When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for 200 so that he could travel to and from work more____ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few years, but then it got so old, and it was costing him __much in repairs that he decided that he had better __it.
He asked among his friends to see if anyone was particularly_ _ to buy a cheap car, but they all knew that it was falling to pieces, so__ of them had any desire to buy it. Dave's friend Sam saw that he was __ when they met one evening, and said, “What's __, Dave?”
Dave told him, and Sam answered, “Well, what about advertising it in the paper? You may __more for it that way than the cost of the advertisement!” Thinking that Sam's__was sensible(合理的),he put an advertisement in an evening paper, which read “For sale: small car, __ very little petrol, only two owners. Bargain at 50.”
For two days after the advertisement first appeared, there was no __.But then on Saturday evening he had an enquiry(询问).A man rang up and said he would like to__ him about the car. “All right,” Dave said, feeling happy. He asked the man whether ten o'clock the next morning would be__or not. “Fine,” the man said, “and I'll __my wife. We intend to go for a ride in it to __ it.”
The next morning, at a quarter to ten, Dave parked the car in the square outside his front door, __ to wait there for the people who had__ his advertisement. Even Dave had to __that the car really looked like a wreck(残骸).Then, soon after he had got the car as clean__ it could be, a police car stopped just behind him and a policeman got out. He looked at Dave's car and then said, “Have you reported this __ to us yet, sir?”?
1.A. directly B. safely C. easily? D. properly
2.A. such B. so C. very D. too?
3.A. keep B. repair C. sell D. throw?
4.A. lucky B. anxious C. ashamed D. generous?
5.A. some B. neither C. most D. none
6.A. delighted B. upset C. calm D. astonished?
7.A. on B. it C. that? D. up
8.A. learn B. miss C. find D. get
9.A. message B. advice C. request D. description?
10.A.loses B. uses C. has D. spends
11.A. doubt B. help C. answer D. trouble
12.A. see B. tell C. agree D. call
13.A. exact B. early C. suitable D. late
14.A. follow B. meet C. introduce D. bring
15.A. recognize B. gain C. admire D. test
16.A. happening B. turning C. meaning D. failing
17.A. read B. inserted C. answered D. placed
18.A. forget B. admit C. disagree D. show
19.A. that B. as C. so D. such
20.A. bargain B. sale C. result D. accident
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Home can be a great place for children to study. It’s important to provide a workspace of their own where they can read books or just write a letter to their friends.
●Location （位置）
2. Kitchen and dining room are not so well suited for regular study, since books and pens get in the way of the day-to-day uses of those areas. Set up a place where a child can settle in and leave papers and pens at hand without having to clear everything away each night. For a child that likes being alone, set aside a corner of his bedroom, but keep it separate from things like games, music and other hobbies not related to studying.
●Keeping Things in Order
Parents should encourage their child to spread out, but to leave it neat and orderly when he isn’t using his workspace. Ownership is very important for self-respect. 3. The workplace should be personal, but not another part of the playroom.
● 4.
Encourage the whole family to help build a supportive environment that children need for success in school. Give them a good example of how to deal with problems, how to manage time and get things done in the right way. 5. Study will be more enjoyable and effective when supported by the whole family.
A. Attitude Is Everything
B. Bring Organization into Your Home
C. Here are several ways to choose a location.
D. Building a Good Home Learning Environment.
E. Hold a can-do attitude and your child will follow your example.
F. Setting up a space in a common area of your home can be a good idea for children.
G. A child who learns to organize his space will carry organization into every corner of his life.
Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful effect on those who hear it. Recorded background music first found its way into factories, shops and restaurants in the USA. Very soon it spread to other parts of the world. Now it is becoming difficult to go shopping or eat a meal without listening to background music.
To begin with, background music was intended simply to create a soothing (舒适的) atmosphere. Recently, however, it's becoming a big business. An American marketing expert has shown that music can boost(提升) sales or increase factory production by as much as a third.
But it has to be the light music. Lively music has no effect at all on sales. Slow music can increase receipts(收入) by 34%. This is probably because shoppers slow down and have more opportunity to spot items they would like to buy. Yet, slow music isn't always the answer. The expert found that in restaurants slow music meant customers took longer to eat their meals, which reduced overall sales. So restaurant owners might be well advised to play faster music to keep the customers moving-unless, of course, the resulting indigestion(消化不良) leads to complaints.
1.Background music was first used ________.
