In Britain, a full meeting of ______ is called only when a Sovereign dies or announces
A. the Privy Council B. the Parliament
C. the House of Commons D. the House of Lords
A. the Privy Council B. the Parliament
C. the House of Commons D. the House of Lords
第1题
第2题
W:But frozen foods are convenient and handy.aren't they? Just think of all tile tedious work we would have to do in the kitchen if it weren't for frozen foods and the like.
M:Yes.that's true! (20)But you spend much more time cooking and preparing meals in your country than we do in Britain.don't you?
W:Yes.I suppose we do.You make less fuss about food than we do.In my own country,we have two big meals a day,that is,lunch and dinner,and we spend a lot of time preparing them.(21)Here in Britain,you have only one big meal a day, apart from breakfast and lunch snack, and you spend much less time preparing it.
M:Yes,but we're just as fond of good and delicious food as you are.
W:Well, you certainly don't show it!
M:We do fuss about our meals sometimes,and remenber,we like to eat out on special occasions,such as weekend evenings.birthday parties and other celebrations.London is full of foreign restaurants where you can get all the exotic dishes of the world.You must come out with us one evening,Lisa.
W:Thank you very much,I'd love to.That's what I like about London.(22)There's always so much to see and do!I think I made a wise decision when I chose to live and study in London.
(23)
A.They are everywhere and tasty.
B.Food is not tasty because of them.
C.They spoil the food in Britain.
D.They make food taste bad.
第3题
A./ ; Northern Ireland
B.Great; Northern Ireland
C./; Ireland
D.Great; Ireland
第4题
A.Great Britain
B.the United Kingdom
C.the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
D.the United Kingdom of Great Britain
第5题
Passage 1
Back in the carefree days of the Noughties boom, Britain’s youngsters were swept along by the buy-now-pay-later culture embraced by consumers up and down the country. During a decade of near?full employment, many _1_ quickly from one job—and one credit card—to another, and rainy days were such a distant memory that they _2_ seemed worth saving for. But with the supply of cheap credit _3_ up and a generation of school and university leavers about to _4_ the recession-hit job market, thousands of young people with no memory of the early 1990s recession are shocked into the _5_ that the world of 2009 is very different. Katie Orme, 19,who lives in Birmingham, says she has decided never to get a credit card after seeing the problems that her parents and 22year-old sister have had with debt—just one of the _6_ lessons that she has had to learn. Orme finished her A-levels a year ago, and has been searching for a job—and living at home with her parents—ever since. She has had to _7_ on to support herself and is now on a 12-week internship (实习期)at the Prince’s Trust to improve her _8_ . The Trust says that the number of calls from _9_ people such as Orme has shot up by 50% over six months. “It’s so hard to get a job at the moment,” she says, “it’s better to go and get more qualifications so when more jobs are _10_ you will be better suited.”
A) sign
B) skipped
C) available
D) mostly
E) anxious
F) mug
G) hardly
H) remedy
I) realization
J) dynamic
K) resume
L) tough
M) neglected
N) drying
O) flood
第1空答案是:
第6题
Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a ______.
A.absolute monarchy
B.constitutional monarchy
C.federal republic
D.an autocracy
第8题
【C1】
A.authorities
B.commanders
C.leaders
D.directors
第9题
阅读下列短文,并根据短文内容判断其后的句子是正确(T),还是错误(F)。
In Britain people usually have a doctor near their home or in their town. This is the local doctor. You have to register with a doctor before you can make an appointment. You usually have to fill in a form. and the doctor examines you. Families often all register with the same doctor.
Doctors often work together in groups, and the name of the place where they work is a Doctor's Surgery. The government pays for this system, and it is free to go to see your doctor.
If the doctor decides that you need treatment he can prescribe medicine. For example he can prescribe antibiotics for an infection. Medicine can be tablets to take with water or liquid to drink. The doctor writes the prescription. You take the prescription to the chemist's, and the chemist will make up the medicine for you. You usually have to pay some money for the medicine but you don't have to pay the full price.
()21. British people usually go a long way to see a doctor.
()22. British families often register with the same doctor.
()23. Doctors always work alone in their own Doctor's Surgery.
()24. British people don't have to pay when they see their doctor.
()25. British people usually have to pay for their prescription at the chemist's.
第10题
There is no doubt that something of this kind will happen. The shorter working week, longer holidays, earlier retirement, job-sharing -- these and other ways of reducing the amount of time people spend on their jobs -- are certainly likely to spread. A mix of part-time paid work and part-time unpaid work is likely to become a much more common work pattern than today, and a flexi-life pattern of work -- involving paid employment at certain stages of life, but not at others -- will become widespread. But it is surely unrealistic to assume that this will make it possible to restore full employment as the dominant form. of work.
In the first place, so long as employment remains the overwhelmingly important form. of work and source of income for most people that it is today, it is very difficult to see how reductions in employees' working time can take place on a scale sufficiently large and at a pace sufficiently fast to make it possible to share out the available paid employment to everyone who wants it. Such negotiations as there have recently been, for example in Britain and Germany, about the possibility of introducing a 35-hour working week, have highlighted some of the difficulties. But, secondly, if changes of this kind were to take place at a pace and on a scale sufficient to make it possible to share employment among all who wanted it, the resulting situation --in which most people would not be working in their jobs for more than two or three short days a week -- could hardly continue to be one in which employment was still regarded as the only truly valid form. of work. There would be so many people spending so much of their time on other activities, including other forms of useful work, that the primacy of employment would be bound to be called into question, at least to some extent.
The author uses the negotiations in Britain and Germany as an example to
A.support reductions in employees' working time.
B.indicate employees are unwilling to share jobs.
C.prove the possibility of sharing paid employment.
D.show that employment will lose its dominance.
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