B. It is sold cheaper with less sales cost.
C. Used cars are generally sold at less than 2000 dollars. D. Used car market is bigger than new car market. 【答案】17. C 18. B 19. D 20. B 【解析】
此题为听力题，解析略。 【17题详解】
此题为听力题，解析略。 【18题详解】
此题为听力题，解析略。 【19题详解】
此题为听力题，解析略。 20题详解】
此题为听力题，解析略。
【II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 10% best fits each blank. in the luxury marketplace.
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that
When Jennifer Lawrence tripped on her way to accept her best actress Oscar one
year, her pink princess-like Dior dress ____21____(capture) in all its glory. The unscripted moment became hot topic throughout social media.
That bonus air-time for a single dress at one of the worlds global events is
priceless for the likes of Dior, one of the ____22____(influential) fashion houses
Success on the red carpet can earn exposure and profits for luxury brands for years ____23____(come). The red carpet, which will be televised live before Academy Award ceremony, presents a great opportunity for a designer to reach an audience that
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expands ____24____the fashion setting. The Lawrence dress received about 40 million mentions on various social media.
One way of estimating the monetary benefits of having a standout dress on the red carpet is to compare how much a brand would otherwise spend on commercial advertising during the same time. ____25____Lawrence had only 75 seconds of solo camera time for her Oscar acceptance speech, Dior had to pay more than $4 million for a commercial spot of the same duration on similar occasions. And this didn't include the time ____26____(devote) to Lawrence and her dress on the pre-show televised red carpet. Lawrence, 23, had an advertising contract with Dior. ____27____the group’s deal with Lawrence affected its sales was clearly stated in its annual financial report. That year, the group clothing section’s profits ____28____(total) 165 million euros, up 26 percent from the previous year.
Heston, the founder of a publicity firm, ____29____success stories include introducing Jimmy Choo shoes and designer Saab to Hollywood, believes that the Oscar red carpet is today dominated by established luxury brands. Finding it much more difficult to compete with big brand names to dress super stars on big events, many young designers turn to _____30_____(bet) on promising rising stars, expecting an overnight success if the young stars rise to sudden fame. 【答案】21. was captured 22. most influential 23. to come
24. beyond 25. Although 26. devoted
27. How 28. totaled 29. whose 30. betting 【解析】
本文是一篇时尚类短文阅读。文章主要介绍一些奢侈品牌为了提高自己的知名度和影响力，与走红地毯的大牌明星合作，而一些年轻设计师则把堵住压在有前途的新星身上，希望这些新星声名鹊起之后自己也一夜成名。 【21题详解】
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考查谓语动词。主语dress与capture之间为被动关系，故用被动语态，根据文章可知用过去时态。句意：她那件像公主一样的粉红色迪奥礼服尽显光彩。故填was captured。 【22题详解】
考查形容词最高级。one of 句型中的形容词用最高级形式。句意：在奢侈品市场上，最具影响力的时装公司之一。故填most influential。 【23题详解】
考查非谓语动词。不定式作定语，表示动作未发生。for years to come未来几年。句意：红毯上的成功可以为奢侈品牌赢得未来几年的曝光率和利润。故填to come。 【24题详解】
考查介词。介词beyond表示“超出……之外”。句意：奥斯卡颁奖典礼前的红毯将进行现场直播，这为设计师们提供了一个很好的机会，可以接触到时尚圈之外的观众。故填beyond。 【25题详解】
考查状语从句连词。句意：尽管劳伦斯只有75秒的个人镜头时间来发表奥斯卡获奖感言，迪奥却不得不花费400多万美元在类似的场合拍下同样时长的广告。从句有only，主句中had to表不得不，所以前后句之间为让步关系。故填Although。 【26题详解】
考查非谓语动词。句意：这还不包括劳伦斯和她的礼服亮相电视红毯的时间。短语be devoted to作定语，被动结构，故用过去分词。故填devoted。 【27题详解】
考查主语从句连词。句意：该集团与劳伦斯的交易如何影响其销售额，在其年度财务报告中有明确说明。此处指这次交易如何影响销售，故用连词how。 【28题详解】
考查谓语动词。句意：那一年，集团服装部门的利润总计1.65亿欧元，比前一年增长26%。根据全文可知，动词total用过去时态，主动语态，表示“利润总计为”。故填totaled。 【29题详解】
考查定语从句关系代词。句意：赫斯顿是一家公关公司的创始人，他的成功故事包括把周仰杰(Jimmy Choo)的鞋子和设计师萨博(Saab)介绍给好莱坞。句中先行词为Heston，在非限定性定语从句中作名词success的定语，故用whose。 【30题详解】
考查非谓语动词动名词。前面的turn to的to是介词，后面接动名词形式。bet on sth.主
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动结构。句意：许多年轻的设计师把赌注押在有前途的新星身上，希望这些新星声名鹊起之后自己也一夜成名。故填betting。
Section B.
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
For several decades, various types of artificial intelligence kept shocking the world. Robots could ____31____ people in highly competitive games and then quickly destroyed their human competitors.
AI long ago mastered chess, the Chinese board game Go and even the Rubik's cube, which it managed to solve in just 0.38 second.
Now machines have a new game that will allow them to ____32____ humans: Jenga, the popular game in which players ____33____remove pieces from an increasingly unstable tower of 54 blocks, placing each one on top until the entire structure would ____34____.
A newly released video from MIT shows a robot developed by the school’s engineers playing the game with surprising accuracy. The machine is equipped with a soft gripper(夹子), a force-sensing wrist and an external camera, allowing the robot to detect the tower’s ____35____ the way a human might do
Unlike in purely recognitive tasks or games such as chess or Go, playing the game of Jenga also requires mastery of physical acts such as pushing, pulling, placing, and arranging pieces. It must ____36____ interactive physical operation, where you have to touch the tower to learn how and when to move blocks.
Imitating it is rather difficult, so the robot has to learn in the real world, by working with the real Jenga tower. Recently, a relevant research was published in the journal Science Robotics. Researchers say the robot demonstrates that machines can learn how to perform certain tasks through actual touching instead of relying heavily on visual ____37____. That physical ____38____ is significant, researchers
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