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下期付费应该在月底，但是他们一致决定直到房东代理制定出令人满意的改善计划，他们才付服务费。 他们决定告诉房东代理必须在一个月内开始工作。然后他们都十分满意的离开了。

1. Why did John Preston call a meeting last week? 上周约翰.普雷斯特为什么召开会议？

A． Because the residents were dissatisfied with the presents?committee.

B． Because the residents were dissatisfied with the bad management of the flats. 因为居民

们对公寓的管理不满意。

C． Because some residents requested to change the present residents? committee. E. Because he wanted to become chairman of the committee.

2. Who elected John as chairman of the committee? 谁推选约翰为委员会主席？

A． The agent B. the residents 居民们 C. the committee D. Acacia Grove 3. What does the word “inactivity” mean in the thrid sentence in Para.1？ 第一段第三句中的“inactivity” 一词是什么意思？

A. weakness B. Progress C. State D. Lace of actions (缺乏行动) 4. What does the word “due” mean in the first sentence in Para.2？ 第二段第一句中的“due” 一词是什么意思？

A．to be paid 到期支付 B. Proper C. Owed D. large 5. When did they agree to pay the next service payment ? 他们一直同意什么时候付下一期的服务费？

A．at the end of the month B. Within one month

C. When they were happy with the plans to improve the property. 直到房东代理制定出令人满意的改善计划时

D. The agent would tell them. KEY：BBDAC

Passage 10（集邮）

When I was a little girl, my brothers and i collected stamps for many years. My mother didn’t use to work during the week, but she worked in the post office near our house on Saturdays and she used to bring home all the new stamps as soon as they were issued(发行). On the day of World Cup football final in London in 1996, we were very excited because England were playing West Germany in the final. When we were having lunch, my mother told us to go to the post office straight way after the match if England won, but she didn’t tell us why. At 2 O’clock my mother went back to work as usual, while the rest of the family were watching the football on TV at home. Although she wasn’t watching the match, she was listening to it on the readio.

England won 4：2 and so my brothers and I ran to the post office. As we burst in, my mother was standing behind the counter. She was waiting to sell us a very special limited edition with ENGLAND WINNDERS on eah stamp. We were over the moon.

We still have it today, and perhaps it is worth a lot of money.

当我还是个小女孩， 我的哥哥们和我收集邮票多年。 我母亲通常周一至周五不工作，但周六在我们家附近的邮局上班。而且只要一发行最新的邮票，她就把它们都带回家。

1966年伦敦世界杯足球决赛那一天， 我们都非常兴奋， 因为在决赛中英格兰队对阵西德队。 吃午饭时，母亲告诉我们比赛后如果英格兰队获胜就直接去邮局， 但她没告诉我们为什么。两点整母亲像往常一样去上班，而家里其他成员都在电视上收看比赛。母亲虽然没有看，但是她从收音机里收听了比赛。

英格兰队以4比2获胜，于是我和哥哥就跑去邮局。 当我们跑进去时， 母亲正站在柜台后面。她正等着卖给我们特别限量版的邮票，每一枚邮票上都印着“英格兰获胜”的字样。 我们欣喜若狂。

我们直到今天还一直保存着它，或许现在她很值钱了。 1. This passage mainly tell us . 这篇文章主要告诉我们？

A. The auther and her brother used to like stamps very muhch

B. The auther had a very kind mother

C. The auther and her brother had an unforgetable experience in collecting stamps

作者和她的兄弟一次难忘的集邮精力

D． their mother used to support them by working in the post office.

2. Accordin to the passage, her mother worked in the post office . 根据文章的内容，作者的

母亲在邮局工作.

A． During the week B. on Saturdays 在周六 C. On Sundays D. For six days

3. Their mother told them to go to the post office straight away after the match if England won,

but she didn’t tell them why. Why do you think she did that ? 母亲告诉他们比赛结束后如果英格兰队获胜了就直接去邮局但是她没告诉他们为什么。 你认为母亲为什么那样做？

A． She wanted to give them a surprise. 她想给他们一个惊喜。

B． She doubted if she would get the stamps

B. She forgot to do that. D. She thought is unneccessary to tell them the

reason. 4. What does the sentence “We were over the moon” mean ? 本文中的“We were over the

moon”是什么意思？

A．we jumped high B. We were extremly happy about it. 我们欣喜若狂 C．We watched the moon of a long time D. We couldn’t sleep the whole night 5. What is the best title for this passage ? 本文的最佳标题是什么？ A. My childhood B. My mother C. A precious Stamp D. A memorable Experience in Collecting Stamps 一次难忘的集邮经历 KEY： CBABD

Passage 11（约翰和维多利亚）

When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America?s

fastest growing businesses.

当John和Victoria Falls到达纽约开始他们的一年生活时，他们没有随身带很多东西。他们计划要么住在装修好的公寓里，要么买些旧家具。但是他们很快了解到越来越多的人正在采用的一种新的方式。租用家具（如窗，桌子，盘子等等）已经成为美国发展最快的行业之一。

What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couple – people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture that they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.

