The most important holiday in spring, especially for Christians, is Easter. This Christian holiday is not on the same date every year,but it’s always on a Sunday. It can be any Sunday between March 22 and April 25. Many people celebrate Easter by buying new clothes. Children celebrate by hunting for colored eggs that their parents have hidden around the house. People also give Easter baskets filled with candy and other goodies to one another to celebrate the day.

But the holiday is more than new clothes and good things to eat. On Easter, many people go to church to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection(复活)from the dead. Most people color Easter eggs. Some people hide them. Others just eat them. But no matter what one does with Easter eggs,they are an important Easter tradition throughout the Western world. People from many different cultures celebrate Easter. In both America and Belgium, children look for Easter eggs hidden on lawns and in bushes. In America, children believe the eggs are hidden by the Easter bunny (兔子).But in Belgium, the hidden eggs are supposed to have fallen from church bells. In Bulgaria (保加利亚), red Easter eggs are lucky in churches. Bulgarian families also hit these Easter eggs together to see whose is the strongest. The winner looks forward to good fortune that year. Still dozens of other Easter traditions exist. In parts of Austria,for example,children sing from door to door and are rewarded with colorful eggs.

1.Easter comes _______.

A.on the same date every year

B.on Sunday on March 22

C.on Sunday on April 25

D.on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25

2.To celebrate Easter, people ___________.

A.go shopping, hide colored eggs and children hunt for them

B.give Easter baskets filled candy and goodies to one another

C.buy new clothes, hide colored eggs and children look for them around the house

D.both B and C

3.For Christians the more important thing to do on Easter is________.

A.going to church to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection

B.buying new clothes

C.eating delicious food and paint color eggs

D.exchange beautiful gifts each other

4.People from different cultures have different ideas about Easter egg _________.

A.In both American and Belgium, children hunt for Easter eggs hidden in rooms and in bushes

B.In Belgium, the hidden eggs are thought to have fallen from doorbells

C.In American, children believe the eggs are hidden by the Easter bunny

D.In America, the hidden eggs are supposed to have fallen from doorbells

5.In some places of Austria, children sing from door to door for_______.

A.blesses                               B.Easter eggs

C.candy and goodies                      D.Easter bunny

 

I travel a lot, and I find out different "styles" (风格) of directions every time 1 ask "How can I get to the post office?"

Foreign tourists are often confused (困惑) in Japan because most streets there don't have names in Japan. People use landmarks (地标) in their directions instead of street names. For example, the Japanese will say to travelers, "Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel and go past a fruit market. The post office is across from the bus stop."

In the countryside of the American Midwest, there are not usually many landmarks. There are no mountains, so the land is very flat; in many places there are no towns or buildings within miles. Instead of landmarks, people will tell you directions and distances. In Kansas or Iowa, for example, people will say, "Go north two miles. Turn east, and then go another mile."

People in Los Angeles, California, have no idea of distance on the map; they measure distance in time, not miles. "How far away is the post office?" you ask. "Oh," they answer, "it's about five minutes from here." You say, "Yes, but how many miles away is it?" They don't know.

It's true that a person doesn't know the answer to your question sometimes. What happens in such a situation? A New Yorker might say, 'Sorry, I have no idea." But in Yucatan, Mexico, no one answers "I don't know." People in Yucatan believe that "I don't know" is impolite. They usually give an answer, often a wrong one. A tourist can get very, very lost in Yucatan!

1.When a tourist asks the Japanese the way to a certain place they usually _________

A.describe the place carefully

B.show him a map of the place

C.tell him the names of the streets

D.refer to recognizable buildings and places

2.What is the place where people measure distance in time?

A.New York.         B.Los Angeles.       C.Kansas.           D.Iowa.

3.People in Yucatan may give a tourist a wrong answer ________

A.in order to save time                     B.as a test

C.so as to be polite                        D.for fun

4.Which sentence is true according to the text?

A.There is no street names in Japan.

B.There is no landmarks in the countryside of American.

C.People in Yucatan always give wrong answers when asked the way.

D.People in Los Angeles measure distance in time, not miles when asked the way.

5.What can we infer from the text?

A.It's important for travelers to understand cultural differences.

B.It's useful for travelers to know how to ask the way properly.

C.People have similar (相似的) understandings of politeness.

D.New Yorkers are generally friendly to visitors.

 

Welcome to the future. It’s year 2050 and Scotland is now powered completely by“clean”energy.

Homes have entire roofs made of solar materials, rooms are kept warm by wallpaper, and people go to and from work in electric and hydrogen( 氢) cars.

Oil is still being found in the North Sea, but it’s not now only used to keep aircraft flying. And a new 500---mile underwater link with Iceland has been built to catch heat from the hot springs. There’s still a role for king coal—but the black diamonds are now environment---friendly. 

People will be able to import the electricity they need and export any excess(超过的量) they make through rooftop windmills(风车). New technology will store electricity better and provide it on demand. Heat exchangers will provide heating and hot water.

Harmful carbon dioxide waste is being piped offshore to St Fergus and from there into some of the remaining oil—producing fields to be stored safely without entering the atmosphere. Gas remains the preferred energy source of industry and is now shipped in liquid form. But hydrogen is imported through pipelines from France and from a geothermal (地热的) plant in Iceland.

