1. Li Lei often helps me ________ my English after school.

六、选词填空。（共5分，每小题0.5分）

用方框中所给词语的适当形式填空，每空一词。（每个词语只准使用一次）

ask      careful       close        at least       found

hear        big         with       animal       have

  61. The writer talks about her own experience because she hopes that the Chinese will _______.

    A. plan their holiday beforehand

    B. get used to long holidays and enjoy themselves

    C. give up a holiday for their work

    D. bring business home after work hours

第二卷（非选择题42分）

语言知识运用（二）

  60. What is the main idea of this passage?

    A. Working is the only part of the life.

    B. Traveling is the best way to spend your holiday.

    C. Enjoying holidays is as important as working

    D. Sharing happiness with your family is more important

  59. What do the underlined words “paid leave”mean?

    A. You have to pay when you take a holiday.

    B. Someone will pay for your holiday.

    C. You are still paid when you have your holiday.

    D. You can’t leave until you pay for the holiday.

  58. Which of the following sentence is TRUE according to the passage?

    A. All the people on QQ are talking about foolish things.

    B. Chatting online is a waste of time and money.

    C. We should be careful about boys or men online.

    D. We should think more of our friends in real life.

C

    “When are you going on holiday? And where? ”are usual questions in the office before the summer holiday, and the answer often is: “In one week, to the beach. ”“Aha! You have a beautiful tan（＝brown by sunshine）! How was your holiday? ”These continue for days after you return.

    Many Europeans have not only weekends and bank holidays but also five to seven weeks paid leave. Usually parents in the summer plan to spend three or four weeks with the family. Because of my earlier years in China, I found it difficult to understand the European attitude （态度）toward holidays.

    During my childhood in the 1960s, my parents were always busy with work and meetings. They left early in the morning and came back late in the evening. My sisters, my brother and I were left alone with Grandma. We saw our parents only on Sundays and during the few holidays. The only long period （一段）of time during which the whole family could be together once a year was the Spring Festival. We missed our parents badly, but didn’t say so because we had been told that hard work was everyone’s duty and that we could not have our own small family without a big family.

    Later I was a hard working student and, during summer or winter holidays, often stayed alone at university to have more time to study. I was always encouraged by my parents, for whom the holiday was less important than “work”and “study”. Holidays were a waste of time and I felt as if I had done something wrong if I took a holiday or did nothing during a holiday.

    I spent the most difficult period of my life abroad. But when I joined this company, my boss didn’t seem to think it right for me to work like that. When I called him at home after office hours for business purposes （目的）, he politely told me that he preferred talking about work with me in the office.

    When the holiday season came near, he asked me to plan my leave beforehand （提前）. He talked with me about his holiday and also asked about mine. For him, leave was a right.

    Giving up a holiday for the company is encouraged in China, but is foolish here. I began to think about holidays.

    Today my parents are retired （退休）and stay home with a lot of time for their children. But we are all grown- up and live far away. We miss each other, but we cannot afford to see each other very much and they often feel sorry for the fact that they were too busy to be able to take care of us when we were young.

    Nowadays, Chinese take long weekends and have paid holidays. But do they use their holidays to enjoy family life? I hope so because my experience in China and Europe has helped me understand that work is not my whole life and that a family is also very important. I do not want to feel sorry in the future as my parents do and I certainly spend as much time with my son as possible.

    There is nothing wrong with either working hard or taking holidays, but we shouldn’t have one instead of the other. It is important to keep a balance （平衡）between work and play.

  57. From the passage, we know “… they are all just a few clicks away”means “_______”.

    A. it is wonderful to see your friends by clicking

    B. it is easy and fast to get in touch with your friends

    C. it is possible to live much closer to your friends

    D. it is popular to make friends online

  56. Fox’s Shadow thinks QQ is ________.

    A. the biggest messaging service in China

    B. a good place to spend her boring time

    C. a safe place to chat with strangers

    D. the best place to make friends

  55. People meet face to face offline when they think they ________.

    A. have known each other well

    B. have the same interest

    C. have enough free time

    D. have nothing to do

  54. Some people like loud music because ______.

    A. it sounds beautiful          B. they can hear it clearly

    C. it is quite popular              D. they like to hear and feel it

B

    Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks （点击）away. Life has changed for millions of young people across the world who now make friends online. Whether you use chat-rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are a member of this group.

    “I don’t often talk with my parents or grandparents, but I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ, ”said Fox’s Shadow, the online name used by a girl student in China. “Most of my classmates use QQ after school. ”

    QQ is the biggest messaging service in China. A record from Tencent, the company which developed QQ, shows that 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October.

    And probably Fox’s Shadow was one of them. “I log in （登陆）on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel everything around me boring. I usually spend about ten hours chatting （聊天）online every week, ”she said. “But I never talk with stranger, especially boys or men. ”

    Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with stranger online. “You don’t know who you’re talking to. You should always be careful about whom you believe in online. ”

    Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have got to know someone very well. Fox’s Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a football fan like herself and they went to a football match together.

    A 16-year-old Beijing boy, named Bart Simon online, dislikes QQ users. “I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking about foolish things, ”he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. “I only chat online because I’ve got friends in Japan, the US and Singapore, ”he said. “I want to learn more about foreign cultures（文化）. ”But he spends little time chatting on QQ as he sees it as a waste of time and money.

    “If you are really addicted to （上瘾）it, sometimes you can’t give your mind to your lessons, ”he said. “And friends in your real life are always more important than those so-called friends you meet online. ”