The New York Times is now better than ever-All the more reasons to order home delivery now.
NEW-Separate sections(版面)for the Arts, Monday through Thursday, and Sports 7 days a week that you can pull out, take with you or pass along.
NEW-The Dinning In, Dinning Out section, Wednesday, a banquet(宴会)of great meals you can make yourself order up or eat out.
NEW-The House & Home section, Thursday, filled with useful, interesting features(特别报道)and articles about making the most of all sorts of living spaces.
NEW-An Enlarged, two-part Weekend section, Friday with more ideas about movies, shows, art exhibitions, outdoor and indoor recreation.
Latest news and sports results daily. And of course, daily world and national news, Sunday’s special sections and all the other great features you’ll continue to find in the Times.
Find out just how much you can obtain from the Times every day.
Call 1-800-311-1969 or use the postage-paid order card to order convenient home delivery at 50% OFF our regular price.
56. If you want to find out the more information of films you should _________.
A. call 1-800-311-1969 B. go over the House and Home section
C. read the Art section D. read Weekend section
57. From the passage we know that _______.
A. the Times sells at a lower price than before
B. the Times has improved a great deal and everyone likes to read it
C. many of the good features of the Times remain unchanged
D. you will learn everything by reading the Times every day
58. The owner of the passage advertises ________.
A. to introduce the new sections
B. to announce the new sections of the Times
C. to make known his new plan of the Times
D. to persuade people to buy the Times
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The New York Times is now better than ever-All the more reasons to order home delivery now.
NEW-Separate sections(版面)for the Arts, Monday through Thursday, and Sports 7 days a week that you can pull out, take with you or pass along.
NEW-The Dinning In, Dinning Out section, Wednesday, a banquet(宴会)of great meals you can make yourself order up or eat out.
NEW-The House & Home section, Thursday, filled with useful, interesting features(特别报道)and articles about making the most of all sorts of living spaces.
NEW-An Enlarged, two-part Weekend section, Friday with more ideas about movies, shows, art exhibitions, outdoor and indoor recreation.
Latest news and sports results daily. And of course, daily world and national news, Sunday’s special sections and all the other great features you’ll continue to find in the Times.
Find out just how much you can obtain from the Times every day.
Call 1-800-311-1969 or use the postage-paid order card to order convenient home delivery at 50% OFF our regular price.
56. If you want to find out the more information of films you should _________.
A. call 1-800-311-1969 B. go over the House and Home section
C. read the Art section D. read Weekend section
57. From the passage we know that _______.
A. the Times sells at a lower price than before
B. the Times has improved a great deal and everyone likes to read it
C. many of the good features of the Times remain unchanged
D. you will learn everything by reading the Times every day
58. The owner of the passage advertises ________.
A. to introduce the new sections
B. to announce the new sections of the Times
C. to make known his new plan of the Times
D. to persuade people to buy the Times
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A world of opportunity
The New York Times is now better than ever.
All the more reasons to order home delivery now.
NEW—Separate sections for The Arts, Monday through Thursday, and Sports 7 days a week that you can pull out, take with you or pass along.
NEW—The House & Home section. Thursday, filled with useful, interesting features and articles about making the most of all sorts of living spaces.
NEW—An expanded,two-part Weekend section.Fridays,with more ideas about movies, shows, art exhibitions, outdoor and indoor recreation.
Latest news and sports results daily. And of course,daily world and national news, Sunday’s special sections and all the other great features you’ll continue to find in The Times.
Find out just how much YOU can benefit from The Times everyday.
Call I-800-331-1969 or use the postage-paid order card convenient home delivery at 50% off our regular price.
1. This is one of the advertisements put for a ______.
A. book store B. newspaper
C. magazine D. restaurant
2. Detailed information about films can be found in ______ section.
A. The Arts B. The Dining In,Dining Out
C. The House & Home D. Weekend
3. The advertisement tells us The Times is ______.
A. of great benefit B. of little use
C. paid D. priceless
4. The main idea of this advertisement is ______.
A. many opportunities will be provided just to those who order home delivery
B. several new sections have been printed separately from now on
C. readers can be well informed of the latest news and sports results
D. people can pick up all the information they are interested in
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In 1996, John Tierney suggested in the New York Times Magazine article that “recycling is garbage.” He wrote, “The money spent on recycling programs should have been spent on real social and environmental problems. Recycling programs not only increase energy use and pollution, but also cost more money than the disposal (处理) of plain old garbage. Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America.”
