题目内容
Read and choose the correct answer.
Fast Food Toys
Fast food restaurants are popular with many kinds of people around the world, but they are especially popular with children. One reason is that many fast food restaurants now give customers a toy with every child’s meal. Most fast food restaurants make a series of toys, usually about six, for customers to collect. The collectors are not only children - many adults also enjoy collecting the toys. Some people collect the toys over many years. The toys range from dolls and soft toys like teddy bears, to model cars, trucks and electronic toys such as Tamagochis. Some of the older toy collections are worth a lot of money today. There are now several web sites where collectors can buy and sell the toys, or chat about their collections online with other collectors.
1.What is the main idea of the passage?
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A.Many people today enjoy collecting toys from fast food restaurants.
B.People can buy and sell toys over the Internet.
C.People around the world love to eat fast food.
D.Fast food restaurants are popular because they give toys to all their customers.
2.How do many collectors buy and sell their toys?
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A.at meetings
B.in fast food restaurants
C.over the Internet
D.at children’s parties
3.Which kind of toy is NOT in the reading?
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4.Which of the following is true, according to the passage?
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A.Many fast food restaurants now give away free meals.
B.Some restaurants give away electronic gifts like CD players and TVs.
C.Some of the toys from fast food restaurants are worth lots of money.
D.Six types of fast food restaurants give away toys.
In 1638, John Harvard donated some money and about four hundred books to a new university. This was the beginning of the library at Harvard University. The gift was so important that the university was named for John Harvard.
Thomas Bray began the first free lending library in the late 1600s. He set up more than 30 or these libraries in the American colonies. However, the idea for this kind of free library ended when Bray died in 1730. In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and some friends started the first subscription library in the United States. In a subscription library people pay money to become members, but they may borrow the books without paying again.
In the United States, every child had a free education. This idea soon led to free libraries. One of the first libraries that used tax money to buy books was a library in Peterborough, New Hampshire. This library was set up in 1833.
【小题1】The main idea of paragraph 2 is________.
| A. Franklin started the first subscription library |
| B. in a subscription library people pay money to become members |
| C. Bray and Franklin were important in the history of public libraries |
| D. Bray died in 1730 and Franklin died in 1833 |
| A.read and write with no help from another person |
| B.use for a short time and then return |
| C.like very much |
| D.lend |
| A.there were free schools in the United States before there were free libraries |
| B.free schools and free libraries in the United States began at about the same time |
| C.the library in New Hampshire also had a free school in it |
| D.there were free libraries in the United States before there were free schools |
| A.in 1731 | B.in 1730 | C.in 1833 | D.in 1638 |
| A.children could use books for no money at all |
| B.people paid a little money in the beginning but none after that |
| C.people paid a lot of money in the beginning but none after that |
| D.both A and B |
As prices and building costs keep rising, “the do-it-yourself”(DIY)trend(趋势) in the US continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Kose, “and we didn’t have enough money to buy it.” So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs. John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling (努力)to make a home when the cost of living is very high. The Koses took a 2-week course for $ 280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was very upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course. I should be able to fix the car myself. ”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourself”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how to do things yourself.
【小题1】We know from the passage that many people ________ .
| A.seldom go to a department store to buy things |
| B.take DIY courses run by the government |
| C.like to learn to make their own furniture |
| D.find it hard to pay for what they need |
| A.improve the quality of life |
| B.save time and money |
| C.make or repair things |
| D.run a DIY shop |
| A.keeps house and looks after his children |
| B.does his own car and home repairs |
| C.does extra work at night |
| D.make shoes in his home |
| A.he had to raise the children all by himself |
| B.he could not possibly do two jobs |
| C.the car repair class was not helpful |
| D.his car repairs cost too much |
| A.Go to classes. |
| B.Read books. |
| C.Go to classes and read books. |
| D.The passage doesn’t tell us. |