福建省泉州市惠安县2020-2021学年高一英语“达利杯”学科素养竞赛试
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第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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Independence is something that can be difficult to achieve. But don’t worry because here we have four books that can help you. If you don’t buy less than three of them, you’ll be given a 20% discount!
The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
Taking care of your finance is hard. Dave Ramsey, a famous businessman, is here to take you on the whole process of planning your finance, and show the myths of cash advances and debt consolidation (债务重整), to make sure your finance is healthy.
Price: $14.49
Grace’s Guide by Grace Helbig
Grace Helbig shared her tips to becoming a grown-up. The book is full of personal stories of Helbig, her struggles and the lessons she learnt from failing many times. This book is your on-the-go fun read with pictures and drawings of Helbig, and worksheets (作记录) to practice.
Price: $7.95
The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela Liddon
Having suffered from eating disorder and living on diet, Angela Liddon promised to eat healthily forever. She threw out her fat-free butter spray (黄油喷雾) and low-calorie frozen
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dinners after learning how to properly cook. This book contains more than 100 recipes (食谱) covering breakfast, salads, soups, power snacks and the main dishes for a healthy meal at any time of the day. We all know that healthy eating is all part of being independent.
Price: $22.22
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Life can be hard, especially when it comes to relationships with others. In the book, Strayed gives advice on love and life. She writes about different subjects: a son rejected by his parents, a mother who has lost her child. And the message hidden throughout all her advice is always that, if you want a good life, you have to create it.
Price: $8.76
1. How much will you save at least if you buy three of the listed books? A. $5.68.
B. $6.24.
C. $8.95.
D. $9.10.
2. What is special for the book Grace’s Guide?
A. It is about how to grow up healthily. B. It is mainly about how to work better. C. It is based on its author’s life experience
D. It teaches readers to learn from others’ life stories.
3. Which book should you choose for someone who is bad at getting along with others?
A. Grace’s Guide.
C. The Total Money Makeover.
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Thousands of people have headed to an area in the western United States to search for a hidden treasure. A wealthy art collector and businessman from the area named Forrest Fenn
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B. Tiny Beautiful Things. D. The Oh she Glows Cookbook. says he hid the treasure. The searchers follow nine clues(线索) from a poem that Fenn wrote. They consider the poem their “treasure map”.
The treasure hunters believe the prize could be hidden in an area that starts in New Mexico and stretches all the way to the northern state of Montana. Many believe the treasure is real. Others, however, think it does not exist.
An estimated 350, 000 hunters from around the world have come to the area seeking the treasure. One of them is Sacha Johnston. She is a single mother. “I have been hunting for the treasure for five years and I’m not regretful about my choice.” Johnston said. She thinks she has made good progress on guessing some of the clues. So, she’s happy and has kept her search going.
Forrest Fenn spoke to VOA from his home in Santa Fe. The house is filled with priceless art pieces collected over his lifetime. He talked about volunteering to fight in the Vietnam War in 1968 and narrowly escaping death several times during his service.
Fenn said doctors found cancer in his body in 1988 and told him he only had about six months to live. So he decided to put pieces of gold, jewels and other valuables in a bronze box and leave it for others to enjoy after he was gone. But Fenn ended up beating cancer. Years later, in 2010, he decided to hide the box. “I wanted to give people something to look forward to and everyone is hopeful.” he said.
When asked whether he thinks people are close to finding the treasure, Fenn said he really has no idea. “It is possible my treasure box could be found this afternoon, or it could be 100 years or 500 years. Who knows?” he said.
4. According to the first two paragraphs, what can we learn about the treasure hunt?
A. The clues are hidden in nine poems. B The searching area is very large. C. Only a few people have taken part in it.
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D. Most people don’t believe the treasure exists. 5. How does Sacha Johnston feel about her hunt?
A. She is uncertain about her hunt. B. She in tired of her hunt C. She is satisfied with her hunt. D. She is relaxed by her hunt.
6. Why did Forest Fenn start the treasure hunt?
A. To bring people a goal as well as hope. B. To celebrate his recovery from cancer. C. To let more people know about his poems D. To draw people’s attention to war survivors
C
Over the past months, dozens of carmakers have launched models online, and tens of thousands of dealerships across the country are selling cars via livestreaming (直播）.
As Chinese customers always have their smart phones at their side, they have been accustomed to shopping online. Moreover, the sales are made better received by virtual showrooms where customers can see the vehicles and interact (互动）in real-time about their prices and equipment.
To cater to the new trend,car salespeople need new skills in this world.Good product knowledge remains the basis,but if you want to be successful,you have to appear in livestreams like a type of TV presenter.
“Car salespeople are becoming entertainers, “said Michael Mayer, head of sales and marketing for Volkswagen brand in China. “The competition is tough, “he added. “Those who want to be found must always offer something new.”
The contest soon escalated. In March, British brand Land Rover came up with a 30-hour
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livestreaming event, during which its new Discovery Sport was launched. GM’ s Cadillac invited online celebrities (名人）to help sell vehicles in April.
In China, a young man named Li Jiaqi is believed to know lipstick better than anyone else. Almost every night, millions of girls and ladies wait for him to appear online and introduce new lipsticks. Li was invited in April to help market Cadillac’s CT4. Despite the huge number of online viewers, none of them placed an order on the vehicle priced around 200,000 yuan.
Another online celebrity named Weiya helped attract orders for Roewe RX5 plus: 4,180 were sold in 30 seconds. The key, said industry insiders, was the discount. Christine, a marketing manager of an international carmaker tells China Daily that she believes livestreaming with online celebrities won’t help sales. “In fact, if you give dealers the same discount, they may sell even faster,” she said. “A lipstick is affordable for anyone, while a car is different. But bosses do not want their brands to remain silent, especially when others are seemingly having a good time.”
Some bosses decided to try it themselves. Nio Chairman Li Bin explained products. The 40-minute live show on May 18 brought in a total of 320 orders, 5,288 test-drive appointments and sales valuing 128 million yuan. Orders continued to grow after the show and sales reached nearly 150 million yuan by the next day. WM President Shen Hui rapped (交谈) unskillfully. Its online launch on May 10 obtained 1,400 million views. In two days it received over 4,000 orders, and more than 30,000 people showed interest in the model.
He Xiaopeng, founder of Xpeng Motor, said “Many people ask me when Xpeng will do livestreaming. I am worried that it will become a data-falsifying (伪造数据) show. Everyone knows that the data is exaggerated（夸张）. But if you do not do it, you will feel you fall behind.”
Mayer said digitalization will continue, but that does not mean Volkswagen will make online sales the standard. He said it is more important to digitalize further process steps and thus work in a more customer-friendly and cost-effective manner.
7. Why is selling cars via livestreaming so popular according to the passage?
A. It is an avoidable trend that all car companies applaud. B. Companies can make the biggest profit via livestreaming.
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福建省泉州市惠安县2020_2021学年高一英语“达利杯”学科素养竞赛试题
