Imagine that your hairstyle is important for your future. For teenage boys in

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Imagine that your hairstyle is important for your future. For teenage boys in Papua New Guinea this is true! The Hulie people believe that beautiful hair shows a man is healthy and strong.. They respect men who wear wigs, so teenage Hulie boys have to grow great hair. With this hair, they make a wig that they can wear every day.
The Hulie live deep in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea. Before the 1930s, people from the outside world didn"t even know about them. Today, there are about 70000 Hulie people, Most still follow their traditional way of life. The Hulie live in small villages, but families. do not live together. Women and small children live in one house and. men live together in another house. When boys are eight years old, they have to leave their mothers to live with their fathers.
Some Hulie children go to school to study reading and math. But after middle school. While teenage girls babysit their younger brothers and sisters, most teenage boys，to wig school. At wig school, they learn how to grow their hair and how to make wigs. The rules are pretty serious
1 .They cannot run, because their hair can be damaged.
2. They have to stay away from fire.
3. They have to put water on their hair 12 times a day to make it Grow faster.
When a Hulie teen wears his wig for the first time, he shows he is a man now, he can get married. To prepare, boys grow their hair for 18 months or longer. Then they cut it and use their own hair to make a mushroom-shaped wig. Later they grow their hair again for special wigs. These special wigs are for celebrations and festivals. Hulie men wear their mushroom-shaped wigs every day, but they like to be fashionable, too. To add style, they decorate their wigs with flowers and feathers.
小题1:The article is mainly about________
A. teenage Hulie girls
B. teenage Hulie boys
C. Hulie men and women
小题2: People didn"t know the Hulie people until the 1930s because______
A.they lived in small villages
B. there are only 2700Huli people
C. they were hidden in the rain forest
小题3: The underlined phrase "people from the outside world" means______
A. people who don"t live in the rain forest
B. people who follow their old traditions
C. people who do things outside of the forest
小题4:According to the article we can refer that Huli_________
A. teenage boys live with the mothers
B. teenage girls live with their fathers
C. husbands and wives do not live together
小题5:Hulie boys do not decorate their wigs with_______
A. flowers            B. mushrooms         C. feathers

答案

小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
小题5:B

解析

试题分析：这篇文章讲述的是住在Papua New Guinea（巴布亚新几内亚）的热带雨林深处的居民的生活习性，尤其介绍了有关他们头发的一些情况。
小题1:主旨大意题。这篇文章主要讲了Hulie男孩子的头发的有关情况，故选B。
小题2:细节理解题。根据文中原句The Hulie live deep in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea.（他们居住在巴布亚新几内亚的热带雨林深处）可知此题选C。
小题3:语义猜测题。根据原句理解，划线部分词组的含义是A。
小题4:推理判断题。根据文中原句The Huile live in small villages, but families. do not live together. Women and small children live in one house and men live together in another house.（Huile人住在小村庄里，但是家人不住在一起。女人和小孩子住在一个房间里，男人们在另一个房间里住在一起）可知此题答案是C。
小题5:细节理解题。根据文中原句they decorate their wigs with flowers and feathers.（他们用花和羽毛来装饰他们的假发）可知此题答案是B。

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In Canada and the United States, people enjoy entertaining(请客) at home. They often invites friends for a meal, a party or just for coffee and conversation.
Here are the kinds of things people say when they invite someone to their homes: “Would you like to come over for dinner this Saturday night?” “Hey, we’re having a party on Friday. Can you come?”
To answer an invitation, either say thank you and accept or say you are sorry and give an excuse. “Thanks, I’d love to. What time would you like me to come?” or “ Oh, sorry. I’ve tickets for a movie.”
Sometimes, however, people in the west use expressions(语句) that sound like invitation but which are not real invitation. For example, “Please come over for a drink sometime.” “Why not get together for a party sometime?” or “Why don’t you come over and see us sometime soon?” They are really polite ways of ending a conversation. They are not real invitations because they don’t mention(提到、涉及) a certain time or date. They just show that the person is trying to be friendly. To answer expressions like this, people just say, “Sure, that would be great!” or “OK! Thanks.”
So next time when you hear what sounds like an invitation, listen carefully. Is it a real invitation or is the person just being friendly?
小题1:Why do Canadians and Americans often invite friends for meals at home?

A．Because they have modern and beautiful houses.

B．Because they can spend less money.

C．Because they enjoy entertaining at home.

D．Because they can save time.

小题2:Which of the following is NOT a real invitation?

A．Please go to the concert with me some day.

B．Would you like to have a cup of tea with us this evening?

C．I’ve two tickets here. Can you go to the cinema with me?

D．If you are free now, let’s go to Wang’s for a drink.

小题3:If people say, “Why not get together for a party sometime?”, you just say “__________”

A．I’m glad to hear that.	B．How about this evening?
C．Oh, sorry. I’m very busy.	D．That’s great. Thanks.

小题4:People use “an unreal invitation” in order to show __________.

A．they’re trying to be friendly

B．they’re trying to make friends with others

C．they have already got ready for a party

D．their spirit of generosity

小题5: The passage is mainly about __________.

