题目内容
Tell him ________ tomorrow, OK?
A．come
B．to come
C．comes
D．is coming
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“Oh, yes.” her husband answered, “That’s quite all right. What are you going to leave for my lunch?”
“This tin of fish.” Mrs Petty said, “And there are some eggs and vegetables and some bread here, too.”
“Good.” said Mr Petty. Then Mrs Petty went to her meetings. All the ladies had lunch at Mrs Young’s house and at 3 o’clock Mrs Petty came home.
“Was your fish nice, Jack?” She asked.
“Yes, but my feet are hurting.” He answered.
“Why are they hurting?” Mrs Petty asked.
“Well, on the tin was written ---OPEN THE TIN AND STAND IN HOT WATER FOR FIVE MINUTES.”
【小题1】Mrs Petty wanted to ________.
| A．visit her old friends | B．go to Mrs Young’s house |
| C．have a dinner in the restaurant | D．have lunch by herself. |
| A．buy some food himself | B．cook dinner for Mrs Petty |
| C．have lunch at a restaurant | D．have lunch by himself at home |
| A．at home | B．with her husband |
| C．in Mrs Young’s house | D．in Jack’s house |
| A．the tin of fish hurt his feet. |
| B．he fell down and hurt his feet. |
| C．he himself stood in hot water for 5 minutes. |
| D．his wife didn’t tell him how to open the tin. |
| A．put | B．push | C．send | D．sink (浸) |
--Did your brother know ?
--No，I didn’t tell him about it．
| A．where do you work |
| B．Where you worked |
| C．Where did you work |
| D．Where are you working? |
I’m lying on my back in my grandfather’s orchard (果园), looking up at the branches above me. It is one of the last days of summer. Already the days are shorter and the nights are cooler. Some kinds of apples are already ripe(成熟的). Others will be ready to pick soon. I think of my grandmother’s apple pie, and how I used to make it with her. She died last year, before the apple harvest, and I have not had her pie since then. I really miss her. I hear bees busily humming about, visiting the late summer flowers. The gentle hum of their wings nearly sends me to sleep.
The sky is as blue as my grandfather’s eyes. Above me, big white clouds ran across the sky like pieces of cotton blowing in the wind. School starts in another week, and time seems to have slowed down.
“Sophie!” calls my grandfather. “Is that you?” I stand up, take his hand, and tell him all about my day as we walk through the orchard. We talk about apples, and bees and Grandma. He tells me that he misses her too.
He puts his rough, brown farmer’s hand around my shoulder and pulls me close. “ You know, Sophie,” he says, “ I spent the morning in the attic (阁楼), and you’ll never guess what I found. It’s the recipe(烹饪法) for Grandma’s apple pie. I used to help her make it sometimes. I can’t do it all alone, but you used to help her too. Maybe between the two of us, we can work it out. Want to try?”
“ But it won’t be the same without Grandma,” I tell him.
“That’s true,” he says, “but nothing is the same without Grandma. Still, I don’t think that she would want us never to have another apple pie. What do you say?” I nod yes, and we walk towards home…toward an afternoon in the farmhouse kitchen, making Grandma’s famous apple pie.
【小题1】We learn from the passage that Sophie .
| A．likes to watch clouds in the attic |
| B．comes to the orchard after school |
| C．enjoys Grandma’s apple pie very much |
| D．picks many apples in the orchard |
| A．help Grandma make apple pies |
| B．spend summer afternoons in the orchard |
| C．enjoy fresh fruit in the farmhouse kitchen |
| D．walk alone among the apple trees |
| A．how much Sophie’s grandmother loved Sophie |
| B．how much Sophie’s grandfather likes apple pies |
| C．how much Sophie loves her grandfather’s orchard |
| D．how much Sophie’s grandfather misses Grandma |
| A．My grandfather’s orchard | B．My grandmother’s apple pie |
| C．A morning in the attic | D．The last days of summer |
When women sit together to watch a movie on TV, at the same time they usually talk about a lot of subjects, including children, men, careers and what’s happening in their lives. When groups of men and women watch a movie together, the men usually end up telling the women to shut up. Men can either talk or watch the screen---they can’t do both---and they don’t understand that women can. Besides(此外), women think that the point of all getting together is to have a good time and develop relationships--not just to sit there like couch potatoes staring (盯着) at the screen.
During the ad breaks, a man often asks a woman to explain the plot(the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.) and tell him where the relationship between the characters is going. He is unable, unlike women, to read the small body language signals that show how the characters are feeling emotionally(情绪上). Since women originally spent their days with the other women and children in the group, they developed the ability to communicate successfully because they want to keep relationships. For a woman, speech continues to have such a clear purpose: to build relationships and make friends. For men, to talk is to connect to the facts.
Men see the telephone as a communication tool for sending facts and information to other people, but a woman sees it as a way of keeping relationship. A woman can spend two weeks on vacation with her girlfriend and, when she returns home, telephone the same girlfriend and talk for another two hours.
There is no convincing(令人信服的)evidence that social conditioning, the fact that girls’ mothers talked them more, is the reason why girls talk more than boys. Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Lewis, author of Social Behaviour and Language Acquisition, conducted experiments that found mothers talked to and looked at baby girls more often than baby boys. Scientific evidence shows parents reply to the brain differences of their children. Since a girl’s brain is better organized to send and receive speech, we talk to them more. As a result, mothers who try to talk to their sons are usually pointed to receive only short complaints in reply.
1.While watching TV with others, women usually talk a lot because they ___________.
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A．are afraid of silence with their families and friends |
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B．can both talk and watch the screen at the same time |
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C．think they can have a good time and develop relationships |
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D．have to explain the plot and body language to their husbands |
2.After a vacation with her girlfriend, a woman would talk to her again on the phone for hours so as to ___________.
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A．experience the happy time again |
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B．keep a close tie with her |
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C．recommend her a new wonderful place |
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D．remind her of something forgotten |
3.What does the writer want to tell us most?
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A．Women’s brains are better organized for language and communication. |
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B．Women love to talk because they are more sociable than men. |
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C．Men do not like talking because they believe more in facts. |
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D．Social conditioning is not the reason why women love talking. |
4.Which of the following would be the BEST title for the passage?
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A．Women Are Socially Trained to Talk |
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B．Talking Keeps Relationships |
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C．Women Love to Talk |
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D．Men Talk Differently from Women |