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People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many meanings using the word “mouth”. But some of them are not so nice.
For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest (抗议) and say “Do not bad mouth me.”
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret(后悔) because it hurts that person’s feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say, “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend is going to say. When this happens, the friend might say, “You took the words right out of my mouth!”
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth”.
This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives “from hand to mouth”. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.“I really put my foot in my mouth this time” means _________.
| A．I regretted I had done the thing | B．I really did this |
| C．I have never done this thing | D．I want to do this thing |
When your friend took the words right out of your mouth, you can say “_________”.
| A．You are clever | B．I am very lucky |
| C．We have the same idea | D．I am very angry |
If a person lives from hand to mouth, he must be very _________.
| A．rich | B．poor | C．happy | D．sad |
The passage mainly tells us _________.
| A．everyone in England has the same mouth |
| B．people use their mouths to eat, talk, shout and sing |
| C．rich persons’ mouths are quite different with the poor persons’ |
| D．the word “mouth” has many different meanings in the English language |
Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, seldom walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.
When Mary was in hospital with heart trouble in 1989, they decided it was time to get serious. Richard, who worked for a business company, wanted to work for himself, and Mary needed to slow down from her job.
They started by talking to bookstore owners and researching(调查) the industry. “We knew it had to be a specialty store because we couldn’t match the big chains dollar for dollar,” says Mary. One figure caught her attention: She’d read somewhere that roughly 20 percent of books sold were mysteries(推理小说), and many buyers spent more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard were themselves mystery readers.
On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Café near their home. With three children in college, the couple could not spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the whole $ 100, 000 cost, they drew some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.
The store broke even in its first year, with only $ 120,000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to attract customers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of writers to discuss their stories.
Today Mystery Lovers makes sales of about $ 420,000 a year. After paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $ 34,000.
“The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income,” says Richard. “This has always been about an enjoyable life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money.” After Mary got well from her illness they began _________.
| A．to study industrial management (工业管理) |
| B．to buy and read more mystery books |
| C．to do market research on book business |
| D．to work harder to save money for the bookstore |
How did their bookstore do in the first year?
| A．They had to borrow money to keep it going. |
| B．They made just enough to cover all the costs. |
| C．They succeeded in earning a lot of money. |
| D．They failed though they worked hard. |
According to Richard, the main purpose(目的) of running the bookstore is _________.
| A．to pay for children’s education |
| B．to get to know more writers |
| C．to set up more bookstores |
| D．to do what they like to do |
A man came home from work late, tired, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
“Daddy, how much money do you make each hour?”
“If you must know, I make $20 each hour.”
“Oh,” the little boy answered, with his head down. He thought for a moment, looked up and said, “Daddy, could you lend me $10?”
The father was furious, “If you asked for the money to buy a toy or some other rubbish, then go straight to your room and think about why you are so selfish!”
The little boy went to his room with no words and shut the door. After a short while, the father calmed down, and started to think, “Maybe he really needs to buy something and he didn’t really ask for money very often.” So he went to the little boy’s room.
“Sorry！Maybe I was too hard on you just now.” said the man, “Here’s $10.”
“Oh, thank you Daddy!” he said happily. Then the boy took out some coins. When the father found that the boy already had money, he got angry again.
“Why do you want more money since you already have some?” the father shouted angrily.
“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do.” the little boy replied, “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy one hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”In this passage, the underlined word “furious” in Paragraph 5 means _________.
| A．very angry | B．quite happy | C．too excited | D．a little nervous |
At first, the father didn’t lend the money because _________.
| A．he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself. |
| B．he did not have enough money at that moment |
| C．he thought the boy would buy something useless |
| D．the boy always borrowed money from him |
The boy wanted to buy _________ with twenty dollars.
