第1题
Almost every family buys one copy of a newspaper every
day at least. Some people subscribe as many as two or three S1. ______
different newspapers. But why people read newspapers? Five S2. ______
hundred years ago, news of important happenings—battles lost
and win, kings of rulers overthrown or killed—took months and S3. ______
even years to travel from one country to other. The news passed S4. ______
by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in
our newspapers of important events that occurs in faraway S5. ______
countries on same day they happen. S6. ______
Apart from supplying news from all over the world,
newspapers give us a lot of other useful information. They are
whether reports, radio, television and film guides, book S7. ______
reviews, stories, and of course, advertisements. They are all
sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large
companies bring attention to their products. They pay the S8. ______
newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising, but it is
worth the money, for news of their products go into almost
every family in the country. Those people who produce
newspaper advertisements are also very important. Money
earned from advertisements makes it possible for it to sell their S9. ______
newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
Newspapers often have information on gardening, cookery
and fashion, as well small but very popular section on jokes and S10. ______
cartoons.
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第9题
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bemadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their 【S1】______. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue(烤肉) restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they 【S2】______ a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick 【S3】______, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.
Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a 【S4】______ uniformity, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the 【S5】______ of their food, and they insisted on their cooks&39; sticking to theft routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had 【S6】______ ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were 【S7】______ with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc.
Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milkshake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique 【S8】______ of the brothers&39; fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise(政府许可经营权) other copies of their restaurants. The agreement struck included the right to duplicate the menu, the 【S9】______, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.
Today McDonald&39;s is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in the 【S10】______ since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonald&39;s had over $1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modem American business history.
Word Bank:
A. allowed I. service
B. decades J. competition
C. effort K. equipment
D. location L. offered
E. appeal M. exchange
F. officials N. content
G. remarkable O. preparation
H. process
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第10题
With our society progressing smoothly toward the twenty-lust century,
it seems that the stable structure of family is also changing. For most of the
people nowadays, divorce is not big news. The increased trend in divorce will 【M1】______
surprise only the most conservative elements in society. This statistics seem
to be an accurate reflection of several key change in American society. The 【M2】______
first one is the change of law governed divorce. The legal changes have 【M3】______
removed barriers on divorce. While people were prevented to do so because 【M4】______
of complicated process, they could now do it with too much efforts. 【M5】______
Secondly, society's attitude toward the divorcing members has changed 【M6】______
as well. In the past, couples are discouraged to get divorced due in part to the 【M7】______
perceived pressure from the public. In this modern society which people are 【M8】______
more inclined to tolerate such practice, it seems that divorce is not unacceptable
any more.
The data indicate an increase in the divorce rate began in the 1960s and 【M9】______
continuing to present. 【M10】_____
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