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We all know that the British people love their manners. They are part of their national identity (特性), as well as having fish and chips and complaining about the weather. Recently I read online that they said “sorry” up to eight times a day.
After some research I have not been able to find any specific reasons why they are like this. I suppose, for centuries, manners, including how they behave at table and talk to other people have been one of the differences between the lower and upper classes and those manners show their social classes. Britain has traditionally been a quite conservative (保守的) country. There are many articles suggesting that their seemingly polite attitude of always saying “please” and “thank you” is quite false because it is impossible for a person to always feel that he or she wants to thank someone or say “please”.
Maybe it is for this reason that people are going one of two ways:they are too polite and hold back their feelings or they are not polite at all and express their true feelings directly. Some British people are tired of pretending that they are always happy and having to please others. But sometimes because they feel they have to be polite, they are prevented from saying what they truly think.
1.What don't the British people often do?
A. Eat fish and chips. B. Have no quite good manners.
C. Be polite to others. D. Talk about the weather.
2.What do the British people say up to eight times every day?
A. Hello. B. Thank you. C. I don't know. D. Sorry.
3.What does the writer think are the reasons why the British people are so polite?
①The upper classes should have good manners.
②They have learned much about politeness at school.
③They like to hold back their true feelings.
④They are not honest at all.
A. ①② B. ③④ C. ①③ D. ②④
4.What does the underlined word “pretending” mean in Chinese?
A. 打算 B. 假装 C. 想象 D. 体验
5.What is the best title of this passage?
A. British people are too polite B. British people should not be so polite
C. How to learn the British manners D. It's time to change our manners
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We all know that the British people love their manners(礼仪).They are part of their national identity(特性),as well as having fish and chips and complaining about the weather.Recently I read online that they say “sorry” up to eight times a day.
After some research I have not been able to find any specific reasons why they are like this.I suppose,for centuries,manners,including how they behave at table and talk to other people have been one of the differences between the lower and upper classes and those manners show their social classes.Britain has traditionally been a quite conservative(保守的) country.There are many articles suggesting that their seemingly polite attitude of always saying “please” and “thank you” is quite false because it is impossible for a person to always feel that he or she wants to thank someone or say “please”.
Maybe it is for this reason that people are going one of two ways:they are too polite and hold back their feelings or they are not polite at all and express their true feelings directly.Some British people are tired of pretending that they are always happy and having to please others.But sometimes because they feel they have to be polite,they are prevented from saying what they truly think.
1.What don’t the British people often do?
A. Eat fish and chips. B. Have no quite good manners.
C. Be polite to others. D. Talk about the weather.
2.What do the British people say up to eight times every day?
A. Hello. B. Thank you. C. I don’t know. D. Sorry.
3.What does the writer think are the reasons why the British people are so polite?
①The upper classes should have good manners.
②They have learned much about politeness at school.
③They like to hold back their true feelings.
④They are not honest at all.
A. ①② B. ③④ C. ①③ D. ②④
4.What does the underlined word “pretending” mean in Chinese?
A. 打算 B. 假装 C. 想象 D. 体验
5.What is the best title of this passage?
A. British people are too polite B. British people should not be so polite
C. How to learn the British manners D. It’s time to change our manners
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Humans are social animals. They live in groups all over the world. As these groups of people live apart from other groups, over the years and centuries they develop their own habits and ideas, which form different cultures. One important particular side of every culture is how its people deal with time.
Time is not very important in non industrial societies. The Nuer people of East Africa, for example, do not even have a word TIME that is in agreement with the abstract thing we call time. The daily lives of the people of such non industrial societies are likely to be patterned around their physical needs and natural events rather than around a time schedule (时间表) based on the clock. They cook and eat when they are hungry and sleep when the sun goes down. They plant crops during the growing seasons and harvest them when the crops are ripe. They measure time not by a clock or calendar(日历), but by saying that an event takes place before or after some other event. Frequently such a society measures day in terms of “sleeps” or longer periods in terms of “moons”. Some cultures, such as the Eakinos of Greenland measure seasons according to the migration of certain animals.
