小博士：时间名词前可以用的介词在初中阶段学的主要有5个，可以用下面的速记歌来帮助学习。

　　年月之前要用“in”，遇到日期却用“on”。

　　上午下午又是“in”，某日上下午“on”帮忙。

　　正午、晚上用“at”，黎明、午夜也相宜。

　　时钟之前也是“它”，差分过秒不用“它”

　　说“差”要用介词“to”，说“过”要用“past”。

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记住了吗？那么就请信心十足地动手做下面的介词填空练习吗：

1　　My birthday is ________Dec. 1st.

2　　He was born ________ 1991.

3　　The People's Republic of China(中华人民共和国) was founded (成立) ________ October 1st 1949.

4　　It was happened(发生) ________ the morning of a cold day.

5　　－Do you have time ________ Sunday evening?

　　 －I'm afraid not. But I am free ________ the afternoon.

6　　I usually go to bed ________ 9:00, but ________ weekends, I'm later.

7　　New school year begins ________ September.

8　　You can get cheap things ________ this time of year.

9　　We enjoy ourselves ________ Children's Day.

阅读理解

　　Visitors to Britain are always complaining(抱怨) about English food. But they do not really know what they are talking about because they rarely get a chance to eat it. Most of the restaurants in large towns have foreign owners and serve foreign food. When visitors are invited to eat in an English home, their hosts often feel they must offer them something foreign and exotic(奇特的).

　　Those of us who do know English food realize that at its best it can be really very good. On the other hand it is true to say that it is sometimes terrible. Part of the problem is that we are not really interested in food——we eat to live, we don't live to eat. So we don't generally spend the necessary time and effort needed to cook really good meals or ready prepared food which only, needs heating up before eating.

　　You can find the best English food in the country away from large towns, where life is slower and people not in such a hurry. But more visitor come to London, they come because they are interested in shopping and sightseeing(观光). They do not come because of food, so why should they complain about it?

1．Visitors to Britain are always complaining about English food because ________.

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A．they don't often eat English food

B．they only eat English food in English home

C．they usually eat English food in the restaurants

D．they know little about English food

2．When English people have guests they prefer to ________.

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A．cook some unusual food

B．offer them some prepared food

C．serve them food they are used to

D．serve them the English food

3．Which of the following statements is right?

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A．People don't want to spend time and effort in cooking.

B．People are not really interested in food because they think they live to eat, not eat to live.

C．English food is neither good nor terrible.

D．People like to cook in a quick easy way.

4．Visitors can find the best English food ________.

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A．In the restaurants in large towns

B．In the country

C．In English homes

D．In the restaurants in towns

5．The conclusion(结论) suggests ________.

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A．visitors have the rights to complain about English

B．as well as food people come to shopping and sighseeing

C．the criticism(批评) of English food is unfair(不公平)

D．it is possible to find good English food in towns but it takes times to find