People thank their parents with two days：Mother’sDay，on the second Sunday in May，and Father’s Day，on the third Sunday in June．These days are to show love for parents．Theyraise their children and educate them to be good people．They give them love and care． The two days are celebrated(庆祝)in many different ways．On Mother’s Day，people wear carnations．Wearing a red onemeans having a living mother．while a white one showsthat the mother is dead．It’s also a day when peoplewhose parents are dead visit the cemetery．On these daysfamilies get together at homes as well as in restaurants．They often have outdoor barbecues(烧烤聚会)forFather’s Day．These are days of fun and good feelings．Another tradition(传统)is to give cards andgifts．Children make them in school．Many people make their own presents．Theseare more valued(宝贵的)than those bought in shops．It’s not the value of the gift that is important，but the love for the’parents．Card shops，florists，candy makers，phone companies and other shops do lots of business during theseholidays． Which is not a reason forchildren to show love for parents？（）

第1题

提示:爱丽丝的妈妈病了，爱丽丝想向老师格林先生请几天假。 Alice： Excuse me, Mr. Green. 15 d l

提示:爱丽丝的妈妈病了，爱丽丝想向老师格林先生请几天假。

Alice： Excuse me, Mr. Green. 15 d like to take a few days off.

Green：___51___ ？

Alice： My mother is ill. I have to take care of her.

Green：Oh dear! I am sorry to hear that ___52___ ？

Alice： No, thank you. My mother has caught a bad cold. She has a high fever and coughs day and night. The doctor says my mother has to be in hospital for a few days. I would like to be with her.

Green：I understand___53___？

Alice：I hope to be back next Wednesday.

Green：That？ s all right.___54___ .

Alice：Thank you,Mr. Green. That, s very kind of you. I will write it immediately.

Green：___55___ .

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第2题

Nowadays most people decide quite【61】what kind of work they would do. When I was at school

, we had to choose【62】when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. "【63】, scientists will earn a lot of money," my parents said.【64】I tried to learn physics and chemistry, but in the【65】I decided that I【66】a scientist. It was a long time【67】I told my parents that I wasn't happy at school. "I didn't think you were," said my mother. "【68】," said my father. "Well, the best thing to do now is to look for a job."

I【69】about it with my friends Frank and Lesley.【70】of them【71】suggest anything, but they promised that they would ask their friends. A few days later【72】I was still in bed,【73】telephoned. "Is that Miss Jenkins？" a man's voice asked. "I【74】your hobby is photography and I've got a job that might interest you in my clothes factory. My name is Mr. Thomson. "He seemed pleasant on the phone【75】I went to see him. I was so excited that I almost forgot【76】goodbye. "Good luck!" my mother said to me.

I arrived【77】early and when Mr. Thomson came he asked me if I【78】waiting a long time. "No, not long." I replied. After talking to me for about twenty minutes he【79】me a job-- not as a photographer though,【80】a model!

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A．early

B．presently

C．soon

D．quickly

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第3题

Generation gap refers to the difference in ideas, feelings, and interests between the olde

r and younger people. It is especially considered as causing a lack of communication and understanding between the two generations.

There is apparent generation gap between the young and the old nowadays. The younger generation is essentially different from the older generation. The young people live in a new age completely different from the old. They have grown up more happily and are not so dependent on adults as their parents were. They are better educated and enjoy more freedom. They easily accept new things and new ideas. They are more concerned with the present and the future, whereas the world of the older people has vanished, and they do not understand all of the problems of the modern world. They grew up in a world which was different from today's world. They often talk about "the good old days" and tend to assert old things and ideas. They don't like to feel that their beliefs and values are being questioned and threatened. They would like the young to learn from them, but the young refuse to accept their values. They cannot understand why the young complain about the conventional things and old systems and why they want to make changes in these things to fit the needs of modern society, As a result, the old people think the young are not what they were, and most young people are unable to learn from the parents and elders who they will never be.

In order to reconcile the differences, both generation should realize that the world has changed, and that new responses are necessary for many of the problems of society. Besides, some forms of organizations should be established to help the young and the old exchange their ideas and strengthen their mutual understanding so as to bridge the gap.

One important reason for the difference existing between the young and the old is that ______.

A．they live in different ages

B．they live in different countries

C．they live in separate planets

D．they hate each other

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第4题

Everything has a name. All people, places, and things have names. For example, Jenny is th

e name of a student from England. England is the name of her country. Cities and towns have names, too. Schools and office buildings also have names. All things have names. For example, tomato, potato and bean are names of vegetables. Apple, orange and banana are names of fruits. Names are important.

We use names every day. When we meet a new person, we usually ask, "What's your name？" It is important to learn a person's name. Most people have two names. Some people have more names. Names are different all over the world. In Jenny's class, Jenny must learn the names of students from all over the world. This is very difficult because the names are very different.

