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（答题时间：30分钟）*I. Answer True or False A.People love parrots for their beautiful and bright colours. They are clever birds. They can learn to talk. They are able to tell if objects are the same or different. There are more than 300 different kinds of parrots.Like other birds, parrots are animals in the wild. They like flying and they like trees. When people buy them from pet shops, parrots have to live in cages. They feel bad there. So if you keep parrots, youd better give them a big cage. Remember to feed your parrots with good food and give them fresh water to drink. You can feed them with cooked rice and fruits.Many people think parrots are lovely birds. That is why so many people keep parrots at home and talk with them all the time and make friends with them.1. People love parrots because they are clever birds with beautiful and bright colours.2. There are 300 different kinds of parrots.3. Parrots are wild birds, too.4. Parrots feel bad in cages.5. People feed parrots with meat.6. Parrots prefer to live with people.B.My parents give me $10 a week but that doesnt go very far these days, so I have to do a Saturday job. I work in a supermarket and I get $3 an hour. I work eight hours on Saturdays and sometimes I even work on Friday evenings as well. So I usually have about $35 to spend every week. I spend about $5 a week on drinks, such as Coke and orange juice. I usually go to the cinema once a week, so thats another $4 or $5. I usually buy a few magazines and a few newspapers every week, so thats about another $5. I like music, so I often buy a record- which costs about $7 at the moment. Ive also got a computer and I sometimes buy a computer game and it costs about $6 each. I always try to save something each week- usually between $5 and $10.1. I have to do a Saturday job because I havent enough money.2. If I want to see a film once a week, I have to pay $4 or $5.3. I have to work at Saturday and Sunday.4. Usually I spend $35 a week.5. Every week I spend all of my money.*II. Choose the best answer.A.To save time, many Americans buy foods which can be quickly made ready for the table. On holidays, families enjoy delicious meals. For example, on Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November, family members get together for a turkey dinner with pumpkin pie（南瓜派）.The United States is known around the world for its fast food, such as hamburgers, sandwiches, pizzas, salad bars, and many kinds of ice cream. People can easily find fast food chains（连锁店）,such as McDonalds and KFC, in most of the big cities in the world.These years, many people have taken more and more care of their health while eating. They come to know eating too much meat will make them overweight. Many of them are also worried about food addictives（添加剂）. Some of them may be harmful to the body.1. Many Americans buy _ to save time.A. ready-made food B. food to cook at homeC. inexpensive food D. foreign food2. Thanksgiving Day is on _.A. November 4th B. Every the 4th Tuesday in NovemberC. the fourth Thursday in November D. Every November the fourth3. Pizza is a kind of _ food.A. take-away B. home-cooking C. fast D. Chinese4. What does the word overweight mean? It means_A. thinner B. fatter C. worse D. better5. People are worried about_. Which is not true?A. overweight B. their health C. food addictives D. fast foodB. On Saturdays, most people are busy _ for their homes. Some of them go to the stores, some go to the supermarkets. But in America, most shoppers enjoy shopping in the shopping malls.A mall is a group of many shops. There you can buy clothes, furniture, and everything you need. Shopping malls provide parking for your cars. Usually, the mall is under one roof so the shoppers do not get cold or wet from rain, wind, or snow.After shopping, you may get tired. You can walk into the sitting-rooms for a short rest. If you can go into the dining rooms in the malls, then you can have a good meal. Now more and more Americans like to go shopping there.1. Most American are busy_ for their homes on Saturdays.A. doing sports B. doing housework C. watching TV D. shopping2. Most people like to do sopping _.A. on weekends B. on Sundays C. every day D. every week3. In America, most people enjoy shopping in _.A. supermarkets B. shops C. the stores D. shopping malls4. People dont have to worry about rain or wind, because the mall is _.A. under one roof B. on the ground floor C. in the open air D. without roof5. In a shopping mall, you can find _ to park your car.A. a big house B. a place C. a small shop D. a room【试题答案】I、A. 1. T 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F 6. FB. 1. T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. FII、A. 1. A 2. C 3. C 4. B 5. DSeumas Mcsporran is a very b_ man. He is 60 years old and he has thirteen jobs. He is a postman, a policeman, a fireman, a taxi driver, a school-bus driver, a boatman, an ambulance man, an accountant, a petrol attendant, a barman, and an undertaker. Also, he and his wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel. Seumas l_ and works on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 120 people live on Gigha but in s_ 150 tourists come by b_ every day. Every weekday Seumas gets up at six and makes b_ for the hotel guests. At eight he drives the islands children to s_. At nine he collects the post from the boat and delivers it to all the houses on the island. He also delivers the beer to the islands only pub. Then he helps Margaret in