____ books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.

First, reading books is fun. You can always keep yourself ______ if you like reading. This is especially useful when the weather is bad. It is a ______ hobby too. You can really become lost in a book.

Next, you can read a book anywhere; in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed---even in the bath. All you need is a book! Reading is a convenient hobby ____ it is easy to stop and then start again.

Another good reason for ____ books is that it is useful. If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This means that you will read faster and will become better at ____ what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your school work becomes much ___ . Many school subjects depend on good reading and, as you read, you learn more and more.

Some people say that reading is out of date. This is not true. You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is ___ out of date!

Book readers are most likely to be good writers, too. They are usually good at ____ as well, and have more things ____ about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best. What other hobby could be more useful, or more enjoyable!

1.A. Read B. Reading C. To read D. Reads

2.A. amusing B. amuse C. amused D. to amuse

3.A. relaxing B. relaxed C. relax D. relaxes

4.A. when B. since C. although D. as

5.A. reading B. to read C. having read D. reads

6.A. understands B. to understand C. understanding D. understood

7.A. easy B. easily C. more easy D. easier

8.A. hard B. hardly C. harder D. hardest

9.A. spelling B. spell C. spelled D. spells

10.A. write B. writing C. writes D. to write

 

Much meaning can be carried clearly, with our eyes, so it is often ____ that eyes can speak.

Do you have such kind of ___? In a bus you may look at a stranger, but not too long. And if he ____ that he is being looked at, he may feel uncomfortable. The same in daily life. If you are looked at for more than necessary, you will look at yourself up and down, to see if there is ____ wrong with you. If nothing goes wrong, you will feel _______ toward the person who is looking at you that way. Eyes do speak, right?

Looking too long at someone may seem to be impolite. But sometimes things are different. If a man looks at a woman for more than 10 seconds, it may mean that he wishes to attract(吸引)her attention, to make her understand that he __ her. When two people are in a conversation, the speaker will only look at the listener from time to time, ______ make sure that the listener does pay attention ___ what he or she is speaking. Lovers will enjoy looking at each other or being looked at for a long time, to show something that ____ cannot express.

Clearly, eye contact should be done according to the relationship between two people and the place ____ you stay.

1.A. spoken B. said C. told D. talked

2.A. experience B. eyes C. mind D. news

3.A. found B. knew C. finds D. saw

4.A. anything B. something C. everything D. nothing

5.A. happy B. angry C. sad D. thankful

6.A. loves B. hates C. thanks D. looks at

7.A. in order the B. so that C. in order to D. for

8.A. for B. of C. with D. to

9.A. eyes B. words C. minds D. body

10.A. which B. that C. where D. there

 

Even a child knows that nodding the head means “Yes”. But some people will not know it when they first come to India. When they talk to an India, the India often shakes his head. They might think that the Indian does not like what they said, but on the contrary he is expressing agreement(同意).

The Indians have a habit of shaking their heads slightly when they talk to somebody. It doesn’t mean “No”, but “Yes”.

If a person doesn’t know that, he might make trouble.

At one time a foreigner in India told his driver who was an Indian to take him to his office. The driver shook his head. The foreigner repeated his words and the driver shook his head again. At last, the foreigner shouted angrily, “Drive me to my office at once!” The driver said in a low voice, “Yes, sir,” smiling and shaking his head again at the same time.

1. Usually nodding the head means “_______”, and shaking the head means “________”.

A. Yes; No B. No; Yes

C. Yes; Yes D. No; No

2.In India, if people agree with each other, they will___________.

A. nod their heads

B. shake their heads

C. neither nod nor shake their heads

D. either nod or shake their heads

3.Why did the Indian driver shake his head when the foreigner asked him to his office?

Because ________________________.

A.the Indian driver had something important to do

B.the foreigner gave him only a little money.

C.the Indian driver felt sad at that time

D.in India, shaking the head means agreement

4.Why did the foreigner become angry? Because .

A. the Indian driver didn’t want to send him to his office.

B. he thought the meaning of shaking the head meant “No” in India.

C. he asked the driver to send him to his office, but the Indian driver didn’t say any words.

D. the Indian driver asked him for a lot of money.

5.The phrase “on the contrary” means .

A. Just the opposite B. clear different between two things

C. or D. and

 

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