阅读下面短文，从短文所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 Newcomers（新来的人） to the United Stat

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阅读下面短文，从短文所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Newcomers（新来的人） to the United States are often 36 by the schools. American schools 37 seem so different from the schools they know in 38 parts of the world. American education is based on the 39 that children 40 to learn to think 41 themselves. The school should be the 42 where they learn to do this. 43 , children learn the “three R’s” [(Reading, Writing and Arithmetic(算术)], history and government (often called Social Studies) and many other 44 . They also learn 45 be independent(独立的)，how to make their own judgement(判断), and how to develop their own 46 and interests. The American teacher does not 47 the children in her class to sit 48 hands folded quietly and to say 49 . She wants them to listen attentively(专心地) to ask questions. She knows that 50 children learn from books is 51 . She also knows that it is necessary for them to know how to use this 52 for their 53 and development. During Open School Week, parents have a 54 to see how American education 55 .

小题1:

A．happy

B．afraid

C．glad

D．surprised

小题2:

A．some time

B．sometime

C．sometimes

D．some times

小题3:

A．other

B．the other

C．another

D．all

小题4:

A．opinion

B．idea

C．promise

D．conclusion

小题5:

A．need

B．needed

C．dare

D．dared

小题6:

A．of

B．against

C．for

D．with

小题7:

A．place

B．space

C．room

D．area

小题8:

A．From school

B．out school

C．By school

D．In school

小题9:

A．lessons

B．knowledge

C．subjects

D．object

小题10:

A．when to

B．how to

C．what to

D．where to

小题11:

A．ability

B．skill

C．abilities

D．skills

小题12:

A．think

B．want

C．let

D．make

小题13:

A．with

B．across

C．over

D．above

小题14:

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．much

小题15:

A．that

B．which

C．where

D．what

小题16:

A．important

B．unimportant

C．necessary

D．useless

小题17:

A．study

B．work

C．learning

D．aim

小题18:

A．growing

B．growth

C．future

D．tomorrow

小题19:

A．ability

B．possibility

C．interest

D．chance

小题20:

A．develops

B．learns

C．goes

D．works

答案

小题１:D
小题１:C
小题１:A
小题１:B
小题１:A
小题１:C
小题１:A
小题１:D
小题１:C
小题１:B
小题１:C
小题１:B
小题１:A
小题１:C
小题１:D
小题１:A
小题１:C
小题１:B
小题１:D
小题１:D

解析

小题１:选D。新来美国的人常常对学校感到惊讶（surprised）。
小题１:选C。有时美国学校是如此不同于他们知道的世界其他地区的学校。sometimes “有时”，符合题意。some time“一段时间”；sometime “在某一时候”；some times“几次”。
小题１:选A。此处泛指其他国家。
小题１:选B。美国的教育建立在孩子们需要学会独立思考这一理念之上。Idea在句中是不可数名词，表示“理念”。
小题１:选A。need “需要”，need to do sth. “需要做某事”。
小题１:选C。for oneself “独立地”。
小题１:选A。学校应该是学会学习的地方。where 引导定语从句，修饰place。
小题１:选D。in school “在学校”，为固定短语。
小题１:选C。根据上文提到的“history and government”可以推断出此处是指在校学习的“学科”。
小题１:选B。他们也学习如何独立。由下文中“how to make their judgment”可判断此处应选B项。
小题１:选C。以及如何发展自己的能力，培养自己的兴趣。只有C项才能与interests形成逻辑上的平行关系。
小题１:选B。美国的教师并不要求学生手要放好、不准讲话。
小题１:选A。with短语作伴随状况。
小题１:选C。此处为美国的学校教育和中国的学校教育的对比，在中国的学校里事实上就要求学生把手放好、不准讲话。say nothing 意为“什么也不说”。
小题１:选D。what引导主语从句，what children learn from books意为“孩子们从书上学到的东西”。
小题１:选A。从上下文可知，学校里所学的东西是重要的。
小题１:选C。learning 此处指学生学来的学问。
小题１:选B。在四个选项中只有growth才能与development构成逻辑上的平行关系，growth and development意为“成长教育”。
小题１:选D。在学校的开放周，家长有机会了解美国学校教育是如何实施的。Have a chance to do sth.“有机会做某事”。
小题１:选D。work此处意为“起作用”。

