《大学英语三》作业及参考答案(6)

陕师大网络教育第一次作业

fastest growing businesses.

What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international businessmen or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples — people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.

One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.

6. Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?

A. Selling home furnishings.

B. Renting furnished apartments.

C. Selling used furniture.

D. Renting home furnishings.

7. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?

A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new.

B. Because it saves them a lot of money.

C. Because it saves them much trouble and money.

D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.

8. What can you infer from the passage?

A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.

B. Renting furniture is still not popular with the majority of Americans.

C. Only those who don’t have enough money rent furniture.

D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.

9. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?

A. Rent or Buy? B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings

C. Furnished Apartments D. A New Idea

10. Young people like renting home furniture in that_________

A. They have less money.

B. They don’t want to buy old furniture.

C. The new furniture is of good quality.

D. They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture.

Passage 3

Spending 50 minutes with a cell phone close to your ear is enough to change brain cell activity in the part of the brain closest to the antenna(天线). But whether that causes any harm is not clear, scientists at the National Institute of Health said at a conference last month, adding that the study will not likely settle concerns of a link between cell phones and brain cancer. “What we

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