When first entered, Vanak Restaurant does not look like much of a restaurant, bu

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When first entered, Vanak Restaurant does not look like much of a restaurant, but once the pleasant smells of kabob（烤肉串）hit the senses, you are incapable of calling it anything else．
Owned by a local couple, this Persian restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere that many restaurants lack．
The space is small with only a few dining tables and nearly no decoration, but the environment is truly charming．
Lying in a hardly noticeable street corner, the restaurant still attracts all customers, especially those experienced in the delights of Middle Eastern cooking．
A common sight is that of old Persian men sitting in the corner talking loudly about world topics, watching news events on TV, drinking a black tea known as Persian chai, and reading local Persian newspapers all the while trying to finish off their plate piled with food．
The variety of food at the restaurant is limited, but the amount of each dish is fairly large．Most of the meals can serve two people and are under $10, so not only is it affordable but practical as well．
The food especially appeals to health-conscious eaters because each dish is very healthy, made with limited fat and oil and served straight off the grill （烤肉架）．
The main dish that the restaurant is popular for is its kabobs, which are different style of grilled meat．
One delicious and extremely healthy dish is the Joojeh Kabob, which is made of grilled chicken pieces served with either rice or bread．Another great kabob is the Chelo Kabob, a kabob consisting of grilled beef．
Although the restaurant is small, the atmosphere and the food is delicious．It is a place that should not be overlooked．
小题1:When first entering the restaurant, one can find that it ________．

A．is splendidly decorated	B．has pleasant smells of kabobs
C．is crowded with dining tables	D．looks like a common restaurant

小题2:What activity is also mentioned apart from dining in the restaurant?

A．Watching news events on TV．	B．Drinking a kind of black coffee．
C．Reading local English newspapers．	D．Discussing world topics in low voices．

小题3:The food of the restaurant ________．

A．is served in small amounts	B．is rather expensive
C．is rich in variety	D．is very healthy

小题4:What is the dish Joojeh Kabob mainly made of?

A．Rice

B．Chicken

C．Bread

D．Beef

小题5:It can be inferred from the passage that the restaurant ________．

A．occupies a large space	B．owns a favorable location
C．is popular for its special food	D．has a quiet environment inside

答案

小题1:B
小题1:A
小题1:D
小题1:B
小题1:C

解析

小题1:根据第一段When first entered, Vanak Restaurant does not look like much of a restaurant, but once the pleasant smells of kabob（烤肉串）hit the senses, 描述,可知选B.
小题1:根据A common sight is that of old Persian men sitting in the corner talking loudly about world topics, watching news events on TV, 描述,可知选A.
小题1:根据The food especially appeals to health-conscious eaters because each dish is very healthy,描述,可知选D
小题1:根据One delicious and extremely healthy dish is the Joojeh Kabob, which is made of grilled chicken pieces 描述,可知选B
小题1:根据Lying in a hardly noticeable street corner, the restaurant still attracts all customers, especially those experienced in the delights of Middle Eastern cooking．及下文描述,可知这家饭店因为它的特色食品,而受到欢迎.故选C

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American is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side

feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while—then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their

holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time.

Sometimes , we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine (常规). They will probably expect us to

get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome w

ill be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
小题1:The writer of this passage must be ____.

A．an American

B． a Chinese

C．a professor

D．a student

小题2: Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their family.

B．Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C．Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D．Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

小题3: From the last t

wo paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friends, we will probably be ___.

A．warmly welcomed at the airport	B．offered a ride to his home
C．treated hospitably at his home	D．treated to dinner in a restaurant

小题4:From the underlined sentence, we can know the Chinese people ____.

