题目内容
About a year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any noise from the children, but the parents were always yelling at them.
We often met, I always spoke, but the only answer I ever got was a hello from a four-year-old girl. One day when I returned, they were just coming back to their apartment and the little girl was holding the door in the hall open for the others. I remained in the car doing unnecessary things. The parents were telling her to hurry. I looked up and saw the little girl was still holding the door open, waiting for me. I hurried as much as I could and thanked her. She was smiling from ear to ear.
That afternoon I was at the K-Mart and saw a white teddy bear. I thought of the little girl and said to myself,‘I bet she would like it.’ So I bought it for her.
The next day there was a knock on the door and it was the little girl and her father. She was so proud of her bear and thanked me. Then I noticed her mother and the other children were there in the hall, too.
Now when we meet in the hall, we all speak in a friendly manner. Last night we had about four inches of snow. The temperature was below zero. When I opened the outside door, there was my car with all the snow removed. The man next door was the only person I knew in the whole building, so when I saw him the next day, I asked him if he was the nice person that removed the snow. He said NO. He wanted to, but his wife said she wanted to do it.
Isn’t it amazing that the small kind act of a four-year-old girl can change so many things for the better?
61. Why did the author do unnecessary things in his car?
A. He did not wanted to be embarrassed. B. He did not know how to kill time.
C. The weather was cold outside. D. His neighbor yelled at him.
62. The author bought a teddy bear to ____________.
A. show off his wealth B. express his thanks
C. please his neighbor D. refuse the help
63. The underline word “yelling” in the passage probably means _____________.
A. knocking B. beating C. shouting D. laughing
64. What the four-year-old girl did made the author feel _____________.
A. cold B. sad C. warm D. angry
65. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Children should be polite to their neighbors.
B. People should be kind and communicate with each other.
C. Your neighbors are not as bad as you think.
D. Things can be changed by removing snow.
ABCCB
For thousands of years, the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. Traditionally, the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, where the people gather together to socialize and exchange news.
As a result, British pubs are often old and well preserved. Many of them have become historic sites. The most famous example is the pub in the city of Nottingham called “Ye O
lde Trip to Jerusalem”, which dates back to the year 1189 AD and is probably the oldest pub in England.
However, British pubs are not just for kings and queens; they welcome people from all classes and parts of society. On a cold night, the pub’s landlord or landlady can always find a warm place for you by the fire. There is always honest and hearty food and plenty of drink available at an affordable price.
That’s how things used to be. Things are beginning to change. It is said that the credit crunch(信贷紧缩) is causing 39 British pubs a week to go out of busi
ness. People do not have enough spare money to spend on beer. Recently, the UK government banned smoking in all pubs, and that may also have affected the number of customers going to pubs.
This decline is happening despite the fact that in 2005 the UK government started to allow pubs to stay open after 1l pm. Previously, with 1l pm as closing time, customers would have to drink quite quickly, meaning they sometimes got more drunk than they would if allowed to drink slowly. The British habit of drinking a lot very quickly is known as “binge drinking”, and it causes long-term health problems for people and problems with violent crime for communities.
In order to save their businesses, pubs are trying to change with the market. British pubs now offer something for everyone. A lot of pubs used to be “Working Men's Clubs”, meaning that women could not usually enter. Today, however, women can freely enter 99% of pubs without experiencing any problems. Perhaps things are changing for the better after all.
【小题1】. The passage mainly tells us something about
| A.the past and present of British pubs | B.the decline of British pubs |
| C.the long history of British pubs | D.the importance of British pubs |
| A.The credit crunch. | B.The present closing time. |
| C.The ban of smoking. | D.Having no spare money. |
| A.British people used to like drinking slowly |
| B.closing the pubs early will reduce social problems |
| C.binge drinking means drinking less beer |
| D.British government aims to discourage people from binge drinking |
| A.is against the admission of too many women to the pubs |
| B.holds an optimistic attitude towards the British pubs |
| C.thinks that women in the pubs will cause less social problems |
| D.thinks that British pubs should offer everything you need |