Mr. Gray travelled a lot on business: He sold machines of different kinds to farmers.
He had a big car, and usually ________ driving it long distances, but he was quite satisfied to go by ______ sometimes too, especially when the ______ was bad. He was a little afraid of driving in rain or snow, and it was ______ tiring to sit comfortably in a train and to look out of the window without being worried about how ______was going to get to the next place.
One of Mr. Gray’s problems was often ______ to stay when he reached some small place in the country. He did not ______ great comfort and wonderful food, but he found it annoying (使恼火) when he was given a cold room, and there was no hot water or food after a long and ______ day.
Late _____ winter evening, Mr. Gray arrived at a small railway station. The _____ by train that day had not been at all interesting, and Mr. Gray was cold and tired and _____ . He was looking forward to a simple ______ satisfying meal by a brightly burning fire，and then a hot bath and comfortable bed. ________ he was walking to the taxi rank, he said to a local man who was also ______ there. “As this is my first visit to this ______of the country and I was in too much of a hurry to _____ about hotels before l left home, I would very much like to know ______ you have here.”
The local man answered, “We have _______ .”
“And which would you ______ me to go to?”Mr. Gray asked him.
The local man thought for a while and then answered, “Well, it’s like this: Whichever one you go to, you’ll be______ you didn’t go to the other.”
1.A. considered B. practised C. imagined D. enjoyed
2.A. train B. car C. himself D. plane
3.A. business B. condition C. road D. weather
4.A. least B. most C. less D. more
5.A. if B. one C. that D. she
6.A. where B. how C. what D. when
7.A. know B. need C. expect D. like
8.A. comfortable B. tiring C. nice D. special
9.A. that B. one C. the D. a
10.A. journey B. experience C. travel D. distance
11.A. unhappy B. sleepy C. angry D. hungry
12.A. but B. and C. or D. however
13.A. Until B. After C. Before D. While
14.A. walking B. looking on C. waiting D. visiting
15.A. town B. station C. land D. part
16.A. talk B. think C. move D. find out
17.A. what B. which one C. how many D. how
18.A. three B. one C. none D. two
19.A. want B. allow C. advise D. expect
20.A. sorry B. satisfied C. amused D. comfortable
Tips for Cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience，there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often：ability，money，and time．1. Money is a topic I'll discuss another day．So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen．Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule：
1．Think ahead．The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I'm already hungry and there's nothing ready to eat．So think ahead of the coming week．When will you have time to cook？Do you have the right materials already？2.
2．Make your time worth it．When you do find time to cook a meal，make the most of it and save yourself time later on．Are you making one loaf of bread？3. It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something．So save yourself the effort for a future meal．
3．4. This may surprise you，but one of the best tools for making cooking is to try new things．It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule．The more you learn and the more you try，the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule．
Hopefully that gives you a good start．5. And don't let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!
A．Try new things．
B．Ability is easily improved．
C．Make three or four instead．
D．Understand your food better．
E．Cooking is a burden for many people．
F．Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden．
G．A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on．
In the world, football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years.
To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup ,children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called “Dream(梦幻) World Cups ”in Japan .The children drew animals, flowers and people playing football under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags(旗帜)of all the countries that will take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama .Some football teams will have games there.
Are you a football fan(迷)？The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football. Teenagers(青少年)like playing and watching football .Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favorite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.
1.From the passage, in the picture children drew many things except_________.
A. people playing football B. pictures of some football stars
C. a sunny sky D. flowers
2.In “Dream World Cup”, the children drew the flags of some countries______.
A. to show their love for their owe country
B. to tell the people their stories
C. to show their good wishes for the football teams
D. to show their new ideas about football
3.Many teenagers owe the pictures of some football stars because______.
A. they are interested in football B. they are football fans
C. they think their favorite players are great D. all of A, B and C
I was born in England, but I am an American. Americans like to travel on their yearly holiday. Today, more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small houses or inns (客栈) instead of hotels. They get a room for the night and the breakfast the next morning.
Rooms for the night in private homes with breakfast have been popular with travelers in Europe for many years. In the past five to ten years, these bedandbreakfast places have become popular in the United States. Many of these America’s bedandbreakfast inns are old historic buildings. Some bedandbreakfast inns have only a few rooms; others are much larger. Some inns do not provide telephones or televisions in the rooms; others do.
Staying at a bedandbreakfast inn is much different from staying at a hotel. Usually the cost is much less. Staying at an inn is almost like visiting someone’s home. The owners are glad to tell about the areas and the interesting places to visit. Many vacationers say they enjoy the chance to meet local families.
1.Americans take a holiday trip ________.
A. every year B. for years
C. all the year round D. every other year
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Some Americans like to stay at bedandbreakfast homes instead of hotels.
B. The bedandbreakfast inns are private homes opened to vacationers.
C. The bedandbreakfast inn owners provide a morning meal for their visitors and a room for the night.
D. The bedandbreakfast inns have been popular in America for a very long time.
3.Why do American travelers prefer staying at bedandbreakfast inns?
A. It is like visiting someone’s home.
B. The money they spend there is much less.
C. They can meet local families.
D. All of the above.
4.What’s the author’s nationality?
A. England B. American
C. European D. Chinese
One day a few years ago, a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London's big medical schools. He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.
He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag , and he had put Rupert , the skeleton (人体骨架）to be used in his lecture , in a large brown suitcase. At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.
When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.
1.Who wrote the story?
A. Rupert's teacher. B. The teacher's neighbour.
C. A medical school teacher. D. The neighbour's teacher.
2.Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?
A. He needed it for the summer term in London.
B. He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.
C. He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.
D. He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.
3.What happened at the airport?
A. The teacher forgot his suitcase. B. The skeleton was stolen.
C. The skeleton went missing. D. The teacher took the wrong suitcase.
4.Which of the following best tells the teacher's feeling about the incident?
A. He was angry. B. He thinks it very funny.
C. He feels helpless without Rupert. D. He feels good without Rupert.
If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening. For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.
1.According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?
A. Reading and listening. B. Reading and writing.
C. Writing and speaking. D. Speaking and listening.
2.To improve your reading, when you read you should ______.
A. look up all the new words in the dictionary
B. think about what you are reading actively
C. spend more time studying grammars
D. copy as many words and sentences as possible
3.The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.
A. meet B. discover
C. hear D. look for
4.The author seems to agree with the view that ________ .
A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day
B. you needn’t practice listening if you keep on reading every day
C. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening
D. you should take notes of whatever you hear
