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2. The experts all came late to the meeting,due the bad storm.
2. to
French people pride themselves on their delicious foods,such as cheese,ba?guettes and croissants(two kinds of food) . In fact,food is an important part of French culture. Families and friends spend hours over the dinner table each night. It is the opposite of the fast food habit common in other parts of the West.
It's the reason why the French are very angry that a McDonald's is opening beneath Paris's most famous museum: the Louvre (卢浮宫) .The new restaurant will be the 1 ,142nd McDonald's in France,and will open in the un?derground approach to the museum. But many French people can't understand why this American chain is opened in the heart of French culture.
However,McDonald's is paying no notice to the complaint. McDonald's now has 31 ,000 chains worldwide. Tourists are hungry,and opening chains in tourist spots pays well.
There is another chain threatening France's heritage. This time it is cof?fee rather than burgers. As more and more Starbucks open in Paris,traditional French cafes are forced to be closed.
The trouble with American companies opening chains throughout the world is the destructive effect they can have on a country's culture. How can a small,independent coffee shop compete with the multibillion dollar chain? You can go to a Starbucks in any city in the world,but you can only go to a Parisian cafe in France.
Responsibility is with the tourists. A McDonald's wouldn't open so near the Louvre if it weren't going to make money. Similarly,a Pizza Hut wouldn't overlook (俯瞰) Egypt's Great Pyramid if no one wants to sit in it. Maybe next time you visit the Great Wall,you should think twice before ordering a Cap?puccino in the Starbucks.
1. Why are the French very angry when a McDonald's is opened beneath the Louvre?
A. Because they will spend many hours in McDonald's.
B. Because French food culture is very impressive.
C. Because they also have the fast food habit.
D. Because they are proud of their own food.
2. The McDonald's will be located in the underground approach to the muse?um because ,
A. the complaints of the French are useless
B. opening a chain in tourist spot is rewarding
C. McDonald's tends to be in the heart of culture
D. it will help to attract more tourists for the museum
3. What is the trouble with American companies opening chains all over the world?
A. The traditional stores of a country are forced to fight back.
B. The traditional stores of a country become dependent.
C. They have negative effect on a country's culture.
D. The multibillion dollar chain can't be matched.
The future of written English will owe more to Hollywood films than Dickens or Shakespeare,if the findings of a study into children's writing are anything to go by. Researchers who looked at the entries to a national compe?tition found they were increasingly using American words such as garbage,trash can,sidewalk,candy,sneakers,soda,and flashlight.
The stories,written by pupils aged 7 to 13,show how fairy cakes are re?ferred to as cupcakes and a dinner jacket has become a tuxedo.
Television also has a powerful influence on children's work,with Lady Gaga and Argentinean footballer Lionel Messi among the famous names from TV cropping up repeatedly.
But pupils are let down by basic spelling,punctuation and grammar,ac?cording to the study by Oxford University Press (OUP) ， which looked at the entries to BBC Radio Two's 500 Words competition.
Children struggled to correctly spell simple words such as "does" and "clothes" and often failed to use the past tense correctly,frequently writing "rised" instead of "rose" or "thinked" instead of "thought".
Researchers also found that punctuation was underused,especially semi?colons and speech marks. Some did not know how to use capital letters. How?ever,exclamation marks were overused. Researchers found 35 ,171 examples in total,with some young writers using five at a time ！
Popular US fiction such as the Tvuilight novels and films is thought to be fueling the increasing use of American vocabulary and spelling.Meanwhile,fears that texting was corrupting children's written work were unfounded,they said,with youngsters only using text language when they were referring to a text message.
Samantha Armstrong from OUP said, "Perhaps we are catching a glimpse of the language of the future. " Chris Evans,whose radio show runs the com?petition,said the results were "fascinating", adding, "Who'd have thought that Messi and Gaga would be some of the most used names?"
1. According to the passage,which of the following is an example of British English?
A. Sneakers. B. Fairy cakes.
C. Tuxedo. D. Candy.
2. Which of the following was NOT frequently found in the pupils' stories?
A. Text message language.
B. A variety of Americanisms.
C. Overuse of exclamation marks.
D. Names of famous TV stars.
3. The underlined word "unfounded" in Paragraph 7 probably means " ”.
A. unbearable B. unnoticeable
C. not found D. not based on facts
4. The passage is intended to .
A. show that British children have spelling and grammar abilities
B. share the experience about how to teach written English in a correct way
C. discuss the noticeable changes and evolution of written English in Britain
D. criticize the influence of popular US culture on British children's lan?guage use
so that although as even though unless
1. it was getting dark,we started for home.
2. he is 24 now,he is still like a little child.
3. Let's go out for a walk you are too tired.
4. I'll run slowly you can catch up with me.
5. born in the city,he knows a lot about farming.
3. The dog's a is the wolf.
5. 青藏高原被称为"世界屋脊"。
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau the Roof of the World.
7. It took more than building supplies to construct these energysaving houses. It (take) brains,too.
2. We are so tired. we could take the day off tomorrow!
3. Stephen Hawking's ideas are a ,and only a few people can understand him.
