My boss’s daughter was studying in the Philippines. He asked me if my husband and I could take care of her. He thought his daughter would be able to improve her English communication skills in this way.

After days of thinking, we agreed. He then brought her here and left after 3 days. I thought that my boss’s daughter was well-mannered, but that was wrong.

After a month of staying in the Philippines, she started to show her true colors. When my husband asked her what she wanted for breakfast, she answered him in a rude way. From then on, we experienced fights at home. There was a time when we didn’t talk to her for a week as a punishment of not being good to us. What I hated most was that she didn’t care about other people’s feelings. She ate ahead of us when we were still working and didn’t leave anything for us. So we had to separate her food from ours to avoid such a problem.

The worst thing about her was that she shouted at us. I was wondering if she did this to her parents. We told this to her parents, but unfortunately I didn’t think that solved the problem. This situation lasted for almost 8 months. Our patience was tested during that time.

We tried to teach her everything we could to make her a better person, but I guess 8 months may not to be enough. We even tried to understand her and adjust for her, but it didn’t work. I just hope that she learned something from us and from other Filipinos.

1.This passage is mainly about the writer’s experience of               .

A. trying to please her boss

B. changing a girl’s bad behavior

C. improving her communication skills

D. dealing with a teenage girl staying in her house

2.Why did the boss want his daughter to stay with the writer ?

A. Because he was too busy to take care of his daughter

B. Because he wanted his daughter to take a holiday there

C. Because he wanted his daughter to improve her English in this way

D. Because he wanted the writer to teach his daughter good manners .

3.What do the examples in paragraph 3 tell us ?

A. The daughter wasn’t behaving well.

B. The writer and her husband were careless.

C. The writer and her husband hated children.

D. The daughter tried her best to make others happy.

4.The underlined word “that” in paragraph 4 refers to                .

A. being patient with her

B. her parents punishing her

C. asking her parents about her

D. telling her parents about her behavior

5.After reading the passage , we learn that                .

A. the writer had known the daughter was hard to deal with

B. the daughter learnt to behave well in the end

C. the writer didn’t enjoy the daughter’s stay

D. the daughter hated dealing with others

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卷为16-25的相应位置上。
Many accidents happened in our daily life, including the traffic, drowning, stampeding and so on, which caused many disasters. As a result,  16   ( person) safety lessons are very necessary.
Actually, more and more accidents took place around us,    17   (make) our personal safety under threat. Therefore, personal safety should be the priority to the students.
Having read the report    18  accidents that happened in China, I instantly think of the accident    19  occurred to me ten years ago. Like other naughty boys, I like doing sports, especially swimming.  It was a hot summer noon. I went out to swim with    20   neighbor without parents’ permission. Happy as we were, we even tried having a    21   (compete) to see who could swim     22  (fast) and farthest. In order to show my ability of swimming, I spared no effort to swim. I did not realize that I had no other strength left    23  I reach the middle of the river. I and my body was sinking into   24  bottom of the river.    25  , (fortune) with the help of my friends, I had a narrow escape. What an unforgettable experience! It was my showing off that caused the unnecessary accident.
This case is only one among several hundred terrible accidents that take place around us every day. It is high time that we realized the importance of personal safety. And only with a good sense of personal safety can we live a safe and happy life!

"Yes, but what did we use to do before there was television?" How often we hear statements like this! Television hasn't been with us all that long, but we are already beginning to forget what the world was like without it. Before we admitted the "one-eyed monster" into our homes, we never found it difficult to occupy our spare time. We used to enjoy civilised pleasures. For instance, we used to have hobbies, entertain our friends and be entertained by them, go outside for our amusements. We even used to read books and listen to music occasionally. Now all our free time is regulated by the "goggle box". We rush home for our meals to be in time for this or that programme. A sandwich and a glass of beer will do—anything, providing it doesn't interfere with the programme. The monster demands and obtains absolute silence and attention. If any member of the family dares to open his mouth during a programme, he is quickly silenced.

Whole generations are growing up addicted to the television. Food is left uneaten, homework undone and sleep is lost. The television is a universal thing that makes people calm. It is now standard practice for mother to keep the children quiet by putting them in the living-room and turning on the set. It doesn't matter what the children will watch—so long as they are quiet.

Television encourages passive enjoyment. We become content with second-hand experiences. It is so easy to sit in our armchairs watching others working. Little by little, television cuts us off from the real world. We get so lazy, we choose to spend a fine day in semi-darkness. Television may be a splendid medium of communication, but it prevents us from communicating with each other. We only become aware how totally irrelevant television is to real living when we spend a holiday by the sea or in the mountains. In quiet, natural surrounding, we quickly discover how little we miss the King television.

