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Remember when a trip to the supermarket was nothing more than a boring thing requiring little or no specialized knowledge? You could send your kids into a cart while you did shopping. You always bought the same brands, usually the brands your mother bought. You didn’t know about unit pricing, and fur¬thermore, you didn’t care. It never occurred to you to read the labels on anything. After all, you’ d bought these things a hundred times.

But now, I really look on those days with a feeling of yearn （怀旧). How innocent we were! How carefree were those trips to the supermarket. No worries. Today a trip to the supermarket is filled with social influence. Every time I buy pork chops I think about the years I’ m shaving from my life. I keep a careful eye on the freshness date and examine the tamper - proof packaging. I am victim of that most dan¬gerous social disease: shoppers’ panic.
I didn’t realize how serious my condition had become until the last time I needed laundry soap. It seemed simple enough. Just run into the market, grab a box of the old reliable and pay for it. I hadn’t planned on discovering Ecover, a new brand of laundry soap. It sat quietly on the shelf right next to my old reliable. “Healthy, hentle but effective.” My respect for it deepened with each new claim as I read the entire package. Then I looked at the price: $5.69 for2 pound. $5.69! I cast a quick glance at the old reliable, still on sale for $ 1.39
Six bucks for laundry soap! These people must be crazy! Who’s going to pay six bucks for laundry soap? It’s not as though I can’t afford it. See, it’s concentrated—use less, get more. BUT SIX BUCKS! And the box is made from recycled materials.... This act went on for a solid half hour, after which I left the shelf without any soap at all.

Surely the meat department is most threatening place. Remember what protein was good for you? That’ s all over. Every bite you take kills you. I won’ t even mention meat’ s moral influence.
When all is said and done, we still must eat. I gather up my healthy -cooking oil and my recycled paper towels and head to the checkout counter.
71. In the first paragraph, the author mainly wants to tell us that in the past
 A. it was convenient to go shopping in the supermarket
B. shopping in the supermarket was a very boring thing
C. we never read the labels of commodities in the supermarket
D. we used to buy the same brands of products in the supermarket
72.Recalling the old days’ shopping in the supermarket, the author thinks it was _____.
 A. pleasant B. fresh C. dangerous D. crazy
73. According to the author, eating pork chops will mean that _____
 A. you must have a shave after that B. you should think of the old days
 C  you are killing yourself slowly D. you must go on diet after that
74. In the supermarket, the author was attracted by a new brand of laundry soap for its _______
 A. price B. claim C. package D. shape
75. According to the passage, what’s the author’s problem?
A. She was too poor to afford the new brands in the supermarket.
B. She could not find the right laundry soap in the supermarket.
C. She had to use the most healthy things for her poor health.
D. She was greatly affected by the social influence.
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第四部分：书面表达（共两节，35分）
第一节 情景作文（20分）
根据下面表格所提供的信息，写一篇介绍澳大利亚和新西兰这两个国家异同的短文。
Aspects Australia New Zealand
Land form two islands two islands
Location South Pacific South Pacific
Language English English
Sheep industry large sheep population and wool industry large sheep population and wool industry

Population about 20, 000, 000 about 4, 500, 000
Area large not as large as Australia

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第二节开放作文（满分15分）
阅读下面所提供的情景，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。

Two Chinese astronauts were safely back on Earth after their Sherizhou VI spacecraft successfully touched down on the grasslands of inner Mongolia at 4:32:50 a. m. Oct. 17, concluding a five-day mission and China’s second manned space flight. If you are lucky enough to talk with them, what will want to know? And
give your reasons.

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