英语听力练习作业及答案

I. Reading

•Read the Method section in your target article and mark the model components(1,2,3,4) wherever you think you see them.

•For example, if you think the first sentence corresponds to number 1 in the model, write

1 next to it, etc.

II. Listening: fill in the blanks

REPORTER: Black Friday sounds kind of scary, and it was. Black Friday first referred to the ______ of the U.S. gold market in 1869. A century later, Philadelphia police used Black Friday to describe chaos and ______. Downtown streets were clogged with hoards of shoppers headed to the big department stores.

_______ hated the term but then tried to reinvent it. It was the day their profits went from red to black — so they said.

Black Friday really started _________ in the '80s and '90s pushed by the growth of big box stores. Today, it's all about bargains and Black Friday's _______ are for the history books.

AZUZ: So, that's one of the events that follows the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday this Thursday. Others include Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday.

Small Business Saturday is when mom and pop shops hope to see their sales increase. Cyber Monday is named for online shopping sales. The _______, this weekend is the traditional start of the U.S. holiday shopping season and discounts area all over the place.

What's a little _________ are sales on Thanksgiving itself. Some retailers are opened

the afternoon of the holiday to encourage people to shop in-stores or online. Some are closed, ____________________________________________________________.

Though tens of millions of Americans typically do some shopping on Thanksgiving Day, data from the National Retail Federation suggests that number is decreasing each year, and retail itself is changing __________________________________________

________________________________________.

III. Translate the following Chinese sentences into English and English into Chinese.

1. Police and education authorities in Beijing are probing a child abuse case at the Xintiandi branch of RYB Education Kindergarten, a well-known chain of preschools. This is the latest in a number of similar cases reported recently nationwide.

2. 美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)的一篇报道称，腾讯创始人马化腾已取代马克·扎克伯格成为社交媒体之王。

3. China is experiencing a consumer revolution, according to an article published on the Financial Times. Alibaba and competitors such as are making e-commerce not merely efficient but entertaining.