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For much of the earliest history of our species, home may have been nothing more than a small fire and the light it cast on a few familiar faces. But whatever else ________ is and however it entered our consciousness – it’s a way of organizing ________ in our minds. Home is home, and everything else is not-home.
Not that you can’t feel “at home” in ________ places. But there’s a big psychological ________ between feeling at home and being home. Feeling at home in other places is simply a way of saying that the not-home-ness of those places has ________ since you first arrived. Some people, as they ________ through their lives, rediscover home again and again. Some people never find another after once ________ home. And, of course, some people ________ leave the only home they’ve always known.
Homesick children know how ________ the boundary between home and not-home can be be-cause they ________ the difference. I know the ________ because I was one of them. I felt a strong connection between people ________ in the small town I grew up in. But spending the ________ away from home, such as sleeping at my friend’s houses, made everything seem alien. And yet when I got back home in the morning, home was as usual. That was the ________ --home is a place so ________ that you don’t even have to notice it.
And there’s something more. ________ my father died, my brothers and sisters and I went back to his ________, where he’d lived alone. It wasn’t only his ________ we felt. It was as though something had ________ from every object in the house. They had, in fact, become ________ objects. The person whose heart and mind could combine them into a single thing – a home—had gone.
1.A. history B. home C. fire D. light
2.A. space B. time C. work D. concept
3.A. enough B. all C. such D. other
4.A. connection B. balance C. relationship D. difference
5.A. changed B. remained C. reduced D. increased
6.A. move B. develop C. search D. choose
7.A. returning B. leaving C. finding D. forgetting
8.A. also B. again C. never D. ever
9.A. limited B. close C. sharp D. common
10.A. learn from B. suffer from C. think about D. speak about
11.A. feeling B. illness C. impression D. sense
12.A. nowhere B. everywhere C. somewhere D. anywhere
13.A. morning B. noon C. afternoon D. night
14.A. result B. view C. problem D. point
15.A. familiar B. safe C. similar D. warm
16.A. Before B. Until C. Though D. After
17.A. office B. hometown C. house D. laboratory
18.A. kindness B. brightness C. absence D. appearance
19.A. escaped B. disappeared C. hidden D. fallen
20.A. merely B. really C. valuable D. delicate
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The history of chocolate begins with a plant whose name is cacao. For centuries, people worldwide have been enjoying the rich favor of chocolate, a product made from cacao. 1. Americans eat an average of more than five kilograms of chocolate per person every year. The specialty shop shows the culture of chocolate and sells chocolates from different areas of the world.
Historians believe the Mayan people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around 2,000 years ago. 2. Then they grew them around their homes. They cooked the cacao seeds and pressed them into soft powder. They mixed the powder with water to make a delicious chocolate drink. There are often images of cacao plants on Maya buildings and art objects. The rulers drank chocolate at ceremonies. 3.
The Aztecs also valued chocolate in the Aztec culture. But the cacao plant could not grow in the area where they lived. 4. They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay or give as offerings to the gods. Only the very wealthy people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.
The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cacao seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in 1502. The wealthy people of Spain first enjoyed the chocolate drink. 5. Nowadays, the English, Dutch and French all plant cacao trees in their own countries.
A. Chocolate is very sensitive to temperature.
B. The Mayan took the cacao trees from the rainforests.
C. Chocolate is especially popular in the United States.
D. Chocolate has been prepared as a drink for nearly all of its history.
E. So they had to exchange goods with other societies for cacao seeds.
F. Since then, the popularity of the drink has spread throughout Europe.
G. And even poorer members of Mayan society could enjoy the drink sometimes.
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Five times in the earth’s history, some three-quarters of all living species disappeared forever-and within a short period of time. Those species losses stand for a major change in the planet’s ecology(生态学). Clues to these changes can be seen in the fossils(化石)and rock layers.
Today, human activities are driving species to die out at a rate never seen before. And this loss of species really does matter, said Anita Narwani. She works at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. That’s because the diversity(多样性)of species in an ecosystem provides people with all types of services we can’t do without.
Trees provide oxygen for us to breathe. At the same time, they remove carbon from the air which is a cause of global warming. Plants help clean air and water. Animals move seeds from one area to another. A broad range of living resources also provides people with food, shelter and medicine.
Narwani wanted to find out how important the diversity of species is for people. So she teamed up with other ecologists to review more than 1,700 studies. They found that more diverse parts of the earth tend to do well in things like removing carbon and providing us with wood and other natural resources. They were also better at keeping fisheries large and healthy so that they could feed many people.
Unfortunately, the diversity of species is in steep drop. It is too soon to say that the earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction, Narwani said. She said a mass extinction means the loss of 75 percent of species over 2 million years or less. We haven’t lost that many – at least not yet. But according to her, if species losses continue so fast, such a mass extinction could occur in just 300 years.
