Although the working mother is very busy, she still_____ a lot of time to her children.

A. devotes   B. spends    C. offers    D. provides

Although I had read the book assigned by the professor several times, it didn’t make any______ to me.

A. meaning   B. importance   C. sense   D. significance

Some friends tried to settle the quarrel between Mr. and Mrs. Brown without hurting the feeling of ____ , but failed .

 A．none  B．either  C．both D．neither

The noise was so _____ that only those with excellent hearing were aware of it.

A. dim    B. soft    C. faint    D. gentle  

--- Excuse me. Can I borrow your ______ pencil-box?

    --- Certainly, here it is.   

    A. blue cheap plastic 

    B. plastic blue cheap   

    C. cheap blue plastic  

    D. plastic cheap blue

Juliana worked harder to ______ for the time she had lost when she was ill.

   A. keep up                B. catch up   

   C. make up                D. take up

--- Who is the girl standing over there?

--- Well, if you ______ know, her name is Mabel.

A. may B. can C. must D. shall

The teacher is much kinder to Tom than to other students, _____, certainly, makes the others very angry.

     A. who  B. which    C. that   D. what 

Japanese history has been shaped to an important degree by the influence of geographic location.It is somewhat like the British Isles at the other and of the Eurasian landmass.The Japanese islands,however,are more independent than the British Isles;115 miles separate them from the mainland,compared with the 21-mile width of the English Channel.Thus before their defeat by the USA,the Japanese has been seriously threatened by foreign invasion only in the thirteenth century.The Japanese,therefore,have been close enough to themainland to benefit from the great Chinese civilization,but distant enough to be able to choose and refuse as they wished.In fact the Japanese have been unusually quick and clever in what they have brought in from abroad.Although widely regarded as a nation of borrowers they have independently developed,because of their independence,their own culture.

Which of the following shows the correct geographic location of the British Isles,Japan and the Eurasian landmas?

E—the Eurasian;B—the British Isles;J—Japan

Why do we say the Japanese are borrowers?

A.Because they are easily influenced by their neighbours.

B.Because the Japanese islands are more independent.

C.Because they were defeated by the USA.

D.Because they are good at bringing in everything they need from abroad.

Japan develops her own culture in order to__________.

A.make other developments

B.be quicker and cleverer to bring in what she wants to

C.keep independent

D.be dependent

Japanese history  has been shaped by the influence of geographic location because______.

A.Japan is too far from the mainland to the conquered

B.Japan is so near to the mainland that she can easily learn everything there

C.Japan is near enough to be helped and far enough to be independent

D.China helped Japan a lot and let her choose what she liked and give up what she disliked

　More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving（旺盛的）. As Skolnich notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline（衰退）in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce（离婚）rate needs to be taken in this pro- marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society.

　　What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty- five years ago, the typical American family consisted of the husband, the wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children, and there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses （配偶）．

　　Thus, one can find every type of tamely arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriages; marriages with “full - time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with“full- time”children from the present marriage and“ part- time”children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half- brothers and half - sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.

　By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that ________.

　　A. Americans are more traditional than Europeans

　　B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans

　　C. there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe

　　D. more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age

Divorced Americans ________ .

　　A. prefer the way they live

　　B. will most likely remarry

　　C. have lost interest in marriage

　　D. are the majority of people in the society

Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families？

　　A. Which types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.

　　B. A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.

　　C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.

　　D. There are no nuclear families any more.