How the Americans view love

   An old song says that " love makes the world go around" If you watch Americans on Valentine's Day, you can believe it. The whole country breaks out with little red hearts. Lovestruck people give cards, flowers and candy to their sweethearts.

   The American concept of love and romance begins with dating. Young people date in several ways. At first they might have group dates with several boys and girls together. Later, they start going on single date - just one boy and one girl.

   When two couples go out together, it's called double dating. A friend might even arrange a blind date for you with someone you don't know who your partner will be until the time of the date.

   American young people see a date as a time just to have fun. They don't always have a romantic interest in mind. Someone may go out with one person this week, and another the next. After a while, a boy and a girl may decide they want to go steady. This means they think of each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. It also means they don't want to date anyone else. Romance is beginning to bloom.

  Romance love is very much a part of American culture. Movies, TV shows and books in America all picture people falling in love. Actually, people all over the world search for happiness in a loving relationship. Maybe love does make the world go around.

How do you understand the understand sentence in the first paragraph?

 A. Many young people's hearts break in America that day.

B. You can see many pictures of little red hearts all over America that day.

C. People all over the world show their hearts to each other that day.

D. people go out with their warm hearts that day

How many kinds of dates are mentioned in the passage?

A. 2   B. 3    C. 4      D. 5

What does blind date mean?

A. You can not see who is your partner during the date.

B. The partner of your date is a stranger.

C. Your date is arranged secretly.

D. You will not know your partner until the date begins.

Which of the following statement is true about American's view of romantic?

A. Romance love is the most important thing in the world

B. People all over the world search for romance love

C. Date is one thing, romantic is another.

D. They can find their ideal love in movies, TV shows and books

       There is an endless supply of stories about sleepwalkers (梦游者). People have been said to climb on roofs, solve mathematical problems, write music, walk through windows, and do murder in their sleep.

       In Revere, Massachusetts, a hundred policemen searched for a lost boy who left his home in his sleep and woke up five hours later on a strange sofa in a strange living room, with no idea how he had got there.

       At the University of Lowa, WWW.K**S*858$$U.COMa student was reported to have the habit of getting up in the middle of the night and walking three-quarters of a mile to the Lowa River. He would take a swim and then go back to his room to bed.

       An American expert on sleep claims (声称) that he has never seen a sleepwalker. He is said to know more about sleep than any other living man, and during the last thirty-five years he has lost a lot of sleep watching people sleep. He says, “Of course, I know that there are sleepwalkers because I have read about them in the newspapers. But none of my sleepers ever walked, and if I were to advertise for sleepwalkers for an experiment, I doubt whether I would get many takers (应征者).”

       Sleepwalking, however, is a scientific reality. It is one of those strange things that sometimes look quite fantastic (怪诞的). Doctors say that sleepwalking is much more common than is generally supposed. Many sleepwalkers do not try to find help and their sleepwalking is never recorded.

Generally speaking, sleepwalkers are people who ________.

      A. climb on roofs                                B. walk through windows

       C. do fantastic things during their sleep                      D. walk in a half-awake state

It was reported that a boy ________.

      A. was found on a strange sofa, telling how he had got there

       B. slept in his own room but woke up in a strange room

       C. lost his way five hours after he left home

       D. was searched for by policemen when he lost his way

There was a college student who got into the habit of ________.

      A. getting up in the middle of the night and walking down to the river

       B. walking three-quarters of a mile every day

       C. swimming in the Lowa River before going to bed

       D. walking about before he went to bed

Why do people think sleepwalking is nothing but a fantastic thing which doesn’t have any explanation?

      A. It is so common that it needn’t be recorded.

       B. Scientists take no interest in it.

       C. Most sleepwalkers do not seek help for their problem.

       D. No records about it have been made.

Chinese are very generous when it comes to educating their children.Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia.They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will learn a musical instrument or ballet or other classes which will give them a head start in life.The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is.So the parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education.Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

       However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.

       Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others.What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children lack (缺乏) self-respect and self-confidence.

       The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents aren’t teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing housework.

       Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life.Cooking demands patience and time.It’s an enjoyable but difficult experiment.A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually to finish his job successfully.His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.

       Some old machines , such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him curious (好奇) and arouse his interest He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up.These activities aren’t merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind.And that is more important.

Parents in China, according to this passage, _________.

       A.are too strict with their children        

       B.are too rich to educate their children

       C.have some problems in educating their children correctly

       D.are too poor to educate their children

Generally speaking, children’s skills_______.

       A.come from their parents     

       B.have nothing to do with their education

       C.may be different             

       D.have something to do with their marks in the exams

The writer of this passage doesn’t seem to be satisfied with_______.

       A.the parents’ idea of educating their children 

       B.the education system

       C.children’s skills 

       D.children’s hobbies

Doing some cooking at home helps children_________.

       A.learn how to serve their parents        

       B.learn how to become strong and fat

       C.benefit from it and prepare themselves for the future 

       D.make their parents believe that they are clever

According to the last paragraph, we can conclude that_________.

       A.broken radios and television sets are useful  

       B.one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life

       C.an engineer must fix many broken radios

       D.a good student should spend much time repairing radios

(2011·安徽卷)C

They are the sort of friends who are so close they trust each other with their lives. If one falls, the other is there to catch him.

They are Wellman, whose legs were permanently injured nine years ago in a rock-climbing accident, and Corbett, an experienced rock climber. Together, they climbed up Half Dome, the famous 2,000-foot rock in the Yosemite National Park, through one of the most difficult routes(路线).

During the climb, Corbett took the lead, hit in the metal spikes(尖状物)that guided the ropes and climbed up. Then, after Wellman pulled himself up the rope, Corbett went down to remove the spikes and climbed up again. This process was repeated time and again, inch by inch, for 13 days.

    Wellman’s job was not easy either. He got himself up the rope through upper body strength alone. In all, Wellman figured that he had done 5,000 pull-ups up the rope on the climb. 

However, when the two men first met, they never talked about climbing. “He knew that was how I got injured.” Wellman said. Until one day Wellman decided that he wanted to climb again and they started training.

Their climb of Half Dome was not all smooth. At one point, pieces of rock gave way, and Corbett dropped down quickly. Wellman locked their rope in place, stopping the fall at 20 feet. His quick action probably saved his friend’s life.

“Your partner can save your life — you can save your partner’s life,” Wellman said as the pair received congratulations from friends. “There are real close ties.”

64. Which of the following was a challenge for Corbett in climbing Half Dome?

A. To climb up to remove the spikes.         B. To climb it twice

C. To do 5,000 pull-ups up the rope.          D. To lock the rope in place.

65. Why did the two men never talk about climbing when they first met?

A. Corbett was poorly trained.

B. Wellman had lost interest in climbing.

C. Corbett didn’t want to hurt Wellman.

D. Wellman hadn’t decided whether to climb again.

66. What do we know about Wellman?

A. He climbed Half Dome by himself.

B. He was disabled in a traffic accident.

C. He stopped rock-climbing for some time.

D. He was saved by Corbett during the climb.

67. The main idea of the text is that             .

A. two heads are better than one

B. friendship is precious in life

C. the disabled should never give up

D. a man can be destroyed but cannot be defeated

  

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