Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车)

A small car can hold four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded. A van hold seven persons easily, so a family three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel They could all travel together.

Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. In the van, the sixth and seventh seats are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats. Then they can carry the grandparents.

Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.

1.From the passage, a van is also called ____________.

A. a motor car B. a motor home C. a motorbike D. a big truck

2.Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they__________.

A. sold their old house B. moved to their grandparents’ house

C. built a new place for a van D. sold their second car

3.A motor home is usually owned by a family with__________.

A. a baby B. much money

C. more than two children D. interest in vans

4.Americans usually use motor home____________.

A. to travel with all the family members of holiday

B. to do some shopping with all the family members

C. to visit their grandparents at weekends

D. to drive their children to school every day

5.Motor homes have become popular because___________.

A. they can take people to another city when people are free

B. they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays

C. some people think motor homes are cheap

D. big families can put more things in motor homes

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Sam and Tom were identical(同样的) twins. They were so identical that even their mother found it d1.to tell one from the other. But except for their looks, everything else about them was different.

Tom had no friends, w2. Sam was a great friendship maker. Sam loved sweets, but Tom loved spicy food and h3. sweets. Sam was generous and selfless, Tom was greedy and selfish!

As Sam and Tom grew up, their father wanted to s4. his fortune equally. However, Tom did not agree, and he argued that whoever proved to be smarter and stronger would have to get a b5. share of the wealth.

Sam agreed. Their father decided to organize a competition b6. the two. He asked the two sons to walk as long as they could, and return home before sunset.

The following day, Sam and Tom set out to walk. It was a rather sunny day. Sam walked slowly and steadily, while Tom ran q7. as he aimed at winning the race and gained a greater portion of his father’s wealth.

Sam knew that it would be ideal to walk as far as possible till noon, and start for home at noon, as it would take the same amount of time to walk back home. K8. this, Sam decided to turn back for home at noon so as to reach home on time.

However, Tom, with his greed to earn more w9., didn’t try to return home even after mid-noon. He walked twice as long as Sam, and thought he would still be able to return home before sunset. U10., he lost the race at last only because of his greed.

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