Every year thousands of young people in England finish school and then take a year off before they start work or go to university. Some young people go to other countries and work as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, or they do something helpful for the environment.
Pauline Jones, 18, lives in Cardiff, Wales. Next year she wants to go to university to study Chinese, but now she’s living in Belize. Pauline says, “I’m working with other people here to save the coral reefs (珊瑚礁) in the sea near Belize. The reefs here are beautiful, but if the sea water is very polluted, the coral dies. I’m helping to do research(研究） on the coral and the fish that live around the reefs. All over the world, coral reefs are dying. We need to do something about the problem before it’s too late.”
“I’m staying with a family here and I help do some housework. I don’t get any money, but that’s OK. I love my work here, and I’m learning a lot about the people of Belize—and myself!
When I finish my work, I want to stay here for another three months. I want to travel around Belize and Central America.”2-1-c-n-j-ySome young people from England _______ after they finish school.
| A．go to university |
| B．spend one year as volunteers |
| C．go to work for money |
| D．start work in schools or hospitals |
Pauline Jones, an eighteen-year-old girl, is living in _______ now.
| A．England | B．China |
| C．Belize | D．Cardiff |
Pauline Jones is _______ with other people.
| A．studying Chinese in a university |
| B．working to save the coral reefs |
| C．helping do some housework |
| D．doing some research in Wales |
From the passage, we know that the coral reefs ______.
| A．will die because of the pollution |
| B．are not as beautiful as before |
| C．cannot live without fish in the sea |
| D．will probably be sold for money |
Pauline Jones wants to after she finishes her work as a volunteer.
| A．stay there for another year |
| B．go back home to start work |
| C．learn about the people home |
| D．travel around Central America |
Rose usually wakes up early in the morning. She always has her breakfast at half past six. She leaves home at about seven o’clock.. She is never late for school.
She has many classes in the morning. At about twelve fifteen, she comes back for lunch. In the afternoon, she isn’t so busy. After school she does her homework and plays with other children.
In the evening, her parents come back from the factory. The family has supper together. After that, they usually read newspaper or listen to the radio for a little time. Sometimes, they watch TV. Rose goes to bed at half past nine. But her father often works late at night.Rose gets up ________ every morning.
| A．late | B．early | C．at 6:30 | D．at 7:00 |
Rose often goes to school at _______.
| A．seven o’clock | B．half past seven | C．seven fifteen | D．about six thirty |
Rose likes doing her homework____________.
| A．after supper | B．in the evening | C．after school | D．after nine thirty at night |
Rose’s father often ______late.
| A．comes back | B．has supper | C．works | D．goes to bed |
What do they usually do after supper? They usually_______
| A．watch TV | B．read newspaper |
| C．do their homework | D．play with other children |
Jack is an eleven-year-old boy. He has a father, a mother, a grandfather and two brothers in his family. Jack is the youngest (年龄最小的). One of his brothers, Tim, is fourteen years old. The other brother, Mike, is fifteen years old. What’s eleven and fourteen and fifteen? That is Jack’s father John’s age. Jack’s mother is very young. She gives birth to (生下) Jack when she is twenty-five years old. Jack doesn’t know his grandfather’s age. He is very old but very healthy.There are seven people in Jack’s family.
Jack doesn’t have a sister.
John is thirty years old.
Jack’s mother is twenty-five years old.
Jack’s grandfather isn’t old and he is healthy.
