A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. 【1】water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder【2】 had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man 【3】 ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled 【4】 ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home 【5】 a happy heart.

After the student left, the teacher let 【6】 student taste the water. He spit it out, 【7】(say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like 【8】 ?" The teacher replied, " You tasted the water. I tasted the girl. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be 【9】 (sweet). "

We understand this lesson best 【10】 we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.

【1】Organic farmers often change the kind of crop in each field every a few years.

【2】Doctor Yuan tried hard to increase rice harvest without expand the area of the fields.

【3】The acting is so convinced that it makes the audience believe it is a real-life scene.

【4】The meeting day Niulang and Zhinü are looking forward to coming on July 7th.

【5】While shopping, women sometimes can’t help persuaded into buying more clothes than necessary.

A. that B. which

C. where D. when

A study from Oxford University has found that men are unlikely to be doing an equal share of housework before 2050. Mothers, the researchers warned, will continue to shoulder the burden of childcare and housework for the next four decades, largely because housework such as cleaning and cooking is still regarded as “women’s work”.

The gap between the amount of time men and women spend on housework has narrowed slowly over the past 40 years. But it will take another four decades before true housework equality (平等) is achieved, the study concluded.

The research found that in the Nordic countries, the burden of housework is shared more equally between men and women. In the UK, women spend an average of four hours and forty minutes each day on housework, compared with two hours and twenty-eight minutes for men. This is an improvement from the 1960s, when British women typically spent six hours a day on housework, while men spent just 90 minutes every day.

But progress towards housework equality appears to be slowing in some countries. Dr Oriel Sullivan, a research reader from Oxford’s Department of Sociology, said, “we’ve looked at what is affecting the equality in the home, and we have found that certain tasks seem to be given according to whether they are viewed as ‘men’s work’ or ‘women’s work’.”

Dr Sullivan said cultural attitudes taught at school may be responsible for the views of housework. “At school it is much easier for a girl to be a tomboy, but it is much more difficult for a boy to enjoy baking and dancing,” she said.

【1】The underlined part “pull their weight” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to “ __________ ”.

A. lose weight B. be lazy

C. earn money D. do equal housework

【2】Women will continue to do more housework before 2050 mainly because _________ .

A. men are too busy to help

B. they would like to do so

C. they can do better in housework

D. housework will still be considered as women’s work

【3】From Paragraph 4 we know that in the UK ___________ .

A. men now spend just 90 minutes a day on housework on average

B. women now are too busy with their work to do housework

C. women now spend less time on housework than before

D. housework is shared equally between men and women

【4】In Dr Sullivan’s opinion, what is to blame for the housework inequality?

A. Cultural attitudes towards housework.

B. Policies made by the government.

C. The time spent on work.

D. The type of housework.

【1】Quite a lot of children _________ (反应) badly to shellfish.

【2】People say “ no _________ (评论)” as a way of refusing to answer a question.

【3】In our culture, it is universally acceptable to e_________ (款待) visitors to dinner.

【4】Doctor Yuan has never _________ (后悔) devoting his life to agricultural research.

【5】After the Gulf War, Iraq had to get food by _________(出口) oil to other countries.

【6】As long as we are united, there is no difficulty we cannot o_________.

【7】Charlie Chaplin wrote, d_________ and produced the films he starred in.

【8】The research lacks of evidence, and t_________, its conclusions are doubtful.

【9】Mandela called on black people to s_________ for equal rights in a peaceful way.

【10】Lucy managed to r_________ some weight by going on a diet and exercising often.

A. have we developed; can we

B. we have developed; that can we

C. we have developed; can we

D. can we develop; that we will

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B. One talk with the student

C. Given a talk with the student

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One day, about ten years ago, while working at the cash register in the gift shop at my University Museum of Natural History, I saw 【1】 elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked 【2】 ( close ) at this girl, I found that she was fixed on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, a neck and upper body, 【3】 ( dress ) in a little white skirt. As the couple wheeled her up to me, I turned my head toward the girl. When I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back 【4】_ the girl, who was giving me the most optimistic, largest smile I had ever seen. All of a sudden, her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, 【5】 smile just melted me 【6】 almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of 【7】 life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and 【8】 ( bring ) me into her world; a world of smiles, love and 【9】 ( warm ). I’m a successful business man now and whenever I think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught 【10】 .