Dinner customs are different around the world. If you are a guest in Ghana(加纳),  this information will help you a lot.
In Ghana, dinner is usually from four in the afternoon to six in the evening. But there are no strict rules about time. Whenever a guest arrives, a family offers food. When you go to a home, the person who receives guests takes you to the living room first. At this time everyone welcomes you. Then you go to the dinning room. There you wash your hands in a bowl of water. All the food is on the table. In Ghana you usually eat with your fingers. You eat from the same dish as everyone else .But you eat from one side of the dish only. It is not polite to get food from the other side of the dish. After dinner, you wash your hands again in a bowl of water.
Most meals in Ghana have a dish called fufu. People in Ghana make fufu from the powder (粉末)of some plants. Sometimes they cut the fufu with a saw(锯子)because it is very hard. You must chew(咀嚼 )fufu well, or you may get sick. You eat fufu with the fingers of your right hand only.
【小题1】From the passage we know that in Ghana

A．the rules for dinner time are not strict

B．dinner is always at six in the evening

C．a family offers food only at four in the afternoon

D．people usually invite their guests to dinner late in the evening

【小题2】If you are a dinner guest in Ghana, the host always takes you to____.

A．the dining room first	B．the living room first
C．the kitchen first	D．the garden first

【小题3】People in Ghana usually eat ________.

A．from one side of a dish to the other

B．from the other side of the dish

C．with their fingers

D．with their spoons

【小题4】In fact, most meals in Ghana _____________

A．are cooked with the flowers of some plants

B．have fufu in them

C．are too hard to eat

D．are not very hard .

【小题5】When you eat fufu, you’d better

A．cut it with a saw	B．use your right hand only
C．chew it well	D．all of the above.

仔细阅读，选择正确答案。
Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along the line: the number 49 and number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus gets to Souk Road, it is always full, so I can’t get on it. I have to wait for the number 49, because sometimes there are empty seats on it.
The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus every day?
The regulations（规章）say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?
The regulations say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers（乘客）and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted（数）the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them.
It is clear that our bus companies break the regulations and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service（服务）better?
A. a message        B. a talk       C. a story      D. a letter
【小题1】The writer has to take Bus No. 49 because _________.

A．it arrives on time	B．it is not always full
C．it travels faster	D．it has fewer seats on it

【小题2】How long does the writer usually have to wait for a bus?

A．Ten minutes.

B．One hour.

C．Half an hour.

D．Nearly a day.

【小题3】The regulations say that each bus may carry ______ passengers at most.
A. 20           B. 40       C. 60       129
【小题4】From the passage we can see that __________.

A．the bus service was bad

B．no passengers took their buses

C．no bus passed Souk Road

D．the writer was always the first to get on the bus

Red is used in many American expressions. It can be used to show happiness, as in the expression “a red-letter day”. This is a day when something special happens. The expression is probably based on church customs. For almost 600 years, church calendars have been marked with red to show special holy(神圣的)days. Today’s calendars are still marked that way with the dates of holidays and special days printed in red.

The expression “a red-letter day”is often heard in daily life. “A red-letter day” is a day that people are especially happy. It may be a day that you have waited for a long time, a wedding day, for example. Or it may be a day with a happy surprise. You might tell a friend that yesterday was a red-letter day, because you won some money in the lottery.

“Rolling out the red carpet” is another commonly heard expression. It describes an especially warm welcome of any kind. A city may “roll out the carpet ”for its baseball team, when the team arrives home after winning a championship. A group of supporters go to the air port to the greet the team. The red-carpet welcome includes a lot of cheering by thousands of fans, a parade, music and speech of praise by local statesmen.

Red is also used in some expressions that are not happy. “Red-handed ” is an example. To be caught “red-handed” is to be found in an act of wrong doing. The evidence is clear. You are guilty. Today we use the expression “ to be caught red-handed ”in situation(情况)that are not serious. For example, a mother might say she caught her son red-handed, taking cookies out of the cookie jar.

