If the rose can be said to be a special flower, then the apple can be said to be a special fruit. It is very important in American culture. American stories speak of Johnny Appleseed, who went throughout America collecting apple seeds and planting apple trees. He had a great love for nature and went through fields and farms adding richness and beauty to the country.
One of the first sayings taught to school children is, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” This short saying encourages children to eat fresh fruit to keep healthy. If someone always says good words to a person, people will call him an “apple polisher”. This, however, is not a good name. If someone is very dear to us, we say that he or she is the “apple of our eye”.
Most people believe that the fruit which Eve gave to Adam was an apple, even though the Bible(圣经) never says so. The apple, therefore, is a deep part of the language and stories of America.
An apple is also delicious. Apples can be cooked in many ways, used as a dessert, and made into sweet juice.
In many parts of the country during the harvest season, a popular activity is to go into an apple garden to pick apples. Washington, D. C. and New York are both famous for their apples.
Finally, when it’s time to take a vacation to American cities, one can always visit New York, which is “the biggest apple” of all the American cities.What does the underlined phrase “apple polisher” mean?
| A．Something for cutting apples. |
| B．A person who likes to please others. |
| C．A person who is dealing with fruits. |
| D．A machine for cleaning apples quickly. |
Which of the following is TRUE with apples?
| A．Apples are medicine. |
| B．Apples are the most important food. |
| C．New York is famous for its big apples. |
| D．The Bible says Adam was given an apple. |
The passage is mainly about .
| A．stories about the apple |
| B．apples in American culture |
| C．some famous sayings of the apple |
| D．big cities that is famous for apples |
Dear Alice，
You really have two different questions here，so we’ll discuss them one at a time．
Your problems at school may be a result of a number of things．You don’t say much about how these classmates get along with each other．It’s possible that all the students are feeling a little cautious(谨慎的) in the first term．
It’s also possible that the others are unkind．If this is so，you have to find out why you are the class “outsider．”
In your letter you say you often offer to help others with their work．Is it possible that your classmates don’t understand your offers? Could it seem that you were trying to“buy”friends with these offers?
Is it possible that you took no notice of your classmates when you had your good friend near you? They may have felt hurt at that time．It may take a time for them to believe in you if so．Try to ask one classmate directly what the problem is．If you hear a negative(负面的)answer，at least you’ll know what to do．
Yours truly，
SheliaFrom the letter we know that Alice was very______.
| A．lucky | B．unkind | C．clever | D．unhappy |
From the letter we can conclude(得出结论)that______.
| A．Alice wasn’t pleased with her teachers |
| B．Alice’s parents made her study too hard |
| C．Alice didn’t get along well with her classmates |
| D．Alice didn’t want to go to school any more |
In the letter Sheila talked about______ possible reasons(原因)for Alice’s problems．
| A．four | B．six | C．seven | D．eight |
Which of the following is NOT true according to the letter?
| A．Alice felt her classmates weren’t kind to her |
| B．Alice was very warm-hearted to help her classmates |
| C．Alice didn’t want to get along well with her classmates |
| D．The girl asked two questions in her letter． |
“Who did this?” asked my teacher. Thirty children tried to think about not only what they had done, but also what our teacher might have found out.
“Who did this?” she asked again. She never became angry, but she was this time. She held up a piece of broken glass and asked, “Who broke this window?”
“Oh, oh,” I thought. I was the one who broke the window. I did not do it on purpose (故意). It was caused by a bad throw of a baseball. Why did it have to be me?
If I admitted (承认) it, I would be in a lot of trouble. How would I be able to pay for a big window like that? “My father is going to get angry at me,” I thought. I didn’t want to raise (举起) my hand, but something much stronger than me pulled it up.
“I did it,” I said. Then I was silent. It was hard enough saying what I had.
My teacher went to one of our bookshelves and took down a book. She then began walking towards my desk. I had never known my teacher to strike (打) a student, but I feared she was going to start with me.
“I know how you like birds,” she said as she stood looking down at my face. “Here is the field guide about birds (鸟类野外指南) that you always check out from our school library. It is yours now. We have got a new one for the school. You will not be punished (惩罚). But remember, it’s only for your honesty.”
