7、If you stay in an Indian home, bring something from your home country as a gift. It would be muchappreciated. But find out the social position and religion of your hosts before you choose a gift. Abottle of foreign whisky would be the perfect gift for some, and not at all appropriate for others. If youknow the people you are going to stay with, it is a good idea to ask them what they would like. Somethings are just not available in India.   It is not necessary to bring a gift when you are invited to dinner. After all, you are the honouredguest. Until recently, it would have been almost insulting to bring sweets or a bottle of wine. But this isnot true today. Nowadays it is a custom which is becoming popular with many Indians. Fruit, flowersor a box of sweets are perfect gifts on such occasions, and will offend(冒犯) no one.   In all classes of society, both urban and rural, food is only taken to the mouth with the right hand.This is the most important part of the manners of eating in India. Once you have started eating, andhave food in your right hand, it is all right to serve yourself, using the serving spoon with the left hand.When you watch Indians eat you will see that they keep their left hand on their lap.  If you are stuck for a conversation topic in India, talk about families. Another useful subject to startwith is cricket. But once you get to know a person better, any topic is acceptable. Indians love to talkabout politics and religion. They enjoy opinionated discussions and not just polite conversations.Conversation is an art form and people take the time to really talk.

1. If you stay with an Indian family,___________.

A. you are expected to take a gift               B. you should take flowers

C. you are not expected to take a gift           D. take a souvenir from your country

2. If you are invited for a meal at an Indian home, __________.

A. you should offer to pay for your food        

B. you will offend your hosts if you take anything

C. it is fashionable to take flowers or sweets    

D. it is traditional to take a dish

3. Indians love interesting discussions but they________.

A. only talk about family matters             B. avoid religion and politics

C. don't like talking about themselves        D. don' t appreciate polite conversation

4. The sentence "Some things are just not available" in the first paragraph means

A. You can buy these things in India        B. They don't make these things in India

C. They have never seen these things      D. You can't get these things in India

6、Mary Cochran was out of the rooms where she lived with her father, Doctor Lester Cochran, atseven o'clock on a Sunday evening. It was June of the year nineteen hundred and eight, and Mary was eighteen years old. She walked along Tremont to Main Street and across the railroad tracks to Upper Main, lined with small shops and shabby houses, a rather quiet cheerless place on Sundays when there were few people about. She had told her father she was going to church but did not intend anything of the kind. She didn't know what she wanted to do. "I'll get off by myself and think", she told herself as she walked slowly along. The night, she thought, promised to be fine to be spent sitting in a church and hearing a man talk of things that had clearly nothing to do with her own problem. Her own affairs were approaching(almost reaching) a crisis(危机), and it was time for her to begin thinking seriously of her future.

 The thoughtful serious state of mind which Mary found herself had been made arise in her by aconversation she had with her father on the evening before. Without any preliminary (有准备的 ) talkand quite suddenly he had told her that he was suffering from heart disease and might die at anymoment. He had made the announcement as they stood together in his office, behind which were therooms in which the father and the daughter lived.

1. What did Mary Cochran want to do that night? She decided__________.

A. to walk slowly                        B. not to think about the problem

C. to talk over the problem with her father         D. not to go to church

2. What was the cause of Mary's serious state of mind?

A. Concern about her future.               B. Her talk with his father.

C. Worry about her sudden heart attack.    D. The thought of going to church.

3. Where did Mary live?

A. In the same building as her father's office.     

B. In a shabby house near her father's office.

C. Near the church along the main street.        

D. In a small shop across the railroad tracks.

4. What was Dr Cochran's condition?

A. He had a serious heartbreak.           B. He had suffered from her affairs.

C. He had a deadly heart disease.         D. He had made an announcement.

5. According to the passage, Which of the following statement is true?

A. Mary lived along with her father.   

B. Mary believed in the future.

C. Mary's father wanted her to go to church.

D. Mary's father didn't like his daughter.

5、It's not only rocket scientists and journalists who are following the course of "ShenzhouV", or "Divine ship/ vessel V". There are also lexicographers(字典编纂者 ), or dictionary compilers.The flight of the spacecraft recently might help put .some new words into orbit.