Environmental groups were quick to express their disagreement. They wrote reports on how recycling programs in cities can reduce pollution and cost less than regular garbage pickup and disposal. Michael Shapiro, an official of the US Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), said that “recycling can be good value for money, although there’s still room for improvements.”
But in 2002, New York City, a pioneer of recycling, found that its recycling program was losing money, so it stopped glass and plastic recycling. Other major cities watched closely to see how New York was dealing with its remaining program (the city never stopped paper recycling). But then it closed its last landfill (垃圾填埋地), and private companies out of New York raised prices due to the increased workload of carrying away and disposing New York’s garbage. As a result, glass and plastic recycling became profitable for the city again, and New York brought the program back. According to Cecil Adams of The Chicago Reader, the lessons learned by New York are relevant everywhere. He believes that, if managed correctly, recycling programs should cost cities less than garbage disposal.
Even though the benefits of recycling over disposal are many, keep in mind that it better serves the environment to “reduce and reuse” before recycling is even considered as a choice.
1.Why did John Tierney think “recycling is garbage”?
A. Because he considered recycling a wasteful activity.
B. Because he didn’t think recycling was a new idea.
C. Because he found few people would like to recycle.
D. Because he didn’t like the environmental groups.
2.Which argument was put forward by the environmental groups?
A. Recycling technologies are mature.
B. Recycling programs save money.
C. Recycling programs cause pollution.
D. Recycling technologies are valueless.
3.Why did other cities watch closely to see how New York was doing?
A. Because New York was doing extremely well.
B. Because they didn’t want to have a recycling program
C. Because they felt worried about the waste of money.
D. Because New York was running a new recycling program.
4.Which of the following would the author most probably recommend?
A. Always bring your own shopping bag when you go shopping.
B. Always put your shopping bag into the dustbin after use.
C. Never go shopping where shopping bags are offered for free.
D. Never use a shopping bag which is not recycled.
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New York Times---( DINITIA SMITH )Tomorrow is the 433d anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. A recent survey shows that more people are watching him, reading him and studying him than ever before.
Consider the recent yearly conference of the Shakespeare Association of America in Washington, where more than 600 people who study or admire Shakespeare from 18 countries took in topics like ‘‘Whither Attribution Studies,’’ ‘‘Unpopular Shakespeare’’ and ‘‘Sex Me Here,’’ a talk on breast-feeding and Lady Macbeth.
‘‘The national media is saying that fewer students’ taking Shakespeare,’’ Barbara Mowat, the editor of The Shakespeare Quarterly, observed in a speech at the conference. ‘‘But Shakespeare is thriving.’’ The association’s membership has increased by a third since 1990.
The Shakespeare business is so good these days that W. W. Norton is introducing a huge new collections of the plays into the already crowded field just in time for tomorrow’s birthday anniversary. Priced at $44.95, ‘‘The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition’’ runs for 3,420 pages, offering introductions, illustrations and notes and three versions(版本) of ‘‘King Lear.’’
Today, movies and videos have made the plays even more accessible. Last year, ‘‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’’ was No. 1 at the box office when it opened, and it grossed nearly $50 million. In New York in January, crowds lined up in the freezing cold to see Kenneth Branagh’s four-hour ‘‘Hamlet.’’ The students select a scene and then have a violent discussion about it.’’ Influenced by films, professors are increasingly teaching students by having them perform the plays.
1.Why people from 18 countries came to Washington this year?
A. To celebrate Shakespeare’s 433d birth day only.
B. To watch some plays by Shakespeare as planned.
C. To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday and study his works.
D. To discuss how to teach students using Shakespeare’s plays.
2.What does the underlined word “ field” in the fourth paragraph refer to?
A. Washington D.C. B. Shakespeare Association.
C. The birthday anniversary. D. The Shakespeare business.
3.Which of the many plays by Shakespeare was most popular the year before?
A. King Lear. B. Hamlet.
C. Macbeth. D. Romeo and Juliet.
4.What does the author want to prove by using so many examples about Shakespeare?
A. More and more people are becoming interested in Shakespeare.
B. Shakespeare business is being run well in America nowadays.
C. Plays by Shakespeare can be used at school for more studies.
D. Shakespeare belongs not only to Britain but also to the USA.
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In the 18th century, New York was smaller than Philadelphia and Boston. Today it is the largest city in America. How can the change in its size and importance be explained?
