Blake Mycoskie set up five businesses, but later he sold them all at a profit. Feeling a bit burned out from work, Mycoskie decided to give it a break for a while and headed down to Argentina for some rest. But rest isn't really part of a businessman's make-up. It's in their nature to keep having good business ideas.
On a visit to a village outside Buenos Aires, he was shocked to see that many children didn’t have any shoes or, if they did，the shoes were badly worn. Since shoes—particularly the local farmers，canvas(帆布的)shoes—can be bought cheaply in Argentina, Mycoskie5s first instinct(本能) was to set up a charity to donate shoes to the children. But after giving it some thought, he realized that this was not a model that would work. One pair of shoes per child would not make that much difference，because they wear out(磨损). And if he asked people to donate repeatedly —to provide new shoes for the same child every six months—the donors，sympathy(同情)for the cause might also wear out pretty quickly.
Instead he came up with the idea of ''TOMS: one-for-one shoes''. He would take the canvas shoe to America, manufacture it and sell it as a high end fashion item at around $ 50 a pair. For each pair he sold he would donate one pair to shoeless village children. That way he could guarantee a continual supply.
Several years on，the business is very successful, supplying shoes not only to children in Argentina but also other parts of the world. But is the one-for-one model one that can be repeated with other products? Mycoskie is doubtful. TOMS is a for-profit business, but does not yet make a profit. He says one-for-one is not an offer that you can just add to your existing business model; you have to build it in from the beginning.
Some would also argue that the charity aspect is just a marketing tool，but in the end does that matter? TOMS is making a real difference to poor children all over the world and Mycoskie is enjoying being a businessman more than ever.
1.Why did Blake Mycoskie go to Argentina?
A.To go for relaxation. B.To seek business cooperation.
C.To look for new business ideas. D.To learn to make canvas shoes.
2.Why didn’t Blake Mycoskie set up a charity?
A.He wasn't interested in running a charity.
B.He had no real experience of running a charity.
C.A charity would make no difference to the children.
D.A charity could not donate shoes to the children continually.
3.Why did Blake Mycoskie set up TOMS?
A.To help poor children. B.To support a charity.
C.To win national fame. D.To expand his business.
4.What do we know about TOMS?
A.It has made a profit.
B.It only supplies shoes to children in Argentina.
C.It gives Mycoskie a sense of achievement.
D.It can be a model for other kinds of products
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
Blake Mycoskie set up five businesses, but later he sold them all at a profit. Feeling a bit burned out from work, Mycoskie decided to give it a break for a while and headed down to Argentina for some rest. But rest isn't really part of a businessman's make-up. It's in their nature to keep having good business ideas.
On a visit to a village outside Buenos Aires, he was shocked to see that many children didn’t have any shoes or, if they did，the shoes were badly worn. Since shoes—particularly the local farmers，canvas(帆布的)shoes—can be bought cheaply in Argentina, Mycoskie5s first instinct(本能) was to set up a charity to donate shoes to the children. But after giving it some thought, he realized that this was not a model that would work. One pair of shoes per child would not make that much difference，because they wear out(磨损). And if he asked people to donate repeatedly —to provide new shoes for the same child every six months—the donors，sympathy(同情)for the cause might also wear out pretty quickly.
Instead he came up with the idea of ''TOMS: one-for-one shoes''. He would take the canvas shoe to America, manufacture it and sell it as a high end fashion item at around $ 50 a pair. For each pair he sold he would donate one pair to shoeless village children. That way he could guarantee a continual supply.
Several years on，the business is very successful, supplying shoes not only to children in Argentina but also other parts of the world. But is the one-for-one model one that can be repeated with other products? Mycoskie is doubtful. TOMS is a for-profit business, but does not yet make a profit. He says one-for-one is not an offer that you can just add to your existing business model; you have to build it in from the beginning.
Some would also argue that the charity aspect is just a marketing tool，but in the end does that matter? TOMS is making a real difference to poor children all over the world and Mycoskie is enjoying being a businessman more than ever.
