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Although the United States covers so much land and the land produces far more food than the present population needs，its people are by now almost entirely an urban society. Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture and forestry(林业), and most of the rest live in or around towns，small and large．Here the traditional picture is changing: every small town may still be very like other small towns，and the typical small town may represent a widely accepted view of the country，but most Americans do not live in small towns any more. Half the population now lives in some thirty metropolitan areas(1arge cities with their suburbs, of more than a million people each—a larger proportion than in Germany or England，let alone France). The statistics(统计)of urban and rural population should be treated with caution because so many people who live in areas classified as rural travel by car to work in a nearby town each day. As the rush to live out of town continues，rural areas within reach of towns are gradually filled with houses, so that it is hard to say at what moment a piece of country becomes a suburb. But more and more the typical American lives in a metropolitan rather than a small town environment．
小题1:If now America has 250 million people．how many of them are engaged in agriculture and forestry?

A．About 25 million

B．More than 25 million

C．Less than 25 million

D．Less than 225 million

小题2:Which of the following four countries has the smallest proportion of people living in metropolitan areas?

A．United States

B．Germany

C．France

D．England

小题3:What’s the meaning of the word“metropolitan”in the middle of the passage?

A．Of a large city with its suburbs	B．Of small and large towns
C．Of urban areas	D．Of rural areas

答案

小题1:C
小题2:C
小题3:A

解析

小题1:计算题。根据文章第三行Less than a tenth of the people可知C正确。
小题2:推理题。根据7,8.9行but most Americans do not live in small towns any more. Half the population now lives in some thirty metropolitan areas(1arge cities with their suburbs, of more than a million people each—a larger proportion than in Germany or England，let alone France内容可知C正确。
小题3:猜测词义题。根据第8行metropolitan areas(1arge cities with their suburbs可知A正确。

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What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, or red? If you do, you must be an active person who enjoys life. Do you like blue? Then you are probably quiet, shy, and would rather follow than lead.
Colors do influence our moods (情绪). A yellow room makes most people feel more cheerful and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. On the other hand, black is depressing(令人压抑的). There was a black bridge over the Thames River, near London. The number of people who killed themselves on that bridge used to be larger than on any other bridge in the area -- until it was repainted green.
Light and bright colors make people not only happier but also more active. In the factory, the workers will work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange rather than black.
小题1:An active person may like ____

A．yellow, orange, or red	B．yellow, black, or red
C．orange, blue, or black	D．black, red, or orange

小题2:Most people feel more __ in a yellow room than in a dark green one.

A．tired

B．bored

C．worried

D．relaxed

小题3:More people killed themselves on the black bridge than on any other bridge probably because ____

A．the bridge was very tall

B．the bridge was too crowded

C．people didn"t like the bridge

D．the color of the bridge was depressing

小题4:In the factory, when the machines are painted orange, the workers will work __

A．worse

B．harder

C．more slowly

D．more angrily

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The customs in different countries are rather different. If I have dinner with a Chinese host, he always puts more food onto my plate as soon as I have emptied it. That often discomforts me greatly. I have to eat the food even if I do not want to, because it is considered bad manners in the west to leave one’s food on the plate. I have also noticed that when a Chinese sits at an American’s dinner party, he often refuses the offer of drink though he’s in fact still hungry or thirsty. This might be good manners in China but it is not in the west at all. In the United States, it is impolite to keep asking someone again and again or insist on his accepting something. Americans have a direct way of speaking. If they want something, they will ask for it. If not, they will say, “No, thanks.” When an American is served with beer by the host, for example, he might say, “No, thanks. I’ll take some orange juice if you have it.” That is what an American will do. So when you go to the United States, you’d better remember the famous saying: “when in Rome, do as the Romans do.”
小题1:From this passage we can see that the writer is .

A．a Chinese	B．a Roman
C．an American	D．a European

小题2:When a Chinese host kept putting more food onto his plate, the writer felt .

A．very happy

B．sad

C．angry

D．uneasy

小题3:In the west, people consider it bad manners .

A．to refuse an offer

B．to ask for something directly

C．to eat at a dinner party

D．to keep asking someone to accept something

小题4:A guest at an American’s dinner party should show his politeness by .

A．putting more food onto his plate as soon as he emptied it

B．refusing the offer of food or drink though he is still hungry or thirsty.

C．asking for things directly if he wants them

D．not eating all the food offered

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I would like to talk to you about one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen. I was born and raised there and now I visit it from time to time. My family moved to the city, so I only go back to see friends or to camp and fish.
I grew up in a small town called Antonito Co. It is surrounded by mountains. So camping is a big source of happiness in the valley. There are so many beautiful places to hike.
The town itself is very small. It is said that if you blink when you’re going through it, you’ll miss it. This has some truth in it considering the size of the town. We have one grocery store, a tiny post office, and a tiny bank. There are also a few gas stations, bars, some excellent restaurants, a small hospital and of course several schools. However, for clothing and shoes, you have to drive thirty miles to Alamosa to shop there.
Everyone in the town is nice and we all know each other. The crime rate is zero unless you count some weekend fights that break out because some people drink too much. The classes in school are small, so you get a lot of attention from the teacher.
You’re probably wondering why I don’t live there. Well, I can’t get a job there. A lot of the businesses are family-owned. And they never fire their employees. So the employees work there usually until they retire. Most people have to go to other places to get a job .
小题1:What is this passage mainly about?

