in fact, at times I have spent as long as three weeks alone at home, going out only to
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was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs.He was drawing excessively fine distinctions.Of course advertising seeks to persuade.If its message were confined merely to information-and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve,for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive-advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention.But perhaps that is what the well-know television personality wants.
6.By the first sentence of the passage the author means that().
A.he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising
B.everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming
C.advertising costs money like everything else
D.it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising
7.The phrase“live up to" in Line 3,Paragraph 2 can be replaced by().
A.survive
B.complement
C.agree with
D.carry on
8.In the passage,which of the following is NOT included in the advantages of advertising?()
A.Securing greater fame
B.Providing more jobs
C.Enhancing living standards
D.Reducing newspaper cost.
9.The author deems that the well-known TV personality is ().
A.very precise in passing his judgment on advertising
B.interested in nothing but the buyer‘s attention
C.correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information
D.obviously partial in his views on advertising
10.In the author‘s opinion.()
A.advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing information
B.advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over
C.there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer
D.the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement
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A.fec
B.fect
C.fact
D.fag
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Ironically,it is often success that leads people to flirt with failure.Praise won for _ 28_a skillsuddenly puts one in the position of having everything to lose.Rather than putting their reputation on theline again,many successful people develop a handicap—drinking,_ 29_,depression—that allowsthem to keep their status no matter what the future brings. An advertising executive 30_ fordepression shortly after winning an award put it this way:“Without my depression,I'd be a failure now;with it,I'm a success 'on hold.’”
In fact,the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those 31 _ with success.Such people are so afraid of being 32a failure at anything that they constantly develop onehandicap or another in order to explain away failure.
Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performance anxiety now and then,in the end,researchers say,it will lead to_ 33_. In the long run,excuse makers fail to live up to theirtrue_ 34_and lose the status they care so much about. And despite their protests to the _35they have only themsclves to blame.
A) contrary F) labeled K) potential
B) fatigue G) legacies L) rcalms
C) heavily H) mastering M) reciprocal
D) heaving l) momentum N) ruin
E) hospitalized J) obsessed o) viciously
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A.Los Angeles Times
B.The New York Times
C.The Washington Post
D.Time
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In previous times, when fresh meat was in short _______, pigeons were kept by many households as a source of food.
A) store B) provision C) reserve D) supply
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r war would be madness does not mean that it will not occur.
A) what B) which C) that D) why
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