阅读下面短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题.
Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车). They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.
Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging(吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.
But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.
After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.
But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony(假冒的) customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
1.The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ______.
(No more than 3 words)
2.What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? (No more than 10 words)
3.Why was Goldman disappointed at first? (No more than 10 words)
4.Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? (No more than 10 words)
5.What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. (No more than 20 words)
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Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brakes.
1.网球运动在上海越来越流行了。(popular)
2.我认为你们的建议和他们的一样有价值。(as…as)
3.只喝一杯咖啡就会使我整晚睡不着。(keep)
4.为了纪念那些勇敢的消防战士,一部电影即将开拍。(memory)
5.过了三天她才想起把雨衣忘在语言实验室了。(remember)
6.尽管山高林密,医护人员还是迅速地赶到出事地点,试试救援。(despite)
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阅读下面短文,根据题的具体要求,简要回答问题,并将答案转写到答题卡上。
A long time ago, Milton S. Hershey, the creator of the popular chocolate bars, was dipped in warm chocolate. I know all about it. My grandfather was there!
At nineteen, Hershey established a candy business in Philadelphia. Although it failed, he tried again in several other cities and succeeded with Crystal A Caramels. But Hershey was not content. He began experimenting with chocolate and managed to sell his first chocolate bars in 1900. They were an instant success. In 1903, Hershey built a factory.
Hershey was usually pleasant and kind and enjoyed a good joke. However, in his chocolate factory, he held high standards for all the workers. He was both respected and feared. His anger would burst out when things didn’t go as he’d expected, and workers were fired for mistakes.
My grandfather began working in the factory as a young man. His job was to push the vats (大桶) of warm chocolate to a storage area. To do this, he had to push the heavy vats up a ramp (斜坡) and across the walkway. One day, Hershey was walking backward on the walkway while my grandfather was pushing a vat of chocolate up the ramp. Bump. Clunk. Ker-plop! Hershey fell backward into the vat. Everyone else held their breath and ran up to pull him out. Grandfather froze in fear. Was he going to lose his job?
Hershey stood stiffly with his hands on his hips. Color rose in his face. He said something in a low voice. Then he smiled. “It’s not your fault, son,” he said. “I need to watch where I’m going.” He put some chocolate in his mouth. “Mmm, that’s good,” he said. Everyone laughed. The tour continued, with Hershey dripping chocolate as he went. And Grandfather kept his job.
1.What did Grandfather do in Hershey’s factory? (回答词数不超过12个)
He pushed the vats of warm chocolate to a storage area.
2.Why didn’t Hershey fire Grandfather? (回答词数不超过10个)
Because he realized it was his own fault.
Because he realized it was not Grandfather’s fault/mistake.
3.What does the incident show us about Hershey? (回答词数不超过15个)
(It shows us that) Hershey was pleasant, humorous, kind (to others) and really respectable.
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