Social customs and ways of behaving change．Things which were considered impolite many years ago are now acceptable．Just a few years ago，it was considered impolite behavior for a man to smoke on the street．No man who thought of himself as being a gentleman would make a fool of himself by smoking when a lady was in a room．
Customs also differ from country to country．Does a man walk on the left or the right of a woman in your country？Or doesn't it matter？What about table manners？ Should you use both hands when you are eating？ Should you leave one on your lap，or on the table？
The Americans and the British not only speak the same language but also share a large number of social customs．For example，in both America and England people shake hands when they meet each other for the first time．Also，most Englishmen will open a door for a woman or offer their seat to a woman，and so will most Americans．Promptness （敏捷）is important both in England and in America．That is，if a dinner invitation is for 7 o'clock，the dinner guest either arrives close to that time or calls up to explain his delay．
The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable—specially if they are your guests．There is an old story about a man who gave a formal dinner party．When the food was served，one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife．The other guests were amused（逗乐） or shocked，but the host calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way．It would have been bad manners to make his guests feel foolish or uncomfortable．
1．If one has accepted a dinner invitation，what should he do if he is to be late for the dinner？
A．He should find an excuse．
B．He should ask for excuse．
C．He should telephone to explain his being late．
D．He should say “Sorry”．
2．In the sentence “It would have been bad manners to make his guests feel foolish or uncomfortable”，“bad manners” means________．
A．ugly
B．dishonest
C．impolite
D．shameful
3．According to the text，the best host________．
A．tries his best to make his guests feel comfortable
B．makes his guests feel excited
C．tries to avoid being foolish to his guests
D．tries to avoid being uncomfortable
4．The author of this article may agree with which of the following？
A．The guest who ate his peas with a knife．
B．The other guests who were amused or shocked．
C．The host who picked up his knife and began eating in the same way．
D．None of the above．
名校课堂系列答案科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：054
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1-25各题所给的四个选项中, 选 出一个最佳答案。
A great 1 of middle-school students take part in the entrance examination every year, but only a small part of them have 2 to go to universities. Why do we go to universities? Different people hold 3 opinions. A 4 young student may be very imaginative (富有想象力). He may have a lot of colorful dreams. He wants to go university simply because he always regards universities 5 the most interesting places and he expects to 6 a romantic (浪漫色彩的) life during the year of university education. In fact, 7 are not always like that.
Sometimes the university life turns out to be so 8 that young students may feel very disappointed(失望). Then is it 9 university graduates can make big money? A lot of young people think that better jobs 10 higher pay will certainly result 11 a college education and therefore, it is 12 to get high social status (社会地位) if they can go to universities, yet, after 13 of hard study at university, the young person--if he is 14 enough to be taken into 15 university--may find 16 graduation that the job 17 is not the one he likes and the pay is much less 18 than he expected.
Why are 19 still so attractive (有吸引力的) to young persons? There are many 20 : A university is a place of higher learning that 21 develop (发展) one's mind and 22 good chances to those who are 23 to learn 24 to get a better understanding of the society and a good relationship (关系) with 25 .
| 1. | A. many | B. part | C. number | D. group ［ ］ |
| 2. | A. right | B. time | C. the chance | D. lucks ［ ］ |
| 3. | A. different | B. same | C. good | D. bad ［ ］ |
| 4. | A. foolish | B. clever | C. careful | D. simple-minded ［ ］ |
| 5. | A. as | B. like | C. with | D. to be ［ ］ |
| 6. | A. take | B. make | C. lead | D. meet ［ ］ |
| 7. | A. things | B. dreams | C. they | D. people ［ ］ |
| 8. | A. pleasant | B. dry | C. happy | D. exciting ［ ］ |
| 9. | A. right | B. wrong | C. why | D. because ［ ］ |
| 10. | A. without | B. with | C. against | D. having ［ ］ |
| 11. | A. in | B. to | C. from | D. with ［ ］ |
| 12. | A. easier | B. hard | C. harder | D. different［ ］ |
| 13. | A. months | B. days | C. weeks | D. years ［ ］ |
| 14. | A. lucky | B. happy | C. hard | D. hard-working ［ ］ |
| 15. | A. such | B. an | C. a | D. that ［ ］ |
| 16. | A. before | B. upon | C. since | D. till ［ ］ |
| 17. | A. offering | B. gives | C. taken | D. offered ［ ］ |
| 18. | A. well | B. high | C. bigger | D. higher ［ ］ |
| 19. | A. universities | B. schools | C. factories | D. hotels ［ ］ |
| 20. | A. things | B. reasons | C. causes | D. answers ［ ］ |
| 21. | A. help | B. helps | C. make | D. lets ［ ］ |
| 22. | A. offers | B. has | C. takes | D. gets ［ ］ |
| 23. | A. eager | B. like | C. likely | D. going ［ ］ |
| 24. | A. because | B. and | C. simply | D. for ［ ］ |
| 25. | A. the others | B. others | C. other countries | D. another country［ ］ |
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：054
To a watching world, Mike and Mary Murray were a perfect couple. They had been high school sweethearts, and 1 to have a happy marriage. Mike had a good job, and Mary was able to 2 home with their children. They owned their home and 3 kids, two cars. and a family dog. 4 to Mike, after seven years of marriage, something was terribly wrong. The Murrays had 5 their material goals and Mike 6 , now what? He began to look to his job for fulfillment and often worked 60 hours 7 . Mary poured herself into the children. It was so 8 for her to turn her focus from Mike to 6-month-old Eric and 2-year-old Brittany.