To answer this question we must consider certain facts about geography, history, and economics. Together these three will explain the huge growth of America’s most famous city.
The map of the Northeast shows that the four areas with the largest populations in this region are around seaports. At these points materials from across the sea enter the United States, and the products of the land are sent there for export across the sea.
We know that places where transportation lines meet are good places for making raw materials into finished goods. That is why seaports often have cities nearby. But cities like New York needed more than their geographical location in order to become great industrial centers. Their development did not happen simply by chance.
About 1815, when many Americans from the east had already moved toward the west, transportation routes from the seaports to the central regions of the country began to be a serious problem. The slow wagons of that time, usually drawn by horses, were too expensive for moving heavy freight (货物) very far. In New York State a canal seemed the best answer to the transportation problem. From the eastern end of Lake Erie all the way across the state to the Hudson River there is a long strip of low land. Here the Erie Canal was built, and after several years of work it was completed in 1825.
The canal produced an immediate effect. Freight costs were cut to about one tenth of what they had been. New York City, which had been smaller than Philadelphia and Boston, quickly became the leading city of the coast. In the years that followed, transportation routes on the Great Lakes were joined to routes on the Mississippi River. Then New York City became the end point of a great inland shipping system that started from the Atlantic Ocean far up the western branches of the Mississippi.
1.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Development of Transportation in New York
B. Export and Import of New York
C. How New York Became America's Largest City
D. How New York Exchanged with Europe
2.According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie with the Hudson River.
B. Economists are of the opinion that places where farming is done are good for making raw materials into finished goods.
C. Wagons drawn by horses and oxen soon proved to be better and cheaper than canal transportation.
D. The seaports usually have less population but more business.
3.Freight costs were reduced to 10% of what they had been because of ________.
A. cheap and fast wagons B. the new sea routes
C. the construction of the Erie Canal D. the development of industry
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is reported in the newspaper, children in the US today spend five times more money than their parents did when they were young.
A. It B. As C. That D.What
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The world’s population is more mobile (移动的)today than ever before. In 2010, more than 200 million people left their home countries to live in a new country. This is about 3 percent of the total world population. Some experts believe that number will swell to 400 million by 2050. Rates of immigration have remained strong for the last 300 years, but patterns of immigration have changed since World War II. The backgrounds and experiences of today’s immigrants are different from those of the typical European immigrant of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Contemporary immigrants range from unskilled laborers to highly skilled professionals, and they come from and go to countries all over the world.
In the nineteenth century and until World War II, immigration was primarily in one direction- from the Old World to the New World. This is no longer the case. Countries such as Russia and China, which have long been, and continue to be, significant source countries, are now also destination countries. There is also considerable mobility inside regions, such as from one European country to another, or among the countries of the former Soviet Union.
In spite of such differences, the push and pull factors for immigration remain essentially the same as they were 100 years ago. Most people move to another country because they want a better life. For the majority of immigrants, this means better economic conditions. As in past generations, a labor shortage in one country often draws workers from another country, especially if wages are significantly higher. In some small countries, for example, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, there are more jobs than citizens. The demand for labor is so high that the majority of the population consists of foreign-born workers, ranging from highly skilled engineers and financial experts to domestic and construction workers.
In traditional destination countries, such as the United States, however, labor needs have changed. Today, although there is still demand for unskilled labor, there is increasing demand for people with a high level of skill and education. The need for less skilled labor has shifted to other countries. As work on farms and in industry in the United States and Canada once drew workers from all over the world, now work in factories in Taiwan and south Korea attracts workers from Vietnam, the Philippines, and Cambodia.
Most global immigration is legal: however, a large number of people also move across national borders illegally in pursuit of employment. Experts estimate that about 15 to 20 percent of immigrants worldwide are in their new countries illegally. The United States has the largest number of these immigrants, followed by South Africa, with significant numbers also in Northern and Western Europe and Mexico. These immigrants face particular challenges because they often must hide from the authorities who might deport them back to their home countries. Their illegal status also means that employers may take advantage of them by forcing them to work longer hours and paying them less than the legal minimum wage.
