Why are first ladies so important in the United States? They are unpaid and hav

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Why are first ladies so important in the United States? They are unpaid and have no official work? There are several reasons, but the most important reason is they are role models for other women in the United States.
Jacqueline Kennedy was the best first lady in the US. Although she wasn"t an actress, model or singer, she was a fashion and cultural icon(文化偶像) who charmed people wherever she went.
If you are looking for someone who is as charming as Jacqueline Kennedy, it will be hard to find anyone more suitable than Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping. If you were writing a novel and trying to describe the perfect mixture of personal history, capabilities, confident lady for a character, you"d come up with someone like Peng.
Born into a family in Shandong province, she joined the People"s Liberation Army(中国人民解放军) at the age of 18, doing pretty well in singing military(军旅) songs. But she is not only famous for her voice and great achievements, but also for her charity efforts. She has, among other things, worked as a member of World Health Organization to fight against AIDS, and has done much in 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
The media(媒体) reported Peng’s trip with her husband. This was Xi’s his first foreign trip as president. The trip shows that she can be a role model for Chinese women, especially young Chinese women at home and abroad.
In the past, China has not had a tradition of first ladies like in the US. Now that China has a higher position on the world stage, it can have its first lady! And Peng Liyuan is the perfect person with whom to begin.
小题1:Why are first ladies important in the US?

A．Because they are unpaid.

B．Because they have official work.

C．Because they are role models for other women in the US.

D．Because they are more important than other women in the US.

小题2:Why does the writer think Jacqueline Kennedy was the best first lady in the US?

A．Because she was an actress.

B．Because she was fashionable.

C．Because the writer likes to listening to her songs.

D．Because she attracted people wherever she went.

小题3:Which is NOT right according to the passage?

A．Peng Liyuan is as charming as Jacqueline Kennedy.

B．Peng Liyuan wrote military songs from the age of 18.

C．The writer thinks Peng Liyuan is the most suitable first lady.

D．Peng Liyuan is famous not only for her voice and great achievements, but also for her charity work.

小题4:Which may be the best title for the passage?

A．Jacqueline Kennedy	B．First ladies in the US.
C．First Ladies in China	D．Peng Liyuan, the perfect first lady to begin with.

答案

小题1:C
小题2:D
小题3:B
小题4:D

解析

试题分析：这篇短文讲的是中国和美国的第一夫人。她们是自己国家里女性最优秀的代表，她们是时尚和文化领域里的全民偶像。文章特别介绍了我们中国的第一夫人—***，她不光是一名优秀的军旅歌手，更为中国的慈善事业付出了很多的努力。
小题1:细节理解题。根据文章第一段but the most important reason is they are role models for other women in the United States.最重要的原因是他们是美国其他妇女们的榜样。故选C。
小题2:细节理解题。根据文章第二段Jacqueline Kennedy was the best first lady in the US. ...who charmed people wherever she went，Jacqueline Kennedy是美国最棒的第一夫人，她所到之处都会使那的人们为她着迷。故选D。
小题3:细节理解题。根据文章第四段she joined the People"s Liberation Army at the age of 18, doing pretty well in singing military songs.可知，***18岁参加了解放军，擅长演唱军旅歌曲，并不是B选项所说的写军旅歌曲，故选B。其他选项的内容都可以在该段找到。
小题4:主旨大意题。这篇短文主要讲的是第一夫人，提到了两位著名的第一夫人，重点应是中国的第一夫人***，故选D。

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Mary was an operator (接线员) 911 in Los Angeles. One Thursday morning, she was surprised to get a call from a young child who said, “Mom my ill, Mom my ill, ” again and again. Mary hurried to find the address of the call. She called the police, in a minute, the policemen and doctors arrived at the house. They broke the door open, they couldn’t believe their eyes. The little child was so young that maybe she could not walk！She was sitting beside her mother and holding her mother’s hand. Tears (眼泪) were running down her face. T he doctors gave the woman some medicine and soon she woke up. Late r she told people, “ Everyone was surprised that my daughter could call 911. One Monday I tried to teach her how to call 911, but she couldn’t do it.” Mary was surprised，too. “It’s the first time I’ve seen a two-year-old child call 911.”
小题1:What did Mary do every day？

A．Sheansweredthetelephonecalls.

