题目内容
Eating habits are different in many countries. The Chinese have a saying, “Eat good things for breakfast, eat a big meal for lunch, but eat less at dinner.” Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast, but their ideas about lunch and dinner are different.
Most Americans only give themselves a short time for lunch. So they eat a small meal. After work they will have more time to eat a big dinner. Also a quiet dinner at home with all the family members talking about their day is a way to rest after a long, hard day of work.
Eating at restaurant is also different. In China, people like to talk and laugh while eating. Very often you can hear people talking and laughing loudly, and they are just having a good time. In America it is not like this. People want a quiet place where they can eat a good meal far away from the noise of the outside world. If some people are talking too loudly, the manager (经理) may come out and ask them to leave.【小题1】
Which is the good way for keeping healthy in China?
A.Eating nothing for breakfast. |
B.Eating less to lose weight. |
C.Eating less at dinner. |
D.Eating what you want. |
【小题2】
How long do most Americans only give themselves for lunch?A.The whole noon. | B.A long time. |
C.A short time. | D.More time. |
【小题3】
Is talking at table a way to rest in America?A.Yes, it is. | B.No, it isn’t. |
C.No, they don’t talk. | D.Having dinner in a restaurant. |
【小题4】
What do people like doing when we are having a meal in China?A.Having a rest. | B.Eating quickly. |
C.Only eating quietly. | D.Talking and laughing. |
【小题5】
What will the manager of the restaurant do if some people are talking too loudly in America?A.Talk with them happily. | B.Ask them to be quiet. |
C.Let them go away. | D.Do nothing. |
解析试题分析:这篇文章主要告诉我们饮食习惯在很多国家是不同的。中国有句谚语:“早饭要吃得好,午饭要吃得饱,晚饭要吃得少。”而美国人吃午饭的时间很短。中国人喜欢边吃边聊,美国人却是喜欢有一个安静的吃饭环境。
【小题1】细节理解题。The Chinese have a saying, “Eat good things for breakfast, eat a big meal for lunch, but eat less at dinner.”句意:中国有句谚语:“早饭要吃得好,午饭要吃得饱,晚饭要吃得少。”由此可知,这是中国的养生之道。故选C。
【小题2】细节理解题。根据Most Americans only give themselves a short time for lunch.句意:绝大多数美国人只给自己很短的时间吃午饭。可知应选C。
【小题3】推理判断题。根据Also a quiet dinner at home with all the family members talking about their day is a way to rest after a long, hard day of work.句意在家里安安静静地吃饭,和家人一起聊聊这一天也是辛苦劳累后的一种休息方式。可知在餐桌上聊天在美国也是一种休息。故选A。
【小题4】细节理解题。根据In China, people like to talk and laugh while eating.句意:在中国,人们喜欢边吃边聊边笑。故选D。
【小题5】 细节理解题。根据If some people are talking too loudly, the manager (经理) may come out and ask them to leave.句意:如果有人说话声音太响,经理会走出来叫他们离开。可知应选C。
考点:政治经济文化类短文阅读。
In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men, or "stewards" helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers' luggage (行李) but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930, a woman called Ellen Church invented the "stewardess".
Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn't want to work on a farm or marry a farmer—she wanted a more adventurous (冒险的) life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot's license.
Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man's world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot. But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because flying was still an unreliable (不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays (延误), many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. Agreed.
The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.
At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early "stewardesses" had to be under twenty-five-year old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned $1 an hour.
In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, "stewardesses" have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.
【小题1】The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.
A.the word "stewardess" was made up by Ellen Church |
B.Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane |
C.Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane |
D.Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane |
A.Ellen did not behave in the same way as most as other girls |
B.Ellen's family was not rich enough to support her education |
C.Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital |
D.Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely |
A.her flying experience | B.her university education |
C.her nursing experience | D.her life attitudes |
A.be a nurse | B.be married |
C.be a mother | D.be young |
A.the background of early flying pilots |
B.the experience of flying passengers |
C.the history of early flight attendants |
D.the development of airplanes |
From the world’s heaviest apple, the oldest lady to the world’s smallest dog, these are all parts of a group of the world’s strangest people and things. And they are all in the Guinness Book of Records(《吉尼斯记录》).
The book is going to celebrate its birthday this August. It began exactly half a century ago. And it’s always one of the best selling books in the world.
