题目内容
Another reason people enjoy home cooking is that it is a way of showing love. A parent who makes some cookies is not just satisfying a child's sweet tooth. He or she is sending a message (信息). The message says, “I care about you enough to spend an hour making cookies that you will eat up in 15 minutes if I let you.” There is also something about the smell of home cooking. The smell of cooking makes people happy. It makes most of us feel good and loved--even if we're the ones doing the cooking! Next time you smell a cake making, stop for a moment and pay attention to your mood (心情,心境).
- 1.
Why do many people have no time to cook?
- A.Because they haven’t many things to do.
- B.Because many people are too busy.
- C.Because people don’t like home cooking.
- D.Because they are too tired to cook.
- A.
- 2.
Home cooking is __________.
- A.good and warm
- B.a way of showing love
- C.satisfying a child’s tooth
- D.Both A and B
- A.
- 3.
The writer thinks the smell of home cooking _____________.
- A.makes us feel good and loved
- B.makes us be interested in cooking
- C.makes us excited
- D.makes us love others
- A.
- 4.
What’s the main idea of the passage?
- A.Home cooking is important.
- B.Home cooking feels good and loved.
- C.People are too busy to cook.
- D.Home cooking cookies taste better.
- A.
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Read the suggestions for making an English speech.
a. Looking at and talking to one person in the audience (观众) helps keep you natural, but it feels foolish talking to only one person. Speak to that person as long as 15 seconds and then change another one.
b. The audience have a hard time understanding what they hear. They need your help. Slow down, pause(停顿) and guide the audience through your talk. Remember that you should help the audience understand what you are saying.
c. Make your voice a little lower than normal. Listeners like to listen to a relatively(相对) deep voice.
d. When you talk, try to be as natural as possible. Don’t try to memorize your words and read or recite(背诵) them to your audience. You can use short notes to help you remember the important points.
e. You should know you and most of the people you talk to are different in many ways. Some of them may not know what you are talking about. Then speak to them on their terms and in their languages.
f. Concentrate on what you want to say. If you are always paying attention to gestures(手势),you will feel uncomfortable.
g. It’s true that there are some differences between American English and British English, but they’ll not cause much difficulty for listeners, so just speak the way you’re used to.
Choose a suggestion for each of the following students according to their problems.
【小题1】Paul: I don’t think I can talk fluently(流利) because it’s difficult for me to remember all the words.
A.a | B.b | C.c | D.d |
A.a | B.c | C.e | D.f |
A.d | B.e | C.f | D.g |
A.b | B.d | C.f | D.g |
A.a | B.b | C.c | D.g |
Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality(现实) of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable(不合情理的) thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky(摇晃的) legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out(着手) to do .”
【小题1】What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?
A.A happy thing. | B.A difficult task. |
C.A big dream. | D.A beautiful scene. |
A.A new-born giraffe’s first lesson. |
B.A mother giraffe’s story. |
C.The lives of some great people. |
D.The way for a giraffe to stand up. |
A.Because they all worked hard. |
B.Because they all liked to read some special stories. |
C.Because they were born with some illnesses. |
D.Because they were similar to giraffes in some ways. |
A.This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits. |
B.Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old. |
C.Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people. |
D.The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years. |
A.How to Raise a Baby Giraffe. |
B.Learning to Get Back Up. |
C.Stories about the great people. |
D.A Mother Giraffe and Its Baby Giraffe. |