The Need for Holidays

   You’ve no doubt heard people say how much they “need” a holiday，when what they really mean is that they want one．Certainly，people working under pressure feel a very strong desire to escape from work and become less tight during their holidays，and experience a changed environment. For this reason, holidays away from home are now seen by most people as necessary to their quality life. However, work for many people today are office work and mental, rather than physical tasks. These people may seek much more energy taking activities while on holiday, rather than simply lying on a beach.

   Once people become used to going on holiday, taking holidays becomes a habit. Even in a recession(经济萧条时期), for many people the holiday is one of the last things to be given up, and indeed many workers have chosen to spend some of their last pay when being laid off on a holiday, perhaps to give themselves a "lift” before facing a gloomy(暗淡的)future.

  Perhaps we don't like to admit it, but most of us also enjoy showing off about the places we have been to, and the lovely tans：dark skins we have got. The idea of tanning, however, is becoming less attractive than it was. So many tourists are now able to afford holidays in the sun that tans have become quite common；and although we join a tan together with health(and it is true that a certain amount of sunshine gives us a feeling of being healthy), it has been fully shown that sunshine，especially when received over a short, focused period of time, results in high danger of skin problems, as well as drying out one's skin and leading to more lines on your face later in life.

57．More and more people choose to have holidays because they ________.

    A. hate working indoors all the time                       B. want to get away from work

    C. love enjoying the beauties of nature                      D. become rich and want a better life

58．From this passage we learned that some people can not live without ______．

    A. a tan             B. a job            C. a pay       D. a holiday

59．A holiday may __________ when one has to face some difficulties in life．

    A. cheer someone up                                            B. help someone find a job

    C. be the last thing to be given up                             D. bring good luck to someone

60．At the end of the passage the writer tries to tell the reader ________.

    A. the importance of getting sunshine                        B. the bad effect of being on holiday

C. the result of getting sun tanned                             D. the healthy look of being tanned

The Need for Holidays
You’ve no doubt heard people say how much they “need” a holiday，when what they really mean is that they want one.Certainly，people working under pressure feel a very strong desire to escape from work and become less tight during their holidays，and experience a changed environment. For this reason, holidays away from home are now seen by most people as necessary to their quality life. However, work for many people today are office work and mental, rather than physical tasks. These people may seek much more energy taking activities while on holiday, rather than simply lying on a beach.
Once people become used to going on holiday, taking holidays becomes a habit. Even in a recession(经济萧条时期), for many people the holiday is one of the last things to be given up, and indeed many workers have chosen to spend some of their last pay when being laid off on a holiday, perhaps to give themselves a "lift” before facing a gloomy(暗淡的)future.
Perhaps we don't like to admit it, but most of us also enjoy showing off about the places we have been to, and the lovely tans：dark skins we have got. The idea of tanning, however, is becoming less attractive than it was. So many tourists are now able to afford holidays in the sun that tans have become quite common；and although we join a tan together with health(and it is true that a certain amount of sunshine gives us a feeling of being healthy), it has been fully shown that sunshine，especially when received over a short, focused period of time, results in high danger of skin problems, as well as drying out one's skin and leading to more lines on your face later in life.

1. 1.

   More and more people choose to have holidays because they ________.
   

   1. A.
      hate working indoors all the time                     
   2. B.
      want to get away from work
   3. C.
      love enjoying the beauties of nature                     
   4. D.
      become rich and want a better life
2. 2.

   From this passage we learned that some people can not live without ______.
   

   1. A.
      a tan           
   2. B.
      a job          
   3. C.
      a pay      
   4. D.
      a holiday
3. 3.

   A holiday may __________ when one has to face some difficulties in life.
   

   1. A.
      cheer someone up                                         
   2. B.
      help someone find a job
   3. C.
      be the last thing to be given up                            
   4. D.
      bring good luck to someone
4. 4.

   At the end of the passage the writer tries to tell the reader ________.
   

   1. A.
      the importance of getting sunshine                       
   2. B.
      the bad effect of being on holiday
   3. C.
      the result of getting sun tanned                            
   4. D.
      the healthy look of being tanned

I fell in love with the minister's son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese. For Christmas I prayed for the boy, Robert. When I found out that my parents had invited the minister's family over for Christmas Eve dinner, I cried in panic. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?

On Christmas Eve, my mother created abundant Chinese food. And then they arrived—the minister's family and all my relatives. Robert greeted hello, and I pretended he was not worthy of existence.

Dinner threw me deeper into disappointment. My relatives licked (舔) the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table. Robert and his family waited patiently for a large plate to be passed to them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert made a face. Then my father reached his chopsticks just below the fish eye and picked out the soft meat. “Amy, your favorite.”he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear.

At the end of the meal, my father leaned back and burped(打嗝) loudly, thanking my mother for her fine cooking. “It's a polite Chinese custom to show you are satisfied.”explained my father to our astonished guests. Robert was looking down at his plate with a reddish face. The minister managed to bring up a quiet burp. I was shocked into silence for the rest of the night.

After everyone had gone，my mother said to me，“You want to be the same as American girls on the outside.”She handed me an early gift.It was a miniskirt.“But inside you must always be Chinese.You must be proud that you are different.Your only shame is to have shame.”

It was not until years later that I was able to fully appreciate her lesson and the purpose behind her particular menu. For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen excellent Chinese food.

64. When the writer found out the minister's family　 would come for Christmas Eve dinner, she cried　 mainly because ________.

A. she worried about their shabby Chinese Christmas

B. she worried about their Chinese relatives lacking American manners

C. she worried about meeting the minister's family

D. she worried about being laughed at

65．What does “he was not worthy of existence” probably mean? It means________.

A. the writer was not interested in his existence

B. he was worthless

C. he should not exist

D. the writer expected his coming

66．The dinner threw the writer deeper into disappointment mainly because________.

A. her relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks

B. her father reached his chopsticks to pick fish for her

C. her father leaned back and burped loudly

D. she childishly expected all of them to act in the same way as Americans at table

67．We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. the writer appreciated her mother's lesson years later

B. the writer must be proud that she is different

C. the mother prepared to show Chinese different food culture

D. the minister's family really enjoyed the food