What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that housework. Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meals. It’s easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long , hard day. Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.
Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn’t require any dressing up, it offers a “fun” break in the daily outline, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car--- sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out---or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable (一次性的) wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it’s finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.
小題1:Americans enjoy fast food mainly because __________.
A．it can be eaten in the car
B．it is much more tasty than home-made food
C．one only uses his fingers while eating it
D．it is time-saving and convenient
小題2:It can be inferred that children __________.
A．want to have more freedom at table
B．never wash dishes after each meal
C．a(chǎn)re good at using forks and knives while eating
D．take eating time as a fun break
小題3: Many Americans are eating out and not cooking at home partially because __________.
A．they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at home
B．the food made outside home tastes better than food cooked at home
C．many of them live alone and don’t like taking trouble to cook
D．American women refuse to cook at home due to women’s liberation movement
小題4:According to the text, a drive-in window is a __________.
A．car window from which you can see the driver
B．window in the restaurant from which you get your takeout in the car
C．place where you check the mechanic condition of your car
D．place where you return the used plates after eating
小題1:D小題1:A小題1:C小題1:B
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A．most Americans like drinking
B．heavy drinking is hard to avoid
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D．Americans are not shocked by traffic accidents
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A．The legal drinking age should be raised.
B．Young drivers were usually bad.
C．Most drivers hoped to raise the legal drinking age.
D．Drivers should not be allowed to drink.
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A．judges are no longer lenient
B．new laws are introduced in some states
C．the problem has attracted public attention
D．drivers do not appreciate their manly image
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B．It is difficult to solve this problem.
C．The new laws can stop heavy drinking.
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The effects of drugs can be different depending on the kind of drug taken, how much is taken, how often it is used, how quickly it gets to the brain, and what other drugs or food are taken at the same time. Although drugs can make you feel good at first, they can finally do a lot of harm to the body.
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B．what drugs are made of
C．that drugs can reduce physical pain
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B．because they can have a better life
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C．Drugs can solve people’s problems.
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C．Summer activities begin before school starts.
D．The school office can help new students join school clubs.
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B．Right after the high school year starts.
C．At the beginning of the new term in the high school.
D．At the end of their eighth grade year
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B．only to help parents to find different places of the schools
C．to help students and parents to find different classrooms of the schools
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B．more skating parks are being built
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“I’ve changed my mind. I wanted to have a telescope, but now I want my dad back.” Lucien Lawrence’s letter to Father Christmas, written after his father had been knifed to death outside his school gate, must have touched everyone’s heart. Lucien went on to say that without his father he couldn’t see the stars in the sky. When those we love depart from us, we cannot see the stars for a while.
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A．puts forward the subject of the text
B．shows the author’s pity on the kid
C．serves as an introduction to the discussion
D．makes a clear statement of the author’s views
小題2:In the second paragraph the author mainly wants to explain to us____________.
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C．when Lucien will get over all his sadness
D．how proud he was when he succeeded in life
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A．Call on criminals and murderers to lay down their guns.
B．Advise parents stay with their children safely at home.
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Parents often believe that they have a good relationship with their teenagers (青少年). But last summer, Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their older son. Suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents. "The door to his room is always shut," Joanna noted.
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小題1:
"The door to his room is always shut" suggests that the son ____.
A．is always busy with his studiesB．doesn't want to be disturbed
C．keeps himself away from his parentsD．begins to dislike his parents
小題2:
What troubles Tina and Mark most is that            .
A．their daughter isn't as lovely as before
B．they can't read their daughter's mind exactly
C．they don't know what to say to their daughter
D．their daughter talks with them only when she needs help
小題3:
Which of the following best explains "the wall of silence" in the last paragraph?
A．Teenagers talk a lot with their friends.
B．Teenagers do not want to understand their parents.
C．Teenagers do not talk much with their parents.
D．Teenagers talk little about their own lives.
小題4:
What can be learned from the passage?
A．Parents are unhappy with their growing children.
B．Parents have suitable ways to talk with their teenagers.
C．Parents should be patient with their silent teenagers.
D．Parents should try to understand their teenagers.

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People who traveled in the past had to put up with many discomforts which we do not have nowadays, and of course they traveled far more slowly. Roads were bad indeed and you often found you could not get along at all because of the mud. In dry weather many places were thick in dust and when it was stormy, trees might fall across the road and it was nobody’s business to clear them away.
Ordinary people traveled on foot or on horseback, but everyone who could afford it kept a private coach. There were public coaches too. called “stage coaches” because long journeys took several days and were done in stages, with stops over night at inns. Some stage, coaches ran only in the summer months. Others all the year around. They were very slow and crowded and passengers often became in on the way because of the swaying (搖晃).
Break downs were frequent, since many roads were not smooth. So a coach might very easily turn right over. Early in the century coach and wagon builders were encouraged to put very wide wheels on their vehicles. So that these might level the roads a little. But many people complained of this since it slowed travel down a good deal.
Most travelers during the 18th century wrote bitterly about the state of the roads. One visitor to Sussex took six hours to travel nine miles in his coach; another wrote to a friend that on time of his journeys “almost every mile was marked by the overturn of a carriage”.
小題1:Which of the following mainly prevented people from travelling fast in the past?
A．Falling treesB．Thick dust
C．Muddy roadD．Many discomforts
小題2: The underlined word “them” in the first paragraph refers to _____.
A．the discomfortsB．the blocked roads
C．the dusty placesD．the fallen trees
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A．the long journey was broken into several parts
B．they were slow and crowded
C．they stopped for meals at inns
D．they served public people only
小題4: The sentence “almost every mile was marked by the overturn of a carriage” suggests that ______.
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Decision-making can be extremely difficult. Decision-making styles are significantly different in different cultures.
In any approach to a problem and in any negotiations, the Western world turns to the“I to you” approach while Japan，the “you to you” approach. The former means both sides present their arguments openly from their own point of view. Naturally, often comes a confrontation(沖突) situation, which Westerners are very skillful in dealing with.The latter is based on each side trying to understand the other person’s point of view. Thus, the direction of the meeting is a mutual(相互的) attempt to reduce confrontation and achieve harmony.
Besides, Western decision-making goes mostly from top management(管理人員) and often does not consult middle management or the worker. However, in Japan great consideration is given to the thoughts and opinions of everyone at all levels. Based on “bottom-up direction”, ideas can be created at the lowest levels, travel upward through an organization and have an effect on the final decision.
Difference in decision-making also comes from different communication styles. The Japanese business person works to achieve harmony, even if the deal fallsthrough, and will spend whatever time is necessary to determine a “you to you” approach, communicating personal views only indirectly. They put a thorough job above the Western deadline approach. So the Japanese are thorough in their meetings. Thus Americans are often annoyed by the many meetings in many Japanese businesses. But where the American is pressingfor a specific decision, the Japanese is trying to think up a rather broad direction.
On the other hand, once a given agreement is made, it is the Japanese who sometimes wonderat the slow pace in which Westerners carry out the decision. The Japanese are eager to move forward and Westerners, perhaps, lag(落后)behind as they take the time for in-depth planning.
小題1: The text mainly tells us that Japan and the Western world         .
A．face great difficulty in making decisions
B．a(chǎn)re different in decision-making styles
C．have all members contribute to a decision
D．have two approaches: “I to you” and “you to I”
小題2:Which of the following is TRUE of the Westerners?
A．They carry out the decision once it is made.
B．There are many meetings in their businesses.
C．They work to achieve harmony in doing business.
D．They are good at handling confrontation situation.
小題3:The author’s attitude towards Japanese decision-making is         .
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