastic.

2. The Uber example in Paragraph 6 indicates that      .

A．rental services are on the rise

B．clothing rental will be as successful as Uber

C．renting clothes might waste more than expected

D．renting clothes might make people lose interest in fast fashion

3. The author suggests that we should      .

A．give up renting any clothing

B．purchase inexpensive clothes

C．rent clothes rather than buy them

D．make full use of clothes we've possessed

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A．Clothing rental is a new fashion.

B．Clothing rental is retailers' preference.

C．Renting clothes is not that eco-friendly.

D．Renting-clothes business is in a dilemma.

6 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Chinese has overtaken French, Spanish and German to become one of the most popular foreign languages for jobseekers in the UK. Research shows graduates in Chinese earn     1     average yearly salary of £31,000 or     2     (much).

“I had a lot of friends on other courses     3     didn’t do much in first or second year. But for Chinese majors, you have to spend hours and hours     4     (write) characters,” says Hannah Jackson, who graduated in Chinese Studies from Sheffield University in 2012.

Hannah describes her course as “majorly intense”. “Most of my friends admitted to crying in the first week owing     5     the course intensity (强度). I was almost told at one point that I might want to reconsider and drop out.”

“The degree is     6     (absolute) worth it. The efforts     7     (pay) off so far. I like that I could live, work and operate with relative ease in China. Looking around at people who have studied French or Spanish at university, I find there’s no such chance     8     (use) what they’ve learned in the workplace,” Hannah says.

Hannah went to look for a job in Shanghai, where she found more employment     9     (opportunity). After working as a project manager for Intralink Group for four years, she set up     10     (she) own company earning £5,000 a day. She has now returned to the UK and works in business development for the Body Shop.

7 . Since a university education in the United States     1    (be) very expensive, most students work in addition to studying. Students     2    (usual) work part-time, but some students take full-time jobs.

A typical job for a students would be working     3    a waiter or waitress. Other typical off-campus jobs would include being a clerk in a store or delivering pizza. Sometimes students also find jobs on campus such as cleaning, working in a cafeteria or library or answering     4    (telephone). Most student jobs are entry-level and low paying, but have flexible schedule    5    (allow) students to attend classes.

Sometimes students also hold more responsible positions such as managers, or if they are lucky, positions in their area of study,     6    they hope will help them find employment after they graduate.

    7    double responsibilities of working and studying result in a very busy,     8    (stress) life for some students.     9    , it is the only way for many people to finance their college educations. Some Americans believe that the work experience is good for the students     10    (they) since it gives them a taste of “the real world” outside the school.