Some cultures which do not have a written language or keep written records have developed interesting ways of “telling time”. For example, when several Australian aborigines want to plan an event for a future time, one of them places a stone on a cliff or in a tree. Each day the angle of the sun changes slightly. In a few days, the rays of the sun strike the stone in a certain way. When this happens, the people see that the agreed - upon time has arrived and the event can take place.
In contrast (成对比), exactly correct measurement of time is very important in modern, in detribalized societies. This is because industrialized societies require the helpful efforts of many people in order to work. For a factory to work efficiently (well, quickly and without waste), for example , all of the workers must work at the same time, Therefore, they must know what time to start work in the morning and what time they may go home in the afternoon. Passengers must know the exact time that an airplane will arrive or depart. Students and teachers need to know when a class starts and ends. Stores must open on time in order to serve their customers. Complicated (复杂的) societies need clocks and calendars. Thus, we can see that if each person worked according to his or her own schedule, a complicated society could hardly work at all.
1.By saying “Humans are social animals”, the author means ________.
A.they live all over the world.
B.they are different from other animals
C.they live in one area as a whole
D.they are divided into many groups
2.Time is not very important in non industrial societies. This is because people in those societies ________.
A.don’t have the word TIME in their languages
B.don’t get used to using clocks and other timepieces
C.don’t measure time in their daily lives
D.don’t need to plan their daily lives around an exact time schedule
3.The Australian aborigines’ way of “telling time” is based on ________.
A.the change of the sun rays
B.the movement of the earth in relation to the sun
C.the position of the stone
D.the position of the tree or the cliff
4.Which of the following night be the best title for this passage?
A.Time and Culture
B.The Measurement of Time
C.Time schedule and Daily Life
D.Clock, Calendar and Society
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It's a cold, grey Sunday afternoon in March. The British are all working in their gardens. They're digging, cutting leaves and planting new seeds (种子)，By summer, their gardens will be full of bright colours.
The British love their gardens. A British newspaper recently asked people for their opinions about them. Around 70% of the people felt it was important to spend time in the garden, and over 50% of these described gardening as the most enjoyable thing .they ever did.
Only one in ten houses in Britain do not have a garden. People who live in houses without gardens often rent (租用) land from the government.
At first, only very rich people had gardens. You can still see the gardens around houses with a long history, such as Chatsworth House or Castle Howard. In the early twentieth century, however, gardening became a hobby. People bought different kinds of seeds and plants for their gardens. Although roses, sunflowers and tomatoes are often grown in British gardens, they originally (起初) grew wild in other countries.
Every year, there are competitions for the largest vegetables, but don't expect to win: Britain's biggest carrot is almost six metres long.
1.In summer, British gardens are often ______
A. full of people digging there B. colorful with different plants
C. too hot for people to work there D. covered with grey leaves and plants
2.A recent survey showed that ______ of the British felt it important to do some gardening.A. around 70% B. over 50% C. only 20% D. about 10%
3.We can infer from Paragraph 4 that ________
A. seeds were provided for free
B. roses were first grown in Britain
C. gardening is a hobby in the world
D. the owner of Chatsworth House was rich
4.What does the writer mean by the underlined sentence?
A. It is easy to grow big vegetables.
B. It is hard to win the competition.
C. The carrot is much easier to grow.
D. The carrot is his favorite vegetable.
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It's a cold, grey Sunday afternoon in March. The British are all working in their _______ . They're digging, cutting leaves and planting new seeds (种子). By summer，their gardens will be _______ bright colors.
The British love their gardens. A British newspaper recently asked people for _______ opinions about them. Around 70% of the people felt it was _______ to spend time in the garden, and over 50% of these _______ gardening as the most enjoyable thing they ever did.
