Tips for Living in China

1.Dinners

When you are invited to a dinner, you don’t have to eat everything .First, try a little of every dish by putting some on your plate or in rice bowl. You don’t have to eat it, but as a foreign guest (客人),you are supposed to be served first. If you don’t try anything, your host will be embarrassed（尴尬）---and will put it on your plate for you .

2.Bargaining

When you go to open-air markets or personal stores, you need to bargain with the shop assistants. Remember to build a friendly relationship(关系)first. You are creating a relationship with the businessman ,not a price war. Think of it this way :Shouting ,arguing ,and pointing are not good. Smiling ,being friendly, offering to buy more for a better price is. And don’t be afraid to ask,” Can you offer me a better price?”

3.Chopsticks

Don’t point with them at other people’s faces ,and by all means don’t stick them upright in your rice bowl----that is how the Chinese honor (纪念)the dead at graves. You should put them beside the plate.

4.Smiling

Chinese smile for more reasons than Americans .A smile can mean the person is embarrassed, trying to be helpful ,curious, happy or friendly .In the middle of an argument ,smiling means that the speaker doesn’t want this to become personal. When all else fails ,smile in China. It shows you have no ill intention (意图)and can work wonders in getting better service.根据表格内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳答案。（10分）

1.When you are invited to a dinner,__________.

A .you need to eat all the dishes

B. you may take one dish to put it on your own plate

C. you should try to eat the dish on your plate

D .you may go out if you don’t like to eat the dishes

2.What’s the Chinese meaning of the word “bargaining”?

A . 讨价还价 B .聊天 C.争论 D .交谈

3.If you want to buy something in a proper price, you should _____ .

A. shout to the shop assistant

B. argue with the shop assistant

C .talk with the shop assistant with a smile

D .fight with the shop assistant

4. Which sentence is right?

A .You may point with the chopsticks at people’s faces when you are talking .

B .When you finished eating the food ,you may lick the chopsticks.

C .If you are full ,you may stick the chopsticks upright.

D. When you finished eating the dinner, you may put the chopsticks next to the plate.

5. When you are in the middle of an argument , smiling means ________.

A. laughing at the other people

B. this is the best attitude to the other people

C .the speaker doesn’t want this to become personal

D. we must beat the other people

One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, "Look! There's a horseshoe .Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, "It isn't worth the trouble." His father said nothing but he picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer sold the horseshoe and with the few pennies he bought some cherries(樱桃).

The father and the son continued their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn't a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost no time in picking it up and putting it in his mouth.

And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up .When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries ,his father said to him "My dear son ,if you had bent (弯腰)down early to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that he who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things."

根据短文内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳答案。（10分）

1.Who picked up the horseshoe at last?

A. The son. B. The father.

C. Both the father and the son. D. Neither the father nor the son.

2.The farmer bought ___ with the money after he sold the horseshoe.

A. some bread B.some water

C .some cherries D. some pennies

3.When the son refused to pick up the horseshoe, the father___ .

A.beat the son B. said nothing

C. felt vary happy D. became very angry

4.The father dropped the cherries one by one, because___ .

A .he wanted to teach his son a lesson

B .he wanted his son to do more exercise

C .he wanted his son to eat them all

D. he wanted to laugh at his son

5.From the story, we can learn that___ .

A. cherries are so delicious that most of us like to eat them

B. a horseshoe is so expensive that it can bring us a lot of money

C.if we want to eat cherries ,we must pick up a horseshoe

D.if we don't worry about the little things, we cannot do the great things

March 20th is World Water Day every year. According to a report from the United Nations, more than half of the world's major rivers have serious water loss and are polluted.

The Yellow River, the world's fifth longest river, watered some of the oldest farms on earth. But now it has a serious problem. 1.In most of the past 35 years, it didn't reach the sea.

The Nile in Egypt, running 6, 650 km, is the longest river in the world. 2.Now it is down to 2 billion m? or so. Australia's Murray River reaches the sea only every other year. One fifth of America's Rio Grande has no water, either.

