A punctual person is in the habit of doing a thing at the correct time and is never late for anything.
An unpunctual man never does what he has to do at the right time. He is always in a hurry and in the end loses both time and his good name. A lost thing may be found again, but lost time can never be got back. Time is more useful than material things. In fact, time is life itself. An unpunctual man is always wasting his most important things as well as others'. An unpunctual person is always saying unhappily that he finds no time to answer letters or return calls. But the man who really has much to do is very careful of his time. He knows that he can not finish all his work unless he carefully does every piece of work.
Being unpunctual is the sign of disrespect (不尊重_) towards others. If a person is invited to dinner and arrives later than the time when he should be there, he keeps all the other guests (客人)waiting for him. Usually this will be thought as a great disrespect to the host and all the other guests.
Not like a punctual person, an unpunctual one can't do his duty wonderfully, whether it is public or personal. Imagine how it would be if those who should do important tasks failed to be on time. A man who is known to be often unpunctual is never believed by his friends or fellow men.
1.The Chinese meaning of the word "punctual" in this passage is probably “ ”.
A. 守时的 B.听话的 C.守纪律的 D.能干的
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. An unpunctual person often has more time.
B. A punctual person often does his work wonderfully
C. A punctual person often has a busy life.
D.. An unpunctual person has more work to do.
3.When you are invited to dinner, you'd better arrive there .
A. in a hurry B. after the host
C. at the decided time D. before other guests
4.From the passage, we learn that an unpunctual man usually in the end.
A. saves time for others
B. leaves his family and friends
C. gets his chances and knowledge
D. loses his time and good name
Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.
About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.
In 1750,Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called “Bow Street Runners” because they worked near Bow Street.
Fifty years later, there were 120 “Bow Street Runners”, but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829 , the first Metropolitan(or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men.
Today, London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.
1.In 1700, the men who protected the streets were paid .
A. a few B. nothing C. a little D. a lot
2.About 300 years ago, many people .
A. wanted to leave London
B. had big houses in London
C. became policemen
D. came to live in London
3.People didn’t leave their houses because .
A. they had no money
B. they were afraid of losing money
C. the city was not clean
D. they liked homes
4.The “Bow Street Runners” .
A. stopped people stealing
B. stole money
C. paid people to steal
D. stopped people riding horses
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1.If you want to ______,you can make a call. The number is 67895532.
A. take guitar lessons B. employ a musician
C. learn to drive D. sell your guitar
2.Who should you call if you find the lost dog ?
A. Larry B. David C. Mr. White D. Susan
3.When is hot water provided in the apartment?
A. At any time. B. At night.
C. In the day time. D. Only in the morning
4.The four passages above are ______.
A. pieces of news B. letters
C. telephone messages D. advertisements
Dolores Huerta has worked hard most of her life to help other people. She has helped change things so that farm workers can have a better life.
Dolores grew up in California. She was a good student and liked school. After she finished high school, she went to college and studied to be a teacher. After she became a teacher, Dolores noticed that many of her students were not getting enough food to eat. Some of them wore very old clothes. Dolores wondered how she could help them.
Dolores decided to stop teaching so that she could spend more time helping the farm workers and their families. One thing she wanted to do was to get more pay for farm workers so they could buy their children the things they needed.
Dolores knew that many farm workers moved often from one place to another to help pick different kinds of fruits and vegetables. She began talking and writing about these workers. Even people who lived far from California read what Dolores wrote.
Getting higher pay for the farm workers was not easy. Dolores worked hard to make sure that farm workers got good pay for their work. She knew that nothing would change unless people made new laws to help the workers. Through all her hard work, new laws were made that gave farm workers good pay.
Dolores Huerta has worked for more than 30 years in many different ways to make life better for working people. She has shown how much one person can change things.
1.Dolores became a ____ after she left college.
A. farmerB. teacherC. worker D. lawyer
2.Dolores gave up her first job because ____.
A. she found it was too boring for her
B. the work condition was too bad
C. she wanted to do more for others
D. she got little pay for her work
3.How did Dolores help farm workers?
A. She gave them food and clothes.
B. She helped them teach their children.
C. She helped them got more pay.
D. She made new laws for them.
When people think of tigers, they think they are strong and dangerous. But now, the big animal is calling for our help. There were once eight kinds of in the world, but three died out during the 20th century. In the last 70 years, the of Siberian tigers (东北虎)has gone from as many as 300 to 22 somewhere, The Siberian tiger has been dying out completely, If the government doesn’t make any efforts, it’s quite that there will be no more Siberian tigers in China in ten to twenty years.
In order to double the number of wild tigers in the ten years, the World Wildlife Fund has started a program recently. It save wild tigers and put an end to tiger hunting and killing. China, together with twelve other ,has joined in.
Wild animals, such as red deer and wild pigs, are the main of the tigers, The hunting of these animals is the greatest threat(危险)to tigers. So the most important thing is the animals that tigers eat. To protect the wild tigers, we need to call on more people to stop eating and hunting wild animals.
1.A.pigs B. koalos C.deer D. tigers
2.A.name B.kind C.number D.owner
3.A.less than B.more than C.bigger than D.better than
4.A.in need of B.in danger of C.in front of D. in case of
5.A.possible B.impossible C.necessary D.important
6.A.last B.next C.past D.lastly
7.A.aims to B.used to C.refuses to D.decide to
8.A.cities B.provinces C. towns D. countries
9.A.friends B.food C.members D.families
10.A.to sell B.to kill C.to save D.to eat
—Why not come and join us in the game?
—__________, but I must meet Mr. Smith at his office now.
A. I’d like to. B. Let’s go C. Yes, please D. It’s a pleasure
