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There is one word that is on the lips of Americans, day and night, “Sorry”.
Once as I was walking on the street, a young man ran by ________, brushing against my handbag. ________ he continued on his way, he ________ back and said “sorry” to me. Even in a rush, he didn’t forget to apologize.
One day, after I bought some apples, the salesman was giving me the change, ________ I wasn’t ready for it, and ________ dropped on the ground, “I’m sorry,” he said while bending down to pick it up. I was ________—why would he apologize when it was my ________?
Another time, I ________ on a man’s foot in an escalator (电梯）. At the same time , we both said “sorry”. I thought it ________ at first: was it really ________ for him apologize?
Later on, an American friend ________ to me that according to the American ________, the escalator is a(n) ________ place which everyone should be able to stand in. After someone occupies(占据）a position in the escalator, making it ________ for someone else to find a place to stand in, isn’t it necessary to ________ an apology?
During my stay in America, I gradually ________ that when friction (摩擦) occurs in daily life, Americans don’t care much about who is ________. If someone is ________, a “sorry” is always necessary. Even if the other person is hurt, the “sorry” would ________ tempers（脾气）. Perhaps this is ________ I never saw anyone quarreling on the buses, subways or streets in America.
1.A. excitedlyB. hurriedlyC. happilyD. fast
2.A. ThoughB. AfterC. Even asD. Even if
3.A. stoppedB. heldC. watchedD. turned
4.A. orB. andC. butD. so
5.A. a coinB. the applesC. The walletD. a bill
6.A. impressedB. movedC. annoyedD. puzzled
7.A. problemB. matterC. faultD. business
8.A. movedB. steppedC. walkedD. knocked
9.A. interestingB. acceptableC. excitingD. reasonable
10.A. politeB. importantC. surprisingD. necessary
11.A. announcedB. explainedC. suggestedD. admitted
12.A. ideasB. rulesC. opinionsD. senses
13.A. openB. commonC. publicD. free
14.A. unfitB. impossibleC. narrowD. difficult
15.A. expressB. speakC. sayD. tell
16.A. realizedB. rememberedC. recognizedD. meant
17.A. mistakenB. responsibleC. carelessD. correct
18.A. nervousB. sickC. worriedD. troubled
19.A. reduceB. coolC. loseD. change
20.A. thatB. whenC. whyD. how
Most countries have their own breakfast traditions. For example, a breakfast containing bread, eggs, and coffee, is common in the United States. However, people in Japan usually have white rice and vegetable soup for breakfast. 1. In fact, in some Asian countries, breakfast does not usually mean foods that are different from other meals.
European countries have their own breakfast traditions too! In Italy, people usually just eat bread and coffee. 2. And an “English breakfast” means eggs, salted meat, vegetables or fruit, and bread. It is a very large meal.
In Africa, breakfast is very different across the continent. 3. In Nigeria, for example, many different tribes eat different foods for breakfast. One common thing is ground beans. In parts of Nigeria, people make a round cake from beans and cook it in oil. In other parts of Nigeria, people drink coffee. They also eat bread with butter or chocolate on it, along with fresh fruit.
4. People in Costa Rica, Central America have a meal called gallon pinto for breakfast. Gallo Pinto is Spanish for “spotted rooster,” but the breakfast food is not a rooster or a chicken! Gallo Pinto is just rice and beans. It also uses a special sweet and spicy(辛辣的) liquid called Lozano Sauce, which is a special part of the Costa Rican breakfast. People eat different versions of this same food in other Central American countries. 5. But all of them find ways to eat the things that will be healthy for them.
A. But these meals can be different.
B. In other parts of Africa, people drink coffee.
C. This is very similar to other meals in the day.
D. In the Americas, the breakfast meal is different too.
E. Each country across the world has a different breakfast.
F. In Germany, people eat different cold meats and special bread rolls.
G. What people have for breakfast differs a lot even within the same country.
“A rolling stone gathers no moss (苔藓),” but there is one living animal that does gather moss — the three-toed sloth（树懒） of South America. This slowest-moving member of the animal kingdom is so inactive that moss actually gathers on its body and turns it green — strange as it seems!
Most of the sloth’s life is spent motionless, hanging upside down from a limb（大树枝）. And that is the way its hair grows. Long and coarse, the strands from receptacles for the damp jungle algae（藻类）turn the brown fur a mossy green. Actually this moss helps the animal survive because it serves as a perfect camouflage against the leafy trees and hides the sloth from the jungle’s swift-moving hunters. The sloth would have little chance of survival on the ground. With long, curved claws hooded over the limb of a leafy tree, it spends the long hot hours during the day drowsing and eating. Inch by inch, it strips the leafy limbs bare and crawls slowly down the trunk to find a new dining spot, but only at night.
