is important to wear the right thing. Many British people don"t think about clothes very much. When they
go out to enjoy themselves, they can wear almost(几乎) anything. At theatres, cinemas and concerts (音
乐会) you can put on anything you like: from beautiful suits and dresses to jeans and sweaters. Anything
goes, as long as you look clean and tidy. But in Britain, as well as in the US, men in offices usually wear
suits and ties and women wear dresses or skirts (not trousers). Doctors and business people always wear
quite formal clothes. And in some hotels and restaurants men have to wear ties and women have to wear
tidy dresses.
In many ways, Americans are less formal than British people, but they are more careful with their
clothes. At home, or on holiday, most Americans wear informal (非正式的) or sports clothes. But when
they go out in the evening, they like to look nice. In good hotels and restaurants, men have to wear
jackets and ties, and women have to wear pretty clothes.
It is difficult to say exactly (确切地) what people wear in Britain and the US, because everyone is
different. If you are not sure what to wear, watch what other people do and then do the same. You"ll feel
good if you don"t look too different from everyone else.
B. office manners (习俗) in Britain and the US
C. differences between British and American business men
D. no trousers for office ladies
B. are in offices
C. are in big restaurants
D. go out to work
B. anything they like
C. suits and ties
D. clothes like players
B. Lawyers (律师) always wear formal clothes even though (即使) they are at home.
C. British people are more careful with their clothes than American people.
D. Though everyone is different, they wear the same clothes in offices.
B. when they are in offices
C. when they are attending (参加) a party in a nice hotel.
D. when they are meeting friends at home.
It usually comes in January or February. Where there are Chinese, there is the Spring Festival. Each
Chinese year has a name. We may call it the year tiger, the year of pig or the year of snake. And the year
of 2003 is called the year of sheep. The year after it is the monkey year.
People always spend a month before the festival in preparing (准备) for it. People are busy shopping
and cleaning their houses. On the Eve(除夕夜) there is a big family dinner. All the family stay up late to
welcome the New Year, watching the CCTV programs or playing majiang. On the first day of the
Chinese New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their relatives(亲戚) and friends,
saying "Happy New Year", "Good luck" and some other greetings to each other. It often lasts to the
Lantern Festival, which is also an important Chinese festival and people usually have sweet dumplings
(yuanxiao). People always have a very good time, especially children. Children can usually get some
money for the new year from their parents and the elder relatives.
1. We call the Chinese New Year_____.
A. the biggest festival
B. the Lantern Festival
C. the Spring Festival
D. the year of snake
2. The year of 2004 is the year of _____.
A. tiger
B. pig
C. sheep
D. monkey
3. The sentence "Where there are Chinese, there is the Spring Festival"means that _____.
A. the Spring Festival is celebrated only by Chinese people in China
B. the Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival, even when they are in foreign countries.
C. People celebrate the Spring Festival all over the world
D. People who can speak Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival in the world
4. What do people say when they meet on the Chinese New Year"s Day?
A. They say "Merry Christmas" and "Happy New Year".
B. They say "Good luck" and Good night" to each other.
C. They say "Happy New Year" and "Good luck" only to their friends and relatives.
D. They say many greetings, such as "Good luck" to each other.
Mouse.
Fifty years ago, most films had no sounds. A man called Walt Disney made a cartoom mouse. The
cartoon mouse could talk in these films. He named his mouse Mickey Mouse. Soon Mickey Mouse
became a good friend of both young and old people. Children liked to see their lovely friend, because he
brought happiness to them.
Mickey is a clean mouse right from the beginning. Maybe this is why people love Mickey Mouse
very much. In his early life, Mickey did some wrong things. People were very angry. They wrote to
Disney and said they did not want Mickey to do wrong things. Because there were some things that
Mickey could not do, Disney made a new animal called Donald Duck. He also made a dog, Pluto. This
dog does some foolish and wrong things whenever he goes. Now our Mickey Mouse is more interesting
as well. He is known as a star of beauty and wisdom (智慧). He has his friends in almost every country.
1. Mickey Mouse first came out _ .
A. on TV
B. in the film
C. in the play
D. in a picture-book
2. Children love Mickey Mouse because _____.
A. it can speak
B. it is clean
C. it makes them happy
D. it is a mouse
3. The dog, Pluto, is _ .
A. a fool that often does something wrong
B. a clever dog that can do everything well
C. a beautiful dog that people like very much
D. a famous dog as a star of beauty and wisdom
was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was very cold. They had to stay indoors.
Because they could not have their usual sports, they were unhappy, and some of them even got into
fights from time to time.
At last, some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a sport so that the
students might have something to play with. It was not easy to invent such a sport because it had to
be played indoors.
At first, Dr. Naismith planned to throw the ball into a box. But he couldn"t find boxes of the right
size, he had to use fruit basket instead. That is how the sport got its name-basketball.
B. what a basketball looks like
C. how the basketball sport was invented
D. why people like the basketball sport
B. already over a hundred years old
C. less than a hundred years old
D. a sport of few years
B. in many doors
C. in every house
D. inside the room
B. in the summer of 1891
C. in the fall of 1891
D. in the spring of 1891
B. the basket itself
C. the ball and the basket
D. Dr. Naismith
newest plane can fly at 600 miles an hour. You can have breakfast in Tokyo and supper in Paris.
But hundreds of years ago, it took people a long time to go around the world. Magellan"s (麦哲伦)
men were the first to make that trip. They went by ship and it took them more than two years. On
September 20th, 1510, he left Spain (西班牙) with five ships and 240 men. He was killed in the
Philippines (菲律宾). More than two years later, on December 21st, 1512, only one of the five ships
with just 31 men returned to Spain. Magellan"s trip taught us that the world was round and that people
could go around the world.
B. less than 50 hours
C. more than 50 hours
D. more than 40 hours
B. people can have breakfast and supper in Paris
C. people can have breakfast and supper both in Tokyo and in Paris
D. the world is becoming smaller
B. two years
C. less than two years
D. three years
B. China
C. the Philippines
D. Spain
B. rich
C. strong
D. round
We can see walls everywhere in the world. But the Great Wall of China is 1 of all. The Chinese
call it " The Ten-Thousand-Li Great Wall". It is 2 more than 6,000 kilometers long. It is 6-7 meters
3 and 4-5 metres from side to side. In most places, five horses or ten men can walk side 4 side
along the top.
When you visit the Great Wall, you can"t help wondering how the Chinese people 5 build such a
great wall thousands of years ago. 6 any modern machines, it was really very difficult to build it. They
had to do all the work by hand. It 7 millions of men hundreds of years to build it.
The Great Wall has a history 8 over two thousand years. The men began to built the first parts of
it around two thousand seven hundred years 9 . Then Qin Shihuang had all the walls 10 . He
thought that could keep the enemy out of the country.
Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest. Both Chinese and people from all over the
world come to visit it.