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My six-year-old granddaughter stared at me asif she were seeing me for the first time.”Grandma, you are an antique(古董),”she said. "You are old. Antiques are old. You are my antique."
1 was not satisfied to let the matter rest there.I took out the Webster's Dictionary and read the definition(定义)to Jenny.I explained, "An antique is not only old, it's an object existing since or belonging to earlier times...a work of art... piece of furniture. Antiques aretreasured,"I told Jenny as I put away the dictionary. "They have to be handled carefully because they sometimes are very valuable. In order to qualify as an antique, the object has to be at least 100 years old."
"I'm only 67,"I renunded Jenny.
We looked around the house for other antiques, besides me. There was a desk that washanded down from rone aunt to another and finally to our family. "It's very old,"I told Jenny.“I try to keep it polished and I show it off whenever I can. You do that with antiques."
There was a picture on the wall purchased at a garage sale. It was dated 1867. "Now
that's an antique," I boasted. "Over 100 years old." Of course it was marked up andscratched and not in very good condition. "Sometimes age does that," I told Jenny. "Butthe marks are good marks. They show living, being around. That's something to displaywith pride. In fact, sometimes, the more an object shows age, the more valuable it can become.".lt was important that I believed this for my own self-esteem.
Our tour of antiques continued. There was a vase on the floor. It had been in my housefor a long time. I was not certain where it came from but I didn't buy it new. One thing about antiques, I explained to Jenny, was that they usually had a story. They'd been in onehome and then another, handed down from one family to another, traveling all over theplace. They'd lasted through years and years. They could have been tossed away, or ignored. or destroyed, or lost. But instead, they survived.
For a moment, Jenny looked thoughtful. ccl don't have any antiques but you," she said. Then her face brightened. "Could I take you to school for show and tell?"
"Only if I fit into your backpack," I answered. And then Jenny's antique lifted her up and embraced her in a hug that would last through the years.
1. Grandma read the definition of "antique" to Jenny in order to
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A. list all the important characteristics of antiques
B. tell Jenny the importance of protecting antiques
C. change Jenny's shallow understanding of antiques
D. express her disappointment at being called "antique"
2. Which of the following information did grandma convey to Jenny?
A. The desk reminded her of her dear relatives.
B. The marks on the picture showed its age and value.
C. There was usually a sad story behind each antique.
D. She planned to buy a new vase to replace the old one.
3. By saying "I don't have any antiques but you" (Paragraph 7), Jenny meant
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A. grandma was a treasure to her
B. antiques were rare and valuable
C. she had nothing but a few possessions
D. grandma and antiques had a lot in common
4. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. Grandma was too old to lift Jenny up.
B. Jenny had a strong desire for grandma's love.
C. Jenny was too young to know grandma's humor.
D. Grandma had a deep long-lasting love for Jenny.
5. What can be the best title for the passage?
A. Jenny's Antique
B. A Story of Antiques
C. A Tour of Antiques
D. Grandma's Antique
B
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A. valuable
B. suitable
C. available
D. acceptable
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C. prepare what you'd like to discuss in advance
D. consult with your adviser on your work by phone
8.If a Chinese student plans to take an English pronunciation training course, he/she can
see the guide to
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C. Academic Writing
D. In-sessional English Support Programme
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You are careful with your money: you collect all kinds of coupons; look for group-buydeals if you eat out; you don't buy clothes unless in a sale. Does all this make you a wiseconsumer?
Let's do the math first: you walk into a coffee shop and see two deals for a cup of coffee. The first deal offers 33 percent extra coffee. The second takes 33 percent off the
regular price. What's the better deal? Well, they are about the same, you'd think. And you'd be wrong. The deals appear to be equal, but in fact, they are different. Here's the math: Let's say the standard coffee is 10 yuan and let's divide the amount of coffee into three portions(部分). That makes about 3.3 yuan per portion, The first deal gets you 4 portions for 10 yuan (2.5 yuan per portion) and the second gets you 3 portions of coffee for 6.6 yuan (2.2 yuan per portion) and is therefore a better deal.
In a new study published by the Journal of Marketing, participants were asked the same question, and most of them chose the first deal, the Atlantic website reported. Why? Because getting something extra for free feels better than getting the same for less. The applications of this view into consumer psychology(心理) are huge. Instead of offering direct discounts, shops offer larger sizes or free samples.
According to the study, the reason why these marketing tricks work is that consumers don't really know how much anything should cost, so we rely on parts of our brains that
aren't strictly quantitative.