In the United States, most people have a first name, a middle name, and a last name. Parents, choose the first and middle names for their baby. There are names for boys 'and names for girls. For example, John, Peter, Tom, and Mike are all names for boys. Elizabeth, Betty, Susan, and Mary are all names for girls, The last name is the family name. Usually it is the father's family name. In a family, the mother, the father, and the children usually have the same last name.

Sometimes a person has a nickname (绰号) , too: A nickname is a special name. It is not a person's real name. Abraham Lincoln's nickname was "Honest Abe". An honest person always tells the truth, and Abe is short for Abraham. Because he was an honest person, his nickname was "Honest Abe". Pele (贝利) is a nickname, too. The football player's real name is Edison Arantes de Nascimento, but everyone calls him Pele. Do you have a nickname？

Names are different all over the world. They can be long or short, but they are always very important.

Why does everything have a name？

A．It is very interesting to have a name.

B．It is very easy to be remembered.

C．It is very easy to be told from others.

D．Both B and C

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第5题

We first think of the traditional or nuclear family. This is a two-generation family, the

father and the mother and their own children. Most couples wanted to have four children, two boys, two girls.

Some nuclear families, however, may add one or more grandparents to come to live with them, that is three generations. This kind of family with grandparents, parents, and grandchildren is called an extended family. This family type was not very common during the later half of the twentieth century, but it's becoming more common now as an elderly grandparent moves in to live with a son or daughter. This is more possible now that American homes have become larger. What is interesting, however, is that after the grandchildren move out of the home and start their own families, this extended family shrinks back to a nuclear family, with just two generations again living together, a grandparent and parents, with the grandchildren coming only for occasional visits.

Now, the fatherless or motherless family is one kind of what we call a single-parent family. In the fatherless family it's just the mother and her children. As I said, this can be the result of the husband's death, of an unmarried mother, of a separation or divorce. There are also a growing number of motherless families--where the father raises the children, for any of the same reasons. A motherless family may also be fatherless, but still a family with one adult. This is becoming more common in the big cities where a grandmother will raise her daughter's children while the daughter goes elsewhere to work.

One other new kind of family is becoming increasingly more common. A single parent with one or more children will marry again. Perhaps the other parent is also a single parent. Together they will start what is called a blended family, which blends together or combines the children from two other families.

An extended family usually has ______.

A．two generations

B．three generations

C．four generations

D．one generation

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第6题

As they turned into Upshot Rise where his parents lived,Jack let go of Ruths hand. Upshot

Rise was not a hand-holding street. When you turned into it,you wiped your feet and minded your manners. Each house was decently detached,each privet hedge crew-cut and correct. Each drive sported a car or two, and the portals of most of the houses were framed by white pillars that had probably been delivered in polythene bags. Behind each set of white curtains lived people who touched each other seldom. Some had retired and moved into the suburb for the landscape and the silences. Whilst others had begun there, sprouting from the white sheets in the white beds behind the white curtains,who knew nothing of dirt except that of conception and delivery？ Jack parents fitted neither of these categories. They were refugees from Nazi Germany. Not the mat-tress-on-the-the-donkey-cart type of refugee,winding in tracking-shot down the interminable highway,but respectable well-heeled emigrants. The flight of the Mullers had been in the early days,without panic and with all their possessions. Jacks fathers business had been an export affair to England so that there was little upheaval in their change of address. Both his father and his mother spoke English fluently,and through the business were already well connected with the upper strata of English social life. They traveled first class from Ostend to Dover,and early in the morning when only the white cliffs were looking,they made a deft spelling change to their name,and landing as the Millar family,they spoke to the customs officer in faultless English,declaring their monogrammed silver. Upshot Rise was a natural home for them. It was almost a duplicate of the Beethovenstrasse where they had lived in Hamburg. Quiet,silent,and reliable. Like Upshot Rise.it lay in a dream suburb,a suburb of dream houses,a spotlessly clean nightmare. Jack and Ruth walked enjoined up the hill. They turned into the house that took in the bend of the road. Jack tried to silence the click of the gate as he opened it to let Ruth through. He knew that his mother would be waiting for the noise behind the bedroom window. It was the first time she would see Ruth and Jack wanted to give her no time advantage. He wanted them to meet at the door and see each other at the same time.

It can be concluded from the passage that Upshot Rise has_____.

A．a strong community spirit

B．a problem with nosey neighbors

C．a sterile feel and appearance

D．residents with a flair for self-expression

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第7题

The nuclear family ____ two parents （mother and father) and their children.A: consis

The nuclear family ____ two parents (mother and father) and their children.

A: consists of

B: consist of

C: is consisted of

D: consists

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第8题

B A British schoolboy has been excluded from lessons after he organised a mass protest ove

B

A British schoolboy has been excluded from lessons after he organised a mass protest over a lack of homework.

