Question

 As an exchange student,I have been staying in a host family in Beijing for the past five months. The parents are 1        in their mid-30s and the son just turned 5. In exchange for room and board,I teach their son 2      

  Like in many of the other Chinese families,he's an only child. And though he has 3        plastic trucks and boxes full of crayons,I don't know 4        he has the time to play. When he's not in the kindergarten,he's taking afterschool classes. On the weekends,the boy goes to more classes. He has one day off-Sunday.

  Compared to his schedule,I feel like my childhood was 5       a waste of time. I learned how to climb trees and draw cartoons. I wasn't learning Chinese at his age. But he and lots of other children are learning English. Both his parents dream that he will have 6        jobs,higher pay,and bigger houses.

  The boy seems to take no interest 7        learning English. He doesn't need a teacher,but a playmate. He is,8      ，only 5. When I think about my life as a 5-year-old,I know for sure I wasn't half as 9        as he is.

  In the evening,when his parents 10      him to speak with me in English,he gets 11       He lies on the floors,hides under the table and climbs on the furniture. When he finally stops 12       ,and starts talking,it isn't in English,but it isn't in Chinese,13       . He speaks in his own language.

  He 14       not be a very good student,but I'm not a great teacher. I just want to be his big brother 15        can speak in gibberish (胡言乱语) with him and help draw trucks,robots or spiders.

(   ) 1. A. both   B. all   C. either   D. none

(   ) 2. A. drawing   B. Chinese   C. English   D. playing

(   ) 3. A. a hundred of   B. hundreds of   C. hundred of   D. hundreds

(   ) 4. A. when   B. what   C. where   D. that

(   ) 5. A. hardly   B. never   C. usually   D. almost

(   ) 6. A. more   B. fewer   C. better   D. worse

(   ) 7. A. with   B. in   C. for   D. on

(   ) 8. A. after all   B. at all   C. first of all   D. all the time

(   ) 9. A. busily   B. busiest   C. busier   D. busy

(   ) 10. A. make   B. push   C. have   D. let

(   ) 11. A. frustrated   B. relaxed   C. pleased   D. injured

(   ) 12. A. move   B. to move   C. moving   D. moved

(   ) 13. A. too   B. also   C. as well   D. either

(   ) 14. A. can   B. may   C. must   D. need

(   ) 15. A. who   B. whom   C. whose   D. which

Answer 1

1. A parents是两个。

2. C 外国人到中国来应该是教英语。

3. B 数百是固定搭配，应为hundreds of。

4. A when引导宾语从句。

5. D almost在此处是副词，意为"几乎"，hardly 意为"几乎不"。

6. C 从后面的higher pay,and bigger houses可以判断此处应用比较级。

7. B take no interest in sth/doing sth是固定词组。

8. A after all是固定词组，意为"毕竟"。

9. D as... as中间只能接形容词、副词的原形。

10. B push sb to do sth是固定词组，意为"鼓励/力劝某人做(不想做的) 事"。

11. A frustrated意为"沮丧的"，injured意为"受伤的"，relaxed意为"放松的"，pleased意为"高兴的，满意的"。

12. C stop doing sth是固定词组，意为"停止做某事"。

13. D 否定句的"也"应用"either"。

14. B may not是"可能不"的意思，can not是"不可能"的意思，其余两个与题意不符。

15. A 定语从句先行词是人时，关系代词应用who或that引导。