Although economics remains the most important motivation in all forms of immigrant, other factors are also important. Some people decide to leave their home countries because their actions or political beliefs make it dangerous for them to remain. Others choose to leave because their home country has become too dangerous and unstable, often because of war or political unrest. They wish to find a place that is secure for themselves and their families. Education is also a significant factor for many modern immigrants. They want to raise their children in a place where they can get a good education, which, in turn, they hope will provide them with better prospects for the future. Finally, family and community ties also play a role in immigration decisions. As in the past, once a group of people from one country establishes a community in a new country, more people from that country is likely to follow.
The pattern, direction, and rate of immigration may change as the global economy changes. However, as long as life in a new country is more attractive than life in the old country, immigration will continue.
1.According to the reading, what are the patterns of immigration in China and Russia today?
A. Many people leave these countries while many people also immigrate to them.
B. They are major source countries for immigration.
C. They are major destination countries for immigrants.
D. Some people immigrate to these countries but many more people leave them.
2.Why is the percentage of foreign-born workers so high in Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates?
A. These countries pay very high wages, so they attract many foreign workers.
B. There are not enough native-born workers in these countries so they must recruit workers from other countries.
C. It is very easy to immigrate to these countries.
D. These countries are very stable so many workers prefer to go there.
3.Why do some employers sometimes pay illegal immigrants less than the legal minimum wage?
A. Employers know that they will not complain about their wages to authorities.
B.They often do not speak good English.
C. Authorities might send illegal immigrants back to their home country.
D. Illegal workers often cause problems for employers.
4.Which is not the factor contributing to the immigration?
A. Education
B. Political instability
C. Religious freedom
D. Family and community connections
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He came all the way to China for learning it better ______ for making money.
A. other than B.more than C.better than D. rather than
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Haagen-Dazs from Europe started in 1989 and is 5-10 times more expensive than regular ice cream.There is no real advantage.However, it adopted a unique marketing strategy(策略), and quickly occupied the market as a top ice cream brand.
Haagen-Dazs did not set up shops in ordinary supermarkets or grocery stores. Haggen-Dazs leisure fashion shops are located in busy sections of malls.The layout(布局) is carefully planned to create an elegant atmosphere, and sometimes, a flagship(旗舰) store will cost several million dollars.
Compared to other ice cream brands, Haagen-Dazs consumers are tightly grouped.It is understood that Haagen-Dazs seldom does television advertising.The majority of ads are highly visual impact of the print ads.In particular many advertisements target the wealthy consumers. Moreover, if the consumer spends 500 Yuan, they can become a member. These members will be regularly sent advertisements by direct mail.Praise of customers is a powerful weapon for Haagen Dazs.
There is always much creative ingenuity(独创性) in Haagen-Dazs advertising, so it is remembered by the people:
☆ Initial advertisements such as: "Delicious Haagen-Dazs, like 24K gold, Kobe beef from Japan, original palm oil, mushroom truffles(松露) and Chinese ceramics(制陶术)…what 'ice cream' was waiting for."
☆"love her, let her eat Haagen-Dazs" This classic advertisement attracted numerous Haagen-Dazs lovers who became regulars.
Today, Haggen Dazs has about 700 stores in 55 countries with annual sales of more than 1 billion US dollars.Haagen-Dazs has become the world's most popular ice cream brand.In the United States, its market share is 6.1%, 1%in France, 4.6% in Japan, 4% in Singapore, and 5% in Hong Kong.
Determined to win the majority of wealthy customers they combined positioning in the marketplace with dedicated brand goals.This is the real secret of success.
1. How is the text organized?
A. Main idea-Comparison-Supporting examples- Conclusion
B. Topic- Supporting examples- Conclusion
C. Opinion-Discussion- Description- Conclusion
D. Topic-Argument-Explanation-Conclusion
2.According to the initial advertisements of Haagen-Dazs , it stresses that it is _____
A. expensive B. excellent
C. special D. popular
3.Why does Haagen-Dazs seldom do television advertisements? _____
A. Because it can't afford to do television advertisements.
B. Because it doesn't think television advertising attracts consumers.
C. Because it focuses on its target consumers by using other media.
D. Because its design isn't suitable to be broadcast on the television.
4.What is the best title for the passage?
A. The origin of Haagen-Dazs,
B. The creative advertisements of Haagen-Dazs.
C. The Influence of Haagen-Dazs.
D. The marketing strategy of Haagen-Dazs.
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听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1.Where is the woman now?
A. In New York. B. In New Delhi. C. In London.
2.When will the speakers go shopping, most probably?
A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening.
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