Mr. Selfridge, the Wisconsin-born retailer (零售商) who left school at 14, rose to become a partner in Marshall Field's, Chicago. Founded in 1852, it was one of the first and most ambitious US department stores. Mr. Selfridge had done well with Marshall Field's. He liked to say, “The customer is always right,” which made the Chicago store popular. And he is believed to have invented the phrase “Only so many Shopping Days until Christmas”.
When he visited London on holiday in 1906 he was surprised to find most of the city's department stores were no match for their American and Parisian competitors. This led Selfridge to leave the US and establish Selfridges. a department store named after him at the west end of London's Oxford Street. In Oxford Street, Selfridge's design team shaped an ambitious classical place building with a wall of plate glass windows.
Opened in 1909, Selfridges offered customers a hundred departments along with restaurants, a roof garden, reading and writing rooms, reception areas for foreign visitors, a first-aid room and most importantly, a small army of knowledgeable floor-walking assistants who served as guides as well as being thoroughly instructed in the art of making a sale.
Mr. Selfridge did much to make the department store a destination rather than just a big and comprehensively stocked city shop. It became a place to meet and for ladies to lunch. Mr. Selfridge later introduced the department store as a key element of the 20th Century culture, and Chaplin acknowledged the growing trend for shopping in the department store in his film The Floorwalker.
1.What can be learned about Mr. Selfridge from Paragraph 1?
A. He was well-educated.
B. He was a gifted businessman.
C. He was a modest man.
D. He was dishonest.
2.What made Selfridge build a department store in London?
A. The industrial atmosphere in London.
B. His desire to own a department store.
C. His confidence in business success.
D. Affection for London architecture.
3.What was Selfridges' most impressive characteristic?
A. The number of departments.
B. The broad choice of goods.
C. The small group of guards.
D. The well-trained sales guides.
4.What is the main purpose of the article?
A. To introduce the retailer, Selfridge.
B. To compare different department stores.
C. To encourage readers to spend more.
D. To explain how to start a department store.
科目：高中英语 来源：2017届山东枣庄三中高三9月质量检测英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
假设你是李明，你在报纸上看到一个广告，很感兴趣，但有些具体细节不清楚。请你根据下面电子信箱地址发封邮件，询问有关情况。
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Young person to help with two children Help with languages very welcome Must have experience Accommodation available if necessary E-mail: Cook@hotmail.com |
1. Hours?
2. Which languages? How many?
3. Experience of teaching or caring for children?
4. How about meals?
注意：1．词数100左右；
2．开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年贵州遵义四中高一上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
A student was one day taking a walk with his teacher. As they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying in the path. They were a poor farmer’s, who was working in the nearby field.
The student turned to the teacher, saying: “we will hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those trees, and wait to see what he will do.”
“My young friend,” answered the teacher, “we should never make fun of the poor. Why not put a coin in each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch?” The student did so and they both hid themselves behind the trees. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoes.
After putting on his coat, he put his foot into one of his shoes, and felt something hard. Then he bent (弯腰) down to feel what it was, and found the coin. Surprised, he looked at the coin, turned it around and looked at it again. He then looked around, but no person was seen. He put the money into his pocket, and continued to put on the other shoe. His surprise was doubled on finding the other coin.
He couldn’t control his feelings and fell to his knees, looked up to the sky and expressed his thanks. Then he spoke of his wife, sick and helpless, and his children without bread. He said the help would save them from dying.
The student stood there deeply moved, and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the teacher, “are you not much happier than if you had hidden the shoes?”
1.When the student saw the shoes, he wanted to ________.
A. steal them
B. find their owner
C. play a joke on the owner
D. give the owner some money
2.When the farmer saw the second coin, he ________.
A. was very excited and grateful
B. was worried and looked up at the sky
C. was surprised and decided to find the owner
D. spoke of his difficulties and asked for more help
3.What can we learn from the passage?
A. It is never too late to learn.
B. All good things come to an end.
C. Where there is a will, there is a way.
D. True happiness comes from helping others.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届广西桂林市高三10月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
They are the little sweeties who look pretty cute in a photo, or when sleeping—but a lot less appealing at 30, 000 ft, crying loudly in the seat right next to you.
According to a new survey, almost seven in ten Britons dislike flying with babies so much that they would like to see child-free areas introduced on planes. As for long-distance flights where people want to sleep, almost one in four British travelers believes that no-kid-zones should be fixed as required sections.
