Research says that husbands do not do their fair share of work around the house. A study from an American university says that men seldom do the same share of housework. Researchers interviewed 182 working couples who became first-time parents. Both husbands and wives worked almost the same number of hours in full-time jobs. However, men did five hours a week less housework than women after their baby was born.
It is a different story for mothers. Becoming a parent added 21 hours a week to a mother’s work. Most of this was looking after her baby. New fathers did not do more woke because they did not realize the mother was doing so much more. Another reason is that after a baby is born, fathers follow the “traditional” roles. That is, the mother looks after the baby and the father works outside. This happens even when the mother is working the same number of hours in her job.It is found that ______ do less housework.
| A．wives | B．husbands | C．parents | D．babies |
The underlined sentence “It is a different story for mothers.” Probably means ______.
| A．mothers come from different families |
| B．mothers like reading different stories |
| C．mothers work more hours than fathers |
| D．different mothers have different children |
What is the “traditional” role of a father?
| A．Working outside | B．Looking after the baby |
| C．Doing housework | D．Doing part-time jobs |
Which part of a newspaper can this passage be taken from?
| A．Sports | B．Medicine |
| C．News | D．Society |
A man came home from work late, tired and unhappy, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door.
The boy asked, "Daddy, how much do you make per hour?" The father was furious at his son's question.
When he said $20 an hour, the little boy asked his father to lend $10 to him. The father was even angrier because he thought the boy just wanted some money to buy a toy. So he didn't answer his son.
The little boy quietly went to his room. After about an hour or so, the man calmed down and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10.
"Maybe I was too hard on you just now," the man went into the room and said. "Here's the $10 you asked for."
"Oh, thank you, Daddy!" He said. Then, he reached under his pillow, pulled out some crumpled coins and said, "Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you." How much does the man make if he works 10 hours?
| A．$10. | B．$20. | C．$30. | D．$40 |
In this passage, the underlined word "furious" means ______.
| A．very angry | B．quite happy | C．too excited | D．a little nervous |
At first, the father refused to lend the boy any money because ______.
| A．he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself |
| B．he did not have enough money at that moment |
| C．he thought the boy would buy something of no use |
| D．the boy always borrowed money from him |
The boy wanted to buy ______ with twenty dollars.
| A．a new book for himself | B．a nice present for his father |
| C．a toy for his own birthday | D．an hour of his father's time |
From the passage, we can infer (推断) that the boy's father ______.
| A．often played with his son | B．spent little time with his son |
| C．didn’t love his son at all | D．often came back home early |
Dou Kou, a Chinese boy, is called "the youngest writer in the world" .He has written 3 books now.
Dou Kou was born in Jiangsu Province in 1994. When he was 7 months old, his parents started working in over 30 different cities, such as Xi'an and Shenzhen .This kind of life gave him things to think
and write about.
When Dou Kou was 9 months old, he could speak and at the age of one he could say five to six hundred words. At 3, he could look up words in the dictionary. At 4, his father taught him to learn something. His parents like reading very much. So does he. At the age of 5, he began writing fairy tales
(童话).
His fairy tales are all from his life. One day ,he found many mice in the house. They not only ate their food but also hurt his mother's hand. So he thought, "lf we give mice the stomachs (胃)of cows, they'll eat grass and it'll be helpful to people. " This was his first fairy tale Change, Stomach for Mice.
At 6, he wrote a novel about his own life in different cities with his parents.
Now, he studies well in a middle school. He has written his third book, the novel- called Eyes of Childhood .He says ,"l am not different from other children .I just wrote several books. "How many books has Dou Kou written?
| A．Three. | B．Four. | C．Five. | D．Six |
Because of _____ Dou Kou could write his books.
| A．his mother | B．his father |
| C．school life | D．life in different cities |
Dou Kou began to use a dictionary _____
| A．when he wrote fairy tales |
| B．before his father taught him to study |
| C．after he went to school |
| D．after his mother taught him how to learn something |
The underlined (画线的) sentences at the end of the passage show us that _____ .
| A．Dou Kou is different from other children |
| B．Dou Kou doesn't tell the truth |
| C．Dou Kou is the same as other children |
| D．Dou Kou likes his books |
Which is the best title (标题) of this passage?
| A．Three Books by a Child |
| B．How to Write Fairy Tales |
| C．How Clever the Boy is |
| D．Dou Kou, the Youngest Writer |
My friend, Victor, is a zoo keeper in the National Zoo. His work is very interesting but it is hard. Sometimes it is dangerous, too. Every morning the zoo keepers have to get up at five to prepare the food for the animals. Each kind of animal is given special food. For example, the lions must be given meat; the deer must be given grass and leaves; and the parrots must be given fruit and nuts. Sometimes some animals won’t let the others eat their food. If this happens, each of them must be fed separately (分离地).
