“Who does the cooking in your home?” I’m often asked by my colleagues. “My wife and I share it 50/50,” I usually say without hesitation.
It’s a lie, of course. We’re pretty much even（相等的）when it comes to the children and the elderly. But the paying of bills isn’t 50/50-my wife pays all sorts of household expenses, so I never even have to set eyes on them. And the cooking isn’t 50/50, either.
The truth is that I am the cook. On my recent 40th birthday, I received the following gifts from my children: a new pot, two mini bottles of truffle oil, a decorative salad-dressing pourer, and a juice-making machine. For a moment I longed for something more manly, a cricket bat, perhaps, and then had to admit that all these things would be useful for me.
It’s not that my wife can’t or doesn’t like to cook (she makes delicious Welsh cakes). Nor has it always been this way. In the early years of our marriage I’d be relaxing with a glass of wine while my wife prepared for dinner after work.
But at some point that changed and I became the cook. Ten years with my wife gave me the rewards-I can throw together a roast, and I can make much foreign food. But I have truly become a monster(怪物) in the kitchen, unable to keep myself away from cooking. “You have to add Dijon to the sauce; it brings out the taste of the cheese,” I volunteer, as my wife is cooking. “Quick, stir in the butter so the dish becomes delicious.”
Is it any wonder that my wife has given up coming into the kitchen while I find the whole process of chopping, mixing, and adding things deeply satisfying?
1.What do the writer and his wife probably share evenly at home?
a. Cooking in the kitchen.
b. Taking care of the children.
c. Paying household expenses.
d. Taking care of the elderly at home.
A. ab B. bc C. bd D. ac
2.The gifts that the writer received on his 40th birthday show that .
A. his children don’t know him at all
B. he is in charge of the cooking at home
C. he doesn’t get along well with his children
D. his children have made wrong choices
3.What do we know about the writer’s wife?
A. She can’t cook.
B. She doesn’t like cooking.
C. She used to cook for the family.
D. She only knows how to make Welsh cakes.
4.From Paragraph 5 we learn that the writer .
A. likes sticking his nose into other people’s business
B. doesn’t think his wife is good at cooking
C. studies very hard in order to cook well
D. enjoys cooking in the kitchen
下面四幅图片描述的是李明和爷爷从养鸟到放鸟的一段经历。请根据图片所提供的信息以第三人称用英语写一篇短文。
注意：
1. 短文必须包括所有图片的主要内容, 短文的内容要连贯、完整；
2. 词数：100左右。
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There’s an old man in our village calling Old Joe who said to be 110 years old. This can’t be proved though he doesn’t have a birth certificate. All his personal papers were destroy during the World War II. I don’t know if he really is so old, and it doesn’t matter. He certainly looks very old. Of course, he is often asked question by people who want to be told the secret of long life. Old Joe always answered them like this, “If you are offered a cigarette, never accept it; if you are annoyed by someone, never lose his temper; and if you are asked foolishly questions, never answer them.”
Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time or it__1._ (consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very _2._(health) thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us, _3.__ a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go_4.__ this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some__5.__(surprise) conclusion.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes growth. It also improves _6.__(concentrate), attention span, and the ability to get along with others. Industrialist Henry J.Kaiser believed that much of his success was due __7.__the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured_8._as an inventor.
For these notable achievers, it appears that their daydreams came__9.__. Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself…in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself__10._(vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn’t to start the bus soon because it was not yet . A middle-aged woman got on. Tired and sad, she told her story , not to anyone in particular. On her way to the station, half of her was stolen. The other half was hidden under her blouse, so she still had some left. A few minutes later, she stopped crying, but still looked .
When all the seats were taken, the driver started the engine. The conductor began to collect fares(车费). When she came to an old man in worn-out clothes, he that he had spent all his money when he had accidentally got on a wrong bus and now he was trying to go home. On hearing this, she ordered the old man to the bus. The old man was almost in tears as he her to let him take the bus home. The driver took the conductor’s side and repeated the conductor’s .
The woman was watching the incident. the driver and the conductor raised their voices at the old man, she interfered(干预).
“Stop him! Can’t you see he’s only trying to get home?”
“He doesn’t have any money! ” the driver .
“Well, that’s no to throw him off the bus,” she insisted.
Then she reached inside her blouse, look out her money, and handed it to the conductor. “Here’s his fare and mine. Just stop giving him a time.”
All heads turned to the woman. “It’s only money,” she shrugged.
She rode the rest of the way home a happy smile, with the money she’d lost earlier .
On the road of life, the help of strangers can our loads and lift our spirits. How much sweeter the will be when we make it a little smoother for others!
1.A. try B. care C. decide D. intend
2.A. empty B. full C. crowded D. ready
3.A. tearfully B. seriously C. carefully D. calmly
4.A. fare B. possession C. money D. wealth
5.A. strangely B. happily C. secretly D. fortunately
6.A. unsatisfied B. weak C. unhappy D. excited
7.A. explained B. declared C. admitted D. found
8.A. get off B. start C. get on D. stop
9.A. begged B. scolded C. praised D. thanked
10.A. request B. action C. suggestion D. command
11.A. Unless B. Although C. Until D. When
12.A. attacking B. bothering C. beating D. wronging
13.A. warned B. whispered C. shouted D. repeated
14.A. problem B. need C. matter D. reason
15.A. spending B. collected C. remaining D. borrowed
16.A. busy B. cold C. hard D. fearful
17.A. giving B. wearing C. taking D. forcing
18.A. forgotten B. used C. earned D. returned
19.A. move B. increase C. lighten D. carry
20.A. world B. journey C. smile D. friendship
Millions of people all over the world use the word OK. In fact, some people say the word is used more often than any other word in the world. OK means all right or acceptable. It expresses agreement or approval.
1. Some people say it came from the Native American Indian tribe known as the Choctaw(乔克托语). The Choctaw word “okeh” means the same as the American word okay. Experts say early explorers in the American West spoke the Choctaw language in the nineteenth century.
But many people doubt this. Language expert Allen Walker Read wrote about the word “OK” in reports published in the 1960s. He said the word began being used in the 1830s. 2. Some foreign-born people wrote “all correct” as “o-l-l-k-o-r-r-e-c-t”, and used the letters OK. Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago. They said he put the first letters of his name--O and K--on each object people gave him to send on the train.
3. The organization supported Martin Van Buren for president in 1840. They called their group the OK club. The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin was born--Old Kinderhook, New York.
Then there is the expression A-OK. It is a space-age expression. It was used in 1961 during the flight of astronaut Alan Shepard. He was the first American to be launched into space. His flight ended when his spacecraft landed in the ocean, as planned. Shepard reported, “Everything is A-OK.” 4. One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.
There are also funny ways to say okay. 5. These expressions were first used in the 1930s. Today, a character on the American television series “The Simpsons” says it another way. He says okely-doke.
A. Some people say okey-dokey or okey-doke.
B. Still others say a political organization invented the word.
C. Therefore, it has become popular in that area from then on.
D. But many experts don’t agree on what the expression means.
E. Still, language experts do not agree about where the word came from.
F. It was a short way of writing a different spelling of the word “all correct”.
G. However, some experts say the expression did not begin with the space age.
