Some Manners in Modern Life
Do you often use a mobile phone? Do you take the subway to school every day? These items make our modern life easier. But do you know how we should behave properly while using them? The following suggestions might be helpful.
For mobile phone users
★ Keep your voice down when you make a phone call in public. Shouting on the phone may make others feel uncomfortable.
★Stop sending messages or playing games with your mobile phone, at a dinner as well as a party. It’s a good time to communicate with your family and friends.
★Don’t make or answer a call when you’re driving. It is very dangerous for both you and your passengers, and it’s against the law.
For subway passengers
★You are supposed to wait in line while buying tickets and getting on the subway.
★You’re not allowed to eat or drink on the subway. Smoking is also against the rules. It’s our duty to keep the subway clean and tidy.
★You can’t take pets on the subway. As we all know, animals may spread diseases(疾病) and get the subway dirty.
Items | Dos | Don’ts |
Mobile phone users | Keep your voice down in | ★Don’t send messages or play games at a dinner or a ★Don’t talk on the phone while |
Subway passengers | ★Wait in line. ★Keep the subway clean and | Don’t eat, drink, |
2 . Do you ever wish you were as thin as a model(模特) or as strong as your favourite football player? Maybe you wish you were taller or just thinner a little. Those thoughts are a natural part of growing up. But learning what you can and can’t change about your body is part of growing up too. It can be hard to do. But when people accept the way they look, they often feel happier. Some children worry that they’re not growing and developing as fast as their friends. It’s important to know that puberty(青春期) doesn’t happen at the same time for every child. And there is no special medicine that can make it happen sooner!
Eating healthy food and exercising more can make all children feel better. Why? Because they will help you feel energetic(精力充沛的) and keep your body working just the way it should be. Watching TV and playing computer games can be fun, but they don’t do much for your body because you sit when you do them. But when you move your body by playing, dancing, taking part in sports, or even cleaning your room, you exercise your muscles (肌肉). When you exercise the muscle, it gets stronger. And when you have strong muscles, you can do whatever you want to do!
1. When do people often feel happier about their bodies according to the passage?( No more than 7 words)2. What do some children worry about in the first paragraph?( No more than 14 words)
3. Why don’t watching TV and playing computer games do much for your body?( No more than 7 words)
4. How does your muscle become when you exercise it?( No more than 1 word)
5. Can eating healthy food and exercising more make all children feel better?( No more than 3 words)
There are usually few things people want to do less than housework. But while doing the dishes and cleaning the house seem like troublesome and boring things, a new study has found just how important they are to our health and happiness.
In fact, scientists now believe cleaning the house is more important to mental(心理的) and physical health than other things, such as the city they live in and how much money they save. Experts at Case Western Reserve University say doing housework is helpful because of the exercise it takes to get the job done, which in turn influences(影响) mental health.
Dr. Kathy Wright and a team at the university’s Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing wanted to find out how money, education , environment and health habits, like smoking(吸烟) , influence the elders’ health. The 337 persons taking part in the study, from 65 to 94 years old, had to have at least one chronic(慢性的) illness. It was impossible for them to do at least one necessary thing by themselves, such as taking a shower and dressing.
To Dr. Wright’s surprise, doing housework and keeping their money influenced their mental and physical health more than other things. “Housecleaning kept them up and moving,” said Dr. Wright. “It’s important for the elders with chronic illnesses to do some housework. A clean environment is helpful in giving medical care to some illnesses.” The study also showed what Dr. Wright had seen in her visits: people living in a dirty environment seemed less satisfied than those in a place that was tidy.
Now that doing housework is so important to us, there is no excuse not to do it. Let’s get it started right now!
Introduction: It is much | |
| A study about housework | Doing housework |
| Advice: Start doing housework right now. | |
| Purpose (目的) | to find out how money, |
| People | 337 old people with chronic illnesses. |
| Doing housework and keeping their money influence people’s health most. | |
| Reasons | Doing housework provides people with some A clean environment helps to give people medical care and a feeling of |
4 . Visitors in London often eat in restaurants. The owners and workers in them are all from other countries. The visitors say in these restaurants they don’t feel they are in England. Most of English people eat at home as much as they can. Sometimes they themselves will think they are in another country when they are in restaurants. When an Englishman goes out of a restaurant, he may find that he doesn’t understand why everything is written in French and Italian.
