—I saw a car crash into the tree just now.—()
A.You should drive safety.
B.Wow,that's scaring.
C.A car?Not a man?
A.You should drive safety.
B.Wow,that's scaring.
C.A car?Not a man?
The man didn' t try to run(4)when he saw the policeman He just smiled and said to the woman."I want to give this purse ack to you, madam.I think you (5) it on the street.”(完型填空)
A.Wearing
B.Behind
C.Too
D.Dropped
E.Away
“We didn’t stay at bed and breakfast houses,” they said, “because we found that most families were away on holiday.”
I thought this was strange. Finally I understood what had happened. My friends spoke little English, and they thought ‘VACANCIES’ meant ‘holidays’, because the Spanish word for ‘holidays” is ‘vacations’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘VACANCIES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCIES’, because they thought this meant the people who owned the house were not away on holiday. But they found that these houses were all full. As a result, they stayed at hotels!
We laughed about this and about mistakes my friends made in reading other signs. In Spanish, the word ‘DIVERSION’ means fun. In English, it means that workmen are repairing the road, and that you must take a different road. When my friends saw the word ‘DIVERSION’ on a road sign, they thought they were going to have fun. Instead, the road ended in a large hold.
English people have problems too when they learn foreign languages. Once in Paris. when someone offered me some more coffee, I said ‘Thank you’ in French. I meant that I would like some more, However , to my surprise the coffee pot was taken away! Later I found out that ‘Thank you’ in French means ‘No, thank you.’
11. My Spanish friends wanted advice about ______.
A. learning English
B. finding places to stay in England
C. driving their car on English roads
D. going to England by car
12. I suggested that they stay at bed and breakfast houses because ______.
A. they would be able to practise their English
B. it would be much cheaper than staying in hotels
C. it would be convenient for them to have dinner
D. there would be no problem about finding accommodation there
13. “NO VACANCIES” in English means ______.
A. no free rooms
B. free rooms
C. not away on holiday
D. holidays
14. If you see a road sign that says ‘Diversion’, you will ______.
A. fall into a hole
B. have a lot of fun and enjoy yourself
C. find that the road is blocked by crowds of people
D. have to take a different road
15. When someone offered me more coffee and I said ‘Thank you’ in French, I ______.
A didn’t really want any more coffee
B. wanted them to take the coffee pot away
C. really wanted some more coffee
D. wanted to express my politeness
Mark went to the neighborhood meeting after work. The area's city councilwoman (女议员) was leading a discussion about how the quality of life was decreasing. The neighborhood faced many problems. People were supposed to suggest solutions to the councilwoman. It was too much for Mark. "The problems are too big," he thought. He turned to the man next to him and said, "I think this is a waste of my time. Nothing I could do would make a difference here."
On his way back, Mark saw a woman carrying a grocery hag and baby. She was trying to unlock her car, but she didn't have a free hand. As Mark got closer, her other child, a little boy, suddenly darted into the street. The woman tried to reach for him, but as she moved, her bag shifted and groceries started to fall out. Mark ran to take the boy's arm and led him back to his mother. Then he picked up the groceries while the woman smiled in relief. "Thanks!" she said. "You've got great timing (适时) !"
"Just being neighborly (友好的) ," Mark said. As he rode home, he glanced at the walls of the bus passed by. On one of them was "Small acts of kindness add up." Mark smiled and thought, "Maybe that's a good place to start."
In the first paragraph, Mark thought that______.
A.nobody was so able as to solve these problems
B.many people were too selfish to think about others
C.he was not in the position to solve such problems
D.he already had more than enough work to do
I haven't seen her for 30 years, but I recognized her
A.the moment I saw her
B.for the moment I saw her
C.at the moment I saw her
D.the moment when I saw her
I saw a traffic ______this morning.
A.event
B.accident
C.conflict
D.damage
When I saw her facial ______ I knew she was angry.
A.appearance
B.expression
C.looking
D.feeling
A.felt like
B.looked like
C.ran after
D.saw through
"Was it real so?" "Why, I saw it ______ my own eyes." ()
A.in
B.through
C.with
D.by
I saw him at (), not at ().
A.my uncle...the Blacks
B.my uncle's...the Blacks
C.my uncle's...the Blacks'
D.my uncle...the Blacks'
All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer who did not
have to pay for her shopping. For this was what the notice just inside the entrance promised. It said: “Remember,
once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This May Be Your Lucky Day!”
For several weeks Mrs. Edwards hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends,
she never gave up hoping. The cupboards in kitchen were full of things which she did not need. Her husband
tried to advise her against buying things but failed. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket
would approach her and say: “Madam, this is Your Lucky Day. Everything in your basket is free.”
One Friday morning, after she had finished her shopping and had taken it to her car, she found that she had forgotten
to buy any tea. She dashed back to the supermarket, got the tea and went towards the cash-desk. As she did so, she saw the manager of the supermarket approach her. “Madam,” he said, holding out his hand,
“I want to congratulate you! You are our lucky customer and everything you have in your basket is free!”
The housewives learnt about the of free goods _______.
A. on TV
B. from the manager
C. at the supermarket
D. from the newspaper