你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：B
(4) The birth of her son in 1980 ______.
(A) made her know more about mythical animals (B) added something new to her work (C) made her work become her daily life (D) made her interested in everyday life 你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：B
(5) Which of the following is NOT one of results of that disappointing trip to New York? (A) She sells 14,000,000 greeting cards a year.
(B) Her popular designs appear on more than 2,000 products. (C) She has already totally 25 branches.
(D) Annual retail sales are in the
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：B 参考答案：
[第六单元]; 第5小题：B 判断题。根据文章第四、五段。其中从第五段，―She runs a retail company with shops in nine cities (16 more are planned)‖（她办了一家零售公司，在9个城市拥有分店（另有16家商店正在筹划之中））可以判断C―她已经有25家分店‖是错误的。
45.
Nothing says love like a dozen long-stemmed roses on Valentine‘s Day. ―Red roses say ?I love you‘,‖ says Gerald Hager, executive director of a marketing research institute. For rose growers, rose distributors and rose sellers, this year‘s anticipated 7% increase in sales will be sweeter than a box of chocolate candy.
Rose is still red. But selling is no longer a beautiful experience for traditional flower shops. Supermarkets now offer convenience to the busy. And discount rose shops help those hopelessly in love save money.
Roses Only is a good example of a discount rose retailer that was transformed from a traditional shop to answer the challenge in the 1990s. Except for today, prices range from
19 for a
dozen of its longest stems. The company, its headquarters in New York, has three stores in New York, one in Canada and five in Spain. It plans to expand to three more U.S. cities this year.
The company‘s formula for success is to hold prices down by controlling every link in the rose chain. It grows its own roses in the sunshine of the Andes Mountains(安第斯山脉) near the capital of Ecuador(厄瓜多尔). Fresh roses are sprayed with water to keep them moist and flown to company stores three times a week. The New York stores sell about 45,000 stems a week, along with other things like balloons and stuffed animals. Roses Only can arrange delivery by overnight mail to anywhere in the country.
While discount rose retailers watch their business bloom, U.S. rose growers are going bankrupt in severe foreign competition. Today, more than 57% of roses sold in the USA are grown in other countries. The biggest foreign producers are Colombia(哥伦比亚) and Ecuador, accounting for almost 90% of the total imported last year. Imported roses are sold across the entire breadth of the country, from big flower shops to street-corner stands. The trend has hurt domestic rose growers. All the changes are making some in the rose business long for the good old days. [共5题]
(1) Red roses can represent ______ according to Gerald Hager, executive director of a marketing research institute? (A) sweet heart (B) chocolate (C) love (D) candy
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：C
(2) How do discount rose shops help those people hopelessly in love? (A) They help those people fall in love. (B) They help those people get hope. (C) They help those people save money. (D) None of the above.
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：C
(3) How does Roses Only gain success in the discount rose retailing field? (A) It keeps the price down by controlling every aspect of the business. (B) It grows its own roses in the sunshine of the Andes Mountains. (C) Fresh roses are flown to company stores three times a week
(D) It sells roses together with other things like balloons and stuffed animals. 你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：A
(4) Why are U.S. rose growers going bankrupt while discount rose retailers‘ business bloom? (A) Because selling roses is not as easy as before. (B) Because of the quality of the roses. (C) Because of severe foreign competition. (D) Because of the price of the roses. 你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：C
(5) What is the trend that has hurt domestic rose growers?
(A) The changes are making some in the rose business long for the good old days.
(B) Imported roses are sold across the entire breadth of the industry. (C) The biggest producers are foreign countries.
(D) The business of big flower shops is the same good as that of street-corner stands. 你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：B 参考答案：
[第六单元]; 第5小题：B 推断题。根据文章最后一段倒数二、三句：―Imported roses are sold …domestic rose growers. ‖推断这个趋势就是进口玫瑰销售在这个国家的每个角落。
46. I started the business with a simple question: how can we make the process of buying a computer better? The answer was: sell the computer directly to the end customers. Eliminate the reseller‘s markup and pass the savings __(1)__ the customers. I didn‘t ask for permission or approval. I just __(2)__ and did it.
On January 2, 1984, I went back to Austin earlier than I would have to attend classes, and I did all the things you need to do to __(3)__a business. I __(4)__the company with the State of Texas as ?PC‘s Limited‘. I placed ads in the classified section in our local newspaper.
Through my __(5)__ contact with customers and the small ads I placed in the paper, I was already getting a lot of business. I was selling between
80,000 upgraded PCs, upgrade kits, a
nd add-on computer components to people in the Austin area. __(6)__ starting the classes I was able to move from a stuffy room that I shared with a roommate to a condo with high ceilings and two bedrooms. I didn‘t, __(7)__, tell my parents for a few months that I moved.
Where I came from, not going to college is not an acceptable option. Convincing my parents to allow me to leave school would have been impossible. So I just went ahead and did it, __(8)__ the consequences. I finished my freshman year and left.
__(9)__, my parents forgave me. And a little bit after that, I forgave them, too.
People asked me now, ―Were you scared?‖ Sure. But it turned out, the timing for ?PC‘s Limited‘ __(10)__. [共10题] (1) (A) away (B) on to (C) by (D) over
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：B (2)
(A) went ahead (B) went back (C) went out (D) went for
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：A (3)
(A) set down (B) set out (C) set to (D) set up
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：D (4) (A) ran (B) started (C) operated (D) registered
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：D (5) (A) before (B) first (C) previous (D) original
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：C (6)
(A) Long after (B) After long (C) Not long after (D) Not after long
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：D (7)
(A) meanwhile (B) however (C) therefore (D) indeed
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：C
(8)
(A) whatever (B) whichever (C) whoever (D) whenever
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：A (9)
(A) Long before (B) However (C) After a while (D) Meanwhile
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：C (10)
(A) could have been better (B) couldn‘t have been worse (C) could have been worse (D) couldn‘t have been better
你选择的答案：前次作业时已经做对 [正确] 正确答案：D 参考答案：
[第六单元]; 第10小题：D 这句话的意思应是―结果证明，那时候成立―个人电脑有限公司‖的时机是再好不过了。‖所以应选couldn‘t have been better。could have been better应该能更好；couldn‘t have been worse再差不过了；could have been worse还有更差的。