B．Shetalkedwiththepolicemenandthedoctors.

C．Sheplayedwiththechildren.

D．Shedealtwithemergencies（紧急情况）.

小题2:How did she feel when she answered the little girl’s call？

A．Shewasworried.	B．Shewassorry．
C．Shewassurprised.	D．Shewashappy.

小题3:How did the police and the doctors get into the house？

A．Theywentinthroughthewindows.

B．Theybrokethedooropen.

C．Theydidn’tgoin.

D．Thewomenwasoutside. Theydidn’tneedtogoin.

小题4:How could the little girl learn to call 911？

A．Shelearntitbyherself.

B．Sheasked others to call 911.

C．HermothertaughtheroneMonday.

D．Hermotheroftentaughther.

小题5:How old was the little girl？

A．Onlytwo.

B．Shewasnine.

C．Shewasfive.

D．Shecouldn’twalk,soshemustbelessone.

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Today, not all people over 70 think they are old. People stay younger for longer. Here are three women who are over 70 and are still strong. What do they do, and how long have they done it?

79-year-old Omara from Cuba(古巴) is one of the most popular jazz singers in the world. She has been singing and dancing in clubs for 60 years. Her latest CD, Gracias, came out in 2009 and is enjoyed by people of different ages.

Dodo was born on September 1, 1919. She has been an outstanding American tennis player for more than 70 years, from a young girl into her 90s. Now she plays in the matches for people over 75 and has won over 320 medals.

American lady Carmen, who was born in 1931, has been a model since she was 13. Her job started when a photographer saw her on a bus and asked to take her photo. Today she still shows up on world-class fashion shows, shining brightly together with young girls who are in their 20s.

小题1:Omara, Dodo and Carmen are all_________.

A．from America	B．young and famous
C．old but still working	D．working with young girls

小题2:Omara has been singing and dancing in clubs for_________ years.

A．60

B．70

C．75

D．90

小题3:Dodo has won over 320 medals in_________.

A．singing contests	B．photo contests
C．dancing contests	D．tennis matches

小题4:Carmen became a_________ at the age of 13.

A．singer

B．model

C．tennis player

D．photographer

小题5:What does the reading above tell us?

A．These days young people are not as hard-working as the old.

B．Women in Western countries are not supposed to retire early.

C．Many people stay younger for longer because they keep on working.

D．The three ladies are still working because they want to make more money.

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Answer the questions.

My daughter, Tina, began to look for a job several months before she graduated from university. “Because of the financial crisis（金融危机）, it is more difficult to get into a company than to take the college entrance exam.” I told her, “You shouldn’t have too much hope or you would feel really disappointed.” Tina applied for a position in a company in the city center. The competition was fierce. The company was to employ only one among the twenty people. Tina said to me, “I am not afraid of disappointment. As long as I try, there will always be hope! ”
Everything seemed to go quite well and Tina passed the first round and entered the final in a week’s time.
On the day of the final interview, Tina and two other candidates （候选人）arrived on time, waiting for the test. To their great surprise, the interview was quite simple, and the intereviewer only chatted with them for a moment. The interviewer said to them, “All of you are super. Please go home and wait for our anwer. We will tell you the result in three days. Good luck to all of you!” On the third day, Tina received the message from the company telling her that she was not employed. She felf upset. In order to comfort her, I pretended to be relaxed and said, “It does not matter! I believe you will have more opportunities in the future!”
Late in the afternoon, Tina suddenly told me excitedly on the phone, “Dad, good news. I’ve mde it! ” I could not wait to ask her, “What’s the whole matter?” Tina told me that she received a second message saying that she was employed. She was so confused that she made a call to the company. In fact, the message Tina got in the morning was alse part of the test of the interview. The three candidates received the same message this morning and only Tina’s reply was satisfying to the company. “How did all of you reply?” I asked. “One did not reply. The other said ‘Goodbye’ and I said ‘Thank you’ .”
小题1:Has Tina graduated form universtiy? （此题1分）
小题2:In the writer’s opinion, which was more difficult, to get into a company or to take the college entrance exam?
小题3:How many people entered the final round of the competition?
小题4:Why did the writer pretend to be relaxed when he learned Tina was not employed?
小题5:What does the underlined sentence mean “I’ve made it!” mean in English?
It means “_______________________________”.
小题6:What can we learn from Tina? (Give at least two points.) （此题3分）

