| 完形填空。 | |||
| The generation gap(代沟) has become a serious problem. I read a l about it in the newspaper. Some children have killed themselves after 2 with parents. I think this is because they seldom(极少地) have a talk with each other. Parents now 3 more time in the office, 4 they don"t have much time to stay with their children. As time passes, they both feel that they don"t h ave the 5 topic to talk about. I want to tell parents to spend more time with your 6 , get to know them and . 7 them. And for children, show your 8 to your parents. They are the people who love you. So 9 them your thoughts. In this way, you 10 understand each other better. | |||
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| Almost every family in America or England buys at least one copy of a newspaper each day.Some people buy as many as two or three different papers. Why do people read newspapers? Newspapers supply us with news about events in our hometowns, in our country, and in other parts of the world. Today we can read about important things that took place in foreign countries on the same day they happened, even in countries far away. But hundreds of years ago news took months or even years to travel from one country to another. In those times, news was often passed from one person to another and never entirely true. Newspapers today supply us with more than just what happened m our country or in other countries. If we want to know what the weather will be like, we can read the weather reports. If we want to find out what films are being shown, or what plays or concerts we can go to, we can look in the newspapers. | |||
| 1. This article tells us______ . | |||
| A. few people read newspapers B. all people read newspapers C. almost every family in America or England reads newspapers D. all families read newspapers | |||
| 2. Newspapers supply us with ______ . | |||
| A. only home news B. only world news C. home news and world news D. important things | |||
| 3. Today we can read in our newspapers about______. important events ______. | |||
| A. that took place hundreds of years ago B. that took place in far away countries soon after they happened C. that will take place in foreign countries D. that will take place in the world | |||
| 4. Things such as ______can be found in newspapers. | |||
| A. weather reports and film or concert guides B. requirements for a job or a house C. information about a lost person D. all of the above | |||
| 5. Which is NOT true according to the passage? | |||
| A. The habit of reading newspapers is found among most people. B. Newspapers can not only supply us with news from all over the world but also give us a lot of useful information. C. Hundreds of years ago news was not entirely true because it was told in spoken words. D. If you have no place to live in, you can put a notice m a newspaper and then you will certainly get a room to live in. | |||
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| Sun Mei was 14 when she began working iri a small restaurant last year. Usually she works for 13 to 15 hours a day. She welcomes people, serves tea, washes dishes and cleans the floor. She seldom has a day off. At the end of the day, "I feel so tired," said Sun, "My family is poor. There is no money for me to go to school. " There are 250 million children in the world who are working in hard, sometimes dangerous conditions. India has the biggest number of child workers in the world 44 million. Children do all kinds of work. Most of them work in the fields. They pick vegetables, clear grass and move rocks. Some work in factories making clothes, glass, matches and many other things. Others sell things in the markets. Why do children work? Many children work to make money for their families to live on. Another reason is that schools are too far away or there are no schools in the area at all. In China, there is a law called "Prohibition of Child Labour" 《<禁止使用童工规定 》). It says any company mustn"t hire children under 16 and anyone who introduces a child to work will be fined 5, 000 yuan. | |||
| 1. What does "she seldom has a day off" mean? | |||
| A. Shc couldn"t finish her work. B. She never has a rest. C. She hardly has a free day. D. She seldom gets full pay. | |||
| 2. Which country has the most child workers in the world? | |||
| A. China. B. India. C. Japan. D. Korea. | |||
| 3. According to the writer, why do children work? | |||
| A. Because they want to. B. Because there"re no places to study in. C. Because they hate going to school. D. Because they want to pay less money. | |||
| 4. Which of the following things do child workers often not do? | |||
| A. Pick vegetables and clear grass. B. Make clothes and matches. C. Go to school. D. Move rocks. | |||
| 5. Which can be the best title for the passage? | |||
| A. Too Young to Work. B. Sun Mei"s Hard Life. C. Children in China. D. Child Workers in the World. | |||
| 根据短文内容判断正(T)误(F)。 | |||
| From a plane you can see the fields, cities, mountains or rivers below. If we go into space, we see more and more of the earth. The moon is our neighbour in space. It is smaller than the earth. Plants can"t grow on the moon because there"s no air or water on it. The moon hasn"t its own light. It shines back the light of the sun. When the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces(朝向）us. it looks like a great round ball. We can"t see the moon when the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces away from us. In fact, the moon is far away fromus. It is three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers away from the earth. Of course, we can fly to the moon in a spaceship. A spaceship flies very, very fast. It only takes more than three days to get there by spaceship! | |||
| ( ) 1. From a plane you can see more than on land. | |||
| ( ) 2. You may find some trees on the moon. | |||
| ( ) 3. The moon sometimes can"t be seen because the sun is shining on the side of the moon that faces away from us. | |||
| ( ) 4. The moon looks bright because it has its own light. | |||
| ( ) 5. You can fly to the moon only by spaceship. | |||
| 完形填空。 | |||
| Chinese are very generous (慷慨的 ) when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the l _. parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad-to England, the USA or Australia. The Chinese believe that the more expensive the education is, the better it is. 2 _ parents will spend a lot of money on their children"s education. Even 3 _ parents will buy a computer for their son or daughter. Though they"re not rich, they would rather pay for the education. Parents can see that their children"s skills are different, skilled(有技能的) in some areas while poor in others. But most 4 fail to realize that the children today need more self-confidence. The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to 5 tests and how to study well, but they are not teaching them the most important skills that they need. And these skills are important to help them to be 6 , happy and clever. Parents can achieve this by teaching their children the skills like cooking or doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will 7 many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking needs patience and time. It is an interesting but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish 8 job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will make him 9 good and give him a lot of self-confidence. Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play __10 , will make him interested and want to know more. He will spend hours studying them and trying to fix them. Your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are teaching a child not only to study at school, but also to think, to use his mind. And that is more important. | |||
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