An Englishman was showing a foreign visitor around London. "What's that strange building?" asked the visitor. "That's the Tower of London." "I see. How long did it take to build it?” “About 500 years." "In my country we can build it in five months." said the visitor. A short time after that, they come to St. Paul's Cathedral (大教堂)."Very interesting, "said the visitor, "How long did it take to build it?  Nearly forty years." said the Englishman. "In my country we can finish it in forty days." said the visitor. This went on all day. They visited most of the best known buildings in the city. Every time they saw a new one, the visitor asked what it was and how long it took to build it. Then he said that they could do the same things much faster in his country. At last the Englishman got angry with the visitor though he tried not to show it. A few days later they came to the House of Parliament(议会大厦) and the visitor asked his usual question. "What's that?” The Englishman answered, "I've no idea. It wasn't there last night."

1.The Englishman showed the foreign visitor around____________.

2.The visitor said that in his country it would take them ____________to build St. Paul's Cathedral.

3.The Englishman was very angry by the end of the day, but he______________

4.The Englishman's last answer showed he______________.

5.The best title (标题) for this passage is_______________.

Miss Williams is a teacher, and there are thirty children in her class. They are nice children, and Miss Williams like them all, but they often lose (丢失)some of the clothes. It’s winter, and the weather is very cold. The children’s mothers always take them to school with warm coats and hats and gloves（手套）. The children come into the classroom in the morning and take off their coats and hats and gloves, and put the gloves in the pockets of their coats.
Last Tuesday, Miss Williams found two small blue gloves on the floor in the evening, and the next morning, she asked the children, “Whose gloves are these?” But no one answered. “Haven’t you got blue gloves, Dick?” she asked him.
“Yes, Miss Williams,” he answered, “but those can’t be mine. I’ve lost already.”
【小题1】In winter, the children wore (穿) coats and gloves to _____.

China's long-awaited rules on school bus safety finally came into force on Tuesday, including a list of ways aimed at reducing the risk of accident.

Among the biggest changes is that buses carrying students will be given priority(优先权) in traffic, while companies and drivers will need licenses to offer school transport services.

Officials have spent more than four months making the rules, during which time the country has been shocked by several big crashes because of overcrowded school buses.

The latest accident happened on Monday in Yangchun, Guangdong province, in which three kindergarten pupils were killed and 14 others injured.

Rules and funding

In the new rules, a school bus is considered as a vehicle with more than seven seats that is transporting children receiving the State's nine-year compulsory education (ages 6 to 15) to or from school. This can also be for preschoolers(学龄前儿童) if a parent is unable to take them to or from kindergarten（幼儿园）.

School buses must also operate in routes marked in the map by governments to ensure safety.

Punishment

Companies and bus drivers who fail to meet the rules face the punishment.

Drivers against the rules will be fined 200 yuan ($32) and vehicles will be taken away from its owner if they have been used as an unlicensed school bus.

1.New safety rules for school buses can ________.

   A. make the students have a school bus

B. make fewer accident

   C. make the school bus bigger

D. punish the parents

2.The accident happened usually because ________.

   A. there were more students than there should be in the bus

   B. the road is not wide enough

   C. there were not any rule at first

   D. companies and drivers faced no punishment

3.Which of the following is Not true?

   A. When a truck and a school bus meet, the school bus can go first.

   B. The students (ages 3—5) mustn’t take school bus according to the rules.

   C. Those who break the rules will be fined two hundred yuan.

   D. The school bus has at least 7 seats.

4.The passage mainly talks about ________.

   A. the accident in Guangdong

B. the school bus safety rules

   C. how to punish the drivers

D. what a school bus is like

5.A school bus must go _______.

   A. different ways every day

B. after other buses

   C. with all the students

D. the same way all the days

The father’s role in the family is important. One researcher says babies who are cared for by their fathers have greater cognitive (认知的) development at one year of age than babies not cared for by their fathers. Another researcher reports that by spending time with their pre-school children, fathers can help to develop children’s language ability. Researchers also point out that for school-age children, fathers are one bridge with the outside world.
Fathers who value (重视) education have children who do better in school than those children whose fathers don’t value education. What’s more, fathers who spend quality time with their children may give their children happy memories which may last a lifetime.
While each father is a unique person who educates children in his own style, good fathers have something in common.
Good fathers attend their children’s school activities. They also involve the children in their lives and the adult world by taking them to see the workplace, or by taking them when the car needs to be repaired, etc.
Good fathers expect a great deal from their children, but also accept and support the unique individuals (个体) that their children are becoming.
Good fathers prefer explanations and reasoning to force.
Good fathers know their time with children is really an investment (投资) in them.
Being an involved father is good for children and good for fathers. Both children and fathers have the chance for growth and development. Today’s lifestyles are changing. More and more fathers are keeping a balance between their personal life, work, and family time.   
【小题1】According to the passage, we can find that          .