什么样的人是租用家具而不是买家具的呢？从事国际商务的人，政府官员，外国学生，航空公司工作人员，刚结婚的年轻夫妇---- 那些由于工作而被迫频繁来往不同的城市的人。他们可以省去每次搬家具的麻烦和费用。他们到一个新家的时候，只需租新的家具就好了。收入少的年轻人不想买那些他们可能很快就不喜欢的便宜家具。他们宁愿等到有钱时买他们真正喜欢的家具。同时，他们发现他们可以租比他们买得起的质量更好的家具。

One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don?t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think. (248words)

有个家庭，他们有属于自己的大而漂亮的房子，可是他们太喜欢租来的家具了以至于他们决定继续租用而不买新的家具。但是人们通常不喜欢告诉别人这些。租家具的想法还是很新的，他们不能确定邻居们对此会怎么想。

6. Which of the following has become one of America?s fastest growing businesses? ____________

以下哪个行业已成为美国发展最快的行业之一？

A. Selling home furnishings. C. Selling used furniture.

B. Renting furnished apartments. D. Renting home furnishings.租用家具。

7. Why do some people prefer to rent furniture? ____________ 为什么人们更喜欢租用家具？

A. Because the furniture they get in this way is new. B. Because it saves them a lot of money.

C. Because it saves them much trouble and money.因为这样可以省去很多麻烦和钱。 D. Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way. 8. What can you infer from the passage? ____________

从段落中你能推断出什么？

A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.

B. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple?s home town. 在这对夫妇的家乡，租用家具并不流行。

C. Only those who don?t have enough money to rent furniture. D. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.

9. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage? ____________

下面哪个作为本段的题目最好？

A. Rent or Buy? 的方法。

C. Furnished Apartments. D. A New Idea.

10. Young people liked renting home furniture in that __________. 年轻人喜欢租用家具是由于什么？他们没有钱而且不想买便宜的家具。

A. They have less money

B. They don?t want to buy old furniture C. The new furniture is of good quality

D. They don?t have much money and don?t want to buy the cheap furniture KEY：DCBBD

Passage 12（美国文化特点）

A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man — the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.

美国文化的一个特点，并且几乎成为美国的一项传统的是对自我奋斗的人的尊敬――通过自己的努力到达顶峰，通常是白手起家。然而公司，企业的领导，社会地位很高，在社区中获得比一般工人或工厂技术人员更多的尊敬的大学教授，都不愿说出自己的父亲在美国是从一个农民，工人这类人开始奋斗的。

This attitude toward manual（体力的）labor is now still seen many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously（豪华地）furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.

这种对体力劳动的尊敬在美国生活的很多地方都能看到。一个人被邀请到一户家庭赴宴，这户家庭装潢不只舒适，可以说是豪华，处处可证明这家人支付的起国外旅行，奢侈的爱好和孩子的大学教育。但是这样的女主人很有可能自己做饭招待客人，然后洗刷餐具，并且这样的宴会不会仅仅提供快餐式的罐头食品，从附近面包房买的蛋糕或派。相反的，女主人通常为精心准备特别的菜肴而感到自豪。男主人会谈论自己如何洗车，在花房劳作，粉刷房子，

B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings. 一种新的获得家具

他的儿子在外地上大学，做餐厅侍应生，洗盘子来供自己生活花费，或者暑假的时候为建筑队在高速公路工作赚钱付学费。

11. From paragraph 1, we know that in America _______.从第一段我们可以知道在美国_______？

A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man人们对自我奋斗的人评价很高 B. people can always rise to the top through their own efforts C. college professors win great respect from common workers D. people feel painful to mention their fathers as labors

12. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _______. 从这篇文章来看，女主人自己做饭主要是因为_______？ A. servants in American are hard to get

B. she takes pride in what she can do herself 她对自己可以做的事情感到自豪

C. she can hardly afford servants D. It is easy to prepare a meal with canned food 13. The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “_______”.

第二段中，词组“等在桌旁”的意思是什么？

B. keep accounts for a bar

D. serve customers in a restaurant在餐厅为客

A. work in a furniture shop C. wait to lay the table 人服务

14. The author?s attitude towards manual（体力的）labor is _______.作者对体力劳动者的态度如何？ A. positive

积极的 B. negative

C. humorous

D. critical

15. Which of the following may serve as the best title of the passage? 下面那项最适合作这篇文章的题目？ A. A Respectable Self-made Family.

B. American Attitude toward Manual Labor.美国人对体力劳动者的态度 C. Characteristics of American Culture. D. The Development of Manual Labor. KEY：ABDAB

Passage 13（如何发明单词/文字）

How men first learnt to invent words is unknown; in other words, the origin of language is a mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thought and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other; and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters, which could be combined to present those sounds, and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken or written in letters, we call words.

人们最初是如何发明单词的不得而知，换句话说，语言的起源是个秘密。所有我们所知道的只是，人，不同于动物，不知怎么发明了某些声音来表达思想、情感、行为和物质，以便相互交流；后来统一了某些被称为字母的符号，这些字母可以连起来代表那些声音，可以写下来。我们把那些声音叫做单词，不管他们是口语还是书面语。

The power of words, then, lies in their associations-the thing they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience; and the longer we live, the more certain words recall to us the glad and sad events of our past; and the more we read and learn, the more