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How about a "self-wringing"mop?She designed a special tool you could twist in twodirections at once,and still keep your hands clean and dry.She set out to sell it,first a few atflea markets.Then Mangano met with the media.But would couch potatoes()buy a mop?Theexperts on shopping TV were less than certain.They gave it a try,and it failed.Manganowas sure it would sell if they'd let her do the on-camera display.She said,"Get me on thatstage,and I will sell this mop because it's a great item."So QVC,a multinational corporation specializing in televised home shopping,took achance on her."I got onstage and the phones went crazy.We sold every mop in minutes."Today she's president of Ingenious Designs,a multimillion-dollar company,and one ofthe stars of HSN,the Home Shopping Network.Talking about the household invention,Mangano says,"It is as natural for me as it is for a parent to talk about their child."24.What is the first paragraph mainly about?A.Mangano's small home.B.Mangano's work experience.C.Mangano's unhappy marriage.D.Mangano's hard living conditions.25.Mangano sold the mop successfully with the help ofA.QVCB.HSNC.couch potatoesD.experts on shopping TV26.What does Mangano think of her invention?A.Normal.B.Special.C.Unsatisfactory.D.Unbelievable.27.What can we learn from the text?A.HSN is a business organization that sells goods on the Internet.B.The experts on shopping TV were confident about Mangano's mop.C.Mangano got the idea of self-wringing mop from her own experience.D.Mangano once had to work seven days a week to support her family.A simple gesture can be formed into a child's memory so quickly that it will cause thechild to give a false answer to a question accompanied by that gesture.A new finding suggeststhat parents,social workers,psychologists and lawyers should be careful with their hands aswell as their words.While memories of both adults and children are easy to react to suggestion,those ofchildren are known to be particularly influenced,said lead researcher Sara Broaders ofNorthwestern University.Kids are used to looking to adults to tell events for them and can bemisled even if not intentionally.Previous research,for example,has shown that detail-loaded questions often cause falseanswers;when asked,say“Did you drink juice at the picnic'?”the child is likely to say“yes”even if no juice had been available.It is not that the child is consciously lying,but rather thedetail is quickly formed into his or her memory.To avoid this problem,social workers have long been advised to ask children onlyopen-ended questions,such as"What did you have at the pienic?"But an open-ended questionpaired with a gesture,briefly meaning a juice box,is treated like a detailed question.That is,children become likely to answer falsely.And it isn't just a few kids:77%of children gave at least one piece of false informationwhen a detail was suggested by an ordinary gesture.Gestures may also become more popularwhen talking with non-fluent language users,such as little kids,Broaders said as handmovements can impart meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases."It certainly seemsreasonable that adults would gesture more with children.'【2022高考名校导航冲刺金卷英语（三）第4页（共8页）】