In almost every big university in the USA, football is a favorite sport. American football is not like soccer. Players sometimes kick the ball, but they also throw the ball and run with it. They try to take it to the other end of the field. They have four chances to move the ball ten yards. They can carry it or throw it, If they move it to the end of the filed, they receive six points. This is called a touch down.
It is hard to move the ball. Eleven men in the team try to stop the man who has the ball. If the man does not move the ball ten yards, his team kicks the ball to the other team.
Each university wants its team to win. Thousands of people come to watch. They all yell for their favorite team. Young men and women called cheerleaders come on the field to help the people yell more. They dance and jump while they yell.
Each team plays ten or eleven games each season. The season begins in September and ends in November. If a team is very good, it may play another game after the season ends. The best teams play again on January 1, the first day of the New Year. Many people go to see these games and many others watch them on TV.In America, football players can _______.
| A．only kick the ball |
| B．only throw the ball |
| C．kick, throw and carry the ball |
| D．do anything they like |
If a team wants to get points , it has to move the ball _____.
| A．10 yards | B．to the other end |
| C．away from its own end | D．to the other team |
Most teams begin to play games in _______.
| A．September | B．October |
| C．November | D．each season |
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Ted Robinson has been worried all the week.Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.In the letter he was asked to call at the station.Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police,but he went to the station yesterday and he is not worried at more.
At the station,he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found.Five days ago,the policeman told him,the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.It is now being sent to his home by train.
Ted was most surprised when he heard the news.He was amused (感到有趣），too,because he never expected (指望）the bicycle to be found.It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.
Answer the questions:What happened last Tuesday?
What was he told at the station?
What are the police doing with the bicycle?
Why was he surprised and amused?
How old was Ted when his bicycle was stolen?
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Two farmers were on their way home one evening after a hard day's work. Both were tired. They happened to look up at the sky and saw a black cloud overhead.
"Ah!" said one farmer, "tomorrow we shall have rain and the rice will grow well." The second answered, "Nonsense (胡说), the rain will only kill the crops (庄稼)."
So they began to quarrel (争吵). Just then a third farmer came along and asked them why they were quarreling. Both farmers explained about the black cloud.
"What cloud?" asked the third farmer. They all looked at the sky. The cloud was no longer there. The two farmers were _____.
| A．going home | B．going to the field |
| C．going to work | D．going to see their friend |
The two farmers _____ on that day.
| A．had a holiday | B．didn't work |
| C．worked hard | D．wanted to quarrel with each other |
When there are black block clouds in the sky, _____.
| A．it will rain soon | B．it will be fine |
| C．it will get hot | D．the sun is shining brightly |
The two farmers fought in words because _____.
| A．they were hungry |
| B．it rained |
| C．one said the rain would do good to the crops and the other didn't think so |
| D．they both hoped for rain |
The third farmer came with and said to the other two. He _____.
| A．wanted to make friends with them |
| B．joined them in the quarrel |
| C．wanted to know why they were quarreling |
| D．had nothings to do |
How many farmers said that the rain would be helpful? _____.
| A．None | B．One | C．Two | D．Three |
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The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. At fast food restaurant, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurant, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars. There are many kinds of fast food restaurant in the United States. The greatest in number sell hamburger, French fries and so on. They are popular among Americans. Besides, fast food restaurant that serve Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-cream are very many. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one.
Fast food restaurant are popular because they reflect(反映) American life style. Customer can wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. In fast food restaurant, food is not expensive. Therefore, people often buy and eat at a fast restaurant, while they may not be able to go to a more expensive restaurant very often.In the United States the favorite food is ____.
| A．Chinese food | B．Mexican food |
| C．French fries | D．the hamburger |
Americans like to fast food restaurant because_____.
| A．they can easily find fast food restaurant |
| B．they like to eat hamburger and French fries |
| C．they are too busy to want to spend time preparing or waiting |
| D．they are so rich that they don’t want to do cooking themselves |
_____ of fast food restaurant sell hamburger, French fries.
| A．All | B．Most | C．Few | D．None |
The food in fast food restaurant is ____ ready before the customers order it.
| A．always | B．usually | C．seldom | D．never |
The best title for the passage is _____.
A. The Fast Food Restaurant in the U.S.A.
B. The Hamburger in the U.S.A.
C. American Life Style
D. All Kinds of Food in the U.S.A.
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On 26th January, the biggest earthquake（地震）in India took the lives of 25000 people. In the morning, when everybody was enjoying holiday, earthquake began. It was about 7.5 on the Ritcher scale. “There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been pulled down,” said one of the villagers alive. “There is no water, no food and no one has come to help.”
Nobody died in Pakistan, a country next to India. The City of Lahore was lucky. In Lahore American school, where I was studying, all of the students were safe. They were on the field, so most children didn’t feel anything. The earthquake was felt by the teachers that were on the second floor. However, though Mrs Young was also on the second floor, she didn’t feel anything. She didn’t know what happened until a teacher told her about it. Those teachers who were on the other floors had different feelings. Mr Emond, the maths teacher from Australia, said that when the earthquake started he thought there was something wrong with him, but then another teacher said that it was an earthquake. After those words Mr Emond felt better. Mrs Davis and
Mr Frost didn’t feel anything either.
My mother didn’t feel anything. She didn’t even know that it was an earthquake till she saw a shaking (moving from side to side) light. My dad saw the computer shaking and then he looked out of the window and saw many people going out.People use “Ritcher scale” to tell ______.
| A．where the earthquake takes place | B．when the earthquake takes place |
| C．how serious the earthquake is | D．how long the earthquake lasts |
We learn that ______ from the sentence “There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more.”
| A．India is a large country |
| B．the Indian people had nothing after the earthquake |
| C．there is no tall building in India |
| D．the earthquake in India was serious |
The city of Lahore is ______.
| A．in India | B．in America | C．in Pakistan | D．in Australia |
Which one is true?
| A．I was with my parents when the earthquake happened. |
| B．The earthquakes in the city of Lahore wasn’t serious. |
| C．People in the City of Lahore were frightened when they knew if was an earthquake. |
| D．The teachers in Lahore American school were afraid of the earthquake. |
The best way of learning a language is using it. The best way of learning English is talking in English as much as possible. Sometimes you’ll get your words mixed up(混淆) and people will not understand you. Sometimes people will say things too quickly and you can’t understand them. But if you keep your sense of humor(幽默感), you can always have a good laugh at your mistakes you make. Don’t be unhappy if people seem to be laughing at your mistakes. It’s better for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you, because they don’t understand what you are saying. The most important things for learning English is: “Don’t be afraid of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes(犯错).”The writer thinks that the best way for you to learn a language is_____.
| A．writing in it | B．using it |
| C．listening to it | D．learning its grammar |
What should you do in learning English?
| A．We should be careful not to make any mistakes. |
| B．We should write as quickly as we can. |
| C．We should speak English as much as we can. |
| D．we should laugh more often. |
When you make a mistake, you should_____.
| A．keep quiet | B．get angry |
| C．be kind | D．keep your sense of humor |
The story tells us that_____.
| A．only foolish (愚蠢的) people make mistakes |
| B．few people make mistakes |
| C．people never make mistakes |
| D．there is no one who doesn’t make mistakes |
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