Special foods on holidays will be remain the same for many years.（）

Which of the following statements is TRUE？

A．People from other cultures or nations start to lose their self-identity once they get settled down in America.

B．The "melting pot" is supposed to melt all the foods but in reality it doesn't.

C．The special sense of self-identity of people from other countries can't be maintained once they become Americans.

D．The "melting pot" finds it capable of melting all the food traditions into the American tradition.

When we speak of a human need, we mean something

which is unnecessary to life, something we can live with. 【M1】______

Food is a human need. We will starve to death if there 【M2】______

were no food on earth; but even if we have plenty of food,

but of the wrong kind, our bodies will have problem from

lack of the right food. This is known for malnutrition (营 【M3】______

养不良).

In countries where are not developed, man's food 【M4】______

needs are the same like in the most advanced societies. We 【M5】______

all need food and could live a good life on very few types of

food. People in very developed countries eat only the kinds 【M6】______

of food which can be grown near their homes, whereas

people in developed countries eat foods which are often

grown many thousands of miles away form. their homes.

People in undeveloped countries are happy with less

different kinds of foods than people in very developed ones

are, so we can say that despite the needs of the two kinds 【M7】______

of people are the same, their wants are different. People in

very developed countries eat many different types of

meat--they could live by only one, but they would be very 【M8】______

unhappy because every time what they ate was the same.

Even such special foods like chicken would be less fun to 【M9】______

eat if you had them every day. But we can't just live on

meat--we need other kinds of food like bread, rice, and

vegetables which are no more necessary to our bodies. 【M10】______

【M1】

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What is Chinese New Year？

In many parts of Asia, nations follow the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world. __________ (46) Many nations including Vietnam and KoreaceleB．rate the lunar New Year with festivals and special foods. The Chinese, however, have turned the cele- bration into an art forrn:a15 day festival called the Spring Festival in China, although it is known to the rest of the world as Chinese New Year.

__________ (47) which is considered to be aparticularly auspicious day. Children are givenhongbao, lucky red envelopes full of money, and households exchange visits and gifts. Most cele-brants at Chinese New Year wear red, which is alucky color, and also refrain from reflecting onthe past year and uttering unlucky words, as it is believed that the first day of the new year willdetermine your fortune in the months to come.

Chinese New Year continues with 15 days of celebration and auspicious days, including aday to welcome the god of wealth, aday to celebrate farming and produce, and days to celebratefriends and family. Friendships and family relationships are avery important part of Chinese NewYear, __________(48) Numerous lucky foods are served throughout the Chinese New Year festi-val, and after all that rich dining, the 13th day of the festival is set aside for eating rice and B．ittergreens to cleanse the palate.

On the 15th day, the Chinese New Year celebration culminates with the Lantern Festival,which is traditionally held at night. During the Lantern Festival, hundreds of citizens flood thestreet with lanterns representing wealth, animals, historical figures, plants, and avariety of otherthings. __________ (49) The Lantern Festival ends with aburst of fireworks to celebrate the up-coming year while celebrants eat special round dumplings to celebrate unity.

In Vietnam, the new year festival is known as Tet Nguyen Dan, and is celebrated for sevendays. Much like Chinese New Year, Tet is believed to be an especially auspicious period in Viet-nam which will establish the fortunes of celebrants for the coming year.(50) In Korea,the one day festival is known as Sol-nal, and is atime to reflect on ancestors and family.

A．and agreat deal of food and dinner invitations are exchanged as part of this tradition.

B．The lanterns are paraded through towns and cities throughout China, Taiwan, and partsof the world with large Chinese communities.

C．As A．result, the year starts on adifferent day, usually in January or February by the Gre-gorian calendar.

D．Chinese New Year is the most important festival in Chinese culture.

E．Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first moon of the year.

F．Special foods are eaten and gifts are exchanged.

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B.B

C.C

D.D

E.E

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People can be addicted to (沉溺于) different things — e. g. alcohol, drug, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive (强迫的): they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit (以赊款方式), charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending large amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.

There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they don't need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets (预算), but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior. a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason. It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business. They consider people's needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods. Psychologists often use a method called "behavior. therapy (疗法)" to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.

According to the psychologists, a compulsive spender is one who spends large amounts of money ______.

