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Each week, this program explains the many meanings of English expressions. Today’s expressions include a very important word—“heart”. We will try to “get to the heart of the matter” to better understand the most important thing about words and their stories. So “take heart.” Have no fear about learning new expressions. Besides, popular English words can be fun. There is no need for a “heavy heart.” Such feelings of sadness would only “break my heart,” or make me feel unhappy and hopeless.

Now, let us suppose you and I were speaking freely about something private. We would be having a “heart to heart” discussion. I might speak from “the bottom of my heart, ” or say things honestly and truthfully. I might even “open up my heart” to you and tell you a secret. I would speak with “all my heart”.

When a person shares her feelings freely and openly like this, you might say she “wears her heart on her sleeve”. Her emotions are not protected.

If we had an honest discussion, both of us would know that the other person’s “heart is in the right place.” For example, I would know that you are a “kind-hearted” and well-meaning person. And, if you are a very good person, I would even say that you have “a heart of gold.” However, you might have a “change of heart” based on what I tell you. Our discussion might cause you to change the way you feel about something.

But, let us suppose you get angry over what I tell you. Or worse, you feel no sympathy or understanding for me or my situation. If this happens, I might think that you have a “heart of stone.” And, if you say something to make me frightened or worried, my “heart might stand still”.

1.If you are not so happy, you may feel that ________.

A. you “have a heart of stone”                                B. you have to “take heart”

C. you “break you heart”                                          D. you “speak from the bottom of the heart”

2.From the above passage we may see ________.

A. English words can all be used differently

B. some phrases do not have a fixed meaning

C. languages change with the time

D. the same word may have various meanings

3.What is the passage trying to impress the readers?

A. To explain how “heart” is used in phrases.

B. To show the author’s perfect English.

C. To tell English learners to learn English in phrases.

D. To advertise an English course.

4.Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage?

A. A change of heart                                                  B. Open up the heart of “heart”

C. Never let your heart stand still                          D. Wear your heart on your sleeve

 

【答案】

 

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.B

【解析】略

 

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　　In America many children act in TV shows. They work several hours every day, so they cannot go to a regular school. How do they get an education?

　　In Hollywood(好莱坞) where many TV shows are made, about forty teachers give lessons for the children in the shows. They teach wherever their pupils are working.

　　The teacher’s job is very important. She is responsible for(对……负责)making sure that the child works only in the permitted hours each week. She is also responsible for making sure that the child learns the required subjects. She makes sure, too, that the child gets enough rest and play, along with his education.

　　Child actors(儿童演员)are required to attend classes twenty hours each week. California law says that they must be taught from September to the middle of June. If they do not get good marks, they are not permitted to continue working in TV shows.

　　TV children are usually good pupils, and most of their teachers like this special kind of work. Their classes are held in many interesting places. Sometimes the “classroom” is a Mississippi riverboat. Something it is the inside of a spaceship. Often the pupils become famous stars.

1．What does “TV children” means here?

They are children ________.

[　　]

A．who like watching TV very much

B．who watch TV a lot every day

C．who are taught by TV

D．who play the children in TV shows

2．In America TV children ________.

[　　]

A．are too busy to go to school

B．have no chance to receive an education

C．can’t go to a regular school

D．can’t have enough time to be taught

3．TV children are taught ________.

[　　]

A．on the evening and Sunday,

B．on a Mississippi riverboat or in a spaceship

C．only in the permitted hours every week

D．wherever they are working

4．”If they do not get good marks, they are not permitted to continue working in TV shows”.

________

[　　]

A．which shows great attention has been paid to TV children’s education

B．which shows child actors are very good students

C．which is because they will have to become famous stars

D．which is because their teachers have played an important part

5．Which shouldn’t the teachers do? The teachers in Hollywood must make sure ________.

[　　]

A．their students must be good at working in TV shows

B．the children there work only in permitted hours

C．the child actors must finish the required subjects

D．the TV children must get enough rest and play


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American Idol is a TV show and annual American singing competition, which began its first season on June 11, 2002. It is based on the British show Pop Idol, in which thousands of young singers, aged 16-28, audition（试演）for the chance   1.  (choose) as the new singing idol. The program seeks to discover the  2.  (good) young singer in the country through  3.  series of nationwide auditions.              

