Consumer electronics once again topped the list of the most wanted gifts this holiday season. “Seventy-six percent of consumers who plan to buy holiday gifts say that they will spend money buying at least one technology product; definitely a solid vote of confidence for technology.” Steve Koenig is with the Consumer Electronics Association. He says the group’s latest research also shows that Americans this year are spending more on technology products.
“Here in 2012, $252 on average–the technology spend for consumers this year.” From tablet computers to smartphones, American shoppers have been lining up to get the newest and coolest electronic devices on the market. There are more choices today than ever before. “It’s kind of hard to make a decision.”
Tablet computers are one of the best-selling products this year. Brian Tong is Senior Editor of CNET.com. The website reports on tech news and examines the latest electronic products. He says the Apple iPad Mini is one of the most popular tablets. Its starting price is $329. One of Apple’s biggest competitors is the Google Nexus 7. It starts at $199.
“The hardware inside is more powerful than what’s in the iPad Mini, but also it offers you a lot of things like maps that work better than Apple’s maps.” Brian Tong says there is one reason why people may like the iPad Mini more than the Nexus 7. “If you just want to read books and surf the Internet, you don’t really need to get an iPad Mini, but if you want the largest group of apps that’s where the iPad and Apple’s ecosystem shines the most.”
Elman Chacon is with the electronics store Best Buy. He says another hot product this season is smart cameras. They connect to the Internet through Wi-Fi. This makes it easy for users to email or upload photographs directly from the camera. “You can literally take a picture, upload it into your Facebook in a matter of seconds. These things are pretty cool because they do a lot of things.”
Streaming media boxes also connect to the Internet. People are able to watch web content such as movies and YouTube videos on their televisions. Another popular item is wireless speaker systems. The newest ones work with any device that has Bluetooth technology, including smartphones, laptops and tablets.
With the growing popularity of Internet shopping, many consumers will visit a store first to look at a product, and then go online to find it at a lower price. Stores like Best Buy understand that and they want to stay competitive.
“We have something called the perfect match promise which means if you buy a certain device and you find it cheaper within 30 days we’ll go ahead and price match that for you.” Elman Chacon said.
1.According to Brain Tong, ________.
A. the Apple’s iPad Mini is more suitable for enthusiastic readers
B. the hardware in iPad Mini is more advanced than that in Nexus 7
C. Nexus 7 has fewer apps than iPad Mini
D. iPad mini is more eco-friendly
2.If you’ve discovered that a certain device you bought at Best Buy is more expensive than one at another store, ________.
A. you are sure to get double the amount you paid
B. you can return the device and get your money back
C. the store will return the price differences
D. the store will lower the price within 30 days
3.Which of the following would be the best gift for a cab driver?
A. Smart cameras.B. Streaming media boxes.
C. Wireless speaker systems.D. Tablet computers.
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閱讀下列短文并根據所讀內容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰當的單詞，每空格1詞（共10個小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）
Zebras have their own bug repellent(驅蟲劑)?
Eww bugs! They are so annoying! We humans are lucky that we can apply repellents to avoid nasty bites. But what’s an animal to do? They have no choice but to spend their days shooing them off with their tails, unless, of course, they are zebras, who apparently have their own automatic repellent--- their striped skin!
Scientists had originally thought that the reason why the animal had developed the black and white lines was to help protect itself from predators in the African savannah, because the stripes make it difficult to single out one zebra that is traveling with a herd.While that may be true, the theory has never been tested or proven. Now the experts have another---that the stripes have evolved to repel the annoying horse flies that not only feed off their blood, but also, transmit dangerous germs into the bodies of these innocent animals.
The study was performed by a team of Swedish scientists. One of the clues that got them thinking along these lines was the fact that darker horses got bitten more often than light-colored or white ones.
The fact that zebras are born black and only develop strips as they grow older made the scientists theorize that the stripes may be something the animals have developed to make themselves less attractive to flies.
To test if this may be the case, they painted some boards at a horse-infested horse farm in Budapest with patterns of black and white stripes of varying widths and applied a layer of glue on them. What they noticed was that the places where the black and white stripes were at their narrowest (similar to what zebras have) attracted the fewest flies. They achieved similar results when they painted horses with black and white zebra-like stripes.
While the research are not sure why this may be the case, they believe it may be something to do with the way insects operate---horseflies are attracted to horizontally polarized light（偏振光）; since white does not reflect it, white horses are luckier than black ones. But zebras seem to be the luckiest of all. When the researchers measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins, they found that it matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies.
While this theory does make logical sense, nobody is 100 percent sure that it is really true, given that it has never been tested on a real zebra. If it is true, it does raise the question of why a horse, a close relative of the zebra has failed to develop stripes. The researchers believe that this could be because there are more horseflies in Africa, where zebras reside, then anywhere else in the world.
Title | Zebras have their own bug repellent? | |
Reasons for zebras developing their strips | Original belief | With the black and white lines, one zebra is difficult to single out while traveling with a herd, thus ___1.___ it from its enemies. |
New theory | Zebras, residing in Africa where there are most horseflies in the world ,have developed strips to avoid being___2.____ . | |
A study | Researchers | A team of scientists from ___3.____ |
____4.____ | To test if strips are developed to make zebras less attractive to flies. | |
Clues | *White or light-colored horses are less __5.___ to get bitten than dark ones. *Zebras develop strips as they grow older though born black . | |
Method | *Some boards at a horse farm are painted with patterns of black and white stripes variously ___6.___ , a layer of glue applied on them *Measured the polarized light reflected from real zebra skins | |
_____7.___ | *The places where the black and white stripes were similar to the ___8.___zebras have attracted the fewest flies *Strips of zebras matched light patterns that were the least attractive to horseflies | |
Principle of zebras’ black and white strips repelling the flies | Horizontally polarized light, which white does not reflect, ____9.___ to horseflies.
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Conclusion | ____10.___tested on real zebras, the theory isn’t definitely true. | |
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Until we lose them, scarcely＿＿ how much pleasure and happiness our ordinary lives offer.
A．we realize B．do we realize
C. did we realize D. we have realized
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閱讀下面的短文，然后按要求寫一篇150詞左右的英語短文。
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wounds will still be there.”
寫作內容：
1. 以“Anger management”為題約30個詞概括上文的主要內容。
2. 談談你的想法（120詞），內容包括：
（1）分析憤怒情緒可能產生的后果（至少兩點）；
（2）就如何控制憤怒情緒提出建議（至少兩點）。
寫作要求：
1. 不得直接引用原文中的句子。
2. 作文中不得出現真實的姓名和學校名稱。
評分標準：
概括準確，語言規(guī)范，內容合適，語篇連貫。
Anger management
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—What a pity! Their experiment is a failure.
—They ________ better under more favorable conditions.
A. should have doneB. could have done C. must have doneD. may have done
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Some friends persuaded me to apply to a combined M.D/Ph.D program ________ I could work in areas that wouldn’t be as open to me with only a Ph.D.
A. even ifB. so thatC. as ifD. in that
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Such novelists as Tolstoy are widely read, of ＿＿works; full of great humanity, however, some are difficult to understand.
A. whose B．which
C. whom D. what
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Another group of Qing Tombs sits about 100 kilometres ______ of Beijing．
A. at the west B. the west
C. to west D. west
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