Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we can’t be more familiar with the fact of friendship, we often don’t clearly understand how we make friends, especially with Americans. Here are some pieces of advice on making friends with Americans:
* Visiting places Americans enjoy: parties, churches, restaurants, parks and sports clubs.
* Be willing to take the first step. Don’t wait for them to get close to you. Americans in China may not know you speak English. They may be uncomfortable if they can’t speak your language.
* Use small talks to open the conversation. Ask them where they’re from, why they come to China, etc. Remember: Be careful not to ask personal questions about age, salary and so on.
* Show an interest in their culture, their country or their job. Americans like to talk about themselves.
* Invite them to join you for dinner or just for coffee or tea. Try to set a specific （明确的）time. Americans sometimes make general invitations like “Let’s go out for a dinner sometime.” Often this is just a way to be friendly. It’s not always a real invitation.
* Don’t expect too much at first. Maybe they’re being friendly. But maybe they want to be your good friends. It will take time to tell.
小题1:According to the passage, Americans like to visit the following places except ______.| A．shopping centers | B．parks | C．sport clubs | D．churches |
小题2:How many pieces of advice does the writer offer on making friends with Americans?| A．Four. | B．Five. | C．Six. | D．Seven. |
小题3:What should you say when you meet an American for the first time?| A．What’s your age? | | B．How much do you get in a month? | | C．Nice to meet you! Are you from America? | | D．Let’s get together sometime. I want to ask you some questions. |
小题4:Which is the best way to make friends with an American?| A．To ask him if he is willing to make friends with you. | | B．To spend a long time learning about him. | | C．To wait until he tells you his thoughts. | | D．To ask him to join you for dinner. |
小题5:What do we know from the passage?| A．It’s very important to be a good friend of an American. | | B．It’s difficult to get on with Americans. | | C．Different peoples have different customs and cultures. | | D．Friendship is the most important in our daily life. |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:C
小题4:B
小题5:C |
试题分析：本文说朋友在我们的生活中扮演着重要的角色，并就如何与美国人交朋友给出了六条有用的建议。
小题1:通过Visiting places Americans enjoy: parties, churches, restaurants, parks and sports clubs.可知，没有提到 shopping centers，所以本题选A。
小题2:通过阅读全文，文中共提到六点建议，也就是带星号的部分。所以本题选C。
小题3:通过阅读第三条建议，可知我们可以问他们来自哪里，为什么来中国，但不能问一些私人的信息。所以本题选C。
小题4:根据最后一条我们可知，第一次不要期望过多，要成为好朋友，需要花费时间加以了解。只有B选项符合要求。所以本题选B。
小题5:通过阅读文章，我们知道本文主要讲述了应如何根据美国人的风俗习惯与美国人交朋友，ABD选项都比较片面，所以本题选C。
点评：本题中的题目在文中都不能完全找到合适的句型，都需要我们进行通读全文，加以总结和合理的推断。阅读时还应该注意文章的细节部分，不能过于绝对。所以本题一定要注意对整篇文章的把握，不能局限于某句话上。 |
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试题【Friends play an important part in our lives, and although we can’t be more famil】；主要考察你对
人生百味类等知识点的理解。
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Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe is born 10 feet high and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over its legs under its body. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its children to the reality(现实) of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a new-born giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she puts herself directly over her child. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable(不合情理的) thing. She throws her long leg and kicks her baby, so that it’s sent sprawling(四脚朝天).
When it doesn’t get up, the process is repeated again and again. The struggle to rise is important. As the baby giraffe grows tired, the mother kicks it again. Finally, it stands for the first time on its shaky(摇晃的) legs. Then the mother giraffe kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, a baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with its group, where there’s safety.
Another writer named Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing stories about such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found something that runs through the lives of all these great people. He said, “I write about people who sometime in their life have a dream of something. They’re beaten over the head, knocked down and for years they get nowhere. But every time they stand up again. And at the end of their lives they’ve realized some small parts of what they set out(着手) to do .”