The new findings highlight the potential for humans to use up many of the resources on which we now depend. As people learn more, however, they can take steps to lessen those risks. People should protect ecosystems so that they can continue to provide us with their services.
1.What’s the writer’s purpose in giving the examples in Paragraph 3?
A. To tell us how we get our food and resources.
B. To show the importance of the diversity of species.
C. To tell us the use of each species.
D. To show the writer is very learned.
2.The underlined word “They ” in Paragraph 4 refers to .
A. humans
B. Narwani and her team
C. natural resources
D. various species
3.Narwani and her team found that .
A. many people know the importance of protecting wildlife
B. many species die out because of human activities
C. making good use of natural resources benefits people
D. rich diversity of species greatly benefits people
4. We can learn from Paragraph 5 that .
A. the world’s species are dying out in a very fast rate
B. we’ll lose 75 percent of species on the earth
C. the earth is undergoing a sixth mass extinction
D. a mass extinction of species will occur in 300 years
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Going home for Christmas is a tradition of the holiday season. No matter where you may be the rest of the years, being at “home” with your family and friends for Christmas is a “must”. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are the busiest times of the year at airports, train stations and bus stations. It seems that all America is on the move and Americans are on their way to spend the holidays with their loved ones.
This means that the house will be full of cousins, aunts and uncles that might not see each other during the year. Everyone joins in to help in the preparation of the festival. Some family members get to choose a Christmas tree to buy and bring home. Others decorate the house or wrap presents. And of course, each household needs to make lots of food!
At Christmas Eve gatherings adults have eggnog, which is made of cream, milk, sugar, eggs and brandy. Plenty of eggnogor hot cocoa is on hand in colder climates for carolers, or people who go from house to house sing Christmas carols to their neighbors.
Long ago, each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. Today the tradition is carried on, but the socks are now large red sock-shaped fabric bags still called stockings. Each child can’t wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.
Giving gifts is a Christmas tradition. However, in recent years, more and more people have complained that Christmas is too commercialized(商业化) especially in large cities. Store owners begin advertising and decorating very early in hopes of selling more goods. Some people believe that the origin of Christmas has been lost.
1.It is a traditional custom for Americans ____________.
A．to buy Christmas trees and bring them to churches for Christmas
B．to drink beer on Christmas Eve
C．to go home for Christmas with their family and relatives
D．to hung stockings on the chimney
2.The underlined word “eggnog” in the third paragraph is a kind ____________.
A．drink B．food C．egg D．present
3.Each child hung a stocking over the fireplace in order to____________.
A．get some eggnog B．have a look at Santa
C．get some candy and presents D．get some money from his/ her parents
4.The last paragraph wants to tell us that ____________.
A．giving gifts is a Christmas tradition B．giving gifts is getting more and more commercialized
C．store owners hope to get more presents D．people think there will be no Christmas in the future
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Going home for Christmas is a tradition of the holiday season. No matter where you may be the rest of the years, being at “home” with your family and friends for Christmas is a “must”. The Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are the busiest times of the year at airports, train stations and bus stations. It seems that all America is on the move and Americans are on their way to spend the holidays with their loved ones.
This means that the house will be full of cousins, aunts and uncles that might not see each other during the year. Everyone joins in to help in the preparation of the festival. Some family members get to choose a Christmas tree to buy and bring home. Others decorate the house or wrap presents. And of course, each household needs to make lots of food!
At Christmas Eve gatherings adults have eggnog, which is made of cream, milk, sugar, eggs and brandy. Plenty of eggnog or hot cocoa is on hand in colder climates for carolers, or people who go from house to house sing Christmas carols to their neighbors.
Long ago, each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. Today the tradition is carried on, but the socks are now large red sock-shaped fabric bags still called stockings. Each child can’t wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.
Giving gifts is a Christmas tradition. However, in recent years, more and more people have complained that Christmas is too commercialized(商业化) especially in large cities. Store owners begin advertising and decorating very early in hopes of selling more goods. Some people believe that the origin of Christmas has been lost.
46．It is a traditional custom for Americans ____________.
A．to buy Christmas trees and bring them to churches for Christmas
B．to drink beer on Christmas Eve
C．to go home for Christmas with their family and relatives
D．to hung stockings on the chimney
47．The underlined word “eggnog” in the third paragraph is a kind ____________.
A．drink B．food C．egg D．present
48．Each child hung a stocking over the fireplace in order to____________.
A．get some eggnog B．have a look at Santa
C．get some candy and presents D．get some money from his/ her parents
49．The last paragraph wants to tell us that ____________.
