Most teenagers in Britain receive pocket money from their parents. A report by the Bank of Scotland interviewed over 1,000 young people in Britain and found that 77% get pocket money. Different families give different amounts of pocket money. The average for eight-to-fifteen-year-olds in the UK is about ￡6 a week. Children in Scotland receive slightly more than the national average and Londoners get the most. Teenagers, logically, get more money than younger children. Some fifteen-to-nineteen-year-olds receive more than ￡100 a month. The report found that many children save at least a quarter of their weekly pocket money and that more boys than girls save their money. Lots of young people have to do housework to get their pocket money. They help at home with jobs like cleaning and cooking.
A part-time job is a choice for teenagers who don’t have pocket money or who want to earn extra money. About 15% of teenagers have a job. Popular part-time jobs for teenagers include delivering newspapers, shop work, and working in a restaurant or café. There are strict government laws about working hours. Only children over 13 can work (there are some exceptions, for example, for actors.) On a school day they can work a maximum of 2 hours a day but not during school hours. At weekends and during school holidays they can work longer hours. The national minimum wage for people aged 16-17 is ￡3.57 per hour. 18-year-olds must earn a minimum of ￡4.83. There isn’t a national minimum waged for people under 16.
In Britain some children and teenagers have a bank account. There is no legal age limit at which you can open a bank account but a bank manager can decide whether to allow a child or young person to open an account. Parents can put pocket money directly into their child’s bank account and then children can use it to pay for things without carrying money.
Saving or spending pocket money, working part-time and dealing with banks are all parts of the process of becoming a financially independent adult and having to earn and look after your own money.
1.The pocket money for a child in Scotland per week may be _____.
A. ￡4 B. ￡6 C. ￡8 D. ￡10
2.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. More girls than boys save pocket money.
B. Children under 13 are not allowed to work.
C. Most British teenagers have a part-time job.
D. A 16-year-old can work 6 hours on Saturdays.
3.The best title of the passage is _____.
A. Finance and Independence
B. Eyes on Your Pocket Money
C. The Importance of Part-time Jobs.
D. British Teenagers and Their Pocket Money
I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As we enjoyed our coffee, a man called the waiter and placed his order, “Two cups of coffee, one on the wall.” We got interested and observed that he was served with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter attached a piece of paper to the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee.” Similar occasions took place twice while we were there. It seemed that this gesture was quite normal at this place. However, it was something unique and confusing for us.
After a few days, when we again enjoyed coffee there, a man entered. The way this man was dressed did not match the standard or the atmosphere of this coffee shop. Poverty was evident from his looks. As he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the wall.” The waiter served coffee to this man with respect and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter took off a piece of paper from the wall and threw it in the dustbin.
Now it was no surprise for us; the matter was very clear. The great respect for the needy shown by people in this town moved us to tears.
Coffee is not a necessity. However, the point is that when we take pleasure in any blessing, maybe we also need to think about those people who also appreciate that specific blessing but cannot afford.
Note the waiter, who gets the communication going between the affording and the needy with a smile on his face. Think about the man in need: he enters the coffee shop without having to lower his self-dignity; he has a free cup of coffee without asking or knowing about who has given this cup of coffee to him; he only looked at the wall, placed an order for himself, enjoyed his coffee and left. Besides, we need to remember the role played by the wall that reflects the generosity and care of people in this town.
1.What made the author interested as well as confused?
A. The waiter’s making normal gestures.
B. Customers’ buying coffee for the needy.
C. The waiter’s attaching coffee orders on the wall.
D. Customers’ paying for coffee and having it put on the wall.
2.The author thought the man in need was ______.
A. obviously poor
B. not properly dressed
C. not right to leave without paying
D. strange to order coffee from the wall
3. In the author’s opinion, coffee is _____.
A. necessary in our life
B. a blessing some can’t afford
C. respect shown for the needy
D. a blessing everyone should have
4.The passage is mainly concerned about ______.
