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Women turn to online shopping

Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping, according to a study published last week in the US.

For years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women, but during the 2004 holiday season, 58 percent of those making online purchases were women.

“It shows how mainstream the Internet is becoming,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project group, which carried out the study.

Rainie said it was only a matter of time before women shoppers caught up with men. This is because women traditionally make decisions about spending.

Users were more likely to shop online to save time. Internet users between the ages 18 and 29 were responsible for some of the most dramatic increase in the online gift-buying population this time around.

However, three- quarters of the US Internet users did not buy holiday gifts online in 2004. They worried about credit card security, or just compared online prices with off-line prices, then dashed off to the shops to get the best deals.

“ But even if shoppers don’t buy online , websites are becoming promotion tools for stores,” said Dan Hess, vice president of ComScore Networks Inc. Hess said that actually most stores’ websites can make customers fully believe the security of their credit card numbers. And most are able to ensure that gifts arrive on time.

“ It’s all about making the shopping experience more efficient, more reliable and more comfortable.” Hess said.

1.Which of the following statements is true?

2.From the passage we can infer that______.

3.According to Dan Hess, shopping online_______.

4.What can we know from the passage?

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Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping, according to a study published last week in the US.

For years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women, but during the 2007 holiday season 58percent of those shopping on line were women, “It shows how popular the Internet is becoming,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project group, which carried out the study, Rainie said it was only a matter of time before women shoppers caught up with men. This is because women traditionally make decisions about spending.

Users were more likely to shop online to save time. Internet users between the ages 18 and 29 were responsible for some of the surprising increase in the online gift-buying population this time around. However, three-quarters of the US Internet users did not buy holiday gifts online in 2007. they worried about credit card security(安全), or just compared online prices with off-line prices, then dashed off to the shops to get the best deals.

“But even if shoppers don’t buy online, websites are becoming promotion(促销) tools for stores, ” said Dan Hess, vice president of ComScore Network Inc. Hess said that actually most stores’ websites can make customers fully believe the security of their credit card numbers. And most are able to ensure that gifts arrive on time. “It’s all about making the shopping experience more efficient, more reliable and more comfortable.” Hess said.

1. Which of the following statements is true?

A. There were fewer women online shoppers than men in 2007.

B. Most of the Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 are women.

C. More women shopped online than men in 2007.

D. People in the US were more likely to buy gifts online.

2.We can infer from the passage that______.

A. shopping online will be more popular in years

B. women usually decide what to buy in the family

C. the Internet is used in all shops

D. men usually decide how to spend money in the family

3.According to Dan Hess, shopping online ______.

A. is unsafe　　 B. is convenient

C. is a waste of money　　 D. is cheaper

4.Which of the following is the best title?

A. Women turn to online shopping

B. Men stop online shopping

C. More young people shop online

D. Shopping off-line provides better service

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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。

For the first time in the history of Peking Opera，four women performed a piece in the China National Peking Opera Company(CNPOC)productions1.May 27th at Shanghai’s Majestic Theater. The Peking Opera performance was one of the 512.( produce)showed at the 12th China Art Festival in Shang-hai. The CNPOC brought together three stories3.(base)on events (luring the Red Array’s Long March.“They are stories about the4.　 (brave)of the Red Army during the Long March，”says Song Chen，head of the CNPOC.“In the play，you can see5.these soldiers do to sacrifice themselves to help others. People will be6.(deep)touched by their faith and devotion.”

One of the stories is about three women soldiers7.(stay)for a night at a farmer’s home in a village. They sleep in the home of a local woman named Xu Jiexiu，and feel sorry for her poor living conditions. When they leave the next morning, a soldier uses a pair of scissors8.　 (cut)up the only quilt she has，leaving half of it for the village woman.

Peking Opera styles9.(develop)over hundreds of years，10.creates a wide range of roles each featuring distinctive methods of performance and singing styles.

