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                                          EXERCISE IN EXACTLY 4 MINUTES PER DAY!

                                                                       $14, 615

                     

      TIME IS IT. Over 92% of people who own exercise equipment and 88% of people who own health club

memberships do not exercise. A 4-minute complete workout is no longer hard to believe for all the people who

have bought our excellent Range for 30 days end up buying it, due to the health benefits experienced during that

tryout and the ROM performance score that tells the story of health and fitness improvement. At under 20 cents

per use the 4-minute Rom exercise is the least expensive full body complete exercise a person can do. How do

we know that it is under 20 cents per use? Over 90% of Rom machines go to private homes, but we have a few

that are in commercial use for 12 years and they have endured over 80,000 uses each, without need of repair.

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1. What is ROM?

A. A piece of exercise equipment

B. A club membership card

C. A commercial health club

D. An electric wheelchair

2. How many people bought ROM after trying it out?

A. 92%

B. 88%

C. 97%

D. 90%

3. One setting point of ROM is that _____.

A. it makes full body exercise possible in 4 minutes

B. it can kill back and shoulder pains in 10 minutes

C. it needs no repair in the first 20years

D. it is sold on a 3-month trial basis

4. The advertisement is made believable by _____.  

A. telling stories

B. using figures

C. making comparisons

D. asking questions

答案

1-4: A C A B

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Marilyn Monroe was certainly one of the most famous actresses of the twentieth century.She was known as the “Blonde Bombshell” and the “Sex Goddess of the Silver Screen”.However,surprisingly,this famous actress never won any major acting awards throughout her 15year career in the movies.Critics(评论家) may not have thought highly of her acting ability,but the huge number of her fans flocking to see her movies propelled(推进) her to fame and fortune.

Being a teenager,she found a job in a parachute packing factory during World War Ⅱ.A picture of young Ms Mortenson in a magazine led her into modelling.Hoping to move from modelling into acting,the young woman began trying out for acting jobs with several movie studios in Hollywood.She finally got a oneyear contract(合同)with Twentieth Century-Fox.However,Ms Monroe’s career as an actress did not start well.She was given small parts in several films which did not do very well at the box office,and the studio decided to drop her contract.With no money and no work,the actress agreed to let a photographer take pictures without any clothes on for a calendar,for which she was paid $50.

In 1951,with the help of a friend,Ms Monroe got a sevenyear contract with the same studio again.The studio began putting the actress in movies playing a “dumb blonde”and Ms Monroe became a hit.After playing “dumb blonde” in six more movies,she got her first lead role in the movie Niagara in 1953,which did well in box office.She proved that she could sing and dance in her own sexy way in movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire.She also showed that she could perform as a comic actress.

While her movie career went on well,her private life was not quite a successful.She had got married for three times,but all her marriage didn’t last long.Probably due to her addiction to alcohol and sleeping pills,she was difficult to work with and was fired.Two months later,she was found dead from an overdose.

63.How long did she stay in the field of the movie?

A.5 years.       B.15 years.  C.10 years      D.20 years.

64.What did Ms Monroe do before she became an actress?

A.She made a calendar.     B.She worked in a factory.

C.She designed clothes.     D.All of the above.

65..In which movie did Ms Monroe have her first staring role?

A.Niagara.                  B.How to Marry a Millionaire.

C.Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.   D.Some Like It Hot.

66.We can infer from the passage that .

A.what she was after were fame and fortune

B.what she liked most were alcohol and sleeping pills

C.she couldn’t get on well with others

D.she didn’t feel happy in spite of her fame and fortune

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