【正文】 rong. B. Medicines that can keep people from putting on weight. C. Why it is important to have a normal body clock. D. What circadian rhythms are. C Each year, we are exposed to ten thousand ads on average. They try to sell us their products by using beautiful art, videos, images or slogans that are catchy. The most famous panies have highly popular logos that can be recognized by almost everybody. For those of you who have seen the movie Finding Forrester, there is that scene where Jamal walks up to some guy with a BMW and asks him what the car logo means. The man did not know the answer and since that day, whenever I see a famous pany logo I try to find the meaning of it. Many think the horse on the Ferrari logo represents the horsepower of the cars they manufacture. The story behind it is far more interesting. During World War I, a pilot, Count Francesco Baracca, painted the horse on his airplane to bring him luck. He had it on his plane because it was the logo of his squadron（空軍中隊） . Baracca’s mo ther then convinced Enzo Ferrari to put the logo on his racing cars in the early 1930’ s to bring good luck to the drivers. The logo then stayed the same ever since. The yellow on the background represents the birthplace of Enzo Ferrari. Starbucks started in 1971, in Seattle. The mermaid（美人魚） represented on the logo is now known by any coffee drinker. It is a mythological sea creature with the look of a female, the only difference being that they have a tail of a fish. The reason why Starbucks incorporated one in their pany logo is that it was believed that mermaids used to sing to sailors in order to make them walk away from their ship or to ground their ships. In the 1500s, spices, tea and coffee were popular merchandise to trade. So the mermaid in the logo of Starbucks is the one that “ brings” coffee and tea to the stores. 9. The writer became interested in logos of some famous brands after _______. A. he watched an attractive movie B. he saw a scene in a movie C. he walked up to some guy with a BMW D. he noticed some famous logos 10. Many panies use logos because _________. A. people enjoy beautiful logos B. people are more likely to buy their products C. people can recognize the products more easily D. people are interested in the meanings of the logos 11. Which of the following is true according to Paragraph3? A. Starbucks was once a pany trading spices, tea and coffee. B. Hearing mermaids sing, sailors would know the right direction. C. Starbucks has a history of more than five hundred years. D. The logo of Starbucks is believed to make the business years. 12. The underlined word “ incorporated” in the third paragraph probably means _____. A. included B. abandoned C. corrected D. designed D What’ s the biggest online shopping day in the world? Not Valentine’ s Day. Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday. The winner is China’ s Singles’ Day, celebrated on November11, or . Singles’ Day began as a day for unmarried or uncoupled people to celebrate their lives. Single students, looking for an excuse to buy themselves presents, started it on November11,1993, reported The Guardian. It is symbolized by the four mumber ones in the date of November11 and is also called Double Eleven, in reference to the day it was started, said the BBC. It became a major shopping day in 2020. The CEO of an online shopping site Alibaba tried to increase sales at the emerce pany. The CEO, Daniel Zhang, launched an annual online sale on that day, said Fortune. When it first began, “ Sigles’ Day was very much an offline fort to actual single people,” noted the website atlas Obscura.” A small group of students at Nanjing University are said to have chosen as a day that singles could do activities like karaoke together.” It quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Last year, Alibaba sold more than $1 billion worth of products inthe first three minutes of the sales, reported Bloomberg News. Total sales on Singles’ Day soared to $9 billion within 24 hours. That’ s four times bigger than Cyber Monday in the ., which is the Monday after Thanksgiving and traditionally a big shopping day. By parison, online sales in the . last year on Black Friday were just $ billion, reported TechCrunch. Today, Singles’ Day is very successful. Analysts say that this year, sales on China’ s Singles’ Day will increase to a new high. In the ., Jennifer Wang, a cofounder of a pany targeting ChineseAmericans, said, “ We expect to have 3 million people ing to click Dealmoon for the Singles’ Day launch.” Some observers think Singles’ Day could catch on globally. 13. How did the author introduce the topic of the passage? A. By describing a holiday. B. By asking a question C. By making a list. D. By telling a story 14. What’ s the second paragraph mainly about? A. How S