And now the marriage seemed 9 . Their lives were traveling in two different directions. They no longer really communicated—yes, they answered 10 questions, but they didn't talk 11 as they had in the early years of their marriage. Mike felt trapped. “I 12___ had time to do things that I wanted to,” he says. Mike did not share his feelings with Mary. Instead, he followed the slippery path of many others—he became involved with (与……纠缠不清) a woman at work, who was 13 her husband. It began as a simple friendship. “I was able to listen and she was able to listen.” Mike recalls.
Mary 14 the battle in Mike's soul. “He wasn't home as much, and we weren't talking as much,” she says. “I was wrapped up in the kids and I just couldn't imagine anything ever 15 . “The situation became worse when the Murrays attended a wedding and began to argue. Mary asked Mike if he was seeing 16 and he said, “Yes. It's just an emotional (情感的) thing.” Mike can still remember the 17 of hurt and total surprise on Mary's face. She was troubled, and he knew that he had turned against (背叛) his best friend 18 high school. The expression on her face jarred (刺激) him into 19 , and he began to understand the 20 he was doing to his family.
1．
A. happened B. appeared
C. looked D. had
2．
A. live in B. study at
C. stay at D. be out of
3．
A. one B. no
C. three D. two
4．
A. Luckily B. As
C. Thanks D. But
5．
A. arrived B. reached
C. got to D. made
6．
A. surprised B. understood
C. wondered D. asked
7．
A. a week B. for a week
C. on a week D. over a week
8．
A. difficult B. comfortable
C. happy D. easy
9．
A. empty B. separate
C. full of job D. true of life
10．
A. simple B. surface
C. scientific D. social
11．
A. at all B. anything
C. heart to heart D. in pains
12．
A. really B. likely
C. always D. never
13．
A. loved by B. separated from
C. different from D. cared by
14．
A. knew B. understood
C. admitted D. had no idea of
15．
A. to take place B. to happening
C. happening D. done
16．
A. her B. someone else
C. the matter D. anything
17．
A. look B. face
C. feeling D. word
18．
A. since B. from
C. to D. of
19．
A. fact B. reality
C. her life D. his belief
20．
A. good B. wrong
C. harm D. mistake
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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Nicolette Morganti’s friends can’t understand why she joined a dating agency(婚姻介绍所).
She has a good job 1 a personal assistant with a television news agency, her own house, and a full social life. But she, a 29-year-old woman, who has a degree in English Literature(文学),is so 2 with British 3 that she joined the English Rose dating agency to get in touch with single American males.
“English men are usually materialistic and have 4 imagination,” she says.
“I have 5 years being bored by men who never do anything 6 .”
“I’m almost 30 now and I would really love to 7 a husband and have 8 .I’d like to live in London for six months of the year and in the States for 9 six months.”
In her search for the perfect man, Nicolette once 10 an advertisement in a magazine for 11 people and had 400 replies.
But she says, “I only met one or two of them. 12 of the others sounded very 13 .”
Nicolette joined English Rose about 18 months 14 and has met 15 then.
She says, “I 16 that American men are more romantic and thoughtful than British men. I rang 17 in the States, and afterwards he sent me 200 dollars to 18 the call.”
“I’ve met five so far but I’m looking for someone very 19 . I’d like to find a caring, well-educated, non-smoking, animal-lover with a professional job and a 20 of adventure.”
1.A.like B.being
C.as D.with
2.A.tired B.bored
C.pleased D.angry
3.A.men B.games
C.music D.master
4.A.some B.much
C.a little D.no
5.A.passed B.spent
C.entered D.wasted
6.A.exciting B.moving
C.interesting D.living
7.A.marry to B.accept
C.receive D.find
8.A.friends B.work
C.a home D.children
9.A.another B.some
C.the other D.other
10.A.wrote B.put
C.gave D.posted
11.A.single B.married
C.only D.lonely
12.A.Most B.Few
C.All D.Some
13.A.worrying B.encouraging
C.boring D.surprising
14.A.before B.later
C.more D.ago
15.A.from B.since
C.after D.until
16.A.expect B.suppose
C.know D.feel
17.A.one B.it
C.them D.him
18.A.pay to B.pay off
C.pay for D.pay back
19.A.ordinary B.handsome
C.special D.lovely
20.A.feeling B.sense
C.way D.kind
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科目：高中英语 来源：英语教研室 题型：054
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Nicolette Morganti’s friends can’t understand why she joined a dating agency(婚姻介绍所).