1.Why did Blake Mycoskie go to Argentina?
A.To go for relaxation. B.To seek business cooperation.
C.To look for new business ideas. D.To learn to make canvas shoes.
2.Why didn’t Blake Mycoskie set up a charity?
A.He wasn't interested in running a charity.
B.He had no real experience of running a charity.
C.A charity would make no difference to the children.
D.A charity could not donate shoes to the children continually.
3.Why did Blake Mycoskie set up TOMS?
A.To help poor children. B.To support a charity.
C.To win national fame. D.To expand his business.
4.What do we know about TOMS?
A.It has made a profit.
B.It only supplies shoes to children in Argentina.
C.It gives Mycoskie a sense of achievement.
D.It can be a model for other kinds of products
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
A new reading tool was put on the market this week for the two-to five-year-old set. It is sold for at least $389, an expensive purchase for a kid – and that doesn’t even include a $99 annual subscription (订阅) fee for games, e-books, and age-appropriate software.
That might be fine for parents willing and able to pay thousands for private nursery schools, but will the tool actually help kids learn language and reading skills more effectively than traditional books?
Probably not, said Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Center for Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. “There is a sensory components (感官因素) to books that isn’t there with e-books,” he explained. “You can smell it, turn the pages, and taste it, as young kids are likely to do.”
That might help little ones become more familiar with the books, helping them learn from them, but far more important is whether a person is actually sitting with them while they’re looking at the pages.
Researchers have shown time and again that kids learn better when they’re having interaction (互动) with real people, rather than electronic voices reading to them from a computer or speaking to them from the TV.
A Georgetown University study found that kids who learned to put on gloves from watching a video took six times as long to learn the process as those who watched it shown by an adult standing in front of them.
“I’m a big believer in teaching kids to live in the digital society and use what the rest of the family uses, but they do need to be supervised,” said Dr. Gwenn O’Keeffe, a Boston-based children’s doctor and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “We don’t recommend that young kids use any type of technology for very long since they have the attention span (注意力持续时间) of a butterfly.”
1.According to the text, the new tool ________.
| A．is mainly used to entertain kids |
| B．can be accepted by most families |
| C．is designed for preschool kids |
| D．can download games for free |
2.Why is Dr. Michael Rich against the new tool?
| A．Because it doesn’t really involve many of the senses. |
| B．Because it does great harm to kids’ eyesight. |
| C．Because kids can’t communicate with it. |
| D．Because traditional books are cheaper. |
3.The study mentioned in Paragraph 6 aims to ________.
| A．show the disadvantage of kids’ watching videos |
| B．prove the importance of interaction with people |
| C．ask parents to teach their kids to learn |
| D．prove using e-books saves much time |
4.The underlined word “supervised” in the last paragraph can be replaced by “________”.
| A．punished | B．watched | C．encouraged | D．understood |
5.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
| A．To introduce a new electronic device. |
| B．To teach kids how to live in a digital world. |
| C．To show parents how to help kids gain knowledge. |
| D．To throw new light on kids’ use of electronic tools. |
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
American Indians ______ about five percent of the U.S. population.
A. fill up B. bring up C. set up D. make up
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
American Indians ______ about five percent of the U.S. population.
A. fill up B. bring up
C. set up D. make up
高二英语单项填空简单题查看答案及解析
Zhongguancun, set up as a special economic zone in the late 1990s, has a positive effect on business ______ science.
A. as long as B. as much as C. as far as D. as well as
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After he retired from office, Tim ________ painting for a while, but soon lost interest.
A. set up B. took up C. picked up D. made up
高二英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
A 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the1– five dollars was far beyond Reuben Earle’s money. Five dollars would2almost a week’s food for his family.
But hearing the sound of hammering (捶打的声音) from a side street, Reuben had a(n)3. He ran towards the sound and discovered he could 4the hessian sacks (麻袋) which were thrown away and sell them for five cents a piece.
Every day5 , Reuben walked down the town, collecting6 . On the day the school closed for the summer, no student was more7than Reuben, for he had more time for his “work”. Then one day the time had8.