举一反三

As motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. That is the conclusion of engineers from the US space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar”.
These could look much like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by Boeing research and development. However, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. Efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. Such vehicles would not only be expensive and require the skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “When you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle that’s hard to use,” said Mark Moore, head of the personal air vehicle(PAV) division of the vehicle systems program at Nasa’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, US. But Boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵杂狂乱的喧闹)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.
“The neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look like,” said Dick Paul, a vice president with Phantom Works, Boeing’s research and development arm. “But we’re trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散开) a fleet of these.”
Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic. Nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. Small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. But within five years, Nasa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(£55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.
Although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within the grasp of a wider section of people. The new technology would automate many of the pilot’s functions. This Small Aircraft Transportation System(Sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心辐射型)” model of air travel. Hub-and-spoke refers to the typically US model of passengers being processed through large “hub” airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke” airports near their final destinations.
小题1:The best title for this text would be .

A．Developing Skycars	B．The Traffic Jams in the Sky
C．How to Guide Flying Cars in the Sky	D．What Flying Cars Will Look Like

小题2: The underlined word “envision” in Paragraph 1 most probably means “ ”.

A．see

B．expect

C．think

D．announce

小题3:When engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except .

A．how to fly out of regional airports

B．how to prevent the disorder of the airways

C．how to reduce expenses and the vehicle’s weight

D．how to fly the skycars to enter skies

小题4: Now Nasa researchers’ aim is to .

A．make big flying cars

B．work out the plan——how to transform small plane travel

C．develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional one

D．build a new kind of small plane with road-driving abilities

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It is time for students to sell such things as chocolate bars and greeting cards to raise money for their school, class or club．It is inevitable that they will knock on your door and you will easily hand over your cash for overpriced items that you really do not want．That is okay, though, because there are many reasons why children should be allowed to raise money for their schools and clubs．
Fundraising is a great way to help children learn social skills．It is not easy to go up to a complete stranger and ask him for his money．They have to nicely ask for help, show the interested buyer what they have to offer and explain how it will help them in school．If someone refuses to buy an item, that child has to take the failure in stride（不特别费力地）, and that is a learning lesson as well．
Students can learn how to deal with money by fundraising．Of course, it might seem safer for us to take charge of our children’s earnings from their fundraising before it is turned into the school．However, by making them keep track of it, count it, and make sure everyone pays the right amount, they are learning an important lesson．Dealing with more Fundraising helps improve their schools．It is the children’s school．They have to learn there and grow there．Why not let them help in making it a better place?
Fundraising allows for

more life experiences for the child．The raised money is used towards things like parties, trips, or for the music club to go to see a Broadway play．The children receive the rewards for their hard work at raising the money．Without fundraising, these field trips and special school memories would be missed．
In a word, fundraising helps children a lot in many ways．
小题1:The underlined word “inevitable” in the first paragraph means “_______”．

A．unlikely

B．improper

C．unavoidable

D．unrealistic

小题2:One of the important indications that children are grown up is that __________．

A．children learn to care for others

B．children can deal with money

C．children like to make up

D．children make a date with friends of the other sex

小题3:The author thinks that fundraising _______．

A．adds to the family’s burden

B．wastes the learning time

C．builds up the children’s bodies

D．helps to develop the children’s character

小题4:Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?
CP: Central point P: Point Sp: Sub-point C: Conclusion

