In Britain you’re allowed to drive a car when you’re seventeen. You have to get a special two-year driving license before you can start. When you’re learning, someone with a full license always has to be in the car with you because you aren’t allowed to drive the car on the road alone. You don’t have to go to a driving school --- a friend can teach you. The person with you isn’t allowed to take money for the lesson unless he’s got a teacher’s license.

Before you’re allowed to have a full license, you have to take a driving test. You can take a test in your own car, but it has to be fit for the road. In the test you have to drive round for about half an hour and then answer a few questions. If you don’t pass the test, you’re allowed to take it again a few weeks later if you want to. In 1970 a woman passed her fortieth test after 212 driving lessons! When you’ve passed your test, you don’t have to take it again, and you’re allowed to go on driving as long as you like. Britain’s oldest driver was a man who drove in 1974 at the age of 100.

Before 1904 everyone was allowed to drive, even children. Then from 1904 car drivers had to have a license. But they didn’t have to take a test until 1935. On the early days of car driving, before 1878, cars weren’t allowed to go faster than four miles an hour, and someone had to lead the car with a red flag.

1. A person can’t take money for driving lessons unless he __________.

A. has learnt to drive in a driving school

B. has a full driving license

C. has a full license and a teacher’s license

D. is given a special two-year driving license

2.In the driving test, one _______________________.

A. mustn’t drive his car, even though the car is fit for the road

B. is usually asked to drive on roads for some time

C. has to be examined(考查) only in car driving skills

D. must drive around for more than an hour

3.When can I take the driving test again if I don’t pass it?

A. a few years later                                      B. right after the first test

C. a few weeks later                           D. never

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. There is no limit (限制)to the age of an old man who drives a car.

B. One can take a driving test again and again until he passes it.

C. There was a speed limit to cars before 1878.

D. A car driver didn’t have to get a limit license until 1935.

5.The best title for the passage is _____________.

A. Driving Licenses in Britain　　               B. Tests for Britain People

C. Driving Cars　　　　　　　　                     D. Young Men’s Driving Licenses

现在你想用以上单词和短语进行交流吗？请你用下面的句子大胆地与周围的朋友交流吧！你一定很棒！

　　(1)Hello. What's your name?

　　(2)Nice to meet you.

　　(3)What's your first name?

　　(4)What's your last name?

　　(5)What's your telephone number?

　　(6)What's his name?

　　(7)What's his telephone number?

　　(8)What's her name?

　　(9)What's her telephone number?

　　根据以上的交流，请你动手完成下列对话好吗？

　　A: Hello. My name is Kate Green. ________?

　　B: My name is Tom Brown.

　　A: Nice ________.

　　B: Nice to meet you, too.

　　A: What's ________?

　　B: My first name is ________.

　　A: ________?

　　B: My last name is ________.

　　A: What's ________?

　　B: My phone number is 291-9178.

　　C: What's ________ name?

　　A: ________ name is Tom Brown.

　　C: ________?

　　A: His phone number is ________.

　　C: ________ name?

　　B: Her name ________.

　　C: What's ________ first name?

　　B: Her ________.

　　C: ________.

　　B: Her last name is ________.

阅读理解

　　Many people want to buy old, old coins (硬币). But, before you part with your good money, watch out! You may be buying a coin that is really a fake(假货).

　　Experts tell us that the making of fake coins goes back 2, 000 years. In the old days, those who faked coins were punished(惩罚)with death. But now the making and selling of fake coins is a legal business.

　　Some of the fake coins are made so well that they are listed in coin books. And these coins are sought after by collectors. They will pay a high price for them. It is one thing to buy a fake coin when it is sold as a fake. But it is another thing to buy a fake coin when it sold as the real thing. The best advice is always to buy from a reputable(声誉好的)dealer(商人).

　　The dealer will take back a coin if it should prove to be a fake one. But this advice is hard to follow if you visit other countries yourself. You might be tempted to buy coins“from the soil”rather than from a dealer. And many of these fake coins do come right from the soil. The fake coins are buried in secret. Then they are dug up in front of witnesses. The dealers themselves can be fooled by this.

　　Another trick is for someone who sells postcards to have one fake coin. It is a copy of a rare(稀有的)coin and is placed among some real but common coins. The visitor sees the real coins. The visitor thinks then that the rare coin is real too. When this happens, the visitor has been tricked. So, if you decide to buy old coins, be careful !

1．This passage is mainly about ________.

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A．today's coins

B．how old coins were made

C．fake coins

D．coin collectors

2．This passage tells of coins ________.

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3．People who are tricked into buying fake coins are most often ________.

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A．coin collectors

B．people who stay at home

C．antique(古玩)dealers

D．visitors to another country

4．The last sentence is trying ________.

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