Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman immediately finds it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes.
For a man, small problems may begin when the shop doesn't have what he wants. In that case, the salesman, tries to sell the customer something else. "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the colour you mentioned. "Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: "This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on."
However, a woman in almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need and she is only "having a look around". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her. She will try on any number of things. Most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one room to another, often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
1.The underlined part “sets great store by ” in paragraph 3 means___
A. has much information about B. knows nothing bout
C. believes in D. has her doubts about
2.What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?
A. They welcome suggestions from others.
B. They rarely consider buying cheap clothes.
C. They predict what they want to buy.
D. They listen to advice but never take it.
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. Men never buy what they don’t need
B. A man’s shopping is often based on need
C. A woman goes shopping in order to look for cheap things
D. A woman’s shopping is never based on need.
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假定你是我校的高三学生李华， 学校将要为高一新生举办主题为“What to learn in senior high school?”的英语沙龙活动， 特邀请你结合自身经历谈谈自己的体会。请根据以下提纲准备一份英语发言稿。词数120左右；发言稿开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
1．学会学习：方法、习惯等；
2．学会做人：真诚、友善等；
3．其他方面：考生自拟。
Good morning, everyone! It is my honor to be here to share with you my opinion on what to learn in senior high school．
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1.他们不太熟悉慈善工作，这在中国还处于初始阶段。
They are not _____________ __________ charity work, ___________ is still at an early stage in China．
2.我们佩服这位老科学家对社会作出的巨大贡献。
We __________the old scientist ________ his great _______________ ___________the country．
3.如果天气允许，晚会将在花园举行。
The party will be held in the garden, ___________ ___________．
4.旅店良好的服务在某种程度上弥补了其食物差的不足。
The good service has ________ _____ _____ the poor food in the hotel _____ _____ _____．
5.如果您能给我一些关于如何解决这些问题的建议我将不胜感激。
I would _____________ ______ if you can give me some ________ _____ how to_______the problem．
Everyone may have a complex and different process of growing up．There are many influential factors in a person’s growth and 1. （发展） of his personality．
As for me, 2. has affected me most in my growth and personality is my family and friends, the two 3.（同等地） important factors．After I was b 4. , my family is the first surroundings． It plays a significant r 5. in shaping my character because it’s the most direct source of knowledge and experience for me．As we know, those who are brought 6. in good families tend to have a good character and vice versa．Fortunately, I belong to the 7. （前者）．Besides, friends in some ways influence me a lot．Although, we may have many different opinions and personalities, I have really l 8. something beneficial from them．
Frankly s 9. , I get lots of valuable things from my family and friends．My family offers me warmth and cares, while my friends give me strength and courage．Therefore, 10. of them have influenced me most in my growth．
In her new book, “The Smartest Kids in the World,” Amanda Ripley, an investigative journalist, tells the story of Tom, a high-school student from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, who decides to spend his senior year in Warsaw, Poland．Poland is a surprising educational success story: in the past decade, the country raised students’ test scores from significantly below average to well above it．Polish kids have now outscored（超过……分数） American kids in math and science, even though Poland spends, on average, less than half as much per student as the United States does．One of the most striking differences between the high school Tom attended in Gettysburg and the one he ends up at in Warsaw is that the latter has no football team, or, for that matter, teams of any kind．
That American high schools waste more time and money on sports than on math is an old complaint．This is not a matter of how any given student who plays sports does in school, but of the culture and its priorities．This December, when the latest Program for International Student Assessment（PISA） results are announced, it’s safe to predict that American high-school students will once again display their limited skills in math and reading, outscored not just by students in Poland but also by students in places like South Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Singapore, and Japan．Meanwhile, they will have played some very exciting football games, which will have been breathlessly written up in their hometown papers．
Why does this situation continue? Well, for one thing, kids like it．And for another, according to Ripley, parents seem to like the arrangement, too．She describes a tour she took of a school in Washington D．C．, which costs thirty thousand dollars a year．The tour leader—a mother with three children in the school—was asked about the school’s flaws（暇疵）．When she said that the math program was weak, none of the parents taking the tour reacted．When she said that the football program was weak, the parents suddenly became concerned．“Really?” one of them asked worriedly, “What do you mean?” One of the ironies（讽刺） of the situation is that sports reveal what is possible．American kids’ performance on the field shows just how well they can do when expection are high．It’s too bad that their test scores show the same thing．
1.Tom decides to spend his senior year in Poland because _______．
A．there are striking differences between the 2 countries
B．Polish kids are better at learning
C．he intends to improve his scores
D．sports are not supported at schools in Gettysburg
2.According to Paragraph 2, we know that _______．
A．little time is spent on sports in Japanese schools
B．too much importance is placed on sports in America
C．American high schools complain about sports time
D．PISA plays a very important role in America
3.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means _______．
A．American students’ academic performance worries their parents a lot
B．high expectations push up American students’ academic performance
C．lacking practice contributes to American students’ average performance
D．low expectations result in American students’ poor PISA performance
4.The purpose of this article is to _______．
A．draw public attention to a weakness in American school tradition
B．call on American schools to learn from the Polish model
C．compare Polish schools with those in America
D．explain what is wrong with American schools and provide solutions
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed（展现）herself as she did nowhere else．
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate（巨头）Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline’s close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing．After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it．Perhaps she hoped to find there some idea about how to live her own life．She became not less but more interested in reading．For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing（追求）a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined．During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books．Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes．She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyer’s and Jose Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book, The Power of Myth．The book went on to become an international best-seller．She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography（自传）, Moonwalk．
Jacqueline may have been hired for name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth．Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herself．In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind．Her books are the autobiography she never wrote．Her role as First Lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor．However, few knew that she had achieved so much．
1.We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline _________
A．became fond of reading after working as an editor
B．was in charge of publishing 100 books
C．promoted her books through social relations
D．gained a lot from her career as an editor
2.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that_________
A．Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady
B．Jacqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor
C．Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather as First Lady
D．Jacqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Jacqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years
B．Jacqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited
C．Jacqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually
D．Jacqueline’s achievements were widely known．
4.The passage is mainly______________
A．a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years
B．a brief description of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences
C．an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as an editor
D．an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing
