You need some bread and milk．But half an hour later，you leave the supermarket with a trolley（手推车） full of food．What games do supermarkets play to make us spend so much money？
The tricks usually start before you walk in．Outside the supermarket entrance，anybody who walks past can smell warm，fresh bread．That makes us hungry and ready to buy lots of food，not just bread．
Now you're inside and，of course，a small basket would be fine，but all they have are trolleys．And of course the problem with a trolley is that it looks sad and lonely with just one or two products inside．So we may fill it with something．In fact，supermarket trolleys are actually getting bigger so that we buy more．
Of course，many people shop in supermarkets because they think everything is cheaper than in other shops．So supermarkets offer very cheap prices on some things but then have higher prices for other products．One new trick is to put red stickers on products．Customers usually connect red stickers with lower prices so the red stickers is easy to be noticed，even when there is no reduction! Interestingly，this trick appears to work more with men than with women．
There is a story behind the position of everything in the supermarket．For example，customers often go only to buy milk．So they put it right at the back，forcing you to go past hundreds of shelves full of other products．The position of products on each shelf is also important．The most expensive products are usually at eye﹣level so you see these immediately．The exception is anything that children might like．These products are on lower shelves so that kids see them．
Apart from what you see and smell in a supermarket，what about what you listen to？In most supermarkets they have soft，slow music．It's so relaxing that you slow down and spend more time （and money） in the store．You also move more slowly when the supermarket is busy．Experts suggest it's better to shop when it's quieter，on a Monday or a Tuesday for example．And be careful with queues at the checkouts．These are sometimes deliberate（故意），to make you buy something from the checkout shelves while you wait．
So，next time you go into your local supermarket，remember these tricks and see if you can come with just the things you went for．
25．Smells from bread in the supermarket ．
A．make you feel hungry and buy more food
B．draw your attention to bread only
C．make you buy less bread than you need
D．force you to leave the supermarket
26．Supermarkets don't provide baskets because ．
A．supermarkets don't usually have many
B．baskets are too small to hold many products
C．it's easy to go shopping with trolleys
D．a trolley can hold one or two products inside
27．According to the passage，supermarkets put red stickers on products to ．
A．make them look more beautiful
B．make them different from cheaper ones
C．make people think the stickers are for men
D．make people think they could save money
28．According to the passage，toys for children are usually placed ．
A．on higher shelves
B．on each shelf
C．on lower shelves
D．on the back shelves
29．It can be learned from Paragraph 6that supermarkets usually ．
A．stop people lining up at the checkouts
B．close on Monday morning
C．play loud and noisy music inside
D．make customers feel relaxed
30．The passage is mainly about ．
A．several ways supermarkets use to sell more products
B．some advice when people go shopping on the street
C．several rules that every business should follow
D．some advertisements that make people buy more．
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Dinner customs (习惯) are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana( 加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules (规则) about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else. But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子) because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.From the passage we know that in Ghana ______________.
| A．the rules for dinner time are not strict |
| B．dinner is always at six in the evening |
| C．a family offers food only at four in the afternoon |
| D．people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening |
If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host (主人) always takes you to ________.
| A．the dining room first | B．the living room first |
| C．the kitchen first | D．the garden first |
People in Ghana usually eat ________.
| A．from one side of a dish to the other |
| B．from the other side of the dish |
| C．with their fingers |
| D．with their spoons |
In fact, most dishes in Ghana ________.
| A．are cooked with the powder of some plants |
| B．have fufu in them |
| C．are too hard to eat |
| D．are not very hard |
When you eat fufu, you’d better _________.
| A．cut it with a saw | B．use your right hand only |
| C．chew it well | D．all of the above |
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| Come to Austria(奥地利)！ Soll is a village in the mountains in western Austria. And the Post Hotel is clean and not expensive. It is opened by a local family. From the hotel you can see the whole village, the forests and the mountains. Temperatures in summer are usually 20 to 25 in the daytime, but much cooler by evening. |
| Enjoy Thailand(泰国)！ When you visit Bangkok in Thailand, don’t miss the early morning river boat trip to the Floating(漂浮) just outside the city. There you will find many kinds of fruits and vegetables. And you can pay for them when you sit in your boat. Don’t forget your hat: the sun can be strong and it may be as hot as 40 at noon. |
| Visit Hawaii！ Maybe the most beautiful place in Hawaii is Kauai. You can visit its long, sandy beaches in the south and west of the island, and mountains and forests in the north, but don’t be surprised if it rains in the centre of the island. Daytime temperatures there are usually around 24 to 26 by the sea, and only a little cooler by late evening. |
The advertisements above are about ______.
| A．shopping | B．food | C．travel | D．hotels |
If you go to Bangkok, you can．
| A．Climb Mountains |
| B．enjoy the scenery of the forests |
| C．live in the Post Hotel |
| D．buy fruits while sitting in your boat |
_____ is one better way to prevent the strong sunshine in Bangkok
| A．Going to the sandy beaches |
| B．wearing a hat |
| C．Climbing up the mountains |
| D．staying in the forests |
Which place will you choose if you want to visit both mountains and beaches?
| A．Soll in Austria. | B．Bangkok in Thailand. |
| C．the Floating Market. | D．Kauai in Hawaii. |
According to(根据) the advertisements, we know that _______.
| A．the hottest travel place is Soll |
| B．maybe it often rains in the centre of Kauai |
| C．the Floating Market is in the middle of Bangkok |
| D．the Post Hotel in Austria is clean but the price is high |
Wu Yifang is a 21-year-old girl from Shantou, China. Now she studies in Britain. One day, when she was taking a train from London to Oxford, she heard loud noises on the train.
Before, the train had been very quiet. Some people were resting while others were reading books or listening to music. Suddenly, a group of Chinese people laughed loudly as they played a game of cards.
“I would usually be very happy to meet people from my own country. But at that moment, I wanted the ground to open up and swallow ( 吞没 ) me.” Zhang said.
As it becomes easier for Chinese people to get visas( 签证) to foreign countries, more and more of them are traveling abroad. However, their bad manners have given them a bad reputation.
A recent U.S. survey of 5,600 people five countries showed that Chinese people are the second worst tourists. The worst are American tourists.
Chinese always talk loudly in places like cafes and museums. They also spit (吐痰 ) and litter whenever they want and jump queues. Some Chinese tourists also like to write or draw pictures on famous buildings. In Singapore, Chinese tourists are fined( 罚款) because they were smoking in Non-smoking areas.
Some people may say that they can do everything that they want because they spend money in the country. In fact, this is not true. Besides enjoying ourselves, we should respect local customs and take care of the environment.
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| The country which Wu Yifang studies in |
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| The game that the Chinese people played on the train |
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| The thing that gives Chinese tourists bad reputation |
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| The worst tourist in those five countries |
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| The reason why Chinese tourists were fined in Singapore |
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