A．are strict with time	B．don’t take time seriously
C．don’t know how to use time	D．are willing to spend time for friends

小题5:A suitable title for this passage would probably be “____”

A．Friendships between Chinese	B．Friendships between Americans
C．Americans’ hospitality	D．Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendship

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There is no doubt that music plays a powerful role in our lives. It can calm our tired nerves after a busy day of work. Music even has the power to move us to tears when it stirs(激起) an emotional reaction. How then, does music play a role in special education?
If music has the ability to touch those hidden places we all carry inside, it proves an important tool for the special education teacher. For students with emotional problems, music can help soothe(抚慰) sadness. Consider the child that arrives in class depressed and upset. If music can indeed relax and calm him, he is more likely to focus and participate in class.
Dr. R. Joseph, author of Behavioral Neurology, writes, “It is well recorded that patients with left hemisphere(大脑半球) damage, who may be unable to speak or recognize words, can sing a melody(曲调).”
For this reason, some special education teachers have found it helpful to set their lessons to music. When students cannot understand or remember certain things, singing them helps make it easier.
Nature magazine reported “Music training helps underachievers. In Rhode Island, researchers studied eight public school first grade classes. Half of the classes became ‘text-arts’groups, receiving ongoing music training. After seven months, the students were given a test. The tested group had caught up with their fellow students in reading and surpassed(超过) their classmates in math by 22 percent. In the second year of the project, the tested students widened this even further. Students were also tested on attitude and behavior. Classroom teachers also noted improvement in these areas.”
It seems music does, indeed, play an important role in education. For the special education teacher, this is especially encouraging.
小题1:The first paragraph is mainly about _______.

A．the role of music in education

B．the importance of music in life

C．the relationship between music and work results

D．the relationship between music and behavior

小题2:For students with emotional problems, music might be _______.

A．a toy

B．a punishment

C．a medicine

D．a puzzle

小题3:According to Dr. R. Joseph, people with left hemisphere damage _______.

A．are unable to recognize people

B．can produce some musical sounds

C．can become special education teachers

D．might suffer right hemisphere damage too

小题4:The tested students mentioned in the fifth paragraph _______.

A．behaved badly after the study

B．Didn’t show any difference after the study

C．had done well in their reading and math before

D．received certain music education during the study

小题5:What is the text mainly about?

A．The meaning of special education.

B．The history of music education.

C．The problem in music education.

D．The role of music in special education

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Experts say that it is not easy to get used to life in a new culture. “Culture shock” is the term specialists use when talking about the feelings that people have in a new environment. “There are three stages of culture shock,” say the specialists. In the first stage, the newcomers like their new environment. Then, when the fresh experience dies, they begin to hate the city, the country, the people, and everything else. In the last stage, the newcomers begin to adjust to their surroundings and, as a result, enjoy their life more.
　　There are some obvious factors in culture shock. The weather may be unpleasant. The customs may be different. The public service systems---the telephone, post office, or transportation---may be difficult to work out. The simplest things seem to be b

ig problems. The language may be difficult.
　　Who feels culture shock? Everyone does in this way or that. But culture shock surprises most people. Very often the people having the worst culture shock are those who never had any difficulties in their home countries and were successful in their community. Coming to a new country, these people find they do not have the same established positions. They find themselves without a role, almost without an identity.
　　They have to build a new self-image.
　　Culture shock gives rises to a feeling of disorientation (迷惘). This feeling may be homesickness. When homesick, people feel like staying inside all the time. They want to protect themselves from the strange environment, and create and escape inside their room for a sense of security. This escape does solve the problem of culture shock for the short term, but it does nothing to make the person familiar with the culture. Getting to know the new environment and gaining experience are the long-term solutions to the problem of culture shock.
小题1: When people move to a new country, they _________.

A．will get used to their new surroundings with difficulty

B．have well prepared for the new surroundings

C．will get used to the culture of the country quickly

D．will never be familiar with culture of the country

小题2:According to the passage, factors that give rise to culture shock include all of the following except __________.

A．language communication	B．weather conditions and customs
C．public service systems	D．homesickness

小题3:When people are homesick, they tend to ________.

A．find some people to talk to	B．go outside to have a walk
C．visit their friends far away	D．stay indoors all the time

小题4:The writer tells us that the best way to overcome culture sho

ck is to _______.

