[外语类试卷]BFT阅读(综合)模拟试卷13及答案与解析.doc
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1、BFT阅读(综合)模拟试卷 13及答案与解析 一、 Part 1 0 McDonalds domestic troubles arent exactly new. Competitors, including Pizz Hut and Taco Bell, began nibbling at McDonalds market share in the late eighties.【 R1】_Theres even evidence that McDonalds has been slipping in areas it once dominated. A 1995 Restaurants an
2、d Institutions Choice in Chains survey of 2849 adults gave McDonalds low marks on food quality, value, service and cleanliness. 【 R2】_ 【 R3】 _Put simply, because it could. After all, as a company, and a stock, McDonalds is really an international story. Its global operations in 96 countries are the
3、real attraction, feeding 47% of the companys $30 billion sales and 54% of profits. 【 R4】 _ Brisk overseas business, however, has only magnified the chains U.S. blues. 【 R5】_ McDonalds started hawking Extra Value Meals in 1991, largely to keep up with Taco Bells value pricing.【 R6】 _and “the super-lo
4、w price promotions werent driving customers into the store any longer,“ notes David Adelman, a Dean Witter Reynolds analyst. So the new, adult-oriented Deluxe line is not only supposed to win back older chowhounds; its also aimed at bumping prices back up.【 R7】 _its a lot of pressure to put on a bun
5、ch of burgers, especially given the problems McDonalds has had expanding its menus in recent years. At least some industry experts question whether McDonalds may be making a fundamental marketing mistake with its new emphasis on adult customers. 【 R8】_ A. And within the burger segment, where growth
6、in the nineties has slowed to about 5% annually, Arch reveals like Burger King have managed sales gains for three years running B. McDonalds found that discounting a tactic the company tried reluctantly failed to revive per-store sales. C. So why did McDonalds wait so long to attack its domestic pro
7、blem head-on. D. For the most part, McDonalds has those unsatiated foreign appetites to thank for its 126 consecutive quarters of record earnings. E. There is a chance, after all, that the “grownup“ theme including commercial that show kids grimacing at the sight of an Arch Deluxe could backfire. F.
8、 But by mid-1995, the value concept had evolved to straight discounting. G. The chicken, fish, and beef sandwiches cost about 20% more than “classic menu“ items. H. Top honors instead went to Wendys. 1 【 R1】 2 【 R2】 3 【 R3】 4 【 R4】 5 【 R5】 6 【 R6】 7 【 R7】 8 【 R8】 8 St. Paul didnt like it.【 R1】 _Hesi
9、od declared it “mischievous“ and “hard to get rid of it“, but Oscar Wilder said, “Gossip is charming.“ “History is merely gossip,“ he wrote in one of his famous plays. “ But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.“ In times past, under Jewish law, gossipmongers might be fined or flogged. The Pur
10、itans put them in stocks or ducking stools, but no punishment seemed to have the desired effect of preventing gossip, which has continued uninterrupted across the back fences of the centuries. 【 R2】 _Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, even evolutionary biologists are concluding that gossip m
11、ay not be so bad after all. Gossip is “ an intrinsically valuable activity,“ philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Zeev states in a book he has edited, entitled Good Gossip. For one thing, gossip helps us acquire information that we need to know that doesnt come through ordinary channels, such as: “What wa
12、s the real reason so-and-so was fired from the office?“【 R3】 _It is “a kind of sharing“ that also “satisfies the tribal need namely, the need to belong to and be accepted by a unique group.“ 【 R4】 _ Another gossip groupie, Dr. Ronald De Sousa, a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto,
13、describes gossip basically as a form of indiscretion and a “saintly virtue“, by which he means that the knowledge spread by gossip will usually end up being slightly beneficial. 【 R5】 _ Still, everybody knows that gossip can have its ill effects, especially on the poor wretch being gossiped about. 【
14、 R6】 _ By the way, there is also an interesting strain of gossip called medical gossip, which in its best form, according to researchers Jerry M. Suls and Franklin Goodkin, can motivate people with symptoms of serious illness, but who are unaware of it, to seek medical help. 【 R7】 _But remember, if(
15、as often is the case among gossipers)you should suddenly become one of the gossipees instead, it is best to employ the foolproof defense recommended by Plato, who may have learned the lesson from Socrates, who as you know was the victim of gossip spread that he was corrupting the youth of Athens: Wh
16、en men speak ill of thee, so live that nobody will believe them. 【 R8】 _ A. Moses warned his people against it. B. “It seems likely that a world in which all information were universally available would be preferable to a world where immense power resides in the control of secrets,“ he writes. C. To
17、day, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light. D. And people should refrain from certain kinds of gossip that might be harmful, even though the ducking stool is long out of fashion. E. Gossip also is a form of social bonding, Dr. Ben-Zeev says. F. Whats more, t
18、he professor notes, “Gossip is enjoyable.“ G. Or, as Will Rogers said, “Live so that you wouldnt be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.“ H. So go ahead and gossip. 9 【 R1】 10 【 R2】 11 【 R3】 12 【 R4】 13 【 R5】 14 【 R6】 15 【 R7】 16 【 R8】 16 The basic problem of an economic society is
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