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Americans have used colors to create many expressions they use every day.
We say you’re ‘in the pink’ when we are in good health. It is easy to understand how this expression was born. When my face has a nice fresh, pink color, it is a sign my health is good.
The color green is natural for trees, it is an unnatural color for humans. When someone doesn’t feel well, someone who is sick, for example, we say he ‘looks green’. When someone is angry because he doesn’t have what someone else has, we say he is ‘green with envy’.
Some people are ‘green with envy’ because someone else has more dollars, or ‘green backs’. Dollars are called ‘greenbacks’ because that’s the color of the backside of the money.
Blue is a cool color. The traditional blue music of American blacks is the opposite of red hot music. It is slow, sad and soulful ( 深情的 ). To be blue, of course, is to be sad.
The color black is often used in expressions. People describe a day in which everything grows wrong as a ‘black day’. A ‘black sheep’ is the member of a family or group who always seems to be in trouble. If someone meets a ‘black cat’, something unlucky might happen to him. Not all the ‘black’ expressions have bad meaning. A company ‘in the red’ is losing money. If someone tells you to put someone ‘in black and white’, they want you to write it down.
After reading the passage, we can infer ( 推断 ) if someone ‘looks grey’, he _______.

A.looks well B.may need a doctor
C.is healthy D.is ‘in the pink’

I was really _________ when I saw his nice new car.

A.red B.blue
C.green D.black

Which of the following is true?

A.A company surely likes to be ‘in the red’.
B.All the color expressions in the passage come from Britain English.
C.Not all the ‘black’ expressions have bad meanings.
D.Dollars are called ‘greenbacks’ because they have trees on the backside.
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A lift is very useful. It looks like a small room. It goes up and down all day. Sometimes a worker stands in the lift. He or she operates(操作) it up and down. In modern lifts there's no worker. People walk in. They know what floor they want to go. They push a button(按钮)and the lift goes to that floor. It's very fast and easy.
Lifts are very important to us. Why? Think about a tall building. Maybe it has twenty floors. Maybe it has fifty or more. Who can walk up all the stairs (楼梯 )?Maybe people can climb them once. Can someone climb thirty floors to an office every day? Can small children walk up to their rooms on the twenty-four floor? Can their mothers or fathers carry food up to all those stairs? Of course not. We can have very high buildings because we have lifts. We could not have all the beautiful tall buildings without lifts. Because it is too tired for people to climb the stairs every day.
根据短文的意思回答问题或完成句子。
What does a worker do when he or she stand in the lift?
____________
Can small children walk up to their room on the twenty-four floor?
____________
Why do we have many high buildings?
____________

Mr. Smith works in an office. He’s very busy and has no time to have a good rest. Every evening, when he comes back from his office, he’s always tired and wants to go to bed early. But his wife often has a lot of interesting things to tell him after supper. She doesn’t stop talking until she falls asleep.
One day Mr. Smith felt terrible and couldn’t go to work. He decided to go to see a doctor. And Mrs. Smith went to the hospital with him. Before her husband said what was the matter with him, she had told the doctor all and the doctor understood why. He wrote out a prescription (药方). And when Mrs. Smith brought the medicine to the resulting room (门诊室), The doctor said to her, “The bottle of medicine is for your husband and the pills are for you.”
“For me?” Mrs. Smith said in surprise. “I’m fine. I don’t need any medicine!”
“I don’t think so, madam,” said the doctor. “They are sleeping pills. Your husband will soon be all right if you take them.”
Mr. Smith is ____________.

A.too busy to have a good rest
B.too busy to have a good time
C.busy enough to have a good rest
D.too busy to enjoy himself

“His wife doesn’t stop talking until she falls asleep” means “____________”.

A.She doesn’t stop talking when she falls asleep
B.She doesn’t stop talking after she falls asleep
C.She keeps talking until she falls asleep
D.She stops talking before she falls asleep

Why does Mr. Smith have to get up when his wife is asleep in the morning?

A.Because he can’t fall asleep.
B.Because he has to go to work.
C.Because he doesn’t want to sleep.
D.Because he has to see a doctor.

The doctor meant that her husband would be all right if _______________.

A.her husband took the pills.
B.she took the bottle of medicine
C.she and her husband took the bottle of medicine
D.she stops talking too much at night

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If you want to watch NBA, the best programmer for you would be ______.

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“Modern English” is a programmer that ______.

A.teaches you English
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People use money to buy food, books and hundreds of other things they need. When they work, they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money used today is made of metal or paper. But in ancient (古代的) time people often used all kinds of things as money. One of the first kinds of money was shells (贝壳).
In China, cloth and knives were used as money. Elephant tusks (象牙), monkey tails and salt were used in some pans of Africa (非洲). Rice was also a kind of money used by the ancient people in some islands.
Cows and other animals were used as money, too.
The first copper coins(硬币) were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the center. Different countries have used different metals for their money. Later, some countries began to make coins of gold and silver (银). But gold and silver were heavy to carry when people needed a lot of coins to buy something expensive. The Chinese were the first to use paper money. The first paper money looked more like a note from one person to another than the paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting story from the days of shell money till today.
People usually use money .

A.to buy gold
B.to get something they want
C.to buy shells
D.to buy something expensive

In the past ,the ancient (古代的)Chinese used to have cloth and knives ____.

A.as a tool B.as money
C.as a gift D.as a kind of goods

was also a kind of money used by the people on some islands.

A.Gold B.Animals
C.Rice D.Knives

The first paper money ___.

A.looked like the same as the paper money used today
B.looked interesting
C.looked like a note
D.had a square hole in the center

Betty is an American school girl. She is very happy because her parents will take her to China for a visit. They are going to fly from New York on June 30 and get to Beijing on July 1. They will stay at Lido Holiday Inn. Their Chinese friends will show them around Beijing. They are going to visit the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall. They will also visit some Chinese homes and try some Chinese food. They will spend a week in Beijing and then go to Xi’an, Guilin and some other places for sightseeing. The whole trip will take three weeks and she is sure she will have a great time in China.
Betty is very happy because she will _______ with her parents.

A.visit New York B.go home
C.watch TV D.visit China

Their _______ friends will show them around Beijing.

A.Australian B.Chinese
C.American D.pen

From the text we can know that they will _______ in Beijing.

A.cook Chinese food B.speak Chinese
C.try some Chinese food D.play games

After they visit Beijing, they will go to _______.

A.Xi’an and Guilin B.The Summer Palace
C.Shanghai D.the Great Wall

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