Either I or my mother ________ dinner on weekdays.

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In America, on school and work days, breakfast in most homes is often a hurried meal. Some people even don’t have it in order to1work or school on time. Others just stop at coffee shops for coffee. But on weekends, 2are quite different. People usually get up late, so they have enough time to have a large breakfast.
Lunch is just a3break from the day’s work rather than a large, long meal. It usually lasts4half an hour or an hour, so family members do not have time to5home. Most people have a sandwich or a hamburger, and fruit or ice-cream for lunch.6people either take their lunches to work in the brown paper “lunch bag”,7eat a sandwich at a fast food restaurant. Children8to bring the “lunch box”.
Dinner is the most9meal of the day in the USA. At this meal, most American families can sit down together. It is usually a hot, large meal and it is quite different from lunch.10usually cooked dinner for their families in the past. Nowadays, however, with more women working and as a result, men are doing more in the kitchen.

1. 1.
   1. A.
      reach to
   2. B.
      get to
   3. C.
      goes to
   4. D.
      reaches to
2. 2.
   1. A.
      things
   2. B.
      prices
   3. C.
      reports
   4. D.
      life
3. 3.
   1. A.
      long
   2. B.
      boring
   3. C.
      short
   4. D.
      happy
4. 4.
   1. A.
      almost
   2. B.
      nearly
   3. C.
      only
   4. D.
      less than
5. 5.
   1. A.
      drive
   2. B.
      leave
   3. C.
      return
   4. D.
      walk
6. 6.
   1. A.
      Famous
   2. B.
      Clever
   3. C.
      Working
   4. D.
      Poor
7. 7.
   1. A.
      or
   2. B.
      but
   3. C.
      and
   4. D.
      nor
8. 8.
   1. A.
      forget
   2. B.
      decide
   3. C.
      prefer
   4. D.
      have
9. 9.
   1. A.
      important
   2. B.
      common
   3. C.
      serious
   4. D.
      hurried
10. 10.
    1. A.
       Men
    2. B.
       Women
    3. C.
       Children
    4. D.
       Cooks

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In America, on school and work days, breakfast in most homes is often a hurried meal. Some people even don’t have it in order to  1  work or school on time. Others just stop at coffee shops for coffee. But on weekends,   2  are quite different. People usually get up late, so they have enough time to have a large breakfast.

Lunch is just a   3  break from the day’s work rather than a large, long meal. It usually lasts  4 half an hour or an hour, so family members do not have time to   5  home. Most people have a sandwich or a hamburger, and fruit or ice-cream for lunch.   6  people either take their lunches to work in the brown paper “lunch bag”,   7  eat a sandwich at a fast food restaurant. Children   8 to bring the “lunch box”.

Dinner is the most   9  meal of the day in the USA. At this meal, most American families can sit down together. It is usually a hot, large meal and it is quite different from lunch.   10  usually cooked dinner for their families in the past. Nowadays, however, with more women working and as a result, men are doing more in the kitchen.

Ms X leaves home at 6:00 in the morning. She spends an hour and a half in the traffic and arrived at her workplace already tired at 8:00. At lunch time, she stands in a line and in the end finds there are no sandwiches left! On the way home she is in the traffic again and arrives home tired at 7:00. There is just time to cook something simple, watch an hour of TV and then have an early night.

Ms Y gets up at 7:00 and goes for a run or does some exercise. After breakfast, she sits down to work at 8:30 in the office at the top of her house. Halfway through the morning, she has a short break, make a cup of tea and drinks it in the garden. She takes a half-hour lunch break, and has a salad in the kitchen, while she listens to the radio. She finishes work at 4:30 and goes for a walk in the park. Then she cooks something for the family before they arrive home.

The first example is the old way of working ---- all travel and tiredness. The 2^nd kind of working day is already with us. Many workers now work at home either 2days a week or full-time. This is possible because of modern machines like fax and PCs. Most offices these days are paperless places. Company workers send email documents to each other instead of heavy reports. They can design an advertisement and email it to their co-worker at home or workplace.

At present it is expensive for some companies to provide offices for all workers. The offices are used less than a quarter of the time, ______. In fact it is cheaper to buy PCs and office machines for their home workers.

46. How is life different for Ms X and Ms Y?

A.Ms Y has less time for exercise than Ms X.

B.Ms X works harder than Ms Y.

C.Ms X spends more time traveling than Ms Y.

D.Ms Y does not enjoy her lunch break as much as Ms X.

47.What does the passage say about teleworking?

A. It has not been popular so far. B. It needs some special equipment.

C. People must work at home. 　　　　　 D. It is mainly for designing ads.

48. The passage tells us that ______.

A. offices should be made better use of　 　　　　　　　　　　

B. the company saves money if people work at home

C. people no longer like working in offices 　　　　　　　　　

D. PCs and office machines are getting cheaper

49. Which sentence suits the blank in the last paragraph best?

A. but the companies have to light them and heat them

B. so the companies have to let their workers stay longer

C. and many people work there　 　　　　　　　　　　　　

D. and have little equipment

50. What does the writer want to tell us through this passage?

A. The world is unfair. B. Knowledge is important.

C. Emails will be more and more popular. D. The working style is developing.