Every morning each cage must be washed by the zoo keepers. This can be dangerous, especially with lions and tigers. To make the work easier, the animals are locked in the sleeping compartments (隔间) while the cages are being washed. When the animals are sick, the zoo keepers must look after them. Each sick animal is kept in a separate cage and given medicine. Sometimes they must be given injections. It is not easy to inject a sick lion!
All the keepers live near the zoo. Each of them has a small house. There he lives with his family. They do not have holidays on Sundays and public holidays. Instead, each of them has a day off during the week. Each keeper has a holiday on a different day from that of the other keepers.
The most important job of the keepers is to look after the safety of the visitors. People must be prevented from doing dangerous things. Many people have been injured because they did careless things, like putting their hands into the lion’s cage.
根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。What kind of food must be given to the animals like tigers, lions and bears?
| A．Nuts. | B．Fruit. | C．Meat. | D．Grass and leaves. |
Some animals must be fed separately because _______.
| A．they eat special food |
| B．they often quarrel with each other while eating |
| C．they always cause the zoo keepers much trouble |
| D．they won’t let the others eat their food |
When an animal is sick, it must be _______.
| A．taken out of the cage | B．put separately and taken good care of |
| C．given an injection | D．locked in a sleeping compartment |
All the zoo keepers must work _______.
| A．seven days a week | B．on Saturdays |
| C．on special festivals | D．on weekdays |
The underlined word “injured” in the last paragraph (段落) means _______.
| A．hurt | B．beaten | C．killed | D．caught |
| Name |
Personal Information |
| Norman Bethune |
·Born in 1890 in Canada ·A doctor ·Came to China in 1938 ·Died in 1939 in China |
| Celine Dion |
·Born in Montreal, Canada ·A singing star ·In 1997, sang My Heart Will Go On for the film Titanic |
| Thomas Edison |
·Born in 1847, Kentucky, the USA ·Made over 1,000 inventions ·Died in 1931 |
| Bill Gates |
·Born in 1955 in the USA ·Wrote Business at the Speed of Thought ·Owned Microsoft Company |
| Mark Twain |
·Born in 1835 in the USA ·A writer ·Died in 1910 ·Wrote Tom Sawyer |
根据表格第三行描述,可知席琳迪翁出生在加拿大的蒙特利尔,故选D.
根据表格最后一行描述,可知马克吐温是个作家,他出生在1835年.故选B.
根据表格第三行描述,可知我心永恒是首歌曲的名字,故选C.
根据表格第二行描述,可知白求恩在1938年来到中国,在1939年去世,故他在中国生活了两年.选A.
根据表格第四行描述,可知爱迪生的发明超过一千多项.故选C.
_______ is from Canada.
| A．Bill Gates | B．Mark Twain | C．Thomas Edison | D．Celine Dion |
The _____ was born in 1835.
| A．inventor | B．writer | C．doctor | D．singer |
My Heart Will Go On is the name of a ______.
| A．book | B．film | C．song | D．story |
Dr Bethune worked in China for about ______years.
| A．2 | B．4 | C．6 | D．8 |
Which of the following is true?
| A．Mark Twain wrote Business at the Speed of Thought. |
| B．Bill Gates started working for Microsoft Company in 1995. |
| C．Thomas Edison made over 1,000 inventions. |
| D．Celine Dion stopped singing 1997. |
In America, just as in Europe, men usually open doors for women, and women always walk ahead of men into a room or a restaurant, unless the men have to be ahead of the ladies to choose the table, to open the door of a car or do some other things like the above. On the street, men almost always walk or cross the street on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic. But if a man walks with two ladies, he should walk between them. Then if the host or hostess or both of them come in a car to get their guest for dinner, the guest should sit at the front seat and leave the back seat though there're no people sitting on it.In America, men usually_________.
| A．walk ahead of women | B．eat in a restaurant |
| C．walk behind women | D．drive a car to work |
In the street, men __________.
| A．cross the street | B．walk on the right side of the ladies |
| C．walk near the ladies | D．walk on the closer side of the ladies to the traffic |
If a man walks with two ladies, he should _________.
| A．walk between them | B．run before them |
| C．follow them | D．go away |
If a man asks you to speak at a meeting, first you should say,"______".
| A．How are you? | B．Is everyone here? |
| C．Ladies and gentlemen | D．How do you do? |
If Mrs. Green invites you to her house in a car, you should________.
| A．jump into the car | B．sit at the front seat |
| C．sit at the back seat | D．drive the car |
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