Here are some facts about homes in the United States and the people who live in them. In the early 1990s, about 50% of the Americans own their homes and the rest rent(租) their homes. The rented homes are usually apartments(公寓).
74% of the people in the US make their homes in or around cities. 26% live in the country. Dogs live in about 40% of all homes in the US. About half that number have cats.
Families in the US are becoming smaller. On the average(平均),2.64 people lived in a home in the early 1990s. In 1960, the average was 3.5.
Half of the teenagers in the US have their own bedrooms.
An American moves, on the average,twelve times in his or her life. In Japan, a person moves about five times, and in England a person moves eight times.According to (根据) the passage ,where do most Americans live?
A.In the countries. | B.Around the farms. |
C.In the towns near the sea. | D.In or around the cities. |
How many American families own a cat?
A.40% | B.26% | C.74% | D.20% |
Families in the US are .
A.becoming bigger | B.becoming smaller | C.no change | D.not sure |
Do all the children in the US have their own bedrooms?
A.Yes, they do. | B.No. Half of them do. |
C.No, 5% of the them do. | D.I don’t know. |
The passage is about _________________.
A.people and homes in the United States |
B.dogs and cats in American homes |
C.teenagers’ bedrooms |
D.moving house |
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Football is, I suppose, the most popular game in England. In some important matches, you can see the rich and the poor, the young and the old all there, shouting and cheering for one side or the other.
One of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams. He has photographs of them and knows the results of a large number of matches. He will tell you who he expects(预料) to win such and such a match(诸如此类的比赛).
The schools arrange(安排) games and matches for their pupils. Football is a good game. It is good exercise for our body. It needs skills(技能) and wisdom(智慧) and it is popular and cheap. As a result, it is the school’s favorite game in winter.
根据短文内容判断下列句子的正(T)误(F)。Many people in England like football.
It is the strangest thing in England about football that people shout and cheer for oneside or the other.
The reason why the schools arrange football games for pupils in England is that it’s very interesting.
Even the smallest boy seems to have a great knowledge of football.
Football is a good game, but it is not cheap.
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Baseball is one of the favorite sports in the U.S.A. Children play baseball in sports field or in parks.
At summer picnics, there is often an informal baseball game. Boys and girls, the young and the old, take turns to beat. Each team has 9 players.
The baseball season goes from April to September. During this time, baseball matches are on TV and members of the important baseball teams become America’s heroes. At the end of season, the two top teams play against each other. Many baseball fans go along to watch the game. Millions of others listen to the radio and watch television. People seem to talk only about the result and the players.
American football is perhaps the most popular sport in the U.S.A. The football season begins when the baseball season ends. More people are interested in football than baseball when there is an important game. Thousands of people sit beside the radio or in front of the television set to hear or watch the result. According to the passage, ____ may be the most popular sport in the U.S.A.
A. baseball B. soccer
C. American football D. volleyball There will be ____ players in a baseball game match.
A.9 | B.18 | C.10 | D.16 |
Which of the following is true?
A.Americans always become heroes in September. |
B.Some baseball players become famous during the match time. |
C.Americans enjoy baseball the best. |
D.It seems that people have no interest in sports. |
The baseball fans can enjoy game by ____.
A.watching game |
B.listening to the radio |
C.watching TV |
D.all above |
The football season begins ____.
A.in spring | B.in summer |
C.in autumn | D.in winter |
I can’t remember the date when I started collecting litter. But it was when I got tired of seeing litter near my home and realized that nobody else was going to pick it up.
I live close to a forest in Ohio, America. I can walk there within three minutes! I used to love going there to play with my dog. But one day there was so much litter there that I became very unhappy. I decided to clean up the forest.
I made my first trip to clean the forest one afternoon. I took a big black rubbish bag with me. Ten minutes later, my bag was full of cans, bottles, broken glass and newspapers.
Since that first trip three years ago, I’ve been to the forest four times a year to pick up litter. I’m often there for three hours. It makes me feel great to do something for the environment.
After each trip, I look at all the litter I’ve found. If any of it is recyclable(可回收的),I’ll keep it. I can’t understand why people drop litter. But I will keep picking it up until they stop dropping it.
I know I can only do a small bit to help the earth, but I still think it is important.When did the writer begin to collect litter?
A.When he was very young.
B.After his home moved to a new place.
C.When he got tired of seeing litter near his home.Where does the writer live?
A.He lives in a forest.
B.He lives in a place with much litter.
C.He lives near a forest.The writer collects litter________.
A.in order to make the place clean
B.in order to make fun
C.in order to make moneyWhere does the writer collect litter?
A. In the forest B. In the street C. In the park.From the passage we infer(推断) __________
A.the writer always collects a lot of litter
B .the environment will be more beautiful if everyone tries to protect it.
C. the writer will go on collecting litter.
A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just become motherless. The bombing(爆炸) destroyed her home and killed her mother.
Every day we see pictures like this on TVs or in newspapers. We see young Iraqi children asking for food and water from American and soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards the capital, Baghdad(巴格达). We see these children following grown-ups, carrying bags of things almost at the same size as their small bodies as they leave their homes in Baghdad.
“Dad, why are the Americans fighting us? Are we going to be killed?” asks the son of Abu Sinar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.
He tries to comfort him by saying ,“The bombs(炸弹) are far away from us. The Americans are fighting the soldiers. We are going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows this isn’t always the truth, what else can he do? In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to make them sleep so that they won’t hear the sound of bombing. And all the schools are closed.
“All we do is to listen to and hear the war,” said Abu, “We, all the people and the children, have to live in fear(恐惧). We feel hopeless and helpless. We don’t know where the next bombs are going. We can do nothing but wait to be killed.”During the war, children are ______________.
A.studying at school B.safer than their parentsC.in great dangerThe children have to flee(逃离) their homes because_________.
A.it’s dangerous to stay at home because of the bombing.
B.their parents are not at home
C.they want to get food and water.Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his son, because___________.
A.he doesn’t want to tell him the real reason
B.he doesn’t want to tell a lie.
C.he doesn’t know how to explain it clearly.“sleeping pills” are __________.
A. a kind of thing to help them to be away from the war.
B.a kind of medicine to help them to fall asleep
C.a kind of food to make them strongAccording to the passage we know that__________.
A. all the children in Iraqi are looking for something to eat.
B. all the children in Iraqi are thinking about something to solve the war problem
C. the children in Iraqi are feeling fearful, helpless and hopeless during the war.
Most people in Britain live in small family groups. More than a quarter of homes in Britain have only one person living in them. Some of these persons are old but some are of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone. 35% of homes have two people living in them, and another 17% have three people. 15% have four people living in them, and the other homes have five or more.
The families in Britain are small. It is unusual for parents to have more than two children. When children are about eighteen or nineteen, they leave their parents’ home, and they often go to other cities. Sometimes they only visit their parents two or three times a year.
根据短文内容,判断正(A)误( B)。The passage is a report.
35% of homes in Britain have 3 people living in them.
The families in Britain are large.
Some are people of twenty to thirty who choose to live alone.
The passage mainly tells us the population in American.