Chinese are very generous (慷慨) when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. However what most parents fail to realize is that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.
Cooking demands (要求)patience and time. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking. so he will learn to work hard and gradually(逐渐), finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
1.Parents in China, according to this passage,_______.
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A．are too strict with their children |
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B．are too rich to educate their children |
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C．have some problems in educating their children correctly |
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D．are too poor to educate their children |
2.Generally speaking, what most parents fail to realize is_____.
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A．that their children need to take extra-course activities |
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B．that the more expensive an education is, the better it is |
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C．that today's children lack self-respect and self-confidence |
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D． that their children first need to be a good cook if they want to get good marks in the exams |
3.The writer of the passage does not seem to be satisfied with_____.
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A．the parents' ideas of educating their children |
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B．the education system |
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C．children's skills |
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D．children's hobbies |
4.Doing some cooking at home helps children_____. ,
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A．learn how to serve their parents |
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B．learn how to become strong and fat |
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C．benefit (受益)from it and prepare themselves for the future |
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D．make their parents believe that they are clever |
5.According to the last paragraph we can conclude that____.
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A．broken radios and television sets are useful |
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B．one’s curiosity may be useful for his later life. |
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C．an engineer must fix many broken radios. |
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D．a good student should spend much time repairing radios |
Two old men lived in a room on the third floor of an old people’s home. Both men were very old and badly ill, and they spent 24 hours a day in bed in the room.
Luckily, one of the old men had his bed by the window, and every day he spent hours telling his friend far from the window what he could see through the window. He told him about the traffic going by, the children playing in the park opposite, and the birds flying in trees. The old man far from the window got a lot of pleasure from hearing about the world outside, but after a time he began to get rather unhappy. How nice it would be, he thought, if he had the bed by the window and could see everything for him, instead of just hearing about it.
One night, the man by the window called to his friend, “Quick! Pull the alarm by your bed; I don’t think I can get through the night!” But his friends, expecting an empty bed by the window, did nothing---he just closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
The next morning, the nurse found the man dead in his bed by the window.
The old man was very excited as they moved him into the empty bed by the window. He sat up in bed, pulled back the curtain, looked out --- and saw only a wall.
1.Who do you think was kind in the story?
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A．The old man by the window. |
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B．The old man far from the window. |
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C．Both of the men. |
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D．Neither of the men. |
2.The old man didn’t pull the alarm by the bed because _________.
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A．he was too weak to do it. |
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B．he had fallen into a deep sleep. |
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C．he didn’t hear what the other man asked to do |
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D．he wanted to move to the bed by the window. |
3.The old man by the window thought _______that night when he asked his friend for help.
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A．he wouldn’t die |
B．he would die |
C．he couldn’t sleep |
D．he could sleep |
4.In fact, there was ___ outside the window.
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A．a garden |
B．a park |
C．a wall |
D．a picture |
5.Which of the following is TRUE according to the story?
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A．The two old men weren’t badly ill. |
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B．The living old man knew the truth. |
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C．The nurse didn’t look after the old man carefully. |
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D．The old man by the window could see a lot through the window. |
What is a cool job? I would say “a good job’ is you would do even if you didn’t get paid for it.
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A．one |
B．which |
C．why |
D．that |
--Could you tell me __________?
-- No. Let’s go and have a look. Maybe someone is hurt, and we can help him.
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A．what was happened there |
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B．when they are doing there |
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C．what is going on there |
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D．what they were going on there |
The number of people who ______ cars of their own is increasing.
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A．has |
B．have |
C．there is |
D．there are |
— What do you think of the human and the computer?
—A human ____can do some things better than a computer, for example, creating new ideas.
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A．head |
B．body |
C．brain |
D．arm |
