As prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself(DIY) trend(趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.

“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “And we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decide to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.

Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”

John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.

1.We can learn from the text that many newly married people      .

2.When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim      .

3.Jim Hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourselfer when      .

4.What would be the best title for the text?

根据短文内容，判断正误。正确填(A)错误填(B)。
What would the future life be like? I think we can travel faster and safer around the world and into space. Maybe one day we can work in Beijing, sleep in Chengdu and visit the moon for a holiday.
We will have new energy(能源) that doesn’t make pollution. Possibly, people will find ways to use cleaner things, such as sea water, to make energy without polluting the earth.
We will have machines that can copy everything in the future. Put a cake on the machine and it makes a new one. Of the machine is like a fax-machine, we can send food and presents to our friends easily.
We will have clever robots that work for us, and the robots can bring us useful things and take away our trash. Now we have to press a key or type a word to make a machine work. But in the future, if we think of something, the machine can make it for us. The machine can understand our ideas.
We can go into computer games and films, and everything will feel real. We can make our homes like forests or sunny beaches or anything we want. Maybe, one day we can collect our dreams and put our dreams on DVDs
【小题1】In the future, we can work in one city and sleep in another.
【小题2】In the future, we can make energy by using sea water.
【小题3】In the future, we can only copy food by machines.
【小题4】In the future, we can make a new machine by pressing a key.
【小题5】People may make DVDs of their dreams in the future.

As prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself(DIY) trend(趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “And we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decide to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
【小题1】We can learn from the text that many newly married people      .

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

There was a woman in Detroit, who had two sons. She was worried about them, especially the younger one, Ben,        he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made jokes about him because he seemed so       .The mother      that she herself would have to get her sons to do better in school. She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a      a week and do a report about it for her. One day, in Ben’s      , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up his hand and the teacher let him     . “Why did Ben put up his hand?” his classmates wondered. He       said anything. What would he possibly want to say?Ben not only        the rock, but also said a lot about the rock. He named many other rocks in the same group and even knew        the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were     . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book     .Later Ben went on to the        of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University (耶鲁大学)and at last became one of the best doctors in the USA. After Ben grew up, he        something about his mother that he did not know as a      . She, herself, had never learned how to      .

1.A. because  B. so                      C. but                          D. though 

2.A. clever                B. hard                       C. slow              D. quick

3.A. asked                 B. decided                C. forgot                    D. heard

4.A. notice                B. message                C. book             D. question 

5.A. class                   B. room            C. office                     D. lab

6.A. think                  B. leave            C. stand up          D. sit down

7.A. always      B. even             C. quickly             D. never 

8.A. found                 B. played                   C. knew            D. threw 

9.A. whether  B. when                     C. where                   D. why 

10.A. afraid     B. surprised              C. worried           D. unhappy

11.A. pictures          B. exercises              C. shops                     D. reports 

12.A. top                   B. end                        C. back             D. side

13.A. learnt     B. remembered       C. forgot                    D. guessed

14.A. doctor    B. child             C. children           D. teacher  

15.A. read                 B. work             C. teach                     D. show