I couldn’t believe it! I wasn’t being punished and I was getting my own bird field guide, the one that I had been saving up all my money to buy.How did the writer feel when he saw his teacher walking towards him with a book from bookshelves?
| A．Relaxed. | B．Pleased. | C．Frightened. | D．Guilty. |
What do the underlined words “check out” mean?
| A．lend | B．borrow | C．test | D．buy |
What can we learn from the story?
| A．The writer’s teacher often hit her students. |
| B．The writer broke the window when he was catching a bird. |
| C．The writer was seriously punished after he admitted his mistake. |
| D．The writer didn’t want to admit his mistake at the beginning. |
The writer mainly wants to tell us that ______.
| A．he who is honest is wise | B．better late than never |
| C．practice makes perfect | D．a friend in need is a friend indeed |
Suppose you are a football fan and have to work from 9:00a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on weekdays. Now you are reading the TV guide online of Sunshine Town TV(STTV) and looking through the TV programmes of Wednesday, November 21,2012.
| TV Channel |
TV Programmes Wednesday, November 21,2012 |
| STTV－1 |
14:05 TV Play: Come Back Home 16:05 A Glimpse(一瞥) of London 18:10 35－part Series: Love for the Pearl River 19:50 Approaches to Science 20:10 News STTV English Service 20:40 The World Football Cup (France vs. England) |
| STTV－2 |
14:30 The World Football Cup (America vs. Italy) 16:30 TV Play: True Feeling 19:00 Children’s Programmes 19:30 Animal World 20:00 Countryside Life 21:00 American Professional Basketball Matches |
| STTV－3 |
14:15 Sports Programmes (Cycling) 16:20 Science Age 19:00 Music Bridge 19:35 Film: Gone with the Wind 21:00 Chinese Programmes for Foreigners 22:03 TV Theaters |
Which programme would you prefer when you are free?
| A．STTV－1 The World Football Cup (France vs. England) |
| B．STTV－2 The World Football Cup (America vs. Italy) |
| C．STTV－3 Sports Programmes (Cycling) |
| D．STTV－2 American Professional Basketball Matches |
If your friend Tom likes countryside and animals, which channel will he choose?
| A．STTV－1 | B．STTV－2 | C．STTV－3 | D．None of the above |
Which of the following programmes takes the least time?
| A．Approaches to Science | B．Film: Gone with the Wind |
| C．Countryside Life | D．35－part Series: Love for the Pearl River |
根据短文内容，完成文后任务。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。
Are people less happy or happier when they get older? If your answer is “happier”, then you are right, based on a study published five years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.
The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred and forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were the highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Levels of happiness were the highest among the kids and those in their early seventies.
The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.
So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Title: Relationship Between Age and 【小题1】
| The elements of the survey |
Time: 2008 Place: in the United States Researcher: Arthur Stone and his 【小题2】 Targets: 340,000 adults |
| The 【小题3】of the survey |
Generally people become happier and feel Adults between the ages of 22 and 25 have the 【小题5】stress. The kids and those in their early 【小题6】feel the happiest. Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women feel sadder, more 【小题7】and worried than men do. |
| Conclusion |
Happiness 【小题8】with age. That’s because people become more thankful for what they have and control their emotions 【小题9】as they get older. It also |
Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the local people of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the local people become unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy(经济). It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance(推进) the well-being (health and happiness) of local people.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a lot of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first-class roads and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel will lose money.
Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.What is probably the reason if local people dislike tourists?
| A．Tourists come to enjoy the customs and beauty. |
| B．Local people lose jobs. |
| C．A lot of hotels are built. |
| D．Too many tourists cause traffic problems. |
What can we do to solve the problems caused by tourism?
| A．Make plans properly |
| B．Help the country’s economy. |
| C．Build fewer hotels. |
| D．Advance the well-being of local people. |
If tourism grows too quickly, ___________.
| A．businesses will lose money |
| B．other parts of the country’s economy will make more money |
| C．local people will be happier |
| D．more local people will work for tourists. |
Support facilities needed by tourist attractions includes ___________.
①public places ②hotels ③airports ④roads ⑤electricity ⑥sewers
| A．①②③④⑤ | B．②③④⑤⑥ | C．①②③⑤⑥ | D．①③④⑤⑥ |
If the writer wants to add Paragraph 5 to the passage, he may tell us ________.
| A．whether people need to build more hotels |
| B．whether people need to plan tourism properly |
| C．how to deal with the problems above |
| D．how to prevent tourism growing too quickly |
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