3 Palace Station Hotel
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Palace Station is one of many station casinos and hotels in Las Vegas, so they know how to treat their guests to an incredible stay. Located just west of the Las Vegas strip over the 1-15 overpass … “ Good weekend getaway
It was a very nice hotel. It was very clean place to stay for the weekend of my marine corps ball. It was not too far from the strip which is where my ball was located. I would recommend this place ... ”
4 Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
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Las Vegas has many themed casinos, but the Venetian Resort Hotel succeeds in transporting you to the Italian canals of Venice well, almost whether you are taking a ride on a gondola, enjoying live … “ Birthday trip
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70. Where can find this information?
A. The travel agency’s leaflet C. www.USAtour.com
B. The Global Traveler Magazine D. Advertisement
71. Which of the following is not true?
A. Circus Circus is the cheapest one among the four hotels.
B. Living in Venetian Resort Hotel Casino enables you to travel to Venice for free.
C. Emmanuel. M was quite satisfied with both the environment and the location of the hotel he lived in.
D. Luxor Hotel and Casino has a very special appearance.
72. If you care a lot about the service, but have a tight budget, which hotel will you choose?
A. Luxor Hotel and Casino
B. Venetian Resort Hotel Casino D. Palace Station Hotel
C. Circus Circus Hotel and Casino
C
Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is widespread in our young girls’ lives. It is not that pink inherently(内在地) bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly blends girls’ identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the extreme lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.
Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it's not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What's more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a delicate version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations(暗示) of the Virgin Mary(圣母玛利亚), constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity(女性化). It was not until the mid-1980s, when enlarged age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive
to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.
I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends influenced our perception of what is natural to relatives, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Taking the toddler as an example, I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children's behaviour: wrong. It turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.
Trade publications counseled(劝告) department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a \\学步的小孩) became common shoppers' term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a safe way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to cut up a market is to magnify gender differences – or invent them where they did not previously exist.
73. By saying \
A. should not be the sole representation of girlhood B. should not be associated with girls' innocence C. cannot explain girls' lack of imagination D. cannot influence girls' lives and interests 74. What does the word “encode” in Para. 2 refer to?
A. discovered B. programmed C. marked D. sealed
75. The author suggests that our perception of children's psychological development was much influenced by_____.
A. the marketing of products for children B. the observation of children's nature C. researches into children's behavior
D. studies of childhood consumption
76. We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to _____. A. focus on infant wear and older kids' clothes B. attach equal importance to different genders C. classify consumers into smaller groups
D. create some common shoppers' terms
77. It can be concluded that girls' attraction to pink seems to be ____. A. clearly explained by their inborn tendency B. fully understood by clothing manufacturers C. mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen
D. well interpreted by psychological experts Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from agriculture. Food riots(暴乱) and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields(产量) of some of the world’s major crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans. They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world’s most populous countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soybeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soybeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”
The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organization has argued.
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