People now can break over 1000 records every week! Why do so many people want to break the records? Do they want their names in the book or meet more people around the world? “It gives people a chance to show they’re the best in the world.” said one of the record keepers Stewart Newport.
The book was started by Hugh Beaver from Britain. In 1951, he went shooting birds and talked with his friends about the fastest bird in Europe. Three years later, they were still talking about it. So Beaver believed that people must have different ideas. So, he decided to start a book to record the world’s truly greatest people and things in it!
The newest book came out last Tuesday. This book has a lot of interesting records. Here are two:
☆ A British dog, Whitney, is the world’s smallest dog. It’s only 76mm tall.
☆ An American woman Lee Redmond has the longest fingernails(指甲).They grew as long as 600 mm! She made the record in 1971.
【小题1】We can see everything in the Guinness Book of Records except .
A.the heaviest fruits and vegetables | B.the smallest people and animals |
C.the strangest people and things | D.very ordinary people and things |
A.50 years | B.76 years | C.600 years | D.1000 years |
A.their names be kept in the world records. |
B.their names could be seen by the whole world. |
C.they could meet more people all over the world. |
D.they could be known as the greatest by the world. |
A.Newport started the Guinness Book of Records in Britain. |
B.More than four thousand records are broken each month. |
C.The Guinness Book of Records started in the year 1954. |
D.The newest book of Guinness comes out every Tuesday. |
A.tell us the strangest records in the world |
B.show us the beginning of the Guinness Book of Records |
C.give us an introduction to the Guinness Book of Records |
D.let us know the most interesting things in the world |
Libraries give kids a quiet and safe place to read and learn. For over 100 years, libraries have played an important role in Americans’ education. But how are these book-filled buildings changing with the times? You may be surprised to find out.
Benjamin Franklin famously founded (创建) America’s first lending library in 1731. But the public library system got its biggest development in the American history in the late 1800’s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie’s donations helped build 1,679 new libraries.
Carnegie believed that libraries could offer the chances to Americans, young and old. He knew that the more libraries there were, the more people would have opportunities to read and use books, speeches and news.
If you can easily find a public library in your community(社区), you’ll get more chances. After all, the United States has 9,225 public libraries. Today, libraries keep growing. Seven tenths of the libraries have free Internet. It provides much more information and opportunities to ask for jobs online.
Libraries are also teaching kids about the fun of reading. The new program Read! Build! Play! adds reading into playtime. As kids listen to a book that is being read aloud, they use Legos (乐高积木) to build images(图像) from the story happily. Today’s libraries are always looking for creative programs to bring people into the library.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “The doors of wisdom(智慧) are never shut.” As long as the doors of public libraries are open, what he said is most certainly correct!
【小题1】 Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in _______.
A.1731 | B.1800 | C.1886 | D.1919 |
A.2767. | B.6458. | C.9225. | D.1679. |
①The public library system in America developed fast.
②The first lending library was founded.
③ Libraries provide information and chances to ask for job online.
④ Libraries try to bring people into the library by using creative programs.
A.②①③④ | B.②③④① | C.③④①② | D.①②③④ |
A.libraries have played an important role in Americans’ education |
B.public libraries in the US should never close the doors |
C.the writer doesn’t agree with Benjamin Franklin |
D.libraries help people to open the doors of wisdom |
A.the libraries in the world |
B.libraries and opportunities |
C.libraries teach kids to read and learn |
D.the development of the American libraries |
Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they don’t all have the same coffee culture. In Europe for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed when Starbucks coffee shops spread across the country.[来源:学科网ZXXK]
The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.
Things really began to change for the company in 1981.That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing(市场营销).
In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso (浓咖啡) bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.
However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the “feel the same everywhere” environment offered by Starbucks.【小题1】
The underlined word “ran” in Paragraph 3 probably means “ ”.
A.moved | B.managed |
C.loved | D.used |
【小题2】
According to the passage, which is the right order for the following sentences?a. This man helped to make Starbucks a huge coffee company.
b. He went to Seattle to learn about the company and later worked for it.
c. Howard Schultz noticed Starbucks ordered lots of special coffee makers.
d. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in Seattle in the USA.
A. a-d-c -b B. a-d-b-c
C. d-c- b-a D. d-c-a-b
【小题3】
Why did so many Starbucks close in some countries?A.All of the coffee tastes the same. |
B.The coffee in these places was too expensive. |
C.The people in these countries didn’t drink coffee. |
D.There were too many coffee shops in one place. |