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A．is to be analyzed
B．has been analyzed
C．be analyzed
D．should have been analyzed
With【4】shopping, luxury spas, five-star dining and some of the most extravagant entertainment, you will【5】see, this is a city【6】offers an experience like no other.
Perhaps the enduring appeal of this "【7】capital of the world", though, is that it always has something【8】to offer. Recently the Hard Rock Café has been【9】up its act, completing with a new 42 000 sq ft venue, 1 000-seater cinema and an "interactive rock wall"-allowing customers the chance to【10】images of Hard Rock's collection.
City Center is an $ 8.5 billion (￡5.3 billion) complex on the Strip; a place that, in a city already【11】with extraordinary casinos (娱乐场) and hotels, stands out from the【12】It was the largest privately【13】construction project in the US and has three stand-alone hotels, a sprawling shopping and entertainment district and two 37-storey glass towers of【14】flats, designed by the likes of Norman Foster.
Another Las Vegas【15】, Planet Hollywood, has【16】with luxury developers to create Westgate Towers--where you could own a piece of the action and a chance to come back to Las Vegas every year.【17】, the only thing you'll【18】of in Vegas is not knowing which club, restaurant or spa to choose from. But then you can always ask a(n)【19】or the concierge--the fantastic thing about this city is that its residents【20】it as much as you will.
(1)
A．begins
B．continues
C．ceases
D．halts
A.enduring
B.illustrating
C.expressing
D.exposing
I refer, of course, to Senator Jefferson Smith. In Frank Capra's classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart plays this simple, idealistic small-town American, mocked and scorned by the big-moneyed, oh-so-sophisticated power elite—only to triumph over a corrupt Establishment with his rock-solid goodness.
At root, it is this role that soon-to-be-ex-Senator Bob Dole most aspires to play., the self-effacing, quietly powerful small-town man from Main Street who outwits the cosmopolitan, slick-talking snob from the fleshpots. And why not？ There is, after all, no more enduring American icon.
How enduring？ Before Americans had a Constitution, Thomas Jefferson was arguing that the new nation's future would depend on a base of agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. In 1840 one of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners.
There is, of course, a huge disconnect between this professed love of the simple, unspoiled life and the way Americans actually live. As a people, Americans have spent the better part of the 20th century deserting the farms and the small towns for the cities and the suburbs; and are torn between vacationing in Disney World and Las Vegas.
U.S. politicians too haven't exactly shunned the temptations of the cosmopolitan life. The town of Russell, Kansas, often seems to be Dole's running mate, but the candidate spends his leisure time in a luxury condominium in Bal Harbor, Florida. Bill Clinton still believes in a place called Hope, but the spiffy, celebrity-dense resorts of Martha's Vineyard 'and Jackson Hole are where he kicks back. Ronald Reagan embodied the faith-and-family pieties of the front porch and Main Street, but he fled Iowa for a career and a life in Hollywood.
Still, the hunger for the way Americans believe they are supposed to live is strong, and the distrust of the intellectual hustler with his airs and his high flown language runs deep. It makes sense for the Dole campaign to make this a contest between Dole as the laconic, quiet man whose words can be trusted and Bill Clinton as the traveling salesman with a line of smooth patter but a suitcase full of damaged goods. It makes sense for Dole to make his campaign song Thank God I'm a Country Boy—even if he is humming it 9,200m up in a corporate jet on his way to a Florida condo.
We learn from the very beginning of the text that politicians and journalists may feel
A．annoyed.
B．amazed.
C．agonized.
D．agitated.
The slogan on the poster for Enduring Love indicates that
A．Enduring Love will be as successful as Notting Hill.
B．people can only remember Michell for his Notting Hill.
C．Notting Hill left a very deep impression on the audience.
D．Michell needs to make a better propaganda through this way.
The luxury-goods business has been in despair in hasty succession against a background of a weakening global economy, an enduring slump in Japanese spending, and the September 11th terrorist attacks. The Japanese, who used to buy a third of the world's luxury goods, cut their foreign travel in half after the attacks and tightened their Louis Vuitton purse-strings. At the same time, wealthy Americans stopped flying, which has a dramatic effect on the luxury-goods purveyors of London, Paris and Rome.
At home too, Americans'attitudes to luxury changed, at least temporarily. "Conspicuous abstention" replaced greedy consumerism among the fast-growing, younger breed of newly rich. The decline in job security, the lower bonuses in financial services, and the stock market bust that wiped out much of the paper wealth generated in the late 1990s, bred a new frugality. Sales of expensive jewelry, watches and handbags—the products that make the juiciest profits for the big luxury-goods groups—dropped sharply.
The impact has been most striking among the handful of large, quoted luxury-goods companies. France's Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the industry leader, issued four profits warnings after September 11th and ended up reporting a 20% decline in operating profit for 2001, after having repeatedly promised its investors double-digit growth; and Italy's Gucci Group, the third largest, announced this week that second-half profits dropped by 33%. Meanwhile, privately held Prada had to postpone its stock market flotation and was forced to sell a recently acquired stake in Fendi, a prestigious Italian bag maker, in order to reduce its debts.
Luxury is an unusual business. A luxury brand cannot be extended indefinitely: if it becomes too common, it is devalued, as Pierre Cardin and Ralph Lauren proved by sticking their labels on everything from T-shirts to paint. Equally, a brand name can be undermined if it is not advertised consistently, or if it is displayed and sold poorly. Sagra Maceira de Rosen, a luxury-goods analyst at J.P. Morgan, argues that, "Luxury companies are primarily retailers. In retailing, the most important thing is execution, and execution is all about management. You may have the best designed product, but if you don't get it into the right kind of shop at the right time, you will fail."
By "Miuccia Prada was obviously biting her nails"(Paragraph 1), the author means
A．Prada is in a desperate situation.
B．Prada is notorious for her hasty execution.
C．Prada is always in her bad habit.
D．Prada is too much engaged in her work.
