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In the U.S., people prefer waiting for a table to sitting with people they don’t know. This means a hostess may not seat a small group until a small table is available, even if a large one is. If you are sitting at a table with people you don’t know, it is impolite to light up a cigarette without first asking if it will disturb them.
At American restaurants and coffee shops you are usually served tap water before you order. You may find the bread and butter is free, and if you order coffee, you may get a free refill.
Most cities and towns have no rules about opening and closing time for stores or restaurants, though they usually do make rules for bars. Especially in large cities, stores may be open 24 hours a day.
Serving in restaurants is often large; too large for many people. If you can’t finish your meal but would like to enjoy the food later, ask your waitress or waiter for a “doggie bag”. It may have a picture of a dog on it, but everybody knows you’re taking the food for yourself.
Supper and dinner are both words for the evening meal. Some people have “Sunday dinner”. This is an especially big noon meal.
Tips are not usually added to the check. They are not included in the price of the meal, either. A tip of about 15% is expected and you should leave it on the table when you leave. In some restaurants, a check is brought on a plate and you put your money there. Then the waiter or waitress brings you your change.
1. Which statement is true?
A. American people like sitting with people they don’t know.
B. Tips shouldn’t be given to the waiter or waitress.
C. Orange juice is served before you order
D. American people would not light a cigarette if the people who sit at the same table mind their smoking.
2. What does the underlined word “doggie bag” mean in the article? It means ______.
A. a bag with a picture of a dog on it
B. a bag used to carry dogs
C. a small bag for taking the food left over home to enjoy it later
D. a small bag for taking the food left over home for dogs
3. Sunday dinner is _______.
A. a dinner in the evening B. a big noon meal
C. a big lunch Sunday D. a supper on Sunday
Every year between February and April,when the southwest monsoon (季风)blows ,a fever seizes the Thais (泰国人).It is the kite flying in Thailand __1__a strong feeling of interest that is nothing 2 of feverish.
During the summer, in the moths of March and April ,the skies 3 cities ,towns and villages throughout the Kingdom are 4 with kites of all descriptions --long-tailed dragons,twisting snakes ,beautiful butter-flies,or familiar cartoon characters wheeling and weaving in the waim air.
One afternoon ,a friend and long-time kite flier invited me to 5 him at the Pramane Ground ."What's the attraction?"I asked as he flew a huge kite."Well ,you can feel a bit of a 6 at first ."he replied,""a grown man standing there holding the end of a string and 7 up into the sky .But once you forget yourself ,you get caught up in the 8 of controlling something inthe air where you cannot follow.You're on the ground :the kite's in the air but it's you that are making it al 9 .Come on ,go fly a kite."
I took his advice in the 10 it was meant and ,holding the hand of my young daughter si that others woukd think I was only satisfying a child's 11 ,I bought a rainbow-colored snake .After a few failed runs we got the kite into the air 12 greater ease than I expected.It was only at my daughter 's crying ,"My go,my go "that I realized I'd been holding the string ,completely 13 what I was discovering was a very pleasing pastime.
Like many other 14 of popular culture ,the sport of kite flying in Thailand has been 15 down from generation to generation.Its origins(起源)are 16 probably in ancient China,although it seems likey that Thai kites are as old as the 17 itself.It was a craze 18 by everyone from the king down.
"It's a great tradition (传统),that has the 19 of bringing generations togeter,"says my friend ,"What you see today at the King's Cup is the 20 as the people of the past would have seen more than two hundred years ago."
1.A.fires B.fights C.turns D.keeps
2.A.long B.short C. fond D.proud
3.A.on B.over C.around D. in
4.A.alive B.ready C.open D.equal
5.A.see B.care C.accept D. join
6.A.hero B.fool C.master D.fireman
7.A.flying B.missing C.staring D. jumping
8.A.match B.comfort C.excitement D.movement
9.A.happen B.begin C. attend D.break
10.A.way B.while C.language D. need
11.A.game B.sport C. request D. best
12.A.for B.with C.beyond D.under
13.A.tired of B.fit for C. helped with D. devoted to
14.A.laws B.rules C.forms D. researches
15.A.put B.handed C.sat D.looked
16.A.rooted B.left C.dated D.hoped
17.A.history B.Kingdom C.time D.earth
18.A.imagined B.used C.enjoyed D.told
19.A.effect B.right C. name D.science
20.A.same B.kite C. invention D. relation
Ⅱ. 语言知识及运用（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从21—30各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Have you just been fired? Are you feeling like a failure? Don’t be sorry about that. Cheer yourself up and spread your wings. Perhaps another much better opportunity is awaiting you. 21 sometimes you don’t realize it, you’re asking to be fired.
