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My friend Lily and I met each other when they were five years old. At that time, I moved into a new house next to hers because my father’s work. I felt so lonely when facing the new environment. Then someday, Lily played in her yard, but when she saw me, she smiled at me and asked me if or not I could play with her. I was shy at first, but then I was affecting by her kindness. We became good friend soon. As time goes by, our relationship becomes much close. When I met difficulties, she will help me without a hesitation. I think I am luckily to have her as my friend.
Tea house, a special place for the Chinese to have tea, is very popular in the Yangtze River area. It is mostly called tea house in provinces like Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, 1. it is called tea pavilion in Beijing and Tianjin of North China. Although these names vary, the forms and contents are basically 2. same.
To the Chinese people, tea house, similar to the cafes in western countries, are social places where various kinds of social information 3.(gather) and spread and where customers taste tea and talk about birds, news and 4.(day) things. In order to attract customers, stages 5.(be) built in some tea houses to play cross talk(相声), storytelling and Beijing opera, making these tea houses amusement places. The drama Tea House, 6.(write) by the famous Chinese writer Lao She, revealed 7.(vivid) the unstable society of the last phase of the Qing Dynasty through describing various kinds of people’s words and behaviors in a tea house.
The rise of tea house is closely related with Chinese tea culture. After several thousand 8.(year) of development, the tea house has become a part of life for the Chinese people. Now, people 9. come to Beijing will be attracted to those famous tea houses 10.(experience) Chinese tea culture.
My family and I never talked about school as the ticket to a future. I was in the classrooms, but I wasn’t there to learn to write, read or even ______. When it was my turn to read, I wanted to ______. I was 13 years old, ______ I already hated being who I was.
I had a(n) ______ teacher, Mr. Creech, who knew I couldn’t read. In one of my first lessons the teacher said that anyone who had a reading age ______ six had to stand up. I felt so ______. But at the same time, it made me realize that I needed to change the situation. I was determined it wouldn’t ______ again. Later that day, Mr. Creech encouraged me and promised he would try his best to help me learn to read. From then on, I ______ gave up practicing reading.
Now I was 41 years old. One day, I planned to ______ back to Texas to visit my friends and family. On my way from the airport, I saw Mr. Creech ______ himself a drink. I rushed over and reached into my ______ to pay for him. “Do I know you?” he asked. “Yes, sir, you do know me,” I answered ______. “My name is Anthony Hamilton. You taught me English.” The look on his face told me that he remembered the ______ he’d once encouraged.
“I’m so ______ I had a chance to see you,” I said. “And Mr. Creech, I have great ______ to share.” I told him I had learned to read. But that wasn’t all. I had become a published ______ and an active speaker. “The ______ time you get another Anthony Hamilton in your ______, please encourage him to read as well," I added.
The experts say what once ______ me has a name: dyslexia(诵读困难症). But I can tell you it was a lack of ______ for education.
1.A. dance B. paint C. speak D. act
2.A. jump B. hide C. sleep D. succeed
3.A. but B. or C. therefore D. still
4.A. Chinese B. history C. geography D. English
5.A. above B. at the end of C. below D. at the beginning of
6.A. embarrassed B. desperate C. unwise D. happy
7.A. pick up B. work C. come back D. happen
8.A. always B. ever C. never D. hardly
9.A. drive B. fly C. walk D. ride
10.A. buying B. making C. fetching D. sending
11.A. pocket B. car C. clothes D. arms
12.A. shyly B. proudly C. excitedly D. angrily
13.A. girl B. man C. woman D. boy
14.A. upset B. glad C. regretful D. grateful
15.A. news B. jobs C. chances D. ideas
16.A. author B. assistant C. teacher D. doctor
17.A. first B. last C. next D. every
18.A. company B. factory C. house D. classroom
19.A. hurt B. worried C. hit D. confused
20.A. excuse B. ability C. desire D. help
Restaurants have been around in some form for most of human civilization. As far back as ancient Greece and Rome, there was a trend that inns and taverns(客栈) generally served food to people who had a reason to be away from home. 1. Although taverns and coffee houses were popular places to gather and share beverages in the 17th century, the idea of eating out for fun didn’t take off in Western society until the late 18th century.
Although McDonald’s was the first restaurant to use the assembly-line system, some people think of White Castle as the first fast-food chain. 2. At the time, most people considered the burgers sold at fairs, circuses, lunch counters and carts to be low-quality. Many people thought hamburger came from slaughterhouse(屠宰场) scraps and spoiled meat.
3. They built their restaurants so that customers could see the food being prepared. They painted the buildings white and even chose a name that suggested cleanliness. White Castle was most popular in the American East and Midwest, but its success helped give hamburger meat a better reputation nationwide.