the s_.He says:“Margaret likes being busy, too. We n_ have holidays and we dont like w_ television. In the evening Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At ten we have a glass of wine and then we go to bed. P_ our life isnt very exciting, but we like it.” 1._ 2 _ 3 _ 4 _ 5 _ 6._ 7 _ 8 _ 9 _ 10 Tim spent in a bookshop can be enjoyable. If you go to a good s_, no assistant will come near to you and say , “Can I h_ you ?” You neednt buy a_ you dont want. You may try to find out where the book you want is. But if you w_, the assistant will lead you there and then he will go away. It seems that he is not interested i_ selling any books at all. There is a story which t_ us about a good shop. A medical student found a very useful book in a shop, but it is too expensive for him to b_. He couldnt get it from the library, e_. So every afternoon he went there to r_ a little at a time. One day, however, he couldnt find the book from its usual place and was leaving when he saw an assistant signing to him. To his s_, the assistant pointed to the book in a corner, “I put it there so as not to be sold out .” said the assistant . Then he let the student go on with his reading. 1 _ 2 _ 3 _ 4 _ 5 _ 6 _ 7 _ 8 _ 9 _ 10 _ (S=salesgirl; H=Han mei ) S: Good morning. Can I help you? H: Yes. I _ this blouse last week, but theres something wrong with it. When I _ it, the colors ran. I cant _ it now. I want you to _ this blouse or give me my _ back. S: Let me see. Did you wash it in _ water? H: Of course not. S: It _ as if it hasnt been washed following the _. Did you leave it in water _ you washed it? H: No, I didnt do that, _. I didnt put it cold water until I washed it. 1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _ 6. _ 7. _ 8. _ 9. _ 10. _ When you go to England you may find the traffic there is different from ours. As a f_ (1) you must be c_ (2) in the streets, because the traffic d_ (3) on the left. You must look to the right and then the left before you cross a street. In the morning and in the evening when people go to or come back from work, the streets are very b_ (4). Traffic is most d_ (5) then. When you go by bus in England, you have to take care, too. Always r_ (6) the traffic m _ (7) on the left. You have to t_ (8) a look first or you will go to the w_ (9) way. In many English cities there are big buses with two f_ (10). You can sit on the second one. From there you can see the city very well. 1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _ 6. _ 7. _ 8. _ 9. _ 10. _ Which animal do we need m 1 ? Dogs? Horses? No! The a 2 to the question is cows. Why cows? Cows give us milk. And milk is one of our most important k 3 of food. Suppose(假设)that all the milk cows make in one year were put i 4 bottles. And suppose these bottles were put side by side. The line of bottles would go all around the world 400 t 5 . That is a lot of milk, less than half of it is used for d 6 and cooking. Most of it is u7 to make butter cheese, ice cream and many other things. It takes many cows to give us that m 8 milk. But not as many as it used to. A cow used to give only about 1,500 quarts(夸脱)of milk a year. Now a fine cow may g 9 more than 3,000 quarts in a year. Why do cows give more milk today? Now farmers have better cows. The cows get better c 10 and better food. 1. m_ 2. a_ 3. k_ 4. i_ 5. t_ 6. d_ 7. u_ 8. m_ 9. g_ 10. c_ Heres a part of an e-mail answer from Joe giving some advice to his son in college. “When I was young, I often met t_ (1) about what to do and what not to do. My grandmother told me not to worry about those things. I o_ (2) did them once a year or once a lifetime. I_ (3), I should try to do well those things, and I do them every day. For example, I need to eat every day, so I should learn how to c_ (4). I need to talk to o_ (5) every day, so I should learn how to work with d _ (6) people and know how to s _ (7) well. I walk every day, so my s _(8) should be all right and comfortable. Every night I sleep, so my bed should let me have a good rest. Taking care of the e_ (9) things m_ (10) that you do a better job of the one in a lifetime things as well.” 1._ 2. _ 3._ 4. _ 5 . _6._ 7. _ 8._ 9. _ 10 . _ Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine lives with six hundred animals on an island. Ever s_1_ he left school, he has travelled all over the world l_2_ for animals for his own zoo. He writes books about his travels, and about his wonderful a_3_. The money for his books helps him to p_4_ for all the animal food. My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island, though there is a lot all around it ), he f_5_ oil. He n_6_ money for his travels and for his zoo, and a little oil would buy e_7_ water for a long time, but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it, it will be the e_8_ of his zoo and his lifes work. So I think he will not tell anybody e _9_ you and me about what he found because oil and water cant be p_10_ together. Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water. Do you think so? 1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _ 6. _7. _ 8. _ 9. _ 10. _ Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs i_ (1) of people. They say that at a circus (杂技场), for e_(2), we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q _(3) skillful things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely , you may find that the trainer (驯兽员)always g _(4) the animal some sugar o r a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many d_ (5) animals may be trained