Most Americans enjoy moving from place to place. For example, they often drive their cars 120 to 160 kilometers away just to have dinner with a friend or even fly to Europe just for watching a football match. In some states only one person in five lives in a place for more than five years. One may be born in one city, and go to school in another. He may finish his middle school in two or three cities, and then attend a college far across the country. When he has entered business, he may possibly move from job to job. Moving from one job to another, which is called “job-hopping”, is a very common practice in the United States. Job-hopping is good to workers, because every change of a job gives them a chance to move up to a higher position and to get better pay. And job-hopping also gives bosses the chance to get new ideas and skills that different people bring to their companies and factories.

1. According to this passage, Americans often travel_______.

A. in order to have dinner with their friends

B. in order to watch football matches

C. to enjoy themselves

D. in order to find a new job

2. In some places in America, ________ for more than five years.

A. most people stay in one place

B. about 20% of the people live in one place

C. the owners of houses stay in one place

D. the owners of five house stay in one place

3. In the USA, job-hopping_______.

A. has become the custom (习惯)

B. has helped young people to attend to college

C. has helped students to enter business

D. has helped worker in traveling

4. The writer thinks________.

A. job-hopping does good either to workers or to the bosses

B. job-hopping does good neither to the workers nor to the bosses

C. little of the job-hopping

D. highly of the job-hopping

 

Have you ever seen people dance? Some dances are fast and others are slow. People’s feet always move when they dance. They keep on moving until the music stops.

People have enjoyed dancing for a very long time. This story is of a different kind of dance. It is a dance without people or music. Yet this dance is one of the oldest in the world. It is the dance of bees.

If you have ever watched bees, you know that they are very clever. They also work hard looking for food and bringing it back to their home.

The home of the bees is called a bee hive. Here hundreds even thousand of bees live. They work day and night building small walls. There they make their honey. This is the same honey that we eat.

Where does the honey come from? Bees live on food from flowers. Have you seen bees flying around a flower garden? When a bee rests on a flower, it tries to go to the centre of it. There it takes in as much food as its body can hold. Then it flies to take the food back to the hive.

At the hive, bees change flower food into honey. Then they fly away for more food.

How do the bees know where to find the best food in the sweetest flowers? One bee acts as a guide. When it discovers good flowers, it flies back to the hive and tells the others. It does this by dancing for them.

The bee dances on one side. This tells the other bees which way to go to find the flowers. But that is not all. The bee dances for some time. And the length of its dance tells the other bees how far they must fly to reach the flowers.

When the bees see the dance, they know where the flowers are. They fly away and return with more food for the hive.

Sometimes we hear the music of the bees as they fly around. But few people have ever seen them dance. Yet without that dance we might never have sweet honey to eat.

1. The writer believes that_________.

A. people dance better than bees

B. people learned dance from bees

C. bees dance more often than people

D. bees don’t like music

2. From this passage we know that the dance of bees means_______.

A. They are good at dancing

B. they want to show their beauty

C. they communicate with each other

D. they have nothing to do

3. Which of the following is true?

A. People get honey from flowers directly.

B. People draw honey from bees’ bodies.

C. People produce honey in a secret place.

D. People get honey from bees indirectly.

4. What character do bees have?

A. dance-loving           B. hard-working        C. music-loving        D. active

 

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