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[单项选择]On the last shopping day before Christmas, stores across the United States were busy but not jam-packed as shoppers scrambled for last-minute gifts, even though some refused to admit it. At Boston’s Copley Mall, a small crowd gathered outside the main entrance of luxury department store Neiman Marcus, but no one waiting for the store to open would admit to being a last-minute shopper. "I’m really here to use a gift certificate and get something for myself and maybe someone else with what’s left over," said Matt Doran, who lives in Boston and had been waiting since 8:30 a.m. for the store’s 10 a.m. opening. Ilya Polykoff, who moved to Boston from Russia, said he was waiting "because I had the day off and I wanted to get some perfume." But he insisted that he was really shopping early because for him Christmas comes in January. The Orthodox Christmas will be celebrated on Jan. 7.
"There are lots of men out there today," said Karen McDonald, a spokes-woman for mall operator Taubman
A. Last-Minute Christmas Shoppers Fill U.S. Stores
B. Digital Watches Are the Red hot Items This Year
C. The Excuse of the Last-Minute Shoppers
D. Christmas, the Best Shopping Season
[简答题]It is the last day of July; for a thousand miles on every side lies Russia--home. The whole sky is a shadow- less blue; one little cloud floats upon it and melts away. A windless sultry calm; the air like warm milk.
The larks trill, the doves coo, the swallows swift by with their swift and noiseless flight; the horses neigh and crop the grass; the dogs stand about, gently wagging their tails, but not barking.
There is a mingles smell of smoke, hay, tar, and leather.
The hemp is ripe and gives forth its penetrating but pleasant odour.
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M: Today’s the last day that Harry Potter is on. We planned to go and see it after school.
W: I’d love to, but Professor Brian wants to speak with me.
What will the woman probably do （ ）
A. See the movie with the man.
B. See Professor Brian.
C. See Harry Potter.
[简答题]Four months before election day, five men gathered in a small conference room at the Reagan-Bush headquarters and reviewed an oversized calendar that mark the remaining days of the 1984 presidential campaign. It was the last Saturday in June and at ten o’clock in the morning the rest of the office was practically deserteD．Even so, the men kept the door shut and the drapes carefully drawn. The three principals and their two deputies had come from around the country for a critical meeting. Their aim was to devise a strategy that would guarantee Ronald Reagan’s resounding reelection to a second term in the White House. It should have been easy. These were battle-tested veterans with long ties to Reagan and even longer ones to the Republican party, men who understood presidential politics as well as any in the country. The backdrop of the campaign was hospitable, with lots of good news to work with. America was at peace, and the nation’s economy, a key factor in any election, was reboundin
[填空题]The day before Wednesday.
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President Kennedy died ______ years before the day the speech was made.