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In the old days, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life. Now this is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters who have never been close by during of the birth a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.
Nowadays when people grow old, we often send them to nursing homes. When they get sick, we send them to a hospital, where children are forbidden to visit terminally (晚期的）in patients— even when those patients are their parents. This deprives（剥夺）the dying patient of family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.
Some of my colleagues and I once interviewed and followed about 500 terminally in order to find out what they could teach us and how we could be of more benefit, not just to them but to the members of their families as well. We were most impressed by the fact that even those patients who were not told of their serious illness were quite aware of its potential outcome.
It is important for family members, and doctors and nurses to understand these patients’ communication in order to truly understand their needs, fears and fantasies . Most of our patients welcomed another human being with whom they could talk openly, honestly, and frankly about their trouble. Many of them shared with us their great need to be informed, to be kept up - to - date on their medical condition and to be told when the end was near. We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the coming of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance before death.
小题1: The elders of today"s Americans _______ .

A．are often absent when a family member is born or dying

B．are unfamiliar with birth and death

C．usually see the birth or death of a family member

D．have often experienced the fear of death as part of life

小题2: Children in America are deprived of the chance to________.

A．visit a patient at hospital	B．visit their family members
C．learn how to face death	D．look after the patients

小题3: The need of a dying patient for people to accompany him shows________.

A．his wish for communication with other people	B．his fear of death
C．his unwillingness to die	D．he feels very upset about his condition

小题4: It may be concluded from the passage that________.

A．dying patients should be truthfully informed of their condition

B．dying patients are afraid of being told of the coming of death

C．most patients are unable to accept death until it can’t be avoided

D．most doctors and nurses understand what dying patients need

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What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that housework. Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meals. It’s easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long , hard day. Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.
Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn’t require any dressing up, it offers a “fun” break in the daily outline, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car--- sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out---or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable (一次性的) wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it’s finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.
小题1:Americans enjoy fast food mainly because __________.

A．it can be eaten in the car

B．it is much more tasty than home-made food

C．one only uses his fingers while eating it

D．it is time-saving and convenient

小题2:It can be inferred that children __________.

A．want to have more freedom at table

B．never wash dishes after each meal

C．are good at using forks and knives while eating

D．take eating time as a fun break

小题3: Many Americans are eating out and not cooking at home partially because __________.

A．they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at home

B．the food made outside home tastes better than food cooked at home

C．many of them live alone and don’t like taking trouble to cook

D．American women refuse to cook at home due to women’s liberation movement

小题4:According to the text, a drive-in window is a __________.

A．car window from which you can see the driver

B．window in the restaurant from which you get your takeout in the car

C．place where you check the mechanic condition of your car

D．place where you return the used plates after eating

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Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student they always say, “My spoken English is poor.” However, their spoken English does not have to remain “poor”! I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.
First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary. However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if your attitude is positive. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.
Second, they are afraid of making mistakes. Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY（准确性）. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly. However, in speaking your aim is fluency. You want to get your message across, to talk to someone in English, as quickly and as well as you can, even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense, but it doesn’t matter because the person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears.
The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing was necessary for you to start speaking.
Fourth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English, they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.
If you do not use your English beyond the classroom, you will forget what English you know. Remember: USE IT OR LOSE IT! You can learn how to speak English better by speaking English more.
小题1:What is most probably the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To improve your reading.

B．To improve your listening.

C．To improve your spoken English.

D．To improve your vocabulary.

小题2:It can be inferred from the third paragraph that______.

A．don’t be fluency , Just be accuracy

B．don’t be nervous ,don’t be shy . Just write!

C．don’t be afraid of making mistakes . Just speak!

D．don’t be shy ,don’t be fluency. Just listen and write!

小题3:The last paragraph is possibly close to the meaning of “_____”.

A．more hurry, less speed	B．better late than never
C．silence is gold	D．practice makes perfect

小题4:The text is most probably taken from a ______.

A．teacher’s diary	B．report on study
C．sports newspaper	D．movie magazine

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