She has a good job 1 a personal assistant with a television news agency, her own house, and a full social life. But she, a 29-year-old woman, who has a degree in English Literature(文学),is so 2 with British 3 that she joined the English Rose dating agency to get in touch with single American males.
“English men are usually materialistic and have 4 imagination,” she says.
“I have 5 years being bored by men who never do anything 6 .”
“I’m almost 30 now and I would really love to 7 a husband and have 8 .I’d like to live in London for six months of the year and in the States for 9 six months.”
In her search for the perfect man, Nicolette once 10 an advertisement in a magazine for 11 people and had 400 replies.
But she says, “I only met one or two of them. 12 of the others sounded very 13 .”
Nicolette joined English Rose about 18 months 14 and has met 15 then.
She says, “I 16 that American men are more romantic and thoughtful than British men. I rang 17 in the States, and afterwards he sent me 200 dollars to 18 the call.”
“I’ve met five so far but I’m looking for someone very 19 . I’d like to find a caring, well-educated, non-smoking, animal-lover with a professional job and a 20 of adventure.”
1.A.like B.being
C.as D.with
2.A.tired B.bored
C.pleased D.angry
3.A.men B.games
C.music D.master
4.A.some B.much
C.a little D.no
5.A.passed B.spent
C.entered D.wasted
6.A.exciting B.moving
C.interesting D.living
7.A.marry to B.accept
C.receive D.find
8.A.friends B.work
C.a home D.children
9.A.another B.some
C.the other D.other
10.A.wrote B.put
C.gave D.posted
11.A.single B.married
C.only D.lonely
12.A.Most B.Few
C.All D.Some
13.A.worrying B.encouraging
C.boring D.surprising
14.A.before B.later
C.more D.ago
15.A.from B.since
C.after &n b sp; D.until
16.A.expect B.suppose
C.know D.feel
17.A.one B.it
C.them D.him
18.A.pay to B.pay off
C.pay for D.pay back
19.A.ordinary B.handsome
C.special D.lovely
20.A.feeling B.sense
C.way D.kind
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科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
“All men are created equal” is one idea that nearly every American would agree upon. 36 they sometimes betray the idea in their daily lives, they have a deep faith 37 in some fundamental way no one is born superior to anyone else.
In the early years of American history, because titles of nobility(贵族) were forbidden, no 38 class system developed in the United States. Firmly believing that being born into a lower class would not 39 them from success and they would have a better chance in America, thousands of immigrants 40 to leave the European societies, where their 41 in life was determined 42 by the social class into which they were born. It was because the dreams of many of there immigrants were 43 in their new country, though there might be 44 in some situations, that Americans came to believe in equality of opportunity.
Americans do not mean that everyone should be 45 equal when they say they believe in equality of opportunity. 46 , they do mean that each person should have an equal chance for success. Abraham Lincoln once said, “We wish to 47 the humblest(最微贱的) man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else. When one starts poor, free society is 48 that he knows he can 49 his condition.”
However, competition is the price to be 50 for his equality of opportunity. Americans match their energy and intelligence against that of others in a competitive contest for success, because they believe competition 51 the best in any person. Indeed, the pressure of competition causes an American to be 52 , but it also places a constant emotional stress on him. In fact, in a society that gives so much 53 to those “winners”, 54 does not compete successfully for whatever reason never 55 into it as well as those who do.
36．A．Since B．As C．Although D．Because
37．A．what B．that C．as D．which
38．A．normal B．moral C．formal D．general
39．A．benefit B．prevent C．save D．limit
40．A．forced B．required C．chose D．looked forward
41．A．place B．meaning C．function D．purpose
42．A．slightly B．largely C．originally D．publicly
43．A．come true B．ruined C．succeeded D．realized
44．A．excitements B．expectations Cexceptions D．disappointments
45．A．really B．totally C．actually D．truly
46．A．Besides B．Meanwhile C．Moreover D．Instead
47．A．allow B．encourage C．approve D．share
48．A．so B．the one C．such D．as
49．A．enjoy B．better C．maintain D．stand
50．A．paid B．asked C．cared D．sought
51．A．gives out B．comes out C．brings out D．stands out
52．A．exhausted B．energetic C．realistic D．effective
53．A．honor B．pressure C．happiness D．burden
54．A．anyone B．who C．one D．whoever
55．A．enters B．fits C．falls D．matches
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