was eating something. A local man told her not to do so. The girl"s mother told him to mind his
own business. A quarrel started. Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway rules say people cannot eat
on the subway. The rules say the train will be filled with the smell of food. They say the smell will
attract mice to the train. These mice might chew the cables and cause safety problems for passengers.
People caught eating on the subway will be fined up to 2,000 Hong Kong dollars (1,625 yuan),
Xinhua reported. Signs clearly say "no eating" and the rule is often announced on the subway and in
stations. However, the girl and her parents say they did not notice this.
This seemingly small event has started a debate on the Internet, Xinhua reported.
A netizen named Zhu Hongying said some Chinese consider bad habits like talking loudly in public
places, spitting or jumping queues as small matters. They simply don"t care because they think public
places are not their private homes. "This kind of thinking shows a lack of a sense of social morality,"
she pointed out.
Many people agree. "The parents (of the girl) should have apologized for their mistake," Zhang
Nan, 15, a Senior 1 student at Diaotai High School, Shaanxi, said to Teens. "Quarreling after making
the mistake only makes the situation more embarrassing for them."
Reports of Chinese people behaving badly at tourist sites at home and abroad are nothing new.
Such reports are affecting the way other countries see Chinese people. Some foreign airports put
up signs in Chinese telling Chinese people not to talk loudly and not to spit everywhere. Many
Chinese people find this embarrassing.
All this shows that one of the secrets to a good journey is to learn about local customs and
taboos before you go.
B. a group of people who have the power to make and change laws
C. a general agreement that does not allow people to do, use or talk about something
D. guidance offering information of local weather, accommodation and specialties
B. leave much to be desired
C. are only too easy to improve
D. are always to blame anywhere anytime
B. Birds of a feather flock together
C. Misfortune may be an actual blessing
D. A real man never goes back on his words
1-3: CBA
York from the South, dreaming about music. Joe and Delia met in a studio. Before long they were
good friends and got married.
They had only a small flat to live in , but they were happy. They loved each other, and they were
both interested in art. Everything was fine until one day they found they had spent all their money.
Delia decided to give music lessons. One afternoon she said to her husband:
"Joe, I"ve found a pupil, a general"s daughter. She is a sweet girl. I"m to give three lessons a week
and get $5 a lesson."
But Joe was not glad.
"But how about me?" he said." Do you think I"m going to watch you work while I play with my
art? No, I want to earn some money too."
"Joe, you are silly," said Delia. "You must keep at your studies. We can live quite happily on $15
a week."
"Well, perhaps I can sell some of my pictures," said Joe.
Every day they parted in the morning and met in the evening. A week passed and Delia brought
home fifteen dollars, but she looked a little tired.
"Clementina sometimes gets on my nerves. I"m afraid she doesn"t practice enough. But the general
is thet old man! I wish you could know him, Joe."
And then Joe took eighteen dollars out of his pocket.
"I"ve sold one of my pictures to a man from Peoria," he said, "and he has ordered another."
"I"m so glad," said Delia. "Thirty-three dollars! We never had so much to spend before. We"ll have
a good supper tonight."
Next week Joe came home and put another eighteen dollars on the table. In half an hour Delia
came, her right hand in a bandage.
"What"s the matter with your hand?" said Joe. Delia laughed and said:
"Oh, a funny thing happened! Clemantina gave me a plate of soup and spilled some of it on my
hand. She was very sorry for it. And so was the old general. But why are you looking at me like that,
Joe?"
"What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Delia?"
"Five o"clock, I think. The iron-I mean the soup-was ready about five, Why?"
"Delia, come and sit here," said Joe. He drew her to the couch and sat beside her.
"What do you do every day, Delia? Do you really give music lesson? Tell me the truth."
She began to cry.
"I couldn"t get any pupils," she said, "So I got a place in a laundry ironing shirts. This afternoon
a girl accidentally set down an iron on my hand and I got a bad burn. But tell me, Joe, how did you
guess that I wasn"t giving music lessons?"
"It"s very simple," said Joe. "I knew all about your bandages because I had to send them upstair
s to a girl in the laundry who had and accident with a hot iron. You see, I work in the engine-room of
the same laundry where you work."
"And your pictures? Did you sell and to that man from Peoria?"
