题目内容
In America，there are(有) 365 days in a year. We sleep 8 hours a day, so we have 122 days for sleeping. Then our work time has 243 days left（剩下）. But there are 52 weekends in a year. Every weekend is two days. We lose（失去） another 104 days a year for work. It takes（花费） us about one hour to have breakfast and supper. This comes to 15 days over a year. But we can’t work all that time-we need a holiday. Let’s say we have three weeks’ holiday. We don’t work all day. Four free hours each evening takes up 61 days. We have to remember that we get 2 days’ holiday at Easter（复活节）, 3 days at Christmas and 1day at the New Year. There are also 4 Bank holidays. Take those 10 days away and we have 32 days for work. But then we have one and a half（一半）hours’ lunch every day, and half an hour’s coffee break(休息). That comes to 30 days a year. This means that we have only a few days left for work every year!
（ ）16. How many days do we sleep in a year? __________ days.
A. 365 B. 122 C. 8 D. 52
（ ）17. We spend 15 days on __________.
A. rest B. coffee break C. lunch D. breakfast and supper
（ ）18. Which of the following is true? __________
A. Each weekend is one day.
B. We have 61 days for free time
C. We get 3 days’ holiday at Easter.
D. Coffee break takes us one hour.
（ ）19. According to（根据） the passage, we know that we don’t have __________ time to work every year.
A. much too B. so many C. too much D. too many
（ ）20. The writer means（寓意） __________.
A. we should（应该） know the numbers
B. time is important and we shouldn’t (不应该) waste it
C. we need more holidays
D. a few days for work is enough
BDBCB
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying “You don’t say!”
I was confused, and I thought, “Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about.” Then I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever visited it?”
“Certainly! Everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful! ” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, “You don’t say!”
I couldn’t help asking, “Why couldn’t I talk about it?”
“Well, I didn’t stop you talking about it,” he answered, greatly surprised.
“Didn’t you say ‘You don’t say!’?” I asked again.
Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, “’You don’t say!’ means ‘Really’. Perhaps you know little about English idioms(习惯用语).”
Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.
【小题1】What made the foreigner laugh loudly?
| A．English idioms. |
| B．The writer’s question. |
| C．Their talking about the Great Wall |
| D．The writer’s way of learning English |
| A．In China. | B．In America. |
| C．In England. | D．In Japan. |
| A．Thank you | B．Excuse me | C．OK | D．Really |
| A．improve his spoken English |
| B．speak with foreigners in a polite way |
| C．pay attention to English idioms |
| D．be brave enough talking with foreigners |
| A．the difference | B．the popularity |
| C．the grammar rule | D．the change |
Several years ago, a television reporter was talking to three of the most important people in America. One was a very rich banker, another owned one of the largest companies in the world, and the third owned many buildings in the center of New York.
The reporter was talking to them about being important.
“How do we know if someone is really important?” the reporter asked the banker.
The banker thought for a few moments and then said, “I think anybody who is invited to the Whiter House to meet the President of the United States is really important.”
The reporter then turned to the owner of the very large company. “Do you agree with that?” she asked.
The man shook his head, “No. I think the President invites a lot of people to the White House. You’d only be important if while you were visiting the President, there was a telephone call from the president of another country, and the President of the US said he was too busy to answer it.”
The reporter turned to the third man. “Do you think so?”
“No, I don’t.” he said. “I don’t think that makes the visitor important. That makes the President important.”
“Then what would make the visitor important?” the reporter and the other two men asked.
“Oh, I think if the visitor to the White House was talking to the President and the phone rang, and the President picked up the receiver, listened and then said, ‘it’s for you.’”
【小题1】This story happened in _______.
| A．England | B．America | C．Japan | D．Australia |
| A．He was really important because he was a rich banker |
| B．The visitor to the White House was really important |
| C．The visitor who met the President of the United States was really important |
| D．the reporter was really important |
| A．He was really important because he owned many buildings in the center of New York |
| B．The owner of the very large company was really important |
| C．The visitor was really important if he talking to the President and the President received a telephone call for the visitor |
| D．The person who worked in the White House was really important |