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Have you ever considered all the English expressions that include words about clothes? Let’s see if I can name a few proverbs “off the cuff” since I haven’t prepared for it.
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English expressions with “pants” |
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People wear pants to cover the lower part of their bodies. We sometimes say that people who are restless or nervous have “ants in their pants.” They might also “fly by the seat of their pants” -- they use their natural sense to do something instead of their learned knowledge. Sometimes, people may “get caught with their pants down” -- they are found doing something they should not be doing. And, in every family, one person takes control. Sometimes a wife tells her husband what to do. Then we say “she wears the pants in the family.” |
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When people what to say something about money |
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Pants usually have pockets to hold things. Money that is likely to be spent quickly can “burn a hole in your pocket.” Sometimes you need a belt to hold up your pants. If you have less money than usual, you may have to “tighten your belt” -- you may have to live on less money and spend your money carefully. But once you have succeeded in budgeting your money, you will have that skill “under your belt.” I always praise people who can save their money and not spend too much. I really “take my hat off to them.” Yet, when it comes to my own money, I spend it “at the drop of a hat” -- immediately, without waiting. And sadly, you cannot “pull money out of a hat” -- you cannot get money by inventing or imagining it. |
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English expressions with “shoes” |
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Boots are a heavy or strong kind of shoes. People who are “too big for their boots” think they are more important than they really are. I dislike such people. I really do. You can bet your boots on that! Yet, truly important people are hard to replace. Rarely can you “fill their shoes” -- or replace them with someone equally effective. |
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English expressions with “shirt” |
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My father is an important person. He runs a big company. He wears a suit and tie and a shirt with sleeves that cover his arms. Some people who do not know him well think he is too firm and severe. They think he is a real “stuffed shirt.” But I know that my father “wears his heart on his sleeve” -- he shows his feelings openly. And, he knows how to “keep his shirt on” -- he stays calm and never gets angry or too excited. |
1.What is this passage mainly about?
A. How to say English correctly and properly.
B. Why English expressions include words about clothes.
C. Which words can be used to describe my father.
D. What people mean when they use some proverbs.
2.Which of the following proverbs are not related to money?
A. tighten one’s belt B. burn a hole in one’s pocket
C. get caught with their pants down D. take one’s hat off to them
3.Tim often considers himself the most important person in the world , which is far from the truth .We may say ____.
A．he is “too big for their boots”.
B. he “bet his boots on that ”.
C. he “ fill their shoes”.
D. he “wears his heart on his sleeve ”.
4.If you want to praise somebody for his calmness when facing danger , you may say ___.
A. “You really fill your shoes”
B. “Awesome ! You wear your heart on your sleeve!”
C. “Amazing !How can you keep your shirt on at that time!”
D. “Cool! You are truly a stuffed shirt”.
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Mary Jean Price Walls graduated second in her class in 1950.She had high hopes when she applied to a local college,Southwest Missouri State College.But after sending off her application，she spent months waiting for a reply.It never came.
Worse than simply being denied admission(拒绝接收)，the school didn’t reply to her at all.It wasn’t a matter of her school records，but of her skin color：Wallsis African American，and in those days，that fact alone closed a lot of doors. “I was sad and I was hurt,”Walls told ABC News.“I did not expect the skin color would affect my application.I thought I could go to university like other students.”
Four years later，the government declared that all schools should not discriminate against(歧视)African Americans— but it was too late for Walls.She’d moved on with her life, becoming a wife and a mother，and working as an elevator operator.She retired last year，at the age of 77.
She stayed quiet about the unfairness she’d faced in Missouri State.Her son，Terry，went through school records and found that she’d been the first black student to ever apply to the college.Today,four percent of the Southwest Missouri State College body is African American—including Terry.
Although it’s too late for Missouri State to change the past，the school is awarding Walls with an honorary degree(荣誉学位)from the school.While she knows it’s too late for herto change the course of her own life with the degree，it’s a chance for her to show her family that Missouri State has changed in the last 60 years，and there’s not a single door closed to them anymore.
1.Walls couldn’t enter the local college because________.
A．her examination performance is too bad
B．girls were not allowed to go to college
C．she was an African?American student
D．her parents had no enough money to support her
2.Before she was denied Walls thought that________.
A．her application would be accepted as others’
B．it was hard to become a college student
C．it was impossible for her to be admitted
D．she could be the best student in her college
3.What can we know about Walls’s son?
A．He helped his mother get the honorary degree.
B．He is a good student who teachers like best.
C．He was admitted by the college once his mother applied to.
D．He wants to be a government official who can help his mother.
4.What can we infer from the passage?
A．Walls did not fight for her right to education.
B．The college did not receive Walls’s application.
C．Walls got a good job after she received the degree.