小题1:What does the underlined part “a tall order” in Paragraph 1 mean?| A．A happy thing. | B．A difficult task. | | C．A big dream. | D．A beautiful scene. |
小题2:What does the book A View from the Zoo talk about?| A．A new-born giraffe’s first lesson. | | B．A mother giraffe’s story. | | C．The lives of some great people. | | D．The way for a giraffe to stand up. |
小题3:Why were some great people mentioned in the passage?| A．Because they all worked hard. | | B．Because they all liked to read some special stories. | | C．Because they were born with some illnesses. | | D．Because they were similar to giraffes in some ways. |
小题4:Which of the following statements is True according to the passage?| A．This passage is a description of giraffes’ living habits. | | B．Baby giraffes can’t stand up until three months old. | | C．Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying and writing stories about great people. | | D．The great people can’t stand up after they’re knocked down for years. |
小题5:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．How to Raise a Baby Giraffe. | | B．Learning to Get Back Up. | | C．Stories about the great people. | | D．A Mother Giraffe and Its Baby Giraffe. |
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完形填空（本大题有15小题，共15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
One morning, a student was walking with his teacher when they saw a pair of old shoes by the roadside (路边). They thought the shoes might belong 1 a poor man. In fact, the 2 of the shoes was working nearby.
The student wanted to hide (藏) the shoes and see 3 the man would do 4 he couldn’t find them. But the teacher 5 him and said, “ Let’s 6 a coin ( 硬币) in each of the shoes, and watch what he will do.”
The student did so, and then they hid nearby.
The man soon came back to get his 7 , he felt something hard in them. He found the two coins.
Surprise came to his 8 . He looked at the coins for a minute, and then 9 but nobody was there.
He then knelt down (跪下) , looked up to the sky and said 10 aloud, in which he spoke of his 11 wife and children without food.
The student was deeply moved (感动的), with tears in his eyes, “ Dear 12 ,” he said, “You have taught me 13 lesson which I’ll never 14 . I finally understand now: It’s more blessed (神圣的) to 15 than to receive.”
| 小题2: | | A．seller | B．owner | C．teacher | D．maker |
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| 小题3: | | A．how | B．which | C．where | D．what |
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| 小题4: | | A．although | B．until | C．when | D．because |
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| 小题5: | | A．stopped | B．helped | C．allowed | D．agreed |
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| 小题7: | | A．lunch | B．shoes | C．drink | D．coat |
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| 小题9: | | A．looked around | B．looked after | C．looked like | D．looked at |
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| 小题10: | | A．yes | B．hello | C．goodbye | D．thanks |
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| 小题11: | | A．rich | B．poor | C．shy | D．creative |
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| 小题12: | | A．father | B．mother | C．teacher | D．uncle |
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| 小题14: | | A．learn | B．forget | C．take | D．remember |
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| 小题15: | | A．work | B．refuse | C．buy | D．give |
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Do you often talk with your parents? Here is some advice on how to talk with them.
Try to start your talk with something fun. This will make talking easier. For example, ask them questions about their day. How’s work? They love this.
Make it clear what you want to tell your parents. If they have an opinion, let them finish and don’t stop their talking. Ask them to do the same for you.
Show them respect (尊重) by listening to them carefully. Look them in the eye (直视).
Be honest. Honesty builds trust (信任). Life is good when your parents trust you.
If your parents don’t understand, that’s OK. It doesn’t mean they don’t love you. Sometimes you have to explain the things to them again.
When you finish the talk, thank them for listening. Say something like “thanks”. It will let them know this is important to you, and make them want to do it more often.
小题1:If you want to start the talk easily, you should say something at the beginning.| A．fun | B．exciting | C．sad | D．unhappy |
小题2:While talking to the parents, you should look them in the eye to show you them.| A．dislike | B．understand | C．respect | D．agree with |
小题3:When the parents don’t understand you, you can .| A．ask them to stop | B．argue with them | | C．look them in the eye | D．explain your idea to them again |
小题4:When you finish the talk, you should your parents for listening.| A．say goodbye to | B．thank | C．say sorry to | D．ask |
小题5:What’s the main idea of this passage?| A．We should thank our parents. | | B．It’s important to understang our parents. | | C．We should love our parents. | | D．Some ways to communicate with our parents. |
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完形填空（15分）
This morning I got a funny feeling. Today I had to give a report in my __1__ , and I had been doing this for a long time!
Mum came into the kitchen asking,” Are you ready,__2__ ?”
