1 . In an effort to fight the “throw-away culture” and promote reuse and repair, the city of Berlin has taken the unique step of opening its own secondhand department store.

This isn’t your grandma’s thrift shop (旧货商店). It resells perfectly good items that would otherwise be thrown away. A pun on the German words for “department store” and “conserving house”, B-Wa(h)renhaus sells a wide variety of products. Far from simply selling old items, the electronic goods have been fixed by expert technicians and come with a year’s guarantee. And, to reach more secondhand shoppers, the store was set up right in the middle of the famous Karstadt department store.

With the success of its initial six-month trial run, the city plans to open four more similar operations in other parts of Berlin. By 2030, it hopes to have at least one location in each of Berlin’s 12 districts. Since 2008, city policies and educational campaigns have reduced average annual household waste by about 25 pounds per resident. It also recycles about 49% of its mineral construction waste. Currently, the city estimates that 8% of abandoned electronic goods and 6% of huge items thrown away can actually be reused. The goal is to expand the market for these items beyond the usual bargain hunters and eco-conscious consumers.

“Three years ago, we started collecting all kinds of used goods,” city spokesperson Dorothee Winden said. “There are lots of things that are well-preserved and functioning but aren’t being used anymore. The goal is to give these things a new life with somebody who can use them.” The store also includes an education center to encourage more sustainable lifestyles — and also gave an award to a project that recycles school uniforms, so that parents don’t have to buy new ones every year.

1. Why has Berlin opened its own secondhand department store?

A．To attract more shoppers.	B．To promote recycling.
C．To foster traditional culture.	D．To expand secondhand market.

2. In which aspect is B-Wa(h)renhaus different from the traditional thrift store?

A．The variety of the goods.	B．The location of the store.
C．The quality of the products.	D．The operation of the store.

3. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A．Berlin currently has 4 second-hand stores in construction.

B．Berlin has been successful in cutting its waste since 2008.

C．It is not easy to make the goal to expand the market a reality.

D．It is estimated that Berlin will be a zero-waste city by 2030.

4. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the text?

A．To introduce Berlin’s new reuse shop operation.

B．To raise people’s awareness of reasonable shopping.

C．To persuade people to become eco-friendly shoppers.

D．To encourage more people to donate to secondhand shops.

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1. What do we know about the Go?

A．Its price is unbelievably low.	B．It features fancy bells and whistles.
C．It includes charging station and batteries.	D．It needs expensive professional adjustments.

2. How much should you pay to buy a pair?

A．$239.

B．$478.

C．$199.

D．$398.

3. Where is the text most likely from?

A．A magazine.

B．A research paper.

C．A travel brochure.

D．A scientific journal.

3 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where does this conversation most probably take place?

A．At the woman's home.

B．At a museum of art.

C．At the man's home.

2. Where did the woman buy the prints?

A．In Boston.

B．In New York.

C．In a European city.

3. What is the woman going to do?

A．Make another museum tour.

B．Organize an exhibition of art.

C．Visit some European painters.

4 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?

Booklovers, most of them, will tell you     1     a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend – the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel     2     you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn’t lend it out.

But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to have their latest literary enthusiasm     3    (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can. You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks,     4    (use) any device with the Barnes & Noble e-book reader software. It’s a big improvement from previous e-book readers.

The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is     5     on the lower part of the device there’s a color touch screen,     6     allows you to browse through a book or magazine, but goes black when you’re not using it so that you save power.

    7     exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection     8    (read) whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s competitors can come close to this.

But the Nook, ironically,     9    (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes and Noble, or at least a job-loser for Barnes and Noble’s employees. According to Marian Maneker at The Big Money Website,     10     the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.

5 .

A．Buy a sweater as a gift.	B．Check out in the counter.
C．Switch to another store.	D．Select a sweater she likes.

6 . What does the woman care most about her cell phone?

A．Its design.

B．Its special functions.

C．Its practical use.