How do you get a man to do his share of the housework? If you are like most women, you’ve faced this question the hard way.

       A man will enjoy a clean, orderly house, but he usually won’t make the effort to clean or organise it. This doesn't mean that a woman has to do all the housework:; she may have to manage many of the household duties, and request her partner’s participation（参与）. A woman can often say that men and women should take equal responsibility（责任） for housework.

       Very few men are raised to be fully responsible for housework, and many men look on housework as women’s work. On the other hand, most men will readily work around the yard, make repairs and complete projects on weekends or evenings, and it’s important that you give your man appreciation for those things, too. Most men will take on a little additional housework around the house if asked politely. They are even more likely to do housework if they can choose what they want to do, and do it without being monitored.

       Here’s the key: men want to feel that they are doing housework either because they want to do a task, or because they simply want to please their women. Men are much less likely to take on household tasks they consider uninteresting and unimportant. In other words, men are likely to do a household task just for the good of the house.

The passage is mainly about how to _____.

       A. get men to take on some housework

       B. get men to serve their families

       C. praise men’ housework

       D. make men do all the housework

According to the passage, a man_____.

       A. is willing to do housework

   B. likes to be told to do housework

       C. is taught to be responsible for housework from childhood

       D. likes a clean house but doesn’t make efforts to clean it

In order to get men to do some housework, women should often_____.

       A. order them to do their share

       B. ask them to do some housework politely

       C. blame men’s laziness

       D. monitor men’s work

According to the passage, the underlined sentence in the last paragraph means that men won’t _____.

       A. work without any payment

       B. do unimportant household tasks

       C. do housework without women’s praise

       D. please their wives

According to the passage, which of the following would a husband most probably like to do?

       A. Cleaning the table.    B. Doing some sewing.

       C. Painting the fence.    D. Asking his wife to work on the yard.

Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us. If you look carefully at the plants around you， you will find that there are two kinds of plants： flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed， some have two， three or four， and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores（胚芽）。 Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places， they usually grow into new plants.

1.The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

A．plants are important for life               B．plants cannot grow without air

C．there are many plants in the world          D．we can not live without water

2.Plants can make food from ______.

A．flower， water and air                   B．water， sunlight and air

C．air， water and soil                     D．air， sun and light

3.What can we infer（推断） from the passage ？

A．Of all living things animals are most important

B．Spores are seeds

C．All fruits of flowering plants have seeds

D．Without plants， man will die out

4.This passage may be taken from ________.

A．a medicine book                        B．a novel

C．a science magazine                      D．an experiment report

5.The underlined word “protected” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A．damaged          B．polluted           C．prevented         D．guarded

 

Dorothea Shaw is 71 years old and nearly blind, and she chose to live alone far away from people. She lives in Belize — a county the size of Wales with a population only that of Swansea. Her home is at Gales Point, a tiny village which can be reached only by sea or air; after a 10-mile walk into the hills one finally reaches a piece of land and two small houses so hidden in the thick over-grown forest that only a handful of people know Dorothea is there.
She lives happily and totally alone – growing her vegetables, looking after her trees and dogs, cats and chickens. Once a month or so an old friend passes by with her food supplies and letters-usually including a letter from her sister in Scunthorpe and some bits of clothing from friends in Canada. Sometimes a local man will come and cut wood for her and a group of British soldiers will come across her and be greeted with the offer of a cup of coffee.
At night she lies in her tiny sleeping room with the dogs on the floor, the cats on the table near the typewriter and one of the hens settled down in a corner of the bookshelf, and listens for hours to any Spanish, English, German or French broadcasts she can find on her radio. Sometimes she gets lonely but most of the time the animals and the radio are company enough.
But recently the very things that she had tried to get free from so well have begun to catch up with her. The peace of the forest has been destroyed by the noise of earth-moving machines not many miles away. What she once only heard of distantly on the radio is now on her doorstep. Things began to change three years ago. The new main north-south road in Belize was cut through the forest only four or five miles away. “Now more people know I’m here.” She says. “I feel more and more uneasy each day.”
【小题1】Dorothea’s small houses ________.    

