题目内容
The girl is to go to school.
A. enough young B. enough old
C. old enough D. young enough
Social customs and ways of behaving change all the time. Things that were considered impolite many years ago are now acceptable. Just a few years ago, it was considered to be impolite behavior for a man to smoke on the street. No man who thought of himself as being a gentleman would make a fool of himself by smoking when a lady was in the room.
Customs also differ from country to country. Does a man walk on the left or the right of a woman in your country? Or doesn’t matter? What about table manners?
The Americans and British people not only speak the same language but also share a large number of social customs. For example, in both America and England, people shake hands when they meet each other for the first time. Also most Englishmen will open a door for a woman or offer their seats to women, and so will most Americans. Promptness（准时） is important both in England and in America. That is, the dinner guest either arrive close to the time that has been made or calls up to explain his delay（耽误）.
The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable—especially if they are your guests. There is an old story about a man who gave a very formal dinner party. When the food was served, one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife. The other guests were amused or greatly surprised, but the host calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way. It would have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or uncomfortable.
1.The underlined phrase make a fool of himself in the first paragraph means .
A. make himself strong
B. make himself rich
C. make himself comfortable
D. cause himself to seem like a fool
2.According to the passage, the American and the British .
A. don’t speak the same language
B. don’t have social customs in common
C. do share a lot of social customs
D. do have the exactly same social customs
3.If a dinner invitation is for six o’clock, the guest is supposed to arrive at _____ six.
A. nearly or a minute later than
B. a quarter past
C. a quarter to
D. much later than
4.The last example in the passage shows .
A. the correct way to use a knife at table
B. that it is good manners not to make your guest feel foolish or uncomfortable
C. that social customs and ways of behaving change too fast
D. that different counties have different customs
5.The best title of the passage is .
A. Different Customs
B. Social Customs
C. Customs are Changing Fast
D. Different Countries, Different Customs
This week, I asked my classmates about their vacations. Here are some of their answers.
Linda ____ to Sydney, Australia. The ____ was sunny and the people ____ friendly to her. She went there by ____ and the air trip was relaxing. She went to Sydney Opera House. It’s wonderful. She had a ____ vacation.
Alice went ____ her aunt. At first the weather was ____ and wet, she had to stay at the house. She watched TV ____ the TV shows were boring. Later on the weather got better. So she went shopping with her aunt. The people in the shop were all ____ and kind. She bought something nice for herself.
Peter stayed at home. First he did his homework. It was a little difficult. Then he ____ computer games. They were interesting. He thought his vacation was OK.
1.A. go B. goes C. went
2.A. place B. weather C. museum
3.A. were B. was C. are
4.A. bike B. train C. plane
5.A. bad B. terrible C. great
6.A. to visit B. visiting C. visited
7.A. sunny B. rainy C. windy
8.A. but B. because C. or
9.A. friend B. friendly C. unfriendly
10.A. play B. played C. listene
Do you live in a city? Do you know how cities began? Long long ago, the world had only a few thousand people. These people moved from one place to another. They moved over the land, hunting animals for food.
No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to move houses any more.
They could stay in one place and grow it. People began to live near each other, so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages, and these villages became larger and larger.
Then people had machines, life in the villages changed again. People built factories. More and more people lived near the factories. So the villages grew into cities. Some of them grew very big.
Today, it's strange that some people are moving back to small villages. Can you tell me why?
根据短文内容，完成下列小题。
1.How many people were there in the world long long ago? (no more than 5 words)
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2.What did the villages grow into after people built factories? (no more than 5 words)
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3.Why did people move from place to place long long ago? (no more than 5 words)
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4.Who knows when people learned about growing food? (no more than 5 words)
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5.Why are some people moving back to small villages?
（题文）We have worked for three hours. Now let’s stop a rest.
A. had B. have C. to have D. having
My little sister saw _____outside. Shall we go and have a look?
A. strange something B. anything strange
C. something strange D. strange anything
On the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, some villagers cut down trees in a special way. If a tree is too large to be cut down with an ax, they try something else-yelling（叫喊）at it. Woodsmen with special powers climb up a tree at dawn and yell at it at the top of their voices. They continue doing this for 30 days. After 30 days, the tree dies and falls over. It seems like the yelling kills the spirit of the tree. According to the villagers, it always works.
It's too bad they don' t have the advantages of modern technology and a scientific mind.
No matter how true the story actually is, it reminds me of something. I often yell at my wife, the telephone and workers. And sometimes I even yell at the T V, the newspaper and my children. I've been known to shake my fist（拳头）and yell at the sky at times. People like me can often be seen around us.
The man next door yells at his car a lot. And this summer I heard him yell at a ladder for most of an afternoon. We modem, educated people yell at traffic, bills, banks and machines. Machines and relatives get yelled at the most.
It doesn't do much good. Machines and things just sit there. Even kicking it doesn't usually help. As for people, well, the Solomon Islanders may have a point. Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
1.How do the Solomon villagers cut down a very large tree?
A. By using a special ax. B. By using the power of nature.
C. By using a mysterious power. D. By yelling at the tree for a month.
2.From Paragraph 3 , we learn that the writer seems to be .
A. a kind man B. a nice father
C. a busy husband D. an impatient boss
3.What does the writer think about yelling in life?
A. It's good for everything. B. It solves traffic problems.
C. It makes machines work. D. It does no good to people.
4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Yelling can solve all problems.
B. Yelling at others will never hurt their spirit.
C. It ' s common for people to yell at things around them.
D. Solomon Islanders never use an ax to cut down trees.
5.What does the story want to tell us?
A. Yelling hurts both sides. B. Everyone likes yelling.
C. Solomon Islanders are very stupid. D. Every living thing has its own spirit.
--I hear there will be______ talk on teenage problems next Monday.
--Do you mean______ talk our teacher asked us to listen to?
A. the; a B. a; the C. the; an D. an; the
V. 句型转换。
1.My mother said to me, “Don’t go alone at night.” (改为简单句)
My mother told me _______________ _______________ go alone at night.
2.The Browns came to China in 1997.（对划线部分提问）
_______________ _______________ the Browns _______________ to China?
3.Mr. Fat has few good friends. (改为反意疑问句)
Mr. Fat has few good friends, _______________ _______________?
4.My home is about twenty minutes by bike. (改为同义句)
It _______________ me twenty minutes _______________ _______________ there from my house by bike.
5.It’s a good idea.（改为感叹句）
How _______________ _______________ _______________ is!
