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ame meaning as ________.A.Pick your seat the moment you book online.B.Book your flight on Thursday.D.the flights are slower than usual.C.fewer people travel on Tuesday.s on the small menu and instead tuck some of your own snacks — granola bars, homemade muffins, fruit and trail mix all make fantastic travel foods — into your bag and eat a lot better, and cheaper, than other passengers.s rare your flight es with a free meal. Snacks on the plane are not cheap and almost never healthy. Don39。 Pack your own snacks. Unless you39。 Fly carryon only. Baggage fees vary wildly, but almost all airlines charge them and charge big. Why pay for your clothes to fly with you? If everyone in your travel party checks a bag, your bill can be astronomical before you ever even get to your destination. It39。 Avoid the upgrade it39。s no reason to pay them if you don39。s a sweet spot for booking and getting the best price on your tickets. Book too early or too late and you could end up paying more than you need to. The best time to book is between three months and six weeks from when you want to travel.t wait until the lastminute to book. Many travelers don39。re willing to travel on major holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Choose your seat later. Some airlines charge you to pick your seat when you book online, adding even more to the bottom line of your ticket cost. If you show up early on your travel day, you can still get suitable seats. Some of the best seats get held back until flight day, unless others are willing to pay extra for them ahead of time, so you still have the chance at one of those. Fly during the least popular times. Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday are the slowest days to fly, which means cheaper deals than the rest of the week. You can also find reduced rates on early morning flights, since many people don39。t drive to all your dream destinations, flying is the only way to go sometimes and, undeniably, the fastest. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to find the most affordable fares and also avoid paying as many extra charges as possible when you plan ahead. With fuel costs rising and airlines finding more fees to impose on travelers every day, airfare isn39。 【點(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解,推理判斷和句意猜測三個(gè)題型的考查,是一篇說明類閱讀,要求考生先從問題中抓住關(guān)鍵性詞語(題眼),然后以此為線索,運(yùn)用略讀及查讀的技巧快速在文章中尋找與此問題相關(guān)的:段落、語句,仔細(xì)品味,同時(shí)根據(jù)上下文進(jìn)行分析,推理,概括和歸納,從而選出正確答案。t appear to be enough for children39。 (4)推理判斷題。The bear caught John.39。John caught the bear.39。 (3)句意猜測題。 (2)推理判斷題。 (1)細(xì)節(jié)理解題。Social munication improves babies39。Foreign languages help babies39。Listening to different languages develops babies39。Babies shouldn39。Different languages have different grammar.D.Grammar is important in learning languages.B.Babies can well understand different words.D.Babies identify different sound patterns.B.D.The baby39。B.Having a higher IQ.d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought facetoface with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies-regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio-learned nothing.(1)What makes connections in a baby39。t appear to be enough for children39?!?is very different from 39。 Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mubaba. This is the patternABB. Another order was mubage. This is the pattern “ABC”. The images showed that the part of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the ABB pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.3.閱讀理解 縱觀全文可知,,作者提到無現(xiàn)金支付即電子支付的好處,也提到電子支付引起的擔(dān)憂,對待電子支付是客觀的,故選C。故選B。大多數(shù)金融公司都渴望放棄它,或者以高昂的費(fèi)用勸阻老式客戶。根據(jù)第四段中的 “But equally important is that suppliers such as banks and tech firms (in developed markets)... Most financial firms are keen to abandon it, or discourage oldfashioned customers with heavy fees.”可知現(xiàn)金消失的一個(gè)重要原因就是諸如銀行和科技公司(在發(fā)達(dá)市場)和電信公司(在新興市場)之類的供應(yīng)商正在開發(fā)快速,易于使用的支付技術(shù),他們可以從中提取數(shù)據(jù)和小費(fèi)。故選C。根據(jù)第三段中的“In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years.”可知在過去的十年中,瑞典的人均零售現(xiàn)金交易數(shù)量下降了80%;再根據(jù)“In China digital payments rose from 4% of all payments in 2012 to 34% in 2017.”可知在中國,數(shù)字支付從2012年占所有支付的4%上升到2017年的34%。故選D。根據(jù)第一段中的“Rich countries are racing to dematerialise payments.”可知, 富裕國家正競相將支付非物質(zhì)化;再根據(jù)第三段中的“In Sweden the number of retail cash transaction per person has fallen by 80% in the past ten years.”在過去的十年中,瑞典的人均零售現(xiàn)金交易數(shù)量下降了80%??偟膩碚f,無現(xiàn)金經(jīng)濟(jì)的未來是個(gè)好消息,但是對于電子支付人們也有一些擔(dān)憂。D.C.B.. A.s attitude towards digitalized payment is the infrastructure is developing at a high speed in developed marketsD.younger consumers are short of money to live their digital livesB.China is developing faster that those developed countries in digital payment(3)Cash is disappearing largely because that cash is still king across the worldC.. A.promote payment without paper money or coins(2)In paragraph 3, several countries are mentioned to show get rid of the sideeffects of cashC.. A. Yet set against these benefits are a couple of worries. Electronic payment systems may risk technical failures, power failure and cyberattacks. In a cashless economy the poor, the elderly and country folk may be left behind. And a digital system could let governments watch over people39。 Cash is dying out because of two forces. One is demand— younger consumers want payment systems that plug easily into their digital