"Well, your general with his Clemantina is an invention, and so is my man from Peoria."
And then they both laughed.
B. a music teacher
C. an artist
D. a laundry assistant
2. We can infer from the underlined sentence that .
B. Clemantina was an invention of the man from Peoria
C. there were no such men as the general, Clemantina and the man from Peoria
D. the general, Clemantina and the man from Peoria were the couple"s clients
B. honest
C. ashamed
D. heartbreaking
B. A story of Joe and Delia
C. Lies and truth
D. Servants of love
represent, in fact, what I call __1__ and love.
I don"t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did __2__ the water. Any kind of __3__ ride seemed to give him pleasure. __4__ he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water, the way my father __5__. I liked being at the water,
moving through it, __6__ it all around me. I was not a strong __7__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __8__. But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father"s office and __9__ those summer days with my father, who __10__ come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __11__ person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go __12__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk,
where he let me __13__ anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his
desk __14__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I
shouldn"t be playing with his __15__. But my father always __16__ and said easily, "Oh, no, it"s
__17__." Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __18__ an ice cream...
A poet once said, "We look at life once, in childhood; the rest is __19__." And I think it is not only
what we "look at once, in childhood" that determines our memories, __20__the person who, in that
childhood, looks at us.
( )2. A. avoid
( )3. A. boat
( )4. A. But
( )5. A. expected
( )6. A. having
( )7. A. swimmer
( )8. A. hopes
( )9. A. spending
( )10. A. should
( )11. A. next
( )12. A. away from
( )13. A. put up
( )14. A. the moment
( )15. A. fishing net
( )16. A. stood up
( )17. A. fine
( )18. A. the student
( )19. A. memory
( )20. A. as
B. refuse
B. bus
B. Then
B. desired
B. leaving
B. rider
B. faiths
B. saving
B. would
B. only
B. out of
B. break down
B. the first time
B. office things
B. set out
B. strange
B. the assistant
B. wealth
B. but
C. praise
C. train
C. And
C. wished
C. making
C. walker
C. fights
C. wasting
C. had to
C. other
C. by
C. play with
C. while
C. wooden chair
C. showed up
C. terrible
C. myself
C. experience
C. or
D. love
D. bike
D. Still
D. did
D. getting
D. runner
D. fears
D. ruining
D. ought to
D. last
D. inside
D. work out
D. before
D. lab equipment
D. turned out
D. funny
D. himself
D. practice
D. and
I stole your dog. No, I didn"t set foot in your house, but from the condition of your dog, I can imagine what it looks like-the word "rubbish" comes to mind.
I found her along a road, with a heavy chain wrapped around her neck, still attached to rotten boards
from her doghouse. Not only did I know that most of the town"s people had already ignored her, judging
by the place where I found her, but I knew that if she had gotten into the woods, the "cross" that she
dragged behind her would have wrapped itself around a tree until starvation or thirst killed her.
She has a beautiful name now. Already in the first week she has come to look more like what she
should. Her eyes sparkle and she has learned to wag her tail in greeting. She has stopped flinching (畏缩) when I make a sudden movement, because she knows now that I won"t beat her. In fact, she rarely leaves my side. She"s even become brave enough to bark at a cat and today as I looked out of the window she
attempted to play with other dogs. No, it"s clear that she does not miss you or her former life on a chain.
It"s not clear yet whether she"ll remain here or whether I"ll find her a loving home where she can count
on more individual attention than I can give her, but one thing is certain, this is a bit of stolen "property"
which is never returning to you. So sue me, accuse me, and plead with the court that she is rightfully
yours... I"m convinced that this is the best "crime" I"ve ever committed. Hardly anything has pleased me
more than the day when I stole your dog. I need only look into her beautiful brown eyes to know that she"d defend my decision with her life. If we have one prayer, it is that you will not replace her, and if we have
one special day to celebrate together, it is the day I stole your dog and the day she stole my heart.
B. Angry.
C. Shocked.
D. Satisfied
B. the dog tried to find a kind master
C. the dog was treated badly by its former master
D. the author will be charged with stealing the dog
B. He thought he had to do it.
C. He believed that the law would allow him to do so.
D. He did it with pride
Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett"s jeans and shirt full of burn holes.
