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This story s________ true. In fact, it is false.

The scientists from the Lockheed Space Company (公司) work in Felton, California, with the help of a computer. But the computer is placed in Sunnyside, about 80 kilometers away. What the scientists input is sent by telephone lines to the computer, and after a time, copies of the designs are needed back in Felton as possible. Lockheed people have tried several ways of sending the prints (印刷品), but the most effective seems to be by pigeon (鸽子). Are pigeons really used to carry messages in these days? They are, and they send the prints faster and cheaper than any other way.
Human (人类的) messengers (persons carrying messages) are much more expensive and slower than the pigeons. The road to Felton goes through the mountains, and the driving is not easy. An electronic printout system(电子印刷系统) could do the work in Felton, but at a cost of 10 dollars a print. Pigeons carry the designs for about 1 dollar each.
Now Lockheed people have ten pigeon messengers. The pigeons do the work, and they have made Lockheed more famous. You can often read the news about the pigeons in the newspapers around the world.
【小题1】The story is mainly about     .

A．Felton, California	B．the scientists
C．how to work with computers	D．sending prints by pigeon

【小题2】This story is unusual because pigeons       .

A．don’t like carrying things

B．are often cheap to keep

C．seem out of place in the space age

D．aren’t friendly to the scientists

【小题3】Something that’s effective（有效的）      .

A．usually costs more

B．is something that works

C．is often unhappy

D．is often don by animals

【小题4】Which happened first?

A．Pigeons were used as messengers.

B．Human messengers were used.

C．What the scientists input was sent to the computer.

D．Scientists got their designs.

【小题5】Lockheed likes the pigeons because they      .

A．do the work at low cost

B．get their pictures on television

C．understand the computer

D．make the scientists pleased

In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.

The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.

It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.

Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.

People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.

1.Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ________.

A．want to be as rich as their neighbours

B．want others to know or to think that they are rich

C．don’t want others to know they are rich

D．want to be happy

2.It can be inferred (推断) from the story that rich people like to ________.

A．live outside New York City                 B．live in New York City

C．live in apartments                       D．have many neighbours

3.Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is ________.

A．an important name                      B．a popular name in the United States

C．his neighbour’s name                   D．not a good name

4.If a person who keeps up with the Joneses, he would _________.

A．do as the poor persons around him do

B．do everything he likes to do

C．do as his neighbours do

D．do as the rich people around him do

 

On New Year’s Eve(前夕), people in Italy throw （扔）out all the old things. So there are chairs, beds, clothes and plates in the streets. In Spain, New Year comes more quietly. Everyone holds a bag of grapes(葡萄). When twelve o’clock comes, people start eating the grapes.
In Japan, people eat noodles on New Year’s Eve. This food is said to bring long life. Early the next morning, some families climb Mount Fuji（爬富士山）. There they watch the first sunrise（日出） of New Year. In China  people eat dumplings.
【小题1】This story is about New Year’s Eve in _________ .

A．Italy

B．Spain

C．Japan

D．different countries（国家）

【小题2】People in Spain welcome New Year by_________   after twelve.

A．eating grapes	B．eating noodles
C．throwing the old things	D．watching the sunrise

【小题3】People in  Spain ， Japan and  China         to welcome New Year.

A．throw things away	B．get together
C．eat some food	D．watch the sunrise

【小题4】Japanese climb Mount Fuji to_________ .

A．look at the stars	B．eat noodles
C．see the sun coming up	D．have a rest

【小题5】The people in_________   eat dumplings On New Year’s Eve .

A．Japan

B．China

C．Spain

D．Italy

I live with my grandmother in a Beijing yard house. One day last year, I was surprised to see a big foreigner coming out of the house next door to ours. He was very tall with short brown hair and a pair of glasses.
The first time I saw him, I was too shy to speak to him. “My English is too poor!” I thought. My grandmother told me that he had just moved into our yard. “I don’t like it!” she said. “Foreigners aren’t like us. Maybe he’ll play loud music and parties every night! I’m sure he’s going to cause trouble.”
Several days later, I met the foreigner as I was walking home after work. “Hello!” he said (in Chinese！). “My name’s Tony. I’ve just moved into the house next door to yours.” While I was wondering what to say, he continued, “There’s a nice bar down the road. Why don’t you and your family come and have dinner with me?” “Bars are bad places,” said my grandmother when I told her, but we decided to go.
The bar was not at all what I had expected. It was in a beautiful little yard house, with several large bookshelves and pictures of Tibet on the walls. Several Chinese people and foreigners were sitting drinking or reading books. I noticed that some of the foreigners were speaking Chinese in a low voice to each other! “Oh, what a civilized place!” my grandmother exclaimed.
The bar served special “hutong pizzas”. As we ate, Tony told us about himself-he is an English expert in environment. He always likes to be quiet. My grandmother said to me, “He really seems like a very nice young man.”
【小题1】When the writer first saw the foreigners, she______.

A．was frightened to him

B．wanted to practice English with him

C．felt too shy to speak to him

D．hoped to invite the foreigner to the bar

【小题2】From the sentence “Bar are bad places”, we can know that the grandmother______.

A．was very excited	B．didn’t go to the bar
C．didn’t like bars	D．was angry with Tony

【小题3】What’s the meaning of the word “civilized” in the passage?

A．文明的

B．喧闹的

C．野蛮的

D．讨厌的

【小题4】Which of the following sentence is Not true?

A．Tony made a lot of noise every night.

B．Tony was an English expert in environment.

C．There were some foreigners speaking Chinese in the bar.

D．The grandmother thought Tony might cause some trouble.

【小题5】The best title for this story is______.

A．A Bar in Tibet

B．A Foreigner in Beijing

C．Bars are Bad Places

D．Foreigners Like Bars