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　　基礎組Passage 1

　　限時：7分鐘體裁：說明文　題材：商業營銷類　難度：難詞數：269

　　[2024·衡水二中預測]In ancient Egypt, a shopkeeper discovered that he could attract customers to his shop simply by making changes to its environment. Modern businesses have been following his lead, with more tactics (策略)．

　　One tactic involves where to display the goods. For example, stores place fruits and vegetables in the first section. They know that customers who buy the healthy food first will feel happy so that they will buy more junk food (垃圾食品) later in their trip. In department stores, the women's shoe section is generally next to the women's cosmetics (化妝品) section: while the shop assistant is going back to find the right size shoe, bored customers are likely to wander over and find some cosmetics they might want to try later.

　　Besides, businesses seek to appeal to customers' senses. Stores notice that the smell of baked goods encourages shopping, so they make their own bread each morning and then fan the bread smell into the store throughout the day. Music sells goods, too. Researchers in Britain found that when French music was played, sales of French wines went up.

　　When it comes to the selling of houses, businesses also use highly rewarding tactics. They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity. A California builder designed the structure of its houses smartly. When entering the house, the customer would see the Pacific Ocean through the windows, and then the pool through an open stairway leading to the lower level. The instant view of water on both levels helped sell these $10 million houses.

　　文章介紹了現代商業的三種營銷策略：一是注意貨物擺放的位置；二是注重刺激顧客不同的感官；三是給顧客留下良好的第一印象。

　　1．Why do stores usually display fruits and vegetables in the first section?

　　A．To save customers time.

　　B．To show they are high quality foods.

　　C．To help sell junk food.

　　D．To sell them at discount prices.

　　答案　C　[細節理解題。由第二段第三句可知，把水果蔬菜擺放在第一購物區會使顧客非常開心，促使他們在接下來的購物行程中購買垃圾食品。故選C項。]

　　2．According to Paragraph 3, which of the following encourages customers to buy?

　　A．Opening the store early in the morning.

　　B．Displaying British wines next to French ones.

　　C．Inviting customers to play music.

　　D．Filling the store with the smell of fresh bread.

　　答案　D　[細節理解題。第三段講述了第二個營銷策略，抓住顧客的感官，分別講述了用烤面包的香味吸引顧客和用音樂促銷的例子。故選D項。]

　　3．What is the California builder's story intended to prove?

　　A．The house structure is a key factor customers consider.

　　B．The more costly the house is, the better it sells.

　　C．An ocean view is much to the customers' taste.

　　D．A good first impression increases sales.

　　答案　D　[推理判斷題。由最后一段第二句可知，顧客買房的決定在剛進門的幾秒鐘之內就做好了，建筑師巧妙設計剛進門的布局就是要給顧客留下良好的第一印象，提高樓房銷售量，故D項正確。]

　　★4.What is the main purpose of the passage?

　　A．To explain how businesses turn people into their customers.

　　B．To introduce how businesses have grown from the past.

　　C．To report researches off customer behavior.

　　D．To show dishonest business practices.

　　答案　A　[主旨大意題。通讀全文可知，本文從三個方面介紹了現代營銷策略。B項“介紹商業是如何從過去發展而來的”；C項“對顧客行為的研究進行報道”；D項“展示不誠信的商業行為”，均不符合主旨。]

　　Passage 2

　　限時：7分鐘

　　體裁：議論文　題材：社會生活類　難度：中詞數：343

　　[2024·棗強中學月考]Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires-not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.

　　Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped (淹沒) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They_live_in_too_big__a_house_with_too_ many_rooms,_yet_their_house_of_life_is_a_hut.

　　Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅), a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room.Here are several rooms your house of life should have.

　　Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.

　　Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.

　　Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.

　　Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.

　　Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.

　　作者認為一個人要想快樂和幸福，要讓自己的心靈之“墅”富有。文章詮釋了“真正的幸福源于精神富有”的道理。

　　1．The author intends to tell us that________.