The survey was conducted by bookings website LateDeals.co.uk, with 1,108 UK consumers questioned as to what they hate most about air travel.
And our dislike of noisy children and babies on planes runs deep, it seems.
More than a third of us—35 percent—would pay extra to travel on a childless service.
Long-distance passengers would be prepared to pay an additional ￡63 to the cost of a return ticket if it meant adults only on board. And on short-distance flights, an extra ￡28 on the price of a return fare would be considered good value if it guaranteed an absence of angry babies in the middle of the economy-class aisle(走道).
However, screaming babies are not the only source of annoyance for British travelers. In fact, according to the research on the most annoying types of airline passengers, a crying baby ranks as only the fourth. Over half of those surveyed—58 percent—selected “drunk travelers” as their pet peeves. People with “bad personal hygiene(卫生)” and travelers who kick the back of the seat in front were also near the top of the list, causing anger to 48 and 47 percent of us respectively(分别地).
Crying babies came in at fourth on the list, a pet peeve for 43 percent of those surveyed.
1.Britons dislike flying with babies because they_________.
A. make too much noise
B. get angry easily
C. sleep right next to them
D. stay in the economy-class aisle
2.How many British travelers surveyed would like to have no-kid-zones on planes?
A. About 35％.B. About 43％.
C. About 70％.D. About 58％.
3.What type of writing is this text?
A. A brochure.B. A tourist guide.
C. An announcement.D. A news report.
4.What does the underlined phrase “pet peeves” in the last fourth line mean?
A. Pets on a plane.
B. Passengers with a baby.
C. People who annoy you.
D. People who were surveyed.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届湖北沙市高三上第三次考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
My father grew up in Oklahoma during the early years of the Great Depression. He was the only living child of a hard-working farmer and a ________ mother. When Dad completed eighth grade, my grandfather believed his only son would work on the farm. My grandmother, ________, understood the door that education could open even in ________ economic times. She persuaded grandfather to ________ Dad to finish high school.
Dad worked hard and completed high school at the age of 16. At last, grandpa was to have his wish. Dad would work on the farm, easing the economic and physical ________ grandpa carried. But grandmother again ________ grandpa to permit my father to go to college.
After ________, grandpa made the most difficult decision of his lifetime. He walked to the chicken coop(鸡笼子), where he did his ________. Taking a shovel in his work-worn hands, grandpa ________ a jar that held all the family’s savings. He offered the jar and its precious ________ to Dad, saying, "Here boy, go make something of yourself."
Realizing that his family was ________ all their savings by investing in his education, Dad became a steward of those funds. He ________ his bachelor’s degree and then went on to the University of Oklahoma, where he graduated second in his ________ school class in 1936. Jobs were hard to ________ when Dad graduated, so he opened his own practice and lived in a home with a dirt floor. He worked long hours, but I remember him ________ the great books he discovered in the course of his education with me.
Our family was changed by the long walk grandpa took to the chicken coop. Education is ________ an investment in our family. It is a treasure. I ________ my father to college and law school, and all of my children have also ________ higher education. We have been transformed by a sacrifice made two ________ ago by a loving, if not fully convinced, grandfather and a persistent grandmother and that has made all the ________.
1.A. beautifulB. curiousC. capableD. devoted
2.A. soB. howeverC. otherwiseD. thus
3.A. toughB. greatC. peacefulD. competitive
4.A. permitB. takeC. askD. force
5.A. painsB. troublesC. burdensD. activities
6.A. refusedB. beggedC. orderedD. required
7.A. graduationB. workC. reflectionD. permission
8.A. cookingB. cleaningC. farmingD. banking
9.A. picked upB. dug upC. broke upD. cut up
10.A. booksB. contentsC. billsD. coins
11.A. sacrificingB. storingC. treasuringD. wasting
12.A. failedB. receivedC. offeredD. needed
13.A. mathsB. educationC. economicsD. law
14.A. come offB. come aboutC. come byD. come on
15.A. makingB. writingC. protectingD. sharing
16.A. more thanB. rather thanC. other thanD. less than
17.A. joinedB. followedC. advisedD. accompanied
18.A. soughtB. insistedC. favoredD. considered
19.A. yearsB. centuriesC. decadesD. generations
20.A. senseB. differenceC. useD. effect
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届内蒙古高三上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：七选五
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
While going through life with the pursuit of money on our mind, we're often told that money can't buy happiness. But what truth is there in the saying? Is there a relation between money and happiness? 1.