     One of them is a western media coinage used to refer to the Chinese astronauts. It is a combination of the Chinese pinyin "taikong", meaning space, and the English "astronaut", from classical Greek: "star sailor/navigator", for people who was going into space as a career.In the Reuters and AP reports of October 15, "taikonaut" was used as a proper noun. Forexample:

    The long March 2F rocket carrying "taikonaut" Yang Liwei lifted off into a clear blue sky over theGobi desert at 9 a.m. and entered its orbit 10 minutes later.

    A Long March 2F rocket called the Shenzhou V—"divine ship" in Chinese --carried a single"taikonaut" named Yang Liwei, 38, following Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard in 1961.

    The word "taikonaut" is not a newly coined term. It first emerged in November, 1999, when Chinalaunched its first unmanned "Shenzhou 1" spacecraft.

    At that time, .some English news media predicted(推测) that China would soon launch a manned space flight and created the word "taikonaut" for the Chinese astronauts. It was then borrowed by the German media.

    But it was left out of mainstream dictionaries, such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary andCambridge Advanced English Learner's Dictionary.

    However, the launch of the "Shenzhou V" will most likely help boost its status since there isalready a word referring specifically to Russian astronauts in the dictionary entry.

     An astronaut of Russian(or the former Soviet Union) is called a "cosmonaut", from the Russian"kosmonaut". The word was derived from classical Greek. "kosmonaut" (universal) and "nautes". One might argue that "cosmonaut" is a Russian variation on the earlier word astronaut .

     On March 14, 1995, US astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into spaceon-board, a Russian launch vehicle, arguably making him the first American cosmonaut.

     And if this trend of coinage continues, more English variations for astronaut will appear as morecountries are able to send their own astronauts into outer space, what would Western journalists callan astronaut from India or Africa? We' 11 have to wait to see.

1. Which of the following best suits the passage as a title?

A. Why to Create the Word "Astronaut"?

B. Why to Make a Lot of Variations for "Taikonaut"?

C. How to Tell a “Taikonaut “ from an Astronaut?

D. How to Call Astronauts from Different Countries?

2. Which is the right statement in the following sentence?

A. The word "taikonaut" was born with the launch of "Shenzhou V" spacecraft.

B. Yang Liwei, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard are all excellent taikonauts.

C. The American newspapers such as Reuters coined the word "taikonaut".

D. Some new words have widely been put into use with the launch of the "Shenzhou V"

spacecraft.

3  From the writer's point of view', __________ .

A. lexicographers or dictionary compilers have aim done a lot of things to help launch Shenzhou V"

B. the American astronaut Norman Thagard is not a cosmonaut

C. the words coined or to be coined for astronauts of different countries usually have something to do with the name(s) of their countries

D. the reason why there will be more variations for the word astronauts is that more and more countries will be able to send their own astronauts into space

4. What does the underlined word "coinage" mean in the passage?

A. System of coins in use.                  B. Invention of word.

C. New meaning of a word.                 D. Discovery of an old word.

3、1. On seeing the snake, the little girl s_____________.

2. You should judge a book by its c_____________ , not by its cover.

3. The boy looked at his father h________ because he thought his father had brought him a present.

4. He's gone to hospital in Shanghai for special t_____________.

5. Do it now. O____________ , it will be too late.

6. A person who is m___________ ill is one whose mind is unwell.

7. He kept on trying and at last he got s___________.

8.I couldn’t get through to the teacher. Maybe I d__________ the wrong number.

9.With the development of agriculture，the peasants’ i _____________has greatly increased.

10.At weekend the big family usually get t____________ to have a big meal．

2、Sydney—Police  in Australia yesterday made its           1. ____________

easiest ever arrest when they found Desmond               2. ____________

Barry, 22，sitting on the roof of the warehouse           3. ____________

20 meters above the ground。Barry’s plan has             4. ____________

been to break the building and steal valuable             5. ____________

jewelry he had informed was inside．Finding               6. ____________

that the warehouse contained with nothing                 7. ____________

but pianos，his fellow thieves Was so angry               8. ____________

that they simply remove the ladder he needed              9. ____________

to escape but left him to face the music．                10. ____________

1、私家车在城市越来越普遍，在给人民带来生活便利的同时，也造成了环境污染、交通堵塞等一系列问题，请你写一篇短文，词数在100字左右。要求如下：

    1. 描述私家车在日常生活中的利弊。

    2.谈谈自己的看法：如何克服众多的私家车带来的问题?如果有一天你有足够的钱来买车，你是否会考虑买一辆车?为什么?