American is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while—then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes , we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine (常规). They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
1.The writer of this passage must be ____.
A. an American B. a Chinese C. a professor D. a student
2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their family.
B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.
C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.
D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.
3. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friends, we will probably be ___.
A. warmly welcomed at the airport B. offered a ride to his home
C. treated hospitably at his home D. treated to dinner in a restaurant
4.From the underlined sentence, we can know the Chinese people ____.
A. are strict with time B. don’t take time seriously
C. don’t know how to use time D. are willing to spend time for friends
5.A suitable title for this passage would probably be “____”
A. Friendships between Chinese B. Friendships between Americans
C. Americans’ hospitality D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendship
阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在非选择题答题卷上标号为16—25的相应位置。
An earthquake can often cause damage. Knowing how to prepare for such 16 event can directly affect your chance of survival.
If you are outdoors, find an open area free 17 trees and tall buildings. If you 18 (drive) when an earthquake hits, slow down and stop in a clear place. Remember that you have to stay in your car. Do not park near buildings 19 under bridges. If you are indoors, you must protect yourself from 20 (fall) objects by finding a safe place in your home. For example, you can hide under something. This most often means a heavy table or desk 21 is large enough. It is important for you to know where the furniture is 22 an earthquake. Besides, make sure that all the family members knows the best place to hide 23 in each area of the house.
For families with young children, it’s recognized to be more important to practice 24 to do in the earthquake. Make sure your family has a plan of action, and tell your children where to meet each other. 25 is also wise to be prepared by taking a First Aid class to learn something useful for a possible disaster.
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In a small village, there lived a potter(陶工) who had a donkey. Every day his donkey would carry soil from the ___1___ to his house. Since the field was quite far off, the potter would ___2___ under a tree midway, tying(拴) his donkey nearby.
One day, the potter __3__ to take the rope with which he tied the donkey every day. When he reached the __4__, he became worried and didn’t know what to do. At that time, a saint(圣人) __5__ to be passing by. When the potter told the saint what his __6__ was, he said, “Take the __7__ to the place where you tie him every day. __8__ to tie him using an imaginary rope. He won’t run away.” The potter did what the saint had said.
When he woke up, to his __9__ and relief, he found the donkey standing in the __10__ place. But to his frustration, when he prepared to leave for __11__, the donkey did not move. __12__, the potter saw the wise saint again and told him about the donkey’s __13__ behavior. The saint said, “Go and pretend to untie the rope.” The potter __14__ the saint’s advice.
Now the donkey was ready to leave for home. The potter thanked the wise saint and went home __15__ his donkey.
1. A. factory B. garden C. field D. village
2. A. stand B. rest C. sing D. dance
3. A. forgot B. decided C. expected D. agreed
4. A. stone B. tree C. bridge D. house
5. A. failed B. attempted C. happened D. managed
6. A. animal B. plant C. problem D. result
7. A. bird B. flower C. donkey D. rope
8. A. Believe B. Learn C. Wish D. Pretend
9. A. surprise B. disappointment C. anger D. regret
10. A. similar B. special C. same D. wrong
11. A. field B. school C. home D. hospital
12. A. Quickly B. Luckily C. Unfortunately D. Badly
13. A. funny B. foolish C. proper D. strange
14. A offered B. followed C. refused D. received
15. A. happily B. sadly C. seriously D. casually
请根据下面的提示写一篇短文。
你今年暑假到一家肯德基（KFC）／麦当劳（McDonald’s）快餐店做保洁员 （cleaner）工作。你每天工作七个小时，为期3周。这项工作辛苦且枯燥，你感到非常疲劳，几乎半途而弃。每天你都要起早贪黑的工作。在新学期开始之前，你终于完成了这项工作，并由此认识到了劳动的意义。你认为这是一次成功的体验。
注意：1．必须使用第一人称；
2．词数100—120。
完成句子
1.Only after they had performed hundreds of experiments_______________ （他们成功解决）the problems, （succeed）
2.The secretary forgot to type her business letter, ______________________ （集中注意力去阅读） an interesting report, （focus）
3.But for the warning message, more lives __________________（会死去）in the flood, （lose）
4.Many people, including some foreigners, __________________（一直被困在机场） because of the 9．0 magnitude earthquakes, （stick）
5.The report reveals that __________________________ （工人们一直面临/被曝露）unacceptably high levels of radiation, （expose）
6._____________________（最吸引我去动物园的是）to that zoo was the the chance to see the panda, （attract）
7.This means that after a while your body ___________________（习惯于香烟有） nicotine in it．（accustom）
8.The first thing_____________________（我注意到的是）was all the vivid colors surrounding me—purples, reds, oranges, yellows, blues and greens, （aware）
9.Children should be taught_______________ （去分辨是非）．（distinguish）
10.However, Australia has a federal government ________________________ （负责事务） that affect people all over the country such as defence, foreign policy and taxation, （responsible）
Scientists are not sure how the brain follows the tracks of time．One theory holds that it has a group of cells specialized to record the intervals （间隔）of time, while another theory holds that some neural processes （神经突）act as an inside clock．
Whichever theory it may be, studies find, the cells have a poor grasp of longer interval．Time does seem to slow during an empty afternoon and race when the brain focuses on challenging work．Stimulants （兴奋剂）, including caffeine, tend to make people feel as if．time is passing faster; complex jobs, like doing taxes, can seem to drag on longer than they actually do．And emotional events — a breakup, a promotion, a transformative trip abroad —tend to be sensed as more recent than they actually are, by months or even years．In short, some psychologists say, the findings support the philosopher Martin Heidegger' s observation that time "persists merely as a consequence of the events taking place in it．"
Now researchers are finding that the opposite thing may also be true: if very few events come to mind, then the sense of time does not persist; the brain shortens the interval that has passed．
In one classic experiment, a French explorer named Michel Siffre lived in a cave for two months, cut off from the rhythms of night and day and man-made clocks．He appeared then, convinced that he had been isolated for only 25 days．Left to its own devices, the brain tends to shorten time．
In earlier work, researchers found that a similar case at work in people’s judgment of intervals that last only moments．Relatively infrequent stimuli, like flashes or tones, tend to increase the speed of the brain' s internal pacemaker．
On an obvious level, these kinds of findings offer an explanation for why other people' s children seem to grow up so much faster than one's own．Involved parents are all too well aware of first step in their own children; however, seeing a cousin's child once every few years, without bothering memories, shortens the time．
1.What can we infer from the first paragraph?
A．Scientists have agreed about how the brain records time．
B．Scientists all think that some cells record the intervals of time．
C．Scientists haven't agreed on how the brain records time．
D. Scientists all hold the theory that neural processes are an inside clock．
2.According．to Paragraph 3, if we have few things to do, the brain will____．
A．make the intervals of time long
B．make the intervals of time short
C．keep a state of rest
D．stop working
3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Michel Siffre didn' t think he had stayed in the cave for as long as two months．
B．Parents tend to think their own children grow faster than others．
C．Michel Diffre actually stayed in the cave for twenty-five days．
D．Children usually bring bad memories to their parents．
4.In which column of a newspaper can we find this passage?
A．Social news B．Community activities
C．．Science D．Children s life
