In Europe, many people make friends between their countries through town twinning. Town or city twinning means two towns in different countries agree and decide to become “twins” with a sister-city relationship.
The people find pen friends in the twin town. They exchange newspapers and stamps. The school teachers discuss teaching methods with the teachers in the twin town. Officials visit the twin town for celebrations. Ordinary people travel to the twin town, too, but not very often if it is far away.
Sometimes, schools even exchange their classes for two or three weeks! For example, German middle school students study for a while at the school in their twin town in Britain, staying with British families. A few months later, their British friends come to study in Germany.
Many British towns are so pleased with the results of the twinning that they set out to find more than one twin town!
Tonbridge, a small town in Kent, for example, has twin towns in both Germany and France. Richmond near London has relationships with Germany, France and even a town in a Balkan(巴尔干半岛的) country!
Town twinning can help make friends. It helps students improve their language skill, and also helps people to understand the differences between nations.
1.Which is the best title for the passage?
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A．Town Twinning |
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B．Friendly Towns |
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C．Exchanging Teachers and Students |
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D．Peace and Understanding |
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
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A．Twin towns exchange newspapers and stamps. |
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B．Twin towns exchange business skill. |
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C．Schools in twin towns exchange classes for a period of time. |
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D．Ordinary people travel to the twin town. |
3.Twin towns develop ____________.
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A．between European countries and China |
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B．in the English-speaking countries only |
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C．in the same country |
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D．between different countries |
4.How many countries are mentioned in this passage?
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A．7 |
B．6. |
C．5 |
D．4 |
5.One of the advantages of town twinning is to ________.
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A．earn more money |
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B．set up schools |
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C．improve students’ language skills |
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D．develop industry and agriculture |
A new plan for getting children to and from school is being started by a local government in Eastern England. This could end the worries of many parents fearful for their children's safety on the roads．
Until now the local government have only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school, or sometimes less if special reasons existed．Now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead, as long as the arrangement will not lose money and children taking part will be attending their nearest school．
The new plan is to be tried out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington School．The children live just within the three-mile limit and the local government have said in the past that they will not agree to provide free transport to the school．But now they have agreed to offer a sum of money for a bus service from Milton to Impington and back, a plan which has the support of the school's headmaster．
Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part．Final calculations have still to be carried out, but a government official has said the cost to parents should be less than ￡20 a term．
They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington．The same bus would now just make one more journey to pick up the Milton children．The official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children, to see if they would like to take part in the new plan．
1.What is the aim of the plan?
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A．To prevent the students' road accidents． |
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B．To relieve the traffic pressure． |
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C．To save time for the parents and students． |
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D．To help the parents save money． |
2.How can the local government arrange the new bus service at a low cost?
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A．By letting the bus run in the morning only． |
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B．By limiting the number of the students． |
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C．By obtaining the support from the headmaster． |
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D．By linking the new bus service with the existing one． |
3.The new bus service will be paid for by ______．
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A．the parents |
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B．the local government |
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C．the bus company |
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D．the local government and the parents |
4.Which of the following is possible if the plan is carried out?
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A．The bus company will make much more money． |
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B．The children can choose whatever school they like． |
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C．The parents can get rid of their worries． |
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D．The students in Impington school can have free bus rides． |
5.This passage is most probably ______．
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A．a personal letter |
B．an advertisement |
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C．a headmaster's report |
D．a newspaper article |
Once upon a time, a poor traveller stopped under a tree. From his bag he took out a bowl of 1. (boil) rice and started to eat. Nearby was a small shop, where a woman was selling fried fish to travellers able to pay for 2. . When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, “You have not paid me for your meal!”
“But I ordered nothing from you!” he said.
“Everyone can see that you enjoyed the smell of my fried fish with your rice,” 3. (argue) the woman. “If you hadn’t smelt the fish, your meal would not have been so 4.__ (please)!”
Soon a crowd gathered. 5. they supported the traveller, they also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place 6. he had eaten, carrying the smell of the fried fish to him.
At last, the woman took him to a judge and after 7. (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that 8. the man had enjoyed her fish smell, he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop 9. 25-cent coin on the ground. “Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents 10. the smell of the fried fish.”
I know I should have told the headmaster at the time. That was my real 21 .
He had gone out of the study for some 22 , leaving me alone. In his absence I looked to see what was on his 23 . In the 24 was a small piece of paper on which were written the 25 “English Writing Prize 1949. History Is a Serious of Biographies (人物传记)”.
A(n) 26 boy would have avoided looking at the title as soon as he saw the 27 . I did not. The subject of the English Writing Prize was kept a 28 until the start of the exam so I could not 29 reading it.
When the headmaster 30 , I was looking out of the window.
I should have told him what had 31 then. It would have been so 32 to say: “I’m sorry, but I 33 the title for the English Writing Prize on your desk. You’ll have to 34 it.”
The chance passed and I did not take it. I sat for the exam the next day and I won. I didn’t mean to cheat, but it was still 35 anyhow.
That was thirty-eight years ago when I was fifteen. I have never told anyone about it before, nor have I tried to explain to myself why not.
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Peter’s jacket looked just the same as Jack’s，but it cost________his.
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