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standards for various features (特征) of clothes. What seems strange, however, is that the
standard adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way
your clothes button. Men"s clothes tend to button from the right, and women"s from the left.
Considering most of the world"s population-men and women-are right-handed, the men"s
standard would appear to make more sense for women. So why do women"s clothes button
from the left?
History really seems to matter here. Buttons first appeared only on the clothes of the rich
in the 17th century, when rich women were dressed by servants. For the mostly right-handed
servants, having women"s shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hand,
having men"s shirt button from the right made sense, too. Most men dressed themselves,
and a sword drawn from the left with the right hand would be less likely to get caught in the
shirt.
Today women are seldom dressed by servants, but buttoning from the left is still the
standard for them. Is it interesting? Actually, a standard, once set, resists change. At a time
when all women"s shirts buttoned from the left, it would have been risky for any single
manufacturer to offer women"s shirts that buttoned from the right. After all, women had
grown so used to shirts which buttoned from the left and would have to develop new habits
and skills to switch. Besides, some women might have found it socially awkward to appear
in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right, since any one who noticed that would
believe they were wearing men"s shirts.
B. It is different for men"s clothing and women"s.
C. It works better with men than with women.
D. It fails to consider right-handed people.
B. manufacturers should follow standards
C. modern women dress themselves
D. customs are hard to change
B. making comparisons
C. examining differences
D. following the time order
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试题【阅读理解。 It is hardly surprising that clothing manufacturers (生产商) follow certa】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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World.__2__the Spring festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give
children__3__ money in red paper. There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families__4__
the Lunar New Year together.
I"ll help you lose weight__5__be fit in two weeks if you eat here every day.
At the library Wang Peng was surprised to find that his restaurant served__6__too much fat
and Yong Hui"s far too little. Even though her__7__might get thin__8__eating Yong Hui"s food,
they were not eating__9__energy-giving food to__10__them fit.
had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like,
mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people
who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity.
Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking
the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their
mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their
children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce (缺少的) and very expensive in England until the ships of the East
India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During
the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could
afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．
Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named
Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found
it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great
lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with
milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons
drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking
tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake
at three or four o"clock stopped her getting "a sinking feeling" as she called it. She invited her
friends to have this new meal with her and so tea-time was born.
B. Tea reached Britain from Holland.
C．The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea.
D．It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea.
B．how tea became a popular drink in Britain
C．how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea
D．how tea-time was born
B．in sixteenth century
C．in seventeenth century
D．in the late seventeenth century
B．it tasted more pleasant
C．it became a popular drink
D．Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to
copy the way she drank tea
to the influence of_______.
B．the ancient Chinese
C．the upper social class
D．people in Holland
second Sunday in May and Father"s Day on the 3rd Sunday in June. These days are to show
love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens.
They give love and care. These two days offer an opportunity to think about the changing roles
of mothers and fathers. More mothers now work outside the home and more fathers must help
with childcare.
These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On mother"s Day, people
wear carnations. A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is
dead. Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It"s also a day when people whose
parents are dead visit the cemetery(grave). On these days families get together at home as well
as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecue for Father"s Day. These are days of fun and
good feelings and memories.
Another tradition is to give cards and gifts. Children make them in school. Many people make
their own presents. These are more valued than those bought in stores. It"s not the value of the
gift that is important, but "the thought that counts". Greeting card stores, florists, candy makers,
bakers, phone companies and other stores do lots of business during these holidays.
B. Parents give love and care to children.
C. Parents educate children to be good persons.
D. Parents pass away before children grow up.
B. Fewer women worked outside the home in the past.
C. Not all the children respect their parents.
D. Fathers are not as important as mothers at home.
B. It refers to the special clothes people wear on Mother"s Day.
C. It"s a kind of flower showing love and best wishes.
D. People can wear them only on the second Sunday in May.
C. children always go to parents" home D. hand-made cards are the most valuable gifts.
B. They make bread or pastry.
C. They offer enough room for having family parties.
D. They sell special clothes for Mother"s Day and Father"s Day.
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 t
ook 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
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