天利试题库176__北京天利高考信息网.pdfVIP

口试包括以下三项内容: 1.朗读下面短文中两个*号之间的段落； 2. 阅读短文，并准备用英语回答主考老师就此文 提出的问题； 3.用英语回答短文后打* 的问题，要求不少于十 句话。 How the Life Saver Got Its Hole * Back in 1912,chocolate maker Charlie Johnson had a problem. His chocolate didn t ship well in hot weather, so candy stores ordered almost none between June and September. To stay in business, Johnson decided to develop a summer line:hard candy mints. Johnsons factory wasnt set up for making hard candy,so he hired a pill producer for the job. Most mint candies at the time were square,and pillow-shaped-and expensive to 1 porduce. So Johnson ordered his flat and round,with a hole in the middle,to be different. * They look like little life savers, Johnson said. Suddenly, the mints had a name. Still,for Johnson the candies were only a sideline. When New York advertisement salesman Edward John Tailor tried to persuade him to advertise the unique mints, Charlie wasnt interested. You would make a lot of money! Tailor said excitedly. Do you think so? Johnson replied. Then you buy the brand.For $ 2900, Tailor bought the brand, and went to work. Why sell only in candy shops.?The salesman asked