题目内容
She meets her old boyfriend for a drink________.
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解析:
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every now and again时而;不时;有时。句意为“她不时与她过去的男朋友见面去喝上一杯”。 |
I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.
Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.
I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.
【小题1】The writer doesn’t like London because she ______.
| A.has lived there for seventeen years |
| B.prefers to live in an old-fashioned house |
| C.is not used to the life there now |
| D.has to be polite to everyone she meets there |
| A.In a pub. | B.In a cafe. | C.In a restaurant. | D.In a nightclub. |
| A.had never been to France | B.was from a typical French family |
| C.didn't like the British idea of family | D.felt lonely in England |
Imagine a boy from a small village in East Africa. He, since a very early age, has been looking after cattle. At twelve years old he knows more about cattle than most of you. However, he has never been to school. Has this boy had any education?
Education is discovering about ourselves and about the people and things around us. All the people who care about us — our parents, brothers, sisters, friends — are our
teachers. In fact, we learn something from everyone we meet. We start learning on the day we were born, not on the first day we go to school. Every day we have new
experiences, like finding a bird’s nest, discovering a new street in our neighborhood, making friends with someone we didn’t like before. New experiences are even more fun when we share them with other people.
Encouragement from the people around us enables us to exp
lore things as many as possible. As we grow up, we begin to find out what we are capable of doing. You may be good at cooking, or singing or playing football. You find this out by doing these things. Just thinking about cooking doesn’t tell you whether you are good at it.
We learn so much just living from day to day. So why is school important? Of course you can learn some things better at home than at school, like how to do the shopping, and how to help old or disabled people who can’t do everything for themselves. At school, teachers help us to read and write. With their guidance, we begin to see things in different ways.
【小题1】 The writer takes the African boy as an example to show that _______.
| A.African children are very poor. | B.some children are unlucky. |
| C.there are many kinds of education. | D.schools are of great importance. |
| A.we have to learn from the people around us. | B.the school is not important at all. |
| C.only people who care for us can teach us. | D.education takes place everywhere. |
| A.what people encourage him/ her to do. | B.the teachings of those he / she meets. |
| C.thinking about it when growing up. | D.trying and practising things. |
| A.everyone gets education from the day he or she was born. |
| B.different classes of people receive different kinds of education. |
| C.the school is absolutely necessary if one wants to understand the world. |
| D.everyone will find out what he or she is good at. |
| A.the school is not so important as our living places. |
| B.the school |
| C.the school teaches us things which are useless at home. |
| D.the school cannot prepare us for our daily lives. |