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　　For several years, Americans have enjoyed tele-shopping-watching TV and buying things by phone. Now tele-shopping is starting in Europe. In some 1 countries, people can turn on their 2 and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and things.Tele-shopping is becoming popular in Sweden. 4 , the biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in fifteen European countries, and in one year, it makes $ 100 million. In France, there are two tele-shopping channels, and the French 5 about $ 20 million a year buying things through those channels.

　　In Germany, 6 last year tele-shopping was only possible on one channel for one hour every day. The government allowed more tele-shopping. Other channels can 7 for telebusiness, including the largest American telescoping company and a 24-hour telescoping company， German 8 are hoping these will help them sell more things.

   Some people like telescoping because it allows them to do their shopping without 9 . With all the traffic problems in cities, going shopping is not an easy thing. But at the same time, other Europeans 10 like this new way of buying things. They call 11 “junk on the air.” Many Europeans usually worry about the quality of the things 12 on TV. They think high quality is the most important thing, and they don't believe they can be sure about the quality of the things 13

　　The need of high quality means that European tele-shopping companies will have to be 14 the American companies. They will have to be more careful about 15 of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers can not touch or see by themselves.

(1)

[　　]

A. European

B. Asian

C. American

D. African

(2)

[　　]

A. lights

B. switches

C. radios

D. TVs

(3)

[　　]

A. some else

B. another many

C. the other

D. many other

(4)

[　　]

A. Such as

B. For example

C. For telescoping

D. It is like

(5)

[　　]

A. takes

B. cost

C. spends

D. spend

(6)

[　　]

A. to

B. until

C. unless

D. by

(7)

[　　]

A. begin

B. leave

C. open

D. turn on

(8)

[　　]

A. people

B. women

C. businessmen

D. officials

(9)

[　　]

A. to go out

B. going out

C. to buy things

D. buying things

(10)

[　　]

A. still

B. don't

C. even

D. won't

(11)

[　　]

A. telescoping

B. TV

C. radio

D. telephone

(12)

[　　]

A. appearing

B. coming out

C. for sale

D. to buy

(13)

[　　]

A. in the shop

B. on TV

C. they bought

D. by this way

(14)

[　　]

A. the same with

B. different from

C. as big as

D. larger than

(15)

[　　]

A. the number

B. the quality

C. the places

D. the buyers

Answer 1

答案：A;D;D;B;D;B;C;C;B;B;A;C;B;B;B
解析：

(1) A 根据前面一句，意为“在一些欧洲国家”，所以选A。 (2) D “打开电视机”。 (3) D “和很多其他的东西”，所以选many other)  (4) B “举例说明”之意。 (5) D 指法国人，为复数形式，所以用spend。 (6) B “直到去年”之意。 (7) C 根据句意来判断。 (8) C 显然只能是“商人”。 (9) B without为介词，后面接动词-ing形式；而D显然是错的。 (10) B 和前面形成对比，but表示转折，所以此处意为人们“不喜欢”。 (11) A 只能选A。 (12) C 他们担心卖出商品的质量。 (13) B 他们没有亲眼看见，只是在电视上看见，所以担心质量。 (14) B be different from“与……不同”之意。 (15) B 不得不更关心卖出商品的质量，联系第四段来看。