If any of the items is () to you, please let us know.
A.interest
B.interesting
C.interested
D.interests
A.interest
B.interesting
C.interested
D.interests
If you want to read some less important news without any details, you can read______.
A.the lead paragraphs of the news on the front pages
B.the headlines on the inside pages
C.news items on the front pages
D.the headlines of some current news on the front pages
ans of advertising your sale is to place an ad in the local newspaper.If you have a city and neighborhood paper, make sure you advertise in both.The ad should be large enough that it stands out.It should also include information on where the sale is located with directions, the "hot" items you're selling and the time the sale will start and end.An ad should be placed at least two days before the sale and run until the day of your event.That way people can plan their route (路线)to the sale in advance.
Sig ns are another great way to inform. your community.Post them in places where people gather, such as stores and community centers.Some businesses have a central bulletin board (布告栏), which is the best place to advertise.Other places to post are at the loc al college or university campus.This is especially helpful if your sale is happening in August or early September when students have returned to school and are looking for cheap finds.
Post signs around your neighborhood.You should also place both ads a nd direction signs, especially if you're located on a side street without a major presence.Signs will attract and direct people.Just make sure you print in bold letters and use large direction signs so people can read the information from the front seat of their car.
1.The best way of getting out the news of your garage sale is to ().
A.publish the news online
B.visit people door-to-door
C.advertise in the local newspaper
D.make phone calls to your neighbors
2.You should place an ad at least two days before the sale so that people can ().
A.get enough cash for the sale
B.compare prices of the items
C.select the items they will buy
D.decide on their route in advance
3.Why should signs be po sted in a community center?()
A.Schools are nearby
B.There are many stores
C.Students often meet there
D.More people gather there
4.What advice is given for printing the signs according to the last paragraph?()
A.Colored signs are preferred
B.Bold letters should be used
C.Large pictures should be included
D.Phone numbers should be provided
5.The best title for the passage might be ().
A.Advertising Garage Sales
B.Advanta ges of Garage Sales
C.Importance of Garage Sales
D.Printing Ads for Garage Sales
A
Mel and Harriet (last names withheld) from Coconut Creek, Florida returned home after a trip up to New York and saw something alarming – their locks had been changed, the power had been turned off, and items were missing. It turns out someone had broken into their house. But it wasn’t any common thief, as WPLG Local 10 News reports.
No random burglar had sneaked in - it was a bank via the company SafeGuard Properties. SafeGuard Properties, based in Ohio, is a business that, “inspects and maintains defaulted and foreclosed properties for mortgage servicers, lenders, and other financial institutions.” They arrived at Mel and Harriet’s home to take it back, believing it was in default. As it turned it out, it wasn’t in default(拖欠). As Mel told WPLG, “We haven’t had a mortgage in 15 years.” So how did it happen? SafeGuard went to the wrong address.
Attorney Scott Sobol described SafeGuard’s actions as “legalized burglary,” and that “It should have been evident to that company that this was not an abandoned property.” Mel and Harriet their house smells musty (发霉的)because of the power being off, but that they’re mostly embarrassed at the thought of their neighbors thinking their home would be foreclosed after never having missed a bill in their lifetimes.
SafeGuard has a lot of scrutiny(详细审查) these days, as The Huffington Post has reported, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan brought a case against the company late last year. It’s part of what The Huffington Post describes as part of a “wave of unflattering media coverage” of the foreclosure industry. SafeGuard, along with other smaller companies are being accused of unlawfully breaking into homes.
51.What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.Mel and Harriet underwent a terrible theft
B.The thief was not one person
C.Mel suffered a great loss in the event
D.Mel and Harriet had a good time during their journey to New York
Meaningfulness affects memory at all levels.Information that does not make any sense to you is difficult to remember.There are several ways in which we can make material more meaningful.Many people, for instance, learn a rhyme to help them remember.Do you know the rhyme "Thirty days has September, April, June, and November..."? It helps many people remember which months of the year have 30 day s.
Organization also makes a difference in our ability to remember.How useful would a library be if the books were kept in random order? Material that is organized is better remembered than jumbled information.One example of organization is chunking.C hunking consists of grouping separate bits of information.For example, the number 4671363 is more easily remembered if it is chunked as 467, 13, 63.Categorizing is another means of organization.Suppose you are asked to remember the following list of wor ds: man, bench, dog, desk, woman, horse, child, cat, chair.Many people will group the words into similar categories and remember them as follows: man, woman, child; cat, dog, horse; bench, chair, desk.Needless to say, the second list can be remembered mo re easily than the first one.
Association refers to taking the material we want to remember and relating it to something we remember accurately.In memorizing a number, you might try to associate it with familiar numbers or events.For example, the heigh t of Mount Fuji in Japan -12,389 feet -might be remembered using the following associations: 12 is the number of months in the year, and 389 is the number of days in a year (365) added to the number of months twice (24).
The last principle is visualizati on.Research has shown striking improvements in many types of memory tasks when people are asked to visualize the items to be remembered.In one study, subjects in one group were asked to learn some words using imagery, while the second group used repetiti on to learn the words.Those using imagery remembered 80 to 90 percent of the words, compared with 30 to 40 percent of the words for those who memorized by repetition.Thus forming an integrated image with all the information placed in a single mental pict ure can help us to preserve a memory.
1.What kind of information is easy for us to remember?()
A.Information that does not make any sense to us
B.Information that we are not familiar with
C.Information that is meaningful to us
D.Information that we are not interested in
2.Which of the following pairs are rhymes?()
A.horse—house
B.right---white
C.come----home
D.how---low
3.The second list of words in para.3 is organized according to().
A.the rhyme
B.the word category
C.th e first letters of words
D.the meanings
4.Books are kept in a library().
A.according to their size
B.in random order
C.in a jumbled way
D.in different categories
5.What method can better help form. a whole mental picture about the ti ngs to be remembered?()
A.Grouping
B.Repetition
C.Imagery
D.Association
A.identities
B.words
C.pictures
D.colors
Which of the following is NOT included in the charitable items of the BMGF?
A. Global health issues.
B. Child vaccines.
C. Learning issues.
D. Blend of head and heart.
The way to pick out the items on the first list from the second is known as ______.
A.recognition
B.recall
C.memorization
D.relearning
What did the young man usually have at a restaurant?
A.Standard items on the menu.
B.A hamburger made by himself.
C.Foods that other people ordered.
D.A coke and a hamburger.
A.larger;more
B.less;more
C.larger;less
D.less;less