Dan Zawacki was a happy camper, selling computers for Honeywell. One holiday he was 22 creative gifts and then a good idea occurred to him — sending dinners, live lobsters (龙虾) — to his favorite customers. He 23 them himself with butter and put them in the trunk of his car between the computers and started delivering. It was a huge 24 . As a result, one of his customers suggested they go into the lobster business together. Dan laughed. Still, this landlocked computer salesman 25 get the idea of lobsters out of his mind. Why not turn this into a hobby and make a few extra dollars? While on a job assignment in Chicago, he 26 a local radio station to give him a few plugs (插座) in 27 for some lobsters. Unfortunately, his boss heard his salesman selling lobsters, not computers. No surprisingly, Dan was let go. After returning the company’s car, he started to think maybe this was a 28. Playing with his phone that night, Dan tried dialing 1-800-LIVE-LOB. The 29 was available, and Dan the Lobsterman was born. Today, 20 years later, Dan is still selling dinners, through his company, Lobster Gram. And he couldn’t be happier.
Many people who have been fired have found ways back to fulfilling careers. And they all learned that the pain and humiliation (羞辱) are temporary (暂时的). So do not be afraid to move 30 and try your wings. Gather your support system. Persevere! Firing doesn’t mean your life is over. It might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to you.
21 A. Because B. When C. Though D. If
22 A. searching for B. making up C. giving away D. thinking up
23 A. packaged B. sold C. tied D. placed
24 A. matter B. business C. failure D. success
25 A. couldn’t B. mustn’t C. shouldn’t D. wouldn’t
26 A. permitted B. hoped C. persuaded D. suggested
27 A. change B. exchange C. place D. need
28 A. thing B. sign C. pity D. pleasure
29 A. amount B. figure C. note D. number
30 A. back B. aside C. away D. on
One of the best-known American writers of children’s books is Alfred Strong, or Doctor Strong, as he is better known to readers everywhere. Now, an art show called “Doctor Strong from then to now” is traveling around the United States. The pictures and drawings show the history of Doctor Strong.
Doctor Strong first became famous almost fifty years ago when his first children’s book was published. Since then, he has written forty-five books that have sold more than hundred million copies around the world.
Doctor Strong’s books are known for their easy use of words and colorful, hand-drawn pictures. These drawings bring life to his imaginary creatures. The Cat in the Hat, Horton the elephant, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and hundreds of others.
The San Diego Museum, in California, organized the art show. It included about three hundred Doctor Strong’s original(最早的) drawings and some of his writings.
Most of Doctor Strong’s books, although written in a funny way, have serious messages. For example, in Mc Elligot’s Pool, he describes the danger of pollution. He discusses the arms race in The Butter Battle Book, written in 1984.
Doctor Strong is almost eighty-four years old now. He says he never planned to write stories just for children. He says he uses easy words so that everyone, even a child, can understand.
Alfred Strong is a famous __________ in the United States.
A. doctor B. artist C. writer D. reader
Doctor Strong first became famous in __________.
A. his eighties when an art show was traveling around the United States
B. his fifties when his drawings and writings were published
C. 1984 when his book McElligot’s Pool was published
D. his thirties when his first book was published
Doctor Strong’s books are very popular in America because _________.
A. they are stories about animals such as cats, elephants and so on
B. they are written in easy words with colorful pictures
C. he organized the art show in California
D. they are written in a funny way
His purpose in writing many such books is _________.
A. to show his original pictures and drawings
B. to organize a special art show of his own
C. to make his readers laugh or smile when they read his books
D. not only to interest people but to expose(揭露) some serious social problems
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a pie
ce of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
【小题1】Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?
| A．The Britons got expensive tea from India. |
| B．Tea reached Britain from Holland. |
C．The Bri tons were the first people in Europe who drank tea. |
| D．It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea. |
| A．the history of tea drinking in Britain |
B．how tea became a popular drink in Br itain |
| C．how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea |
| D．how tea-time was born |
| A．in eighteenth century | B．in sixteenth century |
| C．in seventeenth century | D．in the late seventeenth century |
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