people usually have family parties
everyone goes to the cemetery
children always go to parents’ home
第1题:
A
Many children feel that the most important people in their lives are their friends.They be- lieve that their family members don-t know them as well as their friends. In large families, it is quite often for brothers and sisters to fight with each other and then they can only go to their friends for some ideas.
It is very important for children to have one or more good friends.Even when they are not with their friends, they usually spend a lot of time talking on the phone with their friends.This communication is very important to children’s growth, because friends can discuss some-thing, but it's difficult to discuss it with family members. However, most parents like to choose friends for their children Some parents even don-t allow their children to meet their good friends.
Who chooses your friends? What do your parents think of your friends?
Your answers are welcome.
( )21. Many children think ________ can understand them better.
A. friends
B. brothers
C. teachers
D. parents
第2题:
A、The first
B、First
C、One
第3题:
C
My granddaughter, 10, was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut (比萨饼屋)to celebrate Children’s Day. For a whole day, the two girls played heartily – no homework, no extra-curricular(课外) skills training. The happy life lasted only for one day. Yesterday, everything returned to normal: doing homework till late at night and going over lessons learned at last weekend’s English and “ Olympic mathematics” (数学奥赛) courses.
Every time I went to my daughter’s house in the evening, I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a compositions given by her teacher. On the white wall behind the desk are some words she wrote. One sentence reads: “ Why is the exercise endless?”
Poor girl!
Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children, parents have been forcing their kids to take part in different kinds of extra-curricular training courses-learning English, painting, music instrument (乐器), weiqi, “ Olympic mathematics” and so on, every Saturday and Sunday.
Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in children’s education? The answer is certainly “ No”. Take the so-called “ Olympic mathematics” for example. These courses are very difficult for the children to understand. Often, they are difficult even for adults (成年人).
( ) 61. The writer’s granddaughter celebrated her Children’s Day by _____.
A. playing all day B. doing nothing
C. having a party D. going over lessons
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34 with Father’s Day around the corner, I have taken some money out of the bank—— presents for my dad
A buy
B.to buy
C buying
D to have bought
第6题:
What is the typical American family (21) ? Married American adults will name their husband or wife and their children (22) their "immediate family"(直系家庭). If they (23) their father, mother, sisters, or brothers, they will define them as separate units, usually (24) in separate households. Aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents are (25) "extended family"(扩大的家庭).
The structure of the American family has undergone great changes (26) the 1950s. Traditionally, the American family (27) been a nuclear family, consisting (28) a husband, a wife, and their children. Grandparents (29) live in the same home with their (30) sons and daughters.
In the 1950s, 70 percent of American households (31) the "classic" American family—a husband, wife, and two children. The father earned the money to 32 the family, the mother (33) the children and did not work outside the home, and they had two children.
Yet, in the 1990s,only 8 percent of American households consisted of a (34) father, a stay-at- home mother, and two children. And 35 ,18 percent of households consisted of two parents who were both working and some or more children living at home.
21.
A. likes
B. liking
C. like
D. look like
本题是词汇题,考查“like”的介词用法,“像,以……的典型方式”,应该是“be+like”,故选 C。
第7题:
The nuclear family ____ two parents (mother and father) and their children.
A: consists of
B: consist of
C: is consisted of
D: consists
第8题:
Section B (10 marks)
Directions: Read the following passage, Answer the questions according to the
information given in the passage.
Secret Santas
On Christmas morning, Linda wakes up, and tries to imagine the wide-eyed surprise of children in another household as they unwrap the presents she carefully chose for them. Linda has never met the children, but that’s all part of the joy of giving as secret Santas, she says.
"It's an amazing feeling to buy gifts on an anonymous (匿名的) basis," says Linda.
"It brings a whole new meaning to the holidays."
Linda and Tony are an American couple living in Toronto, Canada, and Linda did charitable work as a member of the American Women's Club of Toronto. As the name suggests, members are U.S. citizens living in Toronto, who join together for fellowship and community service.
To find her "adopted" family, Linda goes to the local schools and requests a wish list for a family that's struggling to survive. Last year she helped a single mother with three children. The mother works as a cleaning lady in a nursing home.
"The list is always heartbreaking. They have an opportunity to ask for anything and do just the opposite, asking for basic clothes or simple toys," she says. "We always buy the kids a new winter coat, hats, and gloves." She also buys gifts for the parents.
Last year Linda asked the mother for a second wish list--one that didn't include the basics. "Every child should have a Christmas that sticks with them for a lifetime." She purchased iPods for the two older children and a video game system for the youngest."I have learned a very valuable lesson in all of this," says Linda. "Pay attention to what's going on in your own backyard--no matter where you live."
The joy of giving as secret Santas is much sweeter when the gift is anonymous.
81. What reaction does Linda imagine the children will have?
(No more than 5 words) (2 marks)
They will feel greatly surprised.
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