In addition to looking rather like a vegetable, the sloth is a strict vegetarian. Running out of its favorite leaf is about the only thing that will make a sloth move. Then its appetite（食欲）may even force the animal into swimming a stream to reach a succulent（肉质植物）. It will also force it into fighting to keep the tree all to itself. The sloth is lazy and prefers to be alone, but it will tolerate its own relatives!
1.A suitable title for this passage might be ________.
A. Wild AnimalsB. Animal Kingdom
C. Moss GrowthD. The Lazy Animal
2.The author’s purpose in writing the passage is ________.
A. to help children to gain a better understanding of animal life
B. to prove that the saying “a rolling stone gathers no moss” is wrong
C. to introduce a particular animal to the common reader
D. to discuss with professionals the laziness of some animals
3.Which of the following is NOT true about the sloth?
A. The sloth does not eat any meat.
B. For most of its time, the sloth remains motionless on the ground.
C. To some degree, the sloth is protected by the moss growing on its body.
D. The sloth has a brown fur of its own.
4.According to the passage, the sloth will move about when ________.
A. it senses a coming danger
B. it is forced to swim in a hot day
C. it is short of its favorite food
D. it wants to keep the vegetable to itself
5.Which of the following is NOT mentioned or implied by the author?
A. The sloth has only three toes.
B. The sloth lives in the damp jungle of South America.
C. The sloth usually tries to find a new spot for food at night.
D. The sloth will never fight with other animals.
During the summer holidays there will be a revised schedule(时刻表) of services for the students. Changes for dining-room and library service hours and for bus schedules will be posted on the wall outside of the dining-hall. Weekly film and concert schedules, which are being arranged will be posted each Wednesday outside of the student club.
In the summer holidays, buses going to the town center will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour during the day. The dining-room will serve three meals a day from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm during the week and two meals from noon to 7:00 pm on weekends. The library will continue its usual hours during the week, but have shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend hours are from noon to 5:00 pm.
All students who want to use the library borrowing services must have a new summer card. This announcement will also appear in the next week’s student newspaper.
1.The main purpose of this announcement is to ________.
A. tell students of important schedule changes
B. tell students of new bus and library services
C. show the excellent services for students
D. ask students to renew their library cards
2.At which of the following times will the bus leave the main hall?
A. 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00
B. 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30
C. 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00
D. 8:00, 9:30, 11:00, 12:30
3.Times for films and concerts are not listed in this announcement because ________.
A. they are not to be announced
B. they are hard to arrange
C. the full list is not ready
D. the full list is too long
4.In the summer holidays, the library will have ________.
A. no special hours
B. special hours on weekdays
C. special hours on weekend
D. special hours both on weekdays and weekends
5.We may infer that during the summer holidays ________.
A. the student newspaper will sell more copies
B. there will be a concert or film once a week
C. many students will stay in the university
D. no breakfast will be served on weekends
Londoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books — especially paperbacks（平装本）, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound（装订）between hard covers.
There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock（贮存）, or will obtain, any kind of book, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the myriad（无数的）subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!
Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charring Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture（敢于去） off the beaten track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so impressive as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and pour out their sacks of books onto small barrows（流动集售货车） which line the gutters（贫民窟）. And the collectors, some professionals and some amateurs（业余爱好者）, have been waiting for them. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
1.“Londoners are great readers” means that ________.
A. Londoners are great because they read a lot
B. There are a great number of readers in London
C. Londoners are readers who read only great books
D. Londoners read a lot
2.Charring Cross Road ________.
A. is in the suburbs of London
B. is famous for its bookshops
C. contains various kinds of shops
D. is the busiest street in London
3.If you want to buy really cheap second-hand books, you must ________.
A. venture in a most busy street
B. venture away from a busy street
C. take the risk of going to the beaten track
D. take the risk of wasting time to hunt them in less noticeable streets
4.The book sellers on Farringdon Road ________.
A. keep fine bookshops
B. keep only small bookshops
C. sell books on hand-carts
D. sell the same books as the bookshops on Charring Cross Road
5.The best topic for this passage is “________”.
A. Bookshops in London
B. The biggest bookshop in the world
C. Charring Cross Road
D. Buying books in London
假设你叫李鸣，得知郑州国际会展中心(ZZICEC)正在招募志愿者的消息，你想在2016年寒假当志愿者，现在你需要根据志愿者的报名条件写一封英文申请信。
志愿者报名条件：
1． 年龄大于15岁，身体健康； 2． 英语口语好，乐于助人； 3． 能参加培训，寒假期间能连续服务两周以上。
注意：词数100左右，信的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am a senior one student, applying to be a volunteer for ZZICEC in the winter of 2016.
___________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Li Ming