　　A．true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means

　　B．big houses are people's most valued possessions

　　C．big houses can in a sense bring richness of life

　　D．true happiness comes from spiritual riches

　　答案　D　[推理判斷題。文章的主要目的就是告訴人們真正的幸福和快樂來自精神上的富有，所以正確答案為D項。]

　　2．The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that________.

　　A．however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied

　　B．however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor

　　C．though their house is big, they prefer a simple life

　　D．though their house is big, it seems to be a cage

　　答案　B　[詞義猜測題。畫線部分句子的意思是“人們住太大的房子，有太多的房間，然而他們的生命之家依然是個簡陋的小房子”和B項“不管物質上多富有，他們在精神上仍然很貧窮”的內容接近。故選B項。]

　　3．It can be learned from the passage that________.

　　A．more money brings more happiness

　　B．art is needed to make your house beautiful

　　C．literature can enrich your spiritual life

　　D．sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness

　　答案　C　[細節理解題。根據文章第五段可以推斷“文學能豐富你的生活”，故答案為C項。A項為無關信息。從文章中的信息可以看出，art可以豐富你的精神生活，而不是美化你的房子，所以B項錯誤。sports也可以豐富精神生活，而不僅僅是使身體健康，所以D項錯誤。]

　　★4.What would be the best title for the passage?

　　A．House of Life

　　B．Secret of Wealth

　　C．Rest and Refreshment

　　D．Interest and Enthusiasm

　　答案　A　[主旨大意題。本文主要講述精神生活的心靈之“墅”，關鍵詞就是“house of life”，故答案為A項。]

　　[長難句分析]'Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes. 盡管可能看起來很奇怪，但是，如果你不滿意的話，問題并不是缺乏滿足你的欲望的途徑，而是你缺乏欲望——不是你不能滿足你的品位，而是你沒有足夠的品位。

　　句式分析：該句為復合句。strange表語提到句首，as引起倒裝句。if引導的條件狀語從句作插入語；句中兩次出現not...but結構。

　　Passage 3

　　限時：7分鐘

　　體裁：說明文　題材：社會生活類　難度：中詞數：308

　　[2024·衡水二中猜題]Bobbi Kristina Brown's family has been gathered around

　　her since she was hospitalized on Saturday after being found

　　unconscious in the bathtub of her suburban Atlanta townhome.

　　“Whitney Houston's only child is now at Emory University Hospital and is still fighting for her life，”a family statement said on Monday.

　　Nothing has changed despite reports that are popping up and painting a more serious picture.

　　Fox News reported Wednesday that the situation is horrific.“It's now a matter of when the family wants to let go and accept that she's pretty much not going to make it，”a source told FOX411. “They've left it up to the family as to

　　how long they want to keep her alive.”

　　People magazine is also reporting that a doctor told

　　Brown's family on Wednesday that nothing more could be done.“Everyone is coming to the hospital to say goodbye，”said a family member.

　　And Daily Mail says Brown has been taken off life

　　support system.

　　But Bobby Brown issued a statement late on Thursday

　　denying these reports.

　　“If we issued a statement every time the media published

　　a false report regarding this matter, that's all we would be

　　doing 24 hours a day. This is false, just as the vast majority of

　　the other reporting that is currently taking place，”he said, according to The Atlanta Journal- Constitution.

　　A source close to the family tells USA Today that it's wrong to say the family is gathering to say goodbye, because the family has been there since the beginning, so nothing is any different today for them.

　　Also, Brown is not brain dead, as it has been reported.

　　And, as for other stories saying that the Houston family is feuding with Bobbi Kristina's dad, Bobby Brown, those aren't true either.“They are not fighting，”says our source.

　　本文主要介紹了一些媒體關于Bobbi Kristina Brown住院的報道以及其家人和知情者對此的回應。

　　1．According to Fox News,

　　Bobbi

　　Kristina Brown is________.

