"Regardless of social class, race and age, men say they hate to shop." says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop. Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say, "Well, that's not shopping. That's research. "
In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are different.
Women will wander through several 1,000-aquare-meter stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a special task or a game to be won.
"Men are frequently shopping to win," says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the latest one and if they do that it makes them happy. "When women shop, "They're doing it in a way that they want everybody to be very happy." says Ann. "They're kind of shopping for love."
"Teenage girls learn to shop from their moms and older sisters, but they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen, "City University Zukin says." And although men's magazines such as GQ and Esquire have long had shopping articles, it's TV that has the eye of young male shoppers, "say Ann and Zukin.
"Television shows are used by young men in the same way Seventeen magazine or Lucky is used by girls," says Zukin, "to help make clothing and toiletry choices."
"Of course, there are men who love to shop and are proud of it." Loyola's Ann says. And that is important no matter whether you buy a car or a frying pan. All men love to buy but don't want to get cheated. Ann adds, "There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home-----they become kind of girl magnets. Women like it."
【小题1】From the first paragraph we can find that _____.

_____ can you expect to get a pay rise.

　 A. With hard work 　     B. Although work hard

　 C. Only with hard work 　 D. Now that he works hard

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D．Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context．
There once was a happy monkey in the jungle. He was wandering all days, eating delicious fruit when hungry and    36   when tired. One day he came upon a house, where he saw a bowl of the most beautiful   37  . He took one in each hand and ran back into the forest.
The monkey tried to eat them, but hurt his teeth. The apples were made of wood, but they were beautiful, and when the other monkeys said that they  38  them, he held onto them even tighter.
The monkey admired his new possessions proudly as he wandered the jungle. The two apples glistened (闪亮) red in the    39  , and seemed perfect to him. He became so attached to them that he didn’t even notice his    40   at first.
A fruit tree reminded him, but he felt the apples in his hands. He couldn’t bear to set them down to reach for the fruit. In fact, he couldn’t    41  , either, if he was to defend his apples. This proud, but less happy monkey continued to walk along the forest trails (小路).
The apples became    42  , and the poor little monkey thought about leaving them behind. He was tired and hungry; he couldn’t climb trees or collect fruit with his hands    43  . What if he just let go (释放)?
Letting go of such    44   things seemed crazy, but what else could he do? He was so tired. Seeing the next fruit tree and smelling its fruit, the monkey stopped. He   45   the wooden apples and reached up for his meal. He was happy again.
Like that little monkey, we    46   carry things that seem too valuable. Letting go of them seems crazy. But    47  : only with open hands can we receive something else.

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

    阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。

    Sharon wrote this when she was 16 and in the llth grade．Her goal is to become an international diplomat （外交官） and peace-maker．

    It was my first day at school．I felt __36___ and scared．I went to all my classes with no _37_ ．It felt like no one _38__．I listened anxiously to all the lessons and waited for lunch __39_  at 1:00．Then finally the bell rang．It was time to talk and have   40   ．

    In the lunch line I met a new friend who wore a hijab （穆斯林妇女戴的面纱） on her head, and though I am   41   ．we got along fine, and I was so   42   when she said, "Sit-with us, at our table．" She pointed to the one next to the door．

    So I   43   ,and took my tray and was _44_ to walk with her across the floor, when suddenly I felt a jog．"Hey, I saw you on the bus," said a tall girl in a long skirt．"I see your Jewish star necklace．You _45_ sit with us．"

    At that moment I looked around, and that's when I   46  ,to my surprise, the nations of the world,   47   themselves．That's what I saw through my own eyes．

    The Spanish only sat with Spanish, the Hindus only with Hindus, the Russians always with the Russians, and _48_ the Arabs with the Jews．

    I saw the reason why   49   got started．Everyone   50   to their own kind．The    51_ was just like a map of the world, where there should never have been so much separation among nations．But why was everyone so _52_?

    And so I turned _53__ this girl, and went with the first, and there was no offence, I built a   54   between two worlds when I sat with those   55   from me．

A．nervous B．generous C．frightened   D．excited

A．relatives   B．teachers C．friends  D．classmates

A．cared   B．mattered C．understood   D．helped

A．hours   B．stop C．period   D．break

A．rest    B．fun  C．chat D．lunch

A．Spanish B．Arab C．Russian  D．Jewish

A．curious B．relieved C．worried  D．serious

A．allowed B．adopted  C．agreed   D．admitted

A．about   B．ready    C．willing  D．likely

A．might   B．would    C．could    D．should

A．saw B．noticed  C．knew D．recognized

A．developing  B．expanding    C．separating   D．defending

A．only    B．always   C．sometimes    D．never

A．dialogues   B．friendships  C．wars D．arguments

A．stuck   B．catered  C．turned   D．listened

A．school  B．classroom    C．restaurant   D．lunchroom

A．quiet   B．blind    C．deaf D．tough

A．down    B．towards  C．off  D．up

A．stage   B．platform C．bridge   D．path

A．opposite    B．different    C．strange  D．apart