大学英语三级A级分类模拟题253_真题-无答案

大学英语三级A级分类模拟题253
(总分60,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
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Marketing furniture to the public can be challenging for a small business owner Consumers buy furniture pieces only occasionally. However, there are several furniture promotion ideas that can be used to help you reach your target market.
One thing you can do is to talk with real estate (房地产) agents to allow you to display your furniture in a new home or open house setting This is a good way to reach a key target market—new home buyers—who may need new furniture for their future homes. Increasing foot traffic (顾客流量) is also important for a furniture store. To get more people to the store, you can advertise a raffle event (抽奖活动). This event can be promoted in your local media and through direct mail campaigns or front door advertisements to generate more interest.
In tough economic times, small business owners often suffer most as a result of slow consumer spending. To fight back against this, you have to make it easier for your customers to buy furniture. If you can, offer in-store financing, or drop the interest rate on **pany"s credit terms. Consider lowering your prices and holding two-for-one events to arouse more consumer interest.
1. Why is it a challenge for small businesses to sell furniture to the public?
A. The style of furniture changes fast.
B. Their furniture is often old-fashioned.
C. People buy furniture only occasionally.
D. The public"s taste for furniture is different.
2. According to the writer, it is a good way for small business owners to sell their furniture by ______.
A. improving after-sales service
B. reducing the advertising expenses
C. providing free delivery of furniture
D. displaying the furniture in a new home
3. To get more customers to your store, you are advised to ______.
A. advertise a raffle event
B. visit your local customers
C. have longer business hours
D. improve local traffic conditions
4. The purpose of holding two-for-one events is to ______.
A. offer in-store financing
B. lower the furniture"s cost
C. attract consumers" interest
D. reduce the advertising budget
5. The passage is mainly about ______.
A. furniture designing
B. furniture promotion
C. furniture store decoration
D. furniture production process
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"But I just paid $1.69 for this bottle of wine last week. **e the price is now $2.25? What"s going on?"
There are at least three things going on that have caused the price of wine to rise. All have to do with the supply and demand factors of economics.
The first factor is that people are drinking more wine than ever before. This demand for more wine has increasedoverall(总体) wine sales in America at the rate of 15 percent a year.
The second factor is that the supply of wine has stayed relatively the same, which means that the same number of bottles is produced each year. Wine producers are trying to open up new land to grow moregrapes(葡萄). But in at least three wine-producing areas of the world—France, Germany, and California—newvineyards(葡萄园) will not be available in the near future. Wines are produced in other countries, such as Italy, Spain and Australia, but none of these countries will be able to fill the demand for good wines.
The third factor is that costs of wine productions are increasing. The men who make wine are asking for more money, and the machinery needed to press the grapes is becoming more expensive.
When the demand for something is greater than the supply, prices go up. When production costs, meaning the prices of labor and machinery, rise, the producer adds this increase to the price of the wine.
1. From the first paragraph, we know that the speaker is ______.
A. asking about the price
B. worrying about the price
C. bargaining over the price
D. complaining about the price
2. The three factors mentioned in the passage cause ______.
A. the sales of wine to increase
B. the price of wine to go up
C. the production of wine to decrease
D. more and more people to drink wine
3. The supply of wine has remained the same partly because ______.
A. wine-producing countries are unwilling to increase their production
B. new vineyards will not be opened up in such countries as Australia
C. countries like Italy and Spain can"t supply enough good wines
D. the production of wine bottles has ceased to increase
4. What does "production costs" refer to in the last paragraph?
A. The price of grapes and machines.
B. The cost of land and transportation.
C. The price of wine and wine bottles.
D. The cost of the manpower and equipment.
5. The author"s purpose of writing this passage is to ______.
A. persuade people to drink less wine
B. tell people where to get the best wine
C. explain why the price of wine is rising
D. show that wine is popular with Americans
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**puter has been playing music for years, one CD at a time. Now hundreds of songs can be stored in your Pc if they"re in the MP3 format (格式).
What is it?
MP3 compresses (压缩) music into **puter files. You access MP3 music in several ways: Tunes can be downloaded from websites that have converted (转变) vast music libraries into MP3. Or you can prerecord CDs into your PC and convert songs in minutes into MP3. Once MP3 music is on your PC"s hard drive, you can play it through **puter"s speakers,
"burn" it onto blank CDs or swap (交换) MP3 files with friends using e-mail.
how much is it?
Software needed to play and convert MP3 music is often free. It comes reinstalled (预装) on most **puters or can be downloaded from many websites, including MP3. com. Some MP3 sites are free. Just type "MP3 sites" into any search engine. Compact portable MP3 players start at around $ 50 and can hold hundreds of songs. A blank CD on which you can record music costs about a dollar.
What are the advantages?
MP3 turns your home PC into a jukebox (自动唱机). Tiny MP3 players are the size of a deck (一副) of cards, making it easy to take hundreds of songs with you.
What are the disadvantages?
You may find that music at many sites is limited. And some only allow you to listen rather than download offerings. Others let you download music that they can"t be copied to MP3 players. And
a growing number of new CDs make it impossible to copy songs to a computer.
(1) You can get MP3 1 from websites which have n converted music libraries into MP3.
(2) You will pay 2 for a compact portable MP3 player.
(3) 3 is the closest meaning of the underlined word "burn".
(4) You can get software to play and convert MP3 by 4 and from 5
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A. freestyle
B. freestyle relay
C. water polo
D. 10m platform event
E. individual events
F. athletics
G. 4xl00m relay H. high jump
I. pole vault J. triple jump
K. decathlon L. marathon
M. walk N. badminton
O. men"s doubles P. mixed doubles
1. ______ 三级跳远______ 混合双打
2. ______ 4×100米接力______ 十米跳台
3. ______个人赛______羽毛球
4. ______竞走______马拉松
5. ______跳高______田径
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One Information Highway Is Above and Beyond All the Rest
The most powerful carrier of information ever created isn"t a highway at all. It"s a super skyway. And it exists today—a satellite network that is ubiquitous(普遍存在的), reliable and worldwide. Unlike fiber optics(纤维光学), satellites can send data to any point on earth, at sea or in the air—all at the same time. Nor are they vulnerable(易损的) to great natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes.
Satellites are cost-effective whether they"re beaming information across towns or across oceans. And they are essential for today"s broadcast, cable, business, TV, radio, data transmission, educational programming and telephony industries.
The information highway is changing rapidly, but satellites will continue to provide the necessary fast lane. For a free brochure(小册子) on how satellites can help your business, call us at 5422538.
1. What"s the purpose of this advertisement?
To sell ______.
2. What can satellites do?
To ______.
3. What can"t affect the satellite"s functions?
______.
4. Where are the satellites used now?
In ______.
5. How can people get more information about satellites? To ______.。