British men are couch potatoes. They spend nearly half their freetime watching
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British men are couch potatoes. They spend nearly half their freetime watching TV. They watch more TV than women, do less housework, less charity work and less childcare—but spend more time shopping, a poll(民意测验) suggests. Analysts(分析家) from Eurostat, the EU"s statistical office, interviewed working men and women in 10 countries.
Britain, where men devoted 49% of their freetime to the box, came a narrow second to the Hungarians with 51%.German and Norwegian men watched the least TV—just over one third of their spare time.
The analysts took the average of the figures for the whole year including holidays and weekends. They broke down the “average day” into five categories(类)—free-time, sleep, meals and personal care, travel, domestic chores(家务事) and work or study. It shows that British men have four hours and 41 minutes free time each day—20 minutes more than women. But women spend nearly double the amount of time on domestic chores than men. Almost three-and-a-half hours of a woman"s day is taken up with domestic work, compared to less than two hours for men.
Food preparation makes up the bulk(量) of the chores, with leaning and shopping the next most time-consuming. They further broke down the free-time and domestic categories to show that men spend 137 minutes each day in front of the TV, compared to women"s 114 minutes.
Women spend slightly more time socializing resting and reading than men, but slightly less time on hobbies, sport and exercise. Universally unpopular with both sexes is culture—accounting for just 2% of both men and women"s leisure time.
小题1:According to the passage, couch potatoes refer to _______.| A．a kind of potatoes produced in Britain | | B．people spending much time sitting and watching television | | C．a kind of food offered by the English people | | D．people who like doing housework instead of watching TV |
小题2: According to the passage, which of the following may NOT be included in the ten countries?| A．Germany. | B．Norway. | C．Hungary. | D．Russia. |
小题3:What both men and women don"t like in their spare time is _______.| A．taking part in cultural activities | B．shopping | | C．enjoying their hobbies | D．doing domestic chores |
小题4: What would be the best title for the passage?| A．Domestic Chores—Only Women"s Right | | B．British Men—Couch Potatoes | | C．What the Research Means | | D．Men and Women in Different Situations |
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答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:A
小题4:B |
解析
小题1: 根据第一段前三句话可知。
小题2:见文章第二段。
小题3:见文章最后一段。
小题4: 通读全文,抓关键词couch potatoes。 |
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We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money, but most mistakes are about people. “Did Jerry really care when I broke up with Helen?” “When I got that great job, did Jim, as a friend, really feel good about it? Or did he envy my luck?” “And was Paul friendly just because I had a car?” When we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad.
But when we look back, it is too late.
Why do we go wrong about our friends, or our enemies? Sometimes what people say hides their real meanings. And if we do not really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. Suppose someone tells you, “You"re a lucky dog!”(你真幸运!) Is he really on your side? If he says, “You"re a lucky guy(人,家伙)!”,that is being friendly. But “a lucky dog”, there is a bit of envy in those words. What he may be saying is that he does not think you deserve your luck.
“Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for” is another phrase that says one thing means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem. But this phrase contains the thought that your problem is not at all important.
How can you tell the real meaning behind someone"s words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Do his words fit the way he looks? Is what he says shown by the tone of voice? The look in his eyes? Stop and think. The minute you spend thinking about the real meaning of what people say to you may save your another mistake.
小题1:When the writer recalls(回想) some of the things that happened between him and his friends, he _______.| A．feels happy, thinking how nice his friends were to him | | B．feels he might not have understood his friends" true feelings | | C．think it a mistake to have broken up with his girl friend | | D．is sorry that his friends let him down |
小题2:When the writer talks about someone saying, “You"re a lucky dog!”, he is saying that _______.| A．the speaker is just friendly | | B．this sentence suggests the same as “You"re a lucky guy!” | | C．the word “dog” should not be used to apply to people | | D．sometimes the words show that the speaker is a bit envious |
小题3:This passage tries to tell you how to _______.| A．avoid(避免) mistakes about money and friends | | B．get an idea of friendly people | | C．avoid mistakes in understanding what people tell you | | D．keep people friendly without trusting them |
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The dream of flying into outer space, cherished by the Chinese people for centuries, will soon come true.
China launched its fourth unmanned spacecraft （飞船）“Shenzhou Ⅳ” on December 30 at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gansu Province. It was the 27th consecutive（连续的）and successful launch of China - made rockets since October 1996. This launch has made it more realistic for China to send a person into space on its own following Russia and the USA.
Qi Faren，leading designer of the spacecraft system, said all the functions （功能） designed for manned flights have withstood （经受住）the test of three previous, successful launches and return landings of the “Shenzhou” spaceships.
China launched the “Shenzhou Ⅰ ”, “Shenzhou Ⅱ ”and “Shenzhou Ⅲ ”spacecrafts in 1999,2001 and 2002 respectively.
“Shouzhou Ⅳ” was to make it a more comfortable place in which astronauts can live and work. All parts of the application system for manned flight are aboard the “Shenzhou Ⅳ”craft in all test flights.
China’s manned flight programme began in 1992. A number of unmanned test flights will be launched before Chinese astronauts are sent into space.
Leading scientists in charge of China’s manned space programme said the successful launch of the “Shenzhou Ⅳ” laid a solid foundation for the country’s future task of sending Chinese astronauts to outer space.
