and hear them over the radio, even 2 we watch a ball game, advertising will meet our eyes.
It"s true that in the activities of business ads are 3 a more important part. They tell people new products
and help more in 4 . In this way, ads help companies to better their business. This is a big advantage.
5 , ads bring people all kinds of disadvantages, too. For example, some of the businessmen are even so
dishonest that they don"t 6 the truth about their products, in hopes that they will win a big 7 for their
products. When you are watching an interesting TV play, it is suddenly 8 by some ads and they are appearing
on the screen. Therefore, people may get tired of ads. Also some ads 9 at children, and they ask their parents
to buy them something in the ads. From these points, ads 10 have some disadvantages.
( )2. A. so
( )3. A. making
( )4. A. sellers
( )5. A. And
( )6. A. say
( )7. A. shop
( )8. A. continued
( )9. A. aim
( )10.A. hardly
B. during
B. playing
B. sales
B. Also
B. tell
B. place
B. stopped
B. fit
B. badly
C. if
C. getting
C. studies
C. Anyway
C. speak
C. production
C. attacked
C. prefer
C. really
D. when
D. doing
D. works
D. However
D. talk
D. market
D. performed
D. like
D. nearly
and radios. Often, even though kids don"t have their own income yet, this advertising is aimed directly at them.
Many parents have no idea that their 3-year-old children like McDonald"s golden arches. Morns and dads are also
shocked when their 12-year-old children insist on(坚持) having Nike sports shoes. The businessmen give kids the
message: This product is for you. This is what you need. Nothing else will satisfy you.
How can parents better understand and guard against this?
Scientists show that children are a rich market for business. How much money is spent on promotion(推销活动)
to children each year? And what are kids spending their money on?
When finding out what businessmen do to persuade your children to want something, you should know how to
teach your kids the ins and outs of buying and saving. For example, try a couple of family activities, and read through
some helpful tips. Businessmen have more than one way to win a child. Will the world of advertising change for your
child as he or she grows older?
________________________________________________________
2. Why do the businessmen like to spend much on promotions to children?
________________________________________________________
3. What will 12-year-old children do after they are bombarded With ads?
________________________________________________________
4. What"s the message that businessmen give children?
________________________________________________________
5. What should parents do to guard against ads?
________________________________________________________
However, problems appear. One of these problems is that it is difiicult for these children to get
education in cities.
Luckily, there are some free schools for them, but they are not enough. Ten-year-old Li Xin is
one of the lucky girls who get a chance to study in one of these schools. Although she has to spend
about two hours and change buses twice, she is very happy. As a child from a migrant worker"s
(外来务工人员) family in the city, finally she has been given the chance to study.__1__, these free
schools are their best choice, because they can have free classes, textbooks, uniforms and meals in
the school for two years.
But there is a long way to go, __2__, because running a school is not easy and needs lots of money.
A school officer said they needed at least one million yuan to run the school.
"Luckily, some people and companies donate money, used books and a lot more other things to
help us. Also some people work as teachers for free." He added.
In one word, both the government and the people keep improving the whole country"s education
either in countries or in cities. Don"t you think the children nowadays are luckier than their parents
were? Anyhow, we must try to give them an equal chance to get better education so that we can
make our society a harmonious (和谐) one.
B. The flee schools for children from migrant worker"s families are not enough
C. For children like Li Xin who don"t have enough money for school
_______________________________________________________
4. What do people and companies donate to help the school?
_______________________________________________________
5. _____________________________________________________
Some people have good memories. T hey can easily learn a long poem by heart. There are others who
can only remember things when they have said again and again. The famous English writer Charles Dickens
said that he could walk down any street in London and then tell you the name of every shop he had passed.
Many of the great men of the world have had wonderful memories. A good memory is a great help in
learning a language. Everybody learns his own language by remembering what he hears when he is a small
child. Some children like boys and girls don"t live in their own country, and they seem to learn two languages
almost as easily as one. In schools it is not so easy to learn a foreign language because students have so little
time for it and they are busy with other lessons, too. A man"s mind is rather like a camera, but it takes photos
not only of what we see but of what to feel, hear, smell and taste. When we take a real photo with a camera, therc is much to do before the photo is finished and ready to show to our friends. In the same way, there is
much work to be done before we can keep a picture for ever in our minds. Memory is the diary we all carry
about with us.
B. remembering things
C. taking photos
D. keeping a diary
B. hearing, smelling and tasting
C. learning a foreign language
D. keeping a picture
B. had a very good camera
C. spoke two foreign languages as easily as English
D. had a very good memory
B. tell others the name of every shop in London
C. learn a language
D. hear, smell and taste
A: learning poems
B. taking photos
C. learning English
D. feeling things
These days, more and more students in the UK are taking a "gap year" between their graduation
from school arid their university studies. This means that they take a year off, to do something else,
before they start their studies.
For most students, spending time in foreign countries is the favorite activity-and Australia is the
favorite place to go.
Many parents, teachers and business people agree that traveling can teach important values.
"After a year of travcling, I felt I"ci grown up. I had learnt the importance of relationships with people,
on all sorts of levels. "
There arc many companies around the world that welcome these students on their projects hclping
people in poorer countries, or even in your home country. Although you don"t get paid for your work,
this
kind of work can teach important skills-decision making and finding answers to problems. for cxample
that will help a student in a job one day.
Finally, getting some knowledge and experience in an area you hope to study or work in one day
will always bc very useful.
If several university graduates are applying for the same job, gap year work cxperience allows you
to say: "I"ve already had some experience of this kind of work. "
And that can get you the job!
根据短文内容,判断句子正(T)误(F)。
( )1. These days, all students in the UK take a gap year.
( )2. Traveling can teach you values such as learning about relationships.
( )3. Working on projects in poorer countries is all about managing people.
( )4. Students will get paid well for their work when they help the poorer people.
( )5. University graduates with some work experience often get jobs more easily than graduates
without experience.
In the United States, many have been told that anyone can become rich and successful if he works hard
and has some good luck.
Yes, when one becomes rich, he wants people to think he is. That"s what "Keeping up with the
Joneses" is about, because "Jones" is a very important name in the United States. The expression was first
used in 1913 by a young American named Arthur Momand. Momand looked around him and noticed
that many people do things to keep up with their neighbors: They try to look as rich and successful as their
neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series ( 连载) of short stories. He called it
"Keeping up with the Jonese". "Keeping up with the Joneses" came to mean keeping up with the people
around you. Momand"s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. That is one reason why they read the
"right" books, go to the "right" universities and cat ini the "right" restaurants.
Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think better of them if they do.
And there are "Joneses" in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the
Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr Jones always seems to be ahead.
1. Where did "Keeping up with the Joneses" appear?
__________________________.
2. When did Momand first use the expression "Keeping up with the Joneses"?
__________________________.
3. What does "Keeping up with the Joneses" mean?
__________________________.
4. How long was Momand"s stories published ( 刊登) in the newspapers?
__________________________.
5. There arc "Joneses everywhere around the world, aren"t there?
__________________________.
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