Why is pushing one’s way through a crowd considered quite rude in the U.S.？

Why did the man return the shirt？

A．It was damaged.

B．It was the wrong size.

C．It was the wrong style.

D．It was similar to ones he has.

The reason why employers are unwilling to keep older workers is that______.

A．they are generally difficult to manage

B．the longer they work) the higher their pension

C．their pay is higher than that of younger ones

D．younger workers are readily available

Why was it possible for these ancient trees let more light through than modern ones？

A．Because they were closely spaced, only 3 to 16 feet apart.

B．Because they were smaller plants and shrubs.

C．Because their branches did not fan out as far as to form. a shape like umbrella.

D．Because they had very small leaves like that of fern and dropped easily.

Why does the author quote the example of Lenovo in the passage？

A．It shows its great success in global business.

B．It shows great confidence to buy the best-known companies.

C．It is among the Fortune 500 rankings list.

D．It shows developing countries may overrun developed ones in global business.

use secondary ones？

A．Production costs do not include the true costs of environmental impact.

B．There axe subsidies to virgin materials.

C．Using virgin materials can protect environment.

D．The secondary materials are more expensive.

Why did the woman want to buy new shoes？

A．Because she wanted to go to a party.

B．Because she thought the old ones were too old.

C．Because she wanted to wear casual shoes.

D．Because the shop assistant said the old ones were too old.

A、imperative

B、technology

C、self-awareness

D、demographic changes

Why does the man want to buy the blue one？

A．It's nice and cheaper.

B．His son likes the color.

C．There aren't any black ones left.

ich Bette Davis and Paul Henreid showed how to make and seal a romantic deal over a pair of cigarettes that were smoldering as much as the stars. Today cigarettes are more common on screen than at any other time since midcentury: 75% of all Hollywood films—including 36% of those rated G or PG—show tobacco use, according to a 2006 survey by the University of California, San Francisco.

Audiences, especially kids, are taking notice. Two recent studies, published in Lancet and Pediatrics, have found that among children as young as 10, those exposed to the most screen smoking are up to 2.7 times as likely as others to pick up the habit. Worse, it's the ones from nonsmoking homes who are hit the hardest. Now the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)—the folks behind the designated-driver campaign—are pushing to get the smokes off the screen. "Some movies show kids up to 14 incidents of smoking per hour", says Barry Bloom, HSPH's dean. "We're in the business of preventing disease, and cigarettes are the No. 1 preventable cause".

Harvard long believed that getting cigarettes out of movies could have as powerful an effect, but it wouldn't be easy. Cigarette makers had a history of striking product-placement deals with Hollywood, and while the 1998 tobacco settlement prevents that, nothing stops directors from incorporating smoking into scenes on their own. In 1999 Harvard began holding one-on-one meetings with studio execs trying to change that, and last year the Motion Picture Association of America flung the door open, inviting Bloom to make a presentation in February to all the studios. Harvard's advice was direct: Get the butts entirely out, or at least make smoking unappealing.

A few films provide a glimpse of what a no-smoking or low-smoking Hollywood would be like. Producer Lindsay Doran, who once helped persuade director John Hughes to keep Ferris Bueller smoke-free in the 1980s hit, wanted to do the same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played by Emma Thompson had to smoke, Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it's clear the glamour's gone. And remember all the smoking in The Devil Wears Prada？ No？ That's because the producers of that film kept it out entirely—even in a story that travels from the US fashion world to Paris, two of the most tobacco-happy places on earth. "No one smoked in that movie", says Doran, "and no one noticed".

Such movies are hardly the rule, but the pressure is growing. Like smokers, studios may conclude that quitting the habit is not just a lot healthier but also a lot smarter.

Why the author mentioned Now, Voyager？

A．Smoke on screen can make romance.

B．To show American screen was full of cigarette smoke.

C．To explain why cigarettes are easier to get than past.

D．The romantic Hollywood movie is a typical example of smoky screen.

请在第_____处填上正确答案。

A. Survey found that 79 percent of parents of young athletes wanted their children to concentrate on one sports．

B. The young soccer organization has teams for children as young as five．

C. Many of them completely lose interest in sports．

D. Sports for children have two important purposes．

E. But what about the others，the average kids？

F. Very young kids don’t know why their parents are pushing them so hard？