Some American Expressions with __1.___

Be used for_2.__ happiness	a red -letter day	a day that people are happy a day with a ___3.__
rolling out the red carpet	describes an especially warm___4._____
Be used in_5.expressions	to be caught red-hanged	to be found doing a wrong action can’t be used in a serious situation

 

In the 1500s, South American fishermen said that the sea became warmer every few years. They gave this special event a Spanish name 'El Nino', meaning 'the baby'. It is called 'the baby' because it arrives around Christmas.
El Nino is a huge area of warm water in the middle of cold water in the Pacific Ocean. It happens every two to seven years. It moves around the ocean and becomes bigger and smaller at different times. This warm water affects the weather. It is always raining over El Nino. El Nino contains a lot of energy. Scientists think this energy is formed when wind comes from the northern half of the world. The winds blow across warm sea water in the south. When the strong wind hits the warm water, violent weather happens. Scientists think that El Nino existed for many thousands of years.
El Nino affects every person in the world because it affects the entire world's weather. It can bring the rain that farmers need. It can bring storms that destroy homes. It can mean that fishermen cannot catch fish, and it can bring floods. There is nothing we can do about El Nino. It is an event of nature. We can help the world's weather by trying to stop the greenhouse effect and air pollution. The most important job for scientists is to learn how to predict when El Nino is going to bring dangerous weather. Then, people can try to prepare for storms, floods and droughts. New technology like satellite pictures and temperature measuring equipment can help. Still, it is very hard to say when or where El Nino will cause damage.
【小题1】El Nino is ______.

A．a storm that hits every two years	B．a huge area of warm water
C．a wind from the south	D．some cold water in the Pacific Ocean

【小题2】 It happens ______.

A．every year	B．every month
C．every seven years	D．every two to seven years

【小题3】El Nino ______.

A．makes the weather better	B．affects the weather
C．gives the weather energy	D．predicts the weather

【小题4】It is always______ over EI Nino.

A．sunny

B．cloudy

C．rainy

D．windy

【小题5】El Nino affects ______.

A．everybody	B．just farmers
C．only fishermen	D．only students

【小题6】 We can help the world's weather by______.

A．finding out more about El Nino	B．being careful during the floods
C．driving cars	D．stopping the greenhouse effect

【小题7】______helps to predict El Nino.

A．Looking out of the window	B．Checking the weather each day
C．Satellite pictures	D．New boats

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填人题前括号内。

Travel Arrangements（安排）

Date: 30 April, 2012                           For: Wang Mei

May 4	Leave Beijing  Air China Flight CA 111 Confirmed（确认） Please check-in（办理手续）at least two hours before  leaving time	10: 00 am
May 5	Arrive in Sydney   Hotel bus will take you to the hotel	9：30 am
May 5	Holiday in Sydney Confirmed   In: 5 May, 2012   0ut: 10 May Nights: 5
May 10	Own arrangement with host family
May 14	Leave Sydney   Qantas Airline Ltd Flight QF 333	12: 30 p．m
May 14	Arrive in Perth The guide will collect you from the airport for four days return bus trip to Monkey Mia	15: 30 p．m
May 18	Leave Perth Qantas Airline Ltd Flight QF 444 Confirmed	11: 00 a．m
May 18	Raffles Hotel, Singapore In: 18 May, 2012   0ut: 19 May Nights: 1
May 19	Arrive in Beijing	16: 00 p．m

1.How many days will Wang Mei's holiday last?

       A. 14.     B. 16.      C. 19.       D. 20.

2.At what time does Wang Mei have to be at the airport for her flight from Beijing?

            A. 8: 00 a. m. B. 9: 30 a. m   C.  10: 00 a. m  D.  11: 00 a.m

3.When she arrives in Perth, Wang Mei will travel from the airport _______.

              A. by taxi           B.  in a car

             C. on the travel-bus      D.  with her host family

4.Where will Wang Mei be on May 16?

          A.  In a hotel in Perth.        B.  On her return to Sydney.

              C  On a flight to Singapore.     D.  On a trip to Monkey Mia

5.In which country will Wang Mei stay before she returns to Beijing?            A. Perth.       B. Sydney.       C. Singapore.     D. Monkey Mia.