词义搭配：选出单词的正确解释
1.promise _________
2.decade _________
3.occur _________
4.reduce _________
5.disease _________
6.doubt _________
7.trust _________
8.opportunity _________
9.facial _________
10.unique _________
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.
Many teenagers（青少年） feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends. They believe that their family members don’t know them as well as their friends do. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.
It is very important for teenagers to have one good friend or a group of friends. Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking among themselves on the phone. This communication（交际）is very important in children’s growing up, because friends can discuss（讨论）something. These things are difficult to say to their family members.
However, parents often try to choose their children friends for them. Some parents may even stop their children from meeting their good friends. Have you ever thought of the following questions?
Who chooses your friends?
Do you choose your friends or your friends choose you?
Have you got a good friend your parents don’t like?
Your answers are welcome.
1.Many teenagers think that ____ can understand them better.
A. friends B. brothers
C. sisters D. parents
2.When teenagers have something difficult to say to their parents, they usually____.
A. stay alone at home
B. fight with their parents
C. discuss it with their friends
D. go to their brothers and sisters for help
3.The sentence （句子） “Your answers are welcome. ” means _______.
A. You are welcome to discuss the questions with us
B. We’ve got no idea, so your answers are welcome
C. Your answers are always right
D. You can give us all the right answers
4.Which of the following is the writer’s attitude（态度）?
A. Parents should choose friends for their children.
B. Children should choose everything they like.
C. Parents should understand their children better.
D. Teenagers should only go to their friends for help.
5.Why do many teenagers think their friends are the most important people?
A. Only their friends are friendly.
B. Their parents don’t love them.
C. They don’t like their family members.
D. They feel that their friends know them well and they can discuss something with each other.
Jenny went to visit her friends in New York last weekend. Her friends met her at the airport on Friday afternoon and drove her to the hotel. They had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and went to see a film after that.
Jenny and her friends set out early on Saturday morning for a farm and stayed there until Sunday morning. During their stay, they went fishing and swimming in the small river on the farm. They played football in the field and enjoyed a big meal around a camp fire（篝火）, singing and dancing till late into the night.
Nobody could get up early on Sunday morning. So when they got back to New York City, it was about three o’clock in the afternoon. They drove right to the airport because Jenny didn’t want to miss her plane back home. Jenny only stayed in New York for two nights but she had a great time with her friends.
1.Jenny went to New York________.
A. to do some shopping B. to see her friends
C. to spend her summer holiday D. to find a job
2.How did Jenny get to New York?
A. By train. B. By bus.
C. By plane. D. On foot.
3.Where did Jenny and her friends go on Saturday?
A. To the farm. B. To the Chinese restaurant.
C. To the airport. D. To the railway station.
4.When did Jenny go back home?
A. On Saturday afternoon. B. On Sunday morning.
C. On Saturday evening. D. On Sunday afternoon.
5.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A. Jenny and her friends lived in the same city.
B. They went to watch a movie after dinner on Friday.
C. Jenny and her friends set out early on Sunday morning for a farm.
D. Jenny stayed in the hotel all day.
What is the best way to study? This is a very important question. Some Chinese students often _______ very hard _______ long hours. This is a _______ habit, but it is not a better way to study. A good student must _______ enough sleep, enough food and enough rest. Every _______ you _______ to take a walk or play basketball or ping-pong or sing a song. When you _______ to your studies, you’ll find yourself _______ than before and you’ll learn more.
Perhaps we can _______ that learning English is like taking Chinese medicine, we mean that like Chinese medicine, the effects of your study ________ slowly but surely. Learn every day and effects will come just like Chinese medicine.
1.A. play B. study C. sleep D. think
2.A. at B. in C. for D. with
3.A. best B. better C. good D. bad
4.A. have B. do C. want D. make
5.A. month B. week C. hour D. day
6.A. want B. hope C. need D. wish
7.A. begin B. return C. go D. are
8.A. stronger B. weaker C. strong D. weak
9.A. say B. guess C. talk D. know
10.A. return B. come C. give D. get
— Would you do me a favor and carry these books?
— _________
A. Yes, that’s right B. No trouble
C. Never mind D. With pleasure
