But Goldman wasn’t beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony（假冒的）customers.
As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. But not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
Today’s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman’s original model. Perhaps that’s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.
56. The underlined words “chrome-plate contraptions” in Paragraph 1 refer to ________. （No more than 3 words）
57. What was the purpose of Goldman’s invention? （No more than 10 words）
58. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? （No more than 10 words）
59. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? （No more than 10 words）
60. What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. （No more than 20 words）
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
61. 假设你是晨光中学的学生会主席李华。学生会将举办每年一度的英语演讲比赛，本年度的主题为“The English Novel I Like Best”。作为组织者，你将在演讲比赛开幕时发言，请你根据以下提示用英语写一篇发言稿。
1. 说明比赛的意义，如提高英语听说能力，养成读书的习惯等；
2. 说明比赛的注意事项，如每人演讲不超过5分钟，语言流利，发音准确等； 3. 预祝比赛圆满成功。
注意：
1. 词数：不少于100词；
2. 可适当加入细节，以使行文连贯；
3. 发言稿的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入词数。 Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
Welcome to this year’s English speech competition. _________________________________
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第III卷
第四部分：听力
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面五段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段话后，你将有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例：How much is the shirt? A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.15. C. ￡9.18.
答案是B。
62. What does the man think about the vacation? A. It’ll be a long vacation. B. It’s only a dream.
C. It’ll be great.
63. What will the woman probably do on Saturday evening?
A. Go skating.
B. Call her sister. C. Give a lecture.
64. What does the man suggest to the woman? A. Having a meeting. B. Calling on him. C. Buying a house.
65. Where does the conversation most probably take place? A. In an office. B. In a museum.
C. In a clothing store.
66. What did Alice ask the man to do? A. Borrow some magazines for her.
B. Return some magazines to the library. C. Give some magazines back to her.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面五段材料。每段材料后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段材料前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段材料读两遍。
听下面一段对话，回答第67和第68两个小题。
67. What has the man been doing? A. Writing a book. B. Reading a book.
C. Advertising a book.
68. What is the man’s response to the woman’s suggestion? A. He doesn’t take it seriously. B. He has rejected it. C. He has accepted it.
听下面一段对话，回答第69至第71三个小题。
69. Where does this conversation take place? A. At a railway station. B. At a coach station.
C. At an airport.(www.yywords.com)
70. How many suitcases does the woman have altogether? A. Three. B. Two. C. One.
71. What do we learn about the woman? A. She has bought a return ticket.
B. She has taken this trip before. C. She has lost one suitcase.
听下面一段对话，回答第72至第74三个小题。
72. What is the problem with the woman’s watch?
A. It needs cleaning. B. It is ruined by water. C. It needs a new battery.
73. What does the shop offer if one changes a battery there? A. A free battery.
B. One-year guarantee. C. Free cleaning service.
74. Why can’t the woman have her watch repaired right away? A. The man can’t fix it at the moment.
B. The woman doesn’t have enough money on her. C. There is no right battery in the shop now.
听下面一段对话，回答第75至第78四个小题。
75. Which of the following is TRUE about the man? A. He has lost interest in jazz.
B. He works in the Student Center.
C. He is a full-time student.
76. Why did the man decide not to stay with the band? A. He didn’t like the bandleader. B. He was too busy to make it. C. He wanted to join a better band.
77. What role did the man probably play in the band? A. A guitarist. B. A pianist.
C. A singer.
78. What suggestion does the woman give to the man? A. Organizing a new band. B. Joining a new band. C. Giving up performing.
听下面一段独白，回答第79至第81三个小题。
79. How many points does a misspelled word cost? A. 2 points. B. 3 points. C. 5 points.
80. What are the students going to do on Friday? A. Read a short story. B. Take a major test. C. Write an essay.
81. When was this lecture given? A. On Monday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Friday.
2009年天津高考英语试题