Most of English people think it is better to eat at home, because it is cheaper. They don’t want to spend much money on food and they like cooking at home. They like fast food. But for Christmas, they will spend two or three weeks getting ready for it, because they want to have good food.
1. Where do the owners and works in restaurants come from?| A．London. | B．France. | C．Italy. | D．Foreign countries. |
| A．they are in another country | B．they are in the country |
| C．they are themselves | D．they love their country |
| A．why everything comes from France and Italy |
| B．why people write everything in French and Italian |
| C．anything in restaurants |
| D．anyone in restaurants |
| A．Because it is fast. | B．Because the food is expensive at home. |
| C．Because the food is delicious. | D．Because the food is cheap at home. |
| A．In order to (为了) get more food. | B．In order to have much food. |
| C．In order to get good food. | D．In order to have enough food. |
5 . When Chongqing Hotpot, a Chinese movie came out in 2016, it drew attention to a less noticed part of the city—a former bomb shelter (防空洞). Today, the places serve for a different use—for businesses.
In the movie, the hotpot restaurant is located in one shelter. According to the government, more than 200 shelters have been rented out for other uses, including as gas stations, restaurants, museums and book stores. Dongting Hotpot has been operating for 32 years out of a bomb shelter in Yuzhong district (渝中区). Deng Hong, the restaurant’s owner, said that although he has two other restaurants nearby, many customers still line up for hours to eat at the shelter one.
Deng took over the business from his aunt, who first rented the shelter and changed it into a restaurant in 1986. The rent was lower than other places and the structure was good to store pickles (泡菜). “We never expected the restaurant would be this successful. The flavors and the chef, who is almost 60, are just the same as they were on day one,” Deng Hong said.
1. Why does the writer mentioned the movie Chongqing Hotpot in the 1st paragraph?| A．To show how popular the hotpot is. | B．To lead to the topic of this passage. |
| C．To arouse readers’ interests. | D．To introduce a kind of hotpot—Chongqing Hotpot. |
| A．Schools. | B．Parks. | C．Businesses. | D．Hospitals. |
| A．Because it was located in a busy street. |
| B．Because it was cheaper to rent a shelter. |
| C．Because people liked to line up for hours to eat in the shelter. |
| D．Because the government asked them to do so. |
| A．a story book | B．a science fiction | C．a culture magazine | D．a health care website |
6 . A life coach (教练) is somebody who helps you reach all kinds of life goals (目标). Each of us has the ability to be our own life coach. Here are some tips for you.
Pay attention to your relationships with others
When was the last time you showed your family members that you care for them? Your relationships with friends, family members and teachers show a lot about the kind of person you are.
Face the fears (恐惧) for the future
We can’t hold everything, but we should face the fears and difficulties in our life. The most successful people could follow their dreams and succeed, although someone tells them that what they want to do is impossible.
Develop your talents
If you want to reach your goals, you will have to spend more time developing the talents you already have, and uncovering any hidden talents that you didn’t use in the past. So you can take classes in subjects that you are interested in, even if you have no experience.
Be thankful
Take some time to be thankful for the things you do have. Remember positive (积极的) memories. Remember special parties, vacations and holidays. Appreciate (感激) the wonderful people you have in your life.
1. How many tips in this passage?| A．Two. | B．Three. | C．Four. | D．Five. |
| A．揭开 | B．拓展 | C．分析 | D．研究 |
| A．We can be the coach in our life. | B．Don’t be afraid of the inexperienced life. |
| C．Successful people can’t keep their dreams. | D．We should appreciate the positive memories. |
| A．How to get on with others. | B．How to beat the fears in life. |
| C．How to be our own life coach. | D．How to deal with the difficulties. |
7 . Some people learn a foreign language easily. Others may not. How can you help yourself learn English? I think there are two ways to make learning English a little easier and more interesting.
First, you should build up confidence(自信). If you believe that you can learn, you will learn. When you read or listen to something, you may not be able to understand (理解) it all. Don’t worry. You can use a dictionary to help you. You can ask your teacher or friends to help you. Do not be afraid of making mistakes. You can learn from mistakes.
