“Lots of restaurants say they’re the best. To be honest, we are not and we’ve never said we are. We just try to be a little bit better every day,” said Mr. Yang, who runs a restaurant named Grandpa Yang in Chongqing.
Yang started the restaurant in 2011. He was unhappy when quite a lot of food was left uneaten. “If customers know more about the food before they order, they will know what to pick,” he thought. So he decided to write something about each dish on his menu online.
Now there is something about the food. “Compared with our General Tao Chicken; this one is not THAT good,” says the introduction of Orange Beef. Another introduction warns. “Don’t let the name fool you. This one is NOT a real Sichuan dish.”
“People often search online to find the right restaurant. I don’t want them to say, ‘Oh, it’s one of the best in the area, and it must be very good,’ but then they come here only to find it’s not so good,” Yang said, “Customers should read more about the food before they order, not only my introductions, but also other customers’ opinions.”
Thanks to his honesty, the restaurant is having a moment under the sun. “It’s been a very exciting and busy time,” said Yang, “and I love it.”
(1). The restaurant Grandpa Yang was started ________.
| A． |
in 2001 |
B． |
in 2011 |
C． |
in 2012 |
D． |
in 2021 |
(2). Mr. Yang was unhappy when ________.
| A． |
the food was almost sold out |
B． |
customers knew a lot about the food |
| C． |
customers found the food unhealthy |
D． |
quite a lot of food was left uneaten |
(3). Mr. Yang thinks that ________.
| A． |
his restaurant is the best |
B． |
people shouldn’t search online |
| C． |
General Tao Chicken is good |
D． |
customers shouldn’t say anything |
(4). According to the passage, the restaurant becomes successful mainly because ________.
| A． |
it offers good service |
B． |
Mr. Yang is honest |
| C． |
it offers a good price |
D． |
Mr. Yang is foolish |
Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time.
In fact happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you. W hen you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health. When you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you. When you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy too. All these are your happiness. If you notice them you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can’t say loudly you are very happy because you have more chances to challenge yourselves. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. If you take every chance you get, you will be a happy and lucky person.
| A．laugh at you | B．play jokes on you |
| C．quarrel with you | D．help you up |
| A．Congratulations. | B．Oh, so do I. |
| C．Good luck. | D．It' s just so-so. |
| A．Happiness is always around you though difficulties come towards you. |
| B．You can get help from others when you make mistakes. |
| C．You can still be a happy person even if you have little money. |
| D．People who have cars would never like to walk in the open air. |
| A．Bad luck | B．Good luck | C．Happiness | D．Life. |
“An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue(队伍) of one,” wrote a famous British author, George Mikes．While this sounds funny, it’s a popular English stereotype (刻板印象)．From the supermarket to the subway, queues are a common sight on the streets of Britain．
Here in China, queues are normal, too．It is a part of everyday life．People queue most of the time, from buying tickets in the cinema to waiting for seats at a restaurant．But in certain situations, you’ll find yourself in the middle of a rushing crowd, such as getting onto the subway．Even away from the busy subway platform, queues are different．
One day I was standing in line at the supermarket．I left a small space in front of me．Within seconds, a girl walked by and took her place in that small space．I was surprised at first, but later I found these experiences very interesting．It is with these small, everyday differences that I get to live and learn in a new culture．
Back in Britain, the person spends about six months of their life waiting in a queue, according to the auction site MadBid．To pass the time, maybe they tell themselves the famous proverb: Good things come to those who wait．
| A．forming an orderly queue |
| B．being rude and loud |
| C．traveling on subways |
| D．spending more time waiting in a queue |
| A．call on people in China to queue more |
| B．compare queuing in two cultures |
| C．praise the English for following good manners |
| D．explain why people rush in some situations |
| A．Sports. | B．News. |
| C．Culture. | D．Business. |
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案。
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| Tickets Information for Beauty and Beast Dates: Mon. —Fri. 10 am, 7 pm Sat. —Sun. 10 am, 2pm, 7pm Place: Star Theatre Time Period: 1.5 hours Ticket Prices: $ 15 per child $ 35 per adult Attentions: Please arrive early．People who are late for the show will not be allowed to enter until a proper break． |
| A．At 12 a.m. on Tuesday． | B．At 10 a.m. on Thursday． |
| C．At 2 p.m. on Friday． | D．At 9 p.m. on Saturday． |
| A．13. | B．14. | C．15. | D．16. |
| A．$45. | B．$70. | C．$ 85. | D．$ 105. |
I’m Cathy Brown. I am now working for the Sunshine Travel Service in Changsha. I have just come back from Taiwan, the biggest island of China. It is in the Pacific Ocean(太平洋) to the east of Fujian.
Last week, I took a group of French holiday-makers for a week’s trip to Taiwan. We traveled all around the island. There are a lot of places of interest. My favorite is Sun Moon Lake. You may ask why people call it so. If you fly high up over the lake and look down from your plane, you will find the answer yourself. In the middle of this lake, there is a small island that is called Pearl Island because it looks like a pearl. On one side of Pearl Island the lake looks like a sun, and on the other side it looks like a moon. That is why people call it the Sun Moon Lake.
There are many mountains around this lake. One of the nearest is Mount Ali. We stayed there for three days. We also had a dancing party with Gaoshan people. On our first day there we went to the mountain and watched the sun going down slowly in the west. On our last day we got up early and saw the beautiful sunrise(日出).
Taiwan is a wonderful place which is known for beautiful scenery.
根据短文内容，完成下列任务。将文中画线句子改为定语从句。
_______________________________________________________________What does the word “holiday-maker” in this passage mean in Chinese? ( )
| A．假期的 | B．制造者 | C．旅游 | D．度假者 |
Which place does Cathy like best?
_______________________________________________________________Why do people call the lake Sun Moon Lake?
They stayed in Mount Ali for ______.
Mails, games, music, news, chat rooms and shopping! The Internet is part of our life today. It’s easy to get onto the Internet. The only thing we need to do is to use a modem(调制解调器) which is used for connecting a computer to a telephone line. The Internet is changing and growing all the time. More and more people have computers and use the Internet. Using the Internet means surfing the World Wide Web(That’s the “WWW” you always hear about). The Internet has a large number of websites(网站). They are the places where you go to get information and do things.
Where do these websites come from? They are made by web designers. What happens when you click on a word or a picture? You are sent to another page. It’s all because of the web designers. Web designers do a lot of work by using a computer programming(程序编制) language.
Is web design all about computer programming? No, it’s about making something new. Web designers must imagine a lot when they are making a website. It must look good and be fun to use. A big part of web design is art. They choose the best pictures and colors to make the website look good. They also write the things that you see on the website. An important part of their job is to share ideas with the website manager about how to design the website well.More and more people are using the Internet because _____.
| A．it’s easy and useful |
| B．it’s changing and growing |
| C．websites are designed quite well |
| D．people can design a computer |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．“WWW” means “World Wide Web”. |
| B．There’re a few websites on the web. |
| C．The Internet has changed people’s lives. |
| D．We can do things like shopping on the Internet. |
Web designers must _____.
| A．write all the articles on the website by themselves |
| B．follow the managers’ ideas |
| C．be creative |
| D．share computer with the website manager |
It’s possible for us to change websites just by a click because of _____.
| A．the modem’s help |
| B．the telephone line’s help |
| C．the web designers’ work |
| D．the website manager’s work |
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