According to a recent study, a typical(典型的)) family in the U.K. is a father, mother, and two children. They live in a house, not an apartment(公寓). Both parents work outside the home. They spend about £76 on groceries(杂货店 ) each week, and they have a pet. Almost 63% of sons and 55% of daughters aged 20-24 still live at home with their parents.

A typical British family wakes up at 6: 57. They eat breakfast together only two times a week. The parents drive to work. They each have a car. They get home from work at 5: 15 and have dinner at 5: 54. Because of their busy lives, they eat dinner together at home only three times a week. They go out to eat two times a month. On Mondays, they usually eat spaghetti bolognese (肉酱面). On Fridays, they bring home fish and chips from a chip shop. After dinner, they watch TV for a total of nine hours each week. They go to bed at 10: 39.

The family exercises 2.5 times a week, and does housework for 4.5 hours. The mother does most of the housework. They wash 5.3 loads(堆) of clothes a week.

About 70% of British families feel they are normal. But, is a typical British family happy? In short, yes. Just over 80% say they are "happy or "very happy. " However, they usually argue two times a week.

1.How many people are there in a typical British family?

A.2. B.3. C.4. D.5.

2.Which of the following do most British families do?

①have a pet ②eat breakfast together every day ③ eat fish and chips at home

④ exercise 4.5 hours ⑤feel they are happy

A.①③⑤ B.②③④ C.①④⑤ D.②③⑤

3.How many hours do they usually sleep?

A.For about 6 hours. B.For about 7 hours.

C.For about 8 hours. D.For about 9 hours.

4.How does the writer organize(组织) this passage?

A.By using numbers. B.By listing reasons.

C.By telling a story. D.By giving examples.

The cultures of the east and the west are really different from each other. This is because the culture systems are two separate systems on the whole.

The origin of the eastern cultures is mainly from two countries: China and India. Both of the two cultures are started by rivers. In China, the mother river is the Yellow River while the Indian one is the Hindu River. These two cultures were developed for several thousand years and formed their own styles. Then in Tang Dynasty of China, the Chinese culture gradually went overseas to Japan, mixed into the Japanese society and shaped the Japanese culture nowadays. Though a bit different from the Chinese one, it belongs to the same system.

When the two mother rivers gave birth to the eastern culture, another famous culture was brought up on the Mesopotamian Plain—the Mesopotamian Civilization. This civilization later on developed into the culture of the Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. And these two are well-known as the base of the European culture. Like the Chinese culture, the European one also crossed waters. When the colonists(殖民者)of England settled down in America, their culture went with them over the Atlantic Ocean. So the American culture doesn't differ from the European one a lot.

At the same time, the difference of the language system adds to the cultural differences. In the East, most languages belong to the pictographic(象形的)language while the Western languages are mostly based on the Latin system, for example, the one I'm using to write this paper.

Other factors(因素)like human race difference counts as well. But what's, more, due to the far distance and the steep areas between the East and West, the two cultures seldom communicate until recent centuries. So they grew up totally in their own ways with almost no interference from the other.

1.Are eastern culture and western culture the same system or different ones on the whole?

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2.How did the Chinese culture and Indian culture start?

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3.Why doesn't the American culture differ from the European one a lot?

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4.How many factors of culture differences are mentioned?

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5.What is the passage mainly about?

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