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Human beings have used tools for a very long time. In some parts of the world you can still find tools that people used more than two million years ago. They made these tools by hitting one stone against another. In this way, they broke off pieces from one of the stones. These chips of stone were usually sharp on one side. People used them for cutting meat and skin from dead animals, and also for making other tools out of wood. Human beings needed to use tools because they did not have sharp teeth like other meat eating animals, such as lions and tigers. Tools helped people to get food more easily.

Working with tools also helped to develop human intelligence. The human brain grew bigger, and human beings began to invent more and more tools and machines. The stone chip was one of the first tools that people used, and perhaps it is the most important. Some scientists say that it was the key to success of mankind.

Since 1960 a new kind of tool has appeared. This is the silicon chip -- a little chip of silicon crystal. It is smaller than a finger nail, but it can store more than a million "bits" of information. It is an electronic brain. Every year these chips get cleverer, but their size gets smaller, and their cost gets less. They are used in watches, calculators and intelligent machines that we can use in many ways.　 In the future we will not need to work with tools in the old way. Machines will do everything for us. They will even talk and play games with us. People will have plenty of spare time. But what will they do with it?

Human beings used stone chips for more than two million years, but human life changed very little in that time. We have used silicon chips for only a few years, but life is changing faster every day. What will life be like twenty years from now? What will the world be like two million years

from now?

1.From paragraph，we can know　　　　　　　　　　　　 .

A. why early human beings cut skin from dead animals

B. how early human beings discovered the tools

C. what early human beings used the tools for

D. what food early human beings stored

2.The stone chip is thought to be the most important tool because it ______.

A. was very important to the development of mankind

B. led to the invention of machines in the early time

C. developed cooking abilities of mankind

D. was one of the first tools of mankind

3.The silicon chip is mentioned in the passage to________.

A. show the changes of tools

B. introduce a new kind of tool

C. give an example of using tools

D. compare the effects of two kinds of tools

4.At the end of the passage the author seems to suggest that life in future is ______.

A. Out of order　 　 　 B. Less colorful

C. hard to predict　　 D. full of meanings

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In the past few years, quite a number of men and women have chosen to do something less ________1.________ (compete). They are afraid that the stress of work robs them of joy and happiness and ________2.________ (bring) them harm both physically and mentally.

In fact, however, stress isn’t such a bad thing ________3.________ it is often supposed to be. Above all, ________4.________ it gets out of control, a certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and challenge, and to give ________5.________,purpose and significance to    otherwise meaningless, idle life.    ________6.________, people under stress tend to express their full range of potential and to actualize their own ________7.________ (person) worth — the very aim of a human life. Last but not least, research from the universities of Kentucky and British Columbia has showed that moderate amounts of stress can actually ________8.________(strong) the immune system and be good for health.

Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to escape. Developing our adaptive abilities to

deal with ________9.________ can prevent us from

________10.________ (defeat) by the competitive society.

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Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations, broken up by long “dark ages” in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.

However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That’s much more difficult.

When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can’t think of.

So why bother even to try imaging life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.

Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set you imagination free when you think about the future.

1.A particular mention made of Stapledon’s book in the opening paragraph .

A. serves as a description of human history

B. serves an introduction to the discussion

C. shows a disagreement of views

D. shows a popularity of the book

2.The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that .

A. human history is extremely long

B. life has changed a great deal

C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years

D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future

3.Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to .

A. tools used in farming　　 B. ideas about modern life

C. unknown things in the future　　 D. hunting skills in the Stone Age

4.According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will .

A. serve the interests of the present and future generations

B. enable us to better understand human history

C. help us to improve farming

D. make life worth living

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Susan Brownell Anthony was a lady ahead of her time. She fought for women's rights long before they became a popular issue.

Susan was born on February 15,1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. At that time, women had few rights. They could not own property. Money earned by a married woman belonged to her husband. Major decisions regarding children were made by the fathers. Women could not vote.