D．The government gave Walls some money for the wrongs.
5.Walls’s honorary degree suggests that________.
A．she could change her life with the degree
B．her dream of going to college has come true
C．she has been leading a happy life with her family
D．great changes have taken place in Missouri State
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My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other , including her “sixth sense”, she rarely gives the impression she’s missed anything.
Michelle looks after her children pretty much like the rest of us, except that she doesn’t push too hard on them, who really benefit a lot from her relaxed attitude. She knows when to clean the house, she moves around so fast that often the don't realize she's blind.
I realize this the first time after my six-year-old daughter, Kayla, went to play there. When Kayla came home, she was very about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was excited about her finger-painting project.
“Mom, guess what?”said Kayla, all smiles. “I learned how to colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle with us.”
To my great my child had learnt about color from a blind friend!
Then Kayla continued, “Michelle told me my showed joy, pride and a sense of accomplishment. She really what I was doing!’’ Kayla said she had never felt how good finger paints felt Michelle showed her how to paint without looking at her paper.
I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never come up in conversation.
When I told her, she was for a moment. At first, she didn’t believe me. “But Mommy, Michelle knew exactly what was in my picture!” Kayla . And I knew my child was because Michelle had listened to Kayla describe her artwork. Michelle had also heard Kayla's pride in her work.
We were silent for a minute.Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my .’’ Indeed, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
1.A.ways B.means C.methods D.senses
2.A.which B.when C.that D.as
3.A.guests B.family C.children D.friends
4.A.excited B.sad C.satisfied D.enjoyed
5.A.especially B.not so C.a little D.not at all
6.A.paint B.draw C.mix D.create
7.A.stayed B.painted C.talked D.played
8.A.excitement B.encouragement C.delight D.surprise
9.A.attitude B.color C.picture D.paper
10.A.touched B.distinguished C.saw D.understood
11.A.after B.before C.until D.when
12.A.curious B.quiet C.puzzled D.worried
13.A.cried B.insisted C.complained D.informed
14.A.right B.wrong C.worried D.uncertain
15.A.paper B.pens C.hands D.eyes
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Brief Introduction
(Adeline) Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Main body
My dear，
'Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been...........................from the last letter of virginia woolf
1.According to the first paragraph we can infer that
A. During the interwar period，virginia woolf was important for London people.
B.She has been living for 55 years
C.Her first the novels Mrs Dalloway in 1925
D.She regarded as one of the foremost romanticism literary figures of the twentieth century
2.what is form of The main body？
A.letter of resignation B.Letter of condolence
C.Letter of suicide D.Letters of Apologies ;
3.Where can I see this article？
A.newspaper B. biography
C. German Literature D.television
4.According to the main body, which of the following is not the reason of her Dutch act（自杀）？
A. She can't go on spoiling your life any longer
B. I feel certain I am going mad again
C. She cannot bear her husband's interference
D. The approach of war makes her psychological problems aggravated
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I hated dinner parties. But I decided to give them another shot because I’m in London. And my friend Mallery invited me. And because dinner parties in London are very different from those back in New York. There, “I’m having a dinner party” means “I’m booking a table for 12 at a restaurant you can’t afford and we’ll be sharing the cheque evenly, no matter what you eat.”
Worse, in Manhattan there is always someone who leaves before the bill arrives. They’ll throw down cash, half of what they owe, and then people like me, who don’t drink, end up paying even more. But if I try to use the same trick, the hostess will shout “Where are you going?” And it’s not like I can say I have somewhere to go : everyone knows I have nowhere to go.
But in London, dinner parties are in people’s homes. Not only that, the guests are an interesting mix. The last time I went to one, the guests were from France, India, Denmark and Nigeria; it was like a gathering at the United Nations. In New York, the mix is less striking. It’s like a gathering at Bloomingdale’s, a well-known department store.
For New Yorkers, talking about other parts of the world means Brooklyn and Queens in New York. But at Mallery’s, when I said that I had been to Myanmar recently, people knew where it was. In New York people would think it was a usual new club.
1.What does the word “shot” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A．Choice. B．Try. C．Style. D．Goal.
2.What does the author dislike most about dinner parties in New York?
A．There is a strange mix of people. B．The restaurant are expensive.
C．The bill is not fairly shared. D．People have to pay cash.
3.What does the author think of the parties in London?
A．A bit unusual. B．Full of tricks.
C．Less costly. D．More interesting.
4.What is the author’s opinion of some New Yorkers from her experience?
A．Easygoing.. B．Self-centred.
C．Generous. D．Conservative.
5.What is the main idea of this article?
A．The author hated dinner parties.
B．The author prefer dinner parties in London to those in New York.
C．The difference between London and New York.
D．Mallery invited the author to a party.
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