Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly shows it, and the business of trying it on follows at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction.

For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute(替代品)impolitely; he does so with skill: "I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size? It happens to be the colour you mentioned. Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right colour and may be the right size, but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.”

Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only "having a look round". She is always open to persuasion; indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary(相反的) to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lockout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro(来回地), often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a laborious process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.

1.According to the passage, when a man is buying clothes, ________.

A. he buys cheap things, regardless of quality

B. he chooses things that others introduce

C. he does not mind how much he has to pay for the right things

D. he buys good quality things, so long as they are not too dear

2.What does the passage tell us about women shoppers for clothes?

A. They welcome suggestions from anyone.

B. Women rarely consider buying cheap clothes.

C. Women often buy things without giving the matter proper thought.

D. They listen to advice but never take it.

3.What does a man do when he can not get exactly what he wants?

A. He buys a similar thing of the colour he wants.

B. He usually does not buy anything.

C. At least two of his requirements must be met before he buys.

D. So long as the style is right, he buys the thing.

4.Many jokes make fun of women shoppers by saying that________.

A. they waste money on inferior(劣质的) goods

B. they should buy only the best clothes

C. they are much more sensible than men

D. they think of the price of clothes and nothing else

5.What is the most obvious difference between men and women shoppers?

A. The fact that men do not try clothes on in a shop.

B. Women bargain for their clothes, but men do not.

C. Women stand up to shop, but men sit down.

D. The time they take over buying clothes.

Professor Green, known to the world as a scientist, is not only absent-minded but short-sighted as well. His mind is always busy  41 scientific problems and seldom notices what is going on 42  him.

    One fine day recently, he went  43 a walk in the countryside, but as  44  he has a book in his hand. When he went out , he began to read his book . He hadn’t gone far 45 he run into a big cow and fell down. In the fall, he had lost his glasses, without which he couldn’t see anything. He thought he had hit his head  46 a fat lady. “I’m sorry, Madam.” He said politely 47 searching for his glasses. As soon as he had 48 , he realized his mistake.

Soon he was fixing his mind on his book 49  and paid no attention to anything else. He had scarcely been walking for five minutes when he fell over again, _50 both his book and his glasses. This time he got very angry, seizing his umbrella, he gave the “cow” a wild blow. Then, after finding his glasses, he realized with horror that he made a second mistake. A large fat woman was fleeing from him in a horror.

A. to think           B. thinking       C. thinking about       D. to think of

A. with              B. around               C. for                 D. at

A. for               B. to            C. towards             D. over

A. also              B. often          C. ever                        D. usual

A. when             B. while                C. just then            D. at that time

A. to                B. against        C. about                D. onto

A. after             B. in            C. before               D. during

A .put it on          B. taken them off  C. put them on          D. taken them out

A. always             B. again         C. usually               D. very much

A. holding          B. getting        C. finding               D. losing

When Peter speaks in public, he always has trouble        _ the right things to say.

A．thinking of         B．to think of         C．thought of         D．think of

You'd better make your living. You can't always ________ having good parents.

There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world. But  21  a few of them are very  22 . English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the U.S.A., but in other parts of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a   23  language. Many millions are   24  to do so.

Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different   25  . Have you ever   26  ads of this kind in the newspapers or magazines? “Learn English in six weeks, or your   27 back.”.“Easy and funny! Our records and tapes   28   you master(掌握) your English in a month.  29  the first day your   30  will be excellent. Just send us ... ” Of course, it never  31  quite like this.

The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should   32  that we all learned our own language well when we were  33 . If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult.   34   what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it,  35  in it all the time. Just imagine how much  36  that gets!

So it is  37  to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English  38   upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and   39   much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will   40 . But they cannot do the student's work for him.

1.                A．not            B．quite           C．only D．very

2.                A．difficult         B．important       C．necessary D．easy

3.                A．native          B．foreign         C．useful    D．mother

4.                A．learning        B．enjoying        C．trying    D．liking

5.                A．questions       B．problems       C．ideas D．answers

6.                A．found          B．watched        C．noticed   D．known

7.                A．knowledge      B．time           C．money   D．English

8.                A．make          B．help           C．let   D．allow

9.                A．From          B．On            C．Since D．After

10.               A．spelling        B．grammar        C．English    D．pronunciation

11.               A．happened      B．looked         C．seemed   D．felt

12.               A．know          B．remember      C．understand D．think

13.               A．students        B．children        C．babies D．grown-ups

14.               A．Imagine        B．Mind          C．Do   D．Think of

15.               A．using          B．thinking        C．trying D．practicing

16.               A．time           B．money         C．language  D．practice

17.               A．hard           B．easy           C．funny D．silly

18.               A．depends        B．tries           C．has   D．takes

19.               A．uses           B．takes          C．gets  D．costs

20.               A．do            B．work           C．help  D．master