单选题Over the Thanksgiving weekend, people bought a lot more than usual becauseA Wal-Mart and Target offered birds as gifts.B shopping was the major weekend activity.C they were allowed special discounts.

Over a holiday weekend, a certain car dealer sold off 4 of the cars on its lot. If the cars sold for an average of $6,000 each, how many cars were on the dealer's lot at the beginning of the weekend?

(1) The average value of the remaining cars on the lot is $5,000.

(2) The car dealer made $48,000 in car sales over the weekend.

CYBER MONDAY CLICKS IN WITH RECORD SALES Cyber Monday rocked while mobile sales roared. The day widely regarded as the Super Bowl of online sales created a record day for retailers, including Walmart, and marked a shift in shopping preferences as smartphones and tablets drove nearly a third of traffic — and for some retailers, more than half.? W expects to register its biggest Cyber Monday yet, coming off a record Black Friday weekend online. Heading into the afternoon Monday, the website had already sold out of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, which weren't even discounted. Significant savings on TVs and tablets also encouraged shopping, says Joel Anderson, CEO of W. Retailers from Target to Sears are fast evolving Cyber Monday into something more akin to Cyber Week, as online deals stretch well beyond Monday. As of 6 p.m. ET, sales on Amazon were up 44.3% over last year, while sales at eBay were up 32.1%, according to Channel Advisor, which tracks third-party sellers on eBay and Amazon. The online marketplaces are doing well in part because shoppers are heading to those sites to find popular products that are selling out at regular retailers, says Scot Wingo, CEO of Channel Advisor. Flash-sale site Rue La La started Cyber Monday deals on Sunday with a “Cyberthon” that drew more than 350,000 people to the site. The sale promoted as much as 80% off on more than 150 brands. On Monday, sales of Cole Haan and Pandora Jewelry merchandise were strongest, CEO Steve Davis says.

1. Retailers used mobile devices and drove nearly a third of traffic, or even more than half to online shopping. As we know that doesn't belong to the mobile device.()

A. tablets

B. smartphones

C. personal computer

2. PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles were sold out on the afternoon Monday although they weren't even discounted.()

A. eB

B. W

C. A

3. According to sales on Amazon were up 44.3% over last year, while sales at eBay were up 32.1%.()

A. Walmart

B. Rue La La

C. Channel Advisor

4. Cyber Monday deals on Sunday with a “Cyberthon” that drew more than people to the site. ()

A. 350,000

B. 35,000

C. 3,500,000

5. We can infer from the passage _____ isn't an online retailer. ()

A. Sears

B. Channel Advisor

C. Walmart

A dream is one kind of experience.It seems as real as something that actually happens; in it the dreamer takes actions and reacts.During dreams the body is asleep but the thinking part of the brain is wide awake.In fact, it is more active than it sometimes is when the body is awake.

One group of researchers decided to see what would happen if they stopped people from dreaming.As soon as the electroencephalograph (脑电图仪) registered a dream pattern, researchers woke the dreamer.They did this all night for several nights, every time the person started to dream.

The experiment revealed that people who were unable to dream became nervous, easily upset, and hungrier.As soon as they were able to sleep without interruptions they lost their nervousness and became normal again; however, they then had more dreams than usual.It was as if they were catching up on their dreams.

To check these findings, the researchers carried on a control experiment.Again they woke people during the night, but during non-dreaming periods.These people did not change their daytime behavior.And when they were allowed to sleep without interruptions (打断), the number of their dreams did not increase.

Experiments like these have caused scientists to ask if dreams serve a purpose.Researchers know, for example, that some people who go for days without sleep will suffer from hallucinations (幻觉).Certain people even begin to show signs of mental illness.Some researchers believe that people become this way because they cannot have their usual numbers of dreams.According to this theory dreaming helps people to lead normal lives.

1).This passage is mainly about ________.

A.people’s need for dreams

B.the damage dreams do to people’s health

C.dreams and realities

D.the relationship between dreams and diseases

2).According to the passage, dreams ________ .

A.are considered to be people’s real experiences

B.help cure people of nervousness and mental illness

C.happen in the thinking part of the brain

D.cannot go on as before after the dreamer is woken

3).People who slept with interrupted dreams showed signs of the following sufferings EXCEPT________ .

A.nervousness

B.anxiety

C.hunger

D.sleepiness

4).When people were woken during non-dreaming periods, they ________.

A.suffered from hallucinations

B.felt upset and nervous

C.had more dreams than usual

D.remained normal in their daytime behavior

5).The sentence “It was as if they were catching up on their dreams” in Para.3 probably means ________.

A.they seemed to do as their dreams dad told them to

B.they seemed to make up for the losses of dreams

C.they seemed to dream less because of the interruptions

D.they seemed to sleep more after the interruptions

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阅读下面短文,并按照题目要求用英语回答问题.

Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(购物手推车). They will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging(吃力地携带) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman’s first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn’t wait to see them using his invention.

But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try.

After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren’t using his carts. “Don’t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?” one shopper replied.

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)

A、staffed

B、stuffing

C、stuffed

D、staffing

30． Radio is used a lot because__________ _．

A．it costs less than TV

B．it costs more than TV

C．it is not so cheap as TV

D． people can't know the news on TV

A、got by

B、got at

C、got up

D、got over

A、wasting, making

B、waste, make

C、to waste, make

D、a waste of, making

A technician receives a call on monday morning that several computers will not connect to the network.The technician determines that the computers left on over the weekend are functional and those that were turned off over the weekend are not functioning.Which of the following is the MOST likely source of the problem?（）

A.DHCP is not functioning.

B.WINS needs to be restarted.

C.DNS is not functioning.

D.LDAP is not functioning.