The favorite day of the work for shoppers is Saturday. In American culture, women do most of the shopping. Teenagers also enjoy shopping with their friends. Men do not enjoy taking the time to be in stores for many hours. There are many places to shop but the best is the shopping mall. A small is a group of many shops where you can buy clothes, furniture, and everything you need for every room of the house. Shopping malls provide parking for cars which is under one roof so the people do not get cold or wet from rain, win , or snow. Mothers can buy clothes for each family members. Shoes, socks, pants,dresses, coats, and sweaters are bought in August for the new school year. Athletic clothes include tennis shoes, heavy white socks, sweat pants, a sweat shirt, and perhaps a ball cap with the name of a favorite sports team from the NBA. For the kitchen ,the mother might buy cooking pots and pans, silverware (spoon , fork and knife), drinking glasses, cups and soup bowls to hold the food. The kitchen table and chairs are bought as kitchen furniture. The cupboards or cabinets that hold the dishes, pots and pans are usually built as part of the house. Furniture for the living room includes a sofa and different chairs. The television set,tape recorder, cassette discs and sound system are sometimes called the entertainment center. Special stores carry all of these items for the home. The bedroom furniture has beds, a dresser with a mirror and a chest of drawers. Blankets, pillows and sheets are on every bed. Finally, there are pictures in most rooms and rugs for the floor. To buy all these things at the mall takes many trips, but mothers enjoy this kind of shopping. Tell whether the following statements are true (T)or false (F)according to the text. 1.According to the text , women in American usually do more shopping than men.（）2.There are many places to shop but the shopping mall is your best choice.（）3.Mothers usually buy clothes for their families in September for the new school.（）

第1题

Today is my first day at college.I'm wearing my favorite blue dress.I'mhappy to meet my new classmates—they're very nice.Elsa is a slim girlwith long （）hair,and she laughs a lot.Paul is a(n)（）boy with brownhair.Sam has（）hairand wears glasses.He is a little（）and very funny.

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第2题

— Do you eat porridge every day？— .A、Porridge is my favoriteB、No, sometimes I’d have a c

— Do you eat porridge every day？

— .

A、Porridge is my favorite

B、No, sometimes I’d have a cup of soybean milk, a boiled egg and a steamed bun for my breakfast

C、I seldom eat fast food because it’s rich in fat

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第3题

Passage Four Every culture and every country in the world celebrates New Year, but n

Passage Four

Every culture and every country in the world celebrates New Year, but not everyone does it the same way. The countries in North America and Europe welcome New Year on January the first. This practice began with the Romans in the Middle East, New Year is when spring begins. People in China and Vietnam celebrate it on the first day of the Spring Festival, which is the first day of their calendar based on the moon. Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish (犹太人的) New Year, comes at the end of summer. The Hindus (印度教教徒 ) in India celebrate the first day of each season, so they have four New Years.

In all these cultures, there is a practice of making noise. People made noise in ancient times to drive away the evil spirits (妖精) from their homes. Today making noise is more of a custom than a religious rim

In the United States, many people stay up until midnight on New Year's Eve to watch the clock pass from one year to the next. Friends often gather together at a party on New Year's Eve, and when the new year comes, all ring bells, blow' whistles, sing songs, and kiss each other. A favorite Scottish song which everyone sings together is Auld Lang Sync. The words tell of old friends and good times.

In all cultures, New Year's Day is a time when people think of new beginnings. They want to make the coming year better than the last one. Many people in the United States make New Year resolutions. These are specific promises that they make to improve their behavior, change their habits, and become better people. There are many jokes about how a person keeps his or her New Year resolutions.

48. In ancient times, the practice of making noise was meant ______.

A. to keep the evil spirits away

B. to have fun

C. to celebrate the coming of the new year

D. to keep to a custom

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第4题

Distance learning is a program that allows students to take classes online. Online cla

