阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　Mama' s voice floated through the apartment a s she sang a Mexican folk song that I had heard all my life．“Hola, ” she greeted me when she came out of the bedroom．“Plea se speak to me in 　　1　　, ” I interrupted．She paid no attention and 　　2　　 speaking in Spani sh．The word s 　　3　　 me of my grandparent s and birthday partie s in Mexico, but I knew my mother' s life would be 　　4　　 if she learned to speak Engli sh．We had lived in the United State s for three year s, and she still had difficulty 　　5　　 to store owner s and my teacher s．I wa s determined that she should try．“Why won't you speak Engli sh? ” I 　　6　　．“Don't you want to be 　　7　　 to talk to people here? ” “I sabel, ” she whi spered．Mama alway s whi spered when she wa s up set with me．“What? ” I wa s not 　　8　　 with her, either．She 　　9　　 for the Engli sh word s．“Come with me to the, uh-how do you say it? Meeting．” “What kind of meeting? Where i s it? ” I 　　10　　 her, but now she refu sed to an swer．In 　　11　　, we drove acro s s town to the college, where she pulled into a brightly lit parking lot．I wa s 　　12　　．I had expected a meeting at someone' s 　　13　　-a garden club or a parent s’ group．Then I 　　14　　 a sign on a door．My mother wa s 　　15　　 night cla s se s to learn Engli sh!

　　“I don't under stand．　　16　　 you’re learning Engli sh, why won't you speak Engli sh at home? ” I a sked．“You'll learn fa ster if you 　　17　　 with me．” “I speak Engli sh here, ” she said in her thick accent．She he sitated, putting the word s together, and then went on, “I speak Spani sh at home 　　18　　 you．”

　　I 　　19　　 under stood-she spoke Spani sh at home so that I wouldn't forget the word s, song s, and 　　20　　 of Mexico．I said, “O．K．, Mama, e stabien．”

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　　Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the fligt to Paris．He was Wearing three shirts,a jackt,two pairs of socks,a pair of shorts,and two pairs of jeans．He wascarrying one．small backpack,which was very full,but he didn`t have any other luggage．Brian needed to meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight．He found Tony near the Air France counter．Tony gave him a round-trip tockct and a smaii package．

　　“Give tis package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris．He will have a sign with your name on it．I tjink you can find him easily,”Tony said．“You don’t have any luggage,right?”

　　“Only tjis backpack,”Brian answered．“You said I could bring one carry-on bag．”

　　“That’s right,One carry-on bag is fine, Have a good trip．”

　　Thanks．”

　　Is Brian a criminal(犯罪)?Not at all．He is an air courier．And he paid only ＄110 for the round-trip ticket to Paris．Air couries get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers tio foreign countries．Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day．Often,the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company．It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick．

　　Every year about 80,000 people worldside travel as air couriers．The number of tickets for courier travel is growing bu about 10 percent a year．However,air-courier travel isn’t for everyone,But if you have very little money,can be flexible(灵活的)about your travel plans,and don’t mind wearing the same clothes for a week,it can be a great way to take a vacation!

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阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families．But it seems that four out of five young people now get on well with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels．

　　An imortant new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past．"We were sir[rosed bu just how positive today's young people seem to be about their families, "said one member of the research team．"They're exected to be rebellious(叛逆的)and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well．There's more negotiation(商议)and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process．They don't want to rock the boat．"

　　So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends．“My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me, ” says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall, “I always tell them when I'm going out clubbing．As long as they know what I'm doing, they’re fine with it．” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees．“Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation．For example, as long as I'd done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night．But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that．”

　　Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected．It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts．A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings．But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled．The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over．”

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　　阅读理解

　　Silence is unnatural to map. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between be does all he can to make a noise in the world, and be fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If be is introduced to another person, and is number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards him self as a failure ,a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox（喋喋不休的人）.He knows that ninety nine percent fo human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure（蜡塑人像）.

　　The aim of conversation is not. For the most part, to communicate ideas ; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admirted, different qualitics. of buzz;there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made bu a mosquito(蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing,forlunately,is pleasnnt to the ear,and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take pert in the buzzing with his neighbors.

　　Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content it they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time. they just prove themselves to be successful conversationists.

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