Second, practise using English. For example, write a diary in English every day, and you’ll be able to write better. Speak English whenever you can. You may practise with your friends after class. Then you’ll be able to speak better.
Remember the famous saying, “Practice makes perfect.” The more you practise using English, the better you’ll learn it.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
| A．It is very important and useful to learn a foreign language. |
| B．Some people learn a foreign language more easily than others. |
| C．There are different ways to help you learn a foreign language more easily. |
| D．You should build up confidence before you learn a foreign language. |
| A．熟能生巧。 | B．机不可失，时不再来 |
| C．巧妇难为无米之炊。 | D．水滴石穿。 |
| A．We can use a dictionary to help us. |
| B．We can ask our teacher or friends for help. |
| C．We need to be very afraid of making mistakes. |
| D．Both A and B. |
Many people drive their cars to school or work now. So there are lots of cars on the streets. Sometimes, it’s not easy for you to get to school or work on time. Then you want to take a plane to school or work. Can your dream come true? Yes!
Four people in Germany make a new plane — Lilium Jet. It doesn’t look like a plane but an egg. Many people think it looks funny. The nice “egg” can take two people and “run” about three hundred kilometers an hour. The Lilium Jet is not very big. So it doesn’t need an airport (飞机场). A small place is OK. Some people also call the Lilium Jet “a flying car”. It’s not difficult for you to learn to drive it. You can drive it like driving a car. Maybe you can buy one in 2050 if you like it. I’m sure your trip to school or work will be great.
1. Sometimes, people can’t get to school or work on time because ________.| A．there are lots of cars on the streets | B．they don’t like their schools or jobs |
| C．they can’t take a plane | D．they don’t leave home early |
| A．Many people. | B．Four people in Germany. |
| C．Lilium Jet. | D．A student in Germany. |
| A．Four. | B．Many. | C．Only one. | D．Two. |
| A．it doesn’t look like a plane but an egg | B．it needs a small place to fly up |
| C．people can drive it like driving a car | D．their trip to school will be great |
9 . We all know the giraffes are the tallest living animal on land. Do you want to learn more about them? Let me tell you.
Giraffes live in Africa. They have very long necks. A giraffe can be more than 5 meters tall.
A giraffe has four long and thin legs. The front legs are longer than the back legs. It can run up to 70 kilometers per hour. A giraffe is famous for its long neck. It can reach the leaves at the top of the trees. A giraffe can live 20—25 years in the wild, and often longer at zoos. An adult （成年的） giraffe eats up to 63 kilograms of food each day. A giraffe spends most of a day eating and it gets just a few leaves once. It eats leaves on the tall trees, tall bushes and grass. But its favorite food is the leaves on the acacia trees （金合欢树）. Acacia leaves contain a lot of water, so a giraffe can eat for a long time without drinking.
1. What does a giraffe look like?| A．It is the tallest living animal on land. | B．It has a long neck and four long and thin legs. |
| C．It can live 20—25 years in the wild. | D．It can run up to 70 kilometers an hour. |
| A．The leaves on the acacia trees. | B．Green grass. | C．Tall bushes. | D．Little animals. |
| A．Because it’s an animal living in the desert. | B．Because it lives on the grassland. |
| C．Because it’s an animal like a camel. | D．Because its food contains some water. |
| A．A giraffe is an animal from Europe. | B．A giraffe’s front legs are longer. |
| C．It takes a giraffe lots of time to eat food. | D．A giraffe in the wild can live 20—25 years. |
Listening test is one of the most important parts of the English exam. Here are some tips for you.
Before you start to listen, you need to relax. Don’t be stressed out. And try to read the questions. These questions usually help you understand the conversation or the passage.
Then listen carefully to the first sentence. It usually tells you the main idea of the passage.
When you’re listening, try to do some thinking and take some notes, such as:
★What happened
★When, where, and how
★What does the speaker want to tell us
In this way, you may understand the passage better.
Please remember not to think about one or two words for a long time. When you hear some words you don’t know, don’t spend too much time on them. Very often, you’ll find out what they mean later when you go on with the listening.
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