[单项选择]Nowadays a large number of people buy ________ Christmas trees instead of real ones.
A. false
B. artificial
C. synthetic
D. manual

[单项选择]Nowadays a large number of people buy _______ Christmas trees instead of real ones.
A. false
B. artificial
C. sham
D. fake

[单项选择]Nowadays a large number of people but ______ Christmas trees instead of real ones.
A. false
B. fake
C. sham
D. artificial

[单项选择]What gives people who buy on credit more pleasure
A. The cheapest price of the things they buy.
B. The great amount of money they spend.
C. The things they buy.
D. The good quality of the things they buy.

[单项选择]What does the man say motivates people to buy famous paintings
A. The desire to acquire material goods.
B. The pleasure of showing them to others.
C. The beauty of such works of art.

[单项选择]Encouraging people to buy more ______ higher production, employment and more wealth.
A. result from
B. result on
C. result in
D. result for

[单项选择]The ultimate of advertisement ______ people to buy, even buy what they needn't.
A. elicited
B. excited
C. deduced
D. induced

[单项选择]Many people prefer large cars, ____ large cars are safer than small ones.
A. think
B. to think
C. having thought
D. thinking

[单项选择]Compared with those small towns, people in large cities have
A. less self-discipline.
B. better sense of discipline.
C. more mutual respect.
D. less effective government.

[单项选择]According to the passage, why do people buy tickets to a concert

[单项选择]Some fat people have a large stomach and no waistline, ______ make them look round.
A. it
B. that
C. which
D. this

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Most people buy a lot of gifts just before Christmas. But some people think they buy too much. They have started a special day called Buy Nothing Day. They don't want anyone to go shopping on that day.
Buy Nothing Day is November 29. It's 25 days before Christmas. The idea for Buy Nothing Day started in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now people all over the United States celebrate Buy Nothing Day. In California, parents and children get together to read stories, sing songs and paint pictures. The children talk about why they don't need a lot of toys.
This year in Albuquerque, New Mexico, high school students wanted to tell other students about Buy Nothing Day. They organized a simple dinner to give people information about Buy Nothing Day. They asked restaurants in the neighbor hood to donate(赠送) the food. They made posters(海报) and talked to other students about it. The dinner was a big success, and many students agreed not to buy anything on November 29
A. people need more time to do other things
B. people buy too many gifts for Christmas
C. people can hardly afford to buy a lot of gifts
D. people waste too much time going shopping