A. learning from the waiter
B. buying coffee for others
C. caring more about the people in need
D. analyzing the characters in the coffee shop
书面表达
假如你是高三学生李华，学校将为高一新生举办主题为“A Positive Attitude Leads to Success and Happiness”的英语沙龙活动，特请你准备一份英语发言稿。内容包括：
1. 积极的人生态度的重要性；
2. 如何培养积极的人生态度。
注意：词数100字左右。
短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同学之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I often dream of a teacher. I dream of standing on the platform in the classroom and give lessons to lovely boys and girls. I teach them,play with them, but watch them growing up. I am always young when I was staying with them. I know there is not easy to be a teacher. You have to learn in order to teach. Without enough knowledges you can never learn well.
What’s more , you have to be friends with your pupils and take good care of him. Only in this way can you be a good teacher and win respect from them. Though I am a student now, but I will work hardly to make my dream come true.
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
A tough new smoking ban has been introduced China’s capital city Beijing. The World Health Organization (WHO)___ 1.___ (welcome) it . The ban came into effect on June the 1st and is the toughest anti-smoking law. The law bans__2.___ (smoke)in all indoor public places, on public transport and in workplaces. Anyone__3.___ smokes in these places will get a big fine. Restaurants will have a big part to play in___4.___ (make) sure the ban works. Restaurant__5.__ (own) will get a heavy fine if people smoke in their restaurants. The public is also being asked ___6.___ (report) anyone who breaks the law and smokes in public.
A WHO spokesperson said: “We applauded Beijing for its strong and determined leadership in protecting the health of its people__7.__ making public places smoke-free. We are delighted to be___8.__ ( formal) recognizing the Beijing Municipal Government with a WHO World No Tobacco Day Award." There are still hundreds of millions of smokers in China. The country is the world’s __9.___ (big) tobacco producer and has the most smokers. There are around 300 million smokers in China, ___10.__ is almost the same size as the population of the USA. More than one million Chinese die each year from smoking-related diseases.
完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In families with two working parents, fathers may have more impact ______ a child’s language development than mothers, a new study. ______ Researchers______ 92 families from 11 child care centers before their children were a year old, interviewing each to establish income, ______ of education and child care arrangements. ______ , it was a group of well-educated middle-class families, ______ married parents both living in the home.
When the children were 2, researchers videotaped them at home in free-play sessions with both parents, recording all of their ______. The study will appear in the November ______ of The Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology.
The scientists ______ the total number of utterances of the parents, the number of different words they used, the ______ of their sentences and other aspects of their speech. ______ average, fathers spoke less than mothers did, but they did not ______in the length of utterances or proportion(比例)of questions asked.
Finally, the researchers ______ the children’s speech at age 3, using a standardized language test. The only predictors of high ______ on the test were the mother’s level of education, the ______ of child care and the number of different words the father used.
The researchers are ______ why the father’s speech, and not the mother’s, had an effect. “It’s well ______ that the mother’s language does have an impact,” said Nadya Pancsofar, the lead author of the study. “It ______ be that the high-functioning mothers in the study had already had a strong influence ______ their children’s speech development, or it may be that mothers are ______ in a way we didn’t measure in the study.”
1.A. inB. atC. onD. with
2.A. reportsB. informsC. assumesD. suggests
3.A. appointedB. recruitedC. enrolledD. admitted
4.A. levelB. standardC. yearsD. degree
5.A. MoreoverB. OverallC. In allD. Luckily
6.A. andB. orC. withD. without
7.A. speechB. actionC. expressionD. response
8.A. publicationB. versionC. editionD. issue
9.A. recordedB. measuredC. includedD. estimated
10.A. simplicityB. complexityC. easinessD. difficulty
11.A. OnB. InC. ForD. At
12.A. changeB. speakC. differD. specialize
13.A. videotapedB. predictedC. comparedD. analyzed
14.A. valuesB. scoresC. standardsD. qualities
15.A. effectB. intensityC. qualityD. strength
16.A. awareB. unawareC. sureD. unsure
17.A. understoodB. Constituted C. established D. informed
18.A. shouldB. couldC. had toD. used to
19.A. withB. inC. atD. on
20.A. contributingB. cultivatingC. instructingD. enlightening
