题目
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and count out change in return— now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters,like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink (眨眼) of an eye? Doesn’t a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters?
But I’ll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone of an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as pebble (鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.
56. What is happening to the wallet?
A) It is disappearing. C) it is becoming costly.
B) It is being fattened. D) It is changing in style.
57. How are business transactions done in big modern stores?
A) Individually. C) In the abstract.
B) Electronically. D) Via a cash register.
58. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A) Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
B) The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
C) Earning money is getting more difficult.
D) Spending money is so fast and easy.
59. Why does the author choose to write about what’s happening to the wallet?
A) It represents a change in the modern world.
B) It has something to do with everybody’s life.
C) It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D) It is the concern of contemporary economists.
60.What can we infer from the passage about the author?
A)He is resistant to social changes.
B)He is against technological progress.
C)He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.
D)He fells insecure in the ever-changing modern world.
第1题
What is happening to the wallet?
A) It is disappearing.
B) It is being fattened.
C) it is becoming costly.
D) It is changing in style.
第2题
Why does the author choose to write about what’s happening to the wallet?
A) It represents a change in the modern world.
B) It has something to do with everybody’s life.
C) It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.
D) It is the concern of contemporary economists.
第4题
关于促进寿险公司电话营销业务规范发展的通知中,电话销售人员在销售过程中应将()等内容明确告知投保人。同时应向客户明确说明有关()的事项,并提醒客户在收到保单时仔细阅读该部分内容。
A、姓名、所属保险公司或合作机构名称
B、客服电话、产品名称
C、保障范围、保险期间
D、犹豫期
E、责任免除
F、保险费、保险金额
G、缴费方式、扣款时间
H、保单生效日、保单送达方式
第6题
A.’Whose wallet is it
B.’Whose ˋwallet is it
C.’Whose ’wallet ˋis it
D.’Whose ’wallet is ˋit
第7题
He was totally not aware when the thief ______ his wallet from him.
A.tricked
B.stole
C.robbed
D.deceived
第8题
()是具有实物形态的电子钱包
A、Microsoft Wallet
B 、Mondex 卡
C、Consumer Wallet
D 、Agile Wallet
第9题
The thief took away the girl’s wallet without____.
A、being seen
B、seeing
C、him seeing
D、seeing him
第10题
下列属于电子现金的是()
A、WorldPay
B、Mondex卡
C、Microsoft Wallet
D、Agile Wallet
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