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[单项选择]It’s a brand new world—a world built around brands. Hard-charging, noise-making, culture-shaping brands are everywhere. They’re on supermarket shelves, of course, but also in business plans for network company startups and in the names of sports complexes. Brands are infiltrating (渗透) people’s everyday lives—by sticking their logos on clothes, in concert programs, on subway station walls, even in elementary school classrooms.
We live in an age in which CBS newscasters wear Nike jackets on the air, in which Burger King and McDonald’s open kiosks (小亭) in elementary school lunchrooms. But as brands reach (and then overreach) into every aspects of our lives, the companies behind them invite more questions, deeper scrutiny—and an inevitable backlash by consumers.
"Our intellectual lives and our public spaces are, being taken over by marketing—and that has real implications for citizenship," says author and activists Naomi Klien. "It’s important for any healthy culture to have publ
A. By having their logos printed in people’ clothes.
B. By having their brands reaching in primary schools.
C. By finding means to put their products on supermarket shelves.
D. By putting relative information of their products on public places.
[单项选择]What did private companies do after they built new roads
A. Reduced charges for transporting farm products.
B. Required payment from vehicles that used their roads.
C. Made repairs to older roads.
D. Installed streetlights on roads connecting major cities.
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New Foods and the New World
In the last 500 years, nothing about people-not their clothes, ideas, or languages-has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree (可可树) by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine (饥荒)" of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from South
A. Food.
B. Clothing.
C. Ideology.
D. Language.
[简答题]Directions:
You have bought a brand-new computer in a dealer’s office. But much to your disappointment, it could not be normally operated when you got it back. Write a letter to the manager,
1) launching your complaints,
2) specifying its troubles,
3) and proposing solutions.
Write your letter in no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter, use "Li Ming" instead.
Do not write the address.
[填空题]The new music was built out of materials already in______. (exist):blues,rock’n’roll,folk music.