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1、上海市 2015 高三英语二模试卷Most American magazines and newspapers reserve 60 percent of their pages for ads. The New York Times Sunday edition _51_ may contain 350 pages of advertisements. Some radio stations devote 40 minutes of every hour to _52_. Then there is television. The vast majority of television ad
2、s today consist of brief advertising spots, _53_ in length from a few seconds to several minutes. According to one estimate, American youngsters sit through three hours of television commercials each week. By the time they graduate from high school, they will have been _54_ 360,000 TV ads. Televisio
3、n advertises in airports, hospital waiting rooms, and schools. Major sporting events are now major advertising events. Racing cars serve as high speed _55_. Some athletes receive most of their money from advertisements. One top-ranking basketball player earned $3.9 million by playing ball. Advertise
4、rs paid him nine times that much to _56_ their products. There is no escape. Commercial ads are _57_ on walls, buses, and trucks. They _58_ the inside of taxis and subways -even the doors of public toilets. _59_ messages call to us in supermarkets, stores, elevators -and _60_ we are on hold on the t
5、elephone. In some countries so much advertising comes through the mail that many recipients proceed directly from the mailbox to the nearest wastebasket to _61_ the junk mail. _62_ Insiders Report, published by McCann-Erickson, a global advertising agency, the estimated amount of money spent on adve
6、rtising worldwide in 1990 was $275.5 billion. Since then, the figures have soared to $411.6 billion for 1997 and $434.4 billion for 1998. Big money. What is the _63_ of all of this? One analyst put it this way: “Advertising is one of the most powerful socializing forces in the culture. Ads sell _64_
7、 than products. They sell images, values, goals, _65_ of who we are and who we should be. They shape our attitudes and our attitudes shape our behavior.”51. A. lonely B. alone C. singly D. individually 52. A. commerce B. consumers C. commercials D. contracts 53. A. ranging B. varying C. changing D.
8、adjusting 54. A. taken to B. spent in C. expected of D. exposed to 55. A. flashes B. billboards C. attractions D. messages 56. A. improve B. promote C. urge D. update 57. A. symbolized B. illustrated C. demonstrated D. displayed 58. A. modify B. decorate C. polish D. fix 59. A. Audio B. Studio C. Or
9、al D. Video 60. A. since B. while C. unless D. if 61. A. throw away B. lay down C. blow out D. break down 62. A. Except for B. Apart from C. According to D. Including in 63. A. effect B. affect C. result D. purpose 64. A. less B. same C. similar D. more 65. A. outlooks B. opinions C. concepts D. imp
10、licationsA For four lonely years, Evelyn Jones of Rockford, Illinois, lived friendless and forgotten in one room of a cheap hotel. “I wasnt sick, but I was acting sick,” the 78-year-old widow says, “Every day was the same. I would just lie on my bed and maybe cook up some soup.” Then, six months ago
11、, she was invited to The Brighter Side - Rockfords day care center for the elderly. Every weekday morning since then, she has left her home to meet nine other old people in a church for a rich program of charity work, trips, games, and - most important of all - friendly companionship. Just a few yea
12、rs ago, there were few choices for the elderly between a normal life in their own homes and being totally confined in nursing homes. Many of them were sent to rest homes long before they needed full-time care. Others like Mrs. Jones were left to take care of themselves. But in 1971, the White House
13、Conference on Aging called for the development of alternatives to care in nursing homes for old people, and since then, government-supported day-care programs like The Brighter Side have been developed in most big American cities. “This represents a real alternative to the feared institution and mak
14、es old people believe they have not left the world of living”, says Alice Brophy, 64, director of New York Citys Office for the Aging, “They do well at the centers, and I hate it when people describe us as elderly playpens（婴儿扶栏）.” New Yorks 138 centers encourage continuing contact for the aged with
15、the communitys life. The centers serve more than 15,000 members, and volunteer workers are always looking for new ones. If someone doesnt show up at the center for several days in a row, a worker at the center calls to make sure all is well. And although participation in the center is free, those who want to can pay for their lunches. No normal studies have been made of these centers for the elderly, but government officials are enthusiastic. In the future, the Public Health Service will do a study to decide if the programs can receive federal Medicare money. And the
