The story behind the shopping cart
Characters
Sylvan Goldman – owner of a grocery shop
Fred Young – Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic(机械师)
One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop, Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments(调试) to their new i 1. – a shopping cart.
Sylvan: My customers don’t like our shopping cart.
Fred: Really? So they p 2. shopping with those heavy baskets?
Sylvan: (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b 3. none of them wants to use the cart.
Fred: I don’t understand. We invented the cart so that people don’t need to carry a basket around the shop.
Sylvan: (laughs) And so that they will buy more groceries!
Fred: So why don’t they like the shopping cart?
Sylvan: Young men think that pushing a cart around makes them look w 4. and slow, and young women think it’s unfashionable.
Fred: Of course it isn’t fashionable right now. It’s only just been invented! But I’m sure older people will appreciate it.
Sylvan: Um…
Fred: What? They don’t like the cart e 5. ?
Sylvan: Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!
Fred: Oh no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g 6. up on this invention!
Sylvan: We won’t. (He gets up and walks around the room. Suddenly, he stops.) Aha! I’ve got an idea.
Fred: What is it?
Sylvan: I’ll hire(雇佣) some good-looking guys and girls to push the carts around and pretend they’re shopping.
Fred: Oh! So the real shoppers will see these attractive people using the carts and think, “Hey, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me!”
Sylvan: E 7. .
Fred: Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your customers and encourage them to use the cart.
Sylvan: Great idea!
Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)（12分）
Last year, over 11,000 abandoned dogs were put down by government dogcatchers. Why? Because there was too little kennel space to keep them. Hong Kong Dog Rescue (HKDR) is a charity that rescues and finds homes for unwanted dogs. It’s a huge task and if this had received more support last year, fewer dogs would have been put down.
To support the efforts of HKDR, the Social Service Club held a fun festival last weekend. ‘We hoped the festival would raise money and also raise people’s awareness of the point of abandoned pets,’ said Louise Wong, the club president.
The club organized stalls second-hand clothes, delicious homemade cupcakes and even the fashions to keep pet dogs warm in the winter. Although there were fewer stalls than last year, items were sold. Louise explained that this was because prices were not set too high this year.
The festival also performances by the school choir and the hip hop group HK Boys. The crowd was extremely excited, and some members of the said there was too much noise to hear the performers. Louise admitted that everyone would have been able to hear if there had been better sound equipment.
The most interesting part of the day was the dance challenge, with contestants(选手) showing off some amazing moves. This year there were more contestants than last year. According to Louise, that was because the prizes, including G. E.M. concert tickets, were better. , this year’s fun festival was a big success. It raised far more money than last year: a record HK$12,000. And the festival also raised joy among the special guests – some of our four legged friends from HKDR!
1.A. team B. group C. club D. organization
2.A. selling B. buying C. offering D. delivering
3.A. few B. fewer C. many D. many more
4.A. put off B. put on C. put out D. put up
5.A. family B. band C. audience D. community
6.A. Faithfully B. Generally C. Importantly D. Recently
Did you know that a new weblog is being created each second? Many of these bloggers are teenagers. While their parents wrote in a diary to express their emotions, or shared their interests by spending time with friends, teens are now using blogs instead. In fact, in the US, one in every five school-aged teens has a blog. Most of these are just chatter, some are funny or clever, but a few have become Internet success.
For example, Chloe Spencer’s blog ‘Neopets Fanatic’ gets around 300,000 hits per month. When Chloe was 15, she started the blog out of her strong liking for Neopets, a kind of pet website. One reason her blog has so many visitors is because she gives instructions and tips for the popular pet site.
Then there is Tavi Gevinson’s blog ‘Style Rookie’. It is said to get 1.5 million hits per month. Tavi, who started her blog when she was just 12, puts up her photos of her own clothes online as well as designers’ collections. Tavi’s blog has caught on because she knows a lot about style for someone so young, and she is not afraid to try out unusual clothes or see things in a different way.
Blogs like these are interesting, but they only become really popular after better-known websites link to them or they get noticed by the media(传媒). For example, Tavi’s blog became an overnight(一夜之间) success after being written about in The New York Times. Popular blogs can even earn money, usually from advertisements that companies pay to put up on the bloggers’ sites.
So for some, blogging is just a recreation(消遣), but for others, it can become a source of income and even a full-time job!
1. Teens nowadays ________ than their parents did.
A. have more ways of communication
B. share their feelings more
C. write in diaries more often
D. make more friends
2. In line 4, the underlined word ‘chatter’ means talk about ________ topics.
A. funny B. clever C. serious D. unimportant
3.Chloe Spencer and Tavi Gevinson are both ________.
A. pet lovers B. teenage bloggers
C. interested in fashion D. keen on taking photos
4. From the passage we know that Chloe Spencer is a person who ________.
A. visits many websites B. loves pets
C. is easy to get angry D. rarely gives opinions
5. According to paragraph 4, Tavi Gevinson’s blog ________.
A. is not well-known yet
B. is written every night
C. became popular very quickly
D. got a lot of money from advertising
6.The best title for the passage might be ________.
A. How to be good teen bloggers
B. How teen bloggers attract the media
C. Keeping diaries or writing blogs
D. Teen bloggers mean business
Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子。62-67题,每空格限填一词。68题注意句首大写) (共14分)
1. Steve Jobs has changed the way people live. (改为反意疑问句)
Steve Jobs has changed the way people live, _________ _________?
2. The model on the stage had a very excellent figure. (改为感叹问)
_________ _________ excellent figure the model on the stage had!
3. Black tea was invented in China during the Ming Dynasty. (对划线部分提问)
_________ _________ black tea invented in China?
4.The policeman came up and asked the lady, “What’s wrong with you?” (改为宾语从句)
The policeman came up and asked the lady _________ _________ wrong with her.
5.Can’t you feel how much your parents love you? (保持句意基本不变)
Can’t you feel how much your parents _________ _________ you?
6. The choir of deaf people can also enjoy music. (改为被动语态)
Music can also _________ _________ by the choir of deaf people.
7. terrible, me , something, to, that day, happened (连词成句)
___________________________________________________.
Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一词) (共8分)
1.Three ___________ shared 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize. (winner)
2.Wellington, New Zealand is the ___________ capital city to greet the beginning of a new day. (one)
3.We live in a world where a lot of things happen around ___________. (we)
4.How I wish the heavy haze(霾) could ___________ in our city! (appear)
5.On your computer at home or work, make a note to “call friends” ___________. (regular)
6.How far does your ___________ go back? (memorize)
7.Thank you so much for coming. Have a ___________ drive home. (safely)
8.Only by working hard can we ___________ in doing everything. (success)
A. responsible B. later C. actually
D. shocked E. amazing
One morning in 2006, the staff at another American high school were 1. to find a pink car on the roof. The car even had question marks painted all over it! The staff believed that many students must have worked together to complete this.
The American trick in 2006 was 2. a copy of British trick in 1958. That year, at the University of Cambridge, a car appeared on the roof of a building that was five storeys high. It caused a lot of trouble for police and firefighters as they had to cut the car into pieces to get it down. They couldn’t find out who was 3. , and the trick made headlines around the world. It was only fifty years 4. that the students in the case proved who they were and how they played the excellent trick.
