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The United States is one of the few countries in the world that has an official day on which fathers are honored by their children. On the third Sunday in June, fathers all across the United States are given presents, treated to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.
However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon(说教) in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her.
It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices(牺牲) and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Roses are the Father's Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.
When children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental(伤感的, 忧伤的). Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.
【小题1】The United States is special in Father's Day because ______.
| A.many people celebrate the day | B. only America celebrates the day |
| C.America makes it an official day | D. all men are honored in America |
| A.Sonora honored her father on her father's birthday |
| B.Sonora's birthday was June 19 |
| C.it was decided by the president at that time |
| D.her mother died on June 19 |
| A. 4 | B. 10 | C. 14 | D. 24 |
| A.people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers |
| B.only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers |
| C.children must go home to honor their fathers |
| D.fathers are often honored in different ways |
| A.was very kind to anyone |
| B.did a lot for his daughter |
| C.was the first father honored in 1924 |
| D.always help others by giving money |
Parents should stop blaming themselves because there’s not a lot they can do about it. I mean the teenager problem. Whatever you do or however you choose to deal with it, at certain times a wonderful, reasonable and helpful child will turn into a terrible animal.
I’ve seen friends deal with it in all kinds of different ways. One strict mother insisted that her son, right from a child, should stand up whenever anyone entered the room, open doors and shake hands like a gentleman. I saw him last week when I called round. Sprawling himself (懒散地躺) on the sofa in full length, he made no attempt to turn off the loud TV he was watching as I walked in, and his greeting was no more than a quick glance at me. His mother was ashamed. “I don't know what to do with him these days,” she said. “He’s forgotten all the manners we taught him.”
He hasn’t forgotten them. He’s just decided that he’s not going to use them. She confessed (坦白) that she would like to come up behind him and throw him down from the sofa onto the floor.
Another good friend of mine let her two daughters climb all over the furniture, reach across the table, stare at me and say, “I don’t like your dress; it’s ugly.” One of the daughters has recently been driven out of school. The other has left home.
“Where did we go wrong?” her parents are now very sad. Probably nowhere much. At least, no more than the rest of that unfortunate race, parents.
【小题1】This text is most probably written by ______.
| A.a doctor for mental health problems |
| B.a headmaster of a middle school |
| C.a parent with teenage children |
| D.a specialist in teenager studies |
| A.the advice that parents want their children to follow |
| B.the change from good to bad that’s seen in a child |
| C.the opinion that a child has of his parents |
| D.the way that parents often blame themselves |
| A.pay no attention to them |
| B.feel helpless to do much about them |
| C.have come to hate them |
| D.are too busy to look after them |
| A.Parents should work more closely with school teachers. |
| B.Parents should pay still sore attention to the change. |
| C.Parents have no choice but to try to accept it. |
| D.Parents are at fault for the change in their children. |
B
I always felt sorry for the people in wheelchairs. Some people, old and weak, can not get around by themselves. Others seem perfectly healthy, dressed in business suits. But whenever I saw someone in a wheelchair, I only saw a disability, not a person.
Then I fainted (晕倒) at Euro Disney due to low blood pressure. This was the first time I had ever fainted, and my parents said that I must rest for a while after First Aid, I agreed to take it easy but, as I stepped towards the door, I saw my dad pushing a wheelchair in my direction. Feeling color burn my cheeks, I asked him to wheel that thing right back to where he found it.
I could not believe this was happening to me. Wheelchairs were fine for other people but not for me, as my father wheeled me out into the main street, people immediately began to treat me differently.
Little kids ran in front of me, forcing my father to stop the wheelchair suddenly. Bitterness set in as I was thrown back and, forth. "Stupid kids… they have perfectly good legs. Why can't they watch where they are going?" I thought. People stared down at me, with pity in their eyes. Then they would look away, maybe be
cause they thought the sooner they forgot me the better.
"I'm just like you!" I wanted to scream. "The only difference is you've got legs. and I have wheels. "
People in wheelchairs are not stupid. They see every look and hear each word. Looking out at the faces, I finally understood; I was once just like them. I treated people in wheelchairs exactly the way they did not want to be
treated. I realized it is some of us with two healthy legs who are truly disabled.
61. The author once______when she was healthy.
A. showed respect to disabled people
B. looked down upon disabled people
C. imagined herself sitting in a wheelchair
D. saw some healthy
people moving around in wheelchair
62. Facing the wheelchair for the first time, the author .
A. felt curious about it
B. got ready to move around in it right away
C. refused to accept it right away
D. thought it was ready for her father
63.The experience of the author tells us that "______".
