A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the correct time and is never late for anything.

     An unpunctual man never does what he has to do at the right time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be got back. Time is more useful than material things. In fact, time is life itself. An unpunctual man is always wasting his most important things as well as others'. An unpunctual person is always saying unhappily that he finds no time to answer letters or return calls. But the man who really has much to do is very careful of his time. He knows that he can not finish all his work unless he carefully does every piece of work.

Being unpunctual is the sign of disrespect (不尊重_) towards others. If a person is invited to

dinner and arrives later than the time when he should be there, he keeps all the other guests (客人)

waiting for him. Usually this will be thought as a great disrespect to the host and all the other guests.

Not like a punctual person, an unpunctual one can't do his duty wonderfully, whether it is public or personal. Imagine how it would be if those who should do important tasks failed to be on time. A man who is known to be often unpunctual is never believed by his friends or fellow men.

1.The Chinese meaning of the word "punctual" in this passage is probably “       ”.                                                                      

A.听话的      B.守时的       C.守纪律的      D.能干的

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

     A. An unpunctual person often has more time.

     B. An unpunctual person has more work to do.

     C. A punctual person often has a busy life.

     D. A punctual person often does his work wonderfully.

3.When you are invited to dinner, you'd better arrive there         .

     A. in a hurry                               B. after the host

     C. at the decided time                        D. before other guests

4.From the passage, we learn that an unpunctual man usually          in the end.

     A. saves time for others                      

B. leaves his family and friends

     C. gets his chances and knowledge             

D. loses his time and good name

A jobless man wanted very much to have the position of “office boy” at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test. “You have passed the test,” he said. “Give me your e-mail address and I’ll send you the form to fill in and the date when you may start.” The man replied, “But I don’t have a computer, neither an e-mail.” “I’m sorry,” said the HR manager. “If you don’t have an e-mail, that means you are not living. And anyone who isn’t living cannot have the job.”

The man left with no hope at all. He didn’t know what to do with only $10 in his pocket. He thought and thought. Then he went to the supermarket and bought 10 kilos of tomatoes. He sold the tomatoes from door to door. In less than two hours, he had 20 dollars. He repeated the operation three times, and started to go early every day, and returned home late. Shortly, he bought a cart , then a truck, then he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles(运货车队). Five years later, the man was one of the biggest food retailers (零售商)  in the US.

One day, one of his friends asked him for his e-mail. He said, “I haven’t got one.” His friend couldn’t believe his ears. “Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an e-mail?” The man thought for a while and replied, “Yes, I’d be an office boy at Microsoft!”

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。

1.What did the man do for the test?

A．He sent e-mails.                        B．He did the cleaning

C．He sold computers.                      D．He filled in forms.

2.The man didn’t get the job because he_____________.

A．disliked such a job

B．didn’t pass the test

C．didn’t have an e-mail

D．knew nothing about computers

3.The man ______after he left Microsoft.

A．went to look for another job

B．asked for food from door to door

C．thought of an idea to make monkey

D．bought a computer and got an e-mail

4.“office boy” means            in Chinese.

A．勤杂工           B．学徒             C．男职员           D．男程序员

5.Why could the man become one of the biggest food retailers in the US?

A．Because he had many friends to help him.

B．Because he was smart and worked very hard.

C．Because he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles.

D．Because he wanted to show Microsoft he was living.

Bicycles in China

Bicycles are very popular in China. In our country you can see bicycles almost everywhere. When you walk on the road, you will find a lot of people riding bicycles to school, shops and anywhere else. Therefore(因此), China is known as “the kingdom of bicycles”. In China, many families have one or two bicycles.

Compared(与……比) with cars, bicycles have many advantages. First, they are much cheaper than cars. Most Chinese can’t afford cars, but they can afford bicycles. Second, bicycles are small enough to park anywhere, while cars need a larger piece of land to park. What’s more, with lower speed, bicycles are safer than cars.

However, bicycles also bring some problems. Some riders don’t obey the traffic rules and some riders don’t think about others’ safety. So they ride too fast. During rush hours, too many bicycles may cause traffic jams. We still have a long way to go to solve the problem.

1.Where can you see bicycles in China?

2.“The kingdom of bicycles” here is saying ____.

3. Which of the following is NOT an advantage of bicycles?

4.What problems can bicycles bring?

5.What does the last sentence mean?

Once there was a rich man who lived with his wife and child.He loved the child so much that he sent him to Oxford university for two or three years.At the end of the first year at the university, this young student came home.He wanted a change.And he also wanted to tell his parents about Oxford.

It happened one night that the father, the mother and the young student were sitting at supper.They had in front of them only two chickens.Just as they were about to begin eating, the father said, "My boy, I have spent a lot of money on you to send you to Oxford.Now I want to know what you have learned."The son smiled and said, "Father, I have studied a science which can prove(证明) that these two chickens on the plate are really three chickens.""Well," said the father, "This is something I would like very much to know.""There are two chickens on the plate, "said the student.He took one of the chickens in his hand and said, "Here is one more ; and one and two makes three.So here are three chickens."Then the father took one of the chickens to himself, gave the other to his wife, and said, "I will have one of the chickens myself, your mother shall have another, and you can have the third for your supper and nothing else."The father kept his word and so the student went without his supper.

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1.The rich man loved his son very much ,  so he __________.

A．senthimtoworkatOxfordfortwoorthreeyears

B．wantedhimtoliveatOxfordfortwoorthreeyears

C．senthimtoOxfordtostudy

D．gavehimalotofmoney

2.The father asked his son _______.

A．howmuchmoneyhehadspentattheuniversity

B．howhelikedOxford

C．whathehadlearnedbytheendofthefirstyearattheuniversity

D．howhissongotalongwithhisclassmates

3.The student said that _________.

A．hecouldmakethreechickens

B．hecouldchangethetwochickensontheplateintothree

C．hecouldprovethetwochickensontheplatewerereallythree

D．hewasgoodatmaths

4.Who was cleverer, the father or the son?

A．Neither.                              B．Both

C．Theson                               D．Thefather

5.In the end _________.

A．thestudenthadnothingtoeatforhissupper

B．eachofthemhadachickenfortheirsupper

C．thefathergavehissonthethirdchickentoeat

D．bothoftheparentshadnochickenstoeat

                            important information he left for me! It’s of much                       to me.

A. What, value  B. What an, value                C. How, valuable                 D. How an, valuable