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1、1She was a puzzle.AgirlBwomanCmysteryDproblem2Her speciality is heart surgery.AregionBsiteCplatformDfield3France has kept intimate links with its former African territories.AprivateBfriendlyCstrongDsecret4You should have blended the butter with the sugar thoroughly.AmixedBspreadCbeatenDcovered5The i
2、ndustrial revolution modified the whole structure of English society.AdestroyedBbrokeCchangedDsmashed6Tickets are limited and will be allocated to those who apply first.ApostedBsentChandedDgiven7The change in that village was miraculous.AamazingBconservativeCinsignificantDunforgettable8Customers oft
3、en defer payment for as long as possible.AmakeBdemandCobtainDpostpone9Canada will prohibit smoking in all offices later this year.AremoveBbanCeliminateDexpel10 She read a poem which depicts the splendor of the sunset.AdeclaresBassertsCannouncesDdescribes11 From my standpoint, this thing is just ridi
4、culous.Apoint of viewBfieldCknowledgeDinformation12 The latest census is encouraging.AstatementBassessmentCcountDevaluation13 The curious looks from the strangers around her made her feel uneasy.AdifferentBproudCunconsciousDuncomfortable14 Reading the job ad, he wondered whether he was eligible to a
5、pply for it.AableBfortunateCcompetentDqualified15 He was elevated to the post of prime minister.ApromotedBpulledCliftedDtreated阅读判断TV Game ShowsOne of the most fascinating things about television is the size of the audience. A novel can be on the best seller lists with a sale of fewer than 100,000 c
6、opies, but a popular TV show might have 70 million TV viewers. TV can make anything or anyone well-known overnight.This is the principle behind quiz or game shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money. A quiz show can make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands
7、of dollars in the U.S. and almost everyone watched them. Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows. He even had a career as a television personality. But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating. It turned out that the s
8、hows producers who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand. Why? Because if the audience didnt like the person who won the game, they turned the show off. The result of this cheating was a huge scandal. Based on his story, a movie under the title Quiz Sh
9、ow is on 40 years later.Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV. But game shows are still here, though they arent taken as seriously. In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible. There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married
10、couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliation them. The entertainment now is to see what people will do just to be on TV. People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions.1. TV can make a beggar world-famous overnight.A. RightB. WrongC. Not menti
11、oned2. The principle behind quiz and game shows is to put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned3. Prizes and money are usually provided by TV stars and large companies for winners.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned4. One of the TV personalities, Cha
12、rles Van Doren was proved to be cheating by persuading the Shows producers to give him the answers beforehand.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned5. The huge scandal of cheating in TV game shows was not exposed until 40 years later in the movie Quiz Show.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned6. Nowadays game
13、shows are not treated as seriously as they used to be.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned7. Winners of present-day TV game shows no longer get money from the shows.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned概括大意The making of a success story1.IKEA is the worlds largest furniture retailer, and the man behind it is
14、Ingvar Kamprad, one of the worlds most successful entrepreneurs. Born in Sweden in 1926, Kamprad was a natural business man. As a child, he enjoyed selling things and made small profits from selling matches, seeds and pencils in his community. When Kamprad was 17, his father gave him some money as a reward for his good grades. Naturally he used it to start up a business IKEA.2.IKEAs name comes from Kampradsinitials(I.K.)and the place where he grew up (E and A ). Today IKEA is known for its modern, minimalist furniture, but it was not a furniture company i