A．are entirely surrounded by trees

B．have always been her home

C．were built for just a few people

D．are in a county with the same population as Wales

【小题2】Dorothea lives in the tiny village because ________.

A．she doesn’t like living near people	B．she is too old to move
C．machines destroyed her home	D．there’s nowhere else for her to live

【小题3】 Dorothea doesn’t get lonely since she has _______ with her.

A．her sister

B．some animals

C．friends from Canada

D．a postman

【小题4】Dorothea spends a lot of time __________.

A．growing all the food she needs	B．cutting down trees
C．listening to the radio	D．studying languages

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中(A、B、C和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Most of us feel upset if we miss just one meal, and if we try to go without food for 12 hours we would really be uncomfortable. But there are some people who seem able to “fast” for very long periods.

Various records are claimed for long fast, but in most cases there is no medical proof and so the records are doubtful. One South African woman claimed that she lived for 102 days on nothinig but water and soda water.

There are great differences among living things in the ability to survive without food. For example , a tick（扁虱）, which lives on animals, may survive a whole year. Warm-blooded animals use up their stores of food in the body more quickly.

In fact, the smaller and more active the animal, the more quickly it uses up its reserves. A small bird starves to death in about five days, a dog in about twenty. In general, we can say that a warm-blooded creature will die when it has lost about half its normal weight.

This matter of weight is important. Man and other creatures live in a state of metabolic equiplibrium（新陈代谢的平衡）which means maintaining the body weight once a certain point has been reached. This regulation of body weight is done by thirst, hunger, and appetite.

When your blood lacks nutritional materials, this registers（记录）in the hunger center of the brain and you feel “hungry”. The body is crying out for any kind of fuel(food). And it is our appetite that sees to it hat we chooose a mixed diet, which is the kind the body needs.

1.According to this passage, a man will die _________.

A．when a certain point in losing weight has been reached.

B．when his blood lacks nutritional material

C．when his normal weight is lost

D．when he goes without food for more than 12 hours

2.The word “fast” in Paragraph 1 can best be replaced by ________.

A．eat no food	B．live merely on water and soda water
C．live on nothing	D．remains alive for a long time without food

3.A tick can survive much longer than a bird because ________.

A．a tick lives on animals	B．a tick is much smaller
C．a bird is more active	D．both B and C

4.A person feels hungry _________.

A．if he doesn’t choose a mixed diet

B．because his body cries out for food

C．when soemthing is wrong with regulation of body weight

D．if there are not enough nutritional in his blood

5.From the passage we can infer that the author ________.

A．believes the South African woman very firmly

B．does not believe the South African woman at all

C．is not certain whether the South African woman’s claim was true.

D．is doubtful whether there was such a South African woman

 

    Plants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air， water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals. Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live. This is why we find that there are so many plants around us. If you look carefully at the plants around you， you will find that there are two kinds of plants： flowering plants and non-flowering plants. Flowering plants can make seeds. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed， some have two， three or four， and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores（胚芽）。 Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places， they usually grow into new plants.

  The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.

    A. plants are important for life        B. plants cannot grow without air

    C. there are many plants in the world   D. we can not live without water

Plants can make food from______.

    A. flower， water and air      B. water， sunlight and air

    C. air， water and soil        D. air， sun and light

What can we infer（推断） from the passage ？

    A. Of all living things animals are most important

    B. Spores are seeds        C. All fruits of flowering plants have seeds

    D. Without plants， man will die out

This passage may be taken from______.

A. a medicine book        B. a novel 

 C. a science magazine    D. an experiment report

The underlined word “protected” in the third paragraph can be replaced by ______.

A. damaged     B. polluted     C. prevented     D. guarded