A．protect ourselves from unfamiliar environment	B．develop a strange sense of self-protection
C．get familiar with new culture	D．return to our own country

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I went to the Chinatown market in London last Sunday. The first thing I did was to go to one of the Chinese green grocers’ shops. As soon as I entered the shop, I smelt mixtures of Chinese spices and saw the new season’s fruits. My son wanted a bag of sweets, so we popped into the shop next door which sells many kinds of candy.
There’s a lot of noise in the Chinatown market and you will see many tourists too. There are a lot of cars and trucks that never stop beeping. While people are loading and unloading their goods, most of them have their cars and trucks parked in the middle of the road. This causes great inconvenience for other drivers. Can you imagine that?
After we had done all our shopping, my son and I went to a restaurant for lunch. We enjoyed our meal very much. But the shopping made us both very tired at the end. We headed down the road to catch our bus home. My son and I enjoyed riding in the bus. We also enjoyed looking at different buildings and people walking by dressed in fancy outfits. Although Chinatown can be a busy place to shop, I do enjoy going there now and then. I can buy some of my necessities, and I can also look and browse around the other shops and department stores where I can indulge (使沉迷) myself with some nice things. Chinatown is located in the heart of central London where you can find tons of shops and other places to amuse you. And for me, I certainly don’t mind going back there again soon.
小题1:The underlined words “popped into” most probably could be replaced by “_____”.

A．broke into

B．rushed into

C．pushed into

D．walked into

小题2: The author probably didn’t go to a ______.

A．restaurant	B．grocery
C．clothing store	D．sweets shop

小题3:What can we learn from the passage?

小题4:From the passage, we can infer that the author most probably went to Chinatown by_____

小题5:What does the last sentence of the passage imply?

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When I spent Christmas away from home in Europe for the first time, I was only 14 and it was absolutely horrific. I am now married and live in the US. So there is little possibility for me to go home for Christmas. Now I am able to get through Christmas with some moments of joy:
First, you are advised to search you area for stores that carry items from your home country or town. Buy food, candles and some other things that mean something to you.
Hold on to the traditions from your home that you think are important even if other people think they are stupid. But keep in mind to be open for new traditions from wherever you might be, because those traditions are as important to those people around you as yours are to you. For me that includes celebrating Christmas on the 24^th.
Call, write Christmas cards, buy gifts and mail them to loved ones, just as if you were there. If you try to pretend as if the holiday doesn’t exist, you are just going to make it worse.
Introduce your traditions to your loved ones, especially your kids. It will only enrich their celebration of the holiday to have some unique traditions in their home. Little by little it will become their tradition and it’s fun for them to try something new.
Find clubs, churches or organizations that are from your home country. Chances are that they will have some celebration with some of your traditions which you can join in.
Food is one of the most important factors in any kind of tradition. Find the recipe of that cake your grandmother used and make it your tradition to bake that particular cake.
Call up your parents and get them to send you some of your favorite childhood ornaments (装饰品) for your tree.
Embrace new traditions, talk to your family about which ones you want to make your own and stick with them.
If you are far away from home, Christmas can never be the same as you experienced it before, but it is important to remember these traditions while appreciating the new ones. Keep an open mind and find a compromise between old and new traditons.
小题1:The author spent his 14^th Christmas ___________.

A．unpleasantly in the US	B．joyfully in the US
C．unpleasantly in Europe	D．joyfully in Europe

小题2:Why does the author advise people to hunt in some special stores?

A．Because people can buy some discounted goods there.

B．Because people can feel less homesick there.

C．Because it’s an old Christmas tradition.

D．Because they offer goods from the hometown of the people.

小题3:Which of the following statements does the author agree with?

A．It’s great for children to have some unique traditions.

B．People should join in all kinds of clubs to celebrate Christmas.

C．People should give up traditions which are stupid in other people’s eyes.

D．It is popular to celebrate Christmas on the 24^th around the world.

小题4:The author suggests giving a call to parents on Christmas mainly to __________.

A．express love to them	B．follow the tradition
C．ask for some ornaments	D．set an example for children

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