Mr and Mrs Brown had always spent their summer holidays in New Jersey(新泽西)i
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Mr and Mrs Brown had always spent their summer holidays in New Jersey(新泽西)in the past, staying in a small inn(旅店)at the foot of a hill.
One year, however, Mr Brown made a lot of money in his business, so they decided to go to London
and stay at a really good hotel while they went touring around that famous city.
They flew to London and arrived at their hotel late one evening. They had expected that they would
have to go to bed hungry, because in that small inn in New Jersey, no meals were served after seven. They were surprised when the waiter asked whether they would take dinner there that night. “Are you still
serving dinner?” asked Mr Brown. “Yes, certainly sir,” answered the waiter. “We serve it until half past
nine.”
"What are the times of meals then?” asked Mr Brown. “Well, sir,” answered the waiter, “we serve breakfast from seven to half past eleven in the morning, lunch from twelve to three in the afternoon, tea from four to five, and dinner from six to half past nine.”
"But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the sights of London.” said Mr Brown. |
| 1. Where had Mr and Mrs Brown always spent their summer holidays? |
A. In New Jersey.
B. In Washington.
C. In New York.
D. In London. |
| 2. Where did Mr and Mrs Brown decide to go when they had a lot of money? |
A. To New Jersey.
B. To a small city in England
C. To their hometown.
D. To the capital of England. |
| 3. How did they go to London? |
A. By bus
B. Be sea
C. By air
D. By train |
| 4. In the passage the sentence “But that hardly leaves any time for us to see the sights of London” means _________ |
A. We can go to see the sights of London at any time.
B. We have little time to see the sights of London.
C. We have enough time to see the sights of London.
D. We can see more sights of London. |
| 5. From the passage we know that this was the ________ time for Mr and Mrs Brown to go to Londn. |
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth |
答案
| 1-5 ADCBA |
举一反三
One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking
about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and
saying, "You don"t say! You don"t say!" I was puzzled (困惑的), and I thought, "Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about." So I said to him, "Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been
there?"
"Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is
"wonderful!" "Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit
it." As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, "You don"t say!"
I couldn"t help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?"
"Well, I didn"t ask you to do so," he answered, greatly surprised.
"Didn"t you say "You don"t say!" ?" I asked again.
Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, " "You don"t say!" means "Really?" .
Perhaps you know little about English idioms (惯用语).
"Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms. |
| 1. The writer was puzzled because ________. |
A. the foreigner knew the Great Wall so well
B. the foreigner had some trouble in understanding him
C. the writer himself didn"t understand the meaning of "You don" t say!"
D. the foreigner was not polite |
| 2. What made the foreigner laugh? |
A. The wonder of the world.
B. The English idiom.
C. The writer"s talking about the Great Wall.
D. The writer"s question. |
| 3. When the foreigner used the idiom "You don"t say!", he meant________. |
A. "Shut up!"
B. "Really?"
C. "Stop talking!"
D. "Look out!" |
| 4. The story probably (可能) happened in_________. |
A. China
B. America
C. England
D. Australia |
| 阅读理解 |
There is a bar（酒吧）in our town with the name “The White Horse”. It is Mr. Webster"s. Few people went to the bar last year, but things are quite different now.
There was a picture of a white horse on the door of the bar. Then a stranger came in one day, drank something, looked around the bar, and then said to Mr. Webster, “Few people come here. Take down the picture of the white horse and put a picture of a black horse instead.”
“But the name of the bar is ‘The White Horse’,”Mr. Webster said.
“Yes, but do it.”the man said. Then he went out of the bar.
Mr. Webster went to an artist and said, “I want a picture of a black horse.”
The next day a picture of a black horse was on the door of the bar instead of that of the white horse. Soon after the door opened, a man came in and said, “There"s a mistake on the door of your bar, and the picture is different from the name.”The man looked, sat down and drank something.
Then another man came in and said the same, and then another and another. A lot of people came in and said, “The picture on your door is wrong,”and they all stopped and drank in Mr. Webster"s bar. |
| 1．The stranger told Mr. Webster to take down the picture of the white horse because he knew________. |
A. a picture of a black horse showed good luck
B. the picture of the white horse wasn"t good for the bar
C. people would understand the picture different from the name
D. people would come in and tell the picture was different from the name |
| 2．Mr. Webster agreed with the stranger ________. |
A. though he wasn"t ready to do it like that at first
B. though he didn"t like the black horse
C. because he knew he was an artist
D. because he also wanted to change the picture |
| 3．More and more people came to the bar because ________. |
A. it had changed its name
B. the black horse was better than the white one
C. the bar had a black horse
D. they wanted to show the mistake |
| 4．The stranger ________. |
A. was cleverer than Mr. Webster
B. didn"t like the white horse at the beginning
C. knew Mr . Webster and the artist
D. got much money by teaching Mr. Webster |
| 5．From the story we have learnt that ________. |
A. if your business is not good, you"d better change the name or the picture
B. if you are in trouble, you should take others"ideas
C. when you have difficulty, don"t give up
D. when a good name is given, it can cause success |
A four-year-old girl is lying in the arms of a doctor. She has just lost her mother. Her pink clothes
are full of blood and her eyes look at something only she can see.
Every day we see pictures like this on our televisions. We see Iraqi(伊拉克的)children begging
for food and water from American and British soldiers as they move through towns and cities towards
the capital, Baghdad (巴格达). We see these children following parents, carrying bags of almost the
same size as their small bodies as they escape from their homes in Baghdad.
