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As you are soon on your way to Eastern Europe, here are a few tips on what you should pack. In general, pack lightly, with only the most basic clothes. People dress casually(随便地) in Eastern Europe, so you don’t need to bring along your smartest clothing.
Batteries: If your camera, flash, or other appliances run on batteries, bring enough supply along. Certain types of batteries don’t exist in Eastern Europe, and those that do often don’t last very long.
Cash: We have found it good to have supply of small-unit U.S. bills($1and $5) to use in hard–currency stores, to buy international train tickets, etc. The hard–currency stores never seem to have the right change.
Electric Current Adapter(转换器): If you bring any appliances, remember that the electricity in Eastern Europe uses 220 volts A.C., not the standard 110 volts of North America. A 110 volts appliance will soon burn out when attached to an unchanged 220-volt plug.
Language Tools: One of Europe’s biggest challenges is communicating with the local people since their languages are so different from our own. To help overcome difficulties, you might buy phrasebooks before you go — you won’t find them once you are in Eastern Europe.
Money Belt: A money belt is especially helpful when you have many documents to carry around ( as you always do in Eastern Europe). The best one we find is made by Eagle Greek Travel Gear, 143 Cedros Ave. (P. O. box 651), Solona Beach, CA 92075 (tel. 619/755 – 9399, or toll free 800/874 – 9925) outside California.
Traveler’s Checks: These are necessary. Bring your traveler’s checks in small to medium unit ($10, $20, or $50) to change a little bit at a time, so as not to be left with a lot of local money. To be on the safe side, be sure to copy down the check numbers in two places, just in case something happens to the checks.
小题1:How many tips are mentioned in the passage?小题2:Which of the following things may be the biggest challenge in Eastern Europe?| A．Appliances. | B．Money. | C．Language. | D．Clothes. |
小题3:Which of the following statements is NOT a fact according to the passage?
A. No shop inEastern Europe accepts hard currency.
B. Travelers may need to carry many documents in Eastern Europe.
C. The electricity in Eastern Europe uses 220 volts A.C.
D. Eastern European languages can be a problem to foreign travelers.
小题4:What’s the writer’s purpose of writing this passage? | A．To tell you it’s not easy to stay in Eastern Europe. | | B．To give you some advice on what you should pack when you’re in Eastern Europe. | | C．To tell you something about the life in Eastern Europe. | | D．To show you the life in Eastern Europe is different from that in your country. |
小题5:What do the underlined words “change” and “check” probably mean according to the given dictionary entries(词条)?
change
1. [V] to become different 改变；变化
2. [V] to exchange money into the money of another country 兑换
3. [U] the money that you get back when you have paid for sth giving more money than the amount it costs 找给的零钱；找头
check
1. [V] to examine sth to see if it is correct, safe or acceptable 检查；审查
2. [C] an act of making sure that sth is safe, correct or in good condition by examining it 检查；查看
3. [C] a printed form that you can write on and sign as a way of paying for sth instead of using money 支票| A．1; 3 | B．3; 3 | C．2; 3 | D．2; 2 |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:B
小题5:B |
解析
试题分析：这篇短文主要对于即将动身去东欧的人们提出了七点需要注意的问题。
小题1:根据短文描述，作者主要提出了七点注意事项，即必须的衣服，电池，现金，电流适配器，语言工具，钱包和旅行支票。故选B。
小题2:根据第五点建议One of Europe’s biggest challenges is communicating with the local people since their languages are so different from our own.可知选C。
小题3:根据The hard–currency stores never seem to have the right change.描述，可知选项A与事实描述不符。
小题4:根据第一段As you are soon on your way to Eastern Europe, here are a few tips on what you should pack.及下文描述，可知这篇短文主要对于即将动身去东欧的人们提出了七点需要注意的问题，故选B。
小题5:根据短文描述，可知这是出国，结合上下文，可知这两个单词分别是零头，零钱和支票的含义，故选B。
点评：本文难度较大，个别小题需要根据相关内容进行推理总结。首先要认真阅读短文，注意前后联系，掌握短文大意，然后带着问题再读短文，找出相关段落，分析总结，判断出正确选项。文章所设试题主要考察细节查找，做题关键是找出原文的根据，认真核查小题和原文的异同。 |
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| News 1
Huang Heshan, a boy from Xinghua, has moved many people all over the country. Thanks to Huang Heshan, Yang Kangshao can go to school every day. Yang is disabled, but Huang Heshan carries him to school on his back. It’s eight years since he started to do that. They help each other. At school, Yang helps Huang with his study, too. Huang says that he feels happy when he can do something to help disabled people.
