their business is, so a ringing phone is difficult to ignore. In one experiment, a researcher wrote down
the numbers of several public phones in stations and airports. Then he called the numbers. Someone
nearly always answered. When he asked why, people usually said, "Because it rang."
A few years ago in New Jersey, a man with a rifle killed 13 people. Armed police surrounded his
house but he refused to come out. A reporter found out the phone number of the house and called.
The man put down his rifle and answered the phone. "What do you want?" he said, "I"m really busy
right now."
Imagine you"re at work and the phone is ringing in someone else"s office. Do you answer it or not?
In one survey on telephone use, 51% of participants told researches that they did. We can"t ignore the
phone and for the reason, it forces its way into our lives. It interrupts what we are doing and on top of
that, the caller is often someone we don"t really want to talk to. However, in the survey, 58% said they
never took the phone off the hook, and 67% didn"t mind if someone called during a television programme. For 44% it wasn"t a problem if someone rang during a meal, while only 28% were annoyed or upset.
If someone phoned in the middle of the night, 40% told researchers that they got nervous or frightened,
while around 30% got angry.
Of course, when someone is really annoying, you can choose to hang up on him/her. This is in fact
one of the rudest things you can do on the phone, but 79% said they were prepared to do it in some
cases. Only 6% told researchers they never hung up on people.
B. in order to help him gather the data
C. to test the function of the phone
D. to show their interest in the survey
B. he tended to answer a ringing phone
C. he wanted to tell the reporter that he was too busy to offer any information
D. he intended to be friendly with the media
B. couldn"t ignore the phone
C. refused to answer the phone in someone else"s office
D. kept the phone ringing
last paragraph)?
B. They were prepared to punish those rude callers.
C. They were going to hang up on annoying phones.
D. They also agreed that it was a rude thing to hang up on others.
B. what role the phone plays in people"s lives
C. why people mind a ringing phone sometimes
D. when the phone communication is more welcome
any English speakers permanently (永久) settled in that northern location. But in 1616 it was already
the subject of the book A Description of New England, by that busy explorer and promoter Captain
John Smith, who had visited the land two years before.
According to Smith, New England owes its name to Sir Francis Drake. Not that Drake ever saw or
talked about New England, but in sailing around the world he stopped in 1597 at a place on the Pacific
coast of North American and called it Nova Albion, the Latin for "New England". Following Drake"s
lead, Smith called the area at a similar latitude (纬度) on the Atlantic coast by the same name, translated
into plain English.
The very words New England show the direction of Smith"s thinking. This was to be an extension (延
伸) of Old England, not a new kind of community. The map in his book gives only English names for the
places of New England, and he provides a special list showing thirty American Indian names replaced by
English ones: Accormack by Plymouth, Massachusets River by Charles River, Kinebeck by
Edenborough, to list a few. Some of those changes succeeded. But what finally happened after the
Plymouth colonists landed four years later has turned out differently than Smith had imagined, for Indian
names as well as English ones still cover the new England area.
B. 1614
C. 1616
D. 1620
B. Nova Albion
C. New England
D. Massachusets
B. explain how the name New England came into being
C. tell people New England was named by Sir Francis Drake
D. tell people that New England has a long history of having the name
B. The name New England was given by Captain John Smith
C. New England and Old England refer to the same land
D. English speakers began to settle in New England in 1612
visitors. They give visitors a lei, a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright
flowered shirt and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese,
Japanese and Filipino holidays and all the holidays from the United States. They call Hawaii
the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means " I love you".
Usually when people from different countries, races and traditions live together, there are
serious problems. There are so many people living in Hawaii, but in general, people have
learned to live together in peace.
Hawaiians get most of their money from visitors, and most of the visitors come from the
mainland and from Japan. There are so many people living in Hawaii now that there are
residential areas ( 住宅区 ) where there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and pineapple
companies have moved to the Philippines, where they do not have to pay workers as much
money. The families of the first people who came from the U.S mainland own the important
banks and companies .Japanese are also buying or starting business here.
B. it is possible to learn to live together in peace.
C. it is not possible to live together in peace.
D. Hawaii is the only place where there is peace.
B. bright flowered shirt
C. way to say hello and goodbye
D. necklace of flowers
B. Agriculture
C. The air line
D. Tourist trade
B. Living in Peace Together
C. The Flowers of Hawaii
D. The Problems of Hawaii
years from now, we will have used up most of the earths resources. We will have made our seas so
dirty that we will not be able to eat fish from them. There will be so many people in the world that we
will have to use all the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland left.
Other people have a different idea about the future. In their view, the city of the future will be a
huge pyramid-shaped(金字塔形的) building, which will be floating on the surface of the sea. About
5,000 families will live there, and there will also be schools, shops in it.
In a hundred years"time, people will not need to use oil. They will heat their homes with power from
the sun.
Think of space. Perhaps a station will be set up on the moon; people will be able to visit the moon
as to urists. They may even spend their holidays in space, travelling from planet to planet.
What an interesting picture!
Many people don"t think about the future. "I don"t care. I"ll be dead. "they say. But it is our duty
to care because the world of a hundred years"time will be the world of our children"s and their children
after them.
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
B. have to live on the moon
C .be able to grow food on the sea
D. find it difficult to live on the earth
B. On the sea
C. In pyramids
D. On other planets
B. with those who take a pessimistic view about the future
C. with those who won"t trouble their heads about the future
D. to none of these viewpoints
The American book " Who Moved My Cheese" has been a best- seller all over the world. 1 .
Now its author Spence Johnson has written a book just for teenagers.
The book tells us that when facing changes in our lives, like a new school or new friends, don"t be
afraid. Instead, use these changes to make a better life.
2 A school is changing from having two terms to three terms because there are too many
students.
Several teenagers are talking about this. Most of them are unhappy and worried. But Chris laughs
and tells a story about two mice, two little people and some cheese. 3 Here, cheese means
something important in life, like moving to a new class or getting into college. 4 The mice realize
that they can"t change what has happened and have to find more cheese. 5 The little people, however,
can"t do this. They are afraid of change so they find no cheese.
After Chris finishes the story, the friends understand one thing: to get more cheese, move in a new
direction quickly . His friends understand how this can be used in the changes all teenagers face, such
as doing well at school or having good relationships or just feeling good about yourself.
A.It tells a story which happened between mice and people.
B.It teaches people how to face changes in their lives.
C.But they find the cheese is gone.
D.However, some strange things happened in a school.
E.The book gives an example of a change at school.
F.The four are in a maze looking for the cheese.
G.This means finding different dreams
hold attention and interest of your students; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong,
pleasing voice which is fully under your control; you must be able to act what you are teaching,
in order to make its meaning clear.
A good teacher doesn"t sit still before his class; he stands all the time he is teaching; he walks
about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express
his feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality and musical note of his voice
always changing according to what he is talking about.
The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn"t mean he will indeed
be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher"s
work and the actor"s. The actor has to speak words he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly
the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he
uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt
words seem natural on the stage.
A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part in his play-they
ask and answer questions, they obey orders, and if they don"t understand something, they say so.
The teacher therefore has to meet the needs of his audience. He can"t learn his part by heart, because
their brains couldn"t keep discipline: they couldn"t keep strictly to what another has written.
B. be a good actor on the stage
C. sit all the time while teaching
D. suit the need of different students
B. gifts
C. wishes
D. interests
students _______. .
B. keep silent all the time
C. take an active part in class
D. like body language
A. how to use body language
B. how to repeat his lines
C. how to be more quick - minded
D. how to be attractive
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