America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while - then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending（延伸）sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality（好客） easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don't show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly cannot manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine（事务）. They will be likely to expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!The writer of this passage must be_______.
| A．an American | B．a Chinese | C．a visitor | D．a student |
Which of the following is true according to the passage?
| A．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break. |
| B．Americans are usually more friendly than Chinese. |
| C．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. |
| D．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives. |
From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will be_______.
| A．warmly welcomed at the airport |
| B．offered a ride to his home |
| C．treated hospitably at his home |
| D．treated to dinner in a restaurant |
The underlined words "generous with our time" in Paragraph 3 mean_______.
| A．strict with time | B．willing to spend time |
| C．careful with time | D．free with time |
One day, when Jack is taking a walk on the street, he hears a voice. He finds a girl crying in the street.
“Why are you crying, little girl?” Jack asks. “I lost my doll,” the girl answers. “Don’t cry, little girl. I’ll go to the shop and buy a new doll for you,” Jack says. So the little girl follows Jack to the shop and Jack buys a very nice doll for her. The little girl begins to feel happy. Then Jack says goodbye to her.
But a few minutes later, Jack hears the girl crying again. “Why are you crying again?” Jack asks the little girl.
“If I hadn’t lost my doll, I’d have two dolls!” the girl says.What is a girl doing in the street?
| A．She is looking for her doll. |
| B．She is crying. |
| C．She is asking Jack for help. |
| D．She is taking a walk. |
At first, why is the little girl crying?
A. Because she lost her doll.
B. Because she wants to have two dolls.
C. Because she wants a nice doll.
D. Both A and B.After Jack buys a doll for her, the girl feels ______ .
| A．sad | B．angry | C．unhappy | D．glad |
Why does the little girl cry again?
| A．She lost the doll again. |
| B．She don’t like the doll. |
| C．She thinks she should have two dolls, but now she only has one. |
| D．She only has two dolls. |
Which sentence is right?
| A．Jack knows the little girl. |
| B．Jack buys two nice dolls for the little girl. |
| C．The little girl has two dolls at last. |
| D．The little girl has only one doll at last. |
It is very important to have good friends. A life without a friend is a life without a sun.
Having good friends can help us in lots of different ways. People with a lot of friends usually feel happier than people with no friends. Everything we do will be more fun if we have friends with us to share our happiness and worries. 1)When friends are in trouble, we should help them _____ ______laughing at them. When we are feeling sad or worried, our friends will also give us advice and help us get out of difficulties.
2)We should not only have good friends but also be good friends. We need our friends as much as they need us. We should be willing to help friends when they need help.回答下列问题
What will friends do when we have difficulties?
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If friends need our help, we should be glad to help them.
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Bob Harris was a weatherman at a small television station. He worked for twenty years and during those twenty years, he felt that his life was boring. Every day, he studied the weather and tried to predict(预报)the next day’s weather. Then, he stood in front of the camera and read his report. Some days it was cloudy, some days it was sunny; sometimes rainy, while sometimes snowy. The weather changed each day, but Bob still felt that his job was always the same. His boss often told him to be happier and smile more in front of the camera, but Bob rarely smiled. He thought that most people did not watch his weather report and his job did not matter much to anyone. One day, he arrived at work and began to study the weather as usual. He noticed that something was different that day.
Everything he studied told him that there was going to be a very big storm very soon, though he was not completely sure. Suddenly, Bob felt excited. He ran to his boss’s office and asked to do a special weather report. The boss agreed and Bob gave a special report that afternoon, warning people of the coming storm. Because of this report, many people were safe during the storm.
Bob realized(意识到) that his job was actually very important.Why did Bob feel that his life was boring?
| A．Because the weather changed each day. |
| B．Because he did not want to work for a small television station. |
| C．Because he did not like to stand in front of the camera. |
| D．Because he felt that his job was always the same. |
Why did Bob rarely smile when he was in front of the camera?
| A．Because he thought that his job did not matter much to anyone. |
| B．Because he only worked for a small televison station. |
| C．Because he did not like his boss. |
| D．Because the weather report was boring. |
Why did Bob ask to do a special weather report?
| A．Because he felt excited. |
| B．Because he wanted to warn people of the coming storm. |
| C．Because he realized that his job was actually very important. |
| D．Because he wanted to smile in front of the camera. |
Why did Bob feel excited?
| A．Because he wanted to do a special weather report. |
| B．Because he wanted to ask his boss for more money. |
| C．Because he knew there was going to be a big storm soon. |
| D．Because he was going to stand in front of the camera. |
How did Bob realize that his job was actually very important?
| A．People were safe from the storm because of his weather report. |
| B．He got better pay after he did the weather report. |
| C．People liked him very much. |
| D．He did a special report every day. |
Little Mike’s grandma died weeks ago. He missed her very much. One afternoon Mike went to the city park where his grandma used to go. There he saw an old lady. She looked very kind. She was sitting there, watching pigeons(鸽子).Little Mike went up and sat next to her. He took out his food and drinks and gave some to her. She smiled at him. Her smile was so sweet that Mike wanted to see it again. She seemed to understand him, so once again she smiled. Mike was very glad.
They sat there all the afternoon, eating and talking. As it grew dark, Mike got up to leave. Before he left, he hugged the old lady and she gave her sweetest smile.
When Mike got home, his mother was surprised by the look of joy on his face. “I met a granny in the park. Her smile was like the kind of smile I had seen on grandma’s face.”
The old lady also returned to her home happily. She told her son that she had food and drinks with a little boy. “He was as lovely as Brittany.” She said. Her son was surprised, because he had never seen her so happy since Brittany, her grandson, died weeks ago.Little Mike went to the park and ________.
| A．played with pigeons |
| B．fed pigeons |
| C．met an old lady |
| D．saw a friend of his grandma’s |
The old lady’s smile showed that _______.
| A．he had hoped to meet the boy |
| B．she wanted to get some drinks |
| C．she missed her grandson |
| D．she liked the little boy |
Mike felt very glad because_______.
| A．he gave the granny food and drinks |
| B．the old lady was as kind as his grandma |
| C．he had seen his grandma |
| D．she liked the little boy |
Mike and the old lady________.
| A．were good to each other |
| B．knew each other well |
| C．often met in the park |
| D．did nothing that afternoon |
What can we learn from the story?
| A．When one feels unhappy, he must go to a park |
| B．Old people are always kind and happy |
| C．Children and old people should get on well with each other |
| D．When people are kind to each other, they will feel happy |
It is not a good idea for children to have to work hard. Children should study in school as hard as they can. They should not have to do heavy work with their bodies. When parents or others force(强迫)their children to work hard, the results are never good. Many may be very bad. If a farmer makes his son work like a man, he may easily learn to hate farming.
Children sometimes do too much in gardens, in shops, or even in their own homes. They soon begin to hate such work with a force, because that can destroy their happiness. But there may be a worse loss, child’s love for its parents. The feeling may become something different. When that happens, the old kind of love never returns.It is not a good idea for _______to have to work hard.
| A．men | B．women | C．children | D．boys |
Children should study in school _______.
| A．hard | B．easy | C．happy | D．early |
Children should not have to do _______work with their bodies.
| A．easy | B．good | C．heavily | D．heavy |
The writer thinks children should study and play _______.
| A．hard | B．happily | C．heavily | D．happy |
The writer thinks children’s parents or others don’t force their _______to work hard.
| A．sisters | B．brothers | C．children | D．uncles |