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| News 2
In Taizhou, Xiaoqing River is a good place for families to have fun. There are many green trees and the air is fresh. People can have different activities along the river. However, we can also find the waste bags and other rubbish everywhere. How can we get such bad environment? Now we are supposed to keep the park clean if we want to have a nice field trip.
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| News 3
On March 25, more than four thousand people started to run along Taishan Park. All the runners ran about 4.7 kilometers. They took part in the activity to lead a healthy life and show the spirit of the people in our city. After running, many runners signed their names on the flags. They called on all the people, old and young, to exercise more.
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小题1:In News 1, we know Huang Heshan has helped Yang Kangshao for _______.| A．eighteen years | B．eighty years | C．eight months | D．eight years |
小题2:We should _______ if we want to have a nice field trip along Xiaoqing River.| A．throw the rubbish | B．find some waste bags | | C．plant more trees | D．help keep the environment clean |
小题3:To lead a healthy life, over four thousand people ____ on March 25.| A．cleaned the park | B．signed their names on the flags | | C．ran about 4.7 kilometers | D．started to help disabled people |
小题4:We may know the news above from _______.| A．a newspaper | B．a novel | C．a TV play | D．a poster |
小题5:Which of the following statements is TRUE?| A．Yang Kangshao has trouble with his eyes. | | B．Yang Kangshao is better at study than Huang Heshan. | | C．Xiaoqing River is very clean and beautiful. | | D．Only young people took part in the running activity. |
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Working parents feel that they are not giving their children enough care. They think that their children feel 1 and 2 to spend more time with them.
Scientists in some colleges have found that working parents believed that they knew 3 their children, but 4 had ever asked their children what they thought. So scientists interviewed (采访) over 1,000 children of working mothers or fathers to 5 what they wanted. They asked the children 6 they wanted their parents to stay 7 and some 8 questions．After they collected the answers, it was 9 that only 10% of the children in their study said that they wanted more time with their parents. _10_, the children who were interviewed said they wanted their parents to give more 11 to them. They said that their parents were as 12 as a bee. When they were asked about what they 13 most, a large number of the children said that they wanted to feel important and 14 .
So parents should know what their children really want and how to get along 15 with them.
| 小题1: | | A．tired | B．afraid | C．unhappy | D．worried |
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| 小题4: | | A．every one | B．someone | C．anyone | D．no one |
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| 小题5: | | A．try out | B．find out | C．take out | D．put out |
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| 小题6: | | A．whether | B．why | C．when | D．how |
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| 小题7: | | A．behind | B．at home | C．away | D．up |
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| 小题8: | | A．other | B．others | C．the other | D．the others |
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| 小题9: | | A．surprising | B．important | C．necessary | D．useful |
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| 小题10: | | A．But | B．Also | C．However | D．too |
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| 小题11: | | A．food | B．care | C．money | D．practice |
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| 小题12: | | A．small | B．young | C．lazy | D．busy |
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| 小题13: | | A．talked | B．learned | C．needed | D．studied |
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| 小题14: | | A．loved | B．hated | C．complained | D．troubled |
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Frank worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was小题1:to learn more about wolves (狼). Do wolves kill lots of caribou (北美驯鹿)? Do they kill people?They gave him lots of food, clothes and guns (手枪). Then they put him on a plane and took him to小题2:.The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place. But there were lots of animals and lots of wolves.People tell 小题3:stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Frank remembered these stories, and he was afraid. He had his gun with him 小题4:.
Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.Frank 小题5: these wolves every day. The mother was a very good mother. She gave milk to her babies. She gave them lessons about life. They learned 小题6: get food. The father wolf got food for the mother. The young wolf 小题7:the children. They were a nice, happy family—a wolf family! Frank did not need his 小题8:any longer. In a short time, he got on well with the family.
