When parents send their children to school, often they don’t know what happens day to day. Parents depend on what their children tell them about they are doing and what they are learning. Generally schools will host parent-teacher meeting at least twice a year. Parent-teacher meetings are short meetings between parents and their children’s teacher. Usually they are held when teachers give put a student’s grades for the term. The parent-teacher meetings give teachers a chance to let parents know how their child is doing. A teacher will let a parent know the student’s advantages and bring to the parent’s attention any problems with grades or behavior(行为). The meetings also offer parents the chance to ask questions and see what their child is learning.

Most children do not go along with their parents to the meetings. This allows both the parent and teacher to talk honestly about the child’s progress without making the child feel bad. Usually a teacher will offer advice to the parent on how to support their child’s education.

1.How often do schools host parent-teacher meeting?

A. Once a week B. Twice a week C. Once a year D. Twice a year

2.Parent will get child’s ___________ at the meeting.

A. photos B. grades C. drawings D. invitations

3.What is main purpose of holding parent-teacher meeting?

A. To punish students with low grades

B. To offer a chance to let teacher make friends with parent

C. To make teacher know more about children’s behaviors at home

D. To help parent understand children’s problems with grades and behavior better.

4.A teacher will give advice on ___________ at the meeting.

A. how to manage children’s daily life

B. how to look after children at home

C. how to support their child’s education

D. what to do at the parent-teacher meeting

Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they don’t all have the same coffee culture. In Europe, for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed when Starbucks (星巴克) coffee shops spread across the country.

The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.

Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing (市场营销).

In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso (浓咖啡) bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.

However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have been closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries were closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the “feel the same everywhere” environment offered by Starbucks.

1.The underlined word “ran” in Paragraph 3 probably means “ ”.

A. closed B. managed C. left D. sold

2.According to the passage, which is the right order for the following sentences?

a. Schultz helped to make Starbucks a huge coffee company.

b. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in Seattle in the USA.

c. Schultz went to Seattle to learn about the company and later worked for it.

d. Schultz noticed Starbucks ordered lots of special coffee makers.

A. a-b-d-c B. c-a-b-d C. b-d-c-a D. d-c-a-b

3.Why were so many Starbucks closed in small areas?

A. Because the coffee in these places was too expensive.

B. Because the style of the coffee stores seems the same.

C. Because people like to drink coffee at home with friends.

D. Because there were too many coffee shops in one place.

4.Which of the following shows the right structure of the passage? (P=Paragraph)

A. B. C. D.

Many people like to travel by plane because it is fast, but I don’t like it because an airport is usually far from the city.

You have to get there early and wait for hours for the plane to take off and it is often late. You can’t open the windows. You can’t choose the food. Planes are fast, but they still take hours to go out of the airport and into the city.

I like traveling by train. I think trains are safe. Railway stations are usually in cities. When you are late for a train, you can catch another one. You can walk around in the train and open the windows. You can see many interesting things on your way. I know it takes a little more time. I also like cars. You can start your journey when you want to, and you don’t need to get to a railway station or a bus stop. Also you can carry many things with you in a car. But sometimes there are too many cars on the road.

1.Why do many people like to travel by plane?

A. Because it is fast. B. Because it is safe.

C. Because you can walk around in the plane. D. Because it is cheap.

2.Which is not the good thing about the train?

A. It is safe. B. It takes a little more time.

C. You can open the windows. D. You can walk around in the train.

3.If you want to take a lot of things with you, what do you take to go out?

A. A bus. B. A car. C. A train. D. A bike.

4.What is the bad thing about the car?

A. You needn’t go to a station. B. You can start your journey when you want to.

C. There are too many cars on the road. D. You needn’t go to a bus station.

5.What does the writer think of the plane, the train and the car?

A. He thinks it takes a lot of time to go to and get out of the airport.

B. He likes to take a train because it takes a little more time.

C. He likes to take a car because he has a car.

D. He likes to take a plane because it’s fast.

I was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare (兔子) and the tortoise (乌龟). At the end I said.“Son, remember: Slow and steady (稳固的) wins the race. Don’t you think there’s something to learn from the tortoise?”

Sonny opened his eyes wide, “Do you mean next time when I’m participating(参加) in the 60-metre race I should wish that Billy and Tony and Sandy would all fall asleep halfway?”

I was shocked, “But the tortoise didn’t wish that the hare would fall asleep on the way!”

“He must have wished that,” Sonny said. “Otherwise how could he be so stupid as to race with the hare? He knew very well the hare ran a hundred times faster than he himself did.”

“He didn’t have such a wish,” I insisted, “He won the race by perseverance(坚持), by pushing on steadily.”

Sonny thought a while. “That’s a lie,” he said. “He won it because he was lucky. If the hare hadn’t happened to fall asleep, the tortoise would never have won the race. He could be as steady as you like, or a hundred times steadier, but he’d never have won the race. That’s for sure.”

I gave up. Today’s children are not like what we used to be. They’re just hopeless.

1.The writer disagreed with his son because _______.

A. They disagreed about whether the tortoise was stupid

B. He liked tortoises while his son liked hares

C. He liked the story of the hare and the tortoise while his son didn’t

D. He tried to teach his son the moral(道德的) lesson of the story but the son rejected(拒绝) it

2.Sonny believed that the tortoise _______.

A. was not given a fair chance in the race

B. in fact couldn’t win the race

C. took a risk by agreeing to race

D. won the race by his own effort

3.The writer thought that his generation (代) _______.

A. had different ideas about life from Sonny’s generation

B. were more clever than Sonny’s generation

C. had the same ideas about life as Sonny’s generation

D. were more hopeful than Sonny’s generation

4.When the writer says“I gave up” at the end, he means _______.

A. he gave up Sonny as a hopeless child

B. he gave up arguing with Sonny

C. he gave up trying to keep up with the new generation

D. he gave up his belief in the moral ideal of the hare and tortoise story

5.According to the passage, who do you think learnt a lesson?

A. Sonny B. The tortoise

C. The hare D. Sonny’s father

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