Last month I went to Los Angeles to visit my friend Gavin. I traveled there by train. The journey was very beautiful but it was very long. It was late in the evening when my train arrived. When I walked out of the station, . “I could take a taxi to Gavin’s house,” I thought. But then I decided to take a bus because buses were cheaper.
. There was a map of the bus routes（线路）but I couldn’t understand it very well. I got on a bus and hoped it would take me right way. But after about fifteen minutes I realized I was going the wrong way. So I got off the bus and took another one back to the train station. By now it was very late.
. I looked for a taxi but I couldn’t find one anywhere. Finally, I phoned Gavin and said, “I’m still at the train station. Please come and pick me up!”
. What a long journey!
| A. I decided to take a taxi B. I walked to the bus stop C. He didn’t know when I arrived D. He came and drove me to his home E. I found some taxies waiting outside |
A few years ago, Dave Stirling had the idea of selling CDs over the Internet. The business he started from his home in Ohio, the USA, now sells 500,000 CDs a year and has made him into a millionaire(百万富翁)at the age of 24.
“I could see that this was the future of shopping,” says Stirling. “Why should you pay $15 for a CD and spend the time and the money getting into the store and parking your car? You can have the same CD for half of the price by clicking(敲击)on your computer. And we can find any CD you want and bring it to your door in 24 hours!”
According to Stirling, this is the only beginning, “I believe that one day we’ll do our shopping over the net: it’s easier, quicker and cheaper. Shops and supermarkets will be the past.”Dave Stirling started his business from _____
A. his home B. His company C. the officeHow has Stirling become so rich ?
A. By making ice cream.
B. By making advertisements.
C. By selling CDs over the Internet.If you pay $15 for a CD in the store, how much should you pay for it over the net?
A. $15 B. $12 C. $7.5By shopping over the net, you won’t _______________.
A. spend the time and the money
B. click on your computer
C. get into the store by yourselfWhat can we learn from the passage?
A. More than half of the Americans prefer to shop over the net.
B. Shops and supermarkets will be the past in the future.
C. It’s easier, quicker and more expensive to do our shopping over the net.
Aunt Ma sees an ad(广告)in a newspaper for a nice bed in a shop. It costs 600 yuan. Aunt Ma likes it, so she goes to the shop. The shopkeeper (店主) shows one to her. Aunt Ma has a look at it and says, “There aren’t any beautiful pillows (枕头) on this bed, but there are many on the bed in your ad.”
“Yes, that is an ad,” answers the shopkeeper. “If you want a bed the same as the one in the ad, you need to pay 60 yuan more.”
Aunt Ma isn’t happy. Then she says, “That’s dishonest.”
“Well,” answers the shopkeeper. “Look, there is a girl on a bike in an ad in your newspaper too, but can you buy the bike with the girl?”How does Aunt Ma know about the bed?
| A．From an ad on TV. |
| B．From one of her friends. |
| C．From an ad in a newspaper. |
| D．From the shopkeeper. |
How much is the bed with the pillows?
| A．600 yuan. | B．660 yuan. | C．60 yuan. | D．540 yuan. |
What does “dishonest” mean?
| A．不公平的 | B．不诚实的 | C．不美观的 | D．小气的 |
What does Aunt Ma want to do?
| A．She wants to talk with the shopkeeper. |
| B．She wants to buy beautiful pillows. |
| C．She wants to buy a nice bed. |
| D．She wants to buy a bike. |
What else is in Aunt Ma’s newspaper?
| A．An ad for a bike. |
| B．An ad for some pillows. |
| C．An ad for a bed. |
| D．An ad for a girl. |
We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival. There is a name for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep, the year of the monkey or the year of the dog. And this year is the year of the tiger.
Before New Year’s Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. On New Year’s Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, the family don’t go to sleep to welcome the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their friends and relatives. They say “Happy New Year” and some other greetings (问候) to each other. People usually have a very good time during the festival.How many Chinese festivals are mentioned(谈到) in this passage(段)?
| A．One | B．Two | C．Three | D．Four |
We can find every Chinese year has ________ name.
| A．an animal | B．a pet | C．a family | D．a full |
How do Chinese people usually spend New Year’s Eve?
| A．They put on new clothes. |
| B．They visit their friends and relatives. |
| C．They are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. |
| D．They have a big dinner and wait to welcome the New Year. |
On New Year’s Day, people say “_______” to each other when they meet
| A．Merry Christmas | B．Glad to meet you |
| C．Happy birthday to you | D．Happy New Year |
The best title (题目) for this passage (文章) is ______.
| A．Good time | B．The Spring Festival |
| C．Big Dinner | D．The Year of the tiger |
先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Seven cats are good friends. They live in the same town. They always go 1 together on Saturdays. Every time one of them finds a place to go.
Today, a 2 called Mimi should find a place, but she doesn’t give 3 calls to her friends. The other cats are angry (生气). They all go to Mimi’s house and ask her, “You give us no call. 4 ?”
Mimi hears (听到) this and begins to cry. She 5 , “I will move to a new house with my father. It is in another town. I can’t go shopping with you 6 .”
Her friends hear that and talk for a long time. Then they have an idea. “Don’t 7 . We will go to that town and do the shopping 8 your new house.”
Mimi is very happy. She jumps high.
Two days later, Mimi comes to her friends and says, “I don’t need to move. My father 9 a new job here in this town.”
Her friends are happy again. They still go shopping together on 10 .
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What’s the most important thing for you to have in your life? Somebody mentions hard-work, others suggest knowledge, love and luck.
If you arrange the 26 English letters alphabetically(按字母表的顺序)and use numbers to represent each of them, for example, 1 for a, 2 for b, 3 for c…, you can change an English word into a number. So hard-work becomes 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11="98," meaning 98 is its mark; knowledge: 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5="96," while love:12+15+22+5="54," and luck : 12+21+3+11="47," a small mark. None of these words can give one a full mark. What about money or prayer(祈祷)? They can’t , either.
Then what else? Don’t be worried． You can always find an answer to a problem in your life, when you change your way of looking at things or doing things, or your attitude(态度).Yes, attitude is the word． See for yourself: attitude:1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100，a full mark.
Different attitudes lead to different courses of life. Most times people hope for a better life. It is possible that one will have a change for the better after one has changed one’s attitude.
When you change your manner and became friendly towards others, you’ll meet more smiling faces towards you. In the same way, if you take a positive (积极地) attitude towards failure(失败),you’ll find it’s also rewarding though it has caused you losses.In the writer’s opinion, what is the most important things in a person’s life?
| A．Hard-work. | B．Knowledge. | C．Money. | D．Attitude. |
According to the passage, if you meet with problems, the best way out is to _______.
| A．ask for help from others |
| B．say your prayers to God |
| C．change your attitude |
| D．try maths-solving methods (方法) |
From the passage we can learn that ______.
| A．different attitudes come from different courses of life |
| B．mathematics can solve every problem easily in our daily life |
| C．failure sometimes can bring you good if you take a positive attitude |
| D．none of the English words except “attitude” equals to 100 or more |