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Her sister urged her to apply for the job.
A:advised
B:caused
C:forced
D:promised
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Book Shops in London
Londoners are great readers.They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books一specially paperbacks,which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in
the costs of printing. They still continue to buy"proper"books,too,printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London.Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found,from the celebrated one which boasts of being"the biggest bookshop in the world"to the tiny,dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dicken's time. Some of these shops stock,or will obtain,any kind of book,but many of them specialize in second-hand books,in art books,in foreign books,in books on philosophy,politics or any other of the myriad subjects about which books may be written.One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet.
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books,Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes,the collector must venture off the beaten track,to Farringdon Road,for example,in the East Central district of London.Here there is nothing so grandiose as bookshops.Instead,the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on the small barrows（流动集售货车）which line the gutters（街沟）.And the collectors,some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them,pounce（一把抓住）upon the dusty cascaded（一叠叠图书）.In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
"Londoners are great readers"means that________.
A:Londoners are great because they read a lot
B:there are a great number of readers in London
C:Londoners are readers who read only great books
D:Londoners read a lot
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The Internet House
A leading British building and design company has just announced their plans for the home of the future.The new design,______(51)as the“Internet House”,has five bedrooms,plenty of bathrooms and a double garage.But these are not the main selling______(52),for it is the ￡25000______(53)of automation that makes this house really different.
It will be______(54),for people who have plenty of money,but not a great ______(55)of time:young professionals in other words.They are likely to be______(56)to the idea of a microwave that provides easy-to-cook______(57)via the Internet and cooker that switches itself on or off at a command received via e-mail.
All the appliances in the house,______(58)the heating and lighting controls,are linked together ______( 59 ) means of a gadget（小装置）called a “ router”.Using what's called a“webpad”,a kind of portable lap-top computer,the owners of the house tap in commands from ______(60)they may be. The Webpad______(61)a signal to the router,which ______(62)the message and then activates the necessary controls. On the way home at night, for example,the owners can switch on the lights or______(63)the central heating working, and so______(64)sure that they have a nice warm welcome when they______(65)into their home.
61._________
A: draws
B: speaks
C: sends
D: hearsay
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It took us a long time to mend the old church.
A:build
B:destroy
C:design
D:repair
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Child Consultants
These days,"what do you want to do when you grow up?"is the wrong question to ask
children in the US
A.The________(1)should be:"what job are you doing now?"
American companies are employing more and more young people as consultants to evaluate
products for child ________(2).The 12-to-19 __________(3) group spends more
than $100 billion a year in the US
A.Specialist agencies have been created to help
manufacturers ask kids about all the latest trends in clothes,food and_________(4)
markets. One__________(5),Teenage Research Unlimited , has panels（评判小组）of
teenagers who give their verdict(裁决)on products. ________(6) jeans（牛仔裤）.
Another company,Doyle Research Associated,holds two-hour sessions in a room
_________(7) the"imaginarium（想象室）."Children are encouraged to play games to
get________ (8)a creative mood.They have to write down any ideas that
__________(9)into their heads.
Some manufacturers prefer to do their own___________(10)research.The software
company Microsoft runs a weekly"Kid's Council"at its headquarters in Seattle,
___________(11)a panel of school children give their verdict on the________(12)
products and suggest new ones. One 11-year-old,Andrew Cooledge,told them that they
should make more computer games which would appeal equally__________(13)boys
and girls.Payments for the work are increasingly attractive.Andrew Cooledge was paid
$250 and given some software.__________(14),even if their ideas are valuable,the
children will never make a fortune.They cannot have the copyright to their ideas.These
are not jobs they can hold for long.__________(15)their mid-teens they can be told that
they are too old.
_________(3)
A:age
B:year
C:time
D:generation
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