A．giving gifts is a Christmas tradition B．giving gifts is getting more and more commercialized
C．store owners hope to get more presents D．people think there will be no Christmas in the future
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The Thanksgiving day has been alive for hundreds of years．The customs we see in our homes today remind us of ancient celebrations of harvest，thankfulness for peace，and the hard work of native Americans．It is made up of stories of those who believe that thanks for blessings is what people must own 1. Have you wanted to make special gifts？．
Custom of Praying
For centuries，'Thanksgiving Day' is associated with prayers in church and in homes． 2. It is a time，when mankind thanks God for all his blessings and mercy．It is also a day to show gratitude to their friends and relatives for all the good deeds．
3.
Everyone follows the custom of family dinner and reunion every year．Distances don't really matter as relatives can drive down to be with their family．Feasts are usually held at home．It is a time to enjoy their favorite Turkey the family．
Custom of Decoration
4. People beautify their homes，give the interiors a whole new look and feel．They light lamps to brighten the environment．Tables are adorned with best china and antique silver cutlery to mark the occasion．
Custom of sending messages
Thanksgiving is a day when people send loving messages and warm wishes to their relatives，colleagues at work place，superiors and subordinates，near and dear ones． 5.
A．People present gifts to friends
B．Custom of Family Dinner
C．People like to get together and have turkey．
D．People offer various meal time prayers during the day．
E．Like Christmas，millions of cards are sent every year．
F．Thanksgiving is a time to decorate homes with wreaths，fresh and dried flowers．
G．It is a day of expressing their feelings through Thanksgiving cards．
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In the early morning, I head for the back door and find 10 inches of snow covering our home. Oh no, Bryan will have to clear the roof again, I think. But Rio rolls onto his back, playing in the white snow and kicking his back legs, delighted. His days in an animal shelter in New Mexico are long forgotten—he’s wholeheartedly enjoyed life as a Colorado dog.
Rio needs a walk. I’ve planned to attend an emergent webinar, but my husband is busy clearing. Rio pushes my leg with his snout(口鼻部), wondering why we are still inside. We’re late for our morning hike. I pull on my boots reluctantly. I don’t have time for this!
Rio and I walk a block through our neighborhood to the beginning of a road. Rio jumps happily into the snow, which is up to his neck. But I walk slowly with heavy steps, worrying about my to-do list, and I don’t notice the world around me until Rio starts barking.
A squirrel (松鼠) chitters at him from a high branch of a pine tree. We haven’t seen a squirrel in at least a week because of all the snow storms, so this is a treat for us.
Once again, my animal teacher is reminding me to enjoy the present moment, and I’m grateful. I take a deep breath and look around. Suddenly there is an explosion(爆炸) of snow. a nearby tree has released its heavy burden, snapping(迅速恢复) back upright. Silver snowflakes(雪花) dust the air around me as a group of birds flees the area, talking to one another as they fly overhead.
I watch and listen in wonder for what seems like a full minute. There will be 1440 munites on this day, but this is the one I’ll remember most. Then I look back to the earth and there is my sweet dog, waiting patiently for a treat. He knows I’ll want to celebrate this moment we’ve just shared. “I love you, Rio!” I say as I give him a cookie. He has trained me well!
When we walk home, I smile broadly, spirit washed clean, ready for whatever the day may bring.
1.The underlined word “reluctantly” in Paragraph 2 can best be replaced by “_____”.
A. quickly B. unwillingly
C. excitedly D. unnecessarily
2.How is the author at the beginning of the walk?
A. She feels very relaxed. B. She is worrying about Rio.
C. She is still angry with Bryan. D. She feels very frustrated.
3.What does the author learn from Rio?
A. No pains, no gains. B. Nothing is impossible.
C. Live in the moment. D. Troubles never come alone.
4.Which can be the best title for the text?
A. Lifted by a walk in fallen snow. B. How I train my dog.
C. A busy day with Rio. D. Dogs in animal shelters.
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I arrived at my mother’s home for our Monday family dinner. The smells of food flew over from the kitchen. Mother was pulling out quilt after quilt from the boxes, proudly showing me their beauties. She was preparing for a quilt show at the Elmhurst Church. When we began to fold and put them back into the boxes, I noticed something at the bottom of one box. I pulled it out. “What is this?” I asked.
“Oh?” Mom said, “That’s Mama’s quilt.”
I spread the quilt. It looked at if a group of school children had pieced it together; irregular designs, childish pictures, a crooked line on the right.
“Grandmother made this?” I said, surprised. My grandmother was a master at making quilts. This certainly didn’t look like any of the quilts she had made.
“Yes, right before she died. I brought it home with me last year and made some changes,” she said. “I’m still working on it. See, this is what I’ve done so far.”
I looked at it more closely. She had made straight a crooked line. At the center of the quilt, she had stitched(缝) a piece of cloth with these words: “My mother made many quilts. She didn’t get all lines straight. But I think this is beautiful. I want to see it finished. Her last quilt.”