A. life is the best teacher
B. people often eat their bitter fruit
C. life is so changeable that nobody can foretell
D. one never does to others what he would not like others do to him
64.Which is the best title for this passage?
A. How to Get Used to Wheelchairs
B. Wheelchairs Are as Good as Two Legs
C. People with Two Legs Are Truly Health
D. The Difference between Healthy People and the Disabled
65.How did the author feel when the little kids forced her father to stop the wheelchair suddenly?
A. Stupid. B. Calm. C. Excited. D. Bitter.
India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But, it is now gaining a new taste for coffee. This has led international coffee companies to consider opening businesses in the huge market. Local business people are also hoping to profit from the country’s tea-drinking habits. They want to open new stores that offer tea.
It is ten thirty in the morning in India. Two cafes are within meters of each other, near a college in New Delhi. And they are selling a lot of tea. Their main customers are undergraduate students.
“We have a lot of break between classes, so whenever we get time, we just go and we enjoy ourselves. It’s a lot of fun , especially when you are with people you enjoy spending time with.”
In the past ten years , cafes have become increasingly popular in India. The country’s huge young population have quickly taken to the coffee culture.
Coffee stores have spread from major cities like New Delhi and Mumbai to smaller towns. Coffee use has doubled in the last ten years . It is the success of this market that has gained the attention of companies like the American-based coffee chain Starbucks. The company will open its first store in India later this year. Other companies like Lavazza and Costa Coffee are already there.
Yet, the growth of coffee will not reduce the popularity of tea. Indians drink eight times more tea than coffee. They have been drinking tea for more than one hundred and fifty years. India is one of the world’s biggest producers of tea, which is known locally as “chai”. Outside homes and offices, it is mostly sold by small businesses on the street.
【小题1】Why do international coffee companies consider opening businesses in India?
| A.India consumes very little coffee. | B.India has a large population. |
| C.People in India now prefer coffee to tea. | D.Indians come to like the taste of coffee. |
| A.They only have tea in the cafes. |
| B.They are the main customers in the cafes. |
| C.They like enjoying coffee with friends in cafes. |
| D.They like to go to the cafes to escape lessons. |
| A.Coffee is consumed more than tea in India now. |
| B.Coffee is much more welcomed by young Indians than tea. |
| C.Coffee consumed today doubles that of ten years ago. |
| D.The growth of coffee will reduce the consumption. |
| A.Coffee stores have spread to small towns in India. |
| B.Some foreign coffee companies are trying to open Indian coffee market. |
| C.Local people worry about losing profit on tea. |
| D.Indians drink eight times more tea than coffee. |
| A.Undergraduate students are main coffee consumers in India. |
| B.Indians mainly consume both tea and coffee. |
| C.India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. |
| D.India is becoming a big new coffee consuming country. |
Frank Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, in 1852. His family were very poor farmers, and there was never enough to eat. Frank did not want to be a farmer. He took a short business course, and went to work as a salesman in a large city.
Woolworth realized he had a natural skill for showing goods to attract people’s interest, but he soon learned something more important. One day his boss told him to sell some odds and ends(小商品)for as much as he could get. Frank put all these things on one table with a sign which said “FIVE CENTS EACH’. People fought and pushed to buy the things and the table was soon cleared.
Soon afterwards, Woolworth opened his own store, selling goods at five and ten cents. But he had another lesson to learn before he became successful. That is, if you want to make money by selling low-price goods, you have to buy them in large quantities directly from the factories. Once, for example, Woolworth went to Germany and placed an order for knives. The order was so large that the factory had to keep running 24 hours a day for a whole year. In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half.
By 1919, Woolworth had over 1000 stores in the US and Canada, and opened his first store in London. He made many millions and his name became famous throughout the world. He always ran his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was : ‘THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.”
【小题1】Frank took a short business course in order to __________.
| A.earn more money for his family | B.learn something from a salesman |
| C.get away from the farm | D.get enough to eat |
| A.he knew how to get people to buy his goods |
| B.he cut down the price by half |
| C.he had put the goods on a table in a very nice way |
| D.the sign he put on the table was well designed |
| A.the factory workers worked 24 hours a day |
| B.knives were ordered in large quantities directly from the factory |
| C.the knives were made in German, where labour was cheap |
| D.the knives were produced in one factory |
| A.His business skills and his wealth |
| B.The low price of the goods he sold |
| C.His trip to Germany and his huge order of knives |
| D.His natural skill for showing things |
| A.whenever there is a quarrel between the customer and shop assistant, the customers are always right. |
| B.If you want to succeed, the rule is the only way |
| C.stores must always follow the customer’s orders if they want to make more money |
| D.stores should do their best to meet the customer’s needs if they want to be successful |
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