Shopping is not as simple as you may think! Much has to be done for the producers before putting the products on the shelf.
Color, for example, changes a lot according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packed in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors.
When some kind of medicine was brought out recently, researchers found that the color of the package(包装) caused the shoppers to lose interest because they made the product look ineffective(无效的). At last, it came on the market in dark blue and white—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a package can also attract(吸引) a shopper, although quite often a bottle doesn’t hold as much as it seems to.
It is said that the better-known companies spend about 40 percent of the cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The head of Pears Soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to sell their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a talent to sell it.”
【小题1】Health foods are usually packed in colors Except ________.

A．green

B．black

C．yellow

D．brown

【小题2】Why did the shoppers lose interest in the medicine?

A．Because of the size of the product.

B．Because of the color of the product.

C．Because of the color of the package.

D．Because of the cost of the product.

【小题3】If a new product costs $ 60, how much money may be spent on packaging?

A．$ 24

B．$ 36

C．$ 40

D．$ 60

【小题4】The passage is mainly about ___________on shopping.

A．advantages of products

B．the importance of packaging

C．choices of products

D．the cost of packaging

Only Mother Love is true love.It gives everybody everything

all his life. When you are a baby, Mother looks after you as well

as possible. In your waking hours, she always holds you in her arms.

When you are ill, she stops her work right now to look after you

Day and night and forgets about herself. When you are growing up day

by day, she feels very happy, When you are old enough to go to

school, Mother still looks after you all the time. On cold winter

days, she always tells you to put on more clothes. She always stands

in the wind waiting for you back from school. When you hurry to leave

home for school with little breakfast, she always feels worried

about you at home. She usually knows about your study and spends much

money on your school things. When you do well at school, you will

see the brightest smile on her face. Mother is always ready to

give everything she has to her children, not to receive. What true

love it is in the world! We should remember Mother love forever!

Answer the following questions according to what you read above.

1 What does Mother do when you are a baby?

2 What does Mother do when you are awake?

3 What does Mother do when you are ill?

4 Does Mother always look after you when you are old enough to go

to school?

5 What will you see When you do well at school?

 

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  In many European countries it is normal to have a long break in the middle of the day when all members of the family return to their houses to eat together. This is not very ___【小题1】______in Britain because normally it is a long way from the place of work or school to the home. The __【小题2】_____ people often have a big breakfast before they go to work and the meal at midday is not __【小题3】____with the members of the family but with workmates or schoolmates. Lunch is normally ___【小题4】____ between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm. Most people finish work at five thirty. It often take at ____【小题5】_____ an hour to get home from the school or workplace so people eat their meal ___【小题6】___ "dinner" between 6:30 pm and 9 pm.
On Sundays people don't have to work so they take the ___【小题7】____ to eat together with their family. Sunday lunch is ____【小题8】____ the best meal of the week and many of the meals which are considered real British food are eaten for Sunday lunch, such as roast beef and pudding.
_____【小题9】______ everyone in Britain understands that "breakfast" is the first meal of the day, there is a lot of confusion(混乱) about the words for other meals such as "dinner, lunch, tea, high tea, elevenses, brunch, supper". And if you ask a British person what these words ___【小题10】_____, most of them will give you a different answer according to what part of the country they are from.

Teachers say buying homework answers online is not many in schools, but an interview with school students shows only 10% are willing to finish their holiday homework by themselves.

Their main complaint is that the homework is too much for them to finish.

“As far as ！ know, many of my students have to go to all kinds of training classes during the holiday. These lake away much of their time for doing homework.”

But as for the parents  who are sending their children to these training classes  they also say they've got no choice. Here's a view from a student's father.

"All the other kids in the neighborhood are learning extra things. You know parents sometimes compare their kids. I'm afraid my kid will be less successful than the others in the future."

In order to do with this situation of students copying each other's homework, some schools have even dropped the idea of holiday homework. Instead, they organize some interesting outdoor activities.

Educational experts say students love to learn through games or activities that they can be a part of‘ They suggest schools drop the current (目前的）homework format (设计)，and turn to homework that encourages kids to get involved (参与).This way, they would no longer want to copy from each other or buy answers through the Internet.

Answer the following questions according to what you read.

1.Why do students copy or buy homework answers?

2.  What do students spend much time on during the holiday?

3.Most parents want their kids to be successful, don't they?

4.  How do some schools deal with the problem of students copying homework?

5.  List a kind of your favorite holiday homework according to the passage.

 

To be a good teacher, you need some of the abilities of a good actor. You must be able to__1___ the attention and interest of your audience. You must be a clear speaker with a good voice which is fully under your _2___. And you must be able to act what you are teaching in order to make its meaning clear.

Watch a good teacher, __3___ you will see that he stands the whole time he is teaching, he walks about using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations and his face to express feelings. When you listen to him, you will hear the loudness and the musical note of his voice __4__changing according to what he is talking about.

The __5__ that a good teacher has some of the talents of a good actor does not mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to __6___ the same words which he has learnt by heart every time he plays a certain role. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __7__ on the stage.

The good teacher works in a quite different way. His audience take an active part in his play. They ask questions when they do not understand something. So the teacher has to suit his act to the __8___ of his audience which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must ___9___ it as he goes along.

I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were __10___ to take part in stage-play because their brains (大脑) could not keep strictly to what another had written.

1.A. pay            B. give         C. attract          D. turn

2.A. help           B. control      C. mind             D. thoughts

3.A. and            B. but          C. or               D. so

4.A. never          B. seldom       C. sometimes        D. always

5.A. matter         B. idea         C. fact             D. secret

6.A. remind         B. remember     C. reply            D. repeat

7.A. correct        B. true         C. natural          D. real

8.A. questions      B. needs        C. problems         D. complaints

9.A. invent         B. discover     C. improve          D. increase

10.A. unwelcome B. unable           C. uncomfortable    D. unsuitable