A．An introduction to the writer’s hometown.

B．A travel guide of the writer’s hometown .

C．The history of the writer’s hometown .

D．The scenery of the writer’s hometown .

小题2:By the underlined part in paragraph 3, the writer wants to show that the town is .

A．beautiful

B．small

C．exciting

D．faraway

小题3:What can you find in the writer’s hometown ?
a bank b. a post office c. some gas stations and bars d. a clothing store
e. a shoe shop f. some restaurants and a hospital

A．abce

B．bdef

C．abcf

D．cdef

小题4:What do we know about the classes given at the schools in the writer’s hometown ?

A．The classes are usually very short .

B．Students usually don’t get much attention .

C．One teacher has to teach many classes

D．Each class has just a small number of students .

小题5:We can learn from the last paragraph that in the writer’s hometown .

A．not many job opportunities are provided

B．employees don’t make much money

C．most people live a very hard life

D．only the old still live there

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The price of coffee beans hits a 12 – year high today. I thought there might
be some kind of coffee – market story, like we saw with cocoa earlier this summer.
But the main driver of coffee prices right now is simpler: Colombia has had
a few years of weak coffee harvests because of too much rain, which has reduced
the global supply. And coffee drinkers keep buying coffee, even as prices rise, in
other words, demand is unchanged.
The higher price of beans – up about 40 percent since March – means higher prices for the coffee you buy by the pound. But it probably won’t affect the coffee you buy by the cup.
Smuckers, which sells Folgers and Millstone coffees, recently said it was raising its prices because of the higher cost of beans. Starbucks, however, said it would absorb the higher cost of beans without raising prices.
“You see it much more in the grocery store because the raw materials are a big factor of cost,” Jose Sette of the International Coffee Organization told me. “In a coffee shop, your big expenses are rent and labor.”
While real – world supply and demand is the big driver of the price of beans, there may be some speculative action in coffee business in the future.
But futures (期货) of the high – grade Arabica beans are traded in the US, where regulations prevent speculators (投机商) from controlling the market, hoping such things won’t happen just as in London summer market. That suggests that prices should fall when supply improves – which may happen next year.
Some experts say that farmers in third world countries won’t actually benefit from higher prices in this case. When the price difference is due to supply and demand, the profit of the seller usually doesn’t go up.
小题1:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．Why coffee is getting more expensive?

B．How farmer benefits from the high price?

C．Whether the US will control the coffee market?

D．What has caused the reduction of coffee?

小题2:From the second paragraph we can infer that _______________________.

A．Colombia is the coffee trading center of the world

B．Colombia coffee output contains a final share of the world

C．People need more and more coffee

D．Coffee sales will be getting less and less

小题3:In this summer’s coffee bean market, ____________________________.

A．the US made more rules about coffee prices

B．speculators once held the coffee bean market in London

C．coffee bean trading was seriously disorganized

D．coffee bean prices were very low in the US

小题4:Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A．The price difference determines the profit of the seller.

B．Smuckers is a famous coffee manufacturer.

C．Real – world supply and demand decides the prices.

D．Coffee prices will become much higher next year.

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You probably know you should say "please" and "thank you" at restaurants. You probably know the rules of a library. You know you should respect and be nice to your classmates. But do you have music manners?
Keep It Down! You have to notice the volume of your music. You should not play your music so loud that everyone around you can hear it. Some people might even get angry. Usually, when you play the music loud on an MP3 player, other people can"t hear the words of the song. They just hear a loud sound. No one wants to listen to this. Very loud music can also be bad for your ears. So even if you are alone when listening to your MP3 players, you shouldn"t turn it up too high.
Take Them Off! You need to know when to turn your MP3 off and put it away. Libraries, and schools don"t allow MP3 players. There are other places, like museums, that don"t have rules, but it would be rude to have your MP3 player on. Sometimes, it doesn"t make sense to listen on your MP3 player at event. Why would you listen to music at a play, a movie or a sporting event? You would miss what is going on and others would wonder why you even came.
Take One Out! Once in a while it"s okay just to take out one earphone and not the other. Imagine you are listening on your MP3 player when someone asks you the way. It would not be rude to take out one earphone, tell him the way, and put back the earphone and continue listening. You can also do this when you order food at a fast-food restaurant or when you answer the telephone
It"s Your Choice! There are times when you need to decide what is best. For example, some people can listen to music on their MP3 players when reading books, while others think it is disturbing. In cases like this, you need to do what seems right for you.
小题1:The underlined word "volume" in Paragraph 2 probably means "_________."

A．the type of music

B．the length of a song

C．the amount of a sound

D．the color of an MP3 player

小题2:We should turn down the music when we are alone because loud music_________.

A．may annoy others

B．can hurt our ears

C．is bad for MP3 players

D．will make us tired

小题3:If we listen to our MP3 player at a play, _________.

A．the theatre won"t allow it

B．the actors will get angry

C．others won"t hear the play well

D．we may miss part of the play

小题4:We can take one earphone out when we _________.

A．show others the way

B．enjoy a movie at the cinema

C．watch a sporting event

D．answer the telephone at museums

小题5:The main idea of this passage is about _________.

A．MP3 manners

B．music lovers

C．music players

D．MP3 earphones

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