| Advertisers tend to think big and
perhaps this is why they’re always coming in for criticism. Their critics seem
to resent them because they have a flair for self-promotion and because they
have so much money to threw around. "It’s iniquitous," they say, "that this
entirely unproductive industry (if we can call it that) should absorb millions
of pounds each year. It only goes to show how much profit the big companies arc
making. Why don’t they stop advertising and reduce the price of their goods
After all, it’s the consumer who pays." The poor old consumer. He would have to pay a great deal more if advertising didn’t create mass markets for products. It is just because of the heavy advertising that consumer goods are so cheap. But we get the wrong idea if we think the only purpose of advertising is to sell goods. Another equally important function is to A. advertising makes contribution to the pockets. B. readers claim they never read advertisements. C. advertising may entail a price rise for goods. D. little ads invariably appeal to baser instincts. [填空题]I think this one is bigger and (cheap)（）than that one.
[填空题]I think this one is bigger and (cheap) （ ） than that one.
[单项选择]
M: I think one of my favorite places is a little jazz bar downtown called the Music Box. A. It’s a place where musicians play music at night. B. It’s a little jazz bar. C. It’s the woman’s favorite place. D. It’s a place where you can meet interesting people. [单项选择]
W: Oh, dear. I think it’s time to start thinking about the summer holidays again. A. It attracted little notice. B. It became a great book. C. It made him famous and rich. [多项选择]Tony Watson says, ’Hi. I think you know one of my colleagues: Ann Scott.’
______ [单项选择]The elbows on your coat have worn thin, so I must （ ） them.
A. mend B. patch C. repair D. pitch [单项选择]I didn’t think I could ever ______ in a big city after living in the country for years.
A. get used to living B. used to live C. be used to live D. used to living [单项选择]I don’t think this room will be big enough to（）all the guests.
A. contain B. hold C. keep D. swallow [简答题]1.One experience of my traveling.
2. I think traveling is very beneficial because...
3. My advice is...
[填空题]When Americans think about hunger, we usually think in terms of mass starvation in far-away countries. But hunger too often lurks (1) . In 2006, 35. 1 million people, including (2) children, in the United States did not have access to enough food for an active healthy life. Some of these individuals relied on emergency food sources and (3) .
Although most people think of hungry people and homeless people as the same, the problem of hunger reaches (4) . While the number of people being hungry or (5) may be surprising, it is the faces of those hungry individuals that would probably (6) . The face of hunger is (7) who has worked hard for their entire lives only to find their savings (8) ; or a single mother who has to choose whether the salary from (9) will go to buy food or pay rent; or a child who struggles to (10) because his family couldn’t afford dinner the night bef 我来回答: 提交
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