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Do you know what couch-potato means? Well, in America, the word is now often used. The American couch-potato becomes maybe even a part of the American tradition (传统)! You see, in America, many people often spend their free time sitting on a couch (沙发) watching TV. As there are many channels (频道) to choose, the TV can be quite interesting and very addictive (上瘾的). One may sit and watch TV for hours and hours without stop! Well, these people who do nothing all day except watch TV are called couch-potatoes.

In America, when one watches TV, one is most often sitting on a couch. While watching TV,  most of these people look so frozen (冻僵的) that they almost look like dead things! Everyone is sitting still with eyes looking right into the same black box. Also because these people are addictive to TV, they don’t take exercise and usually get very fat. So in many ways, these people look like real potatoes! Well, because they look so still and fat, and watch TV on a couch, they are all called couch-potatoes. Now that you know what a couch-potato means, the next time if you see someone watching TV too long, just say, “What a couch-potato!”

(   ) 35. The word “couch-potato” is used in _____.

        A. China        B. America         C. Japan         D. France

(   ) 36. If a person is called “couch-potato”, he or she ______.

       A. likes sitting on a couch         B. does nothing all day

       C. must be very fat and short        D. only watches TV in his free time

(   ) 37. The passage mainly tells us ______.

       A. how to watch TV                                  B. why couch-potatoes are very fat

       C. what a couch-potato means        D. where the new word is used

(   ) 38. Which of the following should be the writer’s suggestion?

       A. Take more exercise.               B. Never watch TV.

       C. Don’t sit on a couch.           D. Don’t watch TV too much.

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Long, long ago there was a very foolish thief. Do you know what he did one day? When he wanted to steal (偷) the bell on his neighbor’s door, he walked up to the door, took hold of (抓住) the bell and pulled hard. The bell made a very loud noise. The thief was afraid and went home.
Then he sat down to think, “I must do something about the noise,” he said. He thought and thought. At last he had an idea. “Ah, I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then I won’t be able to hear the noise.” The next day he went to the door of his neighbor, and took hold of the bell. This time he pulled even harder. The bell rang loudly, but the thief did not hear anything. With another hard pull he got the bell out. Just then the neighbor came running out. “Steal my bell? I’ll teach you a lesson (教训),”the angry man shouted. And he hit the thief on the nose.
The foolish thief did not know how the neighbor found out he was stealing the bell. “Why did he come out just then?” he wondered (感到疑惑).
【小题1】The thief was trying to get         .

A.his neighborB.his neighbor’s doorbell
C.some cottonD.a door with a bell on it
【小题2】The thief put some cotton in his ears. He thought it would be       for him to steal the doorbell.
A.safeB.difficultC.dangerousD.easy
【小题3】 The neighbor ran out probably (很可能) because_________.
A.he knew his doorbell was being stolen
B.he thought someone was eager (渴望的) to visit him
C.He realized (意识到) something strange happened
D.Both B and C
【小题4】 The neighbor hit the thief to ________.
A.give him lessonsB.punish (惩罚) him for stealing
C.help him with the bellD.be his teacher
【小题5】 Which of the following is TRUE?
A.The thief understood why he was hit on the nose.
B.The thief knew why the neighbor came out.
C.The thief thought the neighbor could not hear the bell.
D.The thief didn’t want to know why the neighbor ran out just at the time he stole the doorbell.

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