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in Beijing. Though he enjoys his work, it is hard for him for relax after work."For a long time, I had no choice
except going to a bar for a drink and karaoke to relax myself," he said.
One day when he saw many toys in a toy shop, he had an idea. "Why not do some kind of things and relax
myself?" Then he began to make model planes, model ships and something else. The thing he has made by
himself doesn"t look as professionally made as those in the shop, but he likes doing it."It is not as much fun
to play with things which are bought expensively from the shops," he said. Now his bookshelves are full of
many kinds of things he has made. They are very beautiful and friends like them very much.
More and more people are like Yang, making or creating things on their own. They like to do it themselves.
Though making things with our own hands, may take much time, some people, now known as DI Yers...
do-it-yourselfers, enjoy doing it very much. They can make all kinds of things they like.
DIY is becoming more and more popular in China. It may be to the young, yet many people remember
when it was once a way of life.
During 1960s and 1970s, when there were not enough living things for people to live on, they had to use
their own hands to do many things. Whitewashing the wall or making clothes was a part of life because there
was no other choice. If you want something done, you had to do it yourself, and if you needed something you
made it yourself. But times have changed and DIY has a1so different meanings.
B. Going to a bar for a drink and karaoke.
C. Whitewashing the wall.
D. Making something by himself.
B. they do it for fun
C. they need them in their life
D. they can"t buy them anywhere
B. more and more people began to make model planes
C. between 1960s and 1970s, people liked making things themselves
D. more and more people begin to like Yang Chen
B. Planes bought from the shops are too expensive.
C. DIY is a good way of life.
D. DIY was a part of life in the past.
B. People had to make things by themselves during 1960s and 1970s.
C. DIY has different meaning now.
D. Yang wants to find a way to relax himself.
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试题【阅读理解。 DIY is very popular in China now. Do you know what it is? Yang Chen wo】；主要考察你对社会现象类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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easy as when your parents are around? Would it be a perfect holiday for you?
"I can fill an empty stomach with tomato and egg soup, but that"s all. I think many of my classmates
are the same. We wouldn"t know what to do, or how to look after ourselves," said Zheng Chenyu. "And
I"d forget something important. I"d probably watch television and burn the soup."
"As soon as I leave home, I"ll learn to cook. But now parents do almost everything for us. We"re very
lazy,"she said.
Most teenagers have only time for their homework. They don"t learn any life skills until they go to
college.
However, Sima Yige doesn"t think so.
"I think I"d be all right. I wouldn"t just eat sandwiches or fruit. I know how to cook, some sim-ple dishes
because my mum showed me," the 13-year-old boy said. In his opinion, many teen-agers depend too much
on their parents, and there is much more to learn than cooking, like "tidying up your room or even dressing
yourself properly."
For most teenagers it wouldn"t be a holiday at all.
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2. When will Zheng Chenyu learn to cook?
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3. Translate the underlined sentence "They don"t learn any life skills until they go to college." in this passage.
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4. The underlined phrase "depend too much" on in the passage means __________ in Chinese.
5. Would life be as easy for teenagers living alone as when their parents are around?
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since it was widely used. At the same time, however, the Internet has also caused some traditions to fall
away (消失).
E-mail is quicker and cheaper. Getting a handwritten letter from a friend has become a rare (稀有的)
pleasure.
Who would like to pay 60 yuan for 12 songs in a plastic case if you can find music in the Interact for
free?
When almost any fact can be found within seconds through Google and Baidu, personal memory becomes
less important. The Web can remember it for us.
When was the last time you watched the world out of a window? When was the last time you read a
favorite book once again? When was the last time you sat in the cinema with your family? More and more
people lose themselves in the Internet. They show less interest and spend less time in the outside world.
You"ve spent the past few years talking with your freinds on QQ, or reading about his or her QQ suqare,
so meeting a freind is no longer as important as it once was.
Have you ever found yourself doing homework with one eye on a QQ Space window? A growing number
of people say the Internet is stopping young people from fixing their attention on anything for a long time.
When you surf the Internet, it feels like something you"re enjoying and nobody knows it. But when you
realize just how many people are watching your every move, it might just make you mad. Many people have
realized their personal information can be found easily in the Internet even they don"t want to.
B. 14 years
C. 15 years
D. 60 years
B. going to the cinema
C. reading favorite books
D. watching the outside world
B. People get fewer handwritten letters from their friends now.
C. You have to pay if you want to find some music in the Internet.
D. Internet can help young people fix their attention on anything.
B. seems happy
C. feels interested
D. is worried
more stars give their children special names. In Britain, you can call a child almost anything you like except
dirty words.
Some parents choose names which come from popular culture. Because of the film the Lord of the Rings
(指环王), six boys were named Gandalf. Names about sport are very common, too. Since 1984, 36 children
have been called Arsenal after the football team.
Other parents like to make up names, or combine (合并) two names to make a special one. A mother in
Britain invented the name Tiaamii for her daughter. She combined the names Thea and Amy (the two
grandmothers).
In China, there are some rules about names ―- you can"t use foreign letters or symbols (符号) in a Chinese
name. For example, parents are not allowed to name their baby @. In New Zealand, a name beginning with a
number is not allowed. Other countries have stricter rules about calling children. For example, Japan,
Denmark, Spain, Germany and Argentina have a list of names. Parents must choose the names in the lists for
their children.
In Britain, some old-fashioned (过时的) names have become popular again, such as Maisie or Ella for a girl,
and Alfie or Noah for a boy. But the most popular names are not the strange ones. The top names are very
traditional--Jack and Thomas for boys, or Grace and Jessica for girls.
B. popular
C. old-fashioned
D. dirty
B. football star
C. football team
D. film
B. Tiaarnii in Britain
C.李@in China
D. Real in New Zealand
B. Britain
C. America
D. China
B. strange names are the most popular in Britain
C. people don"t use old names in Britain
D. the most popular names are the traditional names in Britain
In Montana, you might drive for a mile in any direction and not see another human being. In Macao,60,000
people live in every square mile!
What is true is that the world"s population doesn"t stay the same. It has been increasing at a very fast rate
(比例). That"s in part because in each generation (代) these are more people who then have children than in
the last generation.
Five hundred years ago, the population of the world was about 460 million. In 1900,the world"s population
was under 2 billion (十亿). Right now it is doubling every 40 years. That means, if this rate of growth
continues, when you are a parent, there will be twice as many people on earth as there are now. Wow! Now
that"s a whole lot of people! Soon the world"s population will probably reach 7 billion. Some people worry
about that! But there is a lot of disagreement about just how many people on earth equals (相当于) too many
people. But everyone agrees that the more people there are, the more resources (资源) the world needs to feed,
house and take care of all of them, and the more need there is to think carefully about how we live and use the
earth"s resources.
B. Macao is too crowded
C. the world is too crowded
D. the world is not too crowded
B. there are less wars than before
C. medicine is developing faster than before
D. more couples now would like to have children than before
B. About 2 billion.
C. 40 billion.
D. 7 billion.
B. use more resources
C. think about our ways of living
D. move to other places
B. thinks the world can feed no more than 7 billion people
C. is not sure when the world"s population will reach 7 billion
D. is not sure what the largest population that the world can feed is