How the Americans view love

   An old song says that " love makes the world go around" If you watch Americans on Valentine's Day, you can believe it. The whole country breaks out with little red hearts. Lovestruck people give cards, flowers and candy to their sweethearts.

   The American concept of love and romance begins with dating. Young people date in several ways. At first they might have group dates with several boys and girls together. Later, they start going on single date - just one boy and one girl.

   When two couples go out together, it's called double dating. A friend might even arrange a blind date for you with someone you don't know who your partner will be until the time of the date.

   American young people see a date as a time just to have fun. They don't always have a romantic interest in mind. Someone may go out with one person this week, and another the next. After a while, a boy and a girl may decide they want to go steady. This means they think of each other as boyfriend and girlfriend. It also means they don't want to date anyone else. Romance is beginning to bloom.

  Romance love is very much a part of American culture. Movies, TV shows and books in America all picture people falling in love. Actually, people all over the world search for happiness in a loving relationship. Maybe love does make the world go around.

1. How do you understand the understand sentence in the first paragraph?

 A. Many young people's hearts break in America that day.

B. You can see many pictures of little red hearts all over America that day.

C. People all over the world show their hearts to each other that day.

D. people go out with their warm hearts that day

2.How many kinds of dates are mentioned in the passage?

A. 2   B. 3    C. 4      D. 5

3.What does blind date mean?

A. You can not see who is your partner during the date.

B. The partner of your date is a stranger.

C. Your date is arranged secretly.

D. You will not know your partner until the date begins.

4. Which of the following statement is true about American's view of romantic?

A. Romance love is the most important thing in the world

B. People all over the world search for romance love

C. Date is one thing, romantic is another.

D. They can find their ideal love in movies, TV shows and books

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

Richard’s father died when he was five. Later he lost his mother. An old woman felt sorry for the poor boy and often helped him. Of course he had no money to go to school. He had to work for a rich farmer. The man paid him nothing except food and clothes  1. . He found some old books near the school and taught himself to read and write.

2. .It connected the village and the town. One morning people found there was a big stone on it. It stopped them from going to town. They had to move it away, or they had to cross the mountain if they had something to do in the town. But the stone weighed thirty tons at least and the strongest young men couldn’t do that.  3.   Richard looked at it carefully for a while and said, “I have a way to move it away.” But few men believed him. 4.  Night fell and people went home. Only the boy stayed there. To their surprise, the villagers found the stone was gone the next morning. They didn’t know which spirit had moved it away5. .

   “How could he?” the rich farmer called out, “ He’s only fifteen! He couldn’t move it at all.”

   “He dug a big hole beside the stone” said the old woman, “And then he could easily push it into the hole!”  Looking at each other, the farmer couldn’t say a word.

A.  There seemed to be nothing strange in the village.

B.  An old woman said Richard had done it all.

C.  There was a narrow path between two mountains.

D.  But the boy didn’t lose heart.

E.  Some farmer even laughed at the boy.

F.  The boy hoped he could do something for the villagers some day.

They discussed for a long time, but nobody knew what to do.

单词拼写 ( 10 分)

1.____________( 不幸地) , Jim didn’t escape from the big fire that day.

2. The ___________( 解释 ) he gave about being late for the meeting is unbelieving.

3. We can’t ___________( 容忍 ) the heat of the desert there.

4. On the top of the mountain we can see a wide ________( 多样 ) of flowers here and there.

5. Jim tried his best to ________( 使相信 ) him of his honesty.

6. His family had a _________( 争议 ) over money last week.

7.As we know, __________( 失败 ) is the mother of success.

8. The scientists are trying to make the ________( 污染的 ) river clean at present.

9. That salesman was _________( 控告) of killing a little girl 2 years ago.

10. Although he was seriously ill, he had a _________( 积极的；肯定的 ) attitude toward it.

语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

例：have     A. gave            B. save              C. hat            D. made

答案是C。

1.stomach

A. butcher      B. machine      C. chemistry        D. achieve

2. throw

A. downtown     B. cow          C. low              D. flower

3. pleasure

A. increase         B. spread       C. break            D. reason

4. thus

A. pollute      B. cushion      C. huge         D. luggage

5. manage

A. example B. taste            C. passage      D. fasten

It is about time we got the kitchen _____

  A. repainted       B. repainting      c. being repainted      D. to be repainted

It was on _____ Friday of Mary’s wedding that we got _____better understanding of each other.

A. the; a                 B. /; a             C. the; /           D. a; the

The little girl has been in a poor _____ of health since she was born, which has made her parents very worried.

A. position          B. situation        C. state        D. condition

Thousands of years ago people discovered the phenomenon by chance, and this was _____ the idea of the compass first came from.

A. how                B. what         C. where        D. that

I have been living in the town for nearly thirty years, but seldom _____as lonely as I do now.

A. have I felt          B. I had felt      C. I have felt      D. had I felt.

It was three o’clock in the afternoon _____ a villager telephoned to tell me the surprising discovery of an ancient tomb.

A. that             B. which        C. where       D. when