Growing a Family Business Every Saturday and Sunday this fall, while other kids are sleeping in or preparing for a soccer game, Phillip Gargiulo, age 11, will be up at 5 a.m. sweeping floors. It's hard work, but Phillip's job at Masker Orchards（果园） isn't just a job-it's all for his family.
Masker is one of the largest pick-it-yourself apple orchards in the New York area, with 200 acres（英亩） of land and 16,000 trees. The orchard was founded in 1913 by the Masker family. In 1969, Phillip's grandfather bought the land. His three kids and six grandkids have been running the family business ever since.
On a good weekend, there will be more than 800 customers. One of Phillip's jobs is to count the items they bought, give customers a total, and take their money. That's a lot of apples-and a lot of math! And more than 100 teens work there, too. For their hard work, the Gargiulo kids are paid﹩15 per hour. After working there for seven years, Phillip has saved﹩3,000. He's planning to use it to buy a car one day, and to help pay for college.
Having a family business means much more than making money. It also means making sacrifices.
"Growing up, it was good and bad," says Phillip's mom. She's been working at the orchard since she was 4 years old. "From August to Halloween, I would be busy. In high school, you want to be with your friends, out doing other things. That wasn't always possible when I had to be at the orchard."
Phillip, too, sees both sides. "I'm learning how to run a business, and I'm learning what hard work is really all about." he says. He admits, though, that some mornings, when his alarm clock goes off in the early morning, he'd rather be sleeping in or playing baseball with friends. "But I'm learning to do things that I will need for the rest of my life," he says. "And I'm spending time with my family. I love it."
1.Phillip gets up early every weekend to ______ .
A.finish his homework B.do the work for his family
C.prepare for a soccer game D.go for a run in the morning
2.What does Phillip do on a good weekend in Masker?
A.To plant some apple trees.
B.To work on math problems.
C.To play baseball with friends.
D.To count apples and take the money.
3.What can we learn from this passage?
A.Getting something probably means giving up something.
B.It's necessary to make money as early as possible.
C.Growing up means doing what you want to do.
D.There is nothing more important than parents.
Chinese Cuisine（烹饪） in the World | |
Emma Chen
| She is a restaurant owner in Cape Town, South Africa. She has two restaurants-Red Chamber and Pron. Both of them are very popular with customers. She believes that food is not only a business, but also means passing down of culture and customs. Her cuisine comes from Shandong Province in Northern China. |
Gianni Catani
| As an Italian, he has become an expert in Chinese Hunan cuisine. It is very hard for a foreigner to enter the Chinese world at first. Luckily, he was finally accepted and welcomed by a Chinese master cook. So he spent eight years with him in learning the secrets of Hunan cuisine. Now his restaurant is one of the best places to eat Chinese food in Rome, Italy. |
Eugene Moy
| He owns a restaurant in San Gabriel Valley in America, which has become a foodie Mecca（美食圣地） for the world's top Chinese food. He believes Chinese food is the power to teach people Chinese culture. "Who knew where Chengdu or Chongqing was before? Going and checking out food is a lot of fun. It is also an activity of telling ourselves and the public about Chinese culture." |
1.Who has two restaurants?
A.Emma Chen. B.Gianni Catani.
C.Eugene Moy. D.Red Chamber.
2.Gianni Catani has become an expert in ______ .
A.Shandong cuisine B.Hunan cuisine
C.Sichuan cuisine D.Guangdong cuisine
3.Eugene Moy believes Chinese food is ______ .
A.passing down of customs
B.very popular with customers
C.very hard for foreigners to cook
D.the power to teach people Chinese culture
Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class. She could spell difficult words like "encyclopedia" and "amendment" very _______. She used to get perfect scores during each weekly spelling test.
Ms．Daisy, her English teacher made a_______ for the spelling tests that any child who doesn't get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for next week's spelling test. Seema, who sat next to Stuti always struggled（挣扎） in spellings. Last Thursday, she received 56% which meant she had to_______ the rest 44% words three times.
Stuti was so _______in her spelling abilities that she decided not to study for her next spelling test. The test began. Ms. Daisy pronounced each word and then repeated it. Everything was OK until she spoke "Handkerchief". Stuti scribbled（匆匆书写） h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h…now what? Her mind was blank.
Ms. Daisy started to move on to the next word. An idea came into Stuti's mind that Seema_______how to spell it! Seema had written this word three times.
There was wide open space between Stuti and Seema. Stuti's eyes rolled（滚动） to the right. There it was, spelled out in Seema's handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper and_______ the word with the letters "i-e-f".
Stuti remained nervous as Ms.Daisy read the last spelling word. She had_______just for the first time in her life. She thought, "Is this the way I want to keep my perfect record-by being a cheater?"
Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and replaced it with what she
knew was the wrong answer. She wrote "e-i-f". As her hands put down her pencil and passed the test up to the front, she sighed with relief（解脱）. She thought, "So, what if my perfect scores are no longer being kept? At least my_______ is."
1.A.happily B.easily C.slowly D.carefully
2.A.plan B.suggestion C.guess D.rule
3.A.check B.copy C.read D.pronounce
4.A.special B.unusual C.confused D.confident
5.A.knew B.proved C.found D.wondered
6.A.changed B.picked C.finished D.replaced
7.A.cheated B.asked C.looked D.remembered
8.A.choice B.courage C.honesty D.pride
—Lily, can you tell me______?
—I always exercise twice a week.
A.how often do you exercise B.how often you exercise
C.how often did you exercise D.how often you exercised
Lord of the Flies __________in 1954 although it was not a great success at first.
A.publish B.published C.is published D.was published
We ______ happily when we heard a loud noise outside the door last night.
A.chat B.chatted C.are chatting D.were chatting