A.in the cinemas and theatres in the USA
B.in the offices and hospitals in the USA
C.in the schools and churches in the USA
D.in the factories, shops and restaurants in the USA
2.An American marketing expert has found background music can __________.
A.increase sales or factory production
B.create a soothing atmosphere
C.make people slow down
D.make people forget their worries
3.Restaurant owners are advised to play ____ to increase overall sales.
A.lively music B.loud music
C.faster music D.slower music
People have been talking about health for a long time because people know the importance of it. People's understanding of health also becomes deeper with the progress in scientific research. Recently the term "health" has come to have a wider meaning than it used to. It no longer means just the absence of illness. Today, health means the well-being of your body, your mind and your relationship with other people. This new concept of health is closely related to another term-quality of life. Quality of life is the degree of overall satisfaction that a person gets from life.
Why has the emphasis of health shifted from the absence of disease to a broader focus on the quality of a person's life? One reason for this has to do with the length and conditions of life that people can now expect. Medical advances have made it possible for people today to live longer, healthier lives. Imagine for a moment that you were born in the year 1900. You could have expected on average to live until about the age of 47. In contrast, if you were born in the year 1999, you could expect to live to the age of 75.
1.________ leads to people's deeper understanding of health.
A.Common knowledge B.Better conditions of living
C.Progress in scientific research D.Quality of life
2.According to the passage, to people of today, health means ________.
A.absence of illness B.overall satisfaction with life
C.good conditions of living D.a long life
3.The emphasis of health has shifted nowadays because _________.
A.people enjoy better conditions of living and they can live longer
B.people pay more attention to their physical health, not their mental health
C.people have realized the importance of mental well-being
D.people are inspired by medical advances
4.This passage is mainly about __________.
A.different understandings of the term "health"
B.improving the quality of life
C.the importance of quality living
D.people's expectations of a long and healthy life
Jesse Owens was born in Alabama in the USA, in 1913. There were ten children in his family. Jesse was the youngest. He went to school in the city of Cleveland. At school he showed he had a special talent for athletics (田径). He could run fast. He could jump high. He could jump far. Because he was good at athletics, Jesse became a student at Ohio State University.
In May, 1935 in Michigan, USA, he broke the world record for the long jump. This was his first world record. On the 25th May Jesse did something unusual. In 45 minutes he broke six world records. Some people think that this was the greatest athletics achievement ever.
In 1936 Jesse went to the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. There were only nineteen black athletes in the USA team. He won gold medals in the 100 meters race, the 200 meters race, the long jump and the relay race.
Jesse was not a professional athlete. This meant that he could not get money for running. Later, he became a professional athlete. To make money he had to appear in strange races. Sometimes he had to race against horses.
In 1960 somebody broke Jesse's last world record. In 1980 Jesse died.
1.Jesse Owens was born in _____in the USA.
A. Alabama B. Cleveland C. Ohio D. Michigan
2.Jesse showed he was very good at ______ when he was at school.
A. basketball B. swimming C. athletics D. shooting
3.Jesse's first world record was for the ______.
A. running B. relay race C. high jump D. long jump
4.He won ______ gold medals in 1936 in the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
A. two B. four C. six D. eight
I was in a strange city I didn’t know at all, and what’s more, I could not speak a word of the language. On my second day I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got off and walked on. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough, then I decided to turn back to my hotel for lunch. After walking about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived, and even that I pronounced badly. I stopped to ask a newspaper-seller. He handed me a paper. I shook my head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him some money and went on my way. The next person.I asked was a policeman. He listened to me carefully, nodded and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left again. I nodded politely and began walking in the direction he pointed.
About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only thing left for me to do was find the nearest railway station.
1.The writer preferred to walk back to his hotel because.
A. he had no money to buy a ticket
B. he wanted to lose himself in the city
C. he tried to know the city in this way
D. it was late and there were no buses passing by
2. The newspaper-seller______.
A. didn’t know where the hotel was
B. didn’t understand what the writer said
C. could understand what the writer said
D. didn’t want to take the money from the writer
3. From the story we know that the policeman______.
A. was kind but didn’t understand the writer
B. told the writer where to take a train
C. knew what the writer really meant
D.was cold-hearted and didn’t help the writer
4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The writer got close to the hotel where he stayed.
B. The writer got to the hotel with the policeman’s help.
C. The writer found he was much farther away from the hotel.
D.The writer found the hotel in the direction the policeman pointed.
