Every one of us, more or less, benefits from the Internet.英译中
A.pick up
B.make up
C.take up
D.look up
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One of the most authoritative voices speaking to us today is,of course,the voice of the advertisers. It shouts at us from the television screen and the radio loudspeakers,waves to us from eVery page of the newspaper,signals to us from the roadside bill-boards all day and flashes messages to us in colored lights all night. Advertising has been among England’s biggest growth industries since the war.PerhaDs the reason is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer.At the stage of designing and developing a product,there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it.The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man.hours and machine telerances and stress fac-tors.so they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find eleven wavs of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it,by pretending that it offers status,or attracts、love,or signifies manliness. Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their prodUCt.And manu.facturers hate change.The ideal product is one which goes on unchanged for ever.If,therefore,for one reason or another,some alteration seems calied for—how much better to change the image,the packet or the pitch made by the product,rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.
Which of the following can best describe the author‘s attitude toward modem advertising?
A.Interested.
B.Shocked.
C.Disapproving.
D.Approving.
Advertising has been among England's biggest growth industries since the war. Perhaps the reason is that advertising saves the manufacturers from having to think about the customer.
At the stage of designing and developing a product, there is quite enough to think about without worrying over whether anybody will want to buy it. The designer is busy enough without adding customer-appeal to all his other problems of man-hours and machine tolerance and stress factors. So they just go ahead and make the thing and leave it to the advertiser to find clever ways of making it appeal to purchasers after they have finished it, by pretending that it confers(赋予) status, or attracts love, or signifies manliness.
Other manufacturers find advertising saves them from changing their product. And manufacturers hate change. The ideal product is one that goes on unchanged forever. If, therefore, for one reason or another, some alteration seems called for—how much better to change the image, the packet or the pitch made by the product, rather than go to all the inconvenience of changing the product itself.
Which of the following can best describe the author's attitude toward modern advertising?
A.Indifferent.
B.Shocked.
C.Disappearing.
D.Approving.
Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings--battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important e vents that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of other useful in formation. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.
The habit of reading newspapers is ______.
A.widespread
B.found among a few families
C.not popular
D.uncommon
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Let US take a look at the chief thing in the story—the human body itself.A human body appears to be rather soft and delicate,compared with that of a wild animal,but it is actually surprisingly strong.Indeed,its very softness and looseness are an advantage;it makes man good at moving about and falling about in safety.Man is the most skillful in movement of all living things of his own size,because he can do so many different things with his limbs.Man’s games show how he can control his own body.No other land creature can swim as skillfully as man;none has such varied grace;very few live as long as he;none is so strong in its natural resistance to disease.Therefore man has a great advantage in his battle against the risks of damage and death that threaten him.It is difficult to kill him as long as he is fed and in good health.Yet every day thousands of people die needlessly,even though man is naturally strong,because of those two killers,disease and starvation,with the battle.
Old age?No one can live forever,so one might’suppose that quite a large number of oldpeople would come to the end of their days every year.There is,however,another thing to re-member.During the time it has taken you to read this page,a considerable number of babies have been born somewhere in the wodd—one is born every one and a quarter seconds!Of these babies,one group can be expected to have a good long life of about seventy years,because they were lucky enough to be born in countries where living standards are high.
The deadliest of all killers are starvation and disease.We cannot be content until we have mastered them.To do so is one of the most important tasks of our times.
The softness and looseness of man’s body are an advantage because it__________ . 查看材料
A.makes him strong
B.makes him resistant to diseases
C.helps him to avoid injury
D.keeps him in good health
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want so say it well,but he wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand-he wants to teach them. and he wants them to learn from him. What visual artists like painters want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain,because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors,not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors,out of the countless billions possible,is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors,or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist. Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose:their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at,that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern,that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. If one painter chooses to paint a gangrenous(生坏疽的)leg and another a lake in moonlight,each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something,showing us something,emphasizing something-all of which mean that,consciously or unconsciously,he is trying to teach us.
All artists are common in that______.
A. they use shapes and colors instead of words
B. they are trying to teach the public
C. what they want to teach is difficult to explain
D. they want to learn from the public
Consider medicine, for instance. No one can deny that medical progress has enriched our lives tremendously. Because of medical advances, we eat better, live easier and are able to take care of ourselves more efficiently. We can cure disease with no more than one injection or a pill. If we have a serious accident, surgeons can put us back together again. If we are born with something defective, they can repair it. They can make us happy, restore our normality, ease our pain, replace worn parts and give us children. They can even bring us back from the dead. These are wonderful achievements, but there is a price we have to pay.
Because medicine has reduced infant mortality and natural death so significantly, the population has been rising steadily, in spite of serious efforts to reduce the rate of population growth. Less than a century ago in the United Stales, infant mortality claimed more than half of the newborn within the first year of life. Medical advances, however, have now reduced that rate to nearly zero. A child born in the United States today has better than a 90% chance of survival. Furthermore, medical advances have ensured that most of these infants will live to be seventy years of age or more, and even that life expectancy increases every year. The result of this progress is an enormous population increase that threatens the quality of life, brought about by progress in the medical profession.
According to this passage, " progress" doesn't always mean that______.
A.something has become stronger and better
B.something has been changed from being one thing to another
C.something has become funny
D.something turns out to be worse than before
The first paragraph of the passage suggests ______.
A.modem society has made old people more fragile
B.there is still much one can do in his old age
C.in old age one should forget his past
D.in old age one should switch his thoughts to the future
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Which one of the following applies to the use of renewables in developed nations?
A.The more developed a nation is, the higher the proportion of renewables being used.
B.Developed nations are experiencing a fierce energy revolution.
C.Developed nations' ties with the oil industry are becoming tense.
D.Developed nations haven't reached a consensus about using more renewables.