They show just some of the young lives that have been turned upside down by ongoing war and
the terrible price paid by Iraqi children.
“Dad, why are the Americans fighting against us? Are we going to be killed?”asks the son of Abu
Singar, an Iraqi engineer. Abu finds it hard to explain this war to his eight-year-old son.
He tries to make him feel safe by saying, “The bombs(炸弹)are far away from us. The Americans
are fighting the soldiers. We"re going to be all right.” Even though Abu knows it isn"t always true, little
else can be done. In Baghdad, parents give their children sleeping pills to try and let them escape from
the sound of bombs. And all the schools are closed.
Now things are worse, and the ongoing war makes it impossible to count the number who are
hungry, sick, hurt or even dead. |
| 1. What happens to the children in Iraq because of the war? |
A. The children will get better than before.
B. The children beg for food and water from American and British soldiers.
C. The children in Iraq go away from their homes in Baghdad.
D. The children live a most terrible life. |
| 2. What does the word“ongoing” mean in Chinese? ________. |
A. 正在进行的
B. 非正义的
C. 未授权的
D. 影响恶劣的 |
| 3. The father doesn"t tell the true thing to his child because ________. |
A. he wants to make his child not feel dangerous
B. he and his child are afraid to lose each other in the war
C. he doesn"t want his child to believe American soldiers
D. he will lose his country and his home |
| 4. The war in Iraq tells us that ________. |
A. the Iraqi people in the war are much hungrier and worse
B. we should help the Iraqi people build their country again
C. nothing can be done except fighting
D. both A and B |
| 5. What would be the best title(标题)for the report? |
A. Iraqi Children during the War
B. Sickness, Death in Iraq
C. America and England Fight against Iraq
D. A Girl in the War in Iraq |
| 完形填空. |
One day, the wind starts an argument (争论) with the sun. "I"m much __1__ than you are!" says the
wind. "No."answers the sun, "I"m much stronger than you are!"
While they are arguing they see a man walking down the road. He is wearing a heavy __2__. The
sun says to the wind "Now let __3__see which of us can make the man take off his coat, then we will
know __4__ is stronger. "
First the __5__ tries. It begins to blow very hard. It blows so hard that the man pulls his coat round
him. The wind is _ 6 _ with the man. Then the wind says to the sun, "Now it"s your__7__. Let me see
if you can make him take off his coat " The sun __8__ to shine on the man. Soon it gets very hot! The
man __9__ his coat The argument is __10__. |
( )1. A. strong
( )2. A. trousers
( )3. A. us
( )4. A. whose
( )5. A. sun
( )6. A. happy
( )7. A. way
( )8. A. began
( )9. A. takes off
( )10. A. out | B. strongest
B. hat
B. we
B. who
B. rain
B. worried
B. home
B. begins
B. takes down
B. over | C. strongly
C. coat
C. ourselves
C. when
C. cloud
C. angry
C. hope
C. begin
C. puts on
C. on | D. stronger
D. shoes
D. our
D. what
D. wind
D. sad
D. turn
D. beginning
D. puts down
D. off | | 阅读理解. | Mr. Black worked in a factory of a small town. He had been there for about twenty years before
one day he was sent to the capital for important business. He was very happy because he had never
been there before. When he started, he asked his wife and daughters if they wanted him to buy
something for them in London. Mrs. Black began to think it over and then she said she wished her
husband would be able to buy a nice umbrella (伞) for her, and so did their three daughters. As he
was afraid he would forget it, he drew an umbrella on his hand. When he reached the station, he
found his hands were dirty. He washed them and the drawing was gone.
On the train Mr. Black sat opposite to an old woman. The woman"s umbrella was so nice that
he carefully looked at it and said to himself not to forget to buy a few umbrellas like it. When the
train arrived at the station in London, he said goodbye to the old woman, took his bag and her
umbrella and was going to get off.
"Wait a minute, sir," shouted the old woman. "That"s my umbrella!"
Mr. Black stopped to look at his hands and his face turned red at once. He said in a hurry,
"Oh, I"m very sorry, madam! I didn"t mean it!"
Seven days later Mr. Black left the capital. It surprised the old woman that he sat opposite to
her again. Looking at the four umbrellas, the old woman was satisfied with (对……满意) herself.
She thought, "I"m sure I was luckier than the other four women!" | | 1. Mr. Black was _______. | A. an American
B. an Englishman
C. an Australian
D. a Frenchman | | 2. Mr. Black was happy because _______. | A. he could buy four umbrellas for his wife and daughters
B. he was sent to do important business
C. he would have a good rest during the seven days
D. he would go to London for the first time | | 3. Mr. Black drew an umbrella on his hand because _______. | A. he was studying to draw it
B. he was told to buy for them like that
C. he was afraid to forget to buy them
D. his family needed the same colour as it | | 4. On the train to London Mr Black wanted _______. | A. to buy four umbrellas like the old woman"s
B. to get the old woman"s umbrella
C. the old woman to help him choose four umbrellas
D. the old woman to teach him how to choose umbrellas | 5. When he had found he had taken the old woman"s umbrella by mistake (由于差错), Mr. Black
felt _______. | A. sorry
B. unhappy
C. sad
D. embarrassed (尴尬) | 最新试题
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