A．entertainment at home

B．real invitations or not

C．expressions of starting a conversation

D．ways of ending a conversation

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Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they don’t all have the same coffee culture. In Europe for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk while they drink coffee. On the other hand, places like this were not as common in North America in the past. Instead, people in North America liked to drink coffee in their homes with friends. The coffee culture in the USA changed when Starbucks coffee shops spread across the country.
The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that cooked its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three Starbucks stores in Seattle.
Things really began to change for the company in 1981.That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, which caused his great interest. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In 1982, the original Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing（市场营销）.
In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. The special environment of the espresso (浓咖啡) bars there caught his eyes. Back in the USA, Schultz created an environment for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable and casual, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Starbucks began opening more stores across the USA. Then the company opened coffee shops in other countries as well. Today, there are more than 16,000 Starbucks coffee shops all over the world.
However, that does not mean Starbucks has not had problems. In fact, many Starbucks stores have closed over the past few years. On the one hand, this is because there were too many coffee shops competing for business in one small area. On the other hand, stores in some countries closed because the coffee culture there did not match with the “feel the same everywhere” environment offered by Starbucks.
小题1: The underlined word “ran” in Paragraph 3 probably means “ ”.

A．moved	B．managed
C．loved	D．used

小题2: According to the passage, which is the right order for the following sentences?
a. This man helped to make Starbucks a huge coffee company.
b. He went to Seattle to learn about the company and later worked for it.
c. Howard Schultz noticed Starbucks ordered lots of special coffee makers.
d. Starbucks began as a small coffee company in Seattle in the USA.
A. a-d-c -b B. a-d-b-c
C. d-c- b-a D. d-c-a-b
小题3:Why did so many Starbucks close in some countries?

A．All of the coffee tastes the same.

B．The coffee in these places was too expensive.

C．The people in these countries didn’t drink coffee.

D．There were too many coffee shops in one place.

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Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum(论坛) asking what “PK” meant.
“My family has been watching the ‘I Am the Singer’ singing competition TV program. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the “I Am the Singer” singing competition, “PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition raking.
Like this father, Chinese teachers at Middle schools have also been finding their students using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write the compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn’t understand.
“My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I’ve grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. I loved to ‘FB’ with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM’,” went one composition.
“GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). “PLMM” is Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “FB” means Fu Bai (corruption). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.
Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, meaning an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, meaning an ugly looking male ) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
小题1:By writing the article, the writer tries to _________.
A. explain some Internet jargons
B. suggest common Internet jargons
C. draw our attention to Internet jargons
小题2:What does the underlined word Internet jargons mean?
A. Internet language
B. Internet action
C. Internet fashion
小题3:What does the writer think about the word “PK”?
A. Fathers can’t possibly know it.
B. The daughter should understand it.
C. Online game players may know it.
小题4:The example of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons__________.
A. are used not only online
B. cause trouble to our mother tongue
C. are welcomed by all the people
小题5:What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Puzzled Father!
B. Do You Speak Internet English?
C. Kong Long or Qing Wa?

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Why are black cats bad?
November 17 is an important day for black cats in Italy. An animal rights group has named that day “Black Cat Day” to stop the killing of thousands of the cats. Why do people     the animal so much? It is because people believe black cats bring bad luck if they walk across your path.
The black cat is just one of the     of superstition(迷信）.You may already know that Western people don’t like the number 13. They also believe that walking under a ladder, opening an umbrella indoors and      a mirror can also bring bad luck.
According to Andrew Macaskill, who works for Times , British people believe it is    to see one magpie(喜鹊). But two bring good luck. “In Britain, people like to have a horseshoes over the door. They believe it can bring good luck,” Macaskill said. “But the horseshoe needs to be the right way up. The luck     if it is upside down.”
In the US, people usually spit on a new baseball bat before using it for the first time. They think this can bring good luck. Also, it is believed that good spirits live in trees. So by knocking on anything made from wood, people can call upon those spirits for protection against misfortune. People in the US also believe there are evil（邪恶的） spirits in blooms（扫帚）. So     lean a broom against a bed. The evil spirits will cast a spell on the bed.

小题1:

A．love

B．keep

C．hate

D．raise

小题2:

A．symbols

B．stories

C．ways

D．means

小题3:

A．buying

B．breaking

C．borrowing

D．bringing

小题4:

A．lucky

B．unlucky

C．possible

D．impossible

小题5:

A．throws away

B．runs away

C．gives away

D．puts away

小题6:

A．always

B．usually

C．sometimes

D．never

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小题1:Sally Smith sent the postcard from ___________.

A．Barcelona, Spain	B．Boston, USA
C．Mexico City, Mexico	D．Bangkok, Thailand

小题2:Bill will probably be back in____________.

A．a day	B．a week
C．two weeks	D．a month

小题3:Which of the following is mentioned in the three postcards?

A．Barcelona is a big city.	B．Mexico city is very hot.
C．Bangkok is a very old city.	D．Mexico City is small but beautiful.

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