Reuben ran down Water Street to the 9 . “Please, Mister. I have to sell the sacks now.” The man took the sacks,10 into his pocket and placed four coins in Reuben’s hand. Reuben said a thank you and11home. On arriving home, Reuben uncovered the tin can12he kept the money. He poured the coins out and began to count. He had 13 .
Then he headed for the shop. “I have the money,” he told the owner 14 . The man went to the window and15Reuben’s treasure. He wiped the dust off, carefully wrapped (包裹) it in brown paper and16it to Reuben.
Racing home, Reuben shouted, “Here, Mom! Here!” He placed a small17 in her hands. She unwrapped it carefully. A jewel box 18. Dora lifted the lid (盖子), tears beginning to fill her eyes. Dora had19received such a gift; she had no jewelry 20 her wedding ring. Speechless, she smiled and gathered her son into her arms.
1. A．price B．cost C．worth D．value
2. A．buy B．offer C．enjoy D．expect
3. A．question B．try C．idea D．schedule
4. A．sell B．collect C．fetch D．bury
5. A．before dinner B．in class C．at church D．after school
6. A．the money B．the sacks C．the paper D．the tin cans
7. A．pleased B．surprised C．worried D．tired
8. A．passed B．ended C．come D．wasted
9. A．hotel B．school C．bank D．store
10. A．hid B．reached C．stole D．put
11. A．stayed B．walked C．got D．ran
12. A．when B．which C．while D．where
13. A．none B．enough C．little D．much
14. A．calmly B．honestly C．proudly D．angrily
15. A．took out B．gave out C．set out D．left out
16. A．lent B．threw C．handed D．took
17. A．box B．ring C．book D．letter
18. A．opened B．dropped C．appeared D．broke
19. A．often B．never C．just D．ever
20. A．including B．with C．as well as D．except for
高二英语完型填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
Timmy sold magazines. One day he walked up to a that people rarely visited. Timmy the door and waited for some time. No one answered. As he was ready to , the door was slowly opened. An old man showed up. It was Mr. Black. He asked him for his purpose. Before he answered, Timmy happened to see a dog figure on the desk in the house. “Do you dog figures?” Timmy asked. Mr. Black said yes and explained that he had gathered many at home. Timmy felt for Mr. Black, as it seemed that he was a very lonely person. “Well, I have a magazine about dogs.” While saying this, Timmy to find it when Mr. Black said , “I don’t need any magazines!”
Timmy was so sad that he not to sell anything that day. He went home and then had a(n) . He had a little dog figure that he got from an aunt. It did not mean much to him for he had a real live dog and a large family. He wanted to it to Mr. Black.
With the dog figure, Timmy went to Mr. Black’s house. Seeing him, Mr. Black said that he didn’t magazines.
“I just wanted to bring you a gift.” Timmy handed him the figure and Mr. Black’s face lit up. He of the past experiences. No one had ever given him such a gift and shown him so much kindness. He was touched. He started coming out of the house and greeting people.
1.A. house B. factory C. school D. company
2.A. closed B. kicked on C. opened D. knocked on
3.A. come B. stop C. leave D. shout
4.A. collect B. sell C. make D. repair
5.A. happy B. calm C. nervous D. sorry
6.A. tried B. pretended C. continued D. seemed
7.A. weakly B. angrily C. gladly D. strangely
8.A. refused B. learned C. decided D. realized
9.A. idea B. message C. suggestion D. opinion
10.A. give B. throw C. mail D. leave
11.A. have B. need C. accept D. understand
12.A. wrote B. thought C. spoke D. heard
高二英语完形填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
— We ＿＿ that you would fix the TV set this week.
— I’m sorry. I ＿＿ to, but I’ve been too busy.
A. had expected； had intended B. are expecting； had intended
C. expect； intend D. expected； intend
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析
We _______ to paint the whole house but finished only the front part that day.
A. set about B. set up C. set out D. set down
高二英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析