“Oh, this is so nice, Mom,” I said. It occurred to me that by completing my grandmother’s quilt, my mother was honoring her own mother. I realized, too, that I held in my hands a family treasure. It started with the loving hands of one woman, and continued with the loving hands of another.
1.Why did the author go to mother’s home?
A. To see her mother’s quilts.
B. To help prepare for a show.
C. To get together for the family dinner.
D. To discuss her grandmother’s life.
2.The author was surprised because .
A. the quilt looked very strange.
B. her grandmother liked the quilt.
C. the quilt was the best she had seen.
D. her mother had made some changes
3.The underlined wood “crooked” in the passage most probably means .
A. unfinished
B. broken
C. bent
D. unusual
4.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Quilt Show
B. Mother’s Home
C. A Monday Dinner
D. Grandmother’s Quilt
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To whom it may concern,
My husband Jim and I got married in 1965. For the first ten years of our marriage, I was very happy to stay home and raise our three children. Then about four years ago, our youngest child went to school, and I thought I might go back to work.
Jim was very supportive and helped me to make my decision. He started to do all the things I used to do around the house, and said he thought I could be a great success in business.
After several weeks of job hunting, I found my present job, which is working for a small public relation firm. At first, my husband was proud of me and would tell his friends, “My clever little wife can run that company she’s working for.”
But, as his joking words were becoming reality, Jim stopped talking to me about my job. I have received several promotions and pay increases, and I am now making more money than he is. I can buy my own clothes and a new car. Because of our combined incomes, Jim can do things that we had always dreamed of doing, but we don’t do these things because he is unhappy.
We fought about little things, and Jim is very critical of me in front of our friends. For the first time in our marriage, I think there is a possibility that our marriage may come to an end.
I love Jim very much, and I don’t want him to feel inferior(较差的), but I also love my job. I think I can be a good wife and a working woman, but I don’t know how. Can you give me some advice? Will I have to choo
se one or the other or can I keep both my husband and my new career?Please help.
Yours,
Mary
1.When was the letter most probably written?
A. In 1975. B. Around 1980.
C. Four years ago. D. In 1965.
2.What shows her husband was supportive?
A. He helped look after babies.
B. He told her his experience.
C. He worked much harder.
D. He encouraged her a lot.
3.How did her husband feel when she first found her job?
A. Nervous. B. Disappointed.
C. Proud. D. Curious.
4.Jim stopped talking about her job when ___________.
A. Jim failed to do what he liked
B. she made more money than he
C. she received her boss’ praise
D. Jim had to do housework
5.What happened as her income increased?
A. She found a gap(分歧) between Jim and her.
B. She did what she had dreamed of.
C. She felt proud of herself.
D. She bought a house.
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To Whom It May Concern,
My husband Jim and I got married in 1965. For the first ten years of our marriage, I was very happy to stay home and raise our three children. Then about four years ago, our youngest child went to school, and I thought I might go back to work.
Jim was very supportive and helped me to make my decision. He started to do all the things I used to do around the house, and said he thought I could be a great success in business.
After several weeks of job hunting, I found my present job, which is working for a small public relation firm. At first, my husband was proud of me and would tell his friends, “My clever little wife can run that company she’s working for.”
But, as his joking words were becoming reality, Jim stopped talking to me about my job. I have received several promotions and pay increases, and I am now making more money than he is. I can buy my own clothes and a new car. Because of our combined incomes, Jim can do things that we had always dreamed of doing, but we don’t do these things because he is unhappy.
We fought about little things, and Jim is very critical of me in front of our friends. For the first time in our marriage, I think there is a possibility that our marriage may come to an end.
I love Jim very much, and I don’t want him to feel inferior(较差的), but I also love my job. I think I can be a good wife and a working woman, but I don’t know how. Can you give me some advice? Will I have to choose one or the other or can I keep both my husband and my new career?
Please help.
Yours,
Mary
1.When was the letter most probably written?
A. In 1975. B. Around 1980.
C. Four years ago. D. In 1965.
2.What shows her husband was supportive?
A. He helped look after babies.
B. He told her his experience.
C. He worked much harder.
D. He encouraged her a lot.
3.How did her husband feel when she first found her job?
A. Nervous. B. Disappointed.
C. Proud. D. Curious.
4.Jim stopped talking about her job when ___________.
A. Jim failed to do what he liked
B. she made more money than he
C. she received her boss’ praise
D. Jim had to do housework
5.What happened as her income increased?
A. She found a gap(分歧) between Jim and her.
B. She did what she had dreamed of.
C. She felt proud of herself.
D. She bought a house.
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se one or the other or can I keep both my husband and my new career?