Tired and defeated, I __1__ to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had __2__.
He often got almost everything in the house out of __3__. Many windows in our house needed repair due to his breaking __4__ to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could
compare to the emotional __5__ Brett had done to our once quiet home.
Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett
as __6__ as possible, but inside I was shouting, "I don"t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can"t __7__ him!" Having wiped my tears, I continued __8__ him as before.
When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall (少管所). After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping __9__ teens.
At the __10__ ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had __11__
the most to him or her.
Brett spoke __12__ to his parents and then spoke to me, "You did so much. You were always
there, no matter __13__. My mom and dad, I am their kid. But you, __14__ troubled enough by me, always __15__ me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it."
__16__, I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me __17__. At that moment,
tears __18__ in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for __19__. Although I had
struggled with silent __20__ toward my stepson, Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We
may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our life, but we can love them.
( )2. A. lost
( )3. A. order
( )4. A. off
( )5. A. pain
( )6. A. patiently
( )7. A. forgive
( )8. A. feeding
( )9. A. lazy
( )10. A. opening
( )11. A. afforded
( )12. A. sadly
( )13. A. where
( )14. A. although
( )15. A. cost
( )16. A. Astonished
( )17. A. surely
( )18. A. fell
( )19. A. pity
( )20. A. love
B. ruined
B. place
B. in
B. injury
B. willingly
B. stand
B. pardoning
B. disappointing
B. official
B. meant
B. lovingly
B. how
B. unless
B. lent
B. Puzzled
B. tightly
B. flowed
B. luck
B. anxiety
C. torn
C. trouble
C. up
C. harm
C. strictly
C. educate
C. comforting
C. troublesome
C. graduation
C. supplied
C. proudly
C. who
C. because
C. showed
C. Encouraged
C. roughly
C. moved
C. happiness
C. care
D. broken
D. danger
D. away
D. damage
D. rudely
D. control
D. parenting
D. careless
D. victory
D. owed
D. nervously
D. what
D. when
D. taught
D. Interested
D. fiercely
D. gathered
D. success
D. anger
fine sons. One night, his elder son developed a serious stomachache. Thinking it was
only some common disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition very seriously.
But it was actually acute appendicitis (急性阑尾炎), and the boy died suddenly that
night.
Knowing the death could have been prevented if he had only realized the seriousness
of the situation, Al"s emotional health deteriorated (恶化) under the burden of his guilt.
To make matters worse, his wife left him a short time later, leaving him alone with his
sixyearold younger son. The hurt and pain of the two situations were more than Al could
handle,and he turned to alcohol to help him cope. In time Al became an alcoholic (酒鬼).
As the alcoholism progressed,Al began to lose everything he possessed-his home, his
land and his art objects. Eventually Al died alone in a San Francisco motel room.
When I heard of Al"s death,I reacted with the same disdain (蔑视) the world shows for
one who ends his life with nothing to show for it. "What a complete failure!" I thought. "What
a totally wasted life!"
As time went by, I began to reevaluate my earlier judgment. I knew Al"s now adult son,
Ernie. He has grown into one of the kindest, most caring and most loving men I have ever
known. I watched Emie with his children and saw the free flow of love between them. I knew
that kindness and consideration had to come from somewhere.
I hadn"t heard Ernie talk much about his father. One day I worked up my courage to ask
him. "I"m really puzzled by something," I said. "I know your father was basically the only one
to raise you. What on earth did he do to make you become such a special person?"
Ernie sat quietly and reflected for a few moments. Then he said, "Al came into my room
every night,gave me a kiss and said "I love you,son" until I left home at 18."
Tears came to my eyes as I realized what a fool I had been to judge Al as a failure. He had
not left any material possessions behind. But he had been a kind and loving father, and he was
one of the finest men I have ever known.
B. the couple"s carelessness
C. serious stomachache
D. too much alcohol
B. Al eventually became an alcoholic without any reason.
C. Al"s wife was also dead because of her elder son"s death.
D. The boy"s death couldn"t be avoided even if he was given more attention.
B. Foolish.
C. Bad.
D. Familyloving.
B. Caring.
C. Loving.
D. All above.
B. love is the best heritage in our life
C. Ernie is a kind, caring and loving son
D. Al"s death is a totally wasted life as well
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