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1 重庆市北大附中重庆实验学校高三英语专项题型复习重庆市北大附中重庆实验学校高三英语专项题型复习 1 1 Despite bankruptcies lay off and tighter comsumers spending a few femaleled businesses in Japan are developing well Shizue Hamada 52 set up a business in 1991 with eight other housewives to care for the elderly and the physically disabled It wasn t long before the Tasukeai Yui mutual aid group earned a reputation for its excellent service It now employs 200 staff and has 300 million yuan US 2 4million in annual sales The woman said their business has been successful because they provide what customrs really want These entrepreneurs are making use of a revalized and healthy demand for everyday basic items Bread for instance is in high demand Business woman Meiko Tanaka 26 started selling high quality bread over the Internet in 2000 Bread is cheap she said We migh as well eat the bread baked using the the highest quality ingredients Five women former office workers in their late 20s have started the OL Food Bureau of Investigation to review restaurants on the Internet OL means young office lady It s a common nickname in Japan Business is increasing rapidly Membership for their online magazine has reached 26 000 Their non professional comments seem to carry a lot of weight with consumers This month the five women will be appearing on Japanese TV What all these female entrepreneurs have in common is a strong belief in their likes and dislikes and confidence is their own sensibilities They find gaps in the market and fill them with products and services that they like or want Japanese women headed nearly 6 percent of all businesses in Japan at the end of June up from 4 5 per cent in 1999 These female led micro businesses are playing an increasingly large role in the 2 economy by plugging the gap between supply and demand 1 When talking about the businesswomen in Japan the writer A thinks little of them B thinks that they will take the place of men in future C sings the praises of their abilities D is not sure of their future development 2 The passage mainly discusses A Japanese women B female led businesses in Japan C how to earn a reputation D Japanese economic development 3 The five women will be appearing on Japanese TV because A thier comments have great influences on consumers B they have set up the first online magazine C they have arranged handreds of jobs for laid off workers D they used to work in offices and are fairly beautiful 4 If an old man in Japan can t live by himsilf he should turn to for hehp A Tasukeai Yui B Meiko Tanaka C OL Food Bureau of lnvestigation D entrepreneurs 2 2 Net Libray is a library that lends out digitalbooks It treats a digital like a paperback copy It charges libraries per book per copy and gives publishers a cut of the total income From the consumer s point of view this means that if more than Say five people want the latest Danielle Steel romance novel other people who request that book will get a message saying the title can t be found It s a model many publishers seem to have embraced More than 350 gave the company rights to hand out their digital works and McGraw Hill Corporation and Houghton Mifflin Corporation have put money in the company The California public libraries and about 1 800 others across the US are trying out the Net Library service Some librarians criticize the New Library model Stanford University librarian Michael Keller argues that the company is creating an unnatural fear of digital woks which is contrary to the ideas of the Internet 3 Kelle and some other librarians argue for the e book vision set forth by E Brary E Brary is starting a service that lets us users read books for free But it will charge about 25 cents a page when a person tries to print out material or copy and paste it into a different file or tries to download copy onto a computer Christopher Warnock chief executive of E Brarw believes most consumers won t want to buy entire books only the parts that interest them There s not really a lot of good in owning an electronic file and having to store it and manage it It doesn t make sense he said 5 How do publishers get money from the Net Library A They get money from selling their books to the Net Libary B They share the money with the Net Library C They get money by cutting the cost of the books D They get the money from the readers 6 The underlined word embraced in the 3rd paragraph means A taken something willingly B held something tightly C disliked something badly D tried out something hard 7 From the 2nd paragraph we can see consumers A don t care if they are charged money B enjoy the service of the Net Library C don t like other people borrowing books D complain about the limited number of the new books 8 What does the last paragraph mean A Net Library is not a good way for the consumers B There is no need for consumers to have a whole book C E Brary is not a good library for the consumers D It s reasonable to charge the consumers money for copying some pages 3 3 Thousands of years ago people guessed the time of day by watching the sun Later they found it was easier to tell the exact time by looking at the shadows Thus the sundial 日晷 was invented 4 The sundial proved a useful timepiece in sunny weather However another typc of timepiece was necessary for cloudy weather and nigh time A sand glass was another common measurer of time Two glass bottles were connected by a very small opening The top bottle was filled with sand which dropped slowly into the botton one in a certain period of time Hour glasses were widely used then Three minute sand glasses are still used in many homes to time the boiling of eggs The real ancestor of modern clocks was the water clock In China an early water clock was made up of several bowls Water trickled 滴 from one bowl to another to keep the clock going Visitors to the Beijing Palace Museum can still see the old water clocks showing the time there In the Middle Ages a wateless clock was invented which worked by means of weights To keep the weight falling at the same speed a system of wheels was invented The pendulum 钟摆 was soon developed to control the speed of the wheels Thus the modern form of clock came into being 9 Which of the following is the correct picturr of a sand glass A B C D 10 Three minute sand glasses are still used in many homes A to boil eggs B to measure the time of boiling eggs C to hold the boiled eggs D to have eggs boiled 11 If you visit Beijing Palace Museum you A will see the old water clocks broken B will find the time shown by the old water clocks is wrong C can find the old