Humans are very sensitive to change. When we get a rise, we really enjoy it. But some studies have shown that in North America, additional income beyond 75,000 dollars a year stops impacting day-to-day happiness. 2. They often end up spending all the money, going into debt, and experience ruined social relationships.
So surely money can't really buy happiness. Well, recent studies suggest that the problem may actually be in the way that we spend money. 3. Studies show that people who spend their money on others feel happier. As for the people who spend money on themselves, their happiness is unchanged.
4. 0ne experiment showed that instead of an organization writing a large check to a charity, dividing the amount up among employees, allowing them to contribute to a charity of their choice, increased their job satisfaction. Similarly, individuals that spend money on each other, as opposed to themselves, not only increase job satisfaction, but improve the team performance.
5. Interestingly, the specific way money is spent on others isn't important. Spending something on others is the important aspect of increasing your happiness.
A. The same principle has been tested on teams and organizations as well.
B. Money has more effect on the vast majority of people in the long run.
C. Instead of buying things for yourself, try giving some of it to other people and see how you feel.
D. And if so, how can we use it to our advantage?
E. Almost everywhere we look in the world, we see that giving money to others is positively related to happiness,
F. And while you're saving up for these greatest experiences, don't forget the daily joys in life.
G. In fact, people who win a lottery often report becoming extremely unhappy.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年黑龙江大庆中学高二上期末考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
Fay: Hi Jerry. I’m thinking of applying 1.________ a job with a multinational(跨国的) company, but I’m worried about having an interview in English. Can you give me any good tips?
Jerry: Hmm. That’s a tough one. I guess the first thing is to try to make 2. _______good impression.
Fay: That sounds good. But 3. ______(serious), how can I do that?
Jerry: To begin with, you should firmly shake the interviewer’s hand and keep eye contact while 4.______(greet) him or her with a smile.
Fay: Ah, “body language” is really important, isn’t it?
Jerry: Yes. The second thing is to be confident. You gain 5._______(confident) from being prepared. You should learn a little bit about the company before the interview. Find out what they do, how long they’ve been in business, 6._______their business motto is, that kind of thing.
Fay: I never 7.________(think) about that before. You’re really smart, Jerry! But what should I do 8._____ I can’t remember an English word when I’m answering a question?
Jerry: In that case, you have to paraphrase. In other words, you have to explain what you want to say.
Fay: That’s very 9.______(help), Jerry. Thanks very much. Ah, one more thing. Should I ask about the salary during the interview?
Jerry: No, either let them bring up the topic of money, 10.____wait for a second interview. Good luck!
Fay: Thanks!
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016-2017学年黑龙江牡丹江一中高二9月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一篇作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词；
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉；
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出改正后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last week my parents and I took a two-days trip to Emei Mountain in Sichuan. As everyone knows, it’s famous mountain with all kinds of plants and animals. The weather was fine. It was almost noon we arrived at the foot of the mountain. The three of them were very excited. As we climbed the mountain, we fed monkeys, visiting temples and told stories. On the way up I was busy taking picture since the scenery was so beautiful. The time passes quickly. Evening came. We spent the night in a hotel at the top of the mountain. The food was expensive and the service was good. I was very tired that I fell asleep at the moment my head touched the pillow.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2017届江西玉山县一中高三上第一次月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Crying marriage? 1. (surprise), isn’t it? Factually, the custom of crying marriage existed a long time ago in many areas of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, and 2. (remain) in fashion 3. the end of the Qing Dynasty. Though not so popular as before, the custom is still observed by people in many places, especially Tujia people, who view it as a 4. (necessary) to marriage procedure.
It is very much 5. same in different places of the province. According to elderly people, every bride had to cry at the wedding. 6. , the bride’s neighbors would look down upon 7. as a poorly cultivated girl and she would become the laughingstock of the village. In fact, there were cases 8. which the bride was beaten by her mother for not crying at the wedding ceremony.
In a word, crying at wedding is a 9. by custom to set off the happiness of the wedding through falsely sorrowful words. However, in the 10. (arrange) marriages of the old days of China, there were indeed quite a lot of brides who cried over their unsatisfactory marriage and even their miserable life.
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