The spacecraft returned to the earth on January 5, after completing seven experiments in space.
Officials at the centre said that“ Shenzhou Ⅴ”, a manned spacecraft, is expected to be launched later this year.
小题1:How many countries can send a person into space on its own by now？| A．2. | B．3. | | C．4. | D．Not mentioned. |
小题2:China’s manned flight programme began in ________.| A．1992 | B．October 1996. | | C．1999 | D．January 2003 |
小题3:As a matter of fact, ________ .| A．“Shenzhou Ⅴ ”has been launched | | B．“Shenzhou Ⅳ” was a manned spacecraft | | C．“Shenzhou Ⅲ ”and“ Shenzhou Ⅳ” were not launched in the same year | | D．the dream of man flying into outer space has come true in China |
小题4:Which is the most suitable title for the passage?| A．The Successful Launching of “Shenzhou Ⅳ ”. | | B．The Landing of “Shenzhou Ⅳ ”. | | C．Chin a’s Manned Flight Programme. | | D．The Third Country Sending a Person into Outer Space. |
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Many people believe the glare（炫目的光）from snow causes snowblindness. Yet, with dark glasses or not, they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snowblindness ,when exposed to several hours of“ snow light”.
The United States army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snowblindness in troops in a snow -covered country. Rather ,a man’s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on （聚集）in a broad space of snow- covered without- grass land. So his gaze continually moves and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding something, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become tired and the eye muscles ache. Nature makes up for this discomfort by producing more and more fluid （流体） which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeball in increasing quantity until it makes eyes difficult to see dearly, and the result is total, even though for a short time, snowblindness.
Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts（侦察兵）ahead of the troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow - covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark - colored objects ahead on which they can focus too. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop searching the snow -blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time. the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snowblind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a continuous white land is overcome.
小题1:To prevent snowblindness caused by the strong light from snow, wearing glasses or not ________.| A．depends on whether the snow is white enough | | B．makes no difference | | C．makes much difference | | D．depends on whether the snow is thick |
小题2:When the eyes are tired, tears flow out ________.| A．to clear the vision | | B．to make the eyes stop searching | | C．to make the vision unclear | | D．to produce more and more liquid |
小题3:Snowblindness can be avoided ________.| A．by moving one’s gaze back and forth | | B．by walking ahead and keeping looking around | | C．by making up for the discomfort of one’s eyes | | D．by providing the eyes with something to focus on |
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A sixth of undergraduates in Beijing this year have registered at driving school. The students, mostly from majors such as business management or international trade, will finish their driving courses within 20 days or so.
Training costs have dropped to 2, 600 yuan for students, according to the Haidian Driving School in Beijing. The price is not really low, but students will accept it, seeing it as an investment （投资）in their future. Familiarity with the operation of computers and fluent English are the basic skills graduating students need to find a job. But a driver’s permit has become another factor （因素）.
“In the job market, owning a driver’s permit sometimes strengthens a graduating student’s competitiveness for a good position, ”says Zhou Yang, an undergraduate at the China University of Political Science and Law.
Cars will become a necessary part of many people’s lives in the coming years, and it is difficult to get a permit of campus because of the pressures on working people’s time. “Having a fulltime job after graduation offers limited time to learn to drive. We senior students have plenty of spare time, plenty of opportunity to learn. ”Zhou says.
Xu Jian, an official at the driving school, said undergraduates were very able and serious, and could grasp in an hour what ordinary people took four hours to learn. In this driving school, middle -aged people, young women and college students are the main customers.
To get a driver’s permit, a beginner is now required to have at least 86 hours’practice before the final road test.
小题1:________ in Beijing want to learn to drive.| A．Most of the undergraduates | | B．Many undergraduates | | C．Many students in the driving school | | D．Most of the students who learn business or international trade |
小题2:The undergraduates are learning to drive because ________.| A．they need this skill to find a good job | | B．they like to drive cars | C．they will not have any time to learn to drive after they have
found a full - time job | | D．most of them will be able to buy cars in the future |
小题3:Which of the following is likely to be Xu Jian’s opinion of students learning to drive?| A．He thought it was better to learn it at college than at work. | | B．He decided it was a waste of money and time to learn to drive. | | C．He agreed that they could learn to drive. | | D．He thought they would spend three times more time to learn to drive than usual. |
小题4:Which of the following can be the best headline for the passage?| A．Students Pay Less to Learn to Drive Now. | | B．Students Learn to Drive. | | C．It is Better to Learn to Drive at Colleges. | | D．Welcome to the Driving School. |
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I fell in love with England because it was quaint(古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls’ houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I love London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.
Things have changed. For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.
I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.
As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p.m. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.
The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbor who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.
小题1:The writer doesn’t like London because she___.| A．is not used to the life there now | B．has lived there for seventeen years | | C．prefers to live in an old-fashioned house | D．has to be polite to everyone she meets there |
小题2:Where do people usually meet their friends in England?| A．In a café. | B．In a restaurant. | C．In a nightclub. | D．In a pub. |
小题3:The underlined part “it” (in Para.4) refers to ___.| A．a taxi | B．the money | C．a bomb | D．public transport |
小题4:The writer took her neighbor to France for Christmas because he ___.| A．felt lonely | B．had never been to France | | C．was from a typically French family | D．didn’t like the British idea of family |
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