| A．a new novel for himself | B．a nice present for his father |
| C．a toy for his own birthday | D．one hour of his father’s time |
| Landing card Welcome to the United States of America 1. First (Given) name:William 2. Date of birth (dd/mm/yy):12/08/98 3. Flight no.AA3751 4. Number of family members traveling with you: None 5. Country of citizenship:Spain 6. Purpose of visit:To see family 7. Are you carrying any of these things: Food, animal, plants, guns or cash over 10,000? Some chocolate 8. Have you had any illnesses in the last 3 months?No 9. How long will you be staying in the USA?Two weeks 10. Is this your first visit to the USA?No 11. In which city will you spend the most time during your stay? New York 12. What is your next destination?Madrid, Spain |
When is William’s birthday?
| A．August 8 | B．December 8 | C．August 12 | D．December 12 |
How long will William stay in the USA?
| A．Two weeks. | B．Two months. | C．One week. | D．One month. |
Where can you find the card?
| A．At the school. | B．In the airplane. | C．At the bus stop. | D．In the hospital. |
In Xinjiang, most people knew the stories of Avanti. Avanti was a very clever man. People liked him because he not only spoke for the poor but also was always ready to help them.
One day Avanti walked on the street and saw two men arguing with each other. A lot of people stood around them. One of the two men was the owner of the eating house in the town and the other was a young man. The young man just passed by the eating house. The owner of the eating house told the young man to pay him money. The young man explained（解释）that he hadn’t taken anything from the eating house. But the owner said that the young man had taken the smell of the nice food from the eating house, and he must pay for it. So Avanti went up to the owner and said, “ I’ll pay you the money.” Avanti took out some coins（硬币） from his pocket and put them into his bags. He shook his bag, and people heard the sound of the coins. Then Avanti said to the owner, “ Take away the sound of the coins. That’s what I pay for the smell of your food.”People liked Avanti because ______________.
| A．he was clever and disliked helping the poor |
| B．he was rich and liked helping the poor |
| C．he was wise and liked to help the poor |
| D．he was too poor to help the rich |
One day Avanti saw two men _____________.
| A．arguing about the eating house |
| B．arguing about the payment |
| C．eating in the eating house |
| D．laughing at the people around them |
The owner of the eating house told the young man ____________.
| A．to pay enough money for his food |
| B．to pay the money for broken bowls |
| C．to pay for the smell of the food |
| D．to pay for the service |
Avanti wanted to help the young man, so _____________.
| A．he helped the young man out of trouble |
| B．he would pay for the money instead of the young man |
| C．he asked the owner not to ask the young man for money |
| D．he asked the young man to make friends with the owner |
Avanti paid the owner of the eating house _____________.
| A．enough money | B．some coins |
| C．a lot of things | D．the sound of coins |
There are seabirds as well as land-birds. The most ordinary seabird is the seagull. It has a white body, a white head and a yellow beak. There is a very, very spot of red at the very end of the beak, underneath. All gulls have very strong wings so that they can fly far out to sea. If a gull flies out too far, so that it is too tired to fly back to the shore(岸边), it does not get frightened, for it can sit and rest upon the waves(波浪). A seagull’s wings do not get wet because all its feathers have a kind of oil over them, so that when the water gets on to the feathers, it just runs off again. Gulls can even sleep upon the waves.
Sailors(水手) know a lot about seagulls and they never kill them. When the gulls fly a long way out to sea, sailors say that it means fine weather is coming. When the gulls stay near the shore, sailors say they there will be much wind and rain, and perhaps a storm, for the gulls know more about the weather than sailors do.The seagull is a kind of ________.
| A．fish | B．land-bird | C．seabird | D．animal |
Every gull is able to fly far out to sea because it _________.
| A．is very light | B．has very strong wings |
| C．always flies high | D．is strong enough |
A seagull does not get frightened even when it is far away from the shore and it is too tired to fly back because it can ____________.
| A．swim under the sea | B．stay under the sea |
| C．rest and sleep upon the waves | D．jump into the sea |
The water can’t make the seagull’s feathers wet because the feathers are __________.
| A．thick | B．long | C．light | D．oily |
If seagulls stay near the shore, it will be ___________.
| A．windy, rainy or stormy | B．sunny and hot |
| C．fine and warm | D．freezing cold |