Last Sunday afternoon, I was having dinner in a restaurant when my friend Poor came in. Poor is working in a bank and is quite rich, but he is always borrowing money from his friends and never pays it back. Poor saw me and came to sit at my table. He had never borrowed any money from me. When he was eating, I asked him to lend me two dollars. To my surprise, he gave me the money at once.“I have never borrowed any money from you,”Poor said,“So you can pay for my dinner.”The story happened________.
| A．at home | B．in a restaurant |
| C．in a bank | D．in an office |
Poor is the name of a man and the writer________.
| A．knows him well | B．doesn’t know him |
| C．often lends him some money | D．often borrows money from him |
Poor is a________man.
| A．busy | B．clever | C．rich | D．poor |
Why was Poor glad to lend the writer two dollars?
| A．Because they are brothers. |
| B．Because Poor is rich. |
| C．Because the writer is rich. |
| D．Because Poor wanted the writer to pay for the dinner. |
From the story we can see________.
| A．Poor is an old man | B．Poor is friendly |
| C．the writer paid for the dinner | D．the writer is poor |
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The home of the future won’t be completely different and we will be living in houses and flats as we do today. But people will want to shape their homes to match their dreams. No two homes will be the same. People will be able to buy “house materials” containing moveable walls, doors and windows. They will put together the different parts to create the home they want.
Many jobs that we do today will disappear, others will still be done but will change and new jobs will be created. Skilled workers such as builders, gardeners and electricians won’t disappear because machines can’t take the place of them. We will still have teachers because students need human contact. But they will be using modern technology in class more and students will be working more from home.
Space holidays will develop in the future, but these holidays won’t be for everyone because they won’t be cheap. Short space trips will develop first, then hotels will move around the earth where it will be possible to have a longer vacation. By the end of the next century, there will be holiday centers on the moon with things needed for families.
There will be no paper in the future. Instead, there will be e-paper which people will be able to use over and over again. This will develop in order to protect nature. E-newspapers and e-magazines will take the place of traditional newspapers and magazines and we will download information and news articles from the Internet every day onto our re-useable paper.
As we know, the earth is going to disappear sometime in the future. This isn’t going to happen tomorrow but scientists say that it will happen in five billion years. We will have to find another home. At sometime in the future far away, either we stay on the earth and die with it, or we leave and move to another plant. There won’t be any other choice.
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| Things talked about |
Changes described |
| Houses |
Homes of future will all be |
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Skilled workers will still be Teachers’ work will change a lot |
| Vacations |
Space trips and staying in space hotels will still only be for Some people can |
| Information |
E-paper will be used |
| The future |
People will have to |
Hi, everybody!
Welcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!
Now let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.
Are you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.
Do you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French cinema: students and teachers, specialists and fans, and so on.
Maybe you are Indian film fans and star-chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia (百科全书) of Indian Cinema. The book is a complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.
If you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British cinema. This book contains a good many nice pictures.
In our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.
Well, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!The speaker of the passage is most probably _______.
| A．the writer of 25 New Takes | B．a tourist in the cinema bookstore |
| C．the manager of the cinema bookstore | D．a reader of Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema |
How many Asian countries does the speaker refer to when he talks about the film books?
| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Nine. |
Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage？
| A．Indian cinema is second only to Hollywood. |
| B．The British Cinema Book includes a complete list of names of stars. |
| C．Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon is well received in the States. |
| D．The French Cinema Book covers over a century's French films. |
The purpose of the speaker is_______.
| A．to satisfy the visitors' various tastes |
| B．to keep the writers in the cinema bookstore |
| C．to offer the visitors chances to meet the film stars |
| D．to have the readers into film producers |
Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of the city to a dump(垃圾站). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs(澡盆) and other places.
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus(腐殖土), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.You can most probably read the passage in _______.
| A．a history book | B．a TV guide | C．a science book | D．a telephone book |
The underlined word “sewage” in the passage means_______.
| A．排污 | B．染色 | C．洗涤 | D．吸尘 |
According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again_______.
| A．to feed animals | B．to feed plants | C．to build a house | D．to make machines |
How should we take care of a used metal box according to the passage?
| A．By burning it off. | B．By putting it in water. |
| C．By throwing it away. | D．By reusing and recycling it. |
Prana, our beautiful dog whose name means ‘breath of life’, isn’t with us any more. But she brought such joy and love that we still miss her.
There are so many wonderful stories about the love in this dog, but my favorite is this one.
It was an autumn day in Minnesota, but the weather didn’t know the difference between autumn and winter. Unexpectedly, we were hit with a big snow fall for which no one was prepared.
We have two apple trees in our backyard. Prana loved apples. When she went outside, she’d take hold of an apple, put it far back in her mouth, and sneak into the house to save for eating later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house. Feeling my displeasure, she would turn her head so I wouldn’t see her hidden treasure.
On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Prana went outside and I watched her from the window. I noticed that she was madly digging holes and brought the apples to the surface so they could be seen above the snow. I wondered why she was doing this. She seemed to be completely busy with some kind of important task to dig up as many apples as possible during her yard time.
When I called her back into the house, she had her usual one apple in her mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat. She knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food to live through such an early winter.The story about the dog happened _______.
| A．in autumn | B．in winter | C．in spring | D．in summer |
What does the underlined phrase sneak into mean in the fourth paragraph?
| A．enter quickly | B．enter secretly | C．enter happily | D．enter slowly |
Prana was busy digging up the apples in the snow because________.
| A．she liked digging holes and eating apples |
| B．she was always saving the apples for eating later |
| C．she wanted to leave the apples to her bird friends |
| D．she loves playing with snow |
From the story we can learn that______.
| A．Prana is helpful to the writer |
| B．Prana is devoted to the writer |
| C．Prana is not only beautiful but also joyful |
| D．Prana is especially loving and thoughtful |
Welcome to the Grand Hotel. To make your stay as enjoyable as possible, we hope you will use our facilities (设备) .
| Dining-room |
Breakfast is served in the dining-room from 8 to 9 a.m.. The room staff will bring breakfast to your room at any time after 7 a.m. in this case, please fill out a card and hang it outside your door when you go to bed. Lunch: 12 to 2: 30 p.m. Dinner: 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. |
| Room service |
This operates 24 hours. Phone the Reception (接待) Desk, and your message will be passed to the room staff. |
| Telephones |
To make a phone call, dial 0 for the Reception Desk to be connected. |
| Shop |
The hotel shop is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.. |
| Laundry |
We have a laundry in the building, and will wash, iron and return your clothes within 24 hours. Ask the room staff to collect them. |
| Bar |
The hotel bar is open from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m and 7:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.. |
The above service notice can be seen _______.
| A．in a restaurant | B．in a hotel dining room |
| C．in a bedroom of a large international hotel | D．at the entrance of a small family hotel |
You have arrived and stayed at the hotel at 11:00 p.m. and want a snack. What should you do?
| A．Go to the hotel shop. | B．Go to the hotel bar. |
| C．Hang a message outside your door. | D．Phone the hotel shop assistants. |
Which of the following is true?
| A．You can’t have your breakfast in your room. | B．You can’t make a phone in your room. |
| C．Lunch is served from 12:00 to 2:00p.m.. | D．You can have dinner at midnight. |
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