Hydrogen—fuelled cars have become popular. Electric bikes are common in cities using the new urban two—wheel network. Electric vehicles have become common, and their performances have been improved because of the developments in electrical drive technology like high—temperature super conducting motors. Many people leave their vehicles in a giant park where they can be recharged from the national electrical system . Oilseed rape (油菜) is widely grown to fuel some motors .

1.What does the underlined phrase in paragraph 2 mean ?

    A. The hot springs   B. Oil         C. Coal           D. Oil and coal

2.Which sources of energy play a more important role in people’s daily life in the future ?

    A. Oil and coal                    

B. Hydrogen and gas

    C. Electricity and gas                               

D. Solar energy and wind

3.The means of transport people use in 2050 do not include__________.

    A. windmills      B. electric bikes C. hydrogen—fuelled cars   D. aircraft

4.The passage is written to tell us in the future_____________.

    A. life will be better and better  

B. the energy will become cleaner and cleaner

    C. people will use some new sources of energy

    D. people will pay more attention to the environment

 

Surprisingly, no one knows how many children receive education in English hospitals, still less the content or quality of that education. Proper records are just not kept. We know that more than 850,000 children go through hospital each year, and that every child of school age has a legal right to continue to receive education while in hospital. We also know there is only one hospital teacher to every 1,000 children in hospital.

Little wonder the latest survey concludes that the extent and type of hospital teaching available differ a great deal across the country. It is found that half the hospitals in England which admit children have no teacher. A further quarter have only a part-time teacher. The special children’s hospitals in major cities do best; general hospitals in the country and holiday areas are worst off. From this survey, one can estimate that fewer than one in five children have some contact with a hospital teacher—and that contact may be as little as two hours a day. Most children interviewed were surprised to find a teacher in hospital at all. They had not been prepared for it by parents or their own school. If there was a teacher they were much more likely to read books and do math or number work; without a teacher they would only play games.

   Reasons for hospital teaching range from preventing a child falling behind and maintaining the habit of school to keeping a child occupied, and the latter is often all the teacher can do. The position and influence of many teachers was summed up when parents referred to them as “the library lady” or just “the helper”. Children tend to rely on concerned school friends to keep in touch with school work. Several parents spoke of requests for work being ignored or refused by the school. Once back at school children rarely get extra teaching, and are told to catch up as best as they can.

   Many short-stay child-patients catch up quickly. But schools do very little to ease the anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interviewed.

1.Which of the following statements is true?

A. Every child in hospital receives some teaching.  

B. Not enough is known about hospital teaching.

C. Hospital teaching is of poor quality.            

D. The special children's hospitals are worst off.

2.It can be inferred from the latest survey that________.

A. hospital teaching across the country is similar    

B. each hospital has at least one part-time teacher

C. all hospitals surveyed offer education to children 

D. only one-fourth of the hospitals have a full-time teacher

3.Hospital teachers are found________.

A. not welcomed by the children and their parents        B. necessary

C. not welcomed by the hospitals                      D. capable

4.In order to catch up with their school work, children in hospital usually turn to________.

A. hospital teachers    B. schoolmates    C. parents      D. school teachers

5.We can conclude from the passage that the author is________.

A. unfavorable towards children receiving education in hospitals

B. in favor of the present state of teaching in hospitals

C. unsatisfied with the present state of hospital teaching

D. satisfied with the results of the latest survey

 

I find it pleasant to be alone the greater part of the time; to be in company, even with the best, is soon tiresome and wasteful, and I never found a companion so companionable as solitude (独处).

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad than when we stay in the meeting-rooms, for solitude is not measured by the miles of space between a man and his fellows.

The farmer, who can work alone all day without feeling lonesome, but must do something with others to get pleasure at night, wonders how the student can sit alone at night; he does not realize that the student, though in the house, is actually at work in his field and cutting his wood as the farmer was in his.

Society is commonly too cheap:We meet at very short intervals (间隔) ,not having had time to get any new value for each other; we meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that unpleasant old cheese; we live thick and are in each other’s way, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.

We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable (可忍受的); certainly less frequency would be enough for all important and hearty communications between men.

It would be better if there were but one to live within a square mile, as where I live ,for as the value of a man is not in his skin, we need not touch him.

72.The writer uses the example of the farmer and the student to show that _____.

A.men need to do something for pleasure after their work.

B.men are not lonely when they are working.

C.solitude is necessary for a student.

D.people have different ideas of solitude.

73.When the writer says:“Society is commonly too cheap” he means that ______.

A.we meet not frequently enough so we don’t understand each other well.

B.we eat cheap food and live a simple life so we don’t feel very happy.

C.our lives are too regular for us to find any happiness in them.

D.people don’t have enough hearty communication to realize the value in others

74.The writer’s opinion on the value of a man is that _____.

A.it is made too low by the rules of etiquette and politeness.

B.it can be discovered through frequent physical touch.

C.it can be found in a man’s appearance.

D.it doesn’t lie in physical touch.

75.The writer almost believes that ______.

A.a student and a farmer have no idea of solitude.

B.the same life we live every day is the cause of man’s loneliness.

C.etiquette and politeness are rules that make frequent meetings tolerable.

D.less frequent meetings can make us more clear about the value of men.

 

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