题目内容
In America, people don’t keep their old people at home. At a certain age they put them away. In my country, the old people stay in the home until they ____80____. But here, things are not like that. It’s surprising to me that they put them away. The first thing they think of is a nursing home (养老院). Some of these people don’t need a nursing home. If they had their own bedroom at home, they would watch ____81____ or listen to the radio or have themselves busy doing something interesting.
Right now there’s a lady here, nothing wrong with her, but her children put her away. They don’t come to see her. The only time they come to see her is when she says, “I can’t breathe.” She wants some ____82____. And that way she is just aging. When I came here, she was a beautiful woman. She was looking nice. Now she is going down.
We had another lady here two years ago, she had two sons. She fell and had a ____83____ leg. They called the eldest son. He said, “Why call on me? Call the little one. She gave all the money to that little one.” That was bad. I was right there.
All these people are not helpless. But just the family ____84____ them. There is an old man here. His children took him for a ride one day, pushed him out of the car, let him walk and wander (徘徊) by himself. He couldn’t find his way home. His children try to ____85____ all that he has. They are trying to make him sign papers and things like those. There is nothing wrong with him. He can dress himself, cook his own meals, take a walk… They signed him in here, made the lawyers sign him in. They are just in for money.
How can these children treat their old people like that? How awful!
80. A. fail B. disappear C. die D. hate
81. A. films B. pets C. television D. children
82. A. attention B. freedom C. invitation D. trouble
83. A. frozen B. broken C. weak D. terrible
84. A. have pity on B. deal with C. rely on D. get rid of
85. A. take away B. give up C. dream of D. care for
CCABDA
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 |