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假如你是小华, Jane是美国人。在她暑假来中国游玩时你们相识,并成为好朋友。Jane回国后,你很想念她,于是给她写了一封信,并且和她谈了你对高一新生活的感受。信头信尾均已给出；词数100左右。
Dear Jane,
Yours sincerely,
Xiaohua
（1） Today, millions of people want to learn or improve their English ,but it is difficult to find the best method．Is it better to study in Britain or America or to study in your own country?
（2） The advantages of going to Britain seem obvious．Firstly, you will be able to listen to the language all the time you are in the country．You will be surrounded completely by the language wherever you go．Another advantage is that you have to speak the language if you are with other people．
（3）On the other hand, there are also advantages of staying at home to study．You don’t have to make big changes to your life．As well as this, it is also a lot cheaper than going to Britain.
（4）So I think that if you have enough time and enough money, the best choice is to spend some time in the UK．But this is not possible for most people, so the most important thing to do in this situation is to catch your opportunities: to speak only English in class and to try to use English whenever possible outside the class．
1.What is the text mainly about?（no more than 8 words）
2.How many advantages of going to Britain to study English?(no more than 3 words)
3.What are the advantages of staying at home to study?（no more than 15 words）
4. Why are most people not able to go to the UK? (no more than 8 words）
5.What suggestion does the author give to those who learn English in their own country?（no more than 15 words）
“Teenager” is the new term being used in the UK to describe kids at either 8—12 or 10—13 years old.
More and more companies are beginning to create products and services for teenagers. The Disney Company sells music and film to teenagers and their parents. You can get everything from lunchboxes and mobile phone covers, to monthly fan magazines and clothing. It’s all about sales, which suggests that teenagers must have more money, freedom and influence upon their parents than they’ve ever had before.
Most kids in the UK today get more pocket money than kids did ten years ago. Parents have more money to give their kids than before, since parents are having fewer children. In addition, the divorce（离婚） rate in the UK is continually rising and parents spend less time with their children than they used to, so many parents try to please their children by buying them presents. It’s a bad habit for both parents and kids to get into, but parents are under pressure from commercial marketing and the pleas（请求） of their children.
UK kids today are very media and computer-literate. A lot of kids have a TV, if not a computer, in their bedrooms. They have easy access to much more information about life and the world. They may have experienced a lot in life as well, since 24% of UK kids live in single-parent families, so people now say that “kids are getting older younger”. With such maturity (成熟)at such a young age, it’s no wonder teenagers are able to influence their parents and have more freedom than previous generations.
UK teenagers never used to be worried about spending money on clothes. That’s changed. Now, they are much more fashion(时尚) conscious and concerned about their image(形象). Many of them outgrow the bright colors and fashions of kids years ago and go for something darker and more rebellious(叛逆).
Surely none of the above is a good thing. The UK government is certainly concerned, and for that reason has strict laws preventing companies from marketing their products and services at children.
1.Why are more products and services created for teenagers?
A.Because companies are creating better products and services.
B. Because children education is becoming more important.
C. Because it is better to study music from an early age.
D. .Because children have more money to buy them.
2.Kids today can get more money partly because ________.
A. parents always accompany(陪) their kids
B. more parents divorce nowadays
C. parents have more expectation(期望) of kids
D. kids know how to make money
3.Teenagers have more freedom due to the following facts EXCEPT that ________.
A. they become mature at a younger age
B. they know more information than kids before
C.they have a lot of experience in life
D.parents can no longer influence them
4.Which is true about kids in the past?
A. They used to have more money to spend.
B. They couldn’t influence their parents.
C.They preferred to wear brighter clothes.
D. They looked older than their age.
5.What is the purpose of the passage?
A.To introduce a new phenomenon(现象).
B. To teach a new word “teenager”.
C. To warn parents to care about their kids.
D. To blame（责怪）today’s young people
Though Chinese is older than English, English is spoken by many people around the world every day. English speakers are always making new words and we should be able to know where most words come from.
Sometimes, however, no one may really knows where a word comes from. Did you ever think about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham? About a hundred years ago, some men went to America from Europe. They came from a big city in Germany called Hamburg.
They did not speak good English, but they ate good food. When some American saw them eating round pieces of beef, they asked the Germans what it was. The Germans did not understand the question and answered, “We came from Hamburg.” One of these Americans owned a restaurant, and had an idea. He cooked some round pieces of the beef like what the man from Hamburg ate and sold in many countries around the world.
Whether this story is true or not, it certainly is interesting. Knowing why a word has a certain meaning is interesting, too. The reason may be found in any large English dictionary.
1.Hamburg is _______ .
A. a kind of food B. a city in Germany
C. the name of a village D. a round piece of beef.
2.According to the story, _______.
A. few Americans like hamburgers
B. hamburgers are made with ham
C. hamburgers are made with beef
D. hamburgers were sold all over the world about a century ago
3.According to the writer, which of the following can be found in any large English dictionary?
A. Where all the new words come from.
B. Where those Germans came from.
C.The reason why English is spoken around the world.
D.The reason why a word has a certain meaning.
4.According to the story, the word “hamburgers” comes from _______.
A. China because it has a long history
B. England because Germans don’t speak good English
C. English speakers because they always make new words.
D. The round pieces of beef those people from Hamburg brought to America.
5.From the passage, we can infer that hamburgers was first sold to the world by _______.
A.Germans B. Americans
C. Chinese D. we don’t know
Where can you find a nice place to relax on holiday for both you and your children? Well, I suggest you try the beautiful and green Isle of Wight (IOW). The Isle of Wight is one of the main tourist attractions. Here is some information on a few of the attractions on the IOW.
Dinosaur Isle
It is located in Sandown, a seaside town on the southeast coast. It's a large, lovely museum, both fun and educational. Here you can see a large fossil collection of all kinds of dinosaurs, as well as a gift shop. You can walk into the past and then the future, learning about the history and the development of the civilization of dinosaurs(恐龙）that lived 120 million years ago.
Robin Hill Country Park
The park is in the beautiful countryside, and is suitable for children's parties and games. It has five new gardens, and offers great opportunities to see and take pictures of the rare red squirrels.
The West of the Wight
Here we have the Marine Aquarium, the Archaeology Exhibition and the Model Railway. They offer another opportunity to combine entertainment(娱乐) with learning. This is a great place to see ancient boats crossing the narrow strait between the island and the mainland.
The Wight Bus Museum
This museum is run completely by unpaid volunteers. It has a bus collection stored in what was once a warehouse (仓库) . Most of the buses in the museum date back to around the 1910's.
With all of these choices, what are you waiting for? IOW Tourism welcomes you!
1.Where can you visit the dinosaur museum?
A. In a seaside town.
B. In the west of the isle.
C. In the beautiful countryside.
D. On the northeast coast.
2.Where can you learn something as well as have a good time?
A. Dinosaur Isle and Robin Hill Country Park.
B.The Wight Bus Museum and Robin Hill Country Park.
C. Dinosaur Isle and the West of the Wight.
D. The Wight Bus Museum and the West of the Wight.
3.It can be learned from the passage that ____.
A. on Dinosaur Isle we can learn about all kinds of animals
B. those running the Wight Bus Museum work for free
C. there are five new gardens on Dinosaur Isle
D. the Wight Bus Museum can be visited free of charge
4.The purpose of this passage is to ____.
A. advise readers how to relax on holidays
B. show the development of tourism on the IOW
C. attract readers to come to the IOW
D. tell readers what is worth visiting
5.You can read this article in a ______.
A. film advertisement B. science journal
C. book review D. travel magazine