Frank watched them for five months. He learned that many stories about the wolves were 小题9:.Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals. And he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.
Later, Frank wrote a book about wolves. He wanted people to 小题10:them and not to kill them.
| 小题11: | | A．told | B．seen | C．heard | D．tell |
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| 小题12: | | A．a small town | B．a big city | C．a far place | D．a lonely beach |
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| 小题13: | | A．happy | B．terrible | C．afraid | D．boring |
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| 小题14: | | A．sometimes | B．all the night | C．once a week | D．all the time |
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| 小题15: | | A．looked | B．heard | C．watched | D．drew |
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| 小题16: | | A．where | B．how to | C．what to | D．when |
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| 小题17: | | A．laughed at | B．looked for | C．took care | D．played with |
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| 小题18: | | A．food | B．gun | C．money | D．patience |
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| 小题19: | | A．not true | B．true | C．interesting | D．not interesting |
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| 小题20: | | A．grow | B．understand | C．knew | D．feed |
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Old age may not sound exciting. But recent findings offer good news for older people and for people worried about getting older. Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of 50. In fact, they say by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were when they were 18 years old.
The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of 18 and 85. The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of 24 and 25. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
The study also showed that men and women have similar feeling patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their feelings. They so spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
小题1:According to the survey of the Gallup Organization people are most likely to become happier .| A．when they are between the ages of 18 and 85 | B．when they come to their old age | | C．when they are in their twenties | D．when they are 18 years old |
小题2:You may have the highest level of stress when you are at the age of .小题3:According to Arthur Stone, old people may .| A．have a positive attitude towards their life | B．know how to spend money wisely | | C．dream about good things every day | D．control their behaviors better |
小题4:Who would probably show the greatest interest in the passage?| A．Those who are worried about getting old | B．Those who are single and unemployed | | C．Those who feel unhappy all the time | D．Those who suffer from mental stress |
小题5:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Getting Older Means Getting Happier | B．The Young Are Happier Than the Old | | C．Women Are Easier to Be Happy in Life | D．The Younger, the Happier |
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You might have noticed that the cost of food has gone up.In fact the price of wheat and rice has nearly doubled in the past few years.It’s thought that right now，850 million people—that’s more than 10 times the population of the UK—are short of food because it’s too expensive or there’s not enough of it.
The price of basic food such as wheat and corn has stayed the same for quite a long time，about 30 years.But as the world’s population is getting bigger，there’s more pressure to feed more people，plus there’s less land and water to go round.
Another reason is climate（气候）change.Droughts and floods make it hard to grow crops like rice and grain.The price of oil has gone up and that makes it more expensive for farmers to run their tractors and to transport the food they make.And lots of fields are being used to grow crops to make other things that can’t be eaten—which is bad news for hungry people.
The main losers are poor people who live in cities in poor countries，who are facing higher prices for food.Some people are doing well out of the food crisis（危机） though.Farmers in rich countries like the US，Canada and Australia are getting record prices for their harvests.
World leaders are meeting in the Italian capital Rome to talk about the problem of rising food prices.Some countries are helping out with the cost of foods and international aid agencies have called for more money for food production in poor countries.
小题1:The price of food goes up because all of the following EXCEPT _____.| A．there are more and more people in the world. | | B．American farmers are getting richer and richer. | | C．many farm lands are used to make other things rather than food. | | D．climate change makes it harder to grow food. |
小题2:Who lose the most because of the food crisis?| A．Farmers in rich countries. | | B．Farmers in developed countries. | | C．Poor people in cities in poor countries. | | D．Poor people in cities in developed countries. |
小题3:What does the food crisis mean to farmers in Canada?| A．They can get a lot of money from the government. | | B．They have to save a lot of money. | | C．They can make more money from the high price. | | D．They are losing a lot of money. |
小题4:What is the best title for this passage?| A．Why is the Price of Food Going Up？ | | B．How Many People are Short of Food? | | C．What Can We Learn from the Food Crisis? | | D．Who Can Benefit（受益） from the Food Crisis? |
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