As prices and building costs keep rising, the do-it-yourself(DIY) trend(趋势) in the U.S. continues to grow.
“We needed furniture for our living room,” says John Ross, “And we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decide to try making a few tables and chairs.” John got married six months ago, and like many young people these days, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a 2-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at time job at home as well as in a shoe-making factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. “I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course, I should be able to fix the car by myself.”
John and Jim are not unusual people. Most families in the country are doing everything they can to save money so they can fight the high cost of living. If you want to become a “do-it-yourselfer”, you can go to DIY classes. And for those who don’t have time to take a course, there are books that tell you how you can do things yourself.
1.We can learn from the text that many newly married people .
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A．find it hard to pay for what they need |
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B．have to learn to make their own furniture |
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C．take DIY courses run by the government |
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D．seldom go to a department store to buy things |
2.When the writer says that Jim has a full-time job at home, he means Jim .
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A．makes shoes in his home |
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B．does extra work at night |
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C．does his own car and home repairs |
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D．keeps house and looks after his children |
3.Jim Hatfield decided to become a do-it-yourselfer when .
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A．his car repairs cost too much |
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B．the car repair class was not helpful |
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C．he could not possibly do two jobs |
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D．he had to raise the children all by himself |
4.What would be the best title for the text?
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A．The Joy of DIY |
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B．You can DO It too! |
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C．Welcome to our DIY Course |
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D．Ross and Hat field; Believe in DIY |
Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana( 加纳), this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table.
In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder(粉末) of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子) because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼) fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.
1.From the passage we know that in Ghana ______________.
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A．the rules for dinner time are not strict |
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B．dinner is always at six in the evening |
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C．a family offers food only at four in the afternoon |
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D．people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening |
2.People in Ghana usually eat ________.
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A．from one side of a dish to the other |
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B．from the other side of the dish |
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C．with their fingers |
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D．with their spoons |
3.In fact, most dishes in Ghana _______.
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A．are cooked with the powder of some plants |
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B．have fufu in them |
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C．are too hard to eat |
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D．are not very hard |
4.When you eat fufu, you’d better _________.
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A．cut it with a saw |
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B．use your right hand only |
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C．chew it well |
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D．all of the above |
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Come to Austria(奥地利) Soll is a village in the mountains in western Austria. And the Post Hotel is clean and not expensive. It is opened by a local family. From the hotel you can see the whole village, the forests and the mountains. Temperatures in summer are usually 20 to 25 in the daytime, but much cooler by evening. |
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Enjoy Thailand! When you visit Bangkok in Thailand, don’t miss the early morning river boat trip to the Floating(漂浮) just outside the city. There you will find many kinds of fruits and vegetables. And you can pay for them when you sit in your boat. Don’t forget your hat: the sun can be strong and it may be as hot as 40 at noon. |
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Visit Hawaii! Maybe the most beautiful place in Hawaii is Kauai. You can visit its long, sandy beaches in the south and west of the island, and mountains and forests in the north, but don’t be surprised if it rains in the centre of the island. Daytime temperatures there are usually around 24 to 26 by the sea, and only a little cooler by late evening. |
1.The advertisements above are about ______.
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A．shopping |
B．food |
C．travel |
D．hotels |
2.If you go to Bangkok, you can ＿＿＿＿＿＿．
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A．Climb Mountains |
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B．enjoy the scenery of the forests |
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C．live in the Post Hotel |
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D．buy fruits while sitting in your boat |
3.Which place will you choose if you want to visit both mountains and beaches?
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A．Soll in Austria. |
B．Bangkok in Thailand. |
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C．the Floating Market. |
D．Kauai in Hawaii. |
根据短文内容，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能正确填入相应空格的最佳答案。
Rosa likes making up(编造) stories. At first she thought it was 41 . But now she didn’t think so.
Rosa’s parents were divorced(离婚). Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer 42 , she went to her father’s farm in Arizona.
The farm was great! rode horses and 43 with some farm work. Her father, however, was so busy that he couldn’t find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would meet her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went 44 the city, he would always buy her a present.
45 summer came to a close, Rosa returned to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a family trip to talk 46 .
Not long after school began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting 47 , like England and Germany. When Rosa’s friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was 48 . Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to 49 .
When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to 50 them all the things she could remember about her trip to England!
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I ____ an expensive gift for my birthday, but I could not ____ it.
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A．accepted, received |
B．received, accept |
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C．accepted, receive |
D．accepted, received |
--Dad, why should I stop computer games?
--For your health, my boy, I’m afraid you .
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A．to play; must |
B．playing; have to |
C．to play; can |
D．playing; may |
