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The way that people spend their money, and the objects on which they spend it, are the last areas where free choice and individuality can be. expressed. The choice reflects personal【B1】, the way people see themselves and the fantasies they【B2】about their lives, the restrictions on money available【B3】them, the presence of others in the family with a【B4】on that money, and the influence of current convention,【B5】, surroundings and locality.
Shopping is an important human【B6】where people meet and communicate. Yet shoppers are【B7】with a confusing situation and a(n)【B8】changing one. The confusion arises from the claims【B9】advertising, from inadequate information about new products, new materials, new places to shop—a【B10】enhanced by rising prices and a(n)【B11】choice of goods than ever before. The search【B12】the right purchase is based on ignorance of【B13】own needs and ignorance of the product's【B14】for those needs. When choosing any particular item, there are【B15】lines of communication which might provide some guidance.【B16】none of these is entirely satisfactory. For example, you can ask a shop assistant initially.【B17】you find one, she may quite【B18】not know the answers. She may be a【B19】with a Saturday job, or a housewife【B20】part-time.
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Waldo Wilcox knew there was trouble the moment he saw the mauled(受伤的) deer carcass, not far from one of the meadows where his cattle grazed. His dogs, Dink and Shortie, sensed it too—mountain lion. He grabbed his pistol and a rope from his truck, and said, "Let's get him." Then he headed up the mountainside, his hounds racing far ahead.
Wilcox moved in long strides up the rocky grade. Still, it took some time before he topped the summit. The big cat was not 50 yards in front of him, its fangs(尖牙) bared, cornered by the dogs on a massive sandstone bluff.
Wilcox gripped his gun. He hoped to take the mountain lion alive and sell it to a zoo; he'd done that before and made a tidy profit. Wilcox took quick aim, his pistol cracked, and there was a sudden silence as the animal fell limp to the ground.
It wasn't until the red dust had settled and Wilcox's pulse had slowed that he gazed around. What he saw stunned him. High on the bluff lay an archeological(考古学的) treasure trove(珍藏物) large pieces of pottery, stone shelters that once housed whole families, and domed structures that had held wild grains harvested centuries before Europeans set foot in North America.
Wilcox made his discovery on the bluff almost 20 years ago—but it was not the first time he had found relics on his land. Since 1951, when his father bought the high valley Range Creek ranch, a year had seldom passed in which Wilcox did not come upon some spot of archeological interest. Occasionally he stumbled across burial plots.
Native American Culture
For nearly half a century, he kept quiet about the riches, telling hardly anyone outside his immediate family what was hidden in the isolated valley 160 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. When he discovered a new site, Wilcox would note its location—then just let things be.
Now the secret of Range Creek is finally out. Four years ago, forced by time to give up ranching, Wilcox, 75, sold his beef-cattle property in a deal that ultimately put the land in state hands. Thanks to Wilcox's silence, the 4,200-acre ranch is one huge, untouched archeological site. Today, scientists from Utah's Division of State History and the University of Utah are busily cataloguing magnificent, previously unknown ruins on the property.
What the scientists are learning at Range Creek has already begun to shed light on one of the greatest mysteries of Native American history—the fate of the Fremont culture, which had thrived in Utah for almost 1,000 years, then vanished virtually over-night in the 1300s.
The very existence of the Fremont did not come to light until the late 1920s, when a Harvard University expedition discovered evidence of an ancient people who settled along the Fremont River in southern Utah. Farmers and hunter-gatherers who arrived in the region at about A.D. 400, the Fremont lived in one-room homes dug into the earth and finished off with stacked-stone wails and roofs made of reeds and mud. Carbon dating of corncobs found on the Wilcox ranch hint that Range Creek was buzzing with activity from roughly A.D. 900 to 1100.
But right around the beginning of the 14th century, some great shift occurred. The drawings, pottery and structures particular to the Fremont culture ceased to be made anywhere. Some experts guess that other peoples pushed out the Fremont. Others speculate that some climatic event forced the Fremont to move south, where they may have integrated with other tribes.
A Living Monument
"In terms of history and archeological study, Range Creek is essential to the state," explains former governor Olene S. Walker. "It gives us a view into a period for which we have no written history." She is speaking primarily about the Fremont culture, but A World That Time Forgot. Even today, the valley resembles a world that time forgot.
A．Conservation of forests is not an easy task.B．Smoking in forests are only allowed in
听力原文：M: Why, Mary Smith. I haven't seen you for ages. How have you been？
W: John, John Brown. It has been a long time, hasn't it？ It must be at least a year.
M: No, we talked at the Johnson's Christmas party last December. Don't you remember？
W: That's right. Well, how are you？ Still working for the Jones and French Company？
M: No, I changed jobs about 3 months ago. I'm with the National Bank now. How about you？
W: I'm still teaching at the university. But I switched from the German department to the Spanish department.
M: Don't tell me you speak Spanish, too.
W: Sure. I grew up in Spain, you know. German was what I studied in college, but my Spanish is much better.
M: All I've ever managed to learn is a little Italian. I can get a pizza in Rome, but not much more.
W: Well, how is your family？ Are the children all in school now？
M: No, Billy is still at home. Tom is in the third grade and Jane's in the second. Billy could have gone to kindergarten, but we didn't want him to start school too early. So we're keeping him out until next year.
W: Our two children haven't started school yet either. But my daughter Sue will go in the fall, too. Oh, my bus band just came in. I want to go ask him something. I'll talk to you again later, John.
M: It was nice seeing you again, Mary.
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A．His son hit him on the arm.B．He stumbled over a stone arid fell.C．He bumped the arm
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