I will never forget the lesson about my window. Four years ago, I moved to a house in a large town. One of my new neighbors’ house was only a few feet away from mine. There lived a woman. Through one of my windows, I could see her reading by her window every afternoon. Several months later, I found I couldn’t see the woman clearly. I thought her window was too dirty. I said to myself, “Why doesn’t she clean her window? It looks terrible!” One afternoon, I decided to clean my house including(包括) the window. I felt tired after three hours of hard work. So I sat down by the window for a rest. What a surprise! I could see the woman reading there clearly again! By that time, I realized that my own window was too dirty, not hers! I really felt ashamed for myself. I had been watching her through my dirty window in the past days! The experience is very important for me. So I try to clean the window of my heart before judging(評(píng)判) others.
1.
How long has the writer lived in the house according to the passage?
A.
Two years.
B.
Three years.
C.
Four years.
2.
The writer couldn’t see the woman clearly because ______________.
A.
the writer’s window was dirty
B.
the woman’s house was too far
C.
the woman didn’t open her window
3.
The underlined word “ashamed” means _________________.
A.
高興的
B.
放松的
C.
羞愧的
4.
According to the passage, the writer has learnt how to __________________.
There are many unusual hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice, open between April and December every year. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and a bathroom in each room. And in Bolivia, there is the Salt Palace Hotel. Thousands of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But over time, all the water disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts. The larger of the two deserts, the Uyuni salt desert, is 12,000 square kilometers. During the day, the desert is bright white because of the salt. There are no roads across the Uyuni desert, so local people must show guests the way to the hotel. In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks (塊) of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt: the walls, the roof, the tables, the chairs, the beds, and the hotel’s bar. The sun heats the walls and roof during the day. At night the desert is very cold, but the rooms stay warm. The hotel has 12 rooms. A single room costs＄40 a night, and a double room costs＄60. A sign on the hotel’s wall tells guests, “ Please don’t lick the walls-it doesn’t taste good!”
1.
People can go to __________ to visit the ice hotel in April.
A.
Greenland
B.
Turkey
C.
Bolivia
2.
The Salt Palace Hotel is unusual because __________.
A.
it has a long history
B.
it’s made out of salt
C.
the rooms stay cold all day
3.
Where did the salt used for the hotel come from?
A.
A salt factory.
B.
The desert.
C.
The lakes.
4.
The underlined word “l(fā)ick” means __________ in Chinese.
American Schools American schools begin in September after a long summer holiday. There are two terms(學(xué)期) in a school year. The first term is from September to January, and the second is from February to June. Most American children begin to go to school when they are five years old. Most students are seventeen or eighteen years old when they finish high school. High school students take only four or five subjects(學(xué)科) each term. They usually go to the same classes every day, and they have homework for every class. After class they do many interesting things. After high school, many students go to college(大學(xué)). They can go to a small one or a large one. They usually have to give a lot of money. So many college students work after class to get the money for their studies.
1.
How long is each term?
A.
Two months.
B.
Three months.
C.
Four months.
D.
Five months.
2.
How old are the students when they graduate(畢業(yè)) from high school?
A.
Five years old
B.
Seven or eight years old.
C.
Seventeen or eighteen years old.
D.
Twenty years old.
3.
How many subjects do the high school students have each term?
A.
Three or four.
B.
Five or six.
C.
Six or seven.
D.
Four or five.
4.
What do many college students do after class in America?
A.
Many of them read books after class.
B.
Many of them go to work to get money for their studies.
A Trap Mr. Smith left his car outside his apartment one night as usual, but when he came down the next morning to go to his office, he discovered that the car wasn’t there. He called the police and told them what had happened, and they said that they would try to find the car. When Mr. Smith came home from his office that evening, the car was back again in its usual place in front of his house. He examined it carefully to see whether it had been damaged, and found two theater tickets on one of the seats and a letter which said, “We’re very sorry. We took your car because of an emergency.” Mr. and Mrs. Smith went to the theater with the two tickets the next night and enjoyed themselves very much. When they got home, they found that thieves had taken almost everything they had had in their apartment.
1.
What did Mr. Smith find one morning?
A.
His car was missing.
B.
The door of the car was open.
C.
His car was in the garage.
D.
His car was outside of the garage.
2.
What did he do then?
A.
He got in and drove it.
B.
He closed the door of his car.
C.
He called the police.
D.
He looked everywhere for it.
3.
What happened when he came home from his office that evening?
A.
The police was waiting for him.
B.
His car was back.
C.
His car was damaged.
D.
His car was stolen.
4.
What did Mr. Smith find on one of the seats in his car?
A.
Some books.
B.
Some tickets.
C.
Some money.
D.
Some food.
5.
What did Mr. and Mrs. Smith do with the thing(s) they found in their car?
