and 1 . Most people in Britain live in houses 2 flats, and many people own their homes. This means
that they can make them individual; they can 3 them and change them in any way they 4 . In a
crowded city the individual knows that he or she has a private space which is 5 for himself of herself and for 6 friends.
People usually like to 7 their space. Are you sitting now in your home or in a library or on a beach or a train? If you are on the beach you may have spread your 8 around you; on the train you may have
9 your coat or small bag on the seat beside you; in a library you may have one 10 or chair which is
your own. Once I was traveling on a 11 to London. I was in a section for four people and there was a
table between us. The man on the 12 side to me had his briefcase on the table. There was no 13 on my side of the table at all. I was made rather 14 , I thought he thought that he owned the 15 table. I
took various papers out of my bag and put them on 16 ! When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped out of his head. I had 17 his space! A few minutes later I took my papers 18 his case in
order to read them. He immediately 19 his case to his side of the table.
(Of course , it is 20 that he just wanted to be helped to me! )
( )2. A. rather than
( )3. A. buy
( )4. A. make
( )5. A. only
( )6. A. unwanted
( )7. A. mark
( )8. A. towels
( )9. A. find
( )10. A. book
( )11. A. plane
( )12. A. opposite
( )13. A. matter
( )14. A. angry
( )15. A. right
( )16. A. the table
( )17. A. invaded
( )18. A. into
( )19. A. hid
( )20. A. possible
B. as well as
B. leave
B. clear
B. already
B. close
B. decide
B. sands
B. give
B. corner
B. train
B. back
B. weight
B. hurt
B. only
B. his case
B. shut
B. for
B. set
B. true
C. as a result of
C. paint
C. like
C. ever
C. sick
C. choose
C. papers
C. put
C. companion
C. way
C. wrong
C. light
C. fearful
C. small
C. the seat
C. separated
C. off
C. moved
C. wonderful
D. or rather
D. offer
D. prepare
D. even
D. invited
D. keep
D. flags
D. store
D. meal
D. street
D. good
D. space
D. busy
D. whole
D. his side
D. shared
D. out of
D. kept
D. ordinary
problem of building upwards, that is to say of accommodating(居住) a considerable
proportion of its population in high blocks of flats. It is said that the Englishman
objects to this type of existence, but if the case is such, he does in fact differ from
the inhabitants of most countries of the world today. In the past our own blocks or
flats have been associated with(把……同……联系起来) the lower-income groups
and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot
water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as
such details, important notwithstanding(然而), as easy facilities for disposal(处理)
of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages on the ground floor,
playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing.
It is likely that the dispute regarding flats versus individual houses will continue to
rage(风行) on for a long time as far as Britain is concerned, and it is unfortunate
that there should be hot feelings on both sides whenever this subject is raised. Those
who oppose the building of flats base their case primarily on the assumption that
everyone prefers individual home and garden and on the high cost per unit of
accommodation. The latter ignores the higher cost of providing full services to a
scattered(分散)community and the cost in both money and time of the journey to
work for the suburban resident.
living in flats
B. people in most countries of the world today are not opposed to living in flats
C. people in Britain are forced to move into high blocks of flats
D. modern flats still fail to provide the necessary facilities for living
B. They were usually not large enough to accommodate big families.
C. They were sold to people before necessary facilities were installed.
D. They provided playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings.
B. it involves higher cost compared with the building of houses
C. they believe that people like to live in houses with gardens
D. the disposal of rubbish remains a problem for those who lives in flats
B. have to pay a lot of money to employ people to do service work
C. take longer time to know each other because they are a scattered community
D. have to spend money and time going to work every day
Hannibal was a general from Carthage, a city on the northern coast of Africa.
He thought the ancient Romans and won great battles at a time when the Romans
were the most powerful people in the world. His army was small, but it was made
up of soldiers from many countries that didn"t want to be ruled by the Romans.
before Hannibal could fight the Romans always had thought would protect them
from enemy armies. When winter came, the Romans did not think Hannibal could
possibly cross the mountains. Hannibal surprised them. With some of his soldiers
riding huge strong elephants-where no elephants had to walk slowly without resting
through the mountain snow-storms and howling(怒号)winds. The enemies rolled rocks
down to try to stop them. Even raging rivers couldn"t stop them. Hannibal"s soldiers
built rafts(木排)strong enough to carry the elephants across. At last, half of them
never reached the end of their journey. But the other half of the army and some
of the elephants did finish the journey.
