How is Anna’ s book?
A. Exciting. B. Encouraging. C. Moving.
What is the woman’ s sister?
A. A nurse. B. A teacher. C. A doctor.
What is the woman going to do next week?
A. Go to the beach. B. Travel around Italy. C. See her parents.
At a special ceremony(仪式), a special award was offered to a group of students from Changjiang University on February 11, 2010. They were brave enough to help save two boys from Changjiang River. All the students were there except three, who lost their lives when they tried to save the boys.
On the afternoon of October 24, 2009, some students were taking a trip to Changjiang River. Suddenly two boys fell into the river. Some of them quickly jumped into the water and saved one boy. However, things didn’t go so well when they tried to save the other one. More students joined in, and, hand in hand, they formed a human wall. Finally the other boy was saved.
However, the human wall broke down and many students were swept away by the rushing water. At that moment several members of a winter swimming team nearby came to help and succeeded in saving many of the students. But the three of them, who were only 19, were nowhere to be found.
1.What did the students receive at the ceremony? (no more than 5 words)
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2.Were all the students who saved the boys at the ceremony? (no more than 5 words)
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3.What was described in the second paragraph? (no more than 10 words)
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4.Why were many students rushed away by the water? (no more than 6 words)
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5.What’s your idea after reading this story? (no more than 15 words)
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How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.
A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organize it. This doesn’t mean that a woman has to do all the housework:; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request her partner’s participation（参与）. A woman can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility（责任） for housework.
Very few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects on weekends or evenings, and it’s important that you give your man appreciation for those things, too. Most men will take on a little additional housework around the house if asked politely. They are even more likely to do housework if they can choose what they want to do, and do it without being monitored.
Here’s the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they want to do a task, or because they simply want to please their women. Men are much less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant. In other words, men are likely to do a household task just for the good of the house.
1.The passage is mainly about how to _____.
A. get men to take on some housework
B. get men to serve their families
C. praise men’ housework
D. make men do all the housework
2.According to the passage, a man_____.
A. is willing to do housework
B. likes to be told to do housework
C. is taught to be responsible for housework from childhood
D. likes a clean house but doesn’t make efforts to clean it
3.In order to get men to do some housework, women should often_____.
A. order them to do their share
B. ask them to do some housework politely
C. blame men’s laziness
D. monitor men’s work
4.According to the passage, the underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that men won’t _____.
A. work without any payment
B. do unimportant household tasks
C. do housework without women’s praise
D. please their wives
5.According to the passage, which of the following would a husband most probably like to do?
A. Cleaning the table. B. Doing some sewing.
C. Painting the fence. D. Asking his wife to work on the yard.
If you want to become a fluent English speaker you should take some advice. There are four skills in learning English. They are reading, listening, speaking, and writing. The most important thing you must remember is that if you want to improve your speaking and writing skills, you should first master the skills of reading and listening.
Read as much as you can. But your reading must be active. It means that you must think about the meaning of the sentence, the meaning of the unfamiliar(不熟悉) words, etc. There is no need for you to pay much attention to grammars or try to understand all the unfamiliar words you come across, but the fact that you see them for the first time and recognize them whenever you see them, for example, in other passages or books, is enough. It would be better to prepare yourself a notebook so you can write down the important words or sentences in it.
As for listening, there are two choices: besides reading, you can listen every day for about 30 minutes. You can only pay attention to your reading and become skillful at your reading, then you can catch up on your listening. Since you have lots of inputs in your mind, you can easily guess what the speaker is going to say. This never means that you should not practice listening.
For listening you can listen to cartoons or some movies that are specially made for children. Their languages are easy. Or if you are good at listening you can listen to VOA or BBC programs every day. Again the thing to remember is being active in listening and preferably taking some notes.
If you follow these pieces of advice, your speaking and writing will improve quickly, and you can be a fluent English speaker one day.
1.According to the writer, which should you improve first among the four skills?
A. Reading and listening. B. Reading and writing
C. Writing and speaking. D. Speaking and listening.
2.To improve your reading, when you read you should ______.
A. look up all the new words in the dictionary
B. think about what you are reading actively
C. spend more time studying grammars
D. copy as many words and sentences as possible
3.The underlined phrase “come across” in Paragraph 2 can probably be replaced by “______”.
A. hear B. discover C. meet by accident D. look for
4.The passage is mainly about how to ______.
A. choose suitable listening materials
B. deal with new words in reading
C. become fluent in speaking and writing English
D. improve your reading ability as quickly as possible
5.The author seems to agree with the view that____.
A. everyone should listen to VOA or BBC programs every day
B. you needn’t practice listening if you keep on reading every day.
C. you should take notes of whatever you are hearing.
D. being good at reading is helpful in improving your listening.