Aaron Parfitt, 14, led 100 of his fellow pupils on a walkout at Bispham High School in Blackpool on 12 March over concerns about teaching standards.

Despite his eagerness to learn, Aaron was told he wasbanned from lessons for the next two days, and now claims to have been excluded again ahead of a meeting between teachers and his mother on 17 March.

Aaron originally contacted Blackpool Council and Ofsted to raise concerns over the quality of teaching before losing patience and organising the 100-strong walkout last Wednesday.

Teachers took a dim view of his actions and excluded him for two days on Thursday and Friday last week - much to the anger of his mother Janet, 52.

'I'm absolutely fuming they've excluded him because he's doing the best he can to get a good education,' she said

'He was only trying to stick up for himself and his mates and then he gets told to stay away from the school for two days,' she added.

Aaron said: 'We've had loads of different teachers and we weren't getting enough homework.I failed my maths exam in school and I was really worried because I just wanted to make sure I was able to do the work properly.'

55.What can we infer from the passage？

A.Aaron could not get enough homework

B.Aaron's teachers were not adequate to their jobs at all

C.Teachers were accused of assigning little homework

D.All students did not agree with Aaron's proposal

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第9题

Maria Mitchell（1818-1889,the first woman astronomer（天文学家)in the United States, was b

Maria Mitchell(1818-1889,the first woman astronomer(天文学家)in the United States, was born in Nantucket. Massachusetts. Her parents valued education and insisted on giving her the same quality of education that boys received.

Her father. William Mitchell, was an astronomer and teacher himself. When he built his own school, Maria became a student and also a teaching assistant to him. At home. Marias father taught her to watch the stars and other natural objects in space using his personal telescope(望远镜).

Later she went to work at the library of the Nantucket Atheneum. Over the next tweny years. she further developed her interest in reading as many books as she could.She spent her nights watching the sky closely with her father.

On October 1, 1847,Maria discovered a comet(彗星 )by merely using a two-inch telescope. Some years before, King Frederick VI of Denmark had set up prizes to each discover of a"telescopic comet". The prize was to be given to the"first discoverer"of each such comet because comets were often discovered by more than one person.

There was once a question of who should be the winner. As the story goes, francesco de Vico had discovered the same comet two days later, but had reported it to the European vor. She won the prize in 1848 and became a big name the world over. The comet was named“ Miss mitchell&39;s Comet.”

What ean be learnt about Marias parents according to the text？

A.They came from low-income families.

B.They gave Maria equal chance for education

C.They were both astronomers

D.They were both teachers.

When did Franeeseo de Vico discover the comet？A.In1818

B.In1889

C.In1848

D.In1847

What problem did Maria meet with in winning the prize？A.She named the comet on her own

B.She did not use the required telescope.

C.She did not report her discovery in time

D.She discovered the comet with her father

Whe played the most important role in Maria's great achievement？A.King FrederickⅥ

B.Francesco de Vico

C.Her father

D.Her mother

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第10题

Karen Maclnnes had spent nine months in the hospital. As she grew weaker, the 16-year-old

girl asked her parents,“Am I going to die？”

Her mother told Karen the truth. After learning the bad news,all Karen wanted was to go home.

Her parents decided to satisfy her wish-no matter that medical fund (基金)，which had helped pay for Karen’s hospitalization, would not cover any of the full time medical care she would need at home. When she was carried through her front door,Karen smiled for the first time in months.

A friend of the Maclnnes family, Sheila Petersen, knew of this and offered to help. She volunteered (自愿)not only to find nurses,but also to raise money for Karen’s care. Money was received from so many people that Sheila created a fund,“Friends of Karen”.

After leaving the hospital, Karen lived for 11 months. And those months were happy ones for her，’’says her mother，“thanks to Sheila.”

Even after Karen died, people kept sending money. Sheila put it into the fund, tried to find someone else who needed help. By last month, Friends of Karen was helping 70 families.

“I still have a relationship with each family,”says Sheila. “We have four children who are near death now, and I want to be there for them. ’’Sheila admits(承认)the work is sometimes difficult，but says,“the smile on a child’s face makes it all worthwhile(值得的).” The mother told Karen that she____.

A.was going to die

B.was going home

C.was growing weak

D.was becoming better

Her parents agreed to take Karen home because____.A.thus they would save money

B.medical funds wouldn’t cover any of the full time medical care

C.they couldn, t pay for her hospitalization

D.they hoped to make her satisfied

Sheila helped Karen’s parents by____.A.giving them money

B.raising money from others

C.finding nurses for them

D.paying for Karen’s hospitalization

Karen lived for____since she had got out of the hospital.A.eleven months

B.nine months

C.twenty months

D.twelve months

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