“Yes,” I answered quietly. __3__ in fact I wasn’t really ready!”
On my way __4__ school, I could feel my heart beating fast. I hated this.
I went into Mrs. Owen’s class. She is smiling, and saying __5__ to all her students as she did every morning .
“Hi, Sam,” she said to me as I walked __6__ the classroom.
“Hi,” I said and quickly sat in my __7__. I looked at the clock. The class was about to begin. Then Mrs. Owens started , “Sam, it’s time for you to give your speech.” __8__in front of everybody? Oh, no!
I got up slowly, looking __9__ the ground as I walked to the front of the classroom. Then, I looked up , and everyone was looking at me. Mrs. Owens knew I was __10__, so she came beside me, and put her hand on my back.
She said to the class, “Sam has worked very hard on his __11__ and I know it is a very interesting report.” Then she turned to me and asked, “Sam, __12__ did you like best about report on Hawaii?”
I thought about the funny things I had read about surfing , and I started to __13__. I talked and talked __14__ the whole class, and I was not nervous at all. It was great fun. I wasn’t frightened. The class cheered as I finished and Mrs. Owens was __15__.
| 小题1: | | A．class | B．house | C．party | D．hometown |
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| 小题2: | | A．friends | B．classmates | C．Owens | D．Sam |
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| 小题5: | | A．sorry | B．hello | C．goodbye | D．thanks |
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| 小题6: | | A．into | B．out of | C．away from | D．far from |
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| 小题7: | | A．bed | B．seat | C．dining- room | D．reading room |
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| 小题8: | | A．Putting | B．Being shy | C．Stand up | D．Do well |
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| 小题10: | | A．glad | B．nervous | C．active | D．happy |
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| 小题11: | | A．dictionary | B．magazine | C．newspaper | D．report |
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| 小题13: | | A．tell | B．say | C．talk about | D．talk |
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| 小题14: | | A．in front of | B．over | C．beside | D．near |
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| 小题15: | | A．playing | B．dancing | C．singing | D．smiling |
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完形填空
Once, in a small village, lived a family with eight children. Two of the children loved 1 very much, but the family was so poor that it was impossible to send 2 of them to study at the art college at the same time. After many discussions, the two boys finally 3 a plan. They would toss(抛) a coin. The loser would go 4 into the mines (煤矿) and, with his earnings(赚得的钱), 5 his brother studying at the college. Then, when the brother who won the toss finished his studies, after four years, he would support the other brother studying at the 6
James won the toss and Jack went down into the mines. James worked with all his heart and his paintings were much 7 than those of most of his teachers, and by the time he 8 , he was beginning to make a lot of money for his paintings.
9 James returned, the family held a big dinner for his great success. Soon after the meal began, James 10 up from his seat to drink a toast (举杯祝酒) to his dear 11 He said, "Jack, now you can go to the art college and your 12 will come true. I will take care of you. "
But Jack said 13 , "Brother, the four years in the mines has done too much to my hands, so it’s too 14 Now I can’t even hold a glass. "
To show his great love and respect, James drew his brother" s hands with 15 towards the sky.
He called his drawing "The Praying Hands", which became very famous years later.
| 小题1: | | A．painting | B．books | C．school | D．money |
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| 小题2: | | A．any | B．all | C．both | D．neither |
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| 小题3: | | A．looked out | B．worked out | C．took out | D．got out |
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| 小题5: | | A．support | B．agree | C．follow | D．let |
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| 小题6: | | A．home | B．mine | C．college | D．school |
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| 小题7: | | A．better | B．worse | C．cheaper | D．older |
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| 小题8: | | A．arrived | B．graduated | C．walked | D．waited |
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| 小题9: | | A．Before | B．When | C．Though | D．While |
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| 小题10: | | A．picked | B．turned | C．looked | D．stood |
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| 小题11: | | A．brother | B．sister | C．father | D．mother |
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| 小题12: | | A．way | B．idea | C．dream | D．practice |
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| 小题13: | | A．happily | B．surprisedly | C．angrily | D．softly |
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| 小题14: | | A．early | B．late | C．good | D．helpful |
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| 小题15: | | A．legs | B．feet | C．arms | D．fingers |
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