Auditions  4.  (hold) in key cities around the country, with judges removing some contestants(选手),  5.  there are only 30 left. These 30 compete, on air, and the viewing public votes for  6.  three favorites each week, over the course of the next three weeks. Those nine contestants, along   7.  one “wild card” chosen by judges, continue on to the next stage of the competition,  8.  takes place over several weeks. The outcome of the latter stages of this competition is wholly determined by public voting. There are three judges assessing the contestants’    9.  (perform) in order to facilitate(推动) the voting.

Of these ten, two winners are chosen to appear in a live half-hour telecast（电视广播）the following evening to compete   10.  a top-dollar record deal.

 

Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. Parents often give their children an amount of money that they may spend as they wish. The purpose is to let the children learn from experience at an early age when financial mistakes are not very costly.

    A child may receive an allowance each week or each month. The amount is not so important.  But parents should make clear what the child is expected to pay for with the money.

At first, young children may spend all of their allowance soon after they receive it. If they do this, they will learn the hard way that spending must be done within a budget. Parents should not offer more money until the next allowance is to be given.

    Older children may be responsible enough to budget larger costs like those for clothing. The object is to show young people that a budget demands choices between spending and saving.

    Many people who have written on the subject say it is not a good idea to pay your child for work around the home. These jobs are a normal part of family life. Paying children to do extra work around the home, however, can be useful. It can even provide an understanding of how a business works.

    Allowances give children a chance to experience three things they can do with money. They can share it in the form of gifts or giving it to organizations. They can spend it by buying things they want. Or they can save it.

    Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice: you have to cut costs and plan for the future. Requiring children to save part of their allowance can also open the door to future saving and investing. Many banks offer free savings accounts for young people with small amounts of money.

1.The functions of allowances given to children are the following EXCEPT ______.

A. they can save more money for their future business

B. they can give them to charities

C. they may spend them on what they like

D. they can learn to deal with money

2.The underlined word "sacrifice" in the last paragraph means "_____".

A. 牺牲                 B. 计划                C. 选择        D. 放弃

3.What's the main idea of the passage?

A. Children should save part of their allowance.

B. Don’t pay your child for work around the home.

C. Allowance helps teach children early about money.

D. Parents should allow children to spend money as they wish.

4.How many advantages of saving has the passage mentioned?

A. 2                     B. 3                        C. 4          D. 5

5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Children are advised to buy anything they wish to with the allowance.

B. Parents should offer children more money if they spend all of their allowance soon after they get it.

C. It can be useful to pay children to do extra work around the home.

D. It is unnecessary for the children to save part of the allowance.

 

Last April, on a visit to the new Mall of America near Minneapolis, I carried with me a small book provided for the reporters by the public relations office. It

included a variety of “fun facts” about the mall, for example, 140,000 hot dogs are sold each week, there are 10,000 full-time jobs, 44 sets of moving stairs and 17 lifts, 12,750 parking places, 13,000 tons of steel and $ 1 million is drawn weekly from 8 ATMs. Opened in the summer of 2005, the mall was built where the former Minneapolis Stadium had been. It was only a five-minute drive from the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. With 4.2 million square feet of floor space ----- twenty-two times the size of the average American shopping center –the Mall of America was the largest shopping and family recreation center under one roof in the United States.

I know already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers, not only as a marketplace, but as a national tourist attaction. Eleven thousand articles, the small book informed me, had been written about the mall.  Four hundred trees had been planted in its gardens, $ 625 million had been spent to build it, and 350 stores were already in business. Three thousand bus tours were expected each year along with a half-million Canadian visitors and 200,000 Japanese tourists. Sales are expected to be at $ 650 million for 2008 and at $ I billion for 2009. Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Amold Schwarzenegger visited the mall. It was five times larger than Red Square and it included 2.3 miles of hallways and used almost twice as Knott’s Camp Snoopy.

60. We know from the text that the Mall of America is _________.

A.near an old stadium                  B.close to an airport

C.higher than the Eiffel Tower          D.bigger than most American parks

61. Why are the pieces of information provided by the Mall of America referred to as “fun facts”?

A.They are largely imagined.          B.They are surprising figures（数字）

C.They give exact descriptions.        D.They make people feel uneasy.

62. Why does the author mention popular stars who have been to the mall?

A.To show its power of attraction.

B.To show that few rich people like to shop there.

C.To tell the public about a new movie being made about it.

D.To tell people that they have chances of meeting famous stars there.

63. We can infer from the text that _______.

A.Japanese visitors are most welcome to the mall

B.Canadian visitors would spend $ I billion at the mall

C.Knott’s Camp Snoopy was next to the Mall of America

D.the Mall of America was designed to serve more than one purpose（目的）

 

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