My grandfather often complains (抱怨)about how fast things have changed, and says that life used to be better. Families are not families they used to be. A lot of families have broken up. If husband and wife are having problems with their marriage, they don't stay together any more. Mothers used to stay at home to take care of their children, but not anymore now. Everyone's working. No one has time for children any more. They are left for their grandparents.

And the cars! No one walks anymore. Everyone drives. We used to walk five miles to school every day, even in winter. And in school, the children don't have to think anymore. In math class, for example, we used to add, minus, multiply, and divide in our heads. Kids don't use their heads anymore. They use calculators(计算器). Most families have computers now. In the old days, we didn't have computers. We didn't even have electricity. My mother used to spend all day cooking in the kitchen. But now fewer people eat home-cooked food. And people don't talk to each other anymore. They are too busy to talk, too busy to eat, too busy to think... Life used to be simple, but it isn't anymore.

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1.What does the underlined word "marriage" mean in Chinese?

A. 婚礼 B. 家庭 C. 婚姻 D. 感情

2.When husband and wife have problems with their marriage, ____________.

A. they stay together B. they argue with each other

C. they don't stay together D. they have no time to solve them

3.My grandfather thinks children now spend lots of time with their __________.

A. parents B. grandparents C. friends D. cousins

4.Families now often eat ___________.

A. at home B. in the restaurants

C. at friends' houses D. on the way

5.From the passage, we can know that ______________.

A. all the things have changed now

B. the rhythm(节奏)of life becomes quicker and quicker

C. life used to be boring

D. there is no difference between the past and nowadays

One day a boy was walking along the street. Suddenly he stopped and looked up into the sky.

A young man passed by him. When he saw the boy, he felt curious and looked up, too.

Just then a girl came up and saw them. “Is there anything interesting in the sky?” She thought and looked up, too.

After a while there were quite some people. They were interested in the clear blue sky.

Suddenly the boy asked, “Hey, what are all of you looking up at?” “That’s what we are going to ask you,” said the young man. “You want to ask me? But I wasn’t looking at anything,” said the boy. “I raised my head upward(向上) because my nose bled(流血). That’s a terrible thing.”

1.What was the boy doing one day?

A. He was looking for something in the street.

B. He was going down the street on foot.

C. He was going to see his friend.

D. He was looking up at the plane in the sky.

2.What does the word “curious” in the passage mean in Chinese?

A. 好奇的 B. 着急的 C. 烦恼的 D. 高兴的

3.The girl thought _______ , so she looked up.

A. there was something wrong with the boy

B. none of the people were interested in the sky

C. the young man could see nothing in the sky

D. there was something interesting in the sky

4.The boy looked up into the sky only because _______.

A. he liked doing so very much B. the other people also did so

C. something was wrong with his nose D. his mother told him to do so

5.From the passage we can see ________.

A. many people were looking up

B. there must be something in the sky

C. there was an accident in the street

D. the boy did not know why other people were looking up into the sky as he did.

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