题目内容
— does it take you to walk home? —About twenty minutes.
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A．How long |
B．How often |
C．How soon |
D．How far |
A
【解析】How long “多长时间”， How often “多久一次”， How soon “多久”， How far “多远”。句意：步行回家需要花多长时间。故选A。
Sunday is more like Monday than it used to be. Places of business that used to keep daytime “business hours” are now open late into the night. And on the Internet, the hour of the day and the day of the week have become irrelevant. A half century ago in the United states, most people experienced strong and precise dividing lines between days of rest and days of work, school time and summer time. Today the dividing lines are still there, but they seem not clear.
The law in almost all states used to require stores to close on Sunday; in most, it no longer does. It used to keep the schools open in all seasons except summer, in most, it still does. And whether the work week should strengthen its legal（法律的）limits, or whether it should become more changeable, is often debated（争论）. How should we, as a society, organize our time? Should we go even further in relaxing the dividing lines of time until we live in a world in which every minute is much like every other?
These are not easy questions even to ask. Part of the difficulty is that we seldom recognize the “law of time” even when we meet it face to face. We know as children that we have to go to school a certain number of hours, a certain number of days, a certain number of years – but unless we meet the truant officer（学监）, we may well think that we should go to school because of social custom and parents’ requirement rather than to the law. As adults we know “extra pay for overtime working” very well, but less familiar with the fact that what constitutes（构成）“overtime” is a matter of legal thing. When we turn the clock forward to start daylight – saving time, have we ever thought to ourselves: “Here is the law in action”? As we shall see, there is a lot of law that has great influence on how organize and use time: compulsory education law, overtime law, and daylight-saving law – as well as law about Sunday closing, holidays, being late to work, time zones, and so on. Once we begin to look for it, we will have no trouble finding a law of time to examine and assess.
【小题1】What does the underlined word “irrelevant” probably mean?
| A．Impossible. | B．Unacceptable. | C．Unimportant. | D．Disagreeable. |
| A．are unknowing of the law of time |
| B．fail to make full use of their time |
| C．welcome changeable working hours |
| D．enjoy working overtime for more pay |
| A．have to follow the law |
| B．need to find social customs |
| C．need to learn more knowledge |
| D．have to follow their parents’ requirement |
| A．Our life is governed by the law of time. |
| B．How to use time is not worth debating. |
| C．New ways of using time change our society. |
| D．Our time table is decided by social customs. |
选择下列词汇完成下面的对话，并在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。（共5小题，每小题1分）
| A. named B. relax C. enjoyable D. worst E. start F. best |
Lily: Good idea! What would you like to do? See a movie or watch a play?
Lisa: A movie. It's said a new movie ___【小题2】___ The Grey is on these days. Have you seen it?
Lily: No. But I heard it was the ___【小题3】___ movie of the year.
Lisa: Really? Then how about the film Shadows of Love? It's a love story. It should be _【小题4】_.
Lily: OK. What time does it __【小题5】___, do you know?
Lisa: Wait a minute. I'll check it... Yes. It says 7:30 this evening.
Lily: Good. See you then.
Uncle Wang works in a book shop in the middle of the city. The shop is not far from his home. It is about one kilometer away. So Uncle Wang seldom goes to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike, sometimes on foot. It takes him twenty minutes to get there by bike and forty minutes on foot. Today his bike is broken. He wants to walk there.
Now he is having breakfast. He leaves home at ten minutes to eight and he walks to work twenty minutes earlier. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a quarter to five in the afternoon.
1.What does Uncle Wang do?
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A．He sells books. |
B．He grows flowers. |
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C．He makes shoes. |
D．He works in a hospital. |
2.Why does he seldom go to work by bus? Because________.
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A．there is no bus |
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B．his shop is not far from his home |
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C．he likes riding a bike |
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D．his shop isn't in the middle of the city |
3.How long does it take him to walk to his book shop?
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A．Twenty minutes |
B．Forty minutes |
C．Ten minutes |
D．Half an hour |
4.He usually finishes his work at ________in the afternoon.
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A．4:45 |
B．5:15 |
C．4:55 |
D．5:05 |
5.What time does he usually leave home by bike?
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A．7:50 |
B．8:10 |
C．8:20 |
D．7:30 |