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One day, early in the morning on my way to work, I saw a little girl carrying a small Cambridge schoolbag. I could imagine that she must be proud of her schoolbag. The bag is designed for students, which can hold a lot of things, such as textbooks, pens and pencils, snacks and water! Students just carry it on their shoulders, and it is easy for them. I was really amazed by the wisdom of businessmen.
I remembered I had a green cloth bag, which was very rough, but strong. At that time I was short, so my mom made the bag rope shorter. After eating all the meals prepared by my mother, I said to her, “I will go to school now. Bye!” I ran to school with my classmates. At that time, this schoolbag was so light. When I jumped, it jumped. All things in this bag had a collision (碰撞.. They gave out cheerful sounds all the way along. At the time I was so happy.

As I grew older, the schoolbag became heavier and heavier. My green schoolbag could not be used any longer. The bag was worn down, the mouth was opened, and finally it came to an end. My mother bought me another bag, and it was very big. I liked the Mickey Mouse pattern. The bag had a few pockets and both sides of the bag could carry a bottle. It was convenient! I was happy to go out every day with the new bag. Five or six miles of the trip to school seemed as if it were a few steps away. That year I was 12 years old. Though my first schoolbag wasn’t made in the UK, and it was made by my mother herself, it was still a real Cambridge schoolbag in my mind.
小题1:________ caught the writer’s attention on his way to work.

A．A beautiful girl

B．A businessman

C．A Cambridge schoolbag

D．A student

小题2:The writer’s first schoolbag ________.

A．was a real Cambridge schoolbag	B．had many pockets
C．gave out cheerful sounds	D．was made by his mother

小题3:“They” in the 2nd paragraph here refers to “________”.

A．the writer’s classmates

B．all the things in the schoolbag

C．the meals prepared by Mom

D．the ropes of the schoolbag

小题4:The writer changed his green schoolbag because ________.

A．it was broken

B．the family got rich

C．he wanted a new pattern

D．it wasn’t made in the UK.

小题5:We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．wise businessmen make best schoolbags in the world

B．schoolbags brought the writer happiness when he was little

C．Cambridge schoolbags are very popular among the children

D．the writer’s mother was fond of making schoolbags

小题6:The best title of the passage is ________.

A．A clever mother

B．The history of schoolbags

C．My sweet childhood memory

D．Schoolbag and me

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Ms. LaRosa is a great teacher. She can answer almost any question that you have about any history topic and if she cannot, she will try her best to help you find the answer. Although she has a hearing aid(助听器., she does not let that prevent her from being a great teacher. She told the class about it on the first day and told us not to let it get in the way of our learning and not to treat her differently.
We all like her class, especially an activity which is called the station. Stations are when our tables of four or five become our groups and we go through four various activities, such as Ancient China, in which we need to put together a sentence and write it using ancient symbols. Each station needs about 40 minutes to complete.
Ms. LaRosa has a policy that not many teachers give a second thought to. That is writing in cursive (草书的.letters. She will provide you with various resources so that your cursive handwriting is the best that it can be. Ms. LaRosa always says that she has a reason for everything that she does. Recently we just understood her reason for supporting cursive handwriting. Cursive writing can force you to think in words but not in letters. Also it has been proven that people who write in cursive letters do better on tests.
Ms. LaRosa’s class gets to do various fun and exciting things. She also uses real examples from her own life, such as things that her daughter has done. Ms. LaRosa also has absolute trust in her students. She always leaves her purse on her desk.
Ms. LaRosa is a great person and a great teacher who is always there for you, and I feel like I can tell her anything.
小题1: Ms. LaRosa is a teacher with a good knowledge of history, isn’t she? （1 分.
__________, ___________________________________________________________.
小题2: What activity is especially liked by the students? （2分.
______________________________________________________________________.
小题3: How long do the students usually spend on each station? （2分.
_____________________________________________________________________.
小题4: Why does Ms. LaRosa support cursive handwriting? （2 分.
_____________________________________________________________________.
小题5: How does Ms. LaRosa usually teach her class? （2 分.
_____________________________________________________________________.
小题6:What do you think makes Ms. LaRosa a great teacher? （3分.
_____________________________________________________________________.

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