Their home was burnt out and they were forced to leave the area.
科目:高中英语 来源:2012-2013学年江苏省淮安中学高一上学期期中考试英语试卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解
America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us develop more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending(延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality(好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
【小题1】The writer of this passage must be ______.
A.an American | B.a Chinese | C.a professor | D.a student |
A.Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives. |
B.Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. |
C.Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break. |
D.Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families. |
A.warmly welcomed at the airport | B.offered a ride to his/her home |
C.treated hospitably at his/her home | D.treated to dinner in a restaurant |
A.strict with time | B.serious with time |
C.careful with time | D.willing to spend time |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2012-2013学年陕西省长安一中高二下学期期中考试英语试卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解
Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.
Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.
Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably(好客).
For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!
【小题1】The writer of this passage must be ______.
A.an American | B.a Chinese | C.a professor | D.a student |
A.Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families. |
B.Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives. |
C.Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. |
D.Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break. |
A.warmly welcomed at the airport |
B.offered a ride to his home |
C.treated hospitably at his home |
D.treated to dinner in a restaurant |
A.strict with time | B.serious with time |
C.careful with time | D.willing to spend time |
A.Friendships between Chinese |
B.Friendships between Americans |
C.Americans’ hospitality |
D.Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships |
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科目:高中英语 来源:2013届山西省康杰中学高三第六次模拟考试英语试卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解
Children are very, very observant and have excellent memories.
Around Christmas last year, we were heading to Grandma’s house. The drive was an hour long, so we had plenty of time to chat. We were waiting to get onto the freeway when my daughter Hayley noticed a homeless man, no sign in hand. “Mom, is that man homeless?” I told her I believed he was.
We got onto the freeway and drove away. But the chatting had stopped. Hayley was quiet all the way there. We spent a few hours at Grandma’s then packed up to head home. As we drove back, Hayley rustled(沙沙作响地移动) around in her seat, trying to reach something on the floor of the car. I asked her to sit still, worried her seatbelt would slip from the booster seat. She mumbled(咕哝)something and sat back.
“Mom, will the homeless man still be outside tonight?” I told her I was not sure, maybe. It was a freezing night, and I started to think of the man now too, and how cold he must be.
All of a sudden, as we got onto the freeway exit, Haley shrieked (尖叫): “There he is! There he is!” and started rolling down her window. “Mom, I found these gloves and scarf back here. Can I give them to him? Can I?” she asked.
I pulled over to the edge of the road, and beckoned(招手示意) the man to come over. Haley smiled at him and handed him her gift. I looked in the front passenger seat, loaded with leftovers from Grandma’s house, and handed those out to him as well.
The man thanked us, he clutched (抓紧) my hand in his and I could feel the bitter cold of them. We wished him a safe night and continued on our journey to our warm home.
“Haley, that was very sweet of you!” I told her. “Well, they were your gloves and scarf, Mom, but his hands looked colder, and he has to keep looking for his house!”
We had talked about homelessness before , and I could hear myself telling her: “Someone who has lost their home.” She had taken my words literally and thought the man’s home was like a lost puppy.
On the ride home, and as I carried my sleeping angel into the house that night, my heart filled with gratitude.
【小题1】The underlined word “observant” in Paragraph I means “ ”.
A.fond of serving others | B.quick at noticing things |
C.good at memorizing | D.easy to be pleased |
A.had no home to go to |
B.had lost his or her puppy |
C.was in need of gloves and scarves |
D.couldn’t find his or her home |
A.she felt lucky to have such a warm-hearted daughter |
B.she was pleased that she had a great family |
C.she felt happy to have given the leftovers to the man |
D.they had arrived home safely despite the cold |
A.analysis | B.comparison | C.time order | D.cause and result |
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科目:高中英语 来源:广东省梅州市曾宪梓中学2009-2010学年度高二第一学期期末考试 题型:阅读理解
第二节:语法填空(共10小题;每小题1分, 满分10分)
阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空, 并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31~40的相应位置上。
Autumn came again,and with it ___31____ (come)trouble and sorrow, A strange disease had broken out among the sealers.Betty Sparrow, who was Abraham Lincoln’s mother’s aunt,and her husband were the first to ___32___ (attack)by this terrible sickness.The narrow camp which was their home was ___33___cheerless place even at its best,and the disease did its work____34____ (quick).
And then Abraham Lincoln’s mother was stricken down.Suffering from damp and cold in the camp had robbed her of her ___35____(strong)and made her easily ____36___ (catch) the disease,
One morning,when the grey daylight was struggling ___37___ the gaps of the unfinished cabin,she reached out her arms and drew little Abraham before her, “My boy, you are going ___38____ live as I have taught you.” Then the end came.
____39___ only ten years old,Lincoln was no longer a child. He was ___40___ (determine) to be a man of the type his mother would praise and admire. Long afterward,when he had won honor and had a sure place among the great men of the world,he said,“All that I am,and all that I hope to be,I owe to my angle mother.”
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科目:高中英语 来源:2015届江苏省高一3月月考英语试卷(解析版) 题型:其他题
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many people thought that the Americanfamily was falling apart.A century later, we know that this was not the case. However,although the family is still alive in the United States, its size and shape were very different100 years ago.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, there were mainly two types of families in theUnited States: the extended and the nuclear. The extended family usually includesgrandparents, parents, and children living under the same roof. The nuclear familyconsists of only parents and children.
Today there are many different kinds of families. Some people live in “traditional” families, that is, a stay-home mother, a working father, and their own biologicalchildren. Others live in two-paycheck families, single-parent families, adoptive or foster,families, blended families (where men and women who were married before marry againand combine the children from previous marriages into the new families),childlessfamilies, and so on.
What caused the structure of the family to change? In the early 1900s the birthratebegan to fall and the divorce rate began to rise. Women were suddenly choosing to go tocollege and take jobs outside the home. In the 1930s and 1940s, many families faced seriousfinancial, or money problems during the Great Depression, when many people lost theirjobs. During World War II(1939-1945),5 million women were left alone to take care oftheir homes and their children. Because many men were at war, thousands of these "war widows" had to go to work outside their home.
During the next ten years, the situation changed. There were fewer divorces, andpeople married at a younger age and had more children than the previous generation. It wasunusual for a mother to work outside the home during the years when her children weregrowing tip. Families began leaving cities and moving into single-family homes in thesuburbs. The traditional family seemed to be returning.
In the years between 1960s and 1990s, there were many important changes in thestructure of the family. From the 1960s to the early 1970s, the divorce rate doubled andthe birthrate fell by half. The number of single-parent families tripled, and the number ofcouples living together without being married doubled again. In fact, the single-parenthousehold, once unusual, has replaced the "traditional" family as the typical family in theStates. If we can judge from history, however, this will probably change again in thetwenty-first century.
The Changes of the American Family
Main comparisons |
Contexts |
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Different___1____ |
There were two __2___ types of families in the past, ___3____, the extended and the nuclear. |
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Nowadays __4___types of families can be seen than before. |
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Changes in different ___5_____. |
In the 1900s and 1940s |
Many of the women had to work outside due to the __6___of money., thus causing the fall of __7__and the rise of divorce rate. |
In the 1950s |
Divorce rate slided and there were more children . The families tended to be ___8___ again. |
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In the years between 1960s and 1990s |
Different types of familes__9____. Traditional families are no longer the typical ones in America. |
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A trend worth noting |
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Author’s opinion on changes |
The present structure is ___10____; it will experience changes again in the near future. |
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