When I lived in Spain, some Spanish friends of mine decided to visit England by car. Before they left, they asked me for advice about how to find accommodation (住所). I suggested that they should stay at ‘bed and breakfast’ houses, because this kind of accommodation gives a foreign visitor a good chance to speak English with the family. My friends listened to my advice, but they came back with some funny stories.

    “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 ‘vacaciones’. So they did not go to house where the sign outside said ‘VACANCLES’, which in English means there are free rooms. Then my friends went to house where the sign said ‘NO VACANCLES’, 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.’

1.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

2.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

3.“NO VACANCIES” in English means ______.

A. no free rooms                  B. free rooms     

C. not away on holiday             D. holidays

4.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

5.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. hadn’t finished drinking my coffee

阅读下面短文，并根据要求完成文章后的题目。
Working means money, of course teens want jobs
Out of all the teens I interviewed all either wanted a job or already had one. Nowadays, jobs are needed more than ever. Everything costs money, and we are starting to understand that. Most of us get jobs just for "pocket change", so that we can just go out and get that outfit that we've always wanted, for a burger at McDonald's, for our hair, CDs, tapes, shoes, jewelry, and tons more material items. But some of us get jobs because we need to pay for our books or transportation. Many teens have to pay for their phone bills and lunches.
Choosy describes a lot of teenagers' attitudes towards the kind of job they would and wouldn't get. "Something in an attractive place with nice facilities, well paying, work that's not stressful, and a place where there are people that I know that work there," Mark, 16, said about the kind of job ___________. His personal requirements may seem as if they should be mandatory, but if you really want a job your own requirements should be limited. If you are looking for a job it's important that it fits you in a decent manner.
Teens normally don't take jobs that require a lot of thinking, skill, or physical requirements. Most teens see jobs as something on the side. We don't go around constantly talking about our jobs. We are there simply for that paycheck. Some of us do look at it as a learning experience. Tennille, 16-years-old and who works at a cleaning store, said, "Yes, it's helping me with my customer service skills."
【小题1】Can you give a title for this passage?
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【小题2】 Which sentence in this passage can be replaced by the following one? 
Many young people look on their jobs as secret things.
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【小题3】 Please fill the blank in the second paragraph.
Mark, 16, said about the kind of job________________.
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【小题4】What’re your attitudes towards the teens to do jobs outside? Why?
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【小题5】 Please translate the underlined sentence in the passage.
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请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

It was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.

    A   41   came, “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Then another voice said, “That shirt belonged to my dad. Greg’s mother works for my family. We were going to   42   that shirt away, but gave it to her   43  .” I was speechless. I wanted to hide.

    I   44   the shirt in the back of the closet and told my mum what had happened. She then dialed her   45  , “I will no longer work for your family,” she told him. That night, Mom told my dad that she couldn’t clean anymore; she knew her life’s   46   was something greater.

    The next morning she   47   with the personnel manager at the Board of Education. He told her that without a proper education she could not teach. So Mom decided to   48   a university.

    After the first year in college, she went back to the personnel manager. He said, “You are   49  , aren’t you? I think I have a   50   for you as a teacher’s assistant. This opportunity deals with children who are mentally challenged with little or no chance of   51  .” Mom accepted the opportunity very   52  .

    For almost five years, as a teacher’s assistant, she saw teacher after teacher give up on the children and quit, feeling   53  . Then one day, the personnel manager and the principal   54   in her classroom. The principal said, “We have watched how you   55   the children and how they communicate with you and admire your hard-working   56   over the last five years. We are all in agreement that you   57   be the teacher of this class.”

    My mom spent more than 20 years there.   58   her career, she was voted Teacher of the Year. All of this came about because of the   59   comment made in the classroom that day. Mom showed me how to handle   60   situations and never give up.

1.A. noise                     B. voice                       C. sound                       D. tune

2.A. get                     B. take                      C. carry                        D. throw

3.A. otherwise                     B. anyhow                    C. instead                            D. actually

4.A. settled                   B. pushed                     C. stored                      D. stuck

5.A. teacher                B. employer                  C. director                 D. adviser

6.A. purpose                 B. encouragement     C. achievement                     D. victory

7.A. went                         B. met                  C. worked                    D. stayed

8.A. visit                      B. continue                   C. attend                      D. prepare

9.A. serious                  B. fortunate                  C. careful                      D. responsible

10.A. career                  B. duty                         C. position                 D. part

11.A. learning               B. judging                   C. obeying                    D. imagining

12.A. patiently                     B. eagerly                     C. successfully              D. skillfully

13.A. upset                   B. frightened                C. guilty                       D. ashamed

14.A. looked up            B went up                     C. took up                  D. showed up

15.A. believe             B. protect                      C. treat                         D. receive

16.A. spirit                   B. intention                  C. action                      D. attempt

17.A. must              B. would                      C. might                       D. should

18.A. At                     B. During                     C. On                         D. With

19.A. worthless        B. thoughtless         C. hopeless                   D. helpless

20.A. challenging          B. different                   C. dangerous                 D. strange

People always say that the earlier one learns a language, the     it is to do so, in theory it is that,      , in my opinion, that refers to spoken language. Capability(能力) to practice some essential(基本的)     of a language and read between the lines can only be trained through proper reading ways and hard work     .So spending money to help      learn English may     up with disappointment. It is likely that the more you     ,the more you are let down.

The daughter of one of my friends     English in primary school,     her foreign teacher’s blindness     psychology. She did not want to go on     English until middle school,     a college student studying English slowly     her interest in the language.

It is better to have the child learn Chinese than to have some difficulty     learning English for several years. Having been engaged in English education,     find that despite(尽管) their excellent     , many students have     command of English words and phrases. So I suggest that children

     classical Chinese prose(散文),rather than     them to learn English hurriedly. Otherwise, they may let go the best time to    the language ability of their mother tongue.

1.A. easy            B. difficult          C. easier                         D. more difficult

2.A. but                 B. however          C. though             D. yet

3.A. opinions              B. regards           C. requests                        D. expressions

4.A. directly            B. orally                  C. properly                D. indirectly

5.A. people                          B. girls              C. children                         D. boys

6.A. begin                            B. start              C. finish               D. end

7.A. pay            B. get              C. buy              D. take

8.A. loved                   B. liked              C. disliked                         D. learned

9.A. because of                   B. because            C. instead of              D. instead

10.A. of                      B. at                           C. in             D. to

11.A. learning            B. to learn            C. with learning              D.for learning

12.A. while                    B. where             C. when                           D. as

13.A. introduced                B. practiced           C. explained                       D. developed

14.A. in              B. to                       C. at               D. of

15.A. He                     B. I                             C. She                      D. They

16.A. pronunciation  B. phrase              C. language             D. writing

17.A. few          B. less               C. little              D. fewer

18.A. write                           B. do                  C. remember               D. memorize

19.A. have                 B. let                 C. cause              D. make

20.A. study                           B. improve              C. learn                       D. master

. James said that he'd like to work with some of the leading directors, first ______, and then hopefully ______ his own film.

   A. learning; do   B. learning; to do            C. to learn; doing          D. to learn; to do