B. Italy
C. Turkey
D. Iraq
B. must cross the Alps to win the battle
C. was sure to beat the Romans before crossing the Alps
D. had to break away from the Romans to cross the Alps
people in the world.
B. The Romans thought it impossible for Hannibal to cross the Alps.
C. Hannibal used the elephant to help cross the Alps because the elephants were
good at walking on mountain paths.
D. Hannibal managed to cross the Alps after all with his army.
B. Strike while the iron is still hot
C. He who doesn"t reach the Great Wall is not a true man
D. Failure is the mother of success
in search of food, shelter, safety, and comfortable weather. People still move for these reasons,
but new reasons for human migration are arising, such as job relocation(重新安置) and
overpopulation.
Three million migrants are moving from poor countries to wealthier ones each year, and
increasingly, their destination is a neighboring country in developing parts of the world. People
are moving within the developing world for the same reasons as they migrate to wealthier nations.
People from poor countries are going to less poor countries, fleeing wars and conflicts(冲突).
They are also responding to population pressures because some countries are densely
populated(人口密集), and they often have high population growth. Those people need to
go somewhere else.
There are three main reasons why people move. The basic categories and percentages
are as follows, according to the Current Population Surveys (CPS):
Family-related reasons account for 26.3%, including changes in marital status(婚姻情形),
establishing a household and other family reasons; work-related reasons 16.2%, including job
transfer, retirement, and other job-related reasons; housing-related reasons 51.6%, including
new and better houses, better neighborhood, cheaper housing and other housing reasons;
the remaining 5.9% of other reasons are attending college, the change of climate and health
reasons.
Americans have been migrating south and west for decades in search of better job
opportunities and warmer climates. They have also been moving to places a little far from
cities, in search of bigger yards and houses, lower crime rates and better schools. In 1950,
nearly a fifth of the population lived in the nation"s 20 largest cities. In 2006, it was about one
in ten. That"s why many American people say, "Big Cities Shrink as People Move South, West."
Between March 2005 and March 2007, 73.4 million Americans moved. Fifty-six percent
of these moves were within the same country. Twenty percent were between counties but in
the same state. Nineteen percent were moves to a different state. Some families even went
abroad.
everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is
declining (降低) globally while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by
increasing numbers of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.
However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance (主导) by the middle of this century to rank, after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. "The
number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise, but it isn"t rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world, simply because the main population group has been
largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken," he says.
In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the
top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay,
spoken in south and Southeast Asia.
David Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, says about 1.5
billion of the world"s six billion people speak it as a second tongue compared to the 400 million native
speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the future
of its dominance. "Nobody quite knows what"s going to happen because no language has been in this
position before. But all the evidence (证据) suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a
hill and is getting faster," he said.
B. be more important than any other language
C. lose its dominant position
D. die away in the near future
B. the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past
C. English language will soon drop in dominance
D. more and more language users will choose English
B. 3.
C. 4.
D. 5.
B. Arabic.
C. Urdu.
D. German.
B. The Future of English? Who Knows?
C. Opinions from Different Experts
D. The English Language Snowball Rolling Down
before they start speaking, and later starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken
instructions some time before they can speak, though the word "obey" is hardly accurate as a description
of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children
will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.
Any attempt to study the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads
to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months
one or two noises sort themselves as particularly expressive as delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But
since these can"t be said to show the baby"s intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as
early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for
enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation
(模仿) leads on to deliberate (有意的) imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other
people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be
considered as speech.
It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular
person means by it in a parti cular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change
as he gains more experience of the world .Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for
his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for
his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say
continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained
when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.
B. they need different amounts of listening
C. they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions
D. they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions
B. probably do not hear enough language spoken around them
C. usually pay close attention to what they hear
D. often take a long time in learning to listen properly
B. an early form of language
C. a sign that he means to tell you something
D. an imitation of the speech of adults
B .is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually
C. is one that should be properly understood because the meaning of words changes with age
D. is one that should be completely ignored (忽略) because children"s use of words is often meaningless
B. children no longer imitate people after they begin to speak
C. children who are good at imitating learn new words more quickly
D. even after they have learnt to speak, children still enjoy imitating
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- 2下列各组词语中,没有错别字的一组是( )A.通胀 推诿 暴发力金戒指胜券在握命途多舛B.窠臼坐镇博览会滑稽戏悍然不顾利
- 333. Premier Wen Jiabao visited the Red Square_________ by Ru
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