"Regardless of social class, race and age, men say they hate to shop." says Zukin, City University of New York sociology professor. "Yet when you ask them deeper questions, it turns out that they like to shop. Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware. But if you ask them about the shopping they do for books or music, they'll say, "Well, that's not shopping. That's research. "
In other words, what men and women call "buying things" and how they approach that task are different.
Women will wander through several 1,000-aquare-meter stores in search of the perfect party dress. Men will wander through 100 Internet sites in search of the perfect digital camcorder. Women see shopping as a social event. Men see it as a special task or a game to be won.
"Men are frequently shopping to win," says Ann, a marketing professor at Loyola University of Chicago. "They want to get the best deal. They want to get the best one, the latest one and if they do that it makes them happy. "When women shop, "They're doing it in a way that they want everybody to be very happy." says Ann. "They're kind of shopping for love."
"Teenage girls learn to shop from their moms and older sisters, but they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen, "City University Zukin says." And although men's magazines such as GQ and Esquire have long had shopping articles, it's TV that has the eye of young male shoppers, "say Ann and Zukin.
"Television shows are used by young men in the same way Seventeen magazine or Lucky is used by girls," says Zukin, "to help make clothing and toiletry choices."
"Of course, there are men who love to shop and are proud of it." Loyola's Ann says. And that is important no matter whether you buy a car or a frying pan. All men love to buy but don't want to get cheated. Ann adds, "There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home-----they become kind of girl magnets. Women like it."
小題1:From the first paragraph we can find that _____.
A．men are all dishonest
B．men are all book-lovers
C．men hate to shop actually
D．men like to shop in fact
小題2:Compared to women, men usually treat shopping _____.
A．honestlyB．seriouslyC．frequentlyD．foolishly
小題3:As is shown in this passage, teenage girls go shopping _____.
A．only with their moms
B．only with their sisters
C．often following magazines
D．often following TV shows
小題4:The underlined word "magnets" in the last paragraph means _____.
A．magazines that attract young women
B．persons that have a powerful attraction
C．tools that can help housewives much
D．vegetables that make women beautiful

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:B

試題分析：本文敘述了社會存在的一種現(xiàn)象，人們往往認為男士不喜歡購物，其實他們對待購物很認真，在網(wǎng)上查詢，找最好質(zhì)量的產(chǎn)品；一般婦女喜歡去街上的商店購物，她是為全家人購買需要的東西；女孩子們購物除了從母親姐妹那里學(xué)點經(jīng)驗，還經(jīng)常翻閱雜志，看它們的介紹，然后再去購物。
小題1:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)it turns out that they like to shop. Men generally like to shop for books, music and hardware.男士其實喜歡購物，故選D。
小題2:細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)that's not shopping. That's research.男士對待購物更認真，故選B。
小題3:細節(jié)理解題。they also learn to shop by examining articles in magazines like Seventeen,女孩參考雜志來購物，故選C。
小題4:詞義猜測題。There actually are men who are interested, for example, in cooking or shopping or chinaware or things around the home-----they become kind of girl magnets.因為這里的主語they 指的是男士，主語和表語指的是一樣的，故選B。
點評： 詞義猜測題旨在考查學(xué)生根據(jù)上下文對生詞做出理解判斷的能力。近幾年來，閱讀理解中的詞義猜測題呈上升趨勢。在閱讀過程中根據(jù)選材、背景、及上下文等線索推測出生詞詞義是真實語言活動中的重要技巧。這一能力可以說是體現(xiàn)閱讀理解能力的一項重要指標。
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