Shopping for clothes is not the same experience for a man as it is for a woman. A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in advance. He knows what he wants, and his objective is to find it and buy it; the price is a secondary consideration. All men simply walk into a shop and ask the assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock, the salesman promptly produces it, and the business of trying it on goes forward at once. All being well, the deal can be and often is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat and to everyone's satisfaction. For a man, slight problems may begin when the shop does not have what he wants, or does not have exactly what he wants. In that case the salesman, as the name implies, tries to sell the customer something else, he offers the nearest he can to the article required. No good salesman brings out such a substitute without least consideration; he does so with skill and polish（完美）: “I know this jacket is not the style you want, sir, but would you like to try it for size. It happens to be the color you mentioned." Few men have patience with this treatment, and the usual response is: “This is the right color and may be the right size but I should be wasting my time and yours by trying it on.
Now how does a woman go about buying clothes? In almost every respect she does so in the opposite way. Her shopping is not often based on need. She has never fully made up her mind what she wants, and she is only “having a look round". She is always open to persuasion: indeed she sets great store by what the saleswoman tells her, even by what companions tell her. She will try on any number of things. Uppermost in her mind is the thought of finding something that everyone thinks suits her. Contrary to a lot of jokes, most women have an excellent sense of value when they buy clothes. They are always on the lookout for the unexpected bargain. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another, to and fro often retracing her steps, before selecting the dresses she wants to try on. It is a tiresome process, but apparently an enjoyable one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting husbands.
1.According to the passage, a man’s shopping is based on _______.
A．his money | B．his hobbies | C．his need | D．his friends |
2.Why does a lady welcome suggestions from anyone while buying a dress?
A．Because she wants to buy a dress that everyone thinks suits her. |
B．Because she doesn’t know how to buy a dress. |
C．Because she doesn’t know whether to buy it or not. |
D．Because she wants to show herself off in public. |
3.Which of the following statements is TURE according to the passage?
A．Most men have patience with trying it on while buying a jacket. |
B．Most women have a poor sense of value when buying a dress. |
C．A woman’s shopping is based on her need. |
D．Price is not the first thing to consider when a man buys clothes. |
4.The passage mainly talks about the ______ between men shoppers and women shoppers for clothes.
A．similarities | B．differences | C．varieties | D．intentions |
Good readers know that reading isn’t just about knowing words — it’s a way of thinking. Smart readers think before, during and after reading. Here are some tips that may be of some help.
Think before you read. Before you read the text, ask yourself the questions why you are reading it and what you want to get from it. Answering the questions will help you choose what words you need to know and what words you can skip or scan.
Think while you are reading. Can you get the meaning of the text without looking up new words in a dictionary? Are there any clues in the text? A text will often give examples that may help you understand what some of the words mean. Let’s take the following sentence for example: Many large Russian cities, such as Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, have taken steps to protect their culture. The words “Chelyabinsk” and “Irkutsk” may be new to us, but the sentence tells us that they are examples of ______.
Think after you read. Do you understand the text? What is the main idea of the text? Can you guess the meaning of the new words? Which words do you need to look up? Is the text too easy or too hard for you?
If you practice reading and thinking in this way you will become a smarter reader and you will learn faster and better.
1.This passage is probably taken from _______.
A. a newspaper for general readers
B. a magazine for language teachers
C. a book for language learners
D. an advertisement for a new book
2.Which of the following can best be put in the blank in the passage?
A. countries B. mountains
C. rivers D. cities
3.The author of the passage advises us to do all the following EXCEPT_______.
A. we should think before, while and after we read a passage
B. we’d better look up every new word in a dictionary
C. we should learn to guess the meanings of new words
D. the clues in a passage should be made use of
When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper (护士助手) at a local hospital in my town. I volunteered about 30 to 40 hours a week during the summer. Most of the time I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never has any visitors, and nobody seemed to care about his condition. I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, even though he responded with only an occasional squeeze (紧握) of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).
I left for a week for a vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone. I didn’t have the courage to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might tell me he had died. So with many questions unanswered, I continued to volunteer there through my eighth-grade year.
Several years later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I realized who it was, my eyes were filled with tears. He was alive! I got up the nerve to ask him if he was Mr. Gillespie, and if he had been in a coma about five years ago. With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking to him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received. He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose (昏睡的), he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. He thought it was an angel, who was there with him. Mr. Gillespie firmly believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive. Then he told me about his life. We exchanged a hug, said our good-byes and went our separate ways.
Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death. As importantly, he has made a great difference in my life. I will never forget him and what he did for me: He made me an angel.
1.When the author volunteered at a local hospital, she .
A. mainly helped the nurses with their paper work
B. made up her mind to become a nurse herself one day
C. spent most of her time taking care of a man in a coma
D. became friends with Mr. Gillespie’s visitors
2.The author didn’t ask where Mr. Gillespie had gone because .
A. she knew for sure that he had recovered
B. she forgot all about him when she returned to the hospital
C. she had been concerned that he might stay in coma forever
D. she feared that he might have died
3.Judging from the article, which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. The author continued her volunteer work in the hospital until eighth-grade.
B. The author met Mr. Gillespie at a gas station several years later.
C. Mr. Gillespie recognized the author’s voice the moment he met her.
D. No one in the hospital believed that Mr. Gillespie would recover from his coma.
4. Which of the following statements best summarizes the point of the story?
A. Those with faith in themselves will succeed.
B. If you spread happiness you will be happy yourself.
C. Respect people and they will try hard to improve.
D. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
假如你是一名英语老师，发现个别学生对英语学习失去了信心。请你写一篇英语短文来开导他们。
写作要点：1．学英语的重要性。2．提高英语成绩的措施(至少3点)。
要求：1．短文词数不少于100。
2．内容充实，结构完整，语意连贯。
3．书写须清晰、工整。
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句最多有两处，每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均限一词。
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Friendship is very importance. Everyone needs friendship. In all our lives we can’t live without friendship just as we can’t live without air and water. Friendship makes us getting on well with one another to go ahead under different kind of difficulties in the front of us. But real friendship is not easy to come by. True friendship must be sincerely and be based on understand each other but not on benefits of each other. A good friend can always be a good teacher to us. By his advices we are persuading to go the right way. Therefore more friends we have, the better we can improve ourselves.
阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容 或括号内单词的正确形式。
Alice :What do you think of the people in our class ?I think most of them are kind .
Johnson : I think1.,too. But I don’t like Mark. He is so self-important. I dislike this kind of people.
Alice :Mike is fascinating . I’m fond 2.people who have something intelligent to say.
Johnson : Carol is fun to be with . I really look forward to3.(hear ) her jokes. What do you think of Tom ?
Alice : He is all right. But I don’t like him. .What do you think of him ?
Johnson : I think he is OK. He is very quiet, so4.is hard to know what kind of person he really is.
Alice :I like John 5.she is a very interesting girl and crazy about boy bands.
Johnson : Really ? I’m mad on them too. I should get to know her better.Are you6. (interest ) in music ?
Alice :I think that dance music is excellent. I love going to a disco and dancing to the music. I enjoy7.( meet ) new people there .
Johnson : My parents hate dance music . If I play it at home , they always complain. Are your parents8.same?
Alice : My mom9. (hate ) it , but my dad thinks it’s OK.He doesn’t mind as
10. as I don’t play the music too loud .