3.Mostly it's damming (筑坝) and global warming that make rivers dry. 4.  Now about 45, 000 of them lie across the world's rivers. They hold back around 15% of the world's fresh water from running to the sea.

Global warming is making things worse. Warmer weather takes water away. The glacier (冰川) are becoming smaller. 5.Global warming has had certain effects on water sources (源头). Droughts (干旱) happening around the world make people pay more attention to this fact.

Xinhua News: March 10th, 2014

Malaysian Airlines says there is still no information on the location of its flight MH370, more than 24 hours after it lost contact with ground.

The airline spokesman said early Sunday that rescue(拯救) teams have “failed to find evidence of any wreckage(残骸).”

The flight, a Boeing 777-200, lost contact with ground control at 1:20 a.m. Beijing time on Saturday when it was flying over the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control area in Vietnam(越南).

On board were 227 passengers from 14 countries, including 154 Chinese and 12 Malaysian flight crew(机组成员).

A team of 93 staff(职员) from the airline arrived in Beijing late Saturday night. The spokesman said they were here mainly to take care of the relatives of those on board the missing flight.

Information Card

The flight’s name1.

What happened to the flight2.

The number of passengers on board3.

Did the rescue teams find any wreckage?4.

What will the 93 staff do?5. of those on board the missing flight.

短文填词 根据短文内容和以下提示：1）首字母提示，2）语境提示，3）汉语提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。（10分）

Many useful machines were invented by inventors. These machines have 1.c ____ the world a lot. There are many great 2. in the world, and Watt(瓦特) was one of them.

　Watt was English. When he was a child, he liked to ask questions and he was always 3..______(学习)hard. One day, he was sitting in the kitchen with his grandmother, she 4._ ___（放）a kettle (水壶) on the stove (火炉). Soon steam (蒸汽) began to come 5. the kettle and the lid (盖子) was shaking. Watt asked what was in the kettle. His grandmother said, "Water, my child."

　"But I know there's 6.s _____in it. It pushes the lid up." said Watt. His grandmother told him that it was only steam. He asked his grandmother,"7.W __ does the steam come up under the lid?" His grandmother said that it came from hot water. Watt said to 8.____（他自己）,"The steam is so strong 9.______it can push things. The steam will be much10._____ if there's more water."

　　Later, Watt tried hard and made steam work for people. He invented the first engine.

完成句子 根据中文意思，用单词或短语的适当形式填空，完成句子。（10分）

1.. 我一进入商店，一件外套就引起我的注意。

As soon as I walked into the shop, a coat _____________________________.

2. 我希望在将来我的梦想能实现。

I hope to ________________________________in the future.

3. 她每天打扫房间。

The room ______________________________every day

4. 《爸爸去哪了》很受孩子们的欢迎。

Dad, where are you going children.

5. 你介意不要打开窗户，好吗？

Would you mind __________________________________________?

假如你是林莉，你的美国笔友汤姆给你发了一封电子邮件，他想了解中国父母跟孩子的关系和美国有什么不同。请根据提示内容给他回一封邮件。

提示：

1.中国父母不习惯对孩子说“我爱你”等亲昵话，而美国父母则经常用言语表达对孩子的爱。

2.中国孩子对父母不能直呼名字，而在美国这是可以接受的事情。

3中国父母习惯照顾孩子到很大，而美国父母大多鼓励孩子独立做事。

要求：

1.邮件包含所有的提示信息；2.意思连贯，语句通顺；3.词数要求：80---100词。（邮件的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数） 提示词：acceptable.接受的；independently.独立地

Dear Tom,

I am glad to receive your e-mail. The relationship between parents and children in China is different from that in America.___________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Lin Li

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—Is this dictionary ?

—No, it’s .

A. your, his B. yours; hersC. yours; her

Flowers along the road last year.

A. planted B. are plantedC. were planted