A．and takes great pleasure, from what he or she buys

B．in order to satisfy his or her basic needs in life

C．just to meet his or her strong psychological need

D．and feels he or she is cheated

species of plant and several hundreds thousands types of living things. But only a tiny percentage of these were ever domesticated. Modern shops have hastened a trend towards specialization which began in the earliest days of agriculture. The food of the rich countries has become cheaper relative to wages. It is speedily distributed in supermarkets. But the choice annually becomes less and less great. Even individual foods themselves become more standardized. We live in the world of carrot specially blunted in order to avoid making a hole in the bag, and the tomato grown to meet a demand for a standard weight of weighting tomatoes to a kilo. Siri von Reis asks: "Only the three major cereals （谷物类食物） and perhaps ten other widely cultivated species stand between famine and survival for the world's human population and a handful of drug plants has served Western civilization for several thousand years. A rather obvious question arises: Are we missing something？" After all, there are 800 000 species of plant on earth.

1.In prehistoric times people（）.

A、ate much more than we do today

B、lived mainly on plant food

C、had a wide-ranging diet

D、were more fussy about what they ate

2.The specialization of food was started by（）.

A、the emergence of supermarkets

B、the rise of agriculture

C、the rich countries

D、the modern shops

3.According to the passage, people in the West today survive on（）.

A、carrots and tomatoes

B、several thousand types of plants and cereals

C、a very small number of cultivated foods

D、special species planted one thousand years ago

4.The conclusion seems to be that we（）.

A、could make use of more natural species

B、don't cultivate the right kind of food

C、produce more food than we need

D、cultivate too many different species

5.Most of us have come to expect（）.

A、no variation in our diet

B、a reduction in food supplies

C、a specialist diet

D、food conforming to a set standard

听力原文： About 70 million Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United States. Some people go on diets. This means they eat less of certain foods, especially fats and sugars. Other people exercise with special equipment, take diet pills, or even have surgery. Losing weight is hard work, and it can also cost a lot of money. But why do so many people in the United States want to lose weight？

Many people in the United States worry about not looking young and attractive. For many people, looking good also means being thin. Other people worry about their health. Many doctors say being overweight is not healthy. But are Americans really fat？

Almost 30 million Americans weigh at least 20 percent more than their ideal weight. In fact, the United States is the most overweight country in the world. "The stored fat of adult Americans weighs 2.3 trillion pounds," says University of Massachusetts anthropologist George Armelages. He says burning off that stored energy would produce enough power for 900,000 cars to go 12,000 miles.

Losing weight is hard work, but most people want to find a fast and easy way to take off fat. Bookstores sell lots of diet books. These books tell readers how to lose weight. Each year, dozens of new books like these are written. Each one promises to get rid of fat.

(30)

A．To cat nothing.

B．To work hard.

C．To have surgery.

D．To cost a lot of money.

s or services". Advertisement aims to increase people's awareness and arouse interest. It tries to inform. and to persuade. The media are all used to spread the message. The press offers a fairly cheap method, and magazines are used to reach special sections of the market. The cinema and commercial radio are useful for local market. Television, although more expensive, can be very effective. Public notices are fairly cheap and more permanent in their power of attraction. (78) Other ways of in creasing consumer interest are through exhibitions and trade fairs as well as direct mail advertisement.

(79) There can be no doubt that the growth in advertisement is one of the most striking features of the western world in this century. Many businesses such as those handling frozen foods, liquor, tobacco and medicines have been built up largely by advertisement. We might ask whether the cost of advertisement is paid for by the producer or by the customer. Since advertisement forms part of the cost of production, which has to be covered by the selling price, it is clear that it is the customer who pays for the advertisement. How ever, if large—scale advertisement leads to increased demand, production costs are reduced, and the customer pays less.

It is difficult to measure exactly the influence of advertisement on sales. When the market is growing, advertisement helps to in crease demand. When the market is shrinking, advertisement may prevent a bigger fall in sales than would occur without its support. (80) What is clear is that businesses would not pay large sums for advertisement if they were not convinced of its value to them.

Advertisement is often used to ______.

A．deceive customers

B．increase production

C．arouse suspicion

D．push the sale

The contract is signed by the buyer and the seller in two original copies, () party holds one copy

A．both

B．each

C．two

D．either

Which is NOT the reason of reduction of the price at 5 percent？

A．The Japanese producer holds a large quantity of stores and can't sell them out.

B．The Japanese have improved their production means.

C．They can turn out more products.

D．They expect to go on dealing with the Irish in the coming year.