sses offer on-campus classes, with the convenience of working at home, and the flexibility of creating your own schedule. Anna attends her online class in her pajamas. She gets away with it because her classroom is in her home. Anna is a full-time student learning from distance, and full time mother. She likes the online option because of its flexibility. “I don’t have to sit in class with my two little ones in day care. Instead, I can jump online anytime I like during the day,” said Anna who is preparing for a nursing degree. “What I liked most was the fact that I didn’t have to travel to another place, and I could work at my own place,” she said in an e-mail. Online students must be organized. Self-discipline and motivation are also important. Diana is a math instructor who has been teaching online classes for five and a half years. She had students who participated from far way. Many are returning students who have been working. They are focused on their goals, and are comfortable working hard. Taking classes online can have some unexpected benefits. For instance, the need to communicate questions by e-mail compels students to become better written communicators. Also, you don’t have to worry about appearance. Michael, a current online student, said in an e-mail, “I can just roll out of bed and not worry about how messy my hair is.” Anna included not having to fight for parking or paying for gas as added tuition fee. Taking classes online does have some drawbacks. Students complain about the difficulties of communicating online. Instructors complain about the students’ ability to use digital media. Online classes can end up taking more time than on-campus versions. “An online student should expect to spend at least 15 hours a week working on their assignments,” said Diana the math teacher. The extra time is needed because students must clearly demonstrate understanding of the material through email and online quizzes.

11.__________is the most important feature of online or distance learning.

A. A hard-working and motivated student

B. Studying online from a computer anywhere

C. A good course book

D. Flexible timetable

12.Distance learning allows Anna __________.

A. to study her favorite subject

B. to understand how to be a full-time mother

C. to become a nurse

D. to work on her study at home while taking care of her children

13.Comparing with the traditional classroom learners, online learners have to be__________.

A. highly motivated

B. disciplined

C. well-organized

D. All of the above

14.In the following statements, which is NOT the advantage of distance learning？

A. You can learn from home, wherever your home is.

B. You don’t need to care about your appearance when attending the class.

C. You can meet and talk to a lot of nice people.

D. You can attend the class anytime of the day, totally depending on your timetable.

15.According to the text, what is the drawback of distance learning？

A. Online classes can sometimes be time-consuming.

B. You cannot wear your favorite clothes to classes.

C. There is no one answering your questions.

D. Distance learning gives you a comfortable place to work in.

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第5题

Passage Four Dressing fashionably was very important in fourteenth-century Spain. This

Passage Four

Dressing fashionably was very important in fourteenth-century Spain. This was especially true for any man who considered himself an aristocrat or dandy. Before going out, a well-dressed man would put on his finest boots, one of his embroidered caps and his favorite beard, dyed to match the color of his clothing.

Believe it or not, false beards were once as popular as neckties are today. Beards had for years considered a sign of strength and manhood, and the bigger and thicker they were, the better. Those unfortunates who had little facial hair were forced by custom into wearing false beards made of horsehair. Soon, however man in the Spanish fashion world was wearing them too, while many quite substantial real beards were shaved off to make way for the false variety.

By day, the fashionable dandy might wear a yellow or a crimson beard to impress his friends, but in the evening a long black beard was proper for serenading his senorita, Any color or shape of beard could be had.

However, as you can imagine, the growth of this unusual custom created many interesting problems. People with similar beards were mistaken for one another. Creditors could not find debtors, and police often arrested the wrong people, while the real villain escaped wearing their hairy disguises. The price of horsehair skyrocketed. Finally, King Philip IV of Aragon put a stop to all the foolishness by outlawing the wearing of false beards.

46. What is the passage mostly concerned with？

A. The size of beards.

B. The color of beards.

C. Varieties of false beards.

D. The custom of wearing false beards.

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第6题

After a day’s hard work, we need some sleep. During the sleep, the fatigue of the body

disappears and recuperation begins. The tired mind gathers new energy, and the memory improves.

Some adults require little sleep; others need eight to ten hours in every twenty-four hours. Infants sleep sixteen to eighteen hours daily, the amount gradually diminishing as they grow older. Young students may need twelve hours; university students may need ten. A worker with a physically demanding job may also need ten, whereas an executive working under pressure may manage on six to eight. Many famous people have little sleep. Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Edison and Charles Darwin apparently averaged only four to six hours a night.

Whatever your individual need, you can be sure that by the age of thirty you will have slept for a total more than twelve years. By the age you will also have developed a sleep routine: a favorite hour, a favorite position, and a rule you need to follow in order to rest comfortably.

Investigators have tried to find out how long a person can go without sleep. Several people have reached more than 115 hours nearly five days. Whatever the limit, it is absolute. Animals kept awake for from five to eight days have died of exhaustion. The limit for human beings is probably about a week.