The McDonald brothers opened their redesigned restaurant in 1948, and several fast-food chains that exist today opened soon after. 4. And Wendy’s opened in 1969. McDonald’s is now the world’s largest fast-food chain.
According to the National Restaurant Association, American sales of fast food totaled $163.5 billion in 2005. 5. Total sales for McDonald’s grew 5.6 percent in 2005, and the company now has 30,000 franchised stores in more than 120 countries.
A. The industry is growing globally as well.
B. This trend continued until relatively recently.
C. White Castle was founded in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas.
D. Burger King and Taco Bell got their start in the 1950s.
E. It’s hard to imagine fast food without drive-through windows.
F. It allows restaurants to receive and store a large amount of food.
G. White Castle’s founders decided to change the public’s perception of hamburgers.
There has been a technological revolution where kindles, e-books, and various online reading apps have taken over the world. Is reading a print book out of date? Well, not exactly.
There are so many wonderful factors involved with reading a print copy of the book. I remember the excitement of going to the bookstore with my mom when I was in elementary school. The feel of sitting down in the book store and selecting the books I wanted to read was just so much fun! I think that reading paperback books has its own charm and excitement that cannot be replaced by an electronic book. Holding the physical copy of the book in my hands, and turning over each page makes the reading experience so much more real and memorable.
Admittedly, e-books seem to be more convenient than print books. Purchasing an e-book can take place in seconds and these books are often priced less expensively than print copy books. With e-books, there likely isn’t going to be a storage problem, unless the device has a limit on how many books can be purchased. Then again, in order to read e-books one must have a particular device-tablet, iPad, kindle or laptop to read it on. Thus, an additional payment has to be made in order to read e-books, whereas reading print copies does not involve any extra device.
Print books never actually stopped leading the charge, considering that e-book sales have never made up more than a third of all book sales. And although they rose to that number extremely quickly—Amazon, only introduced the kindle in 2007-the majority of all books sold has always been print. The reality is that there is absolutely no reason print and e-books can’t coexist in the book market, but print books may carry the day.
1.What advantage do e-books have according to the passage?
A. The reading experience is more real.
B. There is no storage problem at all.
C. Purchasing them takes less time.
D. They are very priceless.
2.What can we infer about the book market?
A. E-book sales make up more than 1/3 of all book sales.
B. E-book sales have never surpassed print book sales.
C. Amazon occupies most of the market.
D. Print books and e-books can’t coexist.
3.What’s the author’s attitude towards the future of print books?
A. Worried. B. Optimistic.
C. Indifferent. D. Doubtful.
It’s inevitable for us to meet and contact with strangers. Also talking to strangers matters but how does it work? There are unwritten rules we tend to follow. The rules are very different depending on what country we’re in and what culture we’re in.
In most parts of the US, the baseline expectation in public is that we maintain a balance between politeness and privacy. This is known as civil inattention(礼貌性疏忽). So, imagine two people are walking towards each other on the street. They’ll glance or wave at each other from a distance. That’s the civility. And then as they get closer, they’ll look away, to give each other some space.
In other cultures, people go to extraordinary lengths not to interact at all. People from Denmark are unwilling to talk to strangers, and they would rather miss their stop on the bus than say “excuse me” to someone that they need to get around. They move the backpacks on purpose or use their bodies to say that they need to get past, instead of using two words.
In Egypt, it’s rude to ignore a stranger, and there’s a remarkable culture of hospitality. Strangers might ask each other for a sip of water. Or, if you ask someone for directions, they’re very likely to invite you home for coffee. We see these unwritten rules most clearly when they’re broken, or when you’re in a new place and you’re trying to figure out what the right thing to do is.
When you talk to strangers, you’re making beautiful interruptions into the expected narrative of your daily life and theirs. You’re making unexpected connections. If you don’t talk to strangers, you’re missing out on all of that. We spend a lot of time teaching our children about strangers. What would happen if we spent more time teaching ourselves? We could make a space for change.
1.Which of the following can be regarded as civil inattention in most parts of the US?
A. Avoiding talking to strangers.
B. Glancing at each other anytime.
C. Greeting someone in the distance.
D. Inviting strangers home for coffee.
2.How does a Dane get past on the bus?
A. By saying “excuse me” politely.
B. By tapping others on the shoulders.
C. By forcing his way through people.
D. By making a gesture.
3.Why does the author advise making a space for change?
A. To let us create private space between strangers and us.
B. To let us show hospitality to strangers.
C. To let us make improvement on how to treat strangers.
D. To let us maintain a balance between politeness and privacy.
4.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. How to contact with strangers.
B. Different rules of treating strangers.
C. The meaning of civil inattention.
D. Making unexpected connections.
