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1.Each advertisement is doing its __1___to influence our diverse buying decisions, from the breakfast cereal we eat to which ___2____line we will use for our vacation. There is no ___3_____of ideas and things to buy! Now, of course, we don't remember ___4____what the products were, but the essential message is ___5_____into our consciousness, “It’s good to satisfy your desires. You should have what you want. You deserve the best. So, you should buy it —now!”

2.Which sentence is a statement in paragraph 3？选项： A、The paradox is that every day we get two sets of messages at odds with each other. B、One is the "permissive" perspective, "Buy, spend, get it now. You need this!" C、The other we could call an "upright" message, which urges us, "Work hard and save. Suspend your desires.

3.20选15A. paradox B. nourished C. disguised D. uprightE. administration F. defy G. ingredient H. tacklingI. recession J. well-being K. cereal L. graveM. legal N. consult O. nasty P. egoQ. resume R. utmost S. compact T. manipulatedWe may feel confused and 1. __________ when being asked, “Should I spend or should I save?” And the messages we get usually 2. __________ our common sense and contradict each other. The government asks us to spend so that we get out of 3. __________; in the meanwhile, they say if we do not save, our country will be in 4. __________ danger. Credit card companies would send us 5. __________ emails, threatening us to pay off the bills and then encourage us to 6. __________ spending in a charming tone. The 7. __________ is that we get two sets of messages at odds with each other every day. One is an 8. __________ message, which urges us to suspend our desires. The other is “permissive” perspective in the form of advertisements; the messages are everywhere, doing their 9. __________ to influence our buying decisions: from breakfast10. __________ to which cruise line we will use. People thus believe that they will derive pleasure from “nice things” and feel 11. __________ by them.College students should consider their financial well-being as a key 12. __________ of their college education. They may 13. __________ with the school’s financial aid office and get help with 14 __________ their problems if they have financial trouble. Sooner or later, they can find pleasure in the 15. __________ of their financial affairs.

4.In Text A, Unit 5, every day we get two sets of contradictory messages. one is the "permissive" perspective which encourages us to "Buy, spend and get it now!" The other is the "upright' message which urges us to work hard and save. Which of the following is NOT one of the sources of this "upright" message? 选项：schools|political figures|advertising companies|parents

5.In Text A, Unit 5, every day we get two sets of contradictory messages. one is the "permissive" perspective which encourages us to "Buy, spend and get it now!" The other is the "upright' message which urges us to work hard and save. Which of the following is NOT one of the sources of this "upright" message? 选项：A、schools B、political figures C、advertising companies D、parents

6.What conclusion can you draw from the test concerning money issues?选项： A:We should save money rather than spend money. ; B:We should take as many part- time jobs as possible to make enough money. ; C:We should buy more things because we derive pleasure from treating ourselves. ; D:We should choose a suitable way according to our own conditions.

7.Today, I’m delighted to announce the opening of our new branch in this neighborhood. We hope we’ll be able to meet the demands of the local ____. You’ll notice that the branch is staffed by local people because we feel they’ll have more ____ of your particular needs. We have extended our ____ because this has been one of the suggestions we have been given. So whether you are an early riser or you work late, we will be able to meet your particular ____. Our aim is to serve you, the local people, locally. I promise you that offering a(n) ____ is always our top priority.

8.1 Thank you. I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college. And this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.2 My second story is about love and loss.3 I was lucky—I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

9.A man was telling one of his friends why he was content with his married life. "My wife makes all the small decisions," he explained, "and I make all the big ones, so we never try to have too much influence in each other's business and never get annoyed with each other. We have no complaints and no arguments." "That sounds reasonable," answered his friend sympathetically. "And what sort of decisions does your wife make?" "Well," answered the man, "she decides what jobs I apply for, what sort of house we live in, what furniture we have, where we go for our holidays, and things like that." His friend was surprised. "Oh?" he said. "And what do you consider important decisions then?" "Well," answered the man, "I decide who should be President, whether we should increase our help to poor countries, what we should do about the atom bomb, and things like that." 1）、The man was content with his married life because he and his wife loved each other deeply. 选项： A:T B:F

10. ______ Every day we get two sets of opposite messages: permissive message which encourages us to spend and upright message which urges us to save.

11.资料：As a startup founder, my daily tasks include everything from long-term strategic planning to approving team outings and company culture initiatives. Day after day, things inevitably come up that need to get handled ASAP. But I’ve also learned that if you don’t have a strategy for making time for those bigger ambitions and your truly lofty goals, they’ll simply never get done. And that means you won’t make the progress that’s really going to move your business forward.1. FIND YOUR MOST PRODUCTIVE TIMEFace it: You aren’t cranking out work at absolute peak productivity for the entire day. Instead, there are likely certain times when you’re at your most focused and other times when your energy wanes. That’s normal. Maybe for you, it’s bright and early in the morning, before anyone else arrives in the office, when you do your best work. Whenever it is, identify that chunk of time （even if it’s only an hour!） when you feel most productive, and then reserve it on your calendar like you would any other important meeting. You need to protect this block of time from intrusion--it isn’t optional. That way you’re guaranteed to have a regular, designated period when you can at least get started on those bigger to-dos.2. CREATE PHYSICAL BARRIERSNobody works in a vacuum. We all have to collaborate with others to some degree or another. And it’s the people we work closest with whom we tend to put first--we want to be readily available if they need our help. But there are times you need to tune out the distractions and focus if you’re going to get any meaningful work done.One of the most effective methods I’ve found is to put physical barriers between us. I’ll work from a conference room or even from home on occasion in order to get some literal space from people needing “just one quick thing.”What can be inferred from paragraph 3? 选项： A:You have to be readily available in the office. B:People cannot work in a vacuum. C:People in the office love helping others. D:Sometimes we have to decline colleagues’ requests.

12.Which of the following sentences contain a relative clause?选项： A:I can't just live like this; in my life there ought to be some other things that I should ask for.; B:Do you really believe that failure is the mother of success?; C:We should keep our living surroundings clean and healthy just as we do with our own homes. ; D:This is the reason why our parents always encourage us to read more books.

13.Which of the following sentences contain a relative clause? 选项： A、I can't just live like this; in my life there ought to be some other things that I should ask for. B、Do you really believe that failure is the mother of success? C、We should keep our living surroundings clean and healthy just as we do with our own homes. D、This is the reason why our parents always encourage us to read more books.

14.When we finish dinner and need to pay, what should not we say?选项： A:Can we have the bill, please?; B:Do you have change for a ten?; C:Can I pay with my We-chat?; D:Can I get you some change？

15.“It’s good to satisfy your desires. You should have what you want. You deserve the best. So, you should buy it – now!”. This kind of advertising advocate material enjoyment, so it has a（an）（）ideological effect, we must abandon that. 选项： A:active B:positive C:negative

16.Fill in the blanks. Good afternoon and thank you for making the ____ to be here with us today. My name’s Rachel Rawlins and I’m responsible for public affairs. What I’d like to do today is to _____ our recent cooperate campaign. This ____ talk will hopefully ____ a springboard for discussion. I’m going to ____ the cooperate campaign from three ____: firstly, the customers’; secondly, the financial institutions’; and ____, to shareholders’. If you have any ____, just interrupt me as I ____. Your point of view may well be different, and we’d like to____ from you.