　　A．within an inch of life

　　B．on the way to success

　　C．left aside by her family

　　D．in a good state

　　答案　A　[細節理解題。根據第四段的內容可知，Bobbi正處于生命垂危中，即A項正確。]

　　2．Bobby Brown holds the opinion that________.

　　A．they are busy issuing statements all day

　　B．the family is saying goodbye to Kristina

　　C．he is getting along well with the Houston family

　　D．most journalists are getting the wrong end of the stick

　　答案　D　[推理判斷題。根據倒數第四段的“This is false, just as the vast majority... taking place”可知，Brown先生說最近大部分的報道都是完全錯誤的，即D項正確。]

　　★3.Which can be the best title of the passage?

　　A．An Accident in the Bathtub

　　B．Kristina, We're Still Praying and Waiting on a Miracle

　　C．False Reports from Different News Media

　　D．Bobbi Kristina's Final Days

　　答案　B　[標題判斷題。根據第二段的“is still fighting for her life”和第七段的“denying these reports”并結合全文整體內容可推知，媒體的報道并不真實，Bobbi一直在和病魔作斗爭。我們也一直在祈禱和等待一個奇跡的發生，故B項最符合主旨。]

　　能力組Passage 1

　　限時：6分鐘

　　體裁：說明文　題材：建筑人文類　難度：中詞數：327

　　[2024·衡水二中一輪檢測]Buckingham Palace is where the Queen lives. It is the Queen's official and main royal London home.

　　Buckingham Palace was originally a splendid house built by the Duke (公爵) of Buckingham for his wife. George Ⅳ began changing it into a palace in 1826. It has been the official London home of Britain's royal family since 1837. Buckingham Palace is also an office and used for the administrative work of the royal family.

　　When the Queen is at home you can see her royal flag (the Royal Standard) flying from the flag pole on top of Buckingham Palace.

　　The flag is divided into four equal parts. The first and fourth parts represent England and contain three gold lions walking on a red field; the second part represents Scotland and contains a red lion standing on a gold field; the third part represents Ireland and contains the gold coat of arms of Ireland on a blue field.

　　In flag protocol (禮儀), the Royal Standard which must only be flown from buildings where the Queen is present is supreme (至高無上的). It flies above the British Union Flag (the Union Jack), and other British flags. It never flies at half mast.

　　The guards of the Palace wear red jackets and tall, furry hats. When the first guards come on duty, there is a ceremony called the

　　Changing

　　of the

　　Guard. A familiar

　　sight

　　at Buckingham Palace is the Changing of the Guard ceremony that takes place in the open space in front of it each morning.

　　The Palace has around 750 rooms, including 19 state rooms, 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 78 bathrooms, 92 offices, a cinema and a swimming pool. It also has its own post office and police station. About 400 people work at the Palace, including servants, chefs, footmen, cleaners, gardeners, electricians, and so on. More than 50,000 people come to the Palace each year as guests to dinners, receptions and Royal Garden Parties.

　　文章介紹了英國女王居住的白金漢宮，包括其歷史淵源、升旗儀式以及內部構造。

　　1．For whom was the original Buckingham Palace built?

　　A．The Duke of Buckingham.

　　B．George Ⅳ.

　　C．The Duke of Buckingham's wife.

　　D．George Ⅳ's wife.

　　答案　C　[細節理解題。根據第二段第一句“Buckingham Palace was originally a splendid house built by the Duke of Buckingham for his wife.”可知正確答案為C項。]

　　2．According to the text, the Royal Standard ________.

　　A．is flown at Buckingham Palace every morning

　　B．represents the four countries of the UK

　　C．flies at half mast only on a few occasions

　　D．flies higher than the British Union Flag

　　答案　D　[細節理解題。根據第五段可知英國王旗(the Royal Standard)比英國國旗(the British Union Flag)要高，而且從不降半旗，故D項正確，C項錯誤。A項與第三段不符；B項與第四段不符。]