lt's not just women who wear skirts.1.. In Scotland, men wear a kind of skirt called a kilt (短褶裙). The kilt is their national dress and an important part of their culture.
2.. It has different colors. Each family in Scotland has its own colors.
Why did people in Scotland start to wear kilts?3.. One is that the kilt was made in the 1720s by an English factory owner called Thomas Rawlinson. He had a number of workers from Scotland in his factory and be thought their long clothes got in the way of their work4.In the old days, soldiers in Scotland wore kilts. Later, all men there began to wear them. Today, most men in Scotland only wear kilts on special days. Soldiers also wear them in important celebrations. 5. , but they no longer wear them to fight.
A. They still use kilts as their dress uniform. B. A kilt is a skirt reaching down to the knee. C. So he cut them into shorter skirts. D. Men can wear them, too E. There are many stories. |
Many people find 1. hard to make friends. It really isn’t. So how can we make friends?
First, relax. If you are nervous or try to look cool, others will think you are strange. So relax, and people will like you. A good topic to talk about is music,2.almost everybody likes music. You can ask them3.kind of music they like and start a conversation with them. Sometimes, you may even find things4.common.
5., be a good listener. Pay attention to what they say. It’s important to be a good listener because everyone likes to be6.(hear), and if your new friend feels you are listening to him, he will enjoy your company more.
Third, develop7.(friendship). You may talk to some people now ,but soon they will forget you if you stop8.(talk) to them. You should say hello to them if you see them. Call them as often as9.. If you do that every day, they’ll be happy to know that you care about them and remember them, so they won’t forget you.
If you follow the above10., you will make friends easily.
1.The class is too large, and we have to ____________ it into two groups.
2.We are very _____________ that a pupil from our school has won the first prize.
3.In the winter season, ____________ all turn red or yellow. How beautiful the mountains look!
4.As we all know, some of the inventions were invented ____________ accident.
5.I regret eating the ice-cream, which made me cough ______________ for days.
In ancient times, the Silk Road was very important. It1.(与…有联系) Europe with Asia. The Silk Road got its name because businessmen trade silk along it. Besides silk, there were many other2.(产品) that traveled along the Silk Road.
The Chinese learned to make silk thousands of years ago. For a long time the Chinese were the3. (唯一的) ones who knew how to make silk. They kept the4.(秘密) carefully. In ancient China, silk was a5.(贵重的；宝贵的) material. Only the king, his family and his officers were6.(允许) to wear clothes that were made of silk.
The ancient Romans were the first Europeans7.(谁) knew silk. Indians exchanged silk for wools, gold and silver with them.
There were deserts and high mountains in the way, so the trip along the Silk Road could be very dangerous. For businessmen, it was never easy to travel from China to Rome. But the 8.(英雄) never gave up. They spent a long9.(时期) of time to make it. And it was really worth it.10.(随着) the time went by, some cities were built along the Silk Road.
It is true that people with better education are usually able to get better paying jobs. In other words, they have more chances to choose a good job while people with little or no education don’t. It seems that the purpose of education is to make people get jobs. But this isn’t accepted by all people.
Some people may think that a person should spend the best years of his life to get education only for a way of living. This was probably one of the earliest reasons of education. In fact, if education is just a way of making a living, people don’t need to spend so much time in school. People can get education for a living in a short time. Subjects like history and geography need not be taught to everyone. Even language and mathematics need not be taught in detail(详细地), either. Here it is clear that education is much more than teaching a man to get a way of living.
Education is well-rounded. It is not only to teach him to speak, read and write, but also to develop his creative thinking and other abilities. And it is mainly for improving a man, it is to make him a wise man and thankfully enjoy the achievements of human. Education is to make a man lead a better life. Educated people are expected to be able to listen to good music, read good books, watch plays and take an interest in the world.
I would agree that making a good living is an important reason for education, but certainly not the most important or the main reason.
1.People with little education usually .
A. spend a long time in school
B. have a good chance to get a job
C. spend the best years to choose jobs
D. have fewer chances to get a good job
2.The earliest education was probably to .
A. make people take an interest in the world
B. teach a man to watch plays
C. make people get a way of living
D. teach people to read good books
3.The underlined word “well-rounded” in the passage means “ “in Chinese.
A. 圆满的 B. 崭新的
C．公平的 D. 全面的
4.The passage tells us that .
A. education is mainly to make a man improve
B. people can get education in a short time
C. making a good living is the only reason for education
D. all subjects are so important for a way of living
Should we be afraid of sharks? Maybe not. New research into the reasons for shark attacks (攻击) suggests that sharks don’t like the way humans taste! In fact, most people who are attacked by the shark are still alive after receiving only one bite (咬). Why is this?
There are many opinions to explain why sharks sometimes attack people. One opinion is that sharks are just curious (好奇的). We know that sharks are the strongest animals in their environment, so they are not afraid of anything. Naturally, that means they are curious when they meet something unusual. Because they don’t have hands or feet., the only way they can find out an object is to bite it! It is thought that sharks sometimes bite humans for this reason, and then swim away.
Scientists also say that sharks would not waste energy trying to eat a human, as we have a lot of bones (骨头). It is hard for a shark to eat us because sharks don’t have hands, and they can’t pull the meat off our bones. Maybe that’s why they only bite us once. Unluckily, one bite from a large shark is serious enough to hurt people greatly!
Another opinion is that sharks attack humans by mistake. Some sharks may sometimes mistake humans for a seal. An example of this is when a shark attacks a surfer. A surfer lying on a surfboard looks like a seal when seen from below. Sharks like seals because they have thick fat.
Whatever the reason for shark attacks on humans, sharks should be afraid of us. Sadly, we kill almost 40 million of them each year.
1.What happens to people attacked by sharks?
A. Most of them become blind.
B. Most of them become deaf.
C. Most of them died.
D. Most of them are still alive.
2.How do sharks find out about an unusual object according to the passage?
A. By biting.
B. By smelling.
C. By touching.
D. By killing.
3.Which sentence about sharks is true?
A. Sharks pull meat off bones when they eat.
B. Sharks might mistake humans for seals.
C. Sharks like to attack surfers because of their thick fat.
D. One bite from a shark is nothing serious.
4.What would the author（作者） write the passage mainly for?
A. To tell surfers to stay away from sharks.
B. To ask people to kill sharks.
C. To tell us why sharks attack people.
D. To show that humans are much stronger than sharks.
