题目内容
--- How do you improve your listening skills?
--- listening to tapes.
A. By B. With C. On D. For
A 【解析】句意：——你如何提高你的听力技巧？——通过听磁带。考查介词辨析题。A. By通过，表方式；B. With和，表对象；C. On在上面，表地点；D. For为了，表目的。how怎样，用于提问方式方法，根据句意和语境，可知选A。
What is DIY? Why do many people like it?
Yang Chen works for a computer company(公司) in Beijing. He enjoys his work, but it is not easy for him to relax after work. One day when he saw many toy dogs in a toy shop, he had an idea. “Why not make them myself? Then he began to make model planes, model ships and something else. Soon he has great interest in it because it brings him lots of fun and makes life colourful. So what is DIY? Yes, it is making things on your own, with your own hands. It may take much time, but some people enjoy doing it very much. They enjoy it because it is fun. And they also say it helps them save money too. What’s more, they think it is a good way to protect the environment(环境). It is a kind of green life.
In fact, DIY is not a modern thing in China. Many people remember when it was once a way of life in the past. During the 1960s and the 1970s, when there were not enough living things for people to live on, they had to use their own hands to do many things. If you wanted something you had to do it yourself, and if you needed something, you made it yourself.
Times have changed and DIY also has different meanings.
根据短文内容，完成下列表格.
Yang Chen ‘s story | It is 1. for him to relax after work. He had the idea of DIY and soon became 2. in it. DIY brings him fun and makes life 3.. |
What is DIY | It is making or creating things by 4.. |
Why DIY is popular | They enjoy it because it is 5. . It helps people 6. money. And it is a kind of 7. life. |
DIY in the 8. | It was once a 9. of life. People had to choose DIY because there were not enough 10.things. |
Every weekend in Britain, DIY shops and garden centres are always full of people. A large number of people spend their weekends doing improvements (改进)to their homes instead of having a rest.
DIY projects are very popular and there are lots of TV programmes which show people how they can improve their homes.
Some people like decorating better – putting up wall- paper and painting walls, also there are many other DIY projects that people decide to take on, from changing the new floor to making a new shower. They are not so difficult for them.
Unluckily, some people bite off more than they can chew (不自量力), and try to take on jobs which always go wrong in the end. For example, the shops often tell people that it’s not safe(安全的) for a person to do anything electrical (电的). However, many people don’t care about this advice and put themselves in danger.
Something about DIY projects in Britain | |
On weekends | ★DIY shops and garden centres are filled1.people. ★Many people improve their homes instead of resting. |
Way | ★By2.TV programmes. |
3. | ★Some people like 4.decorating, such as putting up wall- paper and painting walls. ★Some people take on some other improvements, such as changing the new floor and setting a new shower. |
Problem | It’s5.that many people don’t care about the advice. |