At the age of 15, Susan became a school teacher. She taught for 15 years. Then she began organizing women's groups to promote causes that were important to women. She helped gain better educational rights for women. She helped give married women possession of their earnings.

After the Civil War, Susan became very involved in the women's suffrage movement. After years of lecturing, writing, and appealing by Susan and other women, some parts of the United States changed their laws to give women the right to vote. The first state was Wyoming in 1869. Other areas and states gradually followed Wyoming's decision. It was not until 1920 that the U.S Constitution was changed to give all women voting rights.

Susan Brownell Anthony died in 1906 at the age of 86.She was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.She was the first American woman to have a likeness(肖像) of her face on a coin. It was the 1979 Susan Brownell Anthony dollar.

1.What was the situation of American women like when Susan was born?

A.They could vote after getting married.

B.They were responsible for decision­ making.

C.They had low social status.

D.They managed money for their husbands.

2.What is the third paragraph mainly about?

A.Susan's efforts to abolish slavery.

B.Susan's fighting for women's causes.

C.Susan's educational background.

D.Susan's teaching experiences.

3.What does the word ''decision'' in the fourth paragraph refer to?

A.Uniting other areas and states.

B.Changing the U.S Constitution.

C.Promoting the social movement.

D.Giving women voting rights.

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If it _____ for the heavy rain then, we would have arrived here ahead of time.

A. shouldn’t be    B. weren’t             C. had not been     D. be not

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All the task __________ ahead of time, so they decided to go on holiday for a week.

A. having finished      B. had finished C. having been finished  D. had been finished

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The phrase “Love is Blind” has been used by men and women alike for ages. But what does this ____ mean? Well, look at the sentence first, "Love is blind because my mother ____ loving me before seeing my face."

Now, let’s come to the point. Love is blind means, when you are in love, your emotions can ____ things in your brain to let you see things ____ as they are. The positive interpretation(解释) could be, a person is deeply in love with somebody, that they are ready to ____ their each and every mistake. They can't see any ____ or flaws(缺陷) in their lover, because they are ____　 by their love for them. The negative ____ could be, their partner is mistreating, ____, or lying to them, but they are ____ in love with them that they are ready to forgive their partner. ____ there is a clear difference between loving a person and ____ their terrible behaviors. If the ____ is the case, you should let go of that person.

All in all, we love from our ____, not through our eyes or ears. The interpretation of this saying has both, a negative and ____ meaning associated with it. It means that you love ____　 without thinking of logic(逻辑). You don't ____ their looks, and all that ____ is their heart.　　 ____ love is not being with somebody because of their good ____ or their wealth.

1.A. word　　 B. love　　 C. saying　　 D. article

2.A. started　　 B. enjoyed　　 C. remembered　　 D. forgot

3.A. put　　 B. cloud　　 C. place　　 D. avoid

4.A. closely　　 B. clearly　　 C. exactly　　 D. deeply

5.A. find　　 B. correct　　 C. value　　 D. ignore

6.A. advantage　　 B. strength　　 C. problem　　 D. disability

7.A. troubled　　 B. surrounded　　 C. blinded　　 D. misunderstood

8.A. explanation　　 B. result　　 C. side　　 D. effect

9.A. cheating　　 B. talking　　 C. laughing　　 D. sharing

10.A. also　　 B. still　　 C. so　　 D. even

11.A. But　　 B. And　　 C. If　　 D. Once

12.A. accepting　　 B. welcoming　　 C. solving　　 D. changing

13.A. former　　 B. latter　　 C. situation　　 D. truth

14.A. mouse　　 B. mind　　 C. heart　　 D. nose

15.A. active　　 B. different　　 C. bad　　 D. positive

16.A. anyone　　 B. somebody　　 C. nobody　　 D. none

17.A. care for　　 B. care about　　 C. think for　　 D. think about

18.A. matters　　 B. makes　　 C. needs　　 D. takes

19.A. First　　 B. Deep　　 C. Great　　 D. True

20.A. family　　 B. health　　 C. riches　　 D. look

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