题目内容
—Does Mr. Smith live next door to you?
—No, but he _______.
A.is used to | B.used to | C.used | D.used to be |
B
解析
Mr Smith is an English man. He teaches English well. His English classes are very interesting. He likes us and we like him, too. Mr Smith has two children-Tom and Mary. Tom is seven and his sister, Mary, is four. Tom goes to school but Mary doesn't. Mr Smith likes wearing a T-shirt and jeans(牛仔裤). Football is his favorite sport. After school we often have a baseball match. Sometimes Mr Smith watches and joins us. He plays baseball just for fun.
【小题1】Mr Smith is ______.
A.a Chinese teacher | B.an English driver |
C.a Japanese teacher | D.an English teacher |
A.Only one. | B.Two. | C.Three. | D.Not many. |
A.she looks beautiful | B.she is seven |
C.she is only four | D.she doesn't like school |
A.Baseball | B.Football | C.Running | D.Volleyball |
A.Mr Smith's son | B.Mr Smith | C.Tom and Mary | D.a basketball |
In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors.
The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants. Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.
It was like a race, but one could never finish this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They had to move back to an apartment in New York City.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.
【小题1】Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ______.
A.want others to know or to think that they are rich |
B.want to be as rich as their neighbours |
C.don’t want others to know they are rich |
D.want to be happy |
A.live in New York City | B.live outside New York City |
C.live in apartments | D.live with many neighbours |
A.Supportive. | B.Objective. | C.Negative. | D.Positive. |