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Advertising means to draw people’s attention to something. It is a central feature of our lives. Sales depend upon it. So does our knowledge of what is available. Read the following adverts and see how much you understand them.
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1.About what they advertise, we can safely say that __________.
A. Adverts I and Ⅲ advertise two products
B. Adverts Ⅲ and IV advertise services
C. Adverts II and Ⅲ advertise beliefs
D. Adverts I and IV provide jobs
2.From the above material we know ______of the adverts are trying to be price competitive.
A. 1. B. 2. C. 3. D. 4.
3.If you want to repair your house, you can call__________.
A. 4442-37058 B. 0732-605-041 C. 232-567 D. 150-000
4.It’s clear that _________.
A. a newspaper uses one of them in its own newspaper
B. all of them advertise for the largest number of customers
C. all of them list the prices
D. all of them have included contact information
5.From these examples of adverts, we can know that __________.
A. some adverts are provided by newspapers free of charge
B. newspaper is the most common means of advertising
C. advertising is an expensive business
D. adverts should attract customers
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A few weeks ago, our dog, which we had kept for more than ten years, had to be put down. First，a tumor on her stomach got worse, and she was very painful. Then，the pain in her back got so serious that sometimes she would lie down in the middle of a walk and couldn’t take another step.
I didn’t know the fact until a week after that. Then I was very sad and cried a lot. She was more like a sister to me than a pet. So I was very angry at my stepfather, Steve, who had not told us the truth at once. He explained that he didn't want to worry us, and he didn't want me to get depressed(沮丧的) and fail my exams. Before that, I always thought that Jennie had been still at the animals' hospital.
“She was my dog! Why didn’t you tell me earlier? I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye.” I couldn’t help shouting.
Steve just sat still. People in my family had a habit of keeping unpleasant things from me. They thought they were protecting me. But that’s not true. Once I got the bad news, I might be much more painful for some moments that I had missed. I turned to my mom, and she said, “I know. I’m angry, too.” After a while, she added, “Poor Steve had to go through all this on his own.” Hearing that, I immediately shut up my mouth and was lost in deep thought.
Maybe I had been so focused on myself so much. That dog was also Steve’s baby. He’d had her for longer than he’d had us---but he had to make the difficult decision to end her life, and then kept in silence for an entire week.
My anger began to melt away, and I could guess what Steve might feel these days.
My mom’s words have constantly haunted in my ear and in my mind till now. Sometimes, we should think more of others’ pain.
1.The phrase “put down” in the first paragraph can be replaced by _________.
A. kept B. set free C. cut open D. killed
2.What can we learn about the pet dog?
A. Some terrible tumors on her stomach got worse.
B. She had been kept by Steve since she was born.
C. She had been badly ill and quite painful.
D. The family gave up the treatment as soon as they knew Jennie got ill.
3.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A. Steve always kept everything in himself alone.
B. The family often told white lies to the author to protect her.
C. The author’s mom didn’t understand her feeling.
D. The author’s mom thought Steve shouldn’t withstand so much pain alone.
4.How did the author feel at last?
A. Angry and stressful. B. Regretful and sorry.
C. Anxious and uneasy. D. Disappointed and bored.
5.The best title of the passage could be ________.
A. A Right Decision B. Believe in Ourselves
C. Try to Put Yourself in other’s Shoes D. My Stepfather and I
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I used to watch him from my kitchen window. He seemed so small as he played through a crowd of tall boys on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would
often watch the kids as they played during break.
I remember the first day when I saw him playing basketball. He ran circles around the other kids. He managed to shoot jump shots from their heads and into the net. The big boys always tried to stop him but no one could.
One day, I met him and asked him why he practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation he said, "I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.
I watched him through those junior high school and into senior high school. Every week, he led his school team to victory
One day in his senior year, I saw him sitting in the grass with head in his arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside him. Quietly I asked what was wrong. "Oh, nothing," came a soft reply, "I am just too short." The coach told him that he would probably never get to play for a top ranked team-much less offered a scholarship. So she should stop dreaming about college.
He was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed his disappointment. I asked him if he had talked to his dad about it yet. He told me that his father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not understand the power of a dream. He told him that if he truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing could stop him except one thing-his own attitude. He told him again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, as he and his team went to the Northern California Championship game, he was offered a scholarship. Finally, he was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of.
1.The little boy practiced playing basketball so much because __________.
A. he wanted to play basketball better than the big boys
B. he had great gift for playing basketball
C. he wanted to get the college education
D. he wanted to show off his basketball skills to the boys
2.The little boy was heartbroken because __________.
A. he was considered too short to be a top player
B. his father did wrong to him
C. he wouldn’t be offered a scholarship any more
D. his parents thought he spent too much time in playing basketball
3.The underlined sentence means _________.
A. every one of us should have a dream
B. if you have a dream, it must come true
C. the dream is more important than the facts
D. if you try your best, your dream will beat the facts
4.We can learn from the passage that _________.
A. the little boy stopped dreaming about because of the coach
B. the father always encourages the boy
C. a top basketball team can offer the player a scholarship
D. the little boy was much taller than the other boys
5.The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.
A. practice makes perfect B. Rome was not built in one day
C. where there is a will, there is a way D. pride comes before a fall
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