| 1. Mrs. Li wants to send her daughter to take some piano lessons during the coming summer holiday. 2. Betty and her boyfriend want to spend the weekend to watch something new. They both like dancing. 3. Darning wants to buy some newspaper to read so that he can improve his English. 4. Mr. Black wants to come to Beijing for the first time in August. He wants to enjoy the real Beijing Opera very much. 5. Tony and his colleagues will have a trip in Guangzhou next week. They need to rent a car and a driver who understands English. |
A. Watch Your Neck: This modern ballet is telling the story of “Dracula” which is the classic novel by Irish playwright Bram Stoker. Time: 8:30 pm, February 2-9 Tel:98558588 B. Children’s Activity Center Tel: 66589982 Add: No. 2 Zhongshan Road (Singing lessons, piano lessons and dancing lessons.) C. Art Show: A total of 10 artists living close to each other are jointly giving an art exhibition. D. Peking Opera: Mei Lanfang’s brave fighting against the Japanese during the war of Resistance against Japanese will open your mind. E. Foreign Book Center: More and more increasing learning English books and newspapers, CDs. ect. F. The Changcheng hotel: Five star hotel. Looking for much experienced receptionists. Tel: (010)55883326 G. Car-Hire Service: 12 seat Forit transit van for hire in Zhujing Business and Private Hire. We have English-speaking drivers. |
If you go to Finland, you’ll be surprised to find how “foolish” the Finnish people are.
Take the taxi drivers for example. Taxis in Finland are mostly high class Benz with a fare (票价) of two US dollars a kilometer. You can go anywhere in one, tell the driver to drop you at any place, say that you have some business to attend to, and then get off without paying your fare. And the driver would not show the least sign of worry.
The dining rooms in all big hotels not only serve their guests, but also outside diners. Hotel guests have their meals free, so their good faith is to wave their registration card to the waiter. With such a loose check, you can easily use any old registration card to take a couple of friends and dine free of charge.
With so many loopholes (漏洞) in everyday life, surely Finland must be a heaven to those who love to take “pretty advantages”. But the strange things is, all the taxi-passengers would always come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business; not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. As the Finns always act on good faith and always show an attitude of “which is which” and “what is what” in everything they do, so to live in such a society has turned everyone into a real “gentleman”. In a society of such high moral practice, what need is there for people to take precautions (预防措施) against others?The word “foolish” probably means _____________.
| A．friendly | B．careful | C．strange | D．funny |
Why wouldn’t the driver show the least sign of worry? Because _________.
| A．he is sure that the passengers always act on good faith |
| B．he is afraid to make the passengers angry and unhappy |
| C．he thinks the passengers may be too poor to pay him |
| D．he is sure that the passengers are really in trouble |
The dining rooms in all big hotels ___________.
| A．check the guests’ registration card carefully |
| B．give people meals without paying |
| C．serve their guests free of charge |
| D．only serve their guests free breakfast |
What’s FALSE according to the passage?
| A．No one takes advantages although there are many loopholes. |
| B．All the taxi-passengers come back to pay their fare after they have attended to their business. |
| C．Not a single outsider has ever been found in the free hotel dining rooms. |
| D．Finland is heaven for immoral people because they can always take advantages freely. |
The sentences “which is which” and “what is what” show that __________.
| A．the Finns are foolish |
| B．the Finns take things seriously |
| C．the Finns are busy making money for the family |
| D．the Finns never take precaution against others |
Life in the twenty-first century will be very different from life today. Between then and now many changes will take place, but what will the changes be?
The population is growing fast. There will be many people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now.
Computers will be much smaller and more useful, and there will be at least one in every home. And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then.
People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports, watching TV and travelling. Travelling will be much easier and cheaper. And many more people will go to other countries for holidays.
There will be changes in our food, too. Maybe no one will eat meat every day, instead they eat more fruit and vegetables. Maybe people will be healthier.
Work in the future will be different, too. Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots. Because of this, many people will not have enough work to do. This will be a problem.There will be _________ in the future.
| A．small population | B．few changes | C．more people | D．few people |
In the future the computer will be _________.
| A．much bigger and few people will use it |
| B．much smaller and more useful |
| C．smaller and not many people will use it |
| D．bigger and a lot of people will use it |
In the future more people _________.
| A．will go to other countries for holidays |
| B．will study at school |
| C．will go earlier |
| D．will work for many hours |
People will prefer _________ to _________ in the future.
| A．meat and vegetables; fruit |
| B．meat; fruit and vegetables |
| C．fruit and meat; vegetables |
| D．fruit and vegetables; meat |
The robots will _________ in the future.
| A．do the dangerous work |
| B．do all the work |
| C．do only housework |
| D．do the easy work for people |