Only one in ten houses in Britain do not have a garden. People who live in houses _______ gardens often rent (租用) land from the government.
At first, only very rich people had gardens. Now you can _______ see the gardens around houses with a long history, such as Chatsworth House or Castle Howard. They are well protected as good memories. In the early twentieth century, however, gardening became a _______ . People enjoyed doing it in their spare time and they bought different kinds of seeds and plants for their gardens. _______ roses, sunflowers and tomatoes are often grown in British gardens, they originally (起初) grew wild in other countries.
Every year, there are competitions for the __________ vegetables, but don't expect to win: Britain's biggest carrot is almost six metres long.
1.A.fields B.gardens C.factories D.parks
2.A.full of B.busy with C.good at D.similar to
3.A.its B.his C.her D.their
4.A.boring B.possible C.difficult D.important
5.A.followed B.canceled C.described D.completed
6.A.near B.without C.around D.in
7.A.seldom B.already C.still D.never
8.A.hobby B.task C.course D.dream
9.A.So B.Because C.But D.Although
10.A.smallest B.cheapest C.largest D.richest
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All the kids had a lot of fun ________ Children’s Day. They sang and danced happily all day.
A. in B. at C. of D. on
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All the kids had a lot of fun ________ Children’s Day. They sang and danced happily all day.
A. in B. at C. of D. on
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Mike teaches a very basic programming (编程) course to a group of students. They are all very interested in computers.
One day, Mike told his students to write a short program on their computers. After writing it, they only needed to type “R”, “U” and “N” and press “enter” to see the program run.
Soon, a student sitting in the back of the classroom put up her hand. She said, “I did what you said, but it didn’t work.”Mike knew that students sometimes make mistakes when typing. So he suggested that the student retype (重新输入) “R”, “U” and “N”.
A few seconds later, the student’s hand went up again. “It still doesn’t work,” she said. This time. Mike went to her to see what the problem was. To his surprise, he found that instead of typing “RUN”, the student had typed “ARE YOU IN”!
1.What does the underlined world “program” mean?
A. 节目 B. 课程 C. 程序 D. 计划
2.Why did the student put up her hand?
A. She couldn’t write the program.
B. Her computer didn’t work.
C. She thought the program is wrong.
D. Her program didn’t work.
3.How many times did the student put up her hand?
A. Once. B. Twice. C. Three times. D. Four times.
4.Why didn’t Mike help her when she first put up her hand?
A. He didn’t want to help the student.
B. He thought that just an easy problem.
C. He was busy at that moment.
D. He thought students usually make mistakes when typing.
5.What was the reason the student made a mistake?
A. There was something wrong with her computer.
B. She couldn’t program at all.
C. She had a wrong understanding of “R,U,N”.
D. She didn’t press the “enter”.
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— Where are the students that sang the song Legend at the airport from?
— Guangzhou. They didn’t get mad when their flight was delayed.
—________, they sang the song to cheer other people up.
A.Anyway B.However C.Instead
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What are the British like when they learn languages?
is said that the British are the worst language learners in Europe —62 percent of them can’t speak other language except their own! 38 percent of them speak at least one foreign language, only18 percent speak two.
Learning a foreign language is not at school in Britain; children start studying a foreign language at 11 and many completely at 14. So why don’t young people
studying languages at school?
The government is now looking at different ways to language learning. One idea is to start much and introduce foreign languages when kids are five. idea is to give school children more choice—they can choose to study their favorite language.
It may be difficult to people’s attitude(态度) to learning languages but the government has decided to have a try!
1.A. That B. It C. This
2.A. any B. no C. some
3.A. As B. When C. While
4.A. popular B. good C. interesting
5.A. wake up B. turn up C. give up
6.A. look for B. go on C. set up
7.A. stop B. improve C. find
8.A. younger B. sooner C. slower
9.A. Other B. One C. Another
10.A. choose B. take C. change
