2012年商务英语BEC中级考试冲刺试题及答案02

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　　A Advertising is very old.
　　B Examples include the roadside signs that tell travelers that they can buy fresh corn just down the road or that there is a restaurant in the next tow.n.
& U6 E" _' T, G: U　　C Thus modern advertising was born.
5 _  x# {* S: [6 Y$ n7 {" K) V　　D Advertising is part of our daily lives.
　　E such as helping to prevent forest fires, or to make them want to buy a certain product or service.
　　F At first, the chief objective of these agencies was to sell space in the various media, mainly newspapers and magazines.
　　G The first printed advertisement in the English language appeared in 1478, more than a century before Shakespeare's first play was produced.