Dear Mum,
How are you? I’m writing to tell you about my life in Nanjing.
My plane arrived at Nanjing International Airport on the morning of March 2. In the past few days I 1. (visit) many places of interest in Nanjing. Yesterday I 2. (show) around the Confucius Temple and Xinjiekou—the most famous business street in Nanjing. I 3.(choose) a pearl necklace for you. I’m sure you 4. (like) it.
Nanjing is a good place 5. (travel) to, I think. I 6. (have) a good time here now. I’ll tell you more about my experiences here later.
Yours,
Jane
1.It will be Helen’s ______（nine）birthday tomorrow. I’d like to send her a DIY card.
2.Simon and Linda looked at each other and kept the secret to ______ (they).
3.It’s much _____ (sun) today than yesterday, let’s go on a picnic in the park.
4.Frogs are ______ (active) in cold weather and always sleep in winter.
5.He hasn’t made a ______ (decide) whether to go or stay.
1.Oh, my God! I ______ my English book in my bedroom.
2.Don’t get angry with him, he is only a boy ______.
3.The best season to visit Beijing is ______. People can see the maple leaves.
4.Spud Webb never gave up, as a result, he ______ in playing in the NBA.
5.He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a ______ man.
The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington，in the United States. It was a small coffee shop that roasted its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks stores in Seattle.
Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he was curious about the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did, and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original（原先的）Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing.
In 1983, Schultz travelled to Italy. The unique atmosphere of the coffee bars there caught his eye. To Schultz, it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places; home, work, and coffee bars. His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle.
Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new stores—and that was only the beginning. In fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks stores opened somewhere around the world every day!
Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty-six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United States is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gets an understanding of customers in the city. This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right locations for their customers.
1.What is the main idea of this passage?
A. How Starbucks has grown B. What Starbucks makes
C. Starbucks’ customers D. How Starbucks makes its coffee
2.Which is true about Starbucks’ first ten years of business?
A. It grew very quickly B. It was a small company
C. It made special coffee makers D. It was run by Howard Schultz
3.About how many new Starbucks opened in 1999?
A. 3 B. 150 C. 300 D. more than 1000
4.What helps Starbucks succeed in places outside the United States?
A. Opening restaurants in just a few locations each year
B. Only selling locally produced coffee beans
C. working with other major coffee-making companies
D. Learning about local customers
Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed, we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience.
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life.”
At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got to know the meaning of hope in life. I found myself standing at the top of the mountain, and the sky was as clear as____
1.The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was ______ for the father and the son.
A. hard B. enjoyable C. painful D. comfortable
2.The underlined word “crystal” in the passage means _______.
A. 岩石 B. 火焰 C. 水晶 D. 寒冰
3.Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the father’s words in the second paragraph(段)?
A. You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.
B. The sky is always as clear as crystal.
C. You can find life is full of nice things.
D. Never give up half-way.
4.We can infer（推断）from the last paragraph that__________.
A. the writer was very successful in his life
B. the writer reached the top of the mountain
C. though the write was young, he could understand his father
D. the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain
5.The best title for the passage is________.
A. Reaching the Top of the Mountain
B. Standing at the Top of the Mountain
C. Conversations between Father and Son
D. Seeing all of the nice things
Welcome to our idiom (习语) corner! | ||
Idiom | Meaning | Example |
an arm and a leg | a large amount of money | It cost an arm and a leg to fix the car. |
break one’s neck | try very hard | She broke her neck last night, trying to finish the report. |
Fish out of water | someone who does not fit in | She felt like a fish out of water when she went to the party in her jeans while everyone else was wearing formal dress. |
Go Dutch | each person pays for himself | If we have dinner together, I insist that we go Dutch. |
Hit the books | To begin to study hard | I hit the books as soon as I knew the date of the exam. |
1.Which of the following activities is most likely to cost an arm and a leg?
A. Joining a DIY club. B. Going abroad for further study.
C. Having a picnic. D. Watching a football match.
2.The Chinese meaning of the idiom “break one’s neck” is probably “______”.
A. 折断脖子 B. 休息片刻 C. 竭尽全力. D. 不相上下
3.Lucy doesn’t want to feel like a fish out of water, so she should wear ______ when she goes to an evening party.
A. a T-shirt B. sport shoes C. a formal dress D. jeans.
4.Amy and Linda go to the restaurant to have lunch. It costs 80 yuan. They want to go Dutch. What does it mean?
A. Amy pays 80 yuan. B. Linda Pays 80 yuan.
C. Each of them pays 40 yuan. D. Dutch pays 80 yuan.
