题目内容
—Oh, good evening. I'm sorry, but she is not in.
B. come
C. came
D. had come
名校课堂系列答案When you want to go shopping, decid
e how much money you can spend for new clothes. Think about the kind of clothes you really need. Then look for those clothes on sale(销售).
There are labels(标签)inside all new clothes. The labe
ls tell you how to take care of your clothes. T
he label for a shirt may tell you to wash it in warm water. A sweater label may tell you to wash by washing in cold water. The label on a coat may say “dry clean only.” Washing may ruin(损坏)this coat. If you do as the directions(说明)say on the label, you can keep your clothes looking their best. Many clothes today must be dry cleaned
. Dry cleaning is expensive. When buying new clothes, check(核实)to see if they will need to be dry cleaned. You will save money if you buy clothes that can be washed.
You can 
save money if you buy clothes that are well made. Well-made clothes last longer. They look good even after they have been washed many times. Clothes that cost more money are not always better made. They do not always fit(合身)better. Sometimes less expensive clothes look and fit better than more expensive clothes.
【小题1】If you want to save money you can buy clothes that _____.
| A．don’t fit you | B．don’t last long | C．need to be dry cleaned | D．can be washed |
| A．how to keep them looking their best | B．how to save money |
| C．whether they fit you or not | D．where to get them dry cleaned |
| A．to look for well-made clothes | B．to see how much money you can pay |
| C．to know how to wash them | D．to read the labels inside them |
| A．are always worse made | B．must be dry cleaned | C．can not be washed |
| D．can sometimes fit you better |
| A．Buying Less Expensive Clothes | B．Taking Enough Money When Shopping |
| C．Being a Clever Clothes Shopper | D．Choosing the Labels inside New Clothes |
Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。
| Time | Kind of holiday | Reason |
| Before the late 1970s | 【小题1】________ | It was a tradition. |
| In the late 1970s | Package holiday | 【小题2】______ |
| 【小题3】__________ | Overseas holiday | Young people became wealthier. |
| These years | 【小题4】________ | The world financial crisis. |
Going on holidays is best choice for the Europeans to relax themselves, especially in the UK. However, much has changed during the past decades(几十年).
One of the most traditional British holidays was the “seaside holiday”. Families got on a train or into a car and traveled to seaside towns nearby to sunbathe on the beach, buy ice-creams and eat fish and chips and so on.
In the late 1970s, more and more British people started traveling to other countries in Europe for their summer holidays (July-August) because the weather wasn’t very good, even in summer. The “package holiday” was particularly popular with most families.
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier, so many of them traveled to countries all over the world for their holidays.
These years, especially after the world financial crisis(金融危机), most British people can not afford to spend their holidays abroad. They again begin to choose to stay in their own home and go on a few day trips rather than spending money on hotels. They call this sort of vacation a “staycation”.
任务：请阅读上面短文，根据短文内容完成下面表格中的有关信息。
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Time |
Kind of holiday |
Reason |
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Before the late 1970s |
1.________ |
It was a tradition. |
|
In the late 1970s |
Package holiday |
2.______ |
|
3.__________ |
Overseas holiday |
Young people became wealthier. |
|
These years |
4.________ |
The world financial crisis. |
To err is human. To blame（责备） the other guy is even more human.
Common sense is not all that common.
Why tell the truth when you can come up with a good excuse?
These three popular misquotes（戏谑的引语）are meant to be jokes, and yet they tell us a lot about human nature. To err, or to make mistakes, is indeed a part of being human, but it seems that most people don’t want to accept the responsibility for the problem. Perhaps it is the natural thing to do. The original quote about human nature went like this: “To err is human, to forgive, divine（神圣的）.” This saying mirrors an ideal: People should be forgiving of others’ mistakes. Instead, we tend to do the opposite – find someone else to pass the blame on to. However, taking responsibility for something that went wrong is a mark of great maturity（成熟）.
Common sense is what we call clear thought. Having common sense means having a good general plan that will make things work well, and it also means staying with the plan. Common sense tells you that you take an umbrella out into a rainstorm, but you leave the umbrella home when you hear a weather forecast for sunshine. Common sense does not seem to be common for large companies, because there are so many things going on that one person cannot be in charge of everything. People say that in a large company, “the right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.”
And what is wrong with a society that thinks that making up a good excuse is like creating a work of art? One of the common problems with making excuses is that people, especially young people, get the idea that it’s okay not to be totally honest all the time. There is a corollary（直接推论）to that: if a good excuse is “good” even if it isn’t honest, then where is the place of the truth?
1.Which of the following is NOT based on common sense?
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A．A secretary works to a timetable. |
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B．A company’s next move follows a good plan. |
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C．A girl goes out with an umbrella in stormy weather. |
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D．A man tries to manage everything in a large company. |
2.What can we infer from the last paragraph according to the writer?
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A．A good excuse is the same as honesty. |
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B．Inventing a good excuse needs creative ideas. |
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C．Unpleasant truth is better than a good excuse. |
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D．Making a good excuse is sometimes a better idea. |
3.What would be the best title for this passage?
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A．A Mirror of Human Nature |
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B．To Blame or to Forgive |
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C．A Mark of Maturity |
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D．Truth or Excuse |