(1).By writing this passage, the writer intends to tell us that _______.

A、sleep is important for good mental and physical health

B、a light sleep is as restful as a deep sleep

C、memory is improved during sleep

D、sleep is relatively unimportant for human beings

(2).The amount of the sleep required may ___.

A、tire an individual mind

B、help infants grow older

C、apply pressure on an executive

D、that they didn’t sleep long

(3).If a person is not allowed to follow his own sleep routine, he will probably _____.

A、never fall sleep

B、not sleep well

C、lost his memory

D、begin to daydream

(4).The author implies that if human beings are kept awake for more than a week the result _____.

A、is hard to imagine

B、will probably be a mental breakdown

C、is difficult to describe

D、will probably be dead

(5).From the amount of sleep Napoleon, Edison, Darwin required, we can conclude ___.

A、 that they were famous

B、 that they were executives

C、 hat they were intelligent

D、 that they didn’t sleep long

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第7题

Thousands of years ago, ten of our very distant ancestors were hungry. They went out and p

icked berries or dug up roots to eat. Four of them chose poisonous food and died. The remaining six noticed that their food was safe to eat. They told their children, who, in turn, passed the message on to their descendants. In this way, habit became a vital factor in the survival of mankind : if you ate the right plant, you lived; if you wanted to make your own experiments, you would probably die.

The importance of habit on the survival of the human species is an interesting matter. Even today, most of us hesitate when we are invited to eat a new type of food or drink something we have not tasted before. Even if the food or drink is offered by a friend, we are usually not at all anxious to experiment and accept the offer.

When you get up tomorrow morning, notice which shoe or sock you put on first. Then notice which one you put on first on other days. You may discover that (a) you tend to put on one shoe or sock first every day, and that (b) if you are right-handed, you usually deal with your left shoe or sock first. If you try to change this habit, you may find it uncomfortable or annoying, and you will soon return to your old habit.

When it comes to other matters, we often follow a fixed pattern. We sleep in one or two favorite ways. We often follow familiar routes even when they are not the shortest or best. We often wear a watch on the same wrist even when there is no real reason for doing so. (83)In hundreds of other ways, we show that we are creatures of habit, following fixed patterns of behavior. This characteristic can help us to survive but it can be a barrier to progress too. We must be alert and not let a beneficial factor become a harmful one.

The best title for this passage might be _____.

A．Habit—a Barrier to Progress

B．The Survival of Mankind

C．Various Patterns of Human Behavior

D．We Are Creatures of Habit

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第8题

No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may havebeen made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish reached India. The Indians, in turn, may have passed on the secret to the Arabs and Persians. The Persianscalled their dish Sharbat, from which our word sherbet(冰冻果子露)comes.

Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found the Chinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, ices became popular, first in Venice and then throughout Italy.

In 1533, when Catherine de Medicis left Italy to marry the future King Henry Iof France, she took her cooks with her. They made desserts the French had never tasted before. Among them was "ice cream".For each day of the wedding festivities(庆祝活动,庆典) Catherine's cooks prepared a different flavor of her favorite dessert- "ice cream.'

At first ice cream was a luxury(奢侈品) in France. Only rich people had money to buy it. Then, in 1660, a young man from Sicil, Francisco Procopio, arrived in Paris. He opened a shop that sold ice cream at prices people could afford. Procopio's"ice-cream parlor(店堂)" became so popular that other shops wereopened.

About 1640, King Charles I introduced ice cream to England. He had heard it was popular in Italy and France. He served ice cream for dessert at a banquet(宴会). The surprise dish was a great success. The King ordered his cook to keep the recipe(制作方法) for ice cream a secret. Charles felt that only royalty(王室) should serve the dessert. But the secret soon leaked out. Ice cream quickly became popular in England too.

6.This passage is mainly about the history of ice cream.

7.Marco Polo's remark shows that he traveled in India.

8.Ice cream was unknown in France until 1640.

9.Ice cream was introduced to England by King Charles I.

10.Development of ice cream in France and other countries is discussed in the passage.

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第9题

This is my favorite book ______. （）

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第10题

In what part of the world is potato especially a favorite food In what part of the world is potato especially a favorite food

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