There are some traps we should be aware of when shopping. First of all, we are heavily influenced by the first number. Suppose you are shopping in Hong Kong. You walk into Hermes, and you see a 100,000 yuan bag. "That's crazy." You shake your head and leave. The next shop is Gucci, a handbag here costs 25,000 yuan. The price is still high, but compared to the 100,000 yuan price tag you just committed to your memory, this is a steal. Stores often use the price difference to set consumers' expectation.
Another trap we often fall to Is that we are not really sure what things are worth. And so we use clues(暗示) to tell us what we ought to pay for them. US economist Dan Ariely has done an experiment to prove this. According to the Atlantic, Ariely pretended he was giving a lecture on poetry. He told one group of students that the tickets cost money and another group that they would be paid to attend. Then he informed both groups that thelecture was free. The first group was anxious to attend, believing they were getting something of value for free. The second group mostly declined, believing they were being forced to volunteer for the same event without reward.
What's a lecture on poetry by an economist worth? The students bad no idea. That's
the point. Do we really know what a shirt is worth ? What about a cup of coffee? What's the worth of a life insurance.policy? Who knows? Most of us don't. As a result, our shopping
brain uses only what is knowable:
visual(祝觉的) clues, invited emotions, comparisons, and
a sense of bargain. We are not stupid. We are just easily influenced.
10. The first paragraph of the passage is intended to
A. ask a question
B. introduce a topic
C. give some examples
D. describe a phenomenon
11. The writer takes the math for example in Paragraph 2 to show
A. consumers usually fall into marketing traps
B. consumers' expectation is difficult to predict
C. consumers' purchasing power is always changing
D. consumers rely on their own judgment when shopping
12. What consumer psychology is mentioned in the passage?
A. The first number has little influence on which item should be bought.
B. Consumers never use visual clues to decide how much should be paid.
C. Getting something extra for free is better than getting the same for less.
D. Consumers never rely on parts of the brains that aren't strictly quantitative.
13. According to the passage, shops use the following tricks to make more profits EXCEPT
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A. showing price differences
B. offering larger sizes
C. providing free samples
D. giving direct discounts
14. What can we know from US economist Dan Ariely's experiment?
A. Ariely's free lecture enjoyed popularity among students.
B. The students actually didn't know what the lecture was worth.
C. The second group was willing to be volunteers without reward.
D. The first group was eager to find out the value of Ariely's lecture.
D
One morning in Philadelphia, the sun shone bright through all the thick jungles and the tall churches. John, 6, wearing the worn-out clothes, walked from afar, his dark small hands holding a piece of stolen bread.
John stopped for a moment at the entrance to the sacred church and then left tightlyholding the bread,
He was an orphan(弧儿), whose parents were killed in World War Illeaving him alonein the orphanage for five years, Like many children in the orphanage, he had a lot of free time. Mostly no one took care of them, so they had to learn how to steal those they wanted.
John believed the existence of God, so every Sunday morning in any case be would go to the cburch to have a look and listen to those people singing inside or reciting the Bible.He felt only at this moment he was the child of God and so close to God. But he couldn'tenter because his clothes were so dirty. John himself knew it.
John was quietly counting. This was his 45th Sunday at the entrance to the church. He stood on tiptoe for a while and walked away.
As time passed, the pastor(牧师) noticed John and learned from others that he was thesmall boy who liked stealing things in the orphanages.
On the 46th Sunday, the sun was shining and John came still holding a piece of bread with his dark small hands. When he just stood there, the pastor came out. He felt like running away, but he was carried by the pastor's friendly smile.
The pastor walked up to his side, clearly seeing John's small hands tremble.
"Are you John?"
John didn't answer, but looked at the pastor and nodded.
"Do you believe in God?" the pastor petted John on his head stained with dust.
"Yes,l do!" This time John told him loudly.
"So you believe in yourself?"
John looked at the pastor, without a word.
The pastor went on saying, "At the first sight of you, I find you're different from other
kids because you have a good heart."
His face tunung red, John said timidly, "In fact, I'm a thief." With that, he loweredhis head.
The pastor didn't speak, but held John's dark small hands, slowly opened them andput them against his wrinkled face.
"Ah:" Just at the same time, John shouted and was about to take out his dark smallhands. Yet the pastor tightly held his small hands and spread them out in the sun.
"Do you see, John?"
"What?"
"You're cupping the sunshine in your hands."
John blankly looked at his hands: when did they become so beautiful?
"In God's eyes, all cluldren are the same. When they are willing to spread out their hands to greet the sun, the sun will naturally shine on them. And you have two things more than they do. First is courage and the second is kindness." With that, the pastor led him into the church.
