I fell in love with England because it was quaint(古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I love London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.

    Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.

    I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.

   As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p.m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.

   The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbor who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.

The writer doesn’t like London because she___.

  A. is not used to the life there now           B. has lived there for seventeen years

  C. prefers to live in an old-fashioned house    D. has to be polite to everyone she meets there

Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

  A. In a café.       B. In a restaurant.      C. In a nightclub.      D. In a pub.

The underlined part “it” (in Para.4) refers to ___.

  A. a taxi     B. the money     C. a bomb         D. public transport

The writer took her neighbor to France for Christmas because he ___.

  A. felt lonely                            B. had never been to France

  C. was from a typically French family        D. didn’t like the British idea of family


B
“Fingers were made before forks.” When a person gives up good manners, put aside knife and fork, and dives into his food, someone is likely to repeat that saying.
The fork was an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no one thought of eating with it. Not until the eleventh century, when a young lady from Constantinople brought her fork to Italy, did the custom reach Europe.
By the fifteenth century the use of the fork was wide-spread in Italy. The English explanation was that Italians were unwilling to eat food touched with fingers, “seeing all men’s fingers are not alike clean.
Anyone who used a fork to eat with was laughed at in England for the next hundred years. Not until the late 1600’s did using a fork become a common custom.
60. The custom of eating with a fork was ________.
A. brought to Europe from America    B. begun when forks first invented
C. brought to Europe from Constantinople   D. thought of by the Italians
61. By the fifteenth century, forks were used________.
A. all over Italy                   B. only in Constantinople
C. by the kings and queens of Europe   D. in England
62. The English thought that Italians used forks in order to________.
A. imitate(模仿)the people of the East       B. keep their food clean
C. impress visitors with their good manners    D. amuse (逗笑) the English
63. The best title of the passage is “_________’.
A. Eating with a Fork             B. The History of Eating with a Fork
C. A Way of Eating               D. A Custom of Eating

How do you address(称呼) people in English when you want to talk to them? The following may be some simple rules the beginners should follow.
1. When talking to strangers there is often no special form of address in English. Usually, if you want to catch the attention of a stranger it is necessary to use such phrases as “Excuse me”.
2. In British English “Sir” and “Madam” are considered to be too formal(正式) for most situations. They are used mostly to customers(顾客) in shops or restaurants. While in American English “Sir” and “Madam” are not so formal and are commonly used between strangers, especially with older people whose names you don’t know.
3. When you talk to some people you know, you can use their names. If you are friends, use their first names; if your relationship is more formal, use “Mr.”, “Mrs.”, “Ms”, etc, before their family names.
4. There are many other forms of address which can be used between friends and strangers. However, many of these are limited in use.  For example, “pal” and “mate” can be used between strangers, but are usually only used by men talking to other men.
【小题1】According to the passage, “Excuse me” is mainly used to ______.

A.address a person you don’t knowB.apologize to others
C.catch the attention of a strangerD.suggest good manners
【小题2】If John Smith is your best friend, according to the passage you should often call him ______.
A.JohnB.SmithC.Mr. JohnD.Mr. Smith
【小题3】Which of the following is NOT true?
A.“Sir” and “Madam” are used more often in America than in England.
B.People often use “Mr.”, “Mrs.” or “Ms” before the first names of those people who they don’t know very well.
C.“Pal” and “mate” are usually only used between men.
D.While addressing friends, people just use their first names
【小题4】The passage is most likely taken from an English _______.
A.textbookB.cardC.storybookD.grammar book

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The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before.

But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on line.  1.   Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the other person’s shoes.

For anything you’re about to send: ask yourself, “Would I say this to the person’s face?” If the answer is no, rewrite and reread.  2. 

If someone in the chat room is rude to you, your instinct (本能) is to fire back in the same manner. But try not to do so.  3.   If it was caused by a disagreement with another member, try to fix the situation by politely discussing it. Remember to respect the beliefs and opinions of others in the chat room.

4.   Offer advice when asked by newcomers, as they may not be sure what to do or how to communicate. When someone makes a mistake, whether it’s a stupid question or an unnecessarily long answer, be kind about it. If it’s a small mistake, you may not need to say anything. Even if you feel strongly about it, think twice before saying anything. Having good manners yourself doesn’t give you license to correct everyone else.  5.   At the same time, if you find you are wrong, be sure to correct yourself and apologize to those that you have offended.

It is not polite to ask others personal questions such as their age, sex and marital status. Unless you know the person very well, and you are both comfortable with sharing personal information, don’t ask such questions.

A. It’s natural that there some people who speak rudely or make mistakes online.

B. Repeat the process till you feel sure that you’d feel comfortable saying the words to the person’s face.

C. Everyone was new to the network once.

D. The basic rule is simple: treat others in the same way you would want to be treated.

E. When you send short messages to a person online, you must say something beautiful to hear.

F. You should either ignore the person, or use your chat software to block their messages.

G. If you do decide to tell someone about a mistake, point it out politely.

 

Some English words are made up of the same part and have different beginnings and different endings, such as import, export, report and transport. All these words, you can see, have the same "port", which come from the Latin word, meaning "to carry" or "to move" from one place to another. And according to the bit at the beginning, which we call the prefix the meaning changes. "Import" means "to carry in" or "to bring into a country", "export", "ex" means "out of", so this word means "to carry out of the country", "re" means "back", so the "report" means "to tell somebody, to bring back information to somebody", "transport", "trans" means "across" and it means "to carry across one place to another".

Let's look at the following words: supporter, reporter, importer and exporter. You can see that in this case these words are nouns which are made up of the verbs plus a suffix, thus meaning a person who completes the verb. So supporter means somebody who supports. A reporter is somebody who reports. Importer is somebody who imports and exporter is somebody who exports, and so on.

1. In the first sentence the word "part" means _______.

A. different beginnings and different endings

B. the same part that has several meanings

C. the root of the word

D. the same root that has different meanings

2.By adding a prefix or a suffix to a root, we can get a word which has _______.

A. the meaning of a Latin word             B. a different meaning

C. the meaning of "in" or "out of"       D. a lot of meanings

3.We can get a noun _______. [???:.COM]

A. just by adding "er" to verbs             B. by changing a prefix

C. only by adding "er" to a root        D. by adding a suffix to a verb

4.According to the passage, if we talk about a man of refinement, you may guess that he must be _______.

A. a man having good manners and education

B. a person who should be educated

C. somebody having bad manners

D. a person punished by somebody else

 

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