1..

. Through the passage, the writer aims to tell us ________.

A. how television is damaging our health  

B. how to keep away from watching television  

C. that television is doing harm to our life  

D. all of us find it difficult to live without television  

2..

 What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Second-hand experiences provided by television are harmful.  

B. We can enjoy our life without television.  

C. Television is a necessary way of communication.  

D. Television is becoming irreplaceable in our daily life.  

3..

. What's the main reason for parents to put the children before a television set?

A. To save more time for housework.  

B. To help them sleep earlier.  

C. To keep them quiet.  

D. To help them learn more knowledge from television.  

4..

 By saying "we never found it difficult to occupy our spare time," the writer means ________.

A. television occupies too much of our spare time  

B. it's easy for us to find some spare time to enjoy the television  

C. we have less spare time after we have television  

D. it's difficult to spend our spare time without a television  

It's certain:for twins,life really does imitate art.My twin brother,Kirk,and I grew up being constantly mistaken for each （处理这个问题） other.Classmates,friends,teachers,even relatives couldn't tell us apart. As a result,we were often unfairly punished or rewarded.

Eventually,we learned how to use the Mistaken Identity Syndrome (MIS) to our advantage.For example,we would play tricks on our friends and classmates,pretending to be the other twin.Nor were teachers immune(不受某事物影响) to our tricks.On at least one occasion,when Kirk was sick,I covered for (替代) him by taking his tests.We also tried our little game out on Mom,but she always knew who was who.Once we grew up，we even covered for each other at work.We didn't mean any harm;we simply started this as an experiment to see whether our bosses and co-workers could tell the difference.

As a bank manager, I meet with dozens of clients(顾客) on a daily basis, while my brother manages a staffing service for local employers. As a result, Kirk is constantly approached by people who want to discuss their various money accounts, while I'm frequently thanked on the street as a department store customer service representative.

 However, the MIS took a truly embarrassing turn when Kirk and I found ourselves unable to tell each other apart. Once, my brother and I were traveling in a car with several friends. My brother's hair must always be in place. Kirk was driving when he noticed in the rearview mirror (后视镜) that his hair was a bit messy.

  He lifted his right hand to brush his hair back into place and was disturbed when his hand didn't appear in the mirror. Several times he repeated this action. Finally, he started laughing.

According to the first paragraph, we know that         .

    A. few people can tell the author from Kirk

    B. the author was punished more than Kirk

    C. the author was always rewarded though he was wrong

    D. being twins is really a good thing for both twins

According to the passage, the Mistaken Identity Syndrome is         .

    A. a kind of disease difficult to cure

    B. the situation of mistaking identities

    C. the tricks that children like to play

    D. the way to separate two similar things

It can be inferred that when the author covers for his brother at work，         .

    A. he is often successful

    B. he means to harm his boss

    C. his brother is seriously ill

    D. he often behaves strangely

Why did Kirk laugh at last?

    A. He felt embarrassed about his hair.

    B. His brother's hair was really messy.

    C. His brother was doing the same thing.

    D. He became the victim of the MIS.

If you ask people to name a person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare” “Samuel Johnson” and “Webster”, but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English—William the Conqueror.

Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived people in two main language groups. One was a Celtic language, the other was what we now call Anglo-Saxon (or old English), a Germanic language. If this had lasted, English today would be close to German.

But this didn’t last. In 1066 the Normans led by William began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of England while Old English became the language of farmers. As a result, English words of politics (政治) and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a difference between upper-class French and lower-class Old English in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked. This shows the fact that the lower-class farmers were doing farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.

When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and ads seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the results of one man’s ambition (野心).

1.Before 1066, the two main languages spoken in the place which we now call “Great Britain” were __________.

A. Germanic and French

B. Nordic and Germanic

C. Celtic and Old English

D. Old English and Germanic

2.According to the passage, which of the following groups of words are most probably from French?

   A. President, lawyer and beef.

   B. President, bread and water.

   C. Bread, field and sheep.

   D. Pig, cow and government.

3. Why do Americans find France less foreign than Germany?

   A. Many signs and ads are in English.

   B. They know little about the history of the English language.

   C. Many French words are similar to English ones.

   D. They know French better than German.

4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

   A. The History of Great Britain.

   B. The Similarity (相似点) between English and French.

   C. The Rule of England by William the Conqueror.

D. The French Influence on the English Language.