题目内容
9. The old poor couple (一直居住在) in the mountain village for thirty years.
9. have been living
When her five daughters were young,Helene An always told them that there was strength in unity (团结) .To show this,she held up one chopstick,representing one per?son. Then she easily broke it into two pieces. Next,she tied several chopsticks together,representing a family. She showed the girls it was hard to break the tied chop?sticks. This lesson about family unity stayed with the daughters as they grew up.
Helene An and her family own a large restaurant bus?iness in California. However,when Helene and her hus?band Danny left their home in Vietnam in 1975,they didn't have much money. They moved their family to San Francisco. There they joined Danny's mother,Diana,who owned a small Italian sandwich shop. Soon after?wards,Helene and Diana changed the sandwich shop into a small Vietnamese restaurant. The five daughters helped in the restaurant when they were young. However,Helene did not want her daughters to always work in the family business because she thought it was too hard.
Eventually the girls all graduated from college and went away to work for themselves,but one by one,the daughters returned to work in the family business. They opened new restaurants in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other,they worked together to make the business successful. Daughter Elizabeth explains , " Our mother taught us that to succeed we must have unity,and to have unity we must have peace. Without the strength of the family,there is no business."
Their expanding business became a large corporation in 1996,with three generations of Ans working together. Now the Ans' corporation makes more than $20 million each year. Although they began with a smaJJ restaurant,they had big dreams,and they worked together. Now they are a big success.
15. Helene tied several chopsticks together to show
A. the strength of family unity
B. the difficulty of growing up
C. the advantage of chopsticks
D. the best way of giving a lesson
16. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the An family
A. started a business in 1975
B. left Vietnam without much money
C. bought a restaurant in San Francisco
D. opened a sandwich shop in Los Angeles
17. What can we infer about the An daughters?
A. They did not finish their college education.
B. They could not bear to work in the family business.
C. They were influenced by what Helene taught them.
D. They were troubled by disagreement among family members.
18. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A. How to run a corporation
B. Strength comes from peace
C. How to achieve a big dream
D. Family unity builds success
阅读下面材料，在空白处填人适当的内容(1个单词) 或括号内单词的正确形式。
A group of students from England,who are1. (interest) in archaeology,have come to Zhoukoudian caves for a visit. An archaeologist gives them a brief 2. (introduce) to the life and habits of the earliest people in Zhoukoudian.
Early people lived in caves. There were fireplaces in the centre of caves 3. they made fires to keep them warm,cook the food and scare their enemies4. ，such as tigers and bears.
Early people made their own clothes from animal skins. They used5. (sharp) stone tools to cut up animals and remove their skins. Smaller scrapers were used6. (remove) the fat and meat from the skin. Finally they would use needles made of animal bones7. (sew) the pieces together.
Early people also paid attention to their 8. (appear) and wore necklaces. Some of the necklace beads were made of animal bones but some were made of shells,which told us that all the fields around Zhoukoudian caves used to be part of a large shallow lake. Early people didn't grow 9. own crops,but picked fruits10. they were ripe and hunted animals for food.
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After moving to the United States,immigrant groups trying to fit in tend to choose highcalorie and fatty foods in an attempt to appear more American―a new study finds. That's one reason why immi?grants approach US levels of obesity within 15 years of moving to America.
The researchers also did an experiment that measured whether or not the threat of appearing un-American influenced respondents' food choices. After being questioned about their ability to speak English,75 per cent of Asian-Americans identified a kind of typical American food as their favourite. Only25 per cent of Asian-Americans who had not been asked if they spoke English did the same.
When their American identity was called into question during a followup study,Asian-American participants also tended to choose typical American dishes,such as hamburgers and cheese sandwiches. In that experiment,55 Asian-Americans were asked to choose a meal from a local Asian or American restaurant. Some pari ticipants were told that only Americans could participate in the study. Those who i chose the more typical American fare ended up consuming an extra182 calories,ini eluding 12 grams of fat and 7grams of saturated fat (饱和脂肪) .
"People who feel like they need to prove they belong to a culture will change i their habits in an attempt to fit in," said Sauna Cheryan,an author of the study and I assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington. "If immigrants I and their children choose unhealthy American food over healthier traditional food 1 across their lives?this process of fitting in could lead to poorer health," Cheryan added.
Social pressure,the study concluded,is at the heart of the problem. "In Ameri?can society today,being American is associated with being white. Americans,who don't fit this image even if they were born here and speak English,feel that pressure to prove that they're American," said Cheryan.
1. The author wants to show that .
A. more and more Asians enjoy highcalorie snacks
B. immigrants tend to eat American junk food to fit in
C. most Americans are at the risk of heart disease
D. all the American people have a bad eating habit
2. According to the survey,
A. Asian-Americans care less about their health
B. 25 per cent of Americans like junk food
C. choosing food is related to Asian-Americans' situation
D. immigrants are forced to eat junk food
3. The underlined word"fare" in Paragraph 3 most probably means"
A. food offered as a meal
B. a person taking a taxi
C. money spent on food,
D. an arranged thing to do
4. According to Sauna Cheryan, .
A. what immigrants have done is ridiculous
B. American traditional food is healthier
C. immigrants risk their health in order to fit in
D. American culture affects immigrants deeply
4. 我不会允许她伤害你的，我今晚会陪你去参加舞会的。
I you. I will accompany you to the party tonight. (have sb/sth doing)
5. Regardless his wife's strong objection,the husband insisted on putting all the money they had into the stock market.
7. China (造纸) for more than2,000 years.
单词拼写
1. If you have crouched (蹲) for a long